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  1. Re:Usage stats are irrelevant (100% is standard) on Xbox 360 Failure Rate Is 54.2% · · Score: 1

    How many servers run at 100% cpu with the cd drive thrashing THE ENTIRE TIME? In a messy bedroom or dorm room filled with screaming boys and controller-throwing young men fired up on mtn dew and cheap pizza? Err...aside from slashdot's servers.

    I've had RROD and am on my second failing cd drive. It sucks...but 18-player CoD4 isn't on the wii.

  2. Re:Transputers, anyone? on Prototype Motherboard Clusters Self-Coordinating Modules · · Score: 1

    a serial killer?

  3. Re:Oh no... on How To Build a 100,000-Port Ethernet Switch · · Score: 1

    A 100,000 port switch without STP?

  4. Re:It's still breaking and entering on Australian Police Database Lacked Root Password · · Score: 2, Informative
    This, I'm sure depends on what jurisdiction you are in. But...I guess we can all quote websites, right?
    From lawguru.com

    Forcible entry is distinguishable from the broader crime of "breaking and entering" which might not include any actual damage from the force used to "break" a way in, such as when one opens an unlocked door to private premises without license to do so, or tampers with a locking mechanism and later takes advantage of the defect. As such, one can assume that the "breaking" refers to breaking the plane of entry; that is, crossing the threshold of a door, window or other entryway into a building.

  5. Re:It's still breaking and entering on Australian Police Database Lacked Root Password · · Score: 1

    Henceforth: NYRI.

  6. Re:It's still breaking and entering on Australian Police Database Lacked Root Password · · Score: 2, Informative

    IIRC, breaking means breaking the plane of entry. Not physically damaging anything.

  7. well... on Australian Police Database Lacked Root Password · · Score: 1

    ...nothing a few more laws won't fix.

  8. Re:It was me on Three Indicted In Huge Identity/Data Breach · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Like an internet hate machine.

  9. Demoscene on Simple, Portable Physics Simulations · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Isn't that what the Demoscene was doing back in the later-BBS days?

  10. great.... on HP Restores Creased Photos With Flatbed Scanners · · Score: 1

    nothing worse than scanned centerfold porn. porn-wise, i mean. (:

  11. hundreds?? on CRIA, MPAA Demand Expanded DMCA For Canada · · Score: 5, Funny

    hundreds of Canadians have spoken out

    Who does that leave?

  12. jailbroken should be called liberated on Underground App Store Courts the Jailbroken · · Score: 1

    i'm surprised the soviet union didn't come up with the "walled garden" phrase.

  13. Re:Not Reading It on The Mice That Didn't Make It · · Score: 5, Funny

    Meme error.
    <Zybl0re> get up
    <Zybl0re> get on up
    <Zybl0re> get up
    <Zybl0re> get on up
    * nmp3bot dances :D-<
    * nmp3bot dances :D|-<
    * nmp3bot dances :D/-<
    <[SA]HatfulOfHollow> i'm going to become rich and famous after i invent a device that allows you to stab people in the face over the internet

  14. So what, it's MS's service... on Bing Search Tainted By Pro-Microsoft Results · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...are you really surprised?

  15. Re:Cause or effect? on Psychopaths Have Brain Structure Abnormality · · Score: 1

    Or, since you were wondering about the brain, did YOU give the brain the ability to mold itself?

  16. If Phillips is smart, on Philips Develops Roadside Drug-Testing Device · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They should open the code and hardware specs to reduce the understandable suspicion we have of black box judicial devices.

  17. Re:the poll on the nbc site ... on California Student Arrested For Console Hacking · · Score: 1

    Thanks to the slashdot crowd, it's 64% furious as i type this.

  18. nice stereotype. on First Ever Criminal Arrest For Domain Name Theft · · Score: 5, Funny

    The first thing you can imagine the officer asked was, "What's a domain?".

    Right before the cop knocked your pocket-protector-wearing geek ass out.

  19. Das ist verboten. on Even More Restriction For German Internet · · Score: 5, Funny

    Heaven:
    Where the police are British,
    The cooks are Italian,
    The mechanics are German,
    The lovers are French and
    It's all organized by the Swiss.

    Hell is:
    Where the police are German,
    The cooks are British,
    The Mechanics are French,
    The lovers are Swiss and
    It's all organized by the Italians.

  20. Re:Sigh. Chevy Volt battery is still too small. on Nissan Unveils All-Electric LEAF · · Score: 1

    They need a big enough battery to recycle the energy from coming down from a mountain pass to go up the next pass

    I really hope you don't mean the second pass being as high as the first.

  21. Yes, but... on Toyota Reveals A Humanoid Robot That Can Run · · Score: 0

    ...does it run linux?

  22. Re:Ahh the social sciences. on Games Fail To Portray Gender and Ethnic Diversity · · Score: 1

    Hey, no doubt.

    I really enjoyed my anthropology class in college. But something really bugged me. The professor liked to emphasise how it was a science... empirical observation and the dispassionate observer and all, scientific method, blah blah...

    anywho: the textbook talked about the various fields of anthropology. One of which was marxist anthopology. Huh. It explained that it was the field of anthropology that sought to explain progression of peoples and societies in referrence to marxist struggle, to prove that marxism was right. Ok...so here is a "science" that starts with the "answer": marxism is right, and then cherry-picks anthropological anecdotes to further a communist ideology.

    lots of smart people doing lots of work...but in the end, that is not science. What do you suppose are the odds that "marxist anthropology" might conclude, at the end of lengthy empirical observation and experimentation, that marx was wrong? zero.

    This is a legit "social science", legit enough to be in my text book and explained by my professor. Other "social sciences" start with "white males are bad", "gender is a social construction", or "behavior is NEVER attributable to genetics" and then work backward from there. Cherry picking anecdotal evidence that backs them up.

  23. Re:That'll Be an Interesting Chart on Games Fail To Portray Gender and Ethnic Diversity · · Score: 1

    In CoD4, the playable (and other times, NPC) Marine is a black guy.

  24. Ahh the social sciences. on Games Fail To Portray Gender and Ethnic Diversity · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The only "science" that starts with the answer and works backwards from there.

  25. Re:A-380 halfway there on NASA Offers $1.5 Million For 200MPG Aircraft · · Score: 1

    Depends how quick you are, how hot they are, and how long the flight. You'd pretty much have to get started right after take....oh, I see. Um, disregard.