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  1. Re:Phone as a pager on Interviews: RMS Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    Phone Just needs pager circuitry added, the page is broadcast from a satellite. Of course you might have to manually have to change your locale when you travel outside its foot print, i.e. fly LA to Chicago or NY.

  2. Re:This is a good sign on An Algorithm To Stop Joke Plagiarists · · Score: 1

    Courteney Cox's best role

  3. Re:Good example on WSJ: We Need the Right To Repair Our Gadgets · · Score: 1

    priced at 530 euros, which is about $595

  4. Re:Good example on WSJ: We Need the Right To Repair Our Gadgets · · Score: 1

    is there a url some place that one can select from a list of phones those with removable batteries? Sounds like it would be a good traffic generator for gizmodo.

  5. Re:Pretty reasonable on Four Year Sentence For Running Piracy Streaming Site · · Score: 1

    IMO in this case the "entitled" are not the studios wanting payment for watching their movies

    Except the greedy bastards want payments for the next 120 years. Copyright s/b 25 years tops. If you can not make back your nut in a generation it doesn't deserve protection. unregistered copyright 3 years. Registered copyright 7 years, renewal at 14 & 21 years at 10% of the gross profit of the 1st 3 years. Unregistered and unrenewed works fall into the public domain.

  6. Re:Exchange on Ask Slashdot: What Windows-Only Apps Would You Most Like To See On Linux? · · Score: 1

    Zentyal is not FOSS, it does have a free trial if you think you can add it to your budget.

  7. Re:SolidWorks and Word on Ask Slashdot: What Windows-Only Apps Would You Most Like To See On Linux? · · Score: 1

    For the lazy http://freecadweb.org/

  8. Re:SolidWorks and Word on Ask Slashdot: What Windows-Only Apps Would You Most Like To See On Linux? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Any chance you forwarded the documents to LibreOffice support, perhaps with a word PDF export to show the desired result? They caant fix it if they dont know there is a problem.

  9. Primary Buffer Panel on Air Traffic Snafu: FAA System Runs Out of Memory · · Score: 2

    I'm surprised more planes don't shed parts along the way.

    Did the Primary Buffer Panel just fall off my gorram ship for no apparent reason?

  10. Re:I would laugh so hard... on Mice Brainpower Boosted With Alteration of a Single Gene · · Score: 1

    Has me wondering about the result of changing the married gene.

  11. Re:Mickey Mouse copyirght extenstions... on "Happy Birthday" Public Domain After All? · · Score: 1

    maybe with a single extension to a total of 28 years

    With a renewal fee of 10% of the 1st years gross income. If the property is valuable enough to renew, let 'em pay for the privilege.

  12. Re:Ouch on Plan To Run Anti-Google Smear Campaign Revealed In MPAA Emails · · Score: 1

    "Revealed in a filling"?

    I guess Google wasn't exaggerating when they said getting disclosure from the MPAA was like pulling teeth...

    I was thinking something along the lines of apple-cinnamon or lemon-meringue. Frak now I'm hungry for pie.

  13. Re:External USR Serial Modem on What's the Oldest Technology You've Used In a Production Environment? · · Score: 1

    To be fair they also have shit tattoos.

    please disambiguate. Are the tattoos images of faecal matter? Or was faeces used as part of the inking process (sounds like a source of dangerous infection)?

  14. Re:"Never heard of you." on 'Pluto Truthers' Are Pretty Sure That the NASA New Horizons Mission Was Faked · · Score: 1

    and it's all the fault of the beta.

  15. the legislation itself is classified on Senate Advances Plan To Make Email and Social Sites Report Terror Activity · · Score: 1

    Identifies it it as double plus ungood.

  16. Re:teraflops in oil on Supercomputing Cluster Immersed In Oil Yields Extreme Efficiency · · Score: 1

    a fetish?

    I put on my robe and wizard's hat ...

  17. Re:Gummy bears on 3-D Ultrasonic Fingerprint Scanning Could Strengthen Smartphone Security · · Score: 1

    It might be more useful if it was sub-derpal.

  18. Re:diluting the market on Aiming To Beat Tesla's "3", Chevy Tests and Teases a Cheaper 200-Mile Electric Car · · Score: 4

    Dont forget the BigBrother onstar installation with no way to disconnect or disable it.

  19. Re:Nope on France Could Offer Asylum To Assange, Snowden · · Score: 1

    makes one wonder about their actions of being incomplete dicks (besides the urine collection bag and celibacy).

  20. Re:St. Helena on France Could Offer Asylum To Assange, Snowden · · Score: 1

    What destination is preferred for those with a penchant for bow ties (e.g. Bill Nye)?

  21. Re:EXT4 vs dm-crypt on Linux 4.1 Kernel Released With EXT4 Encryption, Performance Improvements · · Score: 1

    Without knowing the a actual mechanics of the process (see my post above), I am assuming there is a simplification of the creation and mount/umount process bypassing the LUKS wrapping commands and possibly simplifying the actual creation of an encrypted partition such as the dancesteps documented here:
    http://www.cyberciti.biz/hardw...

  22. So where ... on NIST Workshop Explores Automated Tattoo Identification · · Score: 1

    ... does one get an automated tattoo? How is it powered, spilled beer?

  23. is there a howto on encrypting and mounting? on Linux 4.1 Kernel Released With EXT4 Encryption, Performance Improvements · · Score: 1

    the doc https://docs.google.com/docume... noted in the mailing list post fails.
    is it as simple as issuing adding an option to the makefs.ext4 then a mount command for a partition and providing the password to a prompt?

  24. Re:Let me guess.. on Kim Jong Un Claims To Have Cured AIDS, Ebola and Cancer · · Score: 1

    A cure for suicide by shooting oneself in the back ...23 times, also seems to be particularly evasive.

  25. Re:The only area where it seems to matter on Apple De-Certifies Monster Cables After Lawsuit Against Beats · · Score: 1

    cats that chew on/claw power supplies deserve to be eaten.