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  1. Re:Just think before you share on Facebook, Friend of Divorce Lawyers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    But photos and comments are still stored within Facebook servers. Add a photo and let it stay in there a day to let it be cycled into their Facebook servers. Find out the link to the stored image [URL]. Then delete the picture.

    Use the URL to locate your deleted picture. Not deleted, yes?

    Think of it this way instead: once you post something, anything, it never goes away. Never.

  2. Re:Sounds like on Sticky Rice Is the Key To Super Strong Mortar · · Score: 0

    Except they don't put the lime in the coconut

  3. Re:Sounds like a feature on iPhone's PIN-Based Security Transparent To Ubuntu · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    heh heh you said "mount"

  4. Re:Eh Sonny? on Pirate Bay Closure Sparked P2P Explosion · · Score: 1

    It's a twahp!

  5. ! Particle Joke on Hyperdrive Propulsion Could Be Tested At the LHC · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I'm thinking someone at the site is going to fall for the "hey, stick your hand in here" bit.

  6. On the other hand... on Chinese Employee Loses iPhone Prototype, Kills Self · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I finally figured out what those red spots are on my Foxconn motherboard.

    Bean juice? Nahhh...

  7. Re:Surprised on Rapidshare Ordered To Filter Content · · Score: 2, Funny

    You mean there's more than porn on RS?

  8. You must be new here on You're (Probably) Not Going To Be a Pro Blogger · · Score: 2, Funny

    That is, if your servers can withstand being slashdotted in the first place.

    503-b Ad Revenue Unavailable

  9. balls, my ass on Buckyballs Polymerized Into Buckywires · · Score: 2, Informative

    The wires form when buckyballs are dissolved in an aromatic hydrocarbon called 1,2,4-trimethylbenzene.

    Aromatic hydrocarbon, my ass. Those damn kids have been into my Scotch again.

  10. That's not a glitch! on Software Bug Adds 5K Votes To Election · · Score: 1

    That's a feature! And I paid a pretty penny for that feature. Uh, hmmm...nevermind! Just ignore what I just said.

  11. Re:Ugh on Google's "Wave" Blurs Chat, Email, Collaboration Software · · Score: 1

    Why is the parent marked as a Troll? It is an opinion.

    From the picture given, it looks extremely busy. Are we trying to raise a seizure-proof human by overloading one's senses until one completely shorts out by having no attention span at all?

    Yes, I see where people feel the need to group apps into one container; it is our nature to try to tidy things up. But really, do we need that much data anyway?

    Seeing people walking or driving or whatever they're doing while looking at a tiny screen reminds me of the Monty Python skit of the man who never looked up.

  12. Re:Public warning on Google's "Wave" Blurs Chat, Email, Collaboration Software · · Score: 5, Funny

    Make the client Windows-only again and you'll feel my wrath!

    (Reply by Google: We know what porn you look at. )

    There. Really fixed.

  13. Stick figure sex? on How Comic Fans & Shops Are Stereotyped · · Score: 1

    Well, if you draw stick figures having oral sex or hot couch sex, then you must be an awesome comic strip http://www.xkcd.com/584/

  14. Re:But What If ... on Microsoft Rebrands Live Search As "Bing" · · Score: 3, Funny
  15. Re:Oldest Working? on 45-Year-Old Modem Used To Surf the Web · · Score: 1

    Commodore Vic-20 from 1983 and the plug-in modem cartridge.

    I don't use it for the Internet; it is used for home security and light system.

  16. Re:Strange on Testing So-Called 'Unified Threat Managers' · · Score: 1

    Your UTM gave me a UTI.

    Thanks for sharing the virus!

    Actually I think the idea is not to bundle all apps into one but allow data communication between them to be better. I think it could be communication pathway would be more of permiable barriers which get smaller down the line. Firewall to AV to Spy/Greyware to deep scan heuristics on the hard drives.

  17. Belly up to the bar? on Space Station Crew Drinks Recycled Urine · · Score: 1

    Or is that belly below the bar?

    Whatever though, ur in e right place.

  18. And the answer is... on What an IBM-Sun Merger Might Mean For Java, MySQL, Developers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    LAYOFFS!

  19. Re:Maybe not. on What to Fight Over After Megapixels? · · Score: 1

    Pixels don't mean crap unless you have a pretty decent lense.

  20. Re:I couldn't possibly read that tiny little type. on Amazon Releases iPhone Kindle Software · · Score: 1

    Interesting is that no one else has commented on the fact that this is basically an iPhone wrapper application. You don't go back into the app store to buy content, instead going to amazon.com and buying content there.

    I thought that was a no-no in Apple's TFA on iPhone apps.

  21. Are you that Dumb? on Facebook's New Terms of Service · · Score: 0

    A Website provides a public service. It is free, as in no fee is charged to you to have a general Facebook account. Just now you are screaming? "Hey they can't use my pictures to sell stuff or hype Facebook! They never asked for my permission!"

    But you did allow them by having an account in the first place. Geez, people, what do you not get? If you want sole possesion of your material (content) then buy your own webserver and host your own damn content.And then spend the rest of your life siccing lawyers on all the people who copy your material and using it for profit (that's not yuour own profit).

    Until then, you should always be aware of the cost of Internet "freebies."

  22. Re:H1-b's old news; offshore the new hip thing on Layoffs at Microsoft, Intel, and IBM · · Score: 1

    No...I think the point is US businesses may have to judge what their identity is for the next 10 years or so. Yes, you can play in the international arena but the US customer base will want to know that the services that they pay a premium for are based in the US. The US economy is not based upon the stock prices of companies but of the GNP, valuation of the dollar and trade.

    As more companies offshore employees, a backlash of US citizens will have a greater voice in deciding company value. Much like protests of child labor hurt the public image of certain companies and pledged boycotts of those services and goods, the new protests will again echo the 70s protest of "made in the USA."

    Dell and IBM both learned that corporate Help Desk support for US companies must be in the US. Both companies experienced downturn in purchased goods and services when it was learned (or felt) that Help Desk was in India.

    Again, the point is that for America to get back on track, companies will learn that it must be US for US first in goods and services.

  23. H1-b's old news; offshore the new hip thing on Layoffs at Microsoft, Intel, and IBM · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I know for a fact that several departments within IBM (in the US) have sent down employees to Brazil and India to train those who wouldd eventually take over their jobs.

    So in the strictest sense, yes, it is a resource action to fire "duplicate" services or make the company run leaner. However, it is disengenious to say anything other than this was planned to occur as early as Q1 2008. Simply put, IBM artifically inflated their employee base so that they could transition services to a less costly (to the bean counters) and fire the ones in the US.

    They will "get away with it" only so long as the company sees no penalty in their actions. They didn't fire anyone until after Christmas and after their quarterly earnings. So to many investors they are doing good things.

    The only way to combat offshoring is: a) as a US customer, demand goods and services that originate in the US; b) US gov't remove any tax benefits to a company that has X percentage of the workforce in other countries. It doesn't penalize a company (ala tarrifs) but does reward companies that are American in employee base with tax incentives.

  24. RE: Cultural Problem on US CTO Choice Down To a Two-Horse Race · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Lord knows I am going to get slammed for this...but where is the white guy?

    I am afraid that Congress, behind closed doors, is still a racist institution. I'm afraid that either person will not be as succesful in navigating those waters with ties back to India. (Or Russia, or China, etc.)

  25. He's too fucking old on Keanu Reeves To Star In Cowboy Bebop · · Score: 1

    Lets be honest...unless they give him a CGI makeover...