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  1. Re:Cool on A Detailed Profile of the Hadron Super Collider · · Score: 0, Troll


    Yeah, I heard that Jerry Falwell died today. I guess he wasn't sucking Jesus' cock hard enough.

  2. Cool on A Detailed Profile of the Hadron Super Collider · · Score: 5, Funny


    They are getting ready to see the universe born again.

    It's like having a Tivo with a 6,000 year replay capacity!

  3. Huh? on Hilf Claims Free Software Movement Dead · · Score: 0


    How can that be? I thought 2007 was the year Linux kicks ass on the desktop!

  4. Re:the creationists will not like this on Ancient Star Found, Estimated at 13.2 Billion Years Old · · Score: 1


    Like everybody is born and stays until they are brainwashed by abusive parents

    Heheheh... For a while my sig was something to the effect of "Raising kids to believe in a god is child abuse." That sig got me plenty of Foes. Delusional kooks, every one of them.

  5. Re:Star of Christian Mythology on Ancient Star Found, Estimated at 13.2 Billion Years Old · · Score: 1

    Interesting, I'll have to read up on this. I had always understood that the first authentic mention of JC was some time after his supposed execution.

  6. Re:Star of Christian Mythology on Ancient Star Found, Estimated at 13.2 Billion Years Old · · Score: 1


    What evidence is there that he ever lived? As far as I can tell there isn't one single scrap.

    That's what I thought. The first fairy tales about a son-of-a-superbeing walking the planet only game around decades after he died. Not much different than, say, if someone started a cult of John F. Kennedy. Except that JFK was real.

  7. Re:Star of Christian Mythology on Ancient Star Found, Estimated at 13.2 Billion Years Old · · Score: 1


    I thought the whole Jesus tale started about 40ish years after his purported death. Surely such a threat to Roman society would have volumes of text written about him. You can, though, find tax records for textile merchants and other mundane stuff.

  8. Re:How the hell... on Surprise Arrest For Online Scientology Critic · · Score: 1


    ...can you be arrested for 'threatening a religion' ?!

    Scientology is a money grubbing cult. Just like any other religion.

  9. Are you trying to get us in trouble? on Are Sysadmins Really that Bad? · · Score: 5, Funny


    Are you trying to get us in trouble?! It's a damn good thing I'm a subscriber, I managed to block slashdot in our squid cache and drop it in a dns blackhole just before this story went live.

  10. Re:I left IT on Where to Go After a Lifetime in IT? · · Score: 2, Funny


    For me since I'm already fluent in two languages it was an easy choice to go into interpreting.

    There's still a market for BASIC->Pascal porters?

  11. Re:Bingo. on Where to Go After a Lifetime in IT? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    All my life I've been told that I should try to do something that I enjoy for a living. Most people don't, and their lives are miserable. Who wants to do something they hate for forty hours a week?

    Too fucking true. I love what I do. Getting paid well to do what is basically your hobby is great. Hating your job means you hate half your waking life. That'd suck.

  12. Re:Seems straightforward to me on Warner Brothers Pulls Canadian Previews · · Score: 1

    Eh. Hope my first reply didn't come across as dickish, that wasn't my intent. I was going to google for them anyhow and when I saw your reply that was my motivation having found the term before.

  13. Re:Seems straightforward to me on Warner Brothers Pulls Canadian Previews · · Score: 1


    Sorry to have to tell you that this MPAA conspiracy you were so sure about isn't true. The burn marks are one of those things that for years you don't notice, and then one day you do, and then you always notice them after that. If you only recently started noticing them, that's why.

    Sorry to have to tell you that you're wrong. The dots I was thinking about are called CAP dots. I first saw them myself in a screener of War of the Worlds. The version I saw had the dots right in the middle of the screen as the ground first heaves in the town (as the Martians are coming to the surface), you couldn't miss them.

    (I'm aware of the cue marks, the marks put on the film so the projectionist knows when to switch reels. I switched reels for my school back in the early 80s.)

  14. Re:Seems straightforward to me on Warner Brothers Pulls Canadian Previews · · Score: 1


    They should water-mark the films and identify the offending cinemas.

    They do. You'll notice black dots in a pattern in a lot of movies playing at the theatre. I forget the term but they're different for each copy.

  15. Re:Doom || on What is Your Desert Island Game? · · Score: 1


    I was thinking about Doom but Thief won out. Have you tried the Doomsday/Jdoom versions? Full 3D with lighting and modelling options. Pure awesome.

  16. Thief 2 on What is Your Desert Island Game? · · Score: 1


    Thief 2. If I have a bonus DVDR of fan missions, even better!

  17. Re:depends on Is Virtual Rape a Crime? · · Score: 3, Funny


    If you get tricked into clicking a goatse link, can you sue for ambush and rape?

    If so then I'd be bankrupt and serving a life sentence as a serial offender.

  18. Good character on PC World Editor Resigns When Ordered Not to Criticize Advertisers · · Score: 4, Funny


    That's good, an editor or news outfit should never be swayed by an advertiser. Guess I'll go read Slashdot's Intel Opinion Center now...

  19. Re:There's no way it's 300 million years old on World's Largest Fossil Forest, and One of the Oldest · · Score: 1

    Interesting++ !

  20. Re:Speculating already! on World's Largest Fossil Forest, and One of the Oldest · · Score: 1

    Damn well said. Unfortunately the "million idiots" tend to breed faster than rational people so the going gets tougher for reason.

  21. He'll be back. on Jack Valenti, Dead at 85 · · Score: 1


    Jack's coffin will have some soil from his native Transylvania in it.

  22. Re:ch0wned! on Laptops And Flat Panels Now Vulnerable to Van Eck Methods · · Score: 1

    Ohhh... good thinking!
    The MPAA will be at your door in minutes, nice knowing you.

  23. Re:In the minds of the consumer on S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Team Not Art Thieves · · Score: 3, Funny


    just as unoriginal aesthetically as the other major players.

    Nah, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.'s dark brown halls look much nicer than DOOM 3's dark brown halls.

  24. Great for the gene pool on CS Programs Changing to Attract Women Students · · Score: 4, Funny



    1) Geek woman get CS degrees & jobs.
    2) Geek woman meets geek man.
    3) ???
    4) Aspergers!!!

  25. Re:On a related but different note... on New Motherboards Disallowing IDE Booting? · · Score: 1

    I'm still grumpy about disappearing serial ports on new laptops. USB-serial adapters are a bandaid.