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  1. Sign that I need glasses on Self-Healing System Applied to Aviation · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...Reading that as "self-hating system" and thinking it was a good idea, though probably "self-loathing" would do.

  2. Re:Sad, but predictable on House Bill Won't Criminalize Free Wi-Fi Operators · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hillary is a right-wing "Democrat."

    Nevertheless, this isn't about party. It's about ignorance. You can't enforce this. You can't even define what's illegal content. It can only be used to harass people some district attorney doesn't like. Period.

  3. The greenest green is cash on Western Digital Touts New 'Green' Drives · · Score: 1

    Yes. I'm sure WD is green. Their failure rate makes them some of the least power-consuming drives in the industry. Well done for being 10 years ahead of the curve.

  4. Um. on Germany Implements Sweeping Data Retention Policies · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So. Like. They have a law? That admits what they expect? And defines what they're allowed to do? And there's a limit to what they can do? And it can help identify evildoers? But after 6 months, the data goes away? And we're thinking that's scary? Sounds like goddamned paradise to me. Here, they just drag you off and you disappear and *no carrier*

  5. Re:"Not, to use your service..." on Subterranean Slashdot Email Blues · · Score: 1

    I resent this comment. Some of my best friends are Gibbers, and they don't care to have their language fibblegubbinned.

    Mmm. Gibber chocolate clepmh. Sooo good.

  6. Um. on Copy Protection Backfires on Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    Did the manufacturer even TRY to play the damned discs? I mean, I've had software that it was obvious the programmer assumed that every computer on earth was exactly like hirs, but crap on a cracker, what the hell is wrong with a little QA?

    Oh wait. I know. I can see the sales manager yelling "SHIP IT, IT WORKED ONCE!"

  7. Wait.... on Microsoft Bought Sweden's ISO Vote on OOXML? · · Score: 1

    ...I'm confused. Is money evil now or not?

    Is a lassaize-faire approach, in which only the strong and worthy survive in or out this year?

    Is it free-market devil-take-the-hindmost screw-everyone-but-me libertarian point of view the only answer or not?

    I get SO lost with the /. moral shift.

  8. Re:But wait... on RIAA's "Making Available" Theory Is Tested · · Score: 1

    The plural of Nazi is Nazis. No apostrophe. Let me see. Does your position mean that syntax checkers in compilers are also grammar Nazis? Learn to write and someone might take you seriously. Meanwhile, don't troll for these kinds of comments with a "fuck you" and you won't get them. Have a nice day.

  9. Oh yes. on Firefox Lite And Old PCs Could Crush IE · · Score: 1

    And let's train each and every person who can't afford a new computer how to install patches and do builds and blah blah blah.

    Shut up already. You're geeks, not people. Stop trying to make people into geeks, fer chrissakes. HONESTLY. STFU.

  10. What else is the DOJ for? on DoJ Mulls Tracking Picture Uploads · · Score: 1

    Except to enforce property rights for the elite few who can afford to buy them? It's certainly not for investigating corruption in government, nor upholding the Constitution, nor, really, for anything lately. After all, Habeus Corpus isn't actually MENTIONED in the Constitution. Nor the right to privacy. Nor is the right to breathe air. Therefore these things don't exist.

    Oh, there was the one thing about the purjury of one President in an endless fishing-expedition investigation into a two-bit, decade old land deal, the evidence based on illegal phone-tapping by a Repubican hack. That was a good collar.

  11. Re:Maine isn't rejecting RealID because it's bad.. on More States Challenging National Driver's Licenses · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If you "go to university" as upposed to "I go to UMaine Orono," I'd guess you're from some other country. How about you shut the hell up and stop pretending you know what you're talking about?

    Maine's government sucks no more or less than any other state's. The problem with Maine isn't the government, it's the fact there's no money in trees anymore.

    Go back to your trailer in Waterville or Wells or wherever the hell it is and unplug your GWI account. You're not getting any value out of it.

    No, even better, and don't forget to "go to hospital" or "go to university" in Canada, or Britain or wherever the hell you come from, because I'm sure you spell it "colour," too.

    Ahem.

    Sorry. I, too, live in Maine.

  12. Re:they control an army you know on More States Challenging National Driver's Licenses · · Score: 1

    Yes. Just as use of, oh, say, capital letters and punctuation are not as exciting as just plain ranting along randomly, all the while exposing your pathetic ignorance. Bravo.

    What's the reasoning? Security.

    What's the outcome? You can't do certain things without that ID.

    Who decides that? Um. Um. Shadowy people in dark rooms with no accountability? Corporate henchmen ditto?

    Certainly not us, and certainly not the sunshine-kissed bureaucrats in Washington.

  13. Re:ianal on Can You Be Sued for Quitting? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If the position is so hard to fill, then maybe they should try to actually KEEP people. Or maybe they should hire enough people to cross train, so they aren't screwed, and so employees aren't as pressured that they're the only ones who know this.

    Nah. Then it wouldn't be an esoteric lesson in "free markets" that allow employers to enslave employees.

  14. Re:Annoying on Florida to Scrap Touch Screen Voting? · · Score: 1

    Yes. THey're all alike, marching in ignorant lockstep, all listening to the same radio program, all proclaiming 2/3 of the population as being terrorist sympathizers. Yess. Bad Democrats. Bad.

  15. Re:Ohwait, so THAT is the solution... on Using AI to Monitor Kids Online · · Score: 1

    Nono. In the Severe, Right-Wing, Father Knows Best, personal responsibility world, the child must learn to feed and clothe itself, as well as chop firewood and build its own cabin. School is for faggot-loving socialists.

  16. Re:Here's a radical concept... on Using AI to Monitor Kids Online · · Score: 1

    Yes! We'll have AIs to monitor whether the parents are monitoring their kids! It'll collect evidence and we can ship all the miscreants off to Gitmo, where rights are not only optional, they're non-existant and quaint! It'll be perfect!

    Then we'll be free to raise those children in vast, right-wing camps where they'll be taught personal responsibility, or suffer the consequences of being shipped off to Gitmo, where rights are not only optional, they're non-existant and quaint!

    Wait. That's recursive.

    How about this? Shut up, you idiot. YOU'RE the one who shouldn't reproduce.

  17. Obligatory correction on Using AI to Monitor Kids Online · · Score: 1

    Anyone who doesn't know why you'd say "many of her after school hours" or "much of her after school time" instead of "much of her after school hours" shouldn't be allowed around Artificial Intelligence lest they piss the thing off and it decides to eliminate all of us. Or is that much of us?

  18. Re:The BEST reason to switch! on Mossberg - Vista Is Worthy, Largely Unexciting · · Score: 1

    Can I still play it with the keyboard like I could 20 years ago?

    (Stupid cheap company wouldn't buy a mouse back then)

  19. Um. on Anti-Missile Defenses For Commercial Jets · · Score: 1

    Think about this, ok? Ocean liners were pressed into service as troopships. The SS United States was specifically designed as one, after WWII, with its top speed kept classified.

    So were there to be some kind of war-like thingy, you'd want commercial cargo planes to be self-protecting because we'd be using them to move war stuff'n'shit around. Plus, who doesn't want to put an eye out with a 747?

  20. Re:Thoughtcrime on Expert Wants to Decertify Global Warming Skeptics · · Score: 1

    It's not a fucking thoughtcrime if it's demonstrably WRONG. And this isn't criminalizing anything. It's decertifying professionals whose heads are demonstrably up their asses.

  21. Oh for crying out loud on Expert Wants to Decertify Global Warming Skeptics · · Score: 1

    This isn't censorship. Censorship is when you say the president is a jerk and they haul you away and shoot you. Or dig up your old transcripts, or release your medical history to destroy you.

    This is a professional society upholding professional standards and the time for saying the freakin' world is flat is over. It is not censorhip any more than you telling a programmer who said he could do a web storefront in COBOL to take a hike.

    And both sides of any "controversy" like, say, evolution vs God-Cloud-Man-Made-Us-Out-of-Mud-and-I-Get-to-Murd er-Anyone-Who-Says-Otherwise are not always equal. The last 12 years of Republican truth-fucking has made everyone stupid about what's "fair and balanced." Fair doesn't mean you treat the guy with a duck on his head claiming Hillary Clinton is a lizard-goddess the same as Hillary herself. Grow the hell up already.

    And I don't like Hillary. I just like the image of a duck on someone's head.

  22. Re:Another reason to NOT vote Democrat on Political Bloggers May Be Forced to Register · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You're a paranoid, blind nutbag. Kindly return to your alter of Rove and pray again.

    Thank you. 25 cents please.

  23. Re:Sorry, I haven't seen one post that ... on Apple Charges For 802.11n, Blames Accounting Law · · Score: 1

    Very nice attempt to stuff your anti-humanistic worldview into something entirely not related. Bravo. *golf-clap*

  24. Hmm. on Apple Charges For 802.11n, Blames Accounting Law · · Score: 1

    By this argument, the savings inherent in not having to retool manufacturing to include the N-featured chipset that you're going to later announce and support could be considered unrealized income as well.

    On my planet, anyway. Your planet may vary.

  25. Yo. on The First HD DVD Movie Hits BitTorrent · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not cool. Joss needs the money so he can make more cool stuff. Go buy the DVD.

    'nuff said.