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  1. Re:pathetic on Pakistan Lifts Ban After Facebook Deletes Offending Page · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What the world needs is more people with thick skins.

  2. LOL, me too, sorta on Why Overheard Cell Phone Chats Are Annoying · · Score: 1

    When I'm lucky enough to be next to a cell-yakking-driver at a light with their window down, my very powerful stereo system gets cranked way up! :-D

  3. Hear, hear! on Google Outlines Feature Set For Android 2.2 · · Score: 1

    Never considered an iPhone. Believe it or not, I'm a happy Sprint customer! I'll be springing for an Android-based phone soon. Freedom rocks!

  4. Get busy, M$ on Google Outlines Feature Set For Android 2.2 · · Score: 0

    "On the enterprise front the new operating system comes with full support for Microsoft Exchange, including access to the global address book and the ability to translate native security features to mobile handsets." Oooh, better hurry up and change your top-secret protocols and break this, Blammer!

  5. Re:Hmmmm on ACLU Sues To Protect Your Right To Swear · · Score: 1

    Mindless zombies are everywhere. How else can you explain the widespread use of Microsoft crap?

  6. Re:Already settled? on ACLU Sues To Protect Your Right To Swear · · Score: 2, Informative

    There was a trial in Benton County, Arkansas four years ago where a person was charged with disorderly conduct for flipping a state trooper the bird. The case was thrown out of court. I guess they realized that Arkansas state troopers deserve to be flipped off?

  7. Re:What's with the asterisk, Slashdot? on ACLU Sues To Protect Your Right To Swear · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    "You can't fool me, shoot is just shit with two o's" --George Carlin

  8. Re:Do you want to make this multi-billion $ trade? on House Calls For Hearing On Stock Market "Glitch" · · Score: 1

    On the positive side, I was able to score some sub-$500 Google :-D

  9. Re:How Cheap? on Most File Sharers Would Pay For Legal Downloads · · Score: 1

    I've been saying something similar since February http://www.baldguyweb.com/blog/2010/02/compensating_musicians_and_rec.php (pardon the shameless self-promotion)

  10. Am I the only one... on Microsoft Mice Made in Chinese Youth Sweatshops? · · Score: 1

    ...who misses the days when China was Red China, and we weren't doing business with them?

  11. Re:No love for VRML on 3D Graphics For Firefox, Webkit · · Score: 4, Funny

    I have "fond" memories of vrml sites, a 14,400 modem, and a 486 slc machine. One thing about it, though, it was peppier than 1995 Java!

  12. My new word of the day on Ubuntu Gets a New Visual Identity · · Score: 1

    "Aubergine"

  13. (Ahem) on IOC Orders Blogger To Take Down Video · · Score: 1

    That's O-lympics, buster, capital O! Message from the IOC: get the above post edited or deleted or FACE DER CONSEKVENCES!!!

  14. Price a bit on the low side? on 1938 Superman Comic Sells For $1M · · Score: 2, Funny

    Comic values are down overall. I suspect that AC #1 might get lots more money in a more favorable economy. This one may be a great investment. I remember saving #1 issues of comics in the early 70's. Anyone else notice what crap, worthless comics debuted during that era? ;-)

  15. Re:Good Guys on Delicious Details of Open Source Court Victory · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is why "Blammer" just Blamms on about Linux infractions of MS patents, but doesn't actually file suit: If it ever went to court, FOSS might in fact win many millions.

  16. In my day... on "Green" Ice Resurfacing Machines Fail In Vancouver · · Score: 1

    We were just glad to have ice to skate on at all!--Hans Brinker

  17. What a concept! on Tour de France Champion Accused of Hacking · · Score: 4, Funny

    A hacker that doesn't weigh 250 lbs, doesn't live on Cheetohs, and actually exercises!

  18. Re:Another reason not to fly via Heathrow on "No Scan, No Fly" At Heathrow and Manchester · · Score: 1

    Sounds to me like this is good news for the passenger ship business. I've already determined that flying in the US is more trouble than it's worth. I'll be doing Amtrak, if at all possible, my next trip. I never dreamed in a million years I'd be saying THAT!

  19. Sad, isn't it? on Australian ISPs To Disconnect Botnet "Zombies" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Buy a computer and/or a supposedly secure operating system, and then, unless the customer proactively protects against security breaches, they won't be allowed on the internet. Pardon me, but isn't protection against security breaches the OPERATING SYSTEM'S JOB???

  20. Re:Slow QWERTY typer on Pen vs. Keyboard vs. Touch vs. Everything Else · · Score: 0

    Mine was instant! Of course, I have a USB telepathy converter...

  21. I've been saying this for years! on Offline Book "Lending" Costs US Publishers Nearly $1 Trillion · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Libraries are nothing but effete businesses designed to rip off the publishing industry and fill innocent victims' minds with confusing, dangerous propaganda! A. Hitler, spokesman, RIAA

  22. SciFi? on What SciFi Should Get the Reboot Treatment Next? · · Score: 1

    When I read OMNI magazine in the 70's, The handle 'SciFi 'was considered gauche. The correct term was SF...

  23. Re:yes on Does a Lame E-Mail Address Really Matter? · · Score: 0

    I run a dedicated server, and have 25 or so domains. I use a gmail address because google does an amazing job of filtering spam, and I have access to any email I have ever received there. I don't want to waste my precious hard drive space on my server for emails.

  24. I wonder... on One Expert Pegs Yearly Cost of IT Failure At $6.2 Trillion · · Score: 1

    How much of this is just from good old BSOD's?

  25. Server 2008? on The Best, Worst, and Ugliest OSes of the Decade · · Score: 1

    It may be more secure, but the programmers who rewrote its interface to look like Vista need to be whipped and put in the stocks.