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Seriously. I read the summary. I read the article. I read the discussion on slashdot about the initial news posting. I still don't get what DECAF was exactly supposed to do, what it actually is doing, and what message the author of DECAF thinks he is sending with whatever his software does.

Worst. Story. EVER!

There's a cool site where you can find out all about things like this. There you go, Sparky.

"I will use Google before asking dumb questions."

Please note the story and the OP's post. This is in the context of anime, not in general.

Bite me, fanboy

You could always send them to Google by saying, Just fucking google it

Or you could use this one?

God forbid the summary tell us what ZFS is

It is a filesystem, available in (Open)Solaris and at least FreeBSD, possibly other BSDs as well. It has some interesting features, which you can check out here. I have heard it claimed that ZFS has good performance, but I have not evaluated any of those claims.

It's a complete and total coincidence, but I just remembered a humorous Web site.

can I get a what what

Here you go. Oh, almost forgot star wipe.

It's a Tolkien reference.

Suggestions?

learn to use the internets?

>I think that's probably a sensible answer to my question, but I'm not terribly sure.
"Mana"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mana_point

>"Karma" (something different to what I've got on SlashDot, whatever that is?)?

In the context of games, karma could be the same as mana, but with the implication that it was divine in origin.

>"Shallow power curve" (it's hard to stall your car, but it doesn't accelerate terribly fast?) ?

Words and phrases have different meanings in various contexts. In the case of RPGs and video game RPGs (and other types of games), power curve refers to how powerful characters become over time. In D&D and the games inspired by it, there is a steep power curve. Meaning that a 10th level character is vastly more powerful than a 1st level character. PlanetSide has a shallow power curve. A first level character and a maxed out character have access to the same abilities and weapons. The high level character is more flexible.

>"Ganking" (is it legal, in private, between consenting adults? Or doe it require too many consenting adults to be private?)

Go go gadget google!
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gank
http://www.wowwiki.com/Gank
http://justfuckinggoogleit.com/bart.gif

It generally means for a high powered character to kill a low powered character. Or for a group to kill a lone player. The problem lies in that the victim has no chance to win, survive or escape. It's a by product of steep power curves.

>Is that English, some arcane dialect of Albanian, or mispronounced Klingon?

Go fuck yourself. :)

> Sounds workable at a first glance, but unless you have dictats in the game code that only certain "[game]company code" can generate new currency, then you're going to end up back in the same problem of random players generating "money" (= fuel, or bread, or beer, or whatever you're token of value is). And you'll end up back into having 3rd-world geeks wage-slaving for first-world real currency to produce in-game value. Gold farming, again.

And thus my objection to player trade driven by scarcity. In PlanetSide there is no scarcity, there's no point in trading or hording. There's nothing worth buying with real world money, aside from saving some time by purchasing a high level character.

i'd like to see emergent behaviors if consumable resources were the defacto currency.

>Problem is ... if you want to have credibly real in-game physics, then you're going to have to have some things like mineable resources, or orbital hydroponics stations that take in raw material like water-CO2-ice and trace elements and sell higher value rocket fuel and food, only taking in-game effort and sunlight to do it. Which is territory for gold farming and such like evils again.

A higher level of abstraction might do it. Instead of have a hydroponics segment producing X units of food per Y unit of time, just say "You need to build another HP segment before you can add to this station." i build a mine on an asteroid and as long as the mine exists i can build unit types A, B and C. If i have 5 mines i can build units D, E and F.

Or just prevent the quantities of stuff extracted from being traded. My mine generates 500 Iron units per hour, but i can't trade them.

The former is more RTS, the latter would be EVE - player trade. While that would appeal to me, it might not appeal to power hungry nerds who just want to live out some sociopathic fantasy. Maybe the solution is for people to just decide what kind of game they want to play. If you play EVE, expect people to destroy your days of work, expect people to run off with your money. If not, play something else. *shrugs*

Do you need me to explain what it means to put a verb between asterisks, or can you look for it yourself?

http://justfuckinggoogleit.com/

It's called a parody, referencing the fact that you apparently think someone's a liar when they are not, in fact, gone for 'a minute'.

You're so bad at trolling it hurts.

So to recap your position, you don't understand exaggeration, and that makes me an idiot. Thanks. I needed a laugh this morning ;-)

He wanted to google "$USER jury". Some people take it too far.

I wanted to write an article about the Solovetskiy Stone, which is a monument to victims of political persecution in the former USSR erected by former Gulag residents right across the KGB headquarters.

I didn't want to create a user - sorry Jimbo, I just don't want to join your fan club. As a form of punishment, I was tormented with like a 17-step wizard with questions such as whether I am writing about a "MUSICAL GROUP, DJ, ALBUM, or SONG". After I finally got to the part where I write my part, it was unceremoniously deleted by the EarWig robot (eh?), because some of the text - basically the address of the place in Moscow - was copy-pasted from memorial.ru. And this is the site with a 10-page article listing the secondary characters in the Final Fantasy world. Sorry, somebody else would have to create this article instead of me and yes, I was shocked at how bad Wikipedia had got.

Not contributing back!? Dude, they gave us *google*.

And "just fucking google it" has started replacing RTFM. :-) See also "Let Me Google That For You."

A guy on a list I used to be on used to ask REALLY dumb, easily-googlable questions. I mean, you could literally take the message subject, plug it into google, and get the answer. I wrote (but never deployed) a script that would take the subject of his message, google it, and reply to the list with the first page of search results in the body. (Something like "links --dump http://www.google.com/search?q=$1+$2+$3+$4+$5 | mail blah@example.org")

Story? What story?

It wouldn't be a story if he just Googled it. It's a bit outdated but Rubberhose was explicitly designed for this purpose. The idea is that it has multiple encryption keys to store different data in a given volume with no way to prove there is more than one key or more than one item being stored. You use one password or key to encrypt less-sensitive data and then there is no way to prove that you have another key or password encrypting much more sensitive data within the same volume. So the cops ask for your encryption keys, you give them the less-sensitive one, they see your financial records or something else to which they already had access, and cannot prove there is anything else on the volume.

Here's some great information on printing barcodes with all kinds of different printers and operating systems.

http://justfuckinggoogleit.com/

Citation please.

First Google Result: Volcanic Gases and Their Effects. Quotation follows: Scientists have calculated that volcanoes emit between about 130-230 million tonnes (145-255 million tons) of CO2 into the atmosphere every year (Gerlach, 1999, 1991). This estimate includes both subaerial and submarine volcanoes, about in equal amounts. Emissions of CO2 by human activities, including fossil fuel burning, cement production, and gas flaring, amount to about 27 billion tonnes per year (30 billion tons) [ ( Marland, et al., 2006) - The reference gives the amount of released carbon (C), rather than CO2, through 2003.]. Human activities release more than 130 times the amount of CO2 emitted by volcanoes--the equivalent of more than 8,000 additional volcanoes like Kilauea (Kilauea emits about 3.3 million tonnes/year)! (Gerlach et. al., 2002) Hope that helps... lazy asshole.

or to put it another way: just fucking google it! :)

(Actually, if I were to pick nits, I would point out that going to "goggle.com" may not be quite as productive--in fact, after a quick skim of that site, I might advise carefully avoiding it if you're running windows.)

JFGI

And if they don't get the hint, try this less subtle one.

(1) I don't know what a mesh network is.

(1) I don't know what a mesh network is and am too fucking lazy to use the search tool in the upper-right hand corner of my browser.

There, fixed that for you, in every way.

(2) If I presume it's some kind of cellular or wireless internet, then I don't think it would work.

(2) If I presume it's some kind of cellular or wireless internet, then I don't think it would work even though I know nothing whatsoever about it.

Hope that helped.

(3) It's more efficient to broadcast just one single datastream from a central location and allow people to pick it up,

(3) It's more efficient to broadcast just one single datastream from a central location and allow people to pick it up, and I've never heard of multicast (which actually works on IPv6, which would be necessary for an IP-based mesh network to work on reasonable terms anyway.)

Why not quiet down while the adults are talking?

http://justfuckinggoogleit.com/search.pl?query=microsoft+bing

Does the nVidia 9400M require more than 5W?

Google is your friend

The GeForce 9400M claims a TDP of only 12 W.

http://justfuckinggoogleit.com/

18 GHz? Nifty! Aside from that minor gaffe, you're also completely wrong. Computer Geeks currently has two different options, one from Linksys and one from Airlink. (The latter has significantly better specs; superior video and better wireless security.) The only way to get smarter is to play a smarter opponent. Or in other words, you're welcome.

"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power"-- Mussolini

[Citation needed]

Here's your citation

Yes, I am being serious.

Me too.

Yes it would be too much to ask. As a reader of slashdot it is your duty to understand terms or google it . If you didn't, a submitter would have to define every word entered, making submissions 100x as large, more complicated , and annoying to read. So please, for the sake of all that is good and holy, justfuckinggoogleit. Thanks.

'Tourists might find information about the Liberty Bell, for example, at a site ending in .philly.'
Provided the tourist already knows where the Liberty Bell is, and that "philly" is both a TLD and an abreviation for Philadelphia. Otherwise, they would just google it. This reminds me of the question "Why is the word 'dictionary' in the dictionary?" If you know how to find it, you already know the definition!

"If I can change the clock of just the virtual machine, I don't have to mess up the rest of my system."

No, but the fact that you are asking how to do it on Slashdot rather than just fscking googling it, suggests that you will find a way to do so just the same ;-)

Really.

Now google this 100 times:

Try providing a link like this next time. It has more impact.

You either kill people with them, which is never a legal activity

Wrong. You are either dangerously ignorant of the law or just lying.

Windows 2000 is out of support. That means, no patches for known issues. It's been out of support for a few years. Chances are your PC is pwned. The only way it could be worse is if you were running Win98.

Based on your other questions, you and your wife have much to learn. Start with VirtualBox and run a live linux distribution (no HD install) under a VM. Don't know how? http://justfuckinggoogleit.com/

If you don't know who RAMBUS is then you should, they have been a big name in computing technology for a lot longer than this RDRAM shit has been around. And if you can't use google then you don't deserve to Slashdot. And no, I'm not kidding this time. Every time someone cries about a well-known company not being detailed in a Slashdot summary, this site gets a little dumber.

http://justfuckinggoogleit.com/

http://www.google.com/search?q=captcha+for+porn&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a

POTUS

This site may help.

"can anyone point me to one?" http://justfuckinggoogleit.com/

...what exactly does EAL mean again? Does anyone really know? Should we care?

To answer your questions, one by one.

1) Google it.
2) Yes, there are people that know. Duh.
3) No, you shouldn't (needn't) care. Doesn't mean it's not important or relevant, though.

In short: you have got no idea what this means or what this is about. Better stop talking - you're just making yourself look stupid that way.

While that does seem like an interesting weapon system, I see nothing there about the cost of a round, let alone the launcher.

There's a website which lets you find such things easily - enter "XM25 cost" or similar in the question box

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Message_Block

Also,

http://justfuckinggoogleit.com/

http://justfuckinggoogleit.com/search.pl?query=pagers

this site should steer you in the right direction.

Herein lies the answer.

I think I found a helpful link for you here.

Do a google search on "JFGI" and the top hit is: http://www.justfuckinggoogleit.com/

Would it have killed the submitter to clue us in to what Enlightenment is?

here is a website that you may find of use in future.

there is nothing wrong with saying "the Enlightenment window manager" instead of just "Enlightenment".

And what about the windows/os x users on this forum who have no fucking idea what a window manager is? Should we cater to their stupidity too?