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  1. Re:You got to hand it to them on Mass Arrests of Journalists Follow Iran Elections · · Score: 1

    Well, I'm sure that if the ayatollah had set a deadline and said that there could be no recount or rerun of the election because of that we would all be saying "he won fare and square". NOT

  2. You got to hand it to them on Mass Arrests of Journalists Follow Iran Elections · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In some countries the people would just give in when an unelected legislature tries to overturn a majority decision.

  3. Re:Hell NO! They'll Probably Use As A Selling Poin on Siemens, Nokia Helped Provide Iran's Censoring Tech · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm sure that here in the UK the government is already enquiring on how they can do the same.

  4. Re:Proof of that Statement? on Sothink Violated the FlashGot GPL and Stole Code · · Score: 1

    driving over there and storming the building, or DDOSing his servers, if I have fair proof that what he did was illegal/wrong.

    So you would want to commit a crime to punish him for his crime? If you'd actually do that, you wouldn't be able to take the moral high road as the innocent victim. And by the way, do you really consider "storming the building" a proportionate response to a license violation?

    You tell him. In fact if he does that why don't you DDOS his servers.....

  5. Well its not just Apache on Attack On a Significant Flaw In Apache Released · · Score: -1

    It is clear that this is not an Apache but web servers in general, with IIS also being affected. Now I wonder which will issue a security patch first

  6. Actually it was crap on Sun Kills Rock CPU, Says NYT Report · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually it was crap. Not for nothing was it known as "The Turd Rock from the Sun"

  7. Re:in this day and age? on SCO Springs a Prospective Buyer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    in this day and age...after the credit implosion and GM's bankruptcy..after Madoff....there's someone still stupid^H^H^H^H^H^Hbold enough to buy SCO? Man....can someone get me his number? I've got a few dozen bridges and landmarks to sell him, not to mention a few automobiles.

    Yes sure, he's the guy that's managing your retirement account.

  8. Re:Call Upon the ECMA Code of Conduct on Mono Squeezed Into Debian Default Installation · · Score: 1

    You disgust me, she's been dead for ten years now.

  9. Re:Warning on A Visual Expedition Inside the Linux File Systems · · Score: 2, Funny

    Slashdot user BadAnalogyGuy is a scientologist. If he offers you a free personality test, firmly refuse him.

    Thanks, but you don't have to worry. I have no personality.

  10. Re:Will it.. on Sniffing Browser History Without Javascript · · Score: 1

    Informative like it is easy to tell who is a terrorist by the length of their beard?

    Hey, these screening techniques are supposed to be a state secret. If the terrorists go and shave of their beards bow we won't have a clue who they are and it will all be your fault.

  11. Verry Pretty ...but on A Visual Expedition Inside the Linux File Systems · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What does it all mean?
    Is having a large number of external symbols good because it has more integration points or bad because of bloat? I don't think I have ever RTFA and come away with so little understanding before.

  12. Re:Yes, it could. on Does Bing Have Google Running Scared? · · Score: 4, Informative

    How is that recursive?

    Bing is not Google
    (Bing is not Google) is not google
    ((Bing is not Google) is not Google) is not google
    (((Bing is not Google) is not Google) is not Google) is not google

  13. Re:As long as.. on Microsoft's Free AV App May Be a Non-Starter · · Score: 1

    AVG Free Edition is pretty good too.

  14. Re:Allow me to be the politician on Earth Could Collide With Other Planets · · Score: 1

    Knowing my luck I will be reincarnated as a programmer and working on the Y2M problem. And still wondering whether Cobol can last another decade.

  15. It will go down well in Italy on Using Mobile Phones To Write Messages In Air · · Score: 4, Funny

    It would probably allow Italians to have two conversations at once.

  16. Now all we need is on California To Move To Online Textbooks · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Now all we need is for them to come up with a suitable set of "Intelligent Design Approved" e-books, giving an "unbiased" account of how the WASPs civilised the Native Americans and continue to spread democracy and freedom in Iraq to this day.

  17. Re:What if the airplane sensors are bad? on Computers Key To Air France Crash · · Score: 1

    How would even Biggles manage to fly his way out of that?

    Pha he could do it while fighting off Jerry, bomb the huns and be back in old Blighty in time for tea.

  18. Re:Oh no! Also, what about xiph? on Google Chrome's Inclusion of FFMpeg Vs. the LGPL · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Reflect on the fact that the whole US population is, in a global perspective, only a very loud minority with an extremely large economic footprint.

    When you look at it from that angle, the population figures become much less relevant to the discussion.

    For a commercial organisation maybe, but for open-source programmers in Europe no way. They will not say "I won't implement this interesting and useful codec because people in the USA might have legal problems using it" any more than Zimmermann would have said "I won't produce PGP because it may cause legal problems for people in France using it".

  19. Re:Could a Meteor Have Brought Down Air France 447 on Could a Meteor Have Brought Down Air France 447? · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...or a bomb.

    The obvious question is were there any Muslims on board. That would make the chance of a bomb much more likely than a meteor strike. I am not saying that it is very likely that an individual Muslim is a bomber, just that the probability of a lightning strike is minuscule.

  20. Re:Cars on Could a Meteor Have Brought Down Air France 447? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I hope this is a joke - the obvious ratio is area of the planet covered by buildings & cars vs area of the planet covered by ships and aeroplanes. The ratio of land to sea has nothing to do with it.

  21. Re:Awesome! Wait, Children's Protection? on Internet Tax Approved By Louisiana House · · Score: 5, Funny

    They killed Socrates this way, they can sure as hell ratchet down internet rights this way.

    The Louisiana House Legislature killed Socrates? That's terrible.

  22. This is rediculous on Publishers Want a Slice of Used Game Market · · Score: 1

    They could equally argue that they should have a share of their competitors revenue because people see it as an alternative to buying their games. I hope any moves to stifle competition are heavily resisted

  23. Cheapest of all? on Buying a Domain From a Cybersquatter · · Score: 1

    SCO.com

  24. Re:Make an offer on Buying a Domain From a Cybersquatter · · Score: 4, Funny

    do you need to rent a baseball bat?

    Depending on the part of the world he is located in you may have to use a cricket bat. Don't worry, Gartner says that most hired thugs cross skill on these alternatives with a very shallow learning curve.

  25. Make an offer on Buying a Domain From a Cybersquatter · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If they are a squatter they will have contact info on their page. If not you can find the registered owner with WHOIS. I would make them a reasonable offer and stick to it. Remember that there may be available alternatives ( .org, .net, .us, etc.)