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  1. Re:IAU, Please on Nearest Alien Planet Gets New Name · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is your butt still hurt about Pluto?

  2. Slashdot keeps getting shittier on Nearest Alien Planet Gets New Name · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The fuck, man? Posting a story that 700-some idiots paid actual money to have a chance to give an exoplanet a non-official name and pretending like it means something?

    Is this Slashdot or is it Entertainment Weekly?

  3. Re:Congress can Butt Out. on Politician Wants Sci-fi To Be Mandatory In School · · Score: 1

    The last Civil War vets died in the 1950s.

  4. Re:He has a point, no? on Shuttleworth Calls Ubuntu Performance Art, Calls Out Critics · · Score: 1

    XP was actually more secure starting with Service Pack 2, because that's when the software firewall was configured to run out of the box.

  5. Re:Easy Solution on FAA On Travel Delays: Get Used To It · · Score: 1

    libertarian naivete

    Tautology.

  6. Re:Won't matter who is right... on FAA On Travel Delays: Get Used To It · · Score: 1

    Fuck.

    That'll get nowhere. The districts are gerrymandered to hell and back, so the only thing a Republican district can do is vote for a more extreme teabagger. That or they'll decide that they hate Congress but inexplicably love "their" guy, or "their" guy will engineer a primary with seven candidates and manage to come out on top with a plurality, so he wins even though most of the district hates him. Roy Blunt did the latter in '08.

    Your idea will get nowhere until we get rid of gerrymandering once and for all, and until we get dump first-past-the-post.

  7. Re:Sequestration is a gimmick on FAA On Travel Delays: Get Used To It · · Score: 1

    That's another glittering generality you've tossed out. It must be so /easy/ to be a libertarian; your religion's got answers for just about everything!

  8. Re:Sequestration is a gimmick on FAA On Travel Delays: Get Used To It · · Score: 1

    It's pretty easy when you're willing to ignore reality so you can be lazy & pull out a false equivalence, yes.

  9. Re:Disable Networking on Some Windows XP Users Can't Afford To Upgrade · · Score: 1

    Our plan is to stick all the machines that must run XP behind a dedicated firewall appliance (probably Cisco) and cut them off from the Internet & most of campus, save the antivirus, DNS, and DHCP servers, domain controller, and possibly the VPN concentrator (for remote support).

    We have a few areas with devices costing five and six figures that either are abandoned by their vendors or cost thousands to tens of thousands to get modernized software for, and the state just keeps cutting our budget.

  10. Re:All notebooks on Ars Reviewer is Happily Bored With Dell's Linux Ultrabook · · Score: 1

    Sadly, mechanical switches are too heavy and take up too much room to be practical in a laptop.

  11. Re:Jeremiah Cornelius: Grow up on Superstorm Sandy Shook the Earth · · Score: 0

    Paul... is that Paul Derbyshire by chance?

    If it is, hello from rec.games.roguelike.angband and alt.geek, fuckhead.

  12. National Geographic on Ask Slashdot: What Magazines Do You Still Read? · · Score: 1

    and my kid gets Highlights. My wife has a few subs that mainly seem to be for toilet reading.

  13. Coming next on Google Fiber To Come To Provo, Utah · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    two virtual Mormons coming to visit your fiber-connected computer.

  14. Re:Video of the actual explosion on Explosions at the Boston Marathon · · Score: 1

    For certain values of "better", anyway.

  15. Re:I thought this was over and done already? on NOAA: Arctic Likely Free Of Summer Ice By 2050 — Possibly Much Sooner · · Score: 2

    Because finding an excuse not to care gives him an excuse to do nothing.

  16. Re:Premature optimization on Ask Slashdot: Building a Web App Scalable To Hundreds of Thousand of Users? · · Score: 1

    That was in 2009. I certainly hope he's not still running Server '03, for starters.

  17. Re:I'm confused... on Iran Plans To Launch an 'Islamic Google Earth' · · Score: 2

    This just in: Australians are bottoms.

  18. Re:slow news day? on No Such Thing As a Tax-Free Lunch At Google? · · Score: 1

    I'd think people should pay their taxes even if I worked for a private entity. I'm no longer a teenage idiot who read Atlas Shrugged and thought "every man for himself" was a good idea.

  19. Re:slow news day? on No Such Thing As a Tax-Free Lunch At Google? · · Score: 1

    Based on your gut, right? :eyeroll:

  20. Re:subsidized? on No Such Thing As a Tax-Free Lunch At Google? · · Score: 1

    I have no idea if the meals are subsidized in the cafeteria. I haven't been in that establishment for years, but IIRC a meal without a meal plan costs $7-$9 depending on time of day, so I suspect not.

  21. Re:Babylon 5 on Interviews: Ask J. Michael Straczynski What You Will · · Score: 1

    The network kept screwing around with them, so the B5 team never knew if the next season would get made until they were well into the current season.

    It was originally intended as 5 seasons, but they thought they'd only get four so they compressed it, and then the network came back with money to make a fifth season so they had to start a new arc with the telepaths.

  22. Re:slow news day? on No Such Thing As a Tax-Free Lunch At Google? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I have the option of eating at my state university's cafeteria, but I get charged for the privilege at least as much as the students do.

  23. Re:I'll remember the pain. on Why Are We Still Talking About LucasArts' Old Adventure Games? · · Score: 2

    Don't get me wrong, that's part of how I got so into computers. Back when I was a kid and had /time/, that kind of stuff was fun, much more fun than my old Apple //c or a Mac. Linux was even more fun than that back when Debian required actual work to get X running, or to get it booting from an add-on IDE controller, and compiling your own kernel was expected.

    I've just got a different value of time now, since I've got a kid of my own.

  24. Re:I'll remember the pain. on Why Are We Still Talking About LucasArts' Old Adventure Games? · · Score: 1

    Maybe, but it's a valid one for an SB Pro. The "T=4" thing indicates its type as being #4, which is the SBP.

    IIRC the PAS16 and most of its competition emulated the SBP in addition to the native interface.

  25. Re:I'll remember the pain. on Why Are We Still Talking About LucasArts' Old Adventure Games? · · Score: 1

    Sound Blaster Pro?