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  1. Re:Hypocrisy, thy name is slashdot. on US House Votes 397-0 To Oppose UN Control of the Internet · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yup. When farmers and hens both vote against the fox guarding the henhouse, they have very different reasons.

  2. Re:I hope you fucking hipsters are proud on Foxconn Workers On Strike Over iPhone 5 Production · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Gladly. Please point me to a cell phone that is made 100% in the first world and I will immediately buy it.

  3. Re:More reasont to give up hope on a good dumb pho on Motorola To Cut 4,000 Jobs, Focus On High-End Devices · · Score: 1

    Once it has all that, there's virtually no cost to adding the other stuff.

    What I'd like to see is a basic phone with large buttons, a small basic screen for call display and a minimal phone book. Make it built like a tank, along the lines of the old AT&T rental phones.

    A phone that is ONLY a phone.

  4. Re:Well, I am not shocked... on Canada Encouraged US To Place It On Piracy List · · Score: 1

    Only true if there are only two parties. I'll let you do the math on what percentage is needed if there are three relatively equal parties, and it's first past the post. I'll give you a hint. It starts with a 3.

  5. Re:Thanks for all the Fish Wrapper on Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot · · Score: 1

    Good Luck in whatever you go on to. As a non-techie, this site has been educational and fun since I first ran across it.
    Cheers!

  6. 286 and lynx on World Wide Web Turns 20 Today · · Score: 1

    I first got on the Internet using an old 286 with a 2400 baud modem, using the freenet in Ottawa. For bonus geek points, at the time I was the head doorman at a bar called Zaphod Beeblebrox.

  7. Re:Centrist? on Internet-Based Political Party Opens Doors · · Score: 1

    Seeing as how the Democrats are Centre-Right, and most liberals are pretty centrist compared to politics in the rest of the world, I'd say, yes, they would be centrist.

  8. Give me my iphone and I could ace it on Could You Pass Harvard's Entrance Exam From 1869? · · Score: 1

    Could I pass it? Yes, assuming that I had an iphone with me. There's nothing there that requires anything more than either access to a web browser or rote memorization. I'm pretty sure that current testing requires more application of intelligence; taking knowledge and applying it than this test of the ability to memorize data and regurgitate it.

  9. Re:Reminds me... on What the DHS Knows About You · · Score: 1

    If this doesn't get some 'funny' moderations, then the rating system is even more broken than I feared.

  10. Re:How much is your time worth on Handmade vs. Commercially Produced Ethernet Cables · · Score: 1

    Now you're just trolling for spelling nazis...

  11. Re:How much is your time worth on Handmade vs. Commercially Produced Ethernet Cables · · Score: 3, Funny

    Get off my lawn.

    Damned kids today.

  12. Waving red in front of the bull. on Vista Post-SP2 Is the Safest OS On the Planet · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Waving red in front of the bull. Always a good idea.
    Pity that it will be MicroSofts' customers, not MS that will suffer when the hackers, script kiddies and miscellaneous ne'er-do-wells inevitably trash the security for their latest offering.

  13. Re:To avoid this.. on Was the Amazon De-Listing Situation a Glitch Or a Hack? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes. I would be equally outraged. On the flip side, I'm not asking for government interference in their business model, just stating that if a fucking book store is going to get into the censoring business, then they don't want *MY* money.

  14. Re:To avoid this.. on Was the Amazon De-Listing Situation a Glitch Or a Hack? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I would be just as upset by that as I was by what they did. I'd also be upset if they allowed people to selectively exclude jews, blacks or women. Enabling bigotry isn't something I will support.

  15. Re:FIRST??? on Sci Fi Channel Becoming Less Geek-Centric "SyFy" · · Score: 1

    I had a first post once, but it was a mistake. I meant to reply to the previous story...

  16. Re:Um, what? on So Amazing, So Illegal · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Three words.... "Contemporary Christian music"

  17. Re:Locusts on Volvo Introduces a Collision-Proof Car · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought it was funny.

    For the humour and history impaired, a Ford Pinto is likely to burst into flames when rear ended.

    Which kind of makes the flamebait moderation meta-funny.

  18. Re:aren't there only 4 engines? on Too Good To Ignore — 6 Alternative Browsers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    am i missing any (competitive, comprehensive) engines?

    Don't forget Lynx and Amaya.

  19. Re:Paper Ballots on WV Voters Say Machines Are Switching Votes · · Score: 1

    Here in Canada we have precisely one decision to make, which Candidate to vote for in our riding.

    Americans vote for President, Senators, Representatives, Governor, Sheriff, etc., not to mention the various referendums on various propositions, and it's different for each county. do a web search for 'sample ballot 2008' and see for yourself.

    It's an order of magnitude more difficult to tabulate than our system.

  20. Their gun policy made me bail on them on EBay Deal Irritates Individual Sellers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Their anti gun policy made me stop using ebay years ago....

  21. couple of recommendations not listed that I can se on Sci-Fi Books For Pre-Teens? · · Score: 1

    Stanislaw Lem - The Cyberiad
    John Brunner - Shockwave Rider

    They aren't the top of the list, but they should be mentioned.

  22. They lost their best people to Handspring on What Happened To Palm? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What happened is they lost their best people to Handspring. From that point on it's been all downhill.

  23. Re:Really? World's Thinnest QWERTY? on Nokia Unveils "World's Thinnest" QWERTY Smartphone · · Score: 1
  24. Re:It's like watching ugly people kiss on Microsoft Offered $40 a Share For Yahoo · · Score: 1

    With Google, you get a simple, fast loading homepage with only a few links, a search box and the Google logo

    remarkably like this:

    http://web.archive.org/web/19961017235908/http://www2.yahoo.com/

  25. Re:Huh? on Judge in Capitol v. Thomas Considers New Trial · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you put poisoned candy on your front porch, you don't get charged with negligent homicide unless a kid eats it. The actions of others do affect your liability.