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  1. Google isn't a public utility on EU Antitrust Chief: Google "Diverting Traffic" & Will Be Forced To Change · · Score: 1

    The EU doesn't seem capable of grasping that.

  2. And now no crimes will ever be committed in Oz on Game Receives First R18+ "Adults Only" Classification In Australia · · Score: 1

    Giid Jorb.

  3. Toshiba Tecra 840-ish on Change the ThinkPad and It Will Die · · Score: 1

    My company gets custom built Tecras that show a model number on the tag on the bottom of the machine that's not listed in any publicly available listing or DB. This is what helped destroy the IBMPC business in the first place. It's simply too expensive to do that.

  4. Dear slashdot editors on Change the ThinkPad and It Will Die · · Score: 2

    Lenovo has ZERO to do with IBM now and that's the way it's been for YEARS. IBM doesn't make Lenovo or own any remaining Lenovo stock. IBM no longer owns the Thinkpad name or brand.

  5. Slavery wasn't so bad.... on Texas High School Student Loses Lawsuit Challenging RFID Tracking Requirement · · Score: -1, Troll

    Come on, stay on the plantation, we'll give you a better life than what you would have experienced in Africa.

  6. Nonsense on UC's For-Pay Online Course Draws 4 Non-UC Students · · Score: 1

    In the Free Democratic People's Republic of Mexifornia the less money you make from such things the more heroically revolutionary and counter reactionary they are! If they need to cover their costs just make it more expensive for the running dog lackey plutocrats!

    Then charge the UC students themselves even more for the course compared to the classroom version then cancel the classroom version - - like UNC Chapel Hill does.

  7. Hal open the pod bay doors on Astronauts Could Get Lazier As Mars Mission Progresses · · Score: 1

    fuck off, Dave, just fuck off.

  8. So they already failed an audit and ignored that on Loss of a Single Laptop Leads to $50k Fine Against Idaho Hospice · · Score: 1

    Any HIPAA audit would have found just that deficiency.

  9. OMG they'll see nudity on Ask Slashdot: Keeping Your Media Library Safe From Kids? · · Score: 1

    Next thing you know it's a gunfight in the kindergarten class.

  10. Re:Here's an idea on New Sony Patent Blocks Second-hand Games · · Score: 1

    Patent trolls are the bottom feeders of the western world. Slightly above child molesters and human trafficking but not by much.

  11. Here's an idea on New Sony Patent Blocks Second-hand Games · · Score: 2

    Every day, grab one patent attorney and cut his or her fucking head off and post it on YouTube. Every day. Until their behavior improves.

  12. Because teachers are biased toward girls on Why Girls Do Better At School · · Score: 1

    They always have been and always will be. A teacher's definition of 'good student behavior is girls behavior and the teacher's definition of boy behavior is 'medicate his ass or throw him out of class!'. According to most teachers, boys are merely defective girls to be corrected or destroyed, that's why.

  13. Abode not test their stuff? on Adobe and Apple Didn't Unit Test For "Forward Date" Bugs. Do You? · · Score: 1

    Surely you jest. Well at any rate I'm sure they'll fix it with an 857MB patch to Adobe reader.

  14. Apply this to toll taking software on Are Programmers Responsible For the Actions of Their Clients? · · Score: 1

    If someone beats EZPass - arrest the programmer who built it.

  15. I hope they sell it for scrap on Supercomputer Repossessed By State, May Be Sold In Pieces · · Score: 1

    That would be a testament to government. One cent on the dollar, or less.

  16. Oregon just needs to triple the registration fee on Oregon Lawmakers Propose Mileage Tax On Fuel Efficient Vehicles · · Score: 1

    They should also tack on an insurance surcharge surcharge surcharge and double or triple the cost of inspection. Upper middle class white faux hippie NPR listening wannabes should be thrilled to pay more for the common good. They're already paying 2 or 3x more for the same car as everyone else.

  17. But easier than ever on Best Tech Colleges Are Harder Than Ever To Get In · · Score: 1

    To stay in. Although, to a person, every single person I've ever met who went to Harvard proudly told me that it was FAR easier to stay in than to get in. So it's simply more of the same and getting worse. And given 30% of the admissions are legacy, that means that for the vast sweep of the 'elite' of this country, their entire future is settled by the time they're 17. Awesome.

  18. Just unhook the keyboard on Does 2012 Mark the End of the Netbook? · · Score: 1

    Isn't that exactly how the Surface RT is positioned? But to be fair, I keep a netbook on the desk next to my laptop to do things I need it to do - run Pandora w/o skipping when I run a browser and have to turn Java script on and off, run MS Office, download YouTube videos. But the biggest obstacle to me is the keyboard. I will never get used to the too-small keyboard no matter how much I use it. Which I why I have a USB keyboard plugged in. A mouse that came free with the Targus case just crapped out though; I should get a trackball or something. And the keyboard problem is never going to get solved with any tablet, they're just too small.

    Back in the bad old days IBM had the Thinkpad 701 with the fold out butterfly keyboard which oddly they never took forward or developed or maintained. It was a fantastic solution to this problem. Tablet makers have to make a fold out detachable keyboard that's no larger than the form factor of the tablet itself and it has to be wireless/connector-less unless they mount all the full sized physical ports on THAT and use the keyboard as a dock with a docking port to the tablet proper.

  19. Most of that probably exists on A Wish List For Tablets In 2013 · · Score: 1

    I bet Google play has a for-fee downloadable GPS mapping DB.

    I sort of question the need for full sized physical USB and HDMI ports though. Why is the smaller form factor so terrible?

  20. Obama talks a big game but on NASA Faces Rough Road In 2013 · · Score: 1

    That's all it is. For all his twaddle about teachers this and education that he's successfully dismantled most of what makes US science and exploration great in the past. He turned NASA into an Islamic outreach program. He's turning higher education into another forum for social work to benefit to the poor and brown. US graduates in Advanced degrees in STEM has fallen to something like #3 while half of all programs are populated with foreign students who will soon go back to their home countries.

    Let's face facts. Obama's view of NASA is posters and speeches. Maybe Michelle can talk about eating healthy in space or something. Maybe we can send some poor inner city kids to the ISS.

  21. My neighbor's house caught on fire last night on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your New Years Eve Tradition? · · Score: 1

    Maybe that can be our new tradition.

  22. Because they are absolutely broke on Egyptian Government To Adopt Free Software On Larger Scale · · Score: 1

    Egypt has zero money. They have enough currency on hand to buy food for the next 3 months. And that's it. If I were them I'd double down on Microsoft and dare Redmond to try to collect.

  23. What's Plan C? on Windows 8 Even Less Popular Than Vista · · Score: 1

    Vista more or less looked like XP/7 with some minor tweaks but the guts were garbage. Windows 8 seemingly has fairly good internals but the UI is for shit. It's like they take turns in having different teams screw it up iteratively. What's Plan C?

  24. According to MSNBC's Chris Matthew, Obama can personally change the course of storms and other major disasters. That he has not so far is obviously someone else's fault.

  25. I want a phone that detonates on Bloomberg: Steve Jobs Behind NYC Crime Wave · · Score: 1

    Send the detonate code out and instantly blow the phone up. Steal my phone lose most of your face.