User: Bastard of Subhumani

Re:NOT and NEVER WAS about Child porn, of course

On: France Votes Tuesday On Net Censorship

Stopping charging them extra for our intellectual rights, in form of inflated medicine costs, etc.

By "extra" and "inflated" you mean the same as I'd have to pay?

Re:NOT and NEVER WAS about Child porn, of course

On: France Votes Tuesday On Net Censorship

I mean, it's like saying if governments cared about child porn, then they would kill all the children.

I always knew King Herod was a good guy, deep down.

Re:No shit, Sherlock?

On: FBI Violated Electronic Communications Privacy Act

Ahhh complacency through nervous joking....

OK tough guy, what's your excuse? Complacency by abdication is somehow better?

Actually it's more like complacency through double nationality.

Not that it's much comfort, everywhere that isn't worse already is trying to catch up.

No shit, Sherlock?

On: FBI Violated Electronic Communications Privacy Act

Wouldn't it be quicker to list ones they haven't violated?

Re:Moron

On: Ballmer Hits 10th Anniversary As Microsoft CEO

it's rarer in areas where you are chosen not for your looks

Ballmer may have many faults, but that's one thing I'd never accuse him of!

undebunked?

On: Martian Microbe Fossils, Not So Debunked Anymore

Undebunked? Rebunked? Or just bunked?

Let me be the first to wish him

On: Ballmer Hits 10th Anniversary As Microsoft CEO

many fucking happy returns!

Re:Coming soon

On: Why Is a Laptop's Battery Dearer Than a Lawnmower's?

There has to be a car analogy too.

at the risk of stating the obvious

On: A Critical Look At Open Licensing For Hardware

should competing big companies be allowed to use their economies of scale to make and sell cheaper products based on open hardware designs developed by small start-ups without payment?

Obviously yes. If you don't want them to, then don't make it open.

Re:Polish Cipher Bureau cracked Enigma

On: Bletchley Park WWII Staff Finally Recognized

Hmm, you don't recognise a Polack joke when it hits you in the face with a wet haddock. Are you Irish?

Re:Let's Start With an Apology

On: Bletchley Park WWII Staff Finally Recognized

Putting these two things together is a non-sequitor.

A what?

Re:The Grotesquely Ugly Truth

On: Best Handset For Freedom?

You mean the huge oil companies who'd found the oil, drilled the wells to extract it, built the refineries etc? Why should they not get at the oil?

Re:the odds

On: America's Army 3 Has Rough Launch, Development Team Canned

And if they were all incompetent, then the fault lies with the asshat who hired them.

Re:Feudalism

On: The "Doctor Who" Model of Open Source

Only if it's a project that'll never be finished.

Re:History repeats itself.....

On: German Parliament Enacts Internet Censorship Law

Hence my sig...

Re:Quick, extend this law to Tetris

On: German Parliament Enacts Internet Censorship Law

monominoes

Da dah, da dada!

Feudalism

On: The "Doctor Who" Model of Open Source

Feudalism with a herditary monarchy. Trouble is anybody who works on open source projects doesn't breed, so you'd have succession wars all the time.

No change there, then.

Re:This will be nice

On: Weather Balloons To Provide Broadband In Africa

people who are a lot smarter than I am have been working hard on this for a while.

6.7 billion people are working on it?

Re:It's not the eye color screening that bugs me

On: Fertility Clinic Bows To Pressure, Nixes Eye- and Hair-Color Screening

I don't give a dog's dick if my specific genes are here after I leave..

It's a surprise they made it this far!

Re:Dangers of being an arrogant ass

On: The Perils of Pop Philosophy

They're smart. That bumbling medocrity is a clever act and many, including you, fell for it.

Re:Why is Verbosity Bad?

On: Comparing the Size, Speed, and Dependability of Programming Languages

My answer was to define verbosity as the inverse of expressiveness

But it isn't.

Re:what about APL

On: Comparing the Size, Speed, and Dependability of Programming Languages

Nobody on Slashdot cared about that until it got trendy to say "citation needed" as though this were Wikipedia and you know it.

You have reliable proof of that?

Nothing to see here

On: Social Networking Behavioral Agreements At Work?

Ass covering exercise. If you (the worker) call $famous_person a $bad_thing it ain't their fault - it's yours.

Re:TV and the movies

On: Hobbits' Brains Shrank Due To Remote Home

However, I didn't mod him up because I strongly object to the term "retards". It's unpleasant, and insulting to people with lower IQs or learning difficulties.

Right. Like they're totally going to notice.

Re:Similar to Windows hate?

On: Comic Sans, Font of Ill Will

Perhaps telegrams were uppercase only for the stated reason?