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  1. Re:Just don't go. on Amusement Park Bans PDAs and Smartphones · · Score: 1

    It is there business if they are in the business of making families happy. This is the whole point, you still seem to miss. They are trying to come up with a gimmick, that helps them offer better services to families.

  2. Re:Sniff, sniff.. on Amusement Park Bans PDAs and Smartphones · · Score: 1

    Which is the next best thing, if you can't get them to change their minds. Get rid of the boring, useless parents, who don't look after their kids. This looks like a bonus to me.

  3. Re:Long weekend... on Gaining System-Level Access To Vista · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why, because lots of people aren't sure, and don't really care enough to check. And if you are only talking, you can get away, unless you spell it out of course.

  4. Re:It isn't neccesarily personal... on Getting Rid of Staff With High Access? · · Score: 1

    I have always had full access. And one time, when I left a job, but ended up coming back in another position 8 months later, I still had full access, including swipe card access, and access to all the servers.

  5. Re:You're not supposed to finish your projects on Getting Rid of Staff With High Access? · · Score: 1

    Bravo. As someone who has had to step into other peoples code a number of times, where there was NO documentation, and NO comments, and sometimes very strange ways of doing things, the last few weeks the leavers should not be able to add any more code. And spend the rest of the time documenting, and helping other developers get up to speed.

  6. Re:Sudden outbreak of common sense... on UK Prosecutors Say 'Cult' Acceptable · · Score: 2, Informative

    I know that happened in Germany (why are they the more sensible government all of a sudden), but not in the UK.

  7. Re:Don't Panic on Offline Wikipedia Reader For iRex Iliad · · Score: 1

    I can't wait for the Babel fishes release, then we won't have to worry about all these religious folks anymore.

  8. Re:It isn't a smartphone. on Review of HTC's X7510 Advantage Smartphone · · Score: 1

    Except it doesn't come with a real OS, it comes with Windows Mobile. So it is not even a proper laptop.

  9. Re:I don't get what the big deal is... on Pushing a CPU to Heat Death, Intentionally · · Score: 1

    Alright boys, hook him up to the mains. Lets see how well he does.

  10. Re:The video on Pushing a CPU to Heat Death, Intentionally · · Score: 1

    We used to play a drinking game based around porn cards. You need to guess tits, vag, cock. Wrong, you drink. And if you guess bj (since there was only 3 in the pack), everybody else drinks.

  11. Re:Objective on Microsoft To Pay People To Search · · Score: 1

    Which is a sensible thing for big IT companies to do, you saw this with IBM. IBM has since gotten out of a lot of industries, to focus on a few. But Microsoft has a huge amount of cash, and it needs to spend it. One way to do this is to hand out dividends, another is to buy into other Market areas.

    There is nothing wrong with doing this, except when Microsoft leverages their monopoly in certain IT areas to help them in other areas, which is what they do, and what they will always do. They don't offer much, unless they continue to do this.

  12. Re:Results for eggs on Microsoft Office 2007 to Support ODF - But Not OOXML · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I think most people who have actually worked with Steve, no that it is a good idea to get the "ammunition" out of the room, not provide him with more.

  13. Re:Motherboards on Tech's 10 Worst Entry-Level Jobs · · Score: 1

    ...top 50 (for Business) University in New Orleans.

    Wow, didn't know New Orleans had that many Universities. You must be very proud.

  14. Re:Chiming in on Tech's 10 Worst Entry-Level Jobs · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, my life was so much easier once I made those scripts to change the printer paper, and answer calls. Now I am working on a script to read slashdot, and I can just stay at home.

  15. The moon is already being sold... on The Case for Lunar Property Rights · · Score: 3, Interesting

    http://www.lunarrepublic.com/ Or just do a google search for lunar property for a retailor in your area.

    There was a show on this on the UK Channel Four a few months ago. The UN passed a resolution saying no country can stake a claim to the moon, but some joker realised it said nothing about individuals, and claimed it for himself. He has been selling lots on the moon for years, raking in millions.

    They interviews people who have bought it, some of them are quite serious. One said she couldn't afford land for her kids on earth, but she got them something on the moon, for the future.

  16. Re:Before the big brains at MS figure it out... on Microsoft Patents 'Proactive' Virus Protection · · Score: 1

    You will be surprised how many files get updated, when you run even simple programs. You should run filemon for a minute or so, check what sort of output you get. You might as well put up a flag whenever a program requests some memory to run, that is just as maleveolent behaviour.

  17. Re:Bizarreness matters too on UK Teen Cited For Calling Scientology a "Cult" · · Score: 1

    As opposed to eating the body of christ? Or drinking his blood. Try to think about that objectively.

  18. Re:$20k profit? on Oil Billionaire Building World's Largest Wind Farm · · Score: 1

    The great thing is, you can just stack them on top of each other. perfect.

  19. Re:In other news on Oil Billionaire Building World's Largest Wind Farm · · Score: 1

    It is not that they hate planet earth, you are misrepresenting the facts, a common strategy for people who often find themselves losing arguments.

    It is just that they don't CARE about planet earth. So if something will make them more money, there is no consideration on the impact that will have on the earth. This is an old attitude, sure we can do stuff like this for so long, but not forever, and not with more and more people doing it.

  20. Re:$1,000 market dominance... on 66% Apple Market Share For Sales of High-End PCs · · Score: 1

    Mate, if you are working in Australia, and only getting about $60,000, you are getting paid very badly. Unless you are a graduate.

    And ignore the other tosser, he was at the other end of the spectrum.

  21. Re:$1,000 market dominance... on 66% Apple Market Share For Sales of High-End PCs · · Score: 1

    Ok, so you earn £120,000 a year ($250,000), and you consider yourself normal?

  22. Re:Regular degrees are simpler on Japan "Running Out of Engineers" · · Score: 1

    Paying engineers more does not create more engineers.

  23. Re:French on French Judge Orders Refund For Pre-Installed XP · · Score: 1

    A minor point. You can argue all you want the technicalities, but surely you can't believe that it was ok for Swedens to just sit idly buy, profiting from selling goods to the Nazis, while they were murdering their own citizens and attacking other countries.

    The fact is that they surrendered before they even started fighting. Being neutral is worse, in this situation.

  24. Re:It is an addiction on Why Windows Solitaire Eats So Much Time · · Score: 1

    but it has become the primary opportunity to shut off my brain for a moment or two between tasks.


    That is what I use Slashdot for. Works a treat.
  25. Re:Obligatory on Why Windows Solitaire Eats So Much Time · · Score: 1

    Than an operating system? Of course they do. You still need to buy the computer when you get Windows Vista.

    See, you are not the only one who can act like a dickhead.