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  1. Re:There are limits to everything. on EFF Fighting Automakers Over Whether You Own Your Car · · Score: 1

    You could always dual-boot your car. You can keep the stock firmware for when you're on public roads, but still be free to disable some safety features when you're ghost-riding the whip with your homies (all of whom are professional drivers, of course) on private property.

  2. Maybe someday... on EFF Fighting Automakers Over Whether You Own Your Car · · Score: 1

    >by changing the mileage.

    If only there were some way to digitally sign that.

  3. Re:Prior Art Exists (tm) on Amazon Moves "Buy Now" Into the Physical World, With the Dash Button · · Score: 1

    Yeah, on more than one occasion, I've tried to cancel an order from amazon after just a few seconds had passed. It's always too late to cancel since the item is miraculously already on the way...

  4. Re:Take Me As I Am on Ask Slashdot: Living Without Social Media In 2015? · · Score: 2

    If you're old, maybe you can get an age discrimination lawsuit (since they claimed they don't hire "fossils").

  5. Re:Brilliant plan! on Obama: Maybe It's Time For Mandatory Voting In US · · Score: 2

    Right now, my vote is drowned out by a sea of morons. If everyone voted, it would be an ocean.

  6. Brilliant plan! on Obama: Maybe It's Time For Mandatory Voting In US · · Score: 2

    So his plan is to force uninformed, gullible morons to vote? What could possibly go wrong?!

  7. Re:And when the "default" is the preferred option? on Analysis: People Who Use Firefox Or Chrome Make Better Employees · · Score: 2

    >The biggest downfall is that IE doesn't have great adblocking.

    Tracking protection lists do a pretty good job of it for me.

  8. Re:Pi is 3.1416 on Pi Day Extraordinaire · · Score: 1

    Pi is exactly 3!

  9. Re:Well... are we surprised? on Knock-Off Apple Watches Hit the Chinese Market Less Than 24 Hours After Launch · · Score: 1

    >The point of a status symbol is to show off in front of friends/women.

    And if they want to see/play with it, just tell them the battery is too low. Who isn't going to believe that?!

  10. This one on The Abandoned Google Project Memorial Page · · Score: 5, Insightful

    >Which abandoned Google project do you wish were still around?

    Don't be evil.

  11. Re:The Goldfinger Gambit on One Year Later, We're No Closer To Finding MtGox's Missing Millions · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the price moved pretty far in the opposite direction though...

  12. Re:what is your favorite Nimoy scene? on Leonard Nimoy Dies At 83 · · Score: 1

    Nimoy: My job here is done.

    Barney: Whad'ya mean, you didn't do anything!

    Nimoy: Didn't I?

  13. Upper management be like on Torvalds: "People Who Start Writing Kernel Code Get Hired Really Quickly" · · Score: 5, Funny

    You can handle a little verbal abuse?! Welcome aboard!

  14. missing option on 1950s Toy That Included Actual Uranium Ore Goes On Display At Museum · · Score: 1

    - them internets

  15. Re:Cause meet Effect. on When Chess Players Blunder · · Score: 1

    For this study, blunders were defined as moves that lose the equivalent of 2 pawns or more of material. Any engine is sufficient.

  16. Re:I want on Microsoft Releases Windows 10 Preview For Phones · · Score: 1

    So stick with your android phone.

  17. Re:No on Inside the Internet's Hidden Science Factory · · Score: 1

    >3. Studies have shown that most MTurkers do it for fun rather than money.

    That one made me laugh.

  18. Re:Bounds checked? on Elementary OS: Why We Make You Type "$0" · · Score: 1

    Ouch, I hope you really like eos!

  19. No on Inside the Internet's Hidden Science Factory · · Score: 1, Informative

    I do these surveys when I need money and I assure you, my answers are usually not truthful.

  20. Let me know what you come up with on Ask Slashdot: Automated Tool To OCR CCGs Like Magic: the Gathering? · · Score: 1

    No hurry though, still waiting to get my holographic Charizard back from Mt Gox...

  21. If someone tells you they are a hitman, that always means they are an undercover agent.

  22. Obligatory Family Guy quote on Facebook Censoring Images of the Prophet Muhammad In Turkey · · Score: 1

    You think that's bad?! Remember the time I got a salmon helmet from Mohammad while wearing a toga?

  23. Re:Only for the first year on Microsoft Reveals Windows 10 Will Be a Free Upgrade · · Score: 1

    They want everyone using 10 and their new direction hinges on it. I will be godsmacked if the upgrade license has an expiration date.

  24. wut? on Little-Known Programming Languages That Actually Pay · · Score: 2

    >lesser-known

    >MATLAB

    Really?

  25. it's doable on Ask Slashdot: What Should We Do About the DDoS Problem? · · Score: 1

    Have your traffic directed somewhere (probably outside the US) where data is cheap, filter out the malicious traffic, and route the good traffic through to your server(s).