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  1. Re: Surpassing Vista on Windows 8 Passes Vista, Hits 5.1% Market Share · · Score: 1

    This discussion is about the Windows desktop operating systems, not Windows Mobile. When WM fizzles out, it won't impact their family of desktop operating systems.

  2. Yo Dawg on Apple Files Patent For New Proprietary Port · · Score: 0

    We heard you like ports, so we're putting ports in your ports.

  3. Re:Not good enough on First Looks At Windows 8.1, Complete With 'Start' Button · · Score: 1

    I've gotten used to "Windows Key + i" every time I want to do a shutdown.

    In RDP, I use "Ctrl + Alt + End" to initiate a shutdown.

    Hope somebody here finds these shortcuts useful.

  4. Re:Hah! on Ruby On Rails Exploit Used To Build IRC Botnet · · Score: 1

    Well, the post I replied to singled out an explanation of Ruby itself, and not the remaining "with a poorly designed API intended for web use" portion.

  5. Re:Hah! on Ruby On Rails Exploit Used To Build IRC Botnet · · Score: 1

    It's not a language.

    Um? Yes it is.

  6. Re:Hah! on Ruby On Rails Exploit Used To Build IRC Botnet · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's a locomotive-driven precious stone.

  7. How To Determine If a Video Has Been Faked? on Ask Slashdot: How To Determine If a Video Has Been Faked? · · Score: 3, Funny

    You submit it to Mythbusters.

  8. And in an ironic twist... on Why the 'Star Trek Computer' Will Be Open Source and Apache Licensed · · Score: 2

    And in a ironic twist, the algorithms used to manifest a cup of Earl Grey tea will be closed and patented.

  9. Re:Great summary! on MariaDB vs. MySQL: A Performance Comparison · · Score: 1

    Actually, I thought it was a pretty good summary. It explained what MariaDB is and why it is being compared to MySQL, without forcing the user to have to search around just to figure out what the summary is talking about.

  10. Re:Boring on Review: Star Trek: Into Darkness · · Score: 1

    Where is the ACTION?

    ...Seriously?

  11. Re:It can't end well on Review: Star Trek: Into Darkness · · Score: 1

    All those events happen 20 years later in the canon, so I don't think those things need to be worried about for a while.

  12. Re:Did they get rid of the fake lens flares? on Review: Star Trek: Into Darkness · · Score: 1

    I agree with this. I've watched the previous Abrams Star Trek film probably 3 or 4 times, and never once was the lens flare noticeable to me. Or at least, it didn't bother me.

    I think the jokes about Abrams and lens flares were just the Internet meme of the week.

  13. Re:Alcohol is useless on Linux is an Obvious Choice for Automating the Beer-Brewing Process (Video) · · Score: 1

    Power to you, friend.

  14. Re:Alcohol is useless on Linux is an Obvious Choice for Automating the Beer-Brewing Process (Video) · · Score: 2

    There exists a widespread culture of beer lovers (and brewers) who are not alcoholic. I consider myself to be among them. I enjoy a quality-crafted beer with a meal and I find the process of brewing to be an interesting and rewarding hobby. This is far from being useless or wasted time.

    Granted, there is an unfortunate number of people who cannot regulate their intake, but they drink for different reasons.

  15. Re:CSS is Awesome on CSS Zen Garden Turns 10 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, it taught me to hate myself for continuing to use an HTML table to form the layout of webpages. =)

  16. Re:I'm not saying it's aliens on Weird Geological Features Spied On Mars · · Score: 1

    Oh. Thought those were whalers on the moon.

  17. Re:I'm not saying it's aliens on Weird Geological Features Spied On Mars · · Score: 1

    Nazis.

  18. Re:Uhhh.... no. on Using YouTube For File Storage · · Score: 1

    So do YouTube videos. But is that really a problem?

  19. Re:Uhhh.... no. on Using YouTube For File Storage · · Score: 1

    A simpler approach would be to use a free web hosting service, and drop your encrypted data in there. Easy access from anywhere without needing to sign in.

  20. Re:right... on Using YouTube For File Storage · · Score: 2

    QR's will look the same regardless of video format. If the resolution gets really scrunched down or if frame rates get jacked up in the conversion process, then it could be a wasted effort, but YouTube's internal conversion algorithms seem to be pretty effective these days. ...wait, am I defending the idea behind this article?

  21. Re:God made it. on Our Solar System: Rare Species In Cosmic Zoo · · Score: 1

    Also would have accepted "Babel Fish."

  22. Re:God made it. on Our Solar System: Rare Species In Cosmic Zoo · · Score: 1

    When I watched Prometheus, this episode came to mind. =)

  23. Re:Fundamental thermodynamics on Condensation On Your Beer != Good · · Score: 1

    I especially like how they threw a "!=" into the headline. It's the hip thing to do. Oh, Slashdotters will find that charming!

    Of course, the more pedantic among us will twitch at the use of a logical operator as a copula. :)

  24. Re:Seriously? on Carnegie Mellon Offers Wee QWERTY Texting Tech For Impossibly Tiny Devices · · Score: 1

    It really begs the question of what could be so important to type that it needs to be done while standing in a checkout line.

    (On another topic: your sig is feeding the trolls.)

  25. Re:Excuse my ignorance on DragonFly BSD 3.4 Released, With New Packaging System · · Score: 1

    Well, even a distro that provides a package management system does not force you to use a packaged kernel. You can roll your own from vanilla and have it coexist happily with other pre-packaged kernels in /boot. I did this in Debian for years.