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  1. Re:Easy to Test on The World's Smallest Legible Font · · Score: 1

    Looks like it was caught in meta mod, its sitting at 100% funny at the moment.

    Now if only they could get the javascript working properly for idle.slashdot.org my life will be a little simpler.

  2. Re:If you don't already.... on The Beatles On iTunes · · Score: 1

    I am not sure about you, but walking isn't something I have to think about, you know you kind of tilt yourself forward a bit, and let your instincts take over, when the album is finished you can get off the treadmill.

  3. Re:If you don't already.... on The Beatles On iTunes · · Score: 1

    And Nirvana was just our generations Justin Bieber...

    Yeah right, out of the Beatles, Nirvana and Justin Bieber, guess which one never spawned a genre of music.

    I am not a fan of the Beatles, but I give them credit for a lot more than a 15yo narcissist.

  4. Re:If you don't already.... on The Beatles On iTunes · · Score: 1

    Add one more to the "meh" pile.

    Just really not my kind of music, I generally have a very diverse taste but their music just doesn't grab me and make me want to listen to it.

    I prefer to listen to music while walking or jogging, the exercise leaves your body busy but your mind floating, a great time to give it something to focus on.

  5. Re:Thumbs up for Valve on When DLC Goes Wrong · · Score: 1

    But you can trade for keys ;)

  6. Re:Thumbs up for Valve on When DLC Goes Wrong · · Score: 1

    Best, post, evah :)

    But in all honesty, they don't require you to buy the trinkets, they can still drop, but buying them is a way for people with some spare cash to have some fun quicker.

  7. Released? on NVIDIA's New Flagship GeForce GTX 580 Tested · · Score: 1

    So its been released now? Why then can I not purchase one?

    Stupid distortion of the English Language :/

  8. Re:SLI/Crossifre isn't always valid on NVIDIA's New Flagship GeForce GTX 580 Tested · · Score: 1

    As someone who has gamed at 1920x1200 for many years, I can say that FSAA is not really needed at that end of the market.

  9. Standard on Bethesda Criticized Over Buggy Releases · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I thought Microsoft made this an industry standard?

  10. Re:Not the northernmost... on World's Northernmost Town Gets Nightlights · · Score: 1

    Nah, but as a resident of Bendigo, I can say we have the pub problem fully under control :)

  11. Re:too bad all the lines in and out aren't protect on Nuclear Bunker Houses World's Toughest Server Farm · · Score: 1

    Congrats on reading the bolded test at the top of the page :)

    Now, if you read further down:

    creators claim to be the most secure and secretive storehouse for digital information in the world

    As for your tone, I take my meds every day that stop me from being a perpetually angry arsehole (crohns), why haven't you taken some?

  12. Re:Not the northernmost... on World's Northernmost Town Gets Nightlights · · Score: 4, Funny

    "world's northernmost functional public settlement"

    Well, not sure in other parts of the world, but here, in Australia, it means they have at least one pub :)

  13. Re:too bad all the lines in and out aren't protect on Nuclear Bunker Houses World's Toughest Server Farm · · Score: 1

    Well sir, as the others said, this place is a data store, its not for live front-end servers, in fact TFA even states that they receive a lot of data via hand delivery (bonded courier, etc).

    So in summary, no, no one cares about the access to the servers, they only care that they are still there and the data is retrievable somehow.

    I will go further to point out that their most secure areas are just safes that not even the staff of the place are allowed to enter, only the "owner" of the particular safe, and are as such not digitally accessible at all.

  14. Re:What about uplink? on Aussie Research Company Brings Wi-Fi To TV Antenna · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah, and dynamic shared bandwidth worked so well when they used it with microwave based wireless broadband in Australia.

    You had about 4 people in an area who would be downloading at about 3Mb/s all the time, and the rest wondering why they are paying so much for dial up speeds ;)

  15. Re:Well on Immune System Killer Mechanism Identified · · Score: 1

    Prognosis, reasonably minor atm, although it spreads down the bowl lining into rather nerve rich territory when it flares, leaving me unable to function without growling and yelling a lot, minor fistula, still able to work though, so unless its reasonably easy to do, and I am not in a major flair up, I would likely not want to travel far (spending large amounts of time sitting down is not a thing I enjoy any more).

  16. Re:give yourself worms on Immune System Killer Mechanism Identified · · Score: 1

    ...

    I am taking immune inhibitors (as my post further up said), having a vaccination while on those is fucking insane.

    Eg, I get a flu shot, I will actually get the flu, benign weakened virus introduced to my system will not just help my immune system adapt to it, there is not much immune system left.

  17. Re:give yourself worms on Immune System Killer Mechanism Identified · · Score: 1

    Yes, Helminthic therapy, interesting as it would be to try, it would be damn hard to keep it in balance (the therapy generally uses specially treated worm larva that cannot reproduce past the full worm stage).

    Also, it would be rather difficult I would imagine to try purchasing some live eggs to try it with.

  18. Re:Well on Immune System Killer Mechanism Identified · · Score: 1

    Yes sir, been looking at that, and even emailed the universities asking if they need test subjects, but all of them are out of my country (Australia).

    But the thought that such a treatment could put this into remission is one that cannot be ignored or hoped for.

  19. Re:Well on Immune System Killer Mechanism Identified · · Score: 1

    Crohns here, was only thinking of that (which is 1 in 5000) but yeah, am guessing any hyperactive immune disease could get some help from this.

    Just as the likes of Colazide is used to only target the lower GI maybe an inhibitor for this chemical could be bonded to something like it?

    Or perhaps even harden the lower GI cells to the enzyme.

    Either of which would be better than the cocktail of general immune inhibitors I have to suck down each day atm. Take the teeth out of the dogs rather than having less dogs around to bite (working with the analogy of immune systems as was originally described to me).

    Still not a cure, that would be too awesome to think about, but certainly would make this less of a "pain in the arse" (oh god, that's a bad pun, even for me) than it is at the moment.

  20. Re:Well on Immune System Killer Mechanism Identified · · Score: 1

    Uh, not so far too much of that one thing, just my immune system seems to think my lower intestines are fair game for target practice, need something that will feed it dud ammo for a bit.

    And yeah, I am betting since about 1 in 5000 has something along these lines, it won't be hard to find people willing to test stuff (I would for a start).

  21. Well on Immune System Killer Mechanism Identified · · Score: 1

    As a sufferer of a hyperactive immune system disease, I would rather see things slide a little the other way, less of this stuff eating away at my good cells please.

    Bit of hope for otherwise incurable diseases though :)

  22. Re:Fine ... I'll still take the pat-down on TSA To Make Pat-Downs More Embarrassing To Encourage Scanner Use · · Score: 1

    Inspired work.

    Please, if you could add more do so :)

  23. Re:Fine ... I'll still take the pat-down on TSA To Make Pat-Downs More Embarrassing To Encourage Scanner Use · · Score: 1

    Kinda remands me of a tactic the Aussie unemployment benefits department (Centrelink) used a while back, they didn't want people to come in to the office so they would keep changing the appointment times to encourage people to use the call centre to solve their problem.

    Or even our local water authority, who after many complaints about chlorine levels in the water being too high (it was because their dissolving drum units kept getting it caked up inside them), rather than fix the chemical system, they increased the size of their call centre to handle the complaints.

    Hrmm, seems its a common thing that government agencies just don't care about people, they only care about numbers.

  24. Re:Fine ... I'll still take the pat-down on TSA To Make Pat-Downs More Embarrassing To Encourage Scanner Use · · Score: 1

    Quiet? Hell you really want to make it fun, take some viagra before going in, and moan a little when they start the pat-down.

    If you have to feel uncomfortable, they should as well :)

    XKCD, where would we be without your ideas.

  25. Re:Why so few posts? on Manchester's Self-Described 'Internet Troll' Jailed For Offensive Web Posts · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    * looks at the karma score for the grandparent post

    Well, looks like "a jury of his peers" finds it inoffensive.

    To quote XKCD: "Mission Fucking Accomplished"