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  1. I had a blast with this. on Science Gifts For Kids? · · Score: 1
  2. Re:Anyone noticed ... on Mars Express Captures Phobos and Deimos · · Score: 1

    I guess it won't fit in Bill's harddrive then. Can't they crop it just a little?

  3. Because? on GNOME Developer Suggests Split From GNU Project · · Score: 1

    Maillist appears to be under some sort of dos attack of unknown cause. Does anyone know why they would want to split off?

  4. Don't get a new job, just talk to your boss on Music While Programming? · · Score: 1

    Do we have to go over the slashdot animosity towards phb ritual everytime? How about engaging this like intelligent reasonable people that like to build up empirical arguments? Isn't that what we nerds are good at? I think OP's boss has a reasonable point. I find that studying or coding with music works well when there is no singing involved and no dominant fx like a hard drum-bass etc. Maybe you can suggest that to your boss.

  5. The laws are in place. on When a DNA Testing Firm Goes Bankrupt, Who Gets the Data? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If you can't sell, destroy the data, if you can sell the business should continue it's privacy policy. By law we can(/should) be able to trust that the next owner does not use the data for malicious practices; even if the stakeholder would be a health insurance company.

  6. Mod me redundant on Time Warner Cable Modems Expose Users · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ..but I believe the word flabbergasted comes to mind.

  7. Re:hardly relevant now... on Apple, Others Hit With Lawsuit On Ethernet Patents · · Score: 2, Funny

    And then Mithrandir told you could just piggyback on the eagle to Rivendel, that must have really set you off.

  8. not idiot proof enough on CT Scan "Reset Error" Gives 206 Patients Radiation Overdose · · Score: 2, Interesting

    While the hospital shouldn't have gone and reprogram the instructions, this should have been prevented at hardware level. The machine should register a patient checking in and the amount of radiation emitted.

  9. Re:Who requests on Google To Send Detailed Info About Hacked Web Sites · · Score: 1

    Google is not playing police, they merely tell searchers it's a bad idea to go there. If you don't want others to link to you, don't go on the intarwebs. Also getting indexed by google is only possible if you sign up.

    Yes it's terrible, you have to type in "User-agent: *\n Disallow / " I can feel you pain.

  10. Re:Oh. on Major Snow Leopard Bug Said To Delete User Data · · Score: 1

    Well.. the capsule would have to be shiny white and have only one button of course( with a little ball).

  11. Re:donotwant on Command & Conquer MMO a Possibility? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I would love to see that happen. Imagine you can pick any class and evolve in it. There must be a mechanism that gives you an incentive to keep playing the same class. You get rewarded with specialised weapons, e.g. an improved tank or mechinfantry. Not only do you get rewarded for frags but also for following orders and pre-battlefield instructions. Over time you can become higher in rank which actually gives you authority over other players.

    Basically this would be the perfect balance between the excitement of arcade and the lawfulness and realism of simulation. This would take out a lot of annoying game elements that are solely produced by game-developers creating instant gratification to children, whoring for frags.

    Admittedly we need a lot more work done on communication and control. But I'm seeing this become reality.

  12. Re:everybody can on Getting Students To Think At Internet Scale · · Score: 1

    Allow me to introduce to you mutorrent, poor chap.

    The article mentions hadoop which is an open source version of google's map-reduce template(I think you can call it). This is great and all but it is a fairly static mechanism and hardly the end-all of distributed computing. Shouldn't university students be working on the next generation?

  13. Re:Let me be the first... on First European Commander of the ISS · · Score: 1

    Your comment makes no sense to me. I am from Holland and sure people with higher education mostly know 3 or 4 languages. But our country a a whole isn't that multi or even bilingual. Many people assume they know German because they are Dutch. They think they can translate a word to German by adding an umlaut to it. When they open their mouths it makes you cringe. Even English is very poor most of the time, I mean sure you can talk chrome-teeth-outback-state slang like ying yang, but you don't speak English.

    Although I think my English is not bad, I'm sometimes embarrassed how much effort it takes met to string a full sentence together, even though every single textbook I own is in English. Speaking a different language is hard.

  14. Re:Whelp... on Linux Games For Non-Gamers? · · Score: 1

    That was not feeding the troll. The worst thing you can do to a troll is giving them a totally calm and reasonable reply. It makes them either deflate, or explode and then the show it over.

    Trust me, I've done some proper trolling in my life, I know what I'm talking about.

  15. my hobby on Sky Watchers Want Recognized a Newly Described Type of Cloud · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, the reflections are all wrong. Definitely photoshopped.

  16. http://icefilms.info/ on Warez Moving From BitTorrent to Conventional Hosting Services · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://icefilms.info/ Uses some javascript hack to start a divx player in your browser and stream the content directly on the megaupload site. No download limit.

  17. Maybe you are just a phantast on Open Source Could Have Saved Ontario Hundreds of Millions · · Score: 0

    How did _they_ cure it? Every single human being born in the west gets the polio vaccin once maybe twice. And the vaccines are produced by pharmaceutical companies. That may not be a long treatment but they do get to sell it to everyone.

    You don't think every company is dying (npi) too find the cure for cancer? That company would be on top. People will alway get cancer, there is no way to prevent it, and with people getting older and older more people will get cancer in their lifetime.

    So please, spare me you inside job theories

  18. Re:There are pressure insensitive keyboards? on Contest Winners Show Potential For Pressure-Sensitive Keyboard · · Score: 0

    Information want to be free!!

  19. Re:There are pressure insensitive keyboards? on Contest Winners Show Potential For Pressure-Sensitive Keyboard · · Score: 0

    Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for life.

  20. Largest-Ever Patch Tuesday on Microsoft Plans Largest-Ever Patch Tuesday · · Score: 1, Interesting

    So we get a patch of 10gb right? largest-ever-patch-tuesday or largest ever patchtuesday seems better to me. .

  21. Preaching to the church on Massive Phishing Campaign Hits Multiple Email Services · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I know I'm preaching to the church but a good way to make a password is to make up a sentence and take each first letter, convert some to capitals and numbers and you will never ever forget it.

    It is like a walk in the park. iilawitp iiLawitp iiL4wi7p voila!

  22. I love my Openwrt Kamikazi on Netgear WNR3500L Open Source Router Announced · · Score: 0

    Since we are with 8 people on one connection I decided I needed some extra functionality so I bought a WRT54G. My roommates got wireless and I got iptables :p No upd floods on my network !

  23. "You must be ne... wait a minute, 5 digit ID?" on Monty Python 40 Years Old Today! · · Score: 4, Funny

    Three sir!

  24. Sobering on Nvidia Fakes Fermi Boards At GPU Tech Conference · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This type of reporting is, in my opinion, one of the best things that have come out of the communication acceleration we have gone through. While many people here are already aware of these practices there many that aren't yet. This is the best weapon we have against the consumer manipulation that has been going on since WWII. I'm not saying that NVIDIA is a bad company, everyone does this, all we need is awareness about it.

  25. Segmentationfault: on Legal Code In a Version Control System? · · Score: 0

    oops we've just overflowed to the execitive branch.