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  1. Re:Yeah but it makes a good story on Gladwell's Culture & Air Crashes Analysis Badly Flawed · · Score: 1

    I see and hear it pretty often amongst English speakers, and have been doing so since the mid-90s.

    The Spanish equivalent is "compu", short for "compudador".

  2. Re:But it IS self-serving on Limitations and All, Chromebooks Appear To Be Selling · · Score: 1

    To really use any iDevice do you need to have a AppleID? Yeah?

    Will you be bombarded with Apple merchandising? Sure?

    Funny how that works, isn't it?

  3. Re:accessory manufacturers are desperate on MagicPlay: the Open Source AirPlay · · Score: 1

    Not until Netcraft confirms it.

  4. Re:additional advice: on Lead Developer of Yum Killed In Hit-and-run · · Score: 1

    When I was in school, they specifically taught us to walk/ride against the flow of traffic for exactly the reasons given by Circle.

    Also, I would really enjoy seeing you try to get all physical and stuff with some of my neighbours here in Stockholm who don't have jobs, yet drive expensive cars and have women who look like models. Strangely enough, all of these types seem to speak Russian...

  5. Re:When you ride at night, on Lead Developer of Yum Killed In Hit-and-run · · Score: 1

    She can be presumed to be an idiot if she knows the locals are like that and insists on showing some leg anyhow--or even her face, in some places.

    Please don't confuse value judgements with facts.

  6. Re:When you ride at night, on Lead Developer of Yum Killed In Hit-and-run · · Score: 1

    Thanks to my dad, I was introduced to the physics of automobiles starting at about age 14.

    F=ma, baby.

  7. Re:and who's eye would you rather be under? on The Black Underbelly of Windows 8.1 'Blue' · · Score: 1

    At least the NSA hasn't shown any interest in targeting me with advertising.

    But you've been contributing to Slashdot for quite a long time now, and I think you deserve a much nicer epitaph than that, really!

    (Sorry, I had to try to come up with with something, else thinking about that line would've left me feeling quite depressed all day. :) )

  8. Re:Always insightful... on The Black Underbelly of Windows 8.1 'Blue' · · Score: 1

    Whereas I come here to read the rants of people who never seemed to learn that "populous" is an adjective.

    Care for a noun?

    (Posted from a laptop that has never had Windows on it, the "Designed for..." sticker notwithstanding.)

  9. Re:Expect more of this. on The Black Underbelly of Windows 8.1 'Blue' · · Score: 1

    I *stopped* dual-booting in 2004.

  10. Re:Expect more of this. on The Black Underbelly of Windows 8.1 'Blue' · · Score: 1

    I saw zero compelling reason to upgrade from Win2K. Especially given early XP's predilection for shitting all over networks you connected it to...

  11. Re:Expect more of this. on The Black Underbelly of Windows 8.1 'Blue' · · Score: 1

    I couldn't imagine NOT running Linux in a dev environment. Or anyplace else, for that matter.

    I made the switch in 2004/05, and I have never for an instant regretted it or thought about going back to Windows.

  12. Re:Expect more of this. on The Black Underbelly of Windows 8.1 'Blue' · · Score: 1

    WindowMaker is still an option.

  13. Re:Money well spent on Inside the Electronic Frontier Foundation · · Score: 1

    You are free not to set off bombs in people's shops, and you are free not to use GPL.

  14. Re:Re-unite Gondwana! on Researchers Complete New Gondwana Map · · Score: 1

    We are the Gondwanaland Liberation Front, and we will kill you to set you free!

  15. Re:This is what we call 'modern science' on Researchers Complete New Gondwana Map · · Score: 1

    Mr Spock says, "The true scholar values all drafts, early and late."

  16. Re:This is what we call 'modern science' on Researchers Complete New Gondwana Map · · Score: 1

    More than 30 years. I dated a Hodgkin's survivor in 1980-81, and she'd been in remission for about 5 years at that point.

  17. Re:Not only the article is lame. on Researchers Complete New Gondwana Map · · Score: 2

    There *is* no "west" from that location on that map--it's a radial projection.

  18. Re:Not only the article is lame. on Researchers Complete New Gondwana Map · · Score: 1

    Antarctica's the continent used as the frame of reference in the video, not Australia. Also, it looks to me like India's moving north, not west.

  19. Re:Earth on Researchers Complete New Gondwana Map · · Score: 1

    You always settle for sloppy seconds?

  20. Re: NEWS FLASH on The Price of Amazon · · Score: 1

    That sounds like a problem with your understanding of what "soulless" means, and with your willingness to test its applicability.

  21. Re:Breaking news on The Price of Amazon · · Score: 1

    Let us not mice words, then.

    "An arbitrarily large number of copies, each at a cost approaching the infinitesimal, of each of an arbitrarily large number of distinct books, each of which is ostensibly not merely full of random words, and each of which furthermore can be offered in an arbitrary number of formats and editions, with or without various add-on and/or tie-in products, many of which are of the same sort of product with the same modes of supply as just described" <<-- "Supply", if you're Amazon, and you're selling e-books.

  22. Re:Breaking news on The Price of Amazon · · Score: 1

    Film at 11.

    Well, you got that part right.

    (Please don't go on about supply and demand at us, when the supply is effectively infinite.)

  23. Re: NEWS FLASH on The Price of Amazon · · Score: 1

    Way to bury legitimate concerns about Amazon's treatment of their workers as "horseshit".

  24. Re:Mount Everest is a fucking joke on Mount Everest Gets 4G Connectivity · · Score: 1

    Hey! You do realise that you're talking about the mountain with the biggest tits in the world, don't you?

    Show a little respect, please.

  25. Re:We need a new right... on Sky Deutschland Considering Using Bone Conduction To Force Ads On Train Riders · · Score: 1

    Go watch the second episode of the BBC series "Black Mirror".

    That is our future.

    First or second series? (I'm downloading both seasons right now.)