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  1. Re:We have alread seen it. on Facebook Buying Oculus VR For $2 Billion · · Score: 5, Funny

    Being able to shoot the things on Facebook that annoy me, might make it worthwhile. But I will need a bigger gun.
    Say, a BFG-9000.

  2. We have alread seen it. on Facebook Buying Oculus VR For $2 Billion · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Remember the Futurama version of the internet. Lets go for a walk around Facebook in Virtual Reality...
    No thanks.

  3. Re:You know what they call alternative medicine... on Jimmy Wales To 'Holistic Healers': Prove Your Claims the Old-Fashioned Way · · Score: 1

    1) A healthy mix of fresh vegetables (a lot), dairy products (some), and proteins (some meat, fish, eggs)
    2) It tastes good
    3) I really like eating it

    The problems with your plan, (For me at least.) I hate vegetables. They taste terrible to me. The very few Veg that I do like are all high starch, potatoes, corn, etc. Also severely lactose intolerant.
    Honestly a choice between a salad and going hungry, I am going to have to think about it for a while.
    So #1 pretty much eliminates 2 and 3.

    So what mostly works for me is lots of meat, eggs, some fish, as much as I can of what veg I do like, and a multivitamin every day. Along with a heck of a lot of walking. (Over 5 miles a day, average.)

    According to my doctor, I am disgustingly healthy.

  4. Re:The Earl Scheib Institute on Ask Slashdot: Fastest, Cheapest Path To a Bachelor's Degree? · · Score: 1

    I am so glad someone got that. I was wondering if anyone would.
    I have often thought about starting my own online diploma printing company. I think I just came up with a great name for it. :)

  5. The Earl Scheib Institute on Ask Slashdot: Fastest, Cheapest Path To a Bachelor's Degree? · · Score: 3, Funny

    He will sell you any degree for only $149.95
    Cars painted while you study. :)

  6. Re:"Customers" on Ouya Dropping 'Free-to-Play' Requirement · · Score: 1

    Customers?
    Like, all of both of them?

    Who bought the other one? To be honest, I rather like mine.

  7. Re:Would've loved a World War Z tv-show on Interviews: Ask J. Michael Straczynski What You Will · · Score: 1

    I think that they could have done a series of movies. With each movie composed of 2 or 3 of the stories.
    Of course taking all the money, and burning it in a big bonfire for 2 hours would have made a better movie.

  8. Flashback on New Stanford Institute To Target Bad Science · · Score: 1

    Does anyone else remember "The journal of irreproducible results."?
    Anyway it would be a great name.

  9. Oh happy day on Flash Is Dead; Long Live OpenFL! · · Score: 2, Funny

    Die you bastard die!!!
    How can we make sure it doesn't come back from the dead. Zombie Flash.
    Take off and nuke Adobe headquarters from orbit... It's the only way to be sure.

  10. Linux version? on How the NSA Plans To Infect 'Millions' of Computers With Malware · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If not, we could finally be looking at the year of Linux on the desktop. :)
    For me Linux on the desktop came about five years ago.

  11. Do you have a chemist in your club? on Ask Slashdot: College Club Fundraising On the Fly? · · Score: 1

    If so, you might get them to watch the documentary Breaking Bad, for some money making ideas.
    :)

  12. Re:OMG, another season of Trailer Park Boys? on Drones Used To Smuggle Drugs Into Prison · · Score: 1

    I would watch that. :)
    I have heard that there are going to be new seasons of Trailer Park Boys on Netflix. I may have to renew my Netflix subscription.

  13. Re:You keep using that word on Author Says It's Time To Stop Glorifying Hackers · · Score: 1

    Note to the press: "Hackers" doesn't mean what you think is means.

    As much as I hate it. I think it is time to surrender the word hacker to the criminals. That is what it means to most of the populus, and changing that many minds is probably impossible. It is time to come up with a new word to describe those of us who like to experiment, and find alternate uses for things.

    I throw out experimenter, as one possibility... Discuss.

  14. Re:Also time to stop on Author Says It's Time To Stop Glorifying Hackers · · Score: 1

    99.6% pure is an accomplishment. Doesn't matter what it is. :)

  15. Dead to me on Microsoft's Attempt To Convert Users From Windows XP Backfires · · Score: 1

    For me it was a needed reboot that killed it. I had been installing and configuring the system. Only mildly annoyed by the changes, and trying hard to keep an open mind. When I found that a change I had made didn't really seem to be taking effect. So I thought reboot.
    Where the hell is the reboot?
    Can anyone find the reboot command?
    How about a shutdown command?
    What the hell have they done? I can't shutdown or Reboot?
    Google to the rescue.

    Sorry, but if I have to google to figure out how to shut a system down the system is broken beyond repair.
    The machine was for multiple remote users testing on a number of VMs. I could just imagine the hell that awaite me trying to teach endusers to log out cleanly. I ended up putting a logout script on the desktop of every user, and telling them that they would horribly break the system if they didn't use it EVERY SINGLE TIME!!!

  16. Re:lack of attractive upgrade prices on Microsoft's Attempt To Convert Users From Windows XP Backfires · · Score: 1

    If I start to live a "new mobile lifestyle" will I have to leave my basement? :)

  17. Re:Communication? on Broadcom Releases Source For Graphics Stack; Raspberry Pi Sets Bounty For Port · · Score: 1

    Oh, I paid twice as much, and got a Chinese one. It is Red. Problem solved. :)

  18. Re:Communication? on Broadcom Releases Source For Graphics Stack; Raspberry Pi Sets Bounty For Port · · Score: 1

    You deserve the Slashdot most insightful comment of the year award.
    I personally love the Raspberry PI. It is not the greatest computer ever made, but it might be the greatest computer you can buy for $35

  19. Re:Oh NRC... get your crap together on NRC Expects Applications To Operate Reactors Beyond 60 Years · · Score: 1

    I stand corrected.
    Slashdot is my primary new source for nuclear news. I blame /.
    :)

  20. Re:Oh NRC... get your crap together on NRC Expects Applications To Operate Reactors Beyond 60 Years · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The problem is that they don't want to allow any new reactors to be built. Also if the existing reactors are shutdown they all end up out of work.
    The best solution, as far as any employee of the NRC is concerned, is extend the existing reactors life.

    For the record, I am pro Nuclear power.
    But I am also cynical as hell.

  21. Flappy suggestions. on Code.org Resurrects 'Flappy Bird' As Programming Lesson · · Score: 1

    The summary has some pretty good suggestions for new Flappy games.
    I thought we could so with some more ideas though.
    I think an all open source version called Flappy Stallman, would be a good start.
    Also Flappy ears. In honour of my girlfriends dog, who I am sure will one day lift off while shaking its head.

  22. Re:much ado about nothing on Quebec Language Police Target Store Owner's Facebook Page · · Score: -1, Troll

    I am Canadian, and I speak about 20 words of french. (Mostly profanity.)
    I often, when reading these sorts of stories, think to myself, "If the business involved do not want french customers then that is their choice."
    My response to a "request" of this nature would be one word. "NO!"
    Of course I would never be stupid enough to live in Quebec.

  23. Re:http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/ on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Manage Your Passwords? · · Score: 1

    You are correct. In fact the cross platform clients are what first brought me to PasswordSafe.

  24. http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/ on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Manage Your Passwords? · · Score: 2

    PasswordSafe works for me.
    Several passwords I need commonly, are written in my wallet, with nothing to indicate what, or what usernname, or system they are for. There are about 5 passwords written on a sticky note stuck to the back of a seldom used credit card.
    Everything else is in PasswordSafe.

  25. Re:Of course they are. on Are Bankers Paid Too Much? Are Technology CEOs? · · Score: 1

    Like I told one of my clients when I walked into their office, sat down and fixed their problem in under 5 minutes. Then presented them with a bill for $250. They are not paying for me to click a mouse a few times and type for a minute or two. They are paying for the 20+ years experience that tells me where to click, and what to type.

    They are also paying because I had already told them this would happen, and provided them detailed instructions on how to prevent it. If they had done what I told them, I would not have had to come out at all. (I think of it as the "stupidity charge") I didn't mention this part, it doesn't pay to piss off clients too much.