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  1. Re:Huh? on Apple Buys Israeli Flash Manufacturer · · Score: 5, Funny

    China doesn't tend to make things like chips. Those are almost all made somewhere else

    Yes it does. Look up SMIC, one of the larger semiconductor fab companies in the world, making other people's designs.

    Are those other people aware of that fact?

  2. Re:what's confusing about home depot? on Android Update Alliance Already Struggling · · Score: 1

    I'm such an ass-clown.
    It's not "Guaranteed lowest prices", it's "Guaranteed low prices".
    To me, the second phrase is subjective and non-deterministic. Hence, my initial claim: What the hell does that even mean?

  3. Re:"Pledges" on Android Update Alliance Already Struggling · · Score: 1

    Yeah, as I was typing it out, the notion of price-matching had occurred to me. Still, "Guaranteed lowest prices" sounds like vague, weasel-words style advertising to me.

  4. Re:"Pledges" on Android Update Alliance Already Struggling · · Score: 2

    Exactly. It's just like Home Depot touting their "Guaranteed lowest prices". What the hell does that even mean? I have mod points, but I wanted to post.

  5. In other news, on Nokia Exec: Young People Fed Up With iPhone and Android · · Score: 2

    Chrysler exec claims that young people are fed up with Ford and baffled by General Motors.

  6. Re:You would have to be differently abled on You Really Are What You Know · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I grew up in Boston, Massachusetts. The first time I visited London, I felt right at home.

  7. Re:Let me guess on Forget an Essay; Earn a Scholarship With a Tweet · · Score: 1

    Some dolled up preppy trust fund kid will win with a picture of her and some children in a small town in Africa.

    While eating fried chicken? Betcha that comes off as racist.

  8. Re:SQL too on Java Apps Have the Most Flaws, Cobol the Least · · Score: 1

    Thus proving the absolute dominance of ALL CAPS formatted languages over those which use the much weaker mixed-case!

  9. Re:Netflix pissed off all the whiny brats on Netflix Expects To Be Unprofitable In 2012 · · Score: 1

    Or maybe it was the hubris of Reed Hastings and company that drove customers away.

  10. Re:Impressive on 4 Wave Gliders Begin Their Autonomous Pacific Crossing Attempt · · Score: 2

    When I let my dog out to autonomously navigate our back yard, she never ever takes the most direct route to the woods, she always follows a circuitous path.

  11. Re:Impressive on 4 Wave Gliders Begin Their Autonomous Pacific Crossing Attempt · · Score: 4, Funny

    Stop, you're making me seasick.

  12. Re:I propose we Occupy "Occupy" on Occupy Flash? · · Score: 1

    What, Fonzie's not cool enough anymore? Oh, wait.

  13. It Took Longer Than I Thought on Biofuel Thieves Steal Restaurant Grease · · Score: 1

    I always wondered when this would actually begin to happen.

  14. Re:Regulators vs. legislators on DHS Stonewalls On Public Comment About Body Scanners · · Score: 1

    I agree with you in principle, but the example of your first rule is not such a good one. If all education issues were resolved at the local school board level, schools in Alabama would still be segregated.

  15. Re:Penalizing the 1% for the usage by the 99%. on Google Maps To Charge For API Usage · · Score: 1

    #OccupyMountainView

  16. Re:This is slashdot... on Australia's Biggest Airline Grounds Its Entire Fleet · · Score: 1

    You mean... "It's a trap!" Thank you, Colonel Akbar.

  17. Re:My car has a fail-safe device... on Jaguar Recalls 18,000 Cars Over Major Software Fault · · Score: 1

    Agreed. That third pedal is moving rapidly from being a "cheaper alternative" to being a "premium, added-cost sports option". At least that seems to be the case in the United States anyway. YMMV, quite literally.

  18. The Pentaverate on The 147 Corporations Controlling Most of the Global Economy · · Score: 1

    Umm... Mike Meyers covered this ground years ago. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI_0-kz4lR0

  19. Re:Suggestion on Ask Slashdot: Computer Test Lab Set-Up For Home? · · Score: 2

    Hey, at least it wasn't goatse.

  20. Re:But fear the nukes! NOT! on Iran Tried and Failed To Launch a Monkey Into Space · · Score: 2

    and yet, 'The West' (I'm a westerner) fears Iran can strike Europe and the US with nukes?

    LOL!

    They are indeed able to strike the west with nukes. However, their ability to strike with monkeys is seriously in doubt.

  21. Re:I know that's what they're doing... on US Intelligence Mining Your Social Network Data · · Score: 1

    You've got them right where they want you.

  22. Re:It's a Good Start on Company to Send DBA into Space · · Score: 1

    Why did he have direct access to the table in the first place? That's what views are for.

  23. Re:Her Defense Was Pretty Good Too on Phelps Clan Tweets Intent To Picket Jobs Funeral Via iPhone · · Score: 1

    I can attest that I was indoctrinated this way. That is why I am no longer Catholic.

  24. Re:Simple. on Congress May Permit Robot Calls To Cell Phones · · Score: 2

    By "corrupt goons", you mean every politician that ever existed, right?

  25. Re:Java, truley an American icon on Oracle's Java Policies Are Destroying the Community · · Score: 2

    "OP didn't claim it was dead. It sounded to me like he *wanted* it dead. Add me to that list please." Neither. The OP was merely speaking in German. Ger: Die, Java,die! Eng: The, Java, the!