After all, who's going to arrest the cops?

There's a guy in jail for armed robbery who was unarmed. It's now possible to get convicted based on the belief of the victim instead of the facts. :(

sorry, .5gb, got distracted and typed the wrong thing.

From a review I saw a while ago, it's still faster than if you didn't have the last .5mb since otherwise it would have to pull it off the system memory and that's even slower.

Telling marketing to "put some lipstick on the Pig" is kind of pointless as they've already done that, and body shimmer, and stuffed it into a slinky red mini-dress.
(Don't ever ask anyone in tech support what they honestly think about the marketing people.)

That's ok, the linux fanboys got more wedgies.
From the looks on their faces, I'd say some of them actually liked it.

Sure, it's not free, but the potential profit for patent trolling is enormous and the fees in no way hinders them from abusing the process.

Considering they got a judge to rule that "news" can be non-factual, aka shit they just made up for ratings, they'll just label it "news".

Alright sir, I see you are here to defend patent XJ82934952H28354. Why isn't the inventor here?
> It is judge, I have it running on my smartphone.
Really? Let's see, name Random Global Search And Replace Thesaurus Based Script Bot For Patents. That's a rather long name for a person, as well as a rather odd one. What were your parents named Mr Patents?
> I'm sorry judge, but it doesn't have patents, it's a piece of software.
Software? So you mean it's one of those AI thingies? A sentient machine like C3PO? Able think, imagine, and create new ideas?
>Ummm... Not as such. It just changes words with other synonyms and sometimes reorders the steps in a sequence of steps.
So let me get this straight. You patented someone elses work, after making minor modifications to it with something that has no more creativity or understanding than throwing random words into a jumble and expect to invent this despite patent laws requirement for it to be something that an expert in the field would not find obvious and yet "running an app" is something that anyone can do, even my two year old daughter that can't read, and absolutely in no way reaches that simple, though often argued over, benchmark?
>I, uh, wouldn't put it that way your honor...
Well I did. Patent revoked. In fact, all "patents" submitted that are creations of that stupid script are hereby revoked, and don't try it again or I'm going to throw the book at you for wasting everyones time you stupid little troll!
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(Ok, I'd expect everything after the word "revoked" would just be in the judges head, but the thought counts, right?) :)

You can download "On the origin of species" by Charles Darwin for free from many different places.
That sucker was published in 1859 and not even Mickey Mouse can keep it out of the public domain.

Unless maybe you are capable of parthenogentic reproduction, something mammals seem to be incapable of.

Perhaps, but with the increased production of lower fat hamburger, the cows are getting skinnier. (Maybe that's just skinny, they were just fattened cows before.)

Easy, this is Slashdot. If the guys in charge think it's interesting, it's here.
You knew that when you hit the site the first day so stop bitching.
Thanks. :)

If there's shit in literature, it was created by the writer.
The editor is just there to try and clean some of that shit up.
A good editor can make it clean, a great one can make it shine, but there's only so much you can do if it's already a pile of shit.

stupid (L)users.