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  1. Sign that I'm an old man on Student Makes a Million Online, Gets Deported · · Score: 1

    Who buys these things?

  2. Re:What's the point on The Incredible Shrinking Cosmonaut Corps · · Score: 1

    Before I go anywhere I want to know about the toilette facilities.

  3. Re:Because... on The Incredible Shrinking Cosmonaut Corps · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I don't understand why housing is expensive in the US. You guys got lots of land and it's a whole new nation.

  4. Re:Reading the artcle...... on Former Spy Poisoned By Radiation In UK · · Score: 1

    Therefore, the likelihood is that he was killed precisely to frame Putin for his murder

    Nah, I think it's a KGB plot to make it look like it was made to look like it was a KGB plot. Yeah, I know, you gotta think it all backwards to understand Russia.

  5. Re:Scam. It's a scam. on Microsoft Patent Deal Could Leave Novell Behind · · Score: 1

    It is a scam indeed. I knew it the moment I read that Microsoft bought soooo many Suse licenses for its customers. Yeah, right! Like Microsoft is going to market and sell Suse to its customers.

    Microsoft did a really shitty thing. If there'd never been a reason to be suspicious of them before this is it.

  6. Re:Yeah yeah, you feel free to buy the £120 on When Beige Won't Do · · Score: 1

    For about the same price you can get a black case. And black is really timeless classic.

  7. Re:If Deal Offends You, Sign Petition by Bruce Per on IBM Weighs In On Novell — Microsoft Deal · · Score: 1

    I'd sign but, what license is that petition text under? I don't want my name to get GPLed.

  8. Re:Wii alive! on The Wii Disassembled · · Score: 1

    Can someone explain? Second time I hear of this stephany/stephanie meme. Who is it about?

  9. Re:Too bad they can only stop what happened years on Indians Use Google Earth and GPS To Protect Amazon · · Score: 1

    Mining is something that takes time. You don't just move in overnight, mine, and leave in the morning. I guess they're monitoring a vast expanse of land, so even a months old picture is useful.

  10. Re:What a crock of shit! on Linus Torvalds Officially a Hero · · Score: 1

    Linux is just a kernel. I use KDE, bash, and lots of GNU stuff and, to be honest, I never think of the kernel and wouldn't care if someone would replace it with something else. It's also, as far as I know, not a particularly good kernel compared to the BSDs and Solaris. What made it special though was that it was, unlike them, licensed under the GPL, and that what made people willing to contribute to it. Now who came up with the GPL? Stallman did. I think it's completely ludicrous that Linus would get so much credit. It just happens to be a more Hollywood-type story to credit Linus; this Scandanavian kid in his bedroom who made something and the internet and the world flocked to it, "you can do it too if you try" inspirational BS. An MIT 1960s Weirdo is just not Hollywood enough for the media to latch onto.

  11. Re:That would be awesome! on Sun Considering GPL For OpenSolaris · · Score: 2, Informative

    No it won't, for the simple reason that Linus is "a bastard, and proud of it!". Just google "linus" and "solaris" and see how dismissive he is of it, calling it "a joke", just like he's been dismissive of the BSDs.

  12. Re:bravo on Sun Open Sources Java Under GPL · · Score: 1

    Sun has long been, by far, the largest commercial contributor to the free and open source software pool. In fact, it's long been the second largest ever single contributor after University of California at Berkeley, and, in 2005 it bypassed even UC Berkeley to become the single largest contributor ever to Open Source, commercial or otherwise. This step today just further adds to it.

  13. Re:Another law on U.K. Outlaws Denial of Service Attacks · · Score: 1

    There's a fundamental fault with democracy in that it allows elected morons to set the laws of the land. This observation is as old as Plato.

  14. Re:Way too obvious on Microsoft Interested In More Linux Deals · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What is "insightful" in the above? does "insightful" now just mean smart-ass-ish? I'm annoyed that I wasted my time reading this modded-up useless comment.

  15. Re:Check for freshly turned dirt in the yard on "Couchsurfing" Travel Takes Off On the Web · · Score: 1

    Ebay-like feedback/reputation system.

  16. Moot on 10 Reasons To Buy a DSLR · · Score: 1

    If someone is a "serious" shooter, willing to part with the cash and put in the time to research his options, then there's really no point in advising him on what to buy, he'll figure it out even it if it means going through 3 or 4 purchases, and there's really no way for someone else to know what your needs are with any satisfying exactness. If someone isn't, then almost any camera will do. I speak here as someone who must've made ~40 camera-related buy-and-sell transactions on ebay over the past 2 or 3 years. Whatever camera was wroth buying I bought, tried, and sold. At one time my collection of cameras in the drawer was in the teens. What cameras do I prefer now after going through the dearest or rarest? The cheapest no nonsense ones.

  17. Re:But it's not justice on Saddam Hussein Sentenced to Death · · Score: 1

    And a judge who dared go off-script for a moment was removed and someone else was instated by the same folks who tried to assassinate him in 1982, now in government, with that assassination attempt being the focus of the trial. It's all a forgone conclusion.

  18. Verily? on Core Python Programming · · Score: 1

    Someone used "verily" on slashdot?!

  19. Re:A show trial in every sense. on Saddam Hussein Sentenced to Death · · Score: 1

    Put him in a cage and get Borat's sister to show him her virgin and say "you'll never get this! HAHAHAHA!"

  20. TBL on Tim Berners-Lee Announces Web Science Initiative · · Score: 2, Insightful

    TBL is a great guy and all, but his "invention" is now way too large with too many involved for its "inventor" to remain relevant. I doubt that anything he says or does now can matter much. He needs to let go of this altruistic visionary role. I wish he had cashed out somehow. Maybe had he learnt PHP and made a popular website.

  21. Re:What about... on Utube Sues YouTube · · Score: 1

    That video on ewetube was a masterpiece. I loved it.

  22. Re:Not very Intelligent design on Viral Fossil Brought Back To Life · · Score: 1

    Haha. I love it. Please mod it up.

  23. What's it for on Krita 1.6 — State of the Art · · Score: 1

    From the article: "Nevertheless, the vision is for Krita to be more about creating images than about manipulating them."

  24. Re:Indifferently? on Google Winning By Losing? · · Score: 1

    I'd never heard of this sketchup app before. I just looked it up, it looks that one of those little toy shareware apps on nonags that I'd never cared for. Can someone enlighten as to what the point of a 3D sketching app is for Google?

  25. Re:Canada is Full! Go home! on If Not America, Then Where? · · Score: 1

    I had no idea what poutine was till I looked it up. This thing looks disgusting.