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  1. Re:Or... just hear me out here... on Kentucky Man Arrested After Shooting Down Drone · · Score: 1

    And so the ban on elastic bands starts anew.

  2. Re:Not Evil on Google Will Block Access To Its Autocomplete API On August 10 · · Score: 1

    Does that matter? If it isn't a default option, but required user effort... isn't that the whole "Your OS put a browser in and didn't give one-click options to use other browsers" that microsoft had? [Note: this isn't a statement against Chrome, but the EU ruling]

  3. Re: Who? on Neil Young Says His Music Is Too Good For Streaming Services · · Score: 3, Funny

    Meh, a southern man don't need him around anyhow.

  4. Re: the first google server was 10x4 GB on Cuba's Answer To the Internet Fits In Your Pocket and Moves By Bus · · Score: 2

    Depends on disk density. I know my 1541 would have 664 blocks free per side (the 180k one), but they eventually come out with up to 1MB in the 5 1/4 size.

  5. Re:WoW? on First Games Inducted Into the World Video Game Hall of Fame · · Score: 1

    You missed a step in your exaggeration. By his logic, everyone has had alcohol or heard of it. I mean it only appeared in movies, had its own series, was on clothing, backpacks, lunchboxes, was international (though only huge in the west)...

    It's okay to be wrong, just not to stay wrong. You can stop trying now.

  6. A tour company that wants to limit distribution to only through facebook? By all means.

    Posting it on slashdot, especially with other sources of photos of probably equal quality? Pure bait.

    Facebook isn't free either. It's as free as the AOL disk the data is written on, though I'll grant you postage. I'll counter with data costs though, for the spam mail. [Aside: my email is already flooded with facebook crap. Doesn't seem a month goes by without someone signing up using one of my accounts.]

  7. Sure there is, email him for the file, remember to reply for confirmation, fill out all your personal data, and he can mail you a floppy with it. Just requires giving up personal data and a few more hoops than say, a publicly viewable website that doesn't require making an account.

  8. Re:Working links with pictures on Galapagos Island Volcano Erupts After 33 Years, Threatening Fragile Ecosystem · · Score: 1

    Naturally, mod points ran out yesterday. Thanks for the useful links (as opposed to the submissions).

  9. Re:Questionable numbers on Canadian Piracy Rates Plummet As Industry Points To New Copyright Notice System · · Score: 1

    If by 'years' you mean in the less than two, then I can buy that. If you mean three, then no as was on it then and daytime/eve+torrent = nosedive in all speeds.

    Rest still stands though, and as more alternatives show up, people can and are jumping ship (actually got a mail from a new isp in the area the other week: better offer than Bell, but inferior to the ISP jumped to already).

  10. Re:Questionable numbers on Canadian Piracy Rates Plummet As Industry Points To New Copyright Notice System · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Bell also has fun throttling of torrents, and pathetic monthly bandwidth caps. Could be that the people who'd pirate have changed to other ISPs, ones that aren't as irksome in their offering.

    To use an example: simply by changing from Bell's DSL to another ISP's DSL, I quintupled my overall speed, removed a 50G monthly quota (which was actually paid extra over the original quota), increased reliability, am no longer throttled during peak hours, and pay 15$ a month less.

  11. Re:Not for animals or locations on World Health Organization Has New Rules For Avoiding Offensive Names · · Score: 1

    Agreed. I know I've no interest in visiting Spain.

  12. Re:The Perfect Bait on Two Gunman Killed Outside "Draw the Prophet" Event In Texas · · Score: 1

    Which Mary? Because if you mean Mag then yes. If it's just sodomy in general, seen Romans raping him while on the cross. If you meant incest type, no, since honestly can't say before your post I've ever actually looked at this.
    If you're wanting to claim though that Christianity's significant figures aren't subject to ridicule and mockery and degradation, well, you're wrong.

    Welcome to the internet, Rule 34 is always enforced. Rule 63, optional.

  13. Re: Prefer support on Native Hawaiian Panel Withdraws Support For World's Largest Telescope · · Score: 2

    The logic is that polynesia isn't a monolithic entity, and different groups colonised hawaii; an initial group in around 1800 years ago, another took over a millenia later. Whether this was a cultural influence or an actual invasion is disputed, but the idea is "if we restore Hawaii to the initial people, it'd go to the Marquesas and not the Tahitian polynesians".

    Or the midgets . I favour them personally.

  14. Next up on the docket... on Irish Legislator Proposes Law That Would Make Annoying People Online a Crime · · Score: 1

    Defendant stands accused of 15 counts of Rick-rolling, 2 counts of goat-se, and advocating HOSTS.

  15. Re:Disturbing. on Japanese Court Orders Google To Remove Negative Reviews From Google Maps · · Score: 1

    True, but I wasn't considering US Law.

    Note: 230-1 is defamation
    Article 230-2(1)When an act prescribed under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article is found to relate to matters of public interest and to have been conducted solely for the benefit of the public, the truth or falsity of the alleged facts shall be examined, and punishment shall not be imposed if they are proven to be true.

  16. Re:Disturbing. on Japanese Court Orders Google To Remove Negative Reviews From Google Maps · · Score: 1

    That said, were the clinic to lose the defamation suit, I'd like to see a full public apology to the two reviewers, the reviews reinstated, and admission there is truth in the review. Only fair.

  17. Re:Disturbing. on Japanese Court Orders Google To Remove Negative Reviews From Google Maps · · Score: 2

    Depends. If it's pursuant to a defamation lawsuit... and slander and libel are things untrue... how is that review of lies helping your personal decision?

    Not entirely germane, but were the reviews involved not anonymous I'd be more inclined to side with them: their reputation versus the reputation that feels slandered. By hiding behind anonymity, they aren't really feeling the burden an unsubstantiated declaration should entail.

  18. Re:I tried this myself on Reddit CEO Ellen Pao Bans Salary Negotiations To Equalize Pay For Men, Women · · Score: 1

    I've seen people call in managers are 'big ticket' items and get price cuts that way (things with prices over 1,000) while at WalMart, at Sears, etc. Rather pissed me off to be honest, after having repeatedly told them we cannot negotiate the price, a manager comes in and blames us for being rigid but he will 'help them out'.

    Another job in an electrical warehouse, prices were negotiated all the time. Losses were just taken out on clients with less ability or that bought less overall. Remember that smirk on the one guys face as he sold a lamp fixture at triple normal price, all because the old lady took it at face value that was its worth. Eventually that place went under. Good riddance.

  19. So what you're making excuses for is 'women are inferior negotiators', 'because reasons'.

  20. Re:Why do people like you hate people in Indiana a on W. Virginia Bans Direct Tesla Sales, With Urging of Car-Dealer Senate President · · Score: 1

    Why do you think there is such dread and menace in that whispery interrogative: "Do you know, the Muffin Man" . Medieval crime lords, worse than any yak.

  21. Re:This whole issue needs to be buried on Ellen Pao Loses Silicon Valley Gender Bias Case Against Kleiner Perkins · · Score: 1

    Just to throw it out there for you: my retired grandparents did. Just as mine are doing so for my sibling's spawns.

    It isn't unusual in some cultures for an extended family to care for children, thus allowing both parents to work.

    May or may not result in kids with more emotional ties to the grandparents but, what can you do.

  22. Re:Good! on RSA Conference Bans "Booth Babes" · · Score: 1

    Well if there is no victim, then there isn't a problem is there? If everyone is a happy consenting adult...

  23. Re:Good! on RSA Conference Bans "Booth Babes" · · Score: 1

    You're right. It's sexist. It implies men can only be drawn in by sexual attraction. It implies men cannot be hired at the booths because the jobs are preferentially given to women. It implies women hold a power over men just by existing that reduces men to simmering hormonal idiots that then cannot make a rational decision because their libido trumps their common sense.

    Oh wait, you were going for the women being the victim here. My mistake. Misuse of 'literal' should have been the flag.

  24. Re:Bummer on RSA Conference Bans "Booth Babes" · · Score: 1

    Because a highly attractive suave man working a both scares off male customers, making them feel inferior, intimidated and oppressed, afraid to ask questions or draw a..

  25. Re:Yeah! on Japan To Build 250-Mile-Long, Four Storey-High Wall To Stop Tsunamis · · Score: 1

    When that water falls from its vertical movement, how much horizontal movement is there compared to the initial wave? i.e. is it still going to devastate inland nearly as far?