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  1. Re:No Such Luck, Sorry on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 1

    Out of curiosity, I did a google search for +5 trolls. There are 72 of them.

  2. Re:This is a violation of my privacy. on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 1

    So just do like everyone else, and don't log in unless you want to post. Then it won't know when "you" have visited unless you actually write something.

    But then, of course, you don't get mod points.

  3. Re:Come on on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 1

    What is 'The Cheater' achievement?

  4. Re:Very funny... on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 1

    Since slashdot is about 14 hours late with the april fools, will we expect this for another 24 hours, well into April 2nd?

    Except, they didn't just throw a static "haha, gotcha" page up... Slashdot really has implemented this system.

    A reverse April Fools?

  5. Re:Let's clarify something... on ACLU Wins, No Sexting Charges For NJ Teens · · Score: 1

    I call Godwin!

  6. Re:Database software? on Locating the Real MySQL · · Score: 1

    Wooosh!

  7. Re:Let me guess... on IE 8.1 Supports Firefox Plugins, Rendering Engine · · Score: 1

    Nice idea, but the author himself dated it 2009-3-31.

  8. Re:Come on... on IE 8.1 Supports Firefox Plugins, Rendering Engine · · Score: 1

    The article is date 2009-3-31.

  9. Re:"Unthinkable?" how about "obvious?" on Shouldn't Every Developer Understand English? · · Score: 1

    I looked at:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_speakers
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers
    and some of their references.

    English is either number one or two looking at number of speakers, fighting for first place with Chinese, depending on how one counts. Notably, this also lumps all Chinese "dialects" together, even though there are good arguments as to why different Chinese "dialects" should be called "languages", which would then be counted separately.

  10. Re:Database software? on Locating the Real MySQL · · Score: 1

    Access to what? Above they talked about the difference in access to MySQL and access to PostgreSQL....

  11. Re:Relax on IBM Tries To Patent Offshoring · · Score: 1

    Ah, I didn't really get that at all from the post. I read, "Outsourcing is not bad because other places outsource to us." My response was to note that they don't, as much. In other words, I generally agree with you.

  12. Re:Relax on IBM Tries To Patent Offshoring · · Score: 3, Informative

    Looked at the trade deficit lately?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USTrade1991-2005.png

  13. Re:SO if I on Australian ISP Argues For BitTorrent Users · · Score: 1

    Any fair use case brings it up. It is one of the four factors, and so can not be used in isolation.

  14. Re:Overboard on California May Reduce Carbon Emissions By Banning Black Cars · · Score: 1

    There is more solar radiation than just visible light. Think infrared and ultraviolet. Also, fluorescents in those ranges would work too.

  15. Re:Overboard on California May Reduce Carbon Emissions By Banning Black Cars · · Score: 1

    Bingo.

  16. Re:Overboard on California May Reduce Carbon Emissions By Banning Black Cars · · Score: 1

    Simply put, a "black" paint with 20% reflectivity is not black, it is gray (unless they are counting wavelengths outside the visible range).

    They are.

  17. Title way too sweeping on IBM Tries To Patent Offshoring · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, it is just yet another a method of choosing the most efficient way to outsource. They have a model of the cost/benefit for various outsource options, a computer program to evaluate it, and a computer system on which it runs. Nothing as sweeping as "IBM Tries To Patent Offshoring".

  18. Re:How do you compete with free? on Google Launches Free, Legal Music Downloads in China · · Score: 1

    It's the adrenaline rush that males all the difference.

    I prefer females.

  19. Re:Easy Question on Is That "Sexting" Pic Illegal? A Scientific Test · · Score: 1

    If the people in the picture are younger than the age at which they can legally consent to having that picture taken, then that picture is illegal. If it's a picture of sex or nudity, then it's child pornography.

    Bullshit.

    April 26th. My son is born at 12:55 PM. I snap a picture at 1:04 PM of my *naked* one-minute-old son lying in the scale. According to you, (1) "the [person] in the picture [is] younger than the age at which [he] can legally consent to having that picture taken, [so] that picture is illegal", and (2) "it's a picture of [...] nudity, [so] it's child pornography." Again I say bullshit.

    September 26th, the following year. Repeat above at 8:45 AM. Especially repeat the BULLSHIT.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevermind
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_killer
    http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/07/1253228
    These child pornography? Bullshit!

    Your definition of "child pornography" (much less what makes an "illegal picture", which is so ludicrous I won't bother discussing it) is so broad that it covers far more than it ever should. People like you are part of the problem that this article is trying to address.

  20. Re:The problem... on Taming Conficker, the Easy Way · · Score: 1

    At the end. Except this is an infinite loop....

  21. Re:Oh please confess... on Taming Conficker, the Easy Way · · Score: 1

    Including, say, failing to fully guarantee all deposits of a bank. Thus, that foreign government is planning action that will harm the economic interests of the citizens of your country. (Iceland/UK respectively, in case you missed the news.)

  22. Re:(Sensible) People do use ECC RAM on Reliability of Computer Memory? · · Score: 1

    Why overclock 1%?

  23. Re:SO if I on Australian ISP Argues For BitTorrent Users · · Score: 1
    While I generally agree with your analysis, I must strongly disagree on this point:

    The only person that is not guilty of copyright violation at all, are the assholes that do not seed back with a 1:1 ratio. In that case, they never actually sent the entire file.

    Just because you don't send the entire file does not mean you are not infringing copyright. Any substantial portion will do.

  24. Re:Overboard on California May Reduce Carbon Emissions By Banning Black Cars · · Score: 4, Informative

    The legislation is not dictating color. Rather, it dictates that cars need to reflect at least 20% of all solar radiation, and the paint suppliers are having trouble coming up with a black paint that does that. If the suppliers can't get it going, CA may back down. CA has done that with other auto energy-efficiency legislation before.

  25. Re:So big, we have to use maths on Google Engineers Say IPv6 Is Easy, Not Expensive · · Score: 1

    If you had a bag of 2^128 GB, then the width of that bag would be about 1.05 DTM (assuming the densest possibly packing, and that the bag was basically spherical). Notes: 1 GB = 42.67 mm, DTM = 3.84x10^8 km.