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  1. Re:Magic Smoke on Ask Slashdot: Why Does Wireless Gear Degrade Over Time? · · Score: 4, Funny

    The real secret: The router is an automated mage machine, and needs mana potions to keep casting Lv. 11 Transmit Packet.

    (What do you mean "the antenna isn't a Rubber-Sheathed Metal Staff of Aethertransmission +1"!?)

  2. Re:Wrong License Period on NetFlix Caught Stealing DivX Subtitles From Finnish Pirates · · Score: 1
  3. Re:I didn't know, RLY on Internet Providers To Begin Warning Customers Who Pirate Content · · Score: 5, Funny

    In your case they'd probably just add the $35 charge to your next bill plus $15 for the interpreter they'd hired to read that. :)

  4. Re:Can we get their userids next to their names? on Making a Slashdot Omelet · · Score: 2

    No one cares about the third wheel. :(

  5. Re:New Advertising slogan on Nintendo Investigating Underage Workers At Foxconn · · Score: 1

    Yes.

  6. Re:"Slipped In?" Didn't you get the memo? on Paypal Slips 'No Class Action' Clause Into Policy Update · · Score: 1

    Yeah. My copy of the notice arrived a day earlier, even. As with Valve's change and eBay's, I thought they already had a no-CA clause anyway. All the Cool Kids, EULAs=sign away your first born and their virginity, class actions=free coupons for their service, et cetera.

    So meh.

  7. Re:special request on Cancer-Detecting Bra Could One Day Surpass Mammograms In Accuracy · · Score: 2

    "You know, I would love to get naked for you, but my doctor told me that if I take the bra off I might get false breast cancer detection results. No, really, it's not you, it's my bra."

    (Now they just need to make the cervical cancer detection panty and humanity will never have sex again!)

  8. No I don't! on Windows 8: Do I Really Need a Single OS? · · Score: 1

    If you skip Windows 8, you lose the appealing opportunity to synchronize all of your devices on a single platform — or so goes the argument.

    No I don't! I'll just use another platform for them.

  9. Re:How do I write a EULA? on Interviews: Ask Free Software Legal Giant Eben Moglen · · Score: 1

    Interesting one to me; the GPL is itself under copyright and asserts that it shall only be copied and distributed, not changed (except by, say, section-7 exceptions); but see also "Can I modify the GPL and make a modified license?". Of course, the GPL is No Ordinary EULA(tm), and only requires you to agree to it when modifying or "propagating" the work.

  10. Re:2d printers too? on FSF Certifies First Device in "Respects Your Freedom" Program · · Score: 1

    Yes yes. I was looking for a new printer and when the offerings don't self-destruct* or quaff ink like mana potions, they restrict network printing to "licensed" computers (what if a few too many smartphone users visit? Will it get overwhelmed and forget my PC?) or generally bow to the Secret Service (but I guess that's mandatory now anyway so whatever). *sigh* I'll probably just hold my nose and buy the best one available.

    As with video cards, I can't wait for a "third" group to come along and kick some stagnant corporate ass.

    *As my last one apparently has. Something about "Service Requested" that came after no (clear) evidence of impact- or paper jam-induced harm. I guess printout-maximum related, but I don't remember printing, say, this many pages. A hex unknown even to the Lord High Clericscribes of Google in any case.

  11. Re:awesome on Facebook Tests 'Want' Button To Hoard User Data, Save Its Stock Price · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh I think you are on to something. If I join you and a bunch of others in Operation Dildo Want, we can finally convince Nintendo to make a WarioWare ShoveItUpYourAssGame for the WiiU (now that the old Wii's sun will soon set). Then, when Platinum Games gets wind of this, their horrified management will cancel their Bayonetta 2 exclusivity plan there, and they'll move it and the original to, say, Steam where I can buy 'em for the PC!

    ...what!? I can dream! About the games...and her butt...and they've been kinda talking about it too...

  12. Save its stock price? on Facebook Tests 'Want' Button To Hoard User Data, Save Its Stock Price · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Save its stock price? Nah, I'm pretty sure that machinery served its purpose. Now Zuckerberg just needs to sell it off to Dewey Cheatam & Howe Capital LP, reap that private equity money from the middle- and lower-tier firings, and enjoy his *clears throat* well-earned retirement.

    This Want stuff is just to wring out a few remaining Dumb Fucks(tm), that their data may fund the Not-Yet-Fired for a little while more.

  13. Re:Now that summary is BS - at least in part. on Firefox 16 Released: More HTML5 Support · · Score: 1

    Yeah, my favorite part was the "These changes help keep Firefox competitive, but it also sends a signal to developers that Mozilla thinks these are good enough to begin baking into their sites. It's a strong endorsement of the 'future-Web' tech."

    I guess we get the best summaries money can buy.

  14. Re:Hypocrits. Fuck PETA on PETA Condemns Pokemon For Promoting Animal Abuse · · Score: 1

    Second link to this article was broken. Well stated in any case.

  15. Re:Business model: Annoy your users on Mozilla To Bug Firefox Users With Old Adobe Reader, Flash, Silverlight · · Score: 1

    While I sympathize with anyone who's trying not to get tracked in an internet that's become saturated with ways to be tracked, this May story seems relevant. I have a feeling that any such deal fell through after so much time, but you might want to remain vigilant, report misplaced baggage, buy American, et cetera.

    (I had to undo 2 up mods to reply here; my apologies to those who lost the points.)

  16. Oh fuck. on $1 Billion Mission To Reach the Earth's Mantle · · Score: 1

    I tell you, if any untold horrors come out of there, I shall just point at the hole in the adamantine, say "ain't my fault", and whistle as I walk away and get quickly minced into an unrecognizable mess.

  17. Re:Not if your name is "F" on "Secure" Shorter .uk Internet Domain Proposed · · Score: 2

    Maybe I should move to the UK and change my surname to Dumbf.

  18. Re:So they threw a tantrum. on Think Tank's Website Rejects Browser Do-Not-Track Requests · · Score: 1

    Your attempted access to URL http://www.itif.org/publications/why-itif-rejects-your-do-not-track-request was blocked (Keyword Filter). Contact your network administrator for help.

    That is my router after I added those crooks to its "Parental Control" rules. :)

  19. Re:Not entirely open source software on Blender Debuts Fourth Open Source Movie: Tears of Steel · · Score: 1

    Exactly. I now use an AMD card due to...complications, and I'm "forced"* to wait for them to improve AMD and general OpenCL support. I imagine that'll happen on or well after 2.65, but oh how I can't wait for that.

    *I scare-quote "forced", because with 2.63a and the current 2.64 RC2, I can sometimes actually get a few Cycles features to work with OpenCL, if I play around with the feature #defines in [BlenderPath]/2.63/scripts/addons/cycles/kernel/kernel_types.h, if I am willing to wait a whole bunch of minutes to see if the altered kernel code compiles (or watch as the compiler just aimlessly grinds on and on forever), and if it finally loads and doesn't overwhelm and freeze the card (which has happened to me a bunch of times, after I move a bunch of stuff in the modeling viewport while in Rendered mode after I try the other steps); and because I can always just use the (vastly slower) CPU instead anyway, or donate to motivate. :P

  20. Re:That would be sweet on Sugar Batteries Could Store 20% More Energy Than Li-Ions · · Score: 4, Funny

    They'll sell them here, but only in a 16 oz version.

    Recharges will be free though, and you can get one in a value combo with a chicken parmesan capacitor (for a limited time).

  21. No thanks. on When the Hiring Boss Is an Algorithm · · Score: 1

    The data recommend a person who lives near the job, has reliable transportation and uses one or more social networks, but not more than four.

    Remind me never to seek a Xerox job then. Who's gonna force the companies to add the legal equivalent of "or willingness to whore self out to Facebook or Twitter" to their equal-opportunity-employer pledges?

  22. Re:Fox News on Your Moral Compass Is Reversible · · Score: 1

    They can be bizarre neck-breakers to watch sometimes. One moment they're pointing the finger of scorn at, say, "entitlements", and another they're going after Obama for, say, raiding them and risking the lives of the elderly.

    All politicians do this, because disparate voting blocs, but the way Fox News and the GOP do it and the vast number of lies they use to that effect are frightening and frighteningly effective. Personally I'd prefer to break my neck at a mall...

  23. Re:That quickly? on W3C Announces Plan To Deliver HTML 5 by 2014 · · Score: 1

    The living standard thing was more WHATWG's idea. As far as I can tell, they and the W3C are cooperating on schedules and features, except when they're not. The W3C's and WHATWG's pace and goals seem to be quite different.

  24. Re:Never amazed on Wi-Fi Illness Claim Doesn't Impress New Mexico Court · · Score: 1

    The grammar nazi wouldn't care (though it appears the attribution nazi wants to have some words with you).

  25. Re:Perfect family gift on MS Office 2013 Pushing Home Users Toward Subscriptions · · Score: 1

    What fools. My 1-year subscription came with a 3-month membership and in-game currency for an MMO!

    See what happens when you don't clip the internet coupons in your toolbar? You miss out on great deals!