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  1. Re:so what on GCC 4.3.0 Exposes a Kernel Bug · · Score: 0

    Yes. Next question, please.

  2. Re:Ah but it's fun to speculate... on BattleBots & ESPN Strike TV Deal · · Score: 1

    Think of it as evolution in action!

  3. Re:But it is a matter of principle on House of Representatives To Discuss Wiretapping In Closed Session · · Score: 1

    Cool, I thought that was about it. Wasn't positive.

    Thanks!

  4. Re:Banks and Credit Card Companies please? on FTC Puts $1.9M Kink in Phone Bill Crammer's Wallet · · Score: 1

    And this is part of how you know who has the power in this "relationship".

    Send them a revised set of terms, see how far that flies.

  5. Re:But it is a matter of principle on House of Representatives To Discuss Wiretapping In Closed Session · · Score: 1

    Ich sprechen venik (sp) Deutch.

    I can follow some of it, but not quite well enough to know what exactly you wrote. Sorry.

  6. Re:But it is a matter of principle on House of Representatives To Discuss Wiretapping In Closed Session · · Score: 1

    Befehl ist befehl?

  7. Re:There's no winning with some people on Verizon, Fiber Or Die? · · Score: 2, Funny

    You say that as if we are supposed to be surprised or something.

  8. Re:So what is new? on White House Email Follies · · Score: 1

    Clinton did it != acceptable.

    And on "teachers" wasn't Nixon's "14 missing minutes"* the template?

    *I think I am off on the number of minutes, but you get the idea...

  9. Re:Every browser has and anti-phishing mechanism on Paypal Advises Users To Stop Using Safari · · Score: 1

    "Pft, too bad, you should have washed your hands. Next."

    Huh, mind said that. Then tried to stick a scalpel in my chest.

  10. Re:Not even close on Strict Order Boarding Would Get Planes in the Sky Faster · · Score: 1

    Even better, have that area *be* the seating area.

    The whole side or top of the aircraft opens, the pallet
    with the seats for the current passenger set is unloaded,
    the waiting set is loaded, plane takes off*.

    *Put the fuel and new food and pilots on the same or
    separate pallet(s) as well.

  11. Re:Congratulations! on How Do You Find Programming Superstars? · · Score: 1

    $1.98.

    Report for manacling on Monday.

  12. Re:The copyright holder wins on Geek Wins Copyright Lawsuit Against Corporation · · Score: 1

    I have to invoke Shannon's law here:

    It is only information ( a story ) when it is unexpected. :-)

  13. Re:"Flamebait" huh? on Fidel Castro Resigns · · Score: 1

    "That would be stupid and make no sense"

    That is my point, exactly.

    We must be reading different slashdots, I have been reading for a while, and
    I am not seeing much praise at all for any of the people you name, nor any
    other totalitarian leaders ( note, I did not say none ). The "general" case
    in my experience has been other than you indicate.

    If you believe that slashdot posters are insecure group-followers who post
    the party line, why are you reading the comments? I know of a couple sites
    I read where the posts are pretty much all predictable cheerleading for a
    viewpoint, I don't read those comments much.

  14. Re:three words on NASA Plans Lunar Mobile Phone Network · · Score: 1

    I don't know...

    They found oil on Titan, you know...

  15. Re:having read the claims... on Lawmakers Debate Patent Immunity For Banks · · Score: 1

    "Fourthly if scanning saves the banks so much money, where's my reduction in bank fees?"

    That went to bonuses for executives. Sorry. Maybe someday.\
    They were laughing all the way to the bank.

  16. Re:"Flamebait" huh? on Fidel Castro Resigns · · Score: 1

    The point is "bare even arguable"?

    A: What does that mean?

    B: Assuming you mean that the point is arguable,
            your comment is as much flamebait as it would
            be for me to say "as long as the dictators
            are sufficiently rightist, slashdotters are all
            about totalitarian dictators. Half of them
            want to make out with Benito Mussolini,
            for example".

    Such a wide brush you paint with! I am "leftist",
    but I don't want to make out with Hugo Chavez,
    I don't support Castro, and his methods of keeping
    himself in power, or what he has done with Cuba.
    I think socialism in Britain went too far until
    Thatcher, and I think socialism in France has
    gone too far.

    Your post was flamebait, take your lumps.
    You want to be critical of policies of political
    groups on the left, have at, lots of very fair
    game. But make an actual point, rather than
    "damn them leftist idiots!".

  17. Re:Invade! on Titan's Organics Surpass Oil Reserves on Earth · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You don't get it.

    This is all my plan to get the human race into space.

  18. Re:Here's where it gets tricky on Install Copyright Filters on PCs, Says RIAA Boss · · Score: 1

    When in doubt, kick it out.

  19. Re:How silly on World's Most Powerful Rail Gun Delivered to US Navy · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Everything beyond that is classified. I could tell you, but then I'd have to shoot you."

    You have it backwards! Shoot them first, then tell them.

    And to optimize this, you can remove the 'nop', and just shoot them.

    I mean, telling them and shooting them is not good, unless they
    support transactions. ACID and all that.

  20. Re:Mod Parent Way The Hell Up... on Smartphones Patented — Just About Everyone Sued 1 Minute Later · · Score: 1

    That would be personal responsibility, the very thing corporations
    were established to avoid.

  21. Re:A small victory on FTC Defends Ethernet From Patent Troll · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the head of the FTC was unhappy with his / her cut of the licensing fees
    from the patent troll, and this is just showing the patent troll who is really boss.

  22. Re:No, not the Avionics... on Failed Avionics a Possible Cause of BA038 Crash · · Score: 1

    And the put little nano-technology dodads in the fuel to clog up the
    fuel filter when commanded. This was the test. And this is why
    the US Air Force has been dabbling in biofuels.

    Wow, that was fun! I can see how these theories get started.

  23. Re:Oh, spare me. on EPA Asserts Executive Privilege In CA Emissions Case · · Score: 1

    "Traffic sucks bad -- the streets are in constant gridlock."

    Think of how much less pollution there would be if this were attended to.

    I live in San Diego, there have been a couple of places where new freeway
    construction has happened. One near my house has the award ( in my opinion )
    for total pollution and time wasting boneheadedness. There was already
    an over/underpass. Rather than cloverleaf, to keep things moving, they put
    up lights. More energy being wasting ( no, not a huge amount, but still ),
    running the lights, and how much in the way of pollution being generated
    by cars sitting waiting for the light to change.

  24. Re:Typical on VBA Going Away, Macs Now, PCs Soon · · Score: 1


    "Do you think the PHBs will ever learn that using proprietary systems like Windows may seem cheaper in the short term but in the long run you open your wallet and let them take take take?"

    No. I don't.

    ( small nit, Sun is pretty proprietary themselves. Difference being, they seem
        to understand that they need to provide more value )

  25. Re:For those of us in cold climates... on California Utilities to Control Thermostats? · · Score: 1

    A device for determining and regulating the amount of crying a person or persons will perform.

    Similarly, is a Reostat is a device for determining and regulating how much REO Speedwagon will perform.

    What I want is a "Ceostat".