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  1. This submission is pure flamebait (not this post) on Steve Jobs Crowned "Person of the Decade" · · Score: 1

    The real leader paragraph of the story indicates that he was the favorite person to a bunch of people that read a stock trading magazine. And he should be, given what he's done for the company's stock.

    A full 30% of SmartMoney readers participating in our Person of the Decade poll, part of our weeklong Poll of the Decade series, named Jobs as their favorite person of the decade. Certainly, Jobs accomplished more than probably any other CEO since he returned to Apple (AAPL: 209.92*, -1.69, -0.79%) in the late 1990s: Not only did he revive sales at the failing computer company, he led the stock to a more than 700% increase in value, and forever changed the way people buy and listen to music.

    Emphasis mine.

    He did all those things, though they may be overselling the whole changing the way people listen to music thing.

  2. Re:Result on Man Tries To Use Explosive Device On US Flight · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, that would break the cardinal rule of airline travel (provided you aren't first/business class), which is: No leg room.

  3. Re:21 million on iPhone 4 Rumors Rumble · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Good points, however...

    It could also point to allowing the iPhone on another carrier in the US, if they opened it up to Verizon?

  4. Sign me up. on Typing With Your Brain · · Score: 1

    Pair some machine learning up with this to figure out what fires when I'm typing something, perhaps The quick red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog? or the dictionary.

    And, hell, have me look at and read a visual dictionary or encyclopaedia, similar to Leeloo in The Fifth Element, that way when I think of an image or concept it's typed. Anything that I can't specifically correlate to something I've seen I'd need to think about how to spell it out.

  5. Re:Actually, all this shows is how silly charts ar on Facebook Campaign Decides UK Christmas Music Charts · · Score: 1

    I'd be interested in your take on Johnny Cash's cover of NIN's "Hurt" then.

  6. Re:I recently needed to learn how to set a live tr on Dad Delivers Baby Using Wiki · · Score: 1

    If it was WoW and they needed a threesome I'd just tell them to roll a Night Elf.

  7. Re:Graduate student in what? on The DIY Book Scanner · · Score: 1

    I think I found his website.

  8. Re:Already Skynet protects itself on Google Demonstrates Quantum Computer Image Search · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In addition to this, Google usually seeks permits for their data center projects using companies (LLCs) that don’t mention Google at all, for example Lapis LLC in North Carolina and Tetra LLC in Iowa.

    That's not a Google thing, that's a standard practice. I know for sure AT&T does it, Global Switch in Amsterdam is one of the locations that AT&T has set up operations.

  9. Re:Should fail due to prior art. on Microsoft Invents Price-Gouging the Least Influential · · Score: 1

    When I got to a restaurant with the staff of a popular TV cooking show, the owners and chefs come out from the back and do gymnastics and we eat for free.

    If the chefs come out, who cooks?

    Just kidding, your example is much more verbose than mine.

  10. Should fail due to prior art. on Microsoft Invents Price-Gouging the Least Influential · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'd swear that's what the merchandise bags they give out at movie premieres are. The celebrities get stuff free, wield their influence over those susceptible to influencing who rush out and buy it. $0->$x.

  11. Congrats and thanks on Slashdot Turns 100,000 · · Score: 3, Funny

    /. keeps me from productively working myself out of a job.

  12. Re:Article on Pirates as a Marketplace · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Honestly? Are you still trolling? This isn't a general population website that has the story it's an informed audience website, a gamer knows what DLC is, a gamer visits Kotaku. The rules for acronym usage clearly state that if the acronym is commonly known it can be used as a word and needs no explanation, however if your audience isn't expected to know the word you must spell out the words first then parenthesize the acronym that will represent the words and then use the acronym.from then on. That is why we can write IQ, FBI, CIA, Washington, D.C. without issue.

  13. Re:Half a game? on Pirates as a Marketplace · · Score: 1

    You didn't seem to have a problem with acronym soup related to DLC in the articles: http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/21/021244 http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/09/29/0448213/The-Nickel-amp-Dime-Generation

    Weird. Hey, waitasecond, are you trolling!? Oh you crazy trolls! You got me! Oh man, I feel duped!

    Now you are duped.

  14. Re:So Trekkies are duty bound to sabotage the VSS? on Virgin Galactic Unveils SpaceShipTwo · · Score: 1

    I'd argue that the Trek franchise is going gangbusters on the big screen, but it's the TV series that are struggling.

  15. Re:Public Defender on "Accidental" Download Sending 22-Year-Old Man To Prison · · Score: 1

    A virus and a trojan are different by definition, I'm going to assume you're suggesting that an anti-virus program will also detect and block trojans. Good, in theory, however if it's a piece of malware that hasn't been detected and had it's signature added to the program, or if you're a conspiracy nut, was intentionally left out of the program to assist LEOs, the "antivirus" won't help you.

  16. Re:I know, I know! on Scientology Charged With Slavery, Human Trafficking · · Score: 1

    The Religion of Anthropogenic Global Exothermia...! :)

    As a member of R.A.G.E. I fixed that for you.

  17. Re:Wow on US Air Force Buying Another 2,200 PS3s · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ala Last Starfighter?

  18. Re:Have a great trip! on Geek Travel To London From the US — Tips? · · Score: 1

    I second the Oyster card. I'm in the EU every few months for work and you can only spend so many weekends in Amsterdam before you figure out why the Dutch don't think the prostitution and drugs are the coolest thing ever. I've taken to Chunnel-ing to London from Brussels and then spending a couple of days in the pubs catching live music. I just refill the Oyster when I arrive in King's/Pancraes and I'm good to go for the weekend.

  19. Re:How does this compare to London? on Chicago's Camera Network Is Everywhere · · Score: 2, Funny

    Seems repeat-offenses, especially of violent or sexual crimes, is pretty high...

    Spend a few years locked up in a confined, overcrowded place with a lot of other moderately violent people and no contact with women, and you'll bet people come out keyed for violence and with trouble relating to women.

    So that's why tech support has all the trouble with the ladies.

  20. Re:A network of 20, at most on US Government Using PS3s To Break Encryption · · Score: 1

    I think my funny bone is broken. I can't tell if this is funny because you're implying that government workers are in fact not working, or if you're implying that government workers have a version of Halo that plays on the PS3.

  21. Re:Not a "true" 3D Mandelbrot on "Mandelbulb," a 3D Mandlebrot Construct, Discovered · · Score: 2, Informative

    Looking at their UID I'd say they were here when here was new.

  22. Re:Propaganda on China Lauds iPhone App That Spreads Gov't Views · · Score: 1

    This would have been a lot funnier if it were said before she resigned.

  23. Re:Implications for artifical gestation on Babies Begin Learning Language In the Womb · · Score: 1

    Good question, I think you could do studies based on the children of deaf/mute mothers, that's probably as close as you'll come to iso-vat babies for a while.

  24. Re:So... when? on Babies Begin Learning Language In the Womb · · Score: 1

    Unless you're talking a yearling buck or veal. It doesn't do any good to point out hypocrisy, it's better to just accept it, everyone is a hypocrite.

  25. Re:So... when? on Babies Begin Learning Language In the Womb · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is your signature true?

    If so, honestly, I think you're the first Dittohead that I've read about that can come to a logical conclusion. You're so rare you're like the white buffalo.