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  1. Re:Excellent example.... on CentOS Project Administrator Goes AWOL · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's an excellent simple example of the advantages of Free Software:

    Free Software X lost its developer/manager/whatever -> anyone can step in and replace him, or pay someone to do it.

    Company Y decides to stop supporting its proprietary software Z -> you're screwed in the ass, big time.

    Don't count on "stopping without notice"... from these kind of adverse situations that interesting new stuff emerges.

  2. Re:Robustness, too! on Finally, a True Green Laser · · Score: 5, Funny

    it was Python, you insensitive clod!

  3. Re:I hate time sinks on Massively Single-Player Gaming? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Oh, come on mods, even though it was AC's, it was funny.

  4. Re:No duh on You, Too, Can Learn Echolocation · · Score: 1

    I bet what you really remembered was the position of objects you saw when there was light. The subliminal cues your senses provided were more than enough to reconstruct the whole placement memory.

  5. The cure for spam... on Fake Tamiflu "Out-Spams Viagra On Web" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ... is to educate people, so we have less stupid buyers, the targets of spammers. But most of those stupid persons prefers to remain stupid, so spam is here to stay.

    Now that I think about it, that also applies to Windows, Internet Explorer, viruses (biological and computerized ones), most elected politicians, etc.

    Corollary: the category of plagues is bound by stupidity.

  6. Re:What? on Penis-Shaped Mushroom Named After Frog Expert · · Score: 1

    yes

  7. Re:why xbox XNA development fails on Defining an Indie Game Developer · · Score: 1

    [...] I would have simply bought a new Xbox360.[...]

    "you don't come here to hunt, do you?"

  8. Re:Commit? on PLplot Notes Its 10,000th Commit · · Score: 1

    My first-choice package is matploblib, which is made in Python.

  9. Re:The Fundamental Fatal Flaw Of Desktop Linux on KDE 4.2.4 Released · · Score: 1

    Well, I'm pretty happy with my netbook with Ubuntu Netbook Remix. I couldn't care less for Microsoft and whatever.

  10. Re:I love DosBox on DOSBox Sees Continued Success · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Probably because no one (with the capacity to do it) cares about windows media files...

  11. Re:If past performance is a current indicator... on Tesla's New York Laboratory Up For Sale · · Score: 1

    alternate current, not anonymous coward.

  12. Re:Wait a second... on Europe Funds Secure Operating System Research · · Score: 1

    You don't come here to hunt, do you?

  13. Re:VB6 on Microsoft Phasing Out ESP Simulation Platform? · · Score: 1

    True (perhaps... they may decide to just shut it down, regardless of money). But if you only have the ability, you're screwed.

  14. Re:VB6 on Microsoft Phasing Out ESP Simulation Platform? · · Score: 1

    In contrast with Free Software, which will stay for as long as one wants (and has the ability or money to maintain it, of course).

  15. Re:Cool on Shuttleworth Announces Karmic Koala · · Score: 4, Funny

    Also another exception: if it screws you somehow, it's not on intent.

  16. Re:Humans... on Distributed Project To Classify SDSS Galaxies · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yep, some should be spared... I heard they provide a lot of btu's of energy.

    (The dumbest argument for a movie plot. Ever.)

  17. Re:Incredible on Hadron Collider Relaunch Delayed · · Score: 1

    I've never seen one before - no one here on /. has - but I'm guessing it's a white hole.

    There, fixed for ya. But I've been in some before, they feel quite nice. I almost got in a black hole a while ago, but I thought I would not be able to leave her, so I ran...

    Too bad 2008 is so far in the future, I can't wait to see all the holes the LHC will create.

  18. Re:Your official guide to the Jigaboo presidency on Testing the KDE 4.2 Release Candidate, On Windows · · Score: 0

    Damn, that A.C. took my comment seriously! o_O

    It seems to have succeeded.

  19. Re:OpenArena on Most Popular Free, Arena-Style FPS? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dear A.C.,

    your social experiment to see what is the threshold of bullshit /.ers tolerate before calling some censoring measure is clearly not working. Perhaps that's because everyone see it's a social experiment. Anyway, I think you should try harder, perhaps recruit some people to elevate the noise level... even though I don't think you'll succeed.

    Best regards,

    Daniel

  20. Re:Less WoW please on Scripts and Scaling In Online Games · · Score: 1

    And can we please see some articles in here that aren't somehow connected to WoW?

    Yes you can see them, but please do not RTFA. Remember, this is /.

  21. other uses than gaming on NVIDIA Offers 3D Glasses For the Masses · · Score: 1

    I, for one, can't wait to use it with Blender. That will surely help in 3D modeling. Finally we'll have a 3D cursor that is really 3D! :)

  22. Re:Why doesn't somebody countersue them on RIAA Sues 19-Year-Old Transplant Patient · · Score: 5, Funny

    even the densest judge won't swallow the idea that a fetus can somehow use a computer from inside the womb.

    so that video I found on the internet, with a girl and a computer, the thing she was doing with the mouse wasn't teaching the fetus how to use the computer??? o_O

  23. Re:Finally! on Amazon Launches Public Data Sets To Spur Research · · Score: 1, Funny

    Score:0, Funny... why the fuck people are so humorless nowdays? To take the time to mod down a funny post... why don't you spare your mod points to mod down the 'frist psots!!1!!!' that became usual?

    Btw, go ahead and mod me off-topic.

  24. Re:Gnash on Lessig Launches Open Transition Principles · · Score: 1

    Since gnash can play youtube video, this isn't a restriction in practice. Much ado about very little.

    Yep, it is a restriction in principle. But most of you, citizens of the US, don't seem to care about principles anymore. What a shame...

    Here, bend over, I'll give you a candy.

  25. Re:Bogus statistical claims. on European Police Plan to Remote-Search Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    Oh look, IE usage has dropped to less than 1% and the US is no longer in debt.

    Hmmm, sure that has to have a correlation.

    |> correlationisnotcausation story