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  1. Mods on crack alert on US Lags World In Broadband Access · · Score: 1

    One of the few truly interesting comments in this whole story (not to mention plenty relevant to the discussion at hand), and it gets modded offtopic? Somebody please fix this.

  2. Re:An even bigger hole... on "Very Severe Hole" In Vista UAC Design · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't know why everybody harshes on ME. Sure, you have to beat it into coma before it behaves, but after that, it's almost as good as windows '98!

  3. Mod parent up on Is Gaming Really a Spectator Sport? · · Score: 1

    There's a ton of FPS games that have free-floating spectator options. Just get a couple of guys, train 'em up so they know the levels and the type of action they'll be encountering, and bam, you've got your main views. Everything after that is bonus, you just need a director organizing things who knows what he's doing.

  4. Re:At least it will look better on Apple, the New Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I gotta go with that sentiment too. A 20-year Apple monopoly can't get much worse than the 20-year MS monopoly.

  5. Re:Movie deal on Breakdown Forces New Look At Mars Mission Sexuality · · Score: 1

    I was thinking more along the lines of 'Enemy Mine'.

  6. Re:the ivory tower on University Professor Chastised For Using Tor · · Score: 1

    Gee, maybe he's using it in order to get a better appreciation for the potential problems he himself talks about as opposed to wanting to leech warez anonymously? Come on, I'd understand giving him shit if he came across as your typical 'free speech' idiot, but he seems to have a fairly good handle on what really is going on.

  7. Re:A Solution on Indonesia Stops Sharing Avian Virus Samples · · Score: 1

    Land of the free...

    To be fair, it was, at least until glass trinkets and flu blankets came along.

  8. Re:A little late isn't it? on Senate Introduces Strong Privacy Bill · · Score: 1

    Are you saying that the US government has jumped the shark?

    Yes, it has.

  9. Oblig. joke on Schneier Mulls Psychology of Security · · Score: 4, Funny

    Too bad the Department of Homeland Security doesn't have a neocortex.

    That's alright, they have a neoconcortex instead!

    Sorry, couldn't help myself. You may now mod this post into oblivion...

  10. Re:Get to the Root of the Problem on Vista a Threat to Internet Freedom? · · Score: 1

    I know that Vista will soon be the number one used operating system

    I would have used "eventually" instead. I don't think the spread of Vista is going to be half as speedy as MS's other OS releases. We should be glad they're so willing to fire off countless rounds at their own feet, it will make breaking the Redmond monoculture happen that much faster.

  11. Re:Scary on Scientology Critic Arrested After 6 Years · · Score: 1

    Ha! Just because you're too scared to make a joke, don't label the rest of us as weenies...

  12. Re:It Died Because It Was Boring on Matt Groening Talks About Futurama's Comeback · · Score: 1

    Heh, you must be young, otherwise your standard for shitty animation would be a lot lower.

  13. Re:Sounds like the author... on Is Executive Hubris Ruining Companies? · · Score: 1

    Don't you have to scream it 76 times until you render yourself hoarse?

  14. Who cares? on Are TV Pharmaceutical Ads Damaging? · · Score: 4, Funny

    All that matters is that there are pills that give me erections for hours on end. Balanced against that, who cares about the dumb viewing public?

  15. Re:Intranet Vs Internet on The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines · · Score: 1

    The engine we currently use at my fortune 500 company sucks. I mean it is the worst.

    Could be worse, you could be using Slashdot's search function!

  16. Re:Irony Alert on Global Warming May Have Killed the Dinosaurs · · Score: 1
  17. Whoosh on Canada Responsible for 50% of Movie Piracy · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Hint: It's the ones in it for the money I'm calling clueless twats. I know I could have written that sentence a little better, but everybody else sems to have gotten it, so calm down, k?

  18. Re:Problem on Canada Responsible for 50% of Movie Piracy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The reason there is such a thing as "starving artists" is the nature of the beast, not due to piracy. No matter how hard you want to act, sing, paint, whatever, there's always the chance you're either going to be perenially crap at it, or just not what the paying public wants to see. Artists choose their fields based on desire, not money, and those that do deserve to get fucked over as they're clueless twats.

  19. Re:Don't apply unless on BBC To Host Multi-OS Debate · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm a mud fence, you insensitive dirt clod!

  20. Re:Incoming lawsuits in: on Microwave Experiments Cause Sponge Disasters · · Score: 1

    I see someone just watched Idiocracy.

  21. Re:Digits on Running Your Electric Meter Backwards · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but the odometer displayed European miles

    How much is that in rods and hogsheads?

  22. Re:Ahem... on What Breakfast Gets You Going? · · Score: 0

    You don't have to have drunk urine to label most weak lagers (such as Corona) piss. Let me put it this way, how much worse can piss taste than that nasty thin yellow concoction so many people call beer?

  23. Re:Ob. Simpsons on Who won? · · Score: 1

    Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos. This just about sums up my sentiments for voting for either of the two major political parties.

    While I completely agree with the sentiment, that kind of attitude begets the very kind of situation you so despair.

    In other words, quit yer bitching and get involved.

  24. Re:Listen... on Ghostbusters Game Confirmed, On Hold · · Score: 1

    Back off, man. I'm a scientist.

  25. Re:Hyperbole? on Doomsday Clock To Advance · · Score: 1, Insightful

    That's kinda the point, when we have enough nukes floating around to blow up the planet several times over.