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  1. Boy isn't your face going to be red when it actually happens.

  2. Re:Chrome? Why the love? on Firefox Takes the Performance Crown From Chrome · · Score: 5, Informative

    Firefox is funded by the same search giant.

  3. Re:Borg Immigration on FWD.us Remixes the Statue of Liberty Greeting · · Score: 1

    You really think crossing the border strips any and all cultural identity from everyone? The whole melting pot metaphor is supposed to represent how culturally diverse we are, and it's true almost to an annoying level in some places.

    If you really were a US resident, I don't know where you lived to feel so disconnected from the amplitude of intertwined cultures, but it's certainly not the norm.

  4. Re:I go to a fair amount of movies on The Average Movie Theater Has Hundreds of Screens · · Score: 1

    This is what I've been thinking... I've gone to a lot of movies and sure, it happens (a mere few times in my entire 27 year lifetime), but the actual problem in my experience has been seriously exaggerated. All it takes is one person making a mistake to perpetuate the myth that every movie is ruined by dozens of people.

  5. Re:Cheap on FBI Paid Informant Inside WikiLeaks · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Betray entire nations?" Really?

    I guess if you define a nation as its government and not its people.

  6. Wont work or can't work? on Microsoft XBox One Kinect Will Not Work On Windows PCs · · Score: 2

    Just because Microsoft isn't providing the adapter means little.

  7. Re:How Is This News For Nerds?? on TN Man Indicted For Romney Blackmail Attempt: Wanted $1M In Bitcoins · · Score: 1

    Does it matter? That's not even slashdot's slogan anymore.

  8. Re:This is what happens on When GPL Becomes Almost-GPL — the CSS, Images and JavaScript Loophole · · Score: 0

    This isn't flamebait, mods.

  9. Re:This is what happens on When GPL Becomes Almost-GPL — the CSS, Images and JavaScript Loophole · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The cost of their boxed units was to cover the cost of manufacture the packaging, manual, and accompanying service contract. The software itself was inconsequential to the cost.

    They don't sell Redhat. They sell support for Redhat.

  10. Re:This is what happens on When GPL Becomes Almost-GPL — the CSS, Images and JavaScript Loophole · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Nothing prevents you from selling it, but selling it is not realistic. Redhat is about the worst example you could possibly use.

  11. Let me guess on Hands-On With Windows 8.1 Preview · · Score: 1

    Visual Studio 2013 won't work on Windows 7. Calling it right now.

  12. Re:I would use Gnome 3 instead on Android On the Desktop · · Score: 0

    Sure, Gnome 3 isn't great, but I think that was the point of his post. There's no reason to use Android on a PC. Even Gnome 3 is preferable.

  13. Video calls in a browser on Firefox 22 Released, Boosts 3-D Gaming and Video Calls · · Score: 1

    So why exactly is this something we want in a browser? How much more bloat do we need before it's enough?

  14. Re:FOSS overload on Xfce, LXDE, GNOME3 Desktops Running On Ubuntu Mir Via XMir · · Score: 1

    Cool

  15. Re:TM, are you kidding me? on How I Got Fired From the Job I Invented · · Score: 1

    You're confusing trademarks and patents.

  16. Re:A very brave woman on Security Researcher Attacked While At Conference · · Score: 1

    You genuinely feel shame that there is a bad guy on the planet? You must be completely wrought with shame to the point of not being able to function in society knowing just how many men (and women!) are bad people!

  17. Re:Proprietary ports? on Samsung Launches 3200x1800 Pixel ATIV Book 9 Plus Laptop · · Score: 1

    Little trouble with reading lately? Reread the last sentence of the post you're referring to.

  18. Re:Not news for news on Cornell Researchers Unveil a Virtual Notary · · Score: 1

    News for news sounds boring anyway.

  19. Re:Bogus argument on Are You Sure This Is the Source Code? · · Score: 1

    I'm so glad that contest returned.

  20. Re:THE NOISE on Ask Slashdot: Does LED Backlight PWM Drive You Crazy? · · Score: 1

    What's stopping someone from using a modern TV, exactly?

  21. I don't understand the use of Twitter on Attackers Tweet As They Assault UN Development Program Compound · · Score: 1

    After looking at the feed for this group, it contains a bunch of reporters trying to speak to them. Only on twitter would you see a member of the associated press type a message like this:

    @natemook @HSMPRESS1 So in ur idea of journalism u ONLY speak 2 peep who don't kill/respect human rts? How do u expect 2understandextremism?

    It reads like a teenager talking to equally less caring friends. Why has twitter of all things become such a figurehead over these kinds of communications? It seems asinine.

  22. Reasonable Requests on Why Your Sysadmin Hates You · · Score: 1

    Learn to stay on their good side by going along with their reasonable requests and being specific with your complaints.

    And if they're not reasonable? It happens.

  23. Re:Don't make promises you can't keep on Amazon Vows To Fight Government Requests For Data · · Score: 1

    They don't have a great track record of following through with their promises, anyway. Look at the California sales tax ordeal. All up in arms over it vowing to fight it and then overnight they just change their mind and welcome the change.

  24. Color me surprised. on Relicensing of MySQL Man Pages Just a Bug · · Score: 3, Funny

    That people were entertaining notions otherwise was asinine, regardless of it involving Oracle. This might have actually been something to worry about if the documents weren't already dual licensed. This sort of mistake has been made time and time again, and will continue to be made time and time again.

  25. Re:Space brothers on NASA Selects 8 New Astronaut Trainees, Including 4 Women · · Score: 1

    The ridiculous programs the trainees go through in that show make for good television, but it isn't even remotely based in reality.