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  1. Re:FTP? on Canonical Shutting Down Ubuntu One File Services · · Score: 1

    While I haven't used FTP commands in the past decade and a half, isn't that what REST [byte size of incomplete file] is for?

  2. Re:Yeah but on Continued Rise In Autism Diagnoses Puzzles Researchers, Galvanizes Advocates · · Score: 3, Funny

    1 in 10 is not a disorder.

    It's a harem.

  3. Re:Space travel on Gunshot Victims To Be Part of "Suspended Animation" Trials · · Score: 1

    They had Frankenstein and Jules Verne, so they had the concept of science fiction even if it wasn't called that at the time.

    Way to miss the point, too.

  4. Re:Space travel on Gunshot Victims To Be Part of "Suspended Animation" Trials · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This sounds more like science fiction than anything else to me.

    I'm sure they said the same thing about organ transplants a hundred years ago.

  5. Re:no thanks on Diablo 3 Expansion Reaper of Souls Launches · · Score: 2

    Since Warlords of Draenor, which is $49,99. For the standard edition, no less.

    Source: https://us.battle.net/shop/en/...

    Yes, I realize it's an expansion for WoW and not D3, but you only asked about expansion price from Blizzard and didn't specify it had to be for a specific game.

  6. "Impossible to replicate" on Endeavor Launch Pad Being Rebuilt Piece By Piece · · Score: 2

    Did we get these from another space-faring civilization with whom we've lost contact or something? I'm betting the launch pad isn't going to be holding a new rocket, so making a copy of a piece in plastic shouldn't be THAT disastrous, or am I missing something?

  7. Why do we care about the Supreme Court of the Useless Soviets?

    If you're gonna type out an acronym, type out ALL of it.

  8. Re:Nobody cares on Ars Technica Reviews Leaked Windows 8.1 Update · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Seems to me it's more hate for Windows 8 than it's hate for Microsoft.

  9. Re:Cult on Jewish School Removes Evolution Questions From Exams · · Score: 3, Insightful

    See, the thing is that 500 years ago our ancestors invented FTL travel. Several solar systems were colonized, most with far better planets than Earth. Eventually, Earth was solely inhabited by the Luddites who feared FTL, and therefore they completely erased it from the history books.

    Now you want to visit another solar system, but you are told it is physically impossible. There is no way to do it, the means of travel do not exist.

    That is pretty much what it's like for the children in these kinds of sects to attempt to get a good education. The very knowledge that good educations exist are essentially kept from them.

  10. Re:Refund on overhearing my pizza order on Government Accuses Sprint of Overcharging For Wiretapping Expenses · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Total Elitist Assholes Party.

  11. Re:Apple v. Samsung anyone? on Apple Closes OpenNI the Open Source Kinect Framework · · Score: 2

    Or a knife.

  12. Re:Isn't there, though? on Apple's Messages Offers Free Texting With a Side of iPhone Lock-In · · Score: 1

    I'll admit I haven't ever used an Apple product and so don't know the details of how iMessage works, plus it's 3 am and I can't sleep. However, I don't recall other Apple devices being mentioned, rather a PHONE NUMBER being moved from one kind of phone to another - and suddenly what people may have THOUGHT were SMS messages suddenly not appearing. If they were receiving the messages on their iPad, iPod or Mac instead there wouldn't be as much of a problem with going days without getting any messages and not knowing something was wrong, right?

  13. Re:Isn't there, though? on Apple's Messages Offers Free Texting With a Side of iPhone Lock-In · · Score: 1

    And then they turned their phone off. Do you expect Firefox to still be refreshing your tabs while your computer is powered off and dismantled?

  14. Re:The court is right on YouTube Ordered To Remove "Illegal" Copyright Blocking Notices · · Score: 1

    no-one having an alternative plan yet that appears to be as effective at getting new works produced and distributed, I guess.

    Let people who like to make art (paintings, stories, music, whatever) do so because they like to do so without expecting it to let their great-grandchildren live like royalty - that's not what 'royalties' mean.

    Culture isn't about mass-producing music that is, essentially, all the same, or producing movies and books that all follow pretty much the same script.

  15. Re:Bill specifically about Glass is a bad idea... on Google Fighting Distracted Driver Laws · · Score: 1

    If you're IQ is below 112

    Let the stupid die away and we'll all be better off :)

    your*

    Also, the shift key is your friend for names like Google Glass.

  16. Re:and the risks of marriage delays parenthood on Delayed Fatherhood May Be Linked To Certain Congenital and Mental Disorders · · Score: 0

    One of those cases where you can't be sure if something is serious or sarcasm. I'm glad we at least agree.

  17. Re:and the risks of marriage delays parenthood on Delayed Fatherhood May Be Linked To Certain Congenital and Mental Disorders · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes, because being locked into an unhappy and possibly abusive relationship for life is so much better.

    If your spouse wants to drag you through hell in the legal system, what do you think it'll be like to be forced to keep on living with them?

  18. Re:Summary that misrepresents the Article... *shoc on Report: Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) Scans Your DNS History · · Score: 1

    c0ff3e ...

    Starbucks.com

  19. Re:It's okay to write them down. on Target's Internal Security Team Warned Management · · Score: 1

    For example I tried it for skype and it got rejected for lack of security, while a 7-letter lower case english word plus the number 1 was deemed fine! Go Google!

    Google bought Skype?

  20. First post? on Google Apps License Forbids Forking, Promotes Google Services · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No surprises

    News for nerds, stuff that matters

  21. Re:Not *that* new on Researchers Unveil High-Speed Laser Communications Device For Space · · Score: 1

    Hence the use of the word 'generally' rather than 'exclusively'.

  22. Re:Can They Locate Slashdot Users?? on How Online Clues Located North Korea's Missile-Launcher Factories · · Score: 4, Funny

    There's a comment boycott going on to protest the Beta. It's a step up from the flood of Fuck Beta comments.

  23. Re:Why? on Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds! · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The thing is that we all know how easy it is to direct the feedback channel to /dev/null/ and not heed it. The beta has been labelled as useless for as long as I can remember, so when suddenly we got warning that it would become default and the classic version would go away there was only one option left - rioting to be seen.

    It's like the four boxes; the Slashdot management just made the ammo box seem a lot more appealing than the ballot box and soap box combined.

  24. Re:Can anyone help me? I can't read the content he on Fracking Is Draining Water From Areas In US Suffering Major Shortages · · Score: 1

    just to read a few comments!

    I can't even get the comments to load, there's some undefined error suggesting I try loading more - gave up after five attempts.

    They're really going far to make us RTFA!

    I hate sounding crude, but: Fuck Beta.

  25. Re:Picasso on Why Games Should Be In the Public Domain · · Score: 1

    Unless you live in Germany, where ANYTHING with copyright on Youtube or streaming services is blocked.