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  1. Re:Europe on 350-Year-Old Newton's Puzzle Solved By 16-Year-Old · · Score: 2

    So the crazy old guy in that movie with the long title was right all along?

  2. Welcome to the Hotel AOL on 19-Year-Old Squatted At AOL For 2 Months · · Score: 1

    You can check-out any time you like,
    but you can only leave after downloading a HD movie over a dial-up connection

  3. Re:Hahahahaha on Zuckerberg Updates Relationship Status To "Married" · · Score: 1

    most heterosexual men would vote "yes" in the "would you or wouldn't you"

    Most heterosexual men and all mathematicians.

  4. Re:Downloading Ubuntu on Wil Wheaton: BitTorrent Isn't Only For Piracy · · Score: 1

    dubstep was distributed mainly through torrents and other file-sharing services that the RIAA actively has been trying to kill off.

    I thought dubstep was distributed directly through dial-up modems. At least that's how I got it, every time I connected to the internet.

  5. Re:Just post them here on Ask Slashdot: Open Source Multi-User Password Management? · · Score: 1

    But how? All we will see is a bunch of stars...

  6. Re:Anyone else wonder who... on Richard Stallman Falls Ill At Conference · · Score: 1

    Is that somewhere near Tanagra?

  7. Re:Preserved Junk? on Squadron of Lost WWII Spitfires To Be Exhumed In Burma · · Score: 5, Funny

    Planes have been pulled from swamps, bottoms of lakes, and worse and been restored to flying condition.

    Yes, but we don't have Yoda here, do we?

  8. Re:No, not quite... on Ph.D Webcomic Gets Adapted Into Feature Film · · Score: 1

    According to the Hollywood rumor sites, XKCD is held up because Michael Bay can't decide who looks better in a hat, Brad Pitt or Ashton Kutcher.

    He definitely should make #311.

  9. Re:Number one reason I dislike Microsoft... on Microsoft Patent Hints At Search Results Tailored To User's Mood, Intelligence · · Score: 1

    That by itself wouldn't be so bad if catering to ididots weren't a requirement for big success.

  10. Re:Netscape. on Facebook, Instagram, Ben Bernanke: Thank You For the New Tech Bubble · · Score: 1

    So there IS a browser in which Slashdot looks decent?

  11. Re:Bureacracy sucks but on Canadian Bureacracy Can't Answer Simple Question: What's This Study With NASA? · · Score: 1

    Actually, is was kicked out of "palindrome" to avoid being mistaken for "Palin syndrome"

  12. Re:Oblig. xkcd on Julia Language Seeks To Be the C For Numerical Computing · · Score: 2

    Why does the Oblig always misses the <a> tag? Even in Chrome, select + goto takes more time than a simple click.

    Because if don't know the xkcd strips by number, there's a card you might be expected to hand in as you leave.

  13. Only Fools and Horses did this on Indian Man Charged With Blasphemy For Exposing "Miracle" · · Score: 5, Informative

    Drops of water on a holy statue? Sounds just like the Miracle of Peckham.

  14. Re:crappy difference-equation mathematics on MIT Institute's Gloomy Prediction: 'Global Economic Collapse' By 2030 · · Score: 1

    Second- or higher-degree difference equations can also oscillate stably, decay to a non-zero constant, or decay to a linear function.

    True, but those outcomes require very specific conditions. Stable oscilation means the real part of both exponents is exactly zero (or one zero and one negative). Decay to a constant or linear function has even more conditions, notably both exponents (solutions to the characteristic algebraic equation) have to be equal.

    In the general case, you get either exponential growth or exponential decay. This is also the case with all models and simulations, as you cannot know any parameters exactly.

  15. Re:All good so far on GNOME 3.4 Released · · Score: 1

    Sorry, wasn't meant as a flamebait. They really make no changes to base software, unlike distributions such as Ubuntu or Suse.

  16. Re:All good so far on GNOME 3.4 Released · · Score: 0

    Stop using crappy distros, Arch is where it's at.

  17. Re:Skype Next? on Microsoft Blocking Pirate Bay Links In Messenger · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not that it will be hard to get around.

    pirate bay.se/links/here/dot.jpg will likely fly right past their filter.
    This is Microsoft here, remember.

    Yeah, I remember using MSN a long time ago. We would have to change the file extensions in order to send .exe's and .mp3's. Fun times, when it took so little to feel like a hacker.

  18. Re:Where cant I get.... on Amiga Returns With Lackluster Linux-Powered Mini PC · · Score: 1

    I would say this is being marketed towards Windows users, who don't know that 3D desktop effects even exist. So that's actually a good thing, an expensive computer that shows off common features of Linux.

  19. Re:Kind of shady? on Meet the Hackers Who Get Rich Selling Spies Zero-Day Exploits · · Score: 1

    even government agencies were obliged not to break laws.

    Unless we're at war.

    We're always at war.

    We've always been at war.

  20. Re:iPhone vs DROID Devices on Sprint CEO Defends Company's Decision To Bet It All On the iPhone · · Score: 1

    It's pretty funny that the one* UI available on iPhone is leaps and bounds better than anything I've ever seen on Android.

    Widgets on the homescreen?

  21. Re:Back to the Future on Teacher Suspended For Reading Ender's Game To Students · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How ignorant.. Thinking there are political sides in America.

  22. Re:Free? on Free Apps Eat Your Smartphone Battery · · Score: 1

    So you're saying people are willing to produce something as complex as an OS for free, but not a simple phone app?

  23. Re:Ads? What are they? on Free Apps Eat Your Smartphone Battery · · Score: 1

    There are stories on Slashdot?

  24. Re:Free? on Free Apps Eat Your Smartphone Battery · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Of course, just like writing Slashdot posts on a "free" operating system with a "free" desktop environment and a "free" browser is just drowning me in ads.

  25. Re:Not always true on Free Apps Eat Your Smartphone Battery · · Score: 3, Informative

    All you need is root access, then there is more that one app to setup a redirect.