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  1. Fingerprint Scanner on What Are the Weirdest Places You've Spotted Linux? · · Score: 1

    Not sure if it was Linux, but I did see the old style X server boot screen. The officer didn't seem to know much about it. Didn't get a chance to learn much about it on the way to the holding cell.

  2. That second half. on Ask Slashdot: IT Spending In Engineering? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It makes you question the validity of the first half.

  3. City? on Google Fiber Adds 14th City: Lee's Summit · · Score: 1

    That's almost a metropolis in Simcity.

  4. Re:Or simply install Linux on A Serious Proposal To Fix Windows 8 · · Score: 2

    I've been using Linux for servers for nearly 20 years now.

    Sure you have.

  5. Re:Windows 3.1 Mode on Ask Slashdot: Best 32-Bit Windows System In 2012? · · Score: 1

    I've ran Windows 3.1 in Dosbox.

  6. Re:Red Headed Step Child... on Microsoft Upgrading Windows Users To Latest Version of MSIE · · Score: 1

    Windows and OS X are only updating the OS. Ubuntu, like any Debian based install, is upgrading everything you downloaded through the repository. You don't have to update every five minutes. The vast majority of the updates aren't major security concerns. What you see as "constantly needing fixed", is actually instant availability of improvements. Why be forced to wait a week for something thats been fixed minutes after the last update cycle?

  7. Re:Everybody join in on Sun Produces First Cycle 24 X-Class Solar Flare · · Score: 1

    Thats funny. I actually keep a radio on channel 6 with the squelch up most of the time. When I hear indecipherable ramblings and clashing AM carriers i turn it off and start scanning the upper HF bands.

  8. Re:Our molten core is shifting on North Magnetic Pole Racing Toward Siberia · · Score: 1

    Nah, its global warming. Its right there in the summary tag.

  9. Re:OK THAT IS FUCKING ENOUGH on Inside the Lab of One of the World's Last Holographers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I thought it nice that this was mentioned. The article and the video might not have had the detail you required, but the thats what the google search is for. I've seen holographic images before, and was very interested in how it's accomplished, but it was years ago and I didn't have the resources to look into it further. Sometimes its nice to be reminded of this kind of stuff. For myself, it's led to a night of googling and interesting reading. If its not enough for you, move on to the next article.

  10. Stupid people are breeding on Could Colorblindness Cure Be Morally Wrong? · · Score: 1

    Why not, it would help battle the "Stupid people are breeding" problem. I live near many neighborhood/trailer parks where some people don't seem to do anything besides eat, breed, and live off the government. They don't seem to have any motivation to do much else. Some of the more intelligent people I know are not interested in having kids. If its a bad thing, it will go to hell really fast. Why not just see what happens.

  11. Re:Fugly on The Year of the E-Bicycle · · Score: 1

    Why not roll-your-own. More power, less money, use any bicycle. http://www.electricrider.com/

  12. HA on The Best, Worst, and Ugliest OSes of the Decade · · Score: 1

    Just wait. This is going to get bloody.

  13. Re:Current on Why Is a Laptop's Battery Dearer Than a Lawnmower's? · · Score: 1

    Yup. Not only did I incorrectly state what I really meant, I also misread the summary and didn't read the article. Guess that's what I get for slashdotting in the morning before drinking my coffee.

  14. Current on Why Is a Laptop's Battery Dearer Than a Lawnmower's? · · Score: 1

    The lawnmower is drawing a much more amperage than the laptop. You would need a more rugged battery to get the same watt-hours.

  15. Re:When the last major supplier stops... on Last Major Supplier Calls It Quits For VHS · · Score: 1

    I'm using FreeBSD right now, and my vcr still works.