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  1. Re:Murika the solution on Oslo Needs Your Garbage · · Score: 1

    It does prevent all those ships from inefficiently cruising back to China empty. Next? A bidding war on the best garbage. Followed by media coverage, "racist evil white male controlled American corporate firms send all the good garbage to white Norway, China gets second rate, low quality garbage. Why cant we just fairly share our good garbage?"

  2. Re:a good move on Microsoft Restores Transfer Rights To Office 2013 · · Score: 1

    Agreed. A good move, and a hopeful sign. I have become a jaded wrt the "power of the net", and the upcoming transformation of all things. Alas, it is not yet That New World. In fact it looks further away sometimes, the early promise of open freedoms betrayed, stolen via quiet back door consolidations of power by corporate/government. But this is another very good sign. A very large and powerful company is listening, it matters what we say. It is incremental, but it is real. I fall into despair at times, but still send that email, call the customer service, fill out the FOIA. Demand it. It is non negotiable.

  3. Re:Not just a giant iPhone on Did Steve Jobs Pick the Wrong Tablet Size? · · Score: 1

    ...used on the couch, by someone who also owns an iPhone. Fear a 7 would scavenge phone sales is the correct answer. But it is too bad they thought they had to bury all those unsellable 10's in the desert next to that crappy video game. Apple may yet rebound after the bailout, I read a rumor they are allied with Mr Fisker. The inevitable iCar. "saves fuel by Never Moving under its own Power!"

  4. Consolidated Cornholio, or what? on Corn Shortage Hampers US Ethanol Production · · Score: 1

    Big Corn state's Iowa Caucus is the first vote for president. Therefore I contend, the corny ethanol policy. Why? Lazy me. Party rules? A law that prevents the other 49 from being first? A Corn Dictus.

  5. Re:Only problem... on FDA Closer To Approving Biotech Salmon · · Score: 0

    Wow am I relieved. If it tasted like bacon, I would have had to buy it.

  6. Re:Good thing he's In Canada not NJ. on Jury Decides Artist's Gory Images On Website Are Art · · Score: 1

    I agree with the spirit of what you are saying, and your frustration. But the Jersey school folks are not a court. Your assessment of our northern friends is a bit blinkered. Quebec suffers from PC phobias and acceptable idea codes that are far beyond the US now, although there are some here willing to catch up. For example, there was an effort to silence Mark Steyn, even to the point of putting ideas on trial.The good news? It comically failed, thanks to the very quick witted Steyn. for the curious: http://binged.it/TkvsFx It is worth checking out.

  7. Re:H.G. Wells on Single Microbe May Have Triggered the "Great Dying" · · Score: 0

    Did anyone else laugh out loud when reading this story? Is this a joke, a hoax? Well's tale is of a limited number of things quickly killed off by an alien element. This theorized killer bug argument requires evolution and adaptation suspended for multiple generations. 10 million years in fact. This is perhaps the most profoundly stupid theory I have ever heard. It merits a special trophy in the creator's names. A subset of the darwin awards.

  8. Twits on Researchers Develop an Internet Truth Machine · · Score: 2, Funny

    It is Twitter, not Tweeter. Therefore Twits. Not Tweets. Twits.

  9. Re:If Jobs was still at the helm... on Australian Police Warn That Apple Maps Could Get Someone Killed · · Score: 1

    My preferred inspiration for the Logo. Followed the Soul Sale. A little of Stevie's sense of humor. Joke on us. Moment marked by the stunning introduction of a Suit. Riches, fame, and relentless misery. Joke on him. A pleasant narrative.

  10. NPR Expert, World Bank guy on Ticking Arctic Carbon Bomb May Be Bigger Than Expected · · Score: 1

    Good News! The world bank dude Expert on Global Warming spoketh on the NPR: They are steadfastly committed to preventing third world development, 97% of scientists agree, Crest gets teeth cleaner! That means, for the learning impaired, no real New competition after the Chinese bubble goes Boom Boom Boom! Out go the lights. (Note from Forgotten Ancient Historic Detail of Century 20? State run economy is Big Fail!) (so is best to have deciders just kill all hungry people and inconvenient disagree-ers)

  11. Re:Take your european haughtiness on Black Boxes In Cars Raise Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    Don't let it get to you dude. it is the modern racism, generalization. Always accompanied by name calling, etc. Thing is, next time you stroll around a piece of that fouled soil, that rotting corpse once called "western civilization"? Look em in the eye. They take a step back, in fear. Then they get out of the way.

  12. Brilliant! on Washington Post To Go Paywall, Along With Buffett-Owned Local Papers · · Score: 1

    That is certainly what they need, less readers! A smaller echo chamber! Someone relate the news to folks at the Post? Wait, don't they do news and stuff? Rumor is, they once did. It will be an exquisite pleasure to watching that already dead body twist in the wind, from a self made rope. How soon before they call for a Bailout? This reaffirms my assertion that the biggest paper pushing assholes have risen to the top, everywhere. This one, literally.

  13. Re:May be an interesting slide show... on Inside an Amazon Warehouse · · Score: 1

    IE9 fail. Crashed browser page. Twice. An excellent bad example, for the deciders to see. See also Cnet, Wired, The Verge. Good examples? Drudge, Instapundit, reddit. I suspect these companies have too many employees, a culture of change fed by sheer terror, and a long view that extends at least half way to next week.

  14. Re:How are you supposed to vote? on Thanks For the Logos; Help Us Choose a Winner · · Score: 1

    The poll was outsourced to the Onion? After clicking the five links in the story, I wondered if this was the start of a new Halloween tradition. I expected the checkbox would move out of the way of the mouse when I voted. Laugh out loud bad.

  15. Re:Reading the summary on Art School's Expensive Art History Textbook Contains No Actual Art · · Score: 1

    A protest about the err, state of the art? An art history book makes an artistic statement. More likely the expensive book scam combines here with academia's standard unconsciousness to make them look like greedy fools. They may recover from it, if there is a lot of bad PR. Just go the full Pee Wee. "We meant to do that".

  16. Re:Way off the mark on Firefox OS: Disruptive By Aiming Low · · Score: 1

    Walmart sells iPhones, android phones, every brand. They compete at every level, something the FF OS plans not to do. They seem more like opposites.

  17. Things to do on Ask Slashdot: How To Begin Work In IT Freelancing? · · Score: 1, Funny

    Develop a finer appreciation of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

  18. Re:Think About This on Microsoft Ready To Address EU Antitrust Concerns · · Score: 1

    Chocolate cake day at the homeless shelter.

  19. Re:Obvious propaganda is obvious. on China's Yangtze River Turns Red · · Score: 1

    The dramatic USA Today county by county map from 2000 is the one that I recall. http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/vote2004/countymap2000.htm Red was used for the shock value, front page of the paper.

    Darn colors are backwards. Now the R's are the bloody revolutionaries, D's fear the extremists, and want to preserve the status quo. I blame this darn map. Heh.

  20. Re:Slow news day? on Kindle Fire Is Sold Out Forever · · Score: 1

    A grand screw-up. Selling stuff is what they do, arguably better than anyone. Planning to have nothing to sell? Nope. If they announce a new gadget Friday? Call it a PR trip. Otherwise, no way this was the plan.

  21. Re:Another reason... on Windows 8 Changes Host File Blocking · · Score: 1
    Advertising/advertisers. Good for business, good for the web.

    There will be a way, there always has been. A fine, fun tradition. 98Lite. What Browser?

    OT: Metro is effectively a "skin" or layer on 7? The "registry" is still there?

    Safe prediction? Simple corrections will fix these "issues".

  22. Spies get shot. on Cables Show US Seeks Assange · · Score: 1

    Spies get shot. An established tradition. In fact, I am a little surprised he is still alive.

  23. Doh on Is Windows 8 Microsoft's Riskiest Bet? · · Score: 1

    Obviously there will be a way to remove/not boot metro. MS wanted feedback on the new UI, locked it down on the early releases. They are not going to frick with the installed business base. Not.

  24. Yahoo! on The Google-fication of Yahoo! · · Score: 1

    A Yahoo is someone not quite bright enough to be considered a redneck. So when do we get pictures of her ass?

  25. Re:Covering up for a crony? on Air Force Claims To Have Solved Fatal F-22 Oxygen Riddle · · Score: 1

    I took this as good news too. Some cynicism is appropriate, things are trending towards broken today. But there are good honest people working hard, fighting the good fight in a lot of difficult environments today, getting it done. Everywhere, management and risk averse multiple levels of bureaucracy stifle the good folks. Most of us suffer this with private companies. Imagine adding politics, the Pentagon, way too many billions, various contractors in severe CYA mode, all potentially covering up? Yikes. Glad it is not me. But good work to the folks who got it done. We need this plane in the air.