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  1. Re:Question: on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Stay Employable? · · Score: 1

    Why is your family growing if you are looking at possible layoff?

    He could mean in age/expense not size. You know when the kids want driving lessons. college courses, and can't be fobbed off with cheap toys at Christmas.

  2. I think I will put up a page called on Facebook Testing the Want Button · · Score: 1

    I think I will put up a page called "The Lord's my Sheppard I shall not ...."

  3. Re:More than anything in the world... on Facebook Testing the Want Button · · Score: 2

    ...I want Facebook to die.

    Where's that damn like button when you need it?

    And where's the button to say you want a like button.

  4. Re:He's right. on Has the Command Line Outstayed Its Welcome? · · Score: 1

    Should cat have a gui?

    You mean wincat ;-)

  5. You can take my CLI on Has the Command Line Outstayed Its Welcome? · · Score: 1

    ... when you take it from my cold dead hands.

  6. Re:How about... on Google Trying New Strategy to Fix Fragmentation · · Score: 1

    You see, that's the problem. Google is a business. They keep secrets. Most of their offerings are deliberately constructed as online services. And Google acknowledges that others want to keep secrets. Android is a tool. It's free for a purpose, not because Google thinks that free software is the right thing to do. But Stallman is right, and these situations are where it shows.

    I don't follow your argument - why does "keeping secrets" help online services - surely publishing interfaces so anyone can use the services from any paltform would make sense. Also how does this "keeping secrets" lead to fragmentation? You fins as many people running old versions of linux (non secret) or Windows (completely secret) as Android (some parts secret).

  7. He must be a on The Boy Who Loved Batman · · Score: -1, Troll

    The Boy Who Loved Batman,

    Latent homosexual

  8. Re:Maybe selection bias on Gmail Takes Largest Webmail Service Crown · · Score: 4, Informative

    America Online wasn't based in and focused on America?

    Indeed not. They were a reasonably significant broadband ISP in the UK too, though their decline here has paralelled that in the USA.

    Yes I remember their famous "faux pas", like telling the residents of Scunthorpe that they should rename their town Sconthorpe to register, thinking people from Penistone were taking the piss - there couldn't be a town called that could there?, and telling the Welsh that they has to use English in the Welsh language forum. They even blocked emails in Welsh. Needless to say they were not the biggest ISP in the UK!

  9. Re:Recursive? on The PHP Singularity · · Score: 1

    And now, a post about a post about posts about the awfulness of PHP.

    Which would make these comments posts about a post about a post about posts about the awfulness of PHP.

    --- Recursion: First you curse, then you curse again.

    I might post about that

  10. Re:culture? on Ask Slashdot: What Defines Good Developer Culture? · · Score: 0

    Soon we'll be using rasberry pis bought with bitcoins in the year of the linux desktop.

    yes and Islam really is the religion of peace!

  11. Re:Not guaranteed safe from tampering? Nae! on 7,000 Irish e-Voting Machines To Be Scrapped · · Score: 1

    They were really scrapped because they did not dispense a shot of Jameson's after vote completion.

    That would be one way to guarantee a 100% turnout

  12. Re:I'm gonna miss Flash on Adobe Stops Flash Player Support For Android · · Score: 1

    Chrome will continue to support flash on linux.

    mod parent up! This is bound to increase the adoption of chrome

  13. Re:It's all very logical see on Book Review: Permanent Emergency · · Score: 1

    ... the Chinese are likely to get high speed rail before any part of the US does.

    Too late, they already have 3,515 km (2,184 mi) of rail lines with top speeds of 300 km/h (186 mph).

  14. Re:It's all very logical see on Book Review: Permanent Emergency · · Score: 1

    They don't need a bill. The TSA has already been patting-down and inspecting luggage at train stations. Also bus depots. And at the post office, unemployment center, mall, and during the recent Chicago summit.

    Is that what the gay guys keep telling you!

  15. Re:Best use on Sergey Brin Shows Project Glass Glasses to Journalists (Video) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now people can drive while watching porn...

    Why do you think google is working on the driverless car too?

  16. Re:Illogical all around on Julian Assange Served With Extradition Notice By British Police · · Score: 1

    ...And when has the UK EVER said NO to the US?

    Our courts are so perverse that the only time they refuse it is when it is someone with US citizenship who clearly should have been sent back

  17. Re:So much for stealth on US Navy's High-Resolution Radar Can See Individual Raindrops In a Storm · · Score: 2

    It could be a bullet.

    Or even atom ant

  18. The Muzzies are coming on Ask Slashdot: How To Add New Tech To Old Van? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The Muzzies are coming, The Muzzies are coming
    Every on keep calm
    They're evil and thy're violent
    And mean to do us harm

  19. Re:So much for stealth on US Navy's High-Resolution Radar Can See Individual Raindrops In a Storm · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Detecting a stealth aircraft and being able to identify what you've detected as a stealth aircraft are two completely different animals.

    I think that any "marble sized" object travelling near mach-1 would be suspicious

  20. Re:forerunner to web, but not internet on France Ending Minitel Service · · Score: 1

    Minitel predates the web, but that is misleading. The internet/arpaneta was around long before the web, and long before freenet, so it is a forefunner to minitel.

    How is that misleading? Is it misleading to say logi-baird's mechanical TV pre-dates the electronic EMI system because radio was used before both?

  21. Re:Only compared to the utopic myth of USA on Firm Threatens To Sue Consumer Websites For Harrassment · · Score: 1

    to suppress opinion they don't like (Simon Singh and the chiropractors for example).

    You mean the one that Simon Singh won, because the BCA realised they were about to lose and ran away?

    I'll grant that it should have happened quicker, but justice was done in the end.

    If you call it justice when "The case was eventually abandoned by BCA, though leaving Singh out of pocket to the tune of some tens of thousands of pounds",

  22. Re:I for one... on Minnesota Supreme Court Rejects DUI Challenges Based On Buggy Software · · Score: 1

    I love to drink and Drive so this ruling is great. Us drunks rule the road so get over it loser.

    Obviously you're too drunk to realise that the appeals of drunks were thrown out - i.e. their convictions stand.

  23. "Customersploitation" on Silicon Valley Values Shift To Customersploitation · · Score: 4, Insightful

    come on - give me a break.

  24. Re:EU bailout on EU Court Upholds Microsoft Antitrust Fines · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Currently there's a discussion among German politicians whether a referendum should be held that asks Germans how much EU they really want.

    Its a shame they didn't have one in 1935 too.

  25. I wonder if you can train yourself to fool it on Robot Hand Beats You At Rock, Paper, Scissors 100% of the Time · · Score: 1

    Could you develop a feint move that looks as though you are going for one thing but actually going for the other?