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  1. Re:Should be Windows GOLD on Windows Blue: Microsoft's Plan To Release a New Version of Windows Every Year · · Score: 3, Funny

    $40 is indeed a bargain for the newest version of Windows.

    The only problem right now is that it's the newest version of Windows.

  2. Re:That's wrong, on Seas Rising Faster Than Projected · · Score: 1

    No, Obama didn't drop the sea level. That great crag you saw rise from the oceans was just one of his caves as it reared its ugly head. :(

  3. Re:Missing important feature on Slashdot Mobile: Now For Tablets As Well As Phones · · Score: 1

    Tiles? Tiles!? No! You will read Slashdot in full ASCII glory, and you will like it, or randomly die. Actually, you'll randomly die anyway, but you'll still like it. Or else...something.

  4. Re:African? on Ask Mark Shuttleworth Anything · · Score: 1

    Teresa Heinz comes to mind.

  5. Re:LTE Cheat Code on Nexus 4 Includes Support For LTE · · Score: 2

    All 30 are free and probably enough to get you to the end, but the draconian 2y contract keeps you from using spread, laser, or fire attacks. Also, the data caps mean you'll be fighting through to it in monochrome vector glory or with heavy sprite limits.

  6. Re:Nowhere fast on FBI Asked Megaupload To Preserve Pirated Files, Then Used Them Against Dotcom · · Score: 2

    Don't be so quick to mea culpa. If this is **AA-bribe-fueled, then said **AA would happily the various govts to make them paint Dotcom and Assange, along with Anons and such, as members of the same Axis Of Anti-American Terrorist And Computer-Hacking And Also Job-Killing Piratical Evil.

    It would be a big marketing coup for them to get that stuck in people's heads, and big marketing coups matter these days (instead of things like "competition", "compassion", "law", or "value of product").

  7. Re:Sensational! on Police Raid Home of 9-Year-Old Pirate Bay User, Seize "Winnie the Pooh" Laptop · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Never did find out what came of that. Seemed like a lot of effort wasted on someone whose big thing was collecting classic games like Alley Cat.

    What do you mean? They now have his game consoles, music CDs, and anything they felt like taking "as evidence". The effort paid off (for the raiders)!

  8. Re:Good question on Ask Slashdot: Geekiest Way To Cook a Turkey? · · Score: 1

    Would you at least tell us for the degenerate case of a point turkey in said vacuum and 0 gravity?

  9. Re:Can things get any more creepy? on Mannequins That Watch Shoppers · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, they'll dress it up in a cute exterior with an old light bulb, and call it the Flying Bluelight.

    He'll say such things as "It looks like you're fondling the coffee table. While I call security, I've found you some special sales on matching sofas and ottomans, today only!"

  10. Re:SAM Launch on What "Earth-Shaking" Discovery Has Curiosity Made on Mars? · · Score: 1

    Nah, the NASA budget only allows for so many attributes of badass on one rover. They had to settle for its array of instruments and the whole landing process, hostile aliens be damned.

    Granted, running headlong into a place possibly full of hostile creatures is arguably the ultimate in badass technology...

  11. Re:Another one bites the dust on Cisco To Buy Meraki For $1.2 Billion · · Score: 1

    ...and, if that mid-size company is as described, nothing of value was lost.

  12. Re:is first post still a thing? on Nintendo Wii U Teardown Reveals Simple Design · · Score: 1

    I (probably wrongly) smell a Virtual Boy jab.

  13. Re:This already exists in the wild on Battery-Powered Transmitter Could Crash A City's 4G Network · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thank you for your concern. At at&t(R), our commitment(tm) to rebuilding the nation's largest 4G network this year with your input has not wavered. However, our cozy government relationship requires us to install multiple backdoors, electronic and otherwise, and our Security budget was beginning to cut into our Invite Government Representatives Into Boardroom For Lobbying And Slash Or Trophywife Swapping budget.

    As such, we have decided to retain the mandatory backdoors but leave them open to these minor vulnerabilities. The occasional permanent loss of an antenna, your Facebook account's integrity, or that one guy in Customer Service who decides to blow a whistle on us does not preclude your required payment of the 2012 Nation's Largest 4G Network Improvements Fee, or the upcoming 2013 Nation's Largest 4G Network Improvements Fee (which we hereby announce in this sentence, as double the 2012 version in all cases), even though both would be entirely too small to buy such high-value targets and high-class lays in such high volume.

    Thank you again for choosing at&t(R), now with the nation's tallest paperweights. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, or let us track you to your house through any other method imaginable.

  14. Congratulations, Mr. Cuban! on Mark Cuban: Facebook Is Driving Away Brands — Starting With Mine · · Score: 4, Funny

    Congratulations, Mr. Cuban! Facebook now considers you not just a product, but an actual user/venture-capital source!

  15. Re:Why am I reminded of on Apple and HTC Settle Patent Dispute · · Score: 1

    If, in either case, you'd need a massive war chest (of patents, money, or otherwise) and an army of lawyers just to keep your product out of Injunction Junction*, does such a detail matter for groups who want to make hardware without getting hounded by a protection-fee landmine?

    I think it doesn't matter, and that it's just as much of a icky travesty here as there. That the settle-terms are confidential here suggest the patents in question may (at least as of now) be inherently non-FRAND too. It's just a legal mess all around.

    *Any reference to this video is unintentional and purely coincidental.

  16. Re:Is Cockatoo a new tech startup? on Cockatoo Manufactures, Uses Tools · · Score: 2

    Nah, the web startup would've used "koccaTwo" and "toolr" respectively.

  17. Memos on Cisco VP To Memo Leaker: Finding You Now 'My Hobby' · · Score: 3, Funny

    In an email sent to Cisco employees, the executive invites the anonymous leaker to come clean, concedes that's unlikely, and adds, 'so I will now make (finding) you my hobby. Ask around (and) you will find out that I like to work on my hobbies.

    Quinn then underscored his point in a second less widely-distributed memo, in which he added, "I'm all out of gum." Roddy Piper did not immediately return our calls for comment.

  18. Re:Who? on Barack Obama Retains US Presidency · · Score: 2

    Whether or not the feds decide to trump those state referendums, I think those could actually bring a DoJ change of heart like those they've had with DOMA and gay marriage support. I don't expect such a change to occur soon after this election, but if a few more occur in 2014 or 2016 then those will start clicking White House political Geiger counters, and make them say "damn...our crackdowns aren't earning us the votes we need to retain control...".

  19. Re:My Plan on US Offers New Plans 1 Month Before UN Meeting To Regulate Web · · Score: 1, Troll

    But at least they're our infestuous copyright cartels! *chants U-S-A! ad infinitum*

  20. Re:This is why we need AMD on ARM Announces 64-Bit Cortex-A50 Architecture · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A world with AMD is also one that uses ARM as a DRM bludgeon. I'm not sure we need that sort of competition.

  21. Re:Copyright on Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm, Star Wars Episode 7 Due In 2015 · · Score: 1

    On that note, I think an advance RIP to Darth L. Jackson is in order.

  22. Re:The Bizarre Submitter Comment Award goes to... on Ubuntu Now Available On the Nexus 7 · · Score: 4, Informative

    That was added by timothy, not the anonymous submitter.

  23. Re:Cisco is no longer what is used to be on China Telco Replaces Cisco Devices Over Security Concerns · · Score: 1

    Besides, if China ever wants to return to Cisco, their data and settings will still be stored in the cloud!

  24. Re:Sam Lantinga (from Loki Games) on A Proposal To Fix the Full-Screen X11 Window Mess · · Score: 1

    I have had the feed of the SDL Mercurial changelog on watch for a good while, from back when I felt I could make a game with SDL within a reasonably short time.

    Times changed, assorted Shit Happened (both within and without my PC), and my SDL tinkery and SVG tinkery became Blender tinkery (short YouTube video of mine) became "fuck this I'll just play some Torchlight and roughly build a witch there instead", but I still had the feed on watch and saw a relevant change. The summary had a different tone from the many other changes I've seen before, enough to make me think "Something big will come from this." Then I closed the feed tab and went back to whatever the hell I was doing, I forget.

    I admire Sam Lantinga's work (and patience) with SDL, given the collective trouble the various OSes bring. Many of the recent changes were for iOS...that must've been fun.

  25. Re:Get rid of the FDA on States Face Huge Task In Tracking Meningitis-Tainted Drugs · · Score: 3, Funny

    While we're at it, let's bulldoze those damn hippie free clinics and replace them with good-paying private hospitals.

    Then we'll have what it takes to Create Jobs(tm)!