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  1. Re:Everytime... on Study Finds New Pop Music Does All Sound the Same · · Score: 1

    The study also found new tech-site posts do all look the same!

    They paywalled that part though. :(

  2. Re:Two words on Facebook Abstainers Could Be Labeled Suspicious · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Right on. This whole thing is very thoughtcrimey--I guess I should expect "lemme see your passport, SSN, and Facebook account while I wand and grope you" real soon.

  3. Re:Blah blah blah on Comcast Launches Superfast Internet To Fight FiOS · · Score: 1

    At least 3 choices that haven't specifically agreed not to compete, at that.

  4. Re:Said it here first... on World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria Launches On September 25 · · Score: 1

    Waaaaait. It's that a mousetrap to catch and kill hipsters, or a mousetrap set up by hipsters to catch the mainstream media people who say "Move over fad, new_fad is here!"?

  5. Re:NYT: Self-Congratulatory Move by Amazon? on Amazon Offers To Help Train Workers For Other Jobs · · Score: 1

    I guess that analyst's check still needs to clear, unlike another...

  6. Re:Remote updating of devices on your person? on Apple Plans Hearing Aid Social Networking · · Score: 1

    ...but you can upgrade it now for a low fee*, and it'll give you less ads and more special magic powers, like the PeepingTom Spell Powered by Polaroid that has a 1 in 100 chance of printing out a iShowerphoto! You'll also get special color chips to customize your aid (because modifications like jailbreaks and paint are against the Terms of Use and Service).

    *lowness of fee not guaranteed

  7. Re:Bankers are worse than hackers. on Obama's Portrait of Cyberwar Isn't Complete Hyperbole · · Score: 1

    Right back atcha. His comment was sensible with a side of correct.

  8. Re:I have an answer!!!1 on Obama's Portrait of Cyberwar Isn't Complete Hyperbole · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sadly, merely blocking that Voldemortian name from Slashdot won't help anymore--I saw fairly slick commercials for it on the Science Channel.

    The demon breeds!

  9. can only be accessed and read by... on 2.4 Million Ontario Voters' Private Info Compromised · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The information contained on the two sticks wasn't encrypted and the sticks themselves weren't password-protected - as they should have. Still, it can only be accessed and read by using internal Elections Ontario proprietary software or specialized commercial software applications.

    ...and the thieves, once they (quickly) figure out how the fields are arranged and stored.

  10. Re:105 Tesla isn't that strong a field... on New Type of Chemical Bond Predicted To Exist In White Dwarfs · · Score: 1

    Submission has the mistake as well, so either the cut-and-paste or the Slashdot filter ate the sup tag.

  11. Re:Lawful my ass on EFF Challenges National Security Letter · · Score: 2

    The Court will just rule that NSLs are people, who just happen to have grown valid Federal warrants for their situation within their stomachs. (That last part is important because the US, on behalf of these new People, can just say they have a medical condition that prevents them from producing the warrants, or that they ate them.)

  12. Re:Outcome certain on Facebook and Wal-Mart Join Forces · · Score: 1

    The real question, though, is whether this new touchy-feely (in-)Ya-Face-Mart board triumvirate means we should be killing our Yahoo accounts.

    Pray that you've left nothing of personal value on your flickr and mail there, 'cuz if you haven't deleted those then you're about to find yourself automagically registered to Facebook. (Again.)

  13. Paradox. on Australian Consumer Group Wants Geo-IP Blocking Banned · · Score: 1

    (Due to legislation in your geographical area that requires us not to block users in certain geographical areas based on their apparent geographical area, we cannot host or advertise our services in your geographical area and this comment is thus not available in your geographical area. We are sorry for the inconvenience and redundancy.)

  14. Re:What? on Could Google Fiber Save Network Neutrality? · · Score: 1

    Yup, even if they mean right at first, their revenues will start to hiccup. Once fiber maintenance becomes a problem and the share price sours, the Page wing will make Google pull a Slashdot and want to use it to push their video (YouTube) and their "social" network (+) Mad-Crazy Fast(tm) at others' expense, while they generally continue to marketer-ize and RIAA-tize the services.

    So no I don't think this will help netneut at all. Maybe it will help netneut die; it's easy to miss that last word, I guess.

  15. Re:Way cooler on Apple Must Publicly Post That Samsung Did Not Copy iPad · · Score: 3, Funny

    POM Wonderful did something like this very recently. It felt a bit bizarre to read that, via a NYTimes banner that showed on that day.

  16. Re:Liberty and Justice for [REDACTED] on Thomas Drake: You're Automatically Suspicious Until Proven Otherwise · · Score: 1

    That unpatriotic communication was fully replaced long ago with "God Bless America". Keep up with the Law, consumer!

  17. Re:In case you're wondering on MIPS Technologies Porting Android 4.1 to MIPS Architecture · · Score: 1

    What an unfortunate oversight.

    Unless it was an intentional usurpation, like Microsoft's uses of .NET or DNS.

    (Someone here made a comment about that; if I could find it I'd link it.)

  18. Re:Sad, but we let them do this. on AT&T Introducing Verizon-Style Shared Data Plans · · Score: 1

    Love that word "fuckening". Sounds like "fuck" + the "reckoning" of the true nature of the current telecom market (among other markets): businesses who compete...to achieve the highest price.

  19. Re:All you need is one car. on Another Elon Musk Bet: Half of All Cars Built In 2032 Will Be Electric · · Score: 2

    Perhaps, though by 2032 "less than $25,000" would probably mean "less than $250,000", or "less than CNY159,350" if China decides to choke more than just rare earth supplies.

  20. Re:Article Summary... on Firefox OS Will Win Big With Developers - Mozilla · · Score: 4, Funny

    Or, "Everyone uses HTML5, right? So if we just gut our UI code and write it in HTML5 and tout its HTML5 use enough times on HTML5 news sites and our HTML5 wiki-thing, then we'll get lots of HTML5 fans to use our HTML5 OS. HTML5 HTML5!!!!! *continues to yell 'HTML5' and 'Beefcake' with decreasing coherence*"

  21. Re:not to mention on Sony's Thermal Sheet Good As Paste For CPU Cooling · · Score: 1

    Exactly. The big corps these days talk about "brand recognition" and "proper brand alignment" and even employ *shudder* Chief Brand Officers. They put The Brand and The Image first now; we have to remind them that the best way to build a strong brand and a sterling image is not being an asshole.

  22. Re:Don't you wish your CEO was hot like theirs? on Google's Marissa Mayer Becomes Yahoo! CEO · · Score: 3, Funny

    Talk about not properly sanitizing your database input!

  23. Re:I wonder on East Texas Getting Compressed Air Energy Storage Plant · · Score: 1

    As the summary notes (but the article doesn't seem to mention), the air is first compressed by natural gas-driven motors. That means such wonderful natgas procurement methods like fracking are ultimately involved.

    I hope, at least, that using CAES is more efficient than just burning the natgas and twirling the turbines with that. (I doubt that but I'm no energy expert.)

  24. Re:way bigger problem on Facebook "Like" System Devalued By Fake Users · · Score: 1

    Yeah, if people havent realized groups are not seeking and getting what I call "favor likes", then they are clearly in the Mike Gravel Housing Program ("Hiding under a rock!"). Any ranking of pages by likes is inherently skewed, if not completely worthless and useless but to the marketers behind each page.

    I also consider asking people to Like a page via a TV commercial one of the least classy things a (big, in particular) company can possibly do. You managed to land a goddamn TV commercial; by doing that you tell us you still need synthetic word-of-mouth with a side of tracking internet users. Ick.

  25. Re:Good For You, Canadians on Canada's Supreme Court Strikes Down Copyright Fees On Music, Video · · Score: 4, Funny

    Word. The article is good, but lacks details on the Justices' favorite type of cookies and how best to mail some to them.