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  1. Re:If he gets his way, yes. on Why Public Email Needs a Police Force · · Score: 1

    And when those idiots click on those links and get infected by a botnet virus they just add to the spam and other crap using up bandwidth on the internet and clogging up your mailbox.

  2. Re:gameplay is what matters on The Brilliance of Dwarf Fortress · · Score: 1

    That's stupid. If the game play is the same why not appeal to the largest market possible? You're just a fanboy.

  3. Re:Dwarf Fortress on The Brilliance of Dwarf Fortress · · Score: 1

    No, they're not. In some menus you use the arrow keys to scroll around and in others you have to use the number pad. There is no consistency and no rhyme or reason.

  4. Re:Comcast isn't a monopoly everywhere on Netflix CEO Hesitant To Fight Cable · · Score: 1

    Your analogy fails because not paying your taxes is like walking into Walmart and trying to walk out with a TV without paying for it. Try that and see how fast they pull guns on you. Right now you are benefiting from what the government does and therefore you have to pay for it. Your taxes pay for police, firefighters, military, education, roads, etc. If you want to live in a country where you don't have to pay for that then you'll have to find some other country. But good luck with that because the only countries like that are all 3rd world shit holes.

  5. Re:I have no mouth, but I must scream.... on Skynet Becomes Aware, Launches Nuclear Attack · · Score: 2

    Ellison claimed that "The Terminator" is based on the Outer Limits episode "Soldier". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldier_(The_Outer_Limits)

  6. Re:How popular could this website have been? on Old Man Murray Wikipedia Controversy Continues · · Score: 1

    That must have been before I discovered slashdot.

  7. Re:Uh, debate is where? on Old Man Murray Wikipedia Controversy Continues · · Score: 1

    The term is sockpuppet not meatpuppet.

  8. How popular could this website have been? on Old Man Murray Wikipedia Controversy Continues · · Score: 1

    I've been playing PC games since 1995 and before that on the Amiga and the Apple II. I have over 200 gaming or gaming related websites in my bookmarks. Some of them very obscure. I have read countless forum posts and articles on these websites. Not once did I ever encounter a mention of Old Man Murray. How significant could this website have been? I suspect that this website was popular among a very small but fanatical group of people who somehow gained influence in the gaming industry.

  9. Re:No. on The Matrix Re-Reloaded · · Score: 1

    I read that book, what a piece of crap. It literally made me angry to read it and I love Heinlein. Pantheistic solipsism is nonsense.

  10. Re:Tough crowd here on Stanford's Authoritative Alternative To Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    A field of study that can produce nonsense like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie deserves negative opinions.

  11. Re:It's always refreshing on Armed Man Takes Hostages At Discovery Channel HQ · · Score: 5, Insightful

    TLC is the freak show network. All these ridiculous shows about dwarves, women with giant legs, women with no lower body, and families with too many kids are stupid.

  12. Re:tl;dr on Buried By The Brigade At Digg · · Score: 1

    Oops .. getalife.com is intended to be a joke. But it's an actual frigg'n insurance co. site .. who'da thunk it

    No it's not. It's a link farm.

  13. Re:Big fucking deal. on Tornado Scientists Butt Heads With Storm Chasers · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Nothing to see here. Move along.

  14. Re:Dr. Dobbs on Modern Day Equivalent of Byte/Compute! Magazine? · · Score: 1

    Why would they? What business in their right mind would ignore 95% of the market to cater to probably less than 1%; I'm guessing you're a linux user.

  15. Re:Keanu on Neuromancer Movie In Your Future? · · Score: 1

    Brad Pitt would have worked in that role.

  16. Re:Well that doesn't mean much on New Malware Overwrites Software Updaters · · Score: 1

    It was called "Ironic" because none of the things described in the song were ironic.

  17. Re:Size? on Planck Mission Releases Images of Galactic Dust · · Score: 1

    Don't you think that cosmologists have thought of this already? Trust me they have. That's why they're cosmologists. The last thing a cosmologist wants to do is make a claim based on sloppy work only to be proven wrong later.

  18. Re:Still no HL2: Episode 3? on Valve Announces Portal 2 · · Score: 1

    What the hell is that crap? Invisible players, players flying everywhere, turning while they're flying. I'm glad they got rid of all that nonsense. The classes are much more balanced now and unique. People don't run around spamming grenades anymore. TF2 is a superior game. The people that complain about getting rid of the "high skill" stuff are the elitists. I play TF2 for fun not to boost my self esteem by proving my superiority over other players.

  19. Re:Many boffins died ... on Lost Nazi Uranium Found In a Dutch Scrapyard · · Score: 1

    They had to test the plutonium bomb because you have to use the implosion method with plutonium because of the fast reaction time of the plutonium chain reaction. With uranium-235 you can use the "gun type" design because the uranium chain reaction is slower. The implosion method is more difficult to achieve than the much simpler "gun type" so they had to test it to fine tune the timing of the events that take place during the triggering process.

  20. Re:Pardon my skepticism on Directed Energy Weapon Downs Mosquitos · · Score: 1

    Go back to geometry class. You only need to know the azimuth and altitude of the mosquitoes location. You don't need to know the distance. The laser beam will hit it if aimed properly.

  21. Re:Modern-Day Galileo on The Science Credibility Bubble · · Score: 1

    Holoscience is a crackpot science site. It promotes the electric universe and Halton Arps crackpot theories.

  22. Re:Epic ... on Musical Tesla Coils Perform Zelda · · Score: 1

    It's not a tuba it's a Sousaphone.

  23. Re:Politics on Scientists Step Down After CRU Hack Fallout · · Score: 3, Informative

    All of Greenland did not melt. The southern coastal areas were relatively ice free during this time and those were the areas that were settled by the Vikings.

  24. Re:"zero fuel"? on Berkeley Engineers Have Some Bad News About Air Cars · · Score: 1

    You're a moron. That's not how Silicon is made. They heat the sand with Carbon in an electric furnace and the molten Silicon is collected at the bottom. Another way to make an even purer form is through molten salt electrolysis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon

  25. Re:humm on 2 Companies Win NASA's Moon-Landing Prize Money · · Score: 1

    But even before SI existed Kilo still meant 10^3. Mega still meant 10^6 and Giga still meant 10^9. They never meant 2^10, 2^20, or 2^30 before being corrupted.

    Yes but KB meant 1024 bytes, MB meant 1024^2 bytes and GB meant 1024^3