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  1. Re:Students on Ask Slashdot: Taking a New Tack On Net Neutrality? · · Score: 1

    Tom Clancy has a blank internet history at the moment, what with him being dead and all....

  2. Re:I can copy the declaration in seconds on Study: Royalty Charges Almost On Par With Component Costs For Smartphones · · Score: 1

    The declaration of independence was plagarised in large parts from the Declaration of Arbroath.

    If lawyers had been as eager back then, the fledgling US would have been sued into oblivion for creating an unauthorised derivative work

  3. Re:Android Tablets and Privacy on HP Delivers a Big-Name, 7-inch Android Tablet For $100: Comes With Compromises · · Score: 2

    All our company smartphones are Motorola Moto Gs running latest Android.

    Not one single phone has a Google account, they all connect to the company exchange server via activesync for email, calendar and contacts

  4. Re:This just makes sense... on Ask Slashdot: Tech Customers Forced Into Supporting Each Other? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The big problem is that it doesn't reduce the cost of the software, it increases the profit of the software provider

  5. A new advance on not RTFA on The Witcher 3 and Projekt Red's DRM-Free Stand · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just don't post the link in the first place !

  6. Number of commits is meaningless on OpenSSL Cleanup: Hundreds of Commits In a Week · · Score: 2

    Quantity doesn't equal quality

  7. Re:Not a problem for MGP on Beer Price Crisis On the Horizon · · Score: 1

    You're mistaken on the Malt Whisky.

    There are legal requirements to meet before you're allowed to label something as Malt Whisky and dumping colouring in ethyl alcohol breaks every single one of them

  8. Makes sense on Obama Says He May Or May Not Let the NSA Exploit the Next Heartbleed · · Score: 1

    Why would you want to tell the opposition what your plans are, that would be really stupid

  9. Re:yea no on Why There Are So Few ISP Start-Ups In the U.S. · · Score: 1

    That makes more sense.

    People should be more precise and say what they mean. An ISP and a telco aren't the same thing.

  10. Re:yea no on Why There Are So Few ISP Start-Ups In the U.S. · · Score: 1

    I'm a bit confused by your ideas.

    Why would an ISP be required to provide any sort of phone service ?

  11. Re:If you take the profits on Vermont Nuclear Plant Seeks Decommission But Lacks Funds · · Score: 1

    From TFA

    "Entergy announced last August that it intended to shut down the reactor late this year for economic reasons."

    Try to keep up at the back there please ?

  12. If you take the profits on Vermont Nuclear Plant Seeks Decommission But Lacks Funds · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Then you pay the costs associated with them.

    If they've failed to properly provide for shutdown and decomissioning costs then it's their problem, they should be forced to pay them rather than pleading poverty and being allowed to walk away from their responsibilities

  13. From CUTS International website on Google Faces Up To $5 Billion Fine From Competition Commission of India · · Score: 1

    "The US FTC has told the Indian competition watchdog that Google is using its superior technology to push out competitors from the GPS tracking market."

    So it's superior technology that is the problem ?

    Aren't you supposed to develop technology to compete or has that idea gone in favour of suing the people you can't beat ?

  14. Re:Back up your data! on Microsoft's Attempt To Convert Users From Windows XP Backfires · · Score: 1

    You upgraded from 32bit Windows XP to 32bit Windows 8, didn't you ?

    Any upgrade on a more modern machine where you want to upgrade to a 64bit operating system requires a complete wipe. You don't get a windows.old directory or anything helpful like that.

  15. Re:Buffy? Doctor Who? WTF? on Ask Slashdot: Is Crowd Funding the Future of Sci-Fi? · · Score: 1

    You can't watch The Doctor from "An Unearthly child" anywhere, not even here in the UK on the BBC due to lost episodes.

    Perhaps set your sights a little lower there ?

  16. Just say FUCK NO !

  17. It's not that much on Google Charging OEMs Licensing Fees For Play Store · · Score: 1

    It's probably less than Microsoft scam from OEMs for their bogus patents

  18. I'm curious on Comet-Chasing Probe Wakes Up On Monday · · Score: 1

    Can Hugh Pickens DOT Com not get his own website to post stuff on ?

  19. Thank goodness for this article on If I Had a Hammer · · Score: 1

    I was getting withdrawal symptoms having not seen a Hugh Pickens DOT Com article for a few hours.

    I was really starting to fear for his wellbeing !

  20. no surprise on Demonoid BitTorrent Tracker Apparently Back Online · · Score: 1

    You can't stop the signal

  21. Re:Already solved on Ask Slashdot: Getting an Uncooperative Website To Delete One's Account? · · Score: 1

    Interesting cherry picking of the bits that you want to apply, shame you forgot to highlight the conditions that allow you to make the demand.

    data that is incomplete, inaccurate or isn't being processed in compliance with the data protection rules

  22. eh ? on Apple Again Seeks Ban On 20+ Samsung Devices In US · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Apple want an injunction to ban the import of future devices that the court hasn't found to be infringing?

    How does that work ?

  23. Who ? What ? on Justine Sacco, Internet Justice, and the Dangers of a Righteous Mob · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why should I care or even know about this ?

  24. Something wrong with headline on Embedded SIM Design Means No More Swapping Cards · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Embedded SIM Design Means No Longer Able To Swap Cards"

    There, that reads better

  25. Re:Move the doctors up one? on Happy 50th Doctor Who · · Score: 1

    The Movie Doctor turns into the War Doctor in the Night of the Doctor mini episode.

    The comment about the ears in the War Doctor regeneration at the end makes it pretty clear he's turning into the Rose Doctor