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  1. Re:Strange Descriptions... on Kinect's AI Breakthrough Explained · · Score: 0

    Don't worry, I did! :D

    Wait...

  2. Galaxy Player on Ask Slashdot: Data-Only Android For Development? · · Score: 1

    What about the Galaxy Player?

    It's pretty much a Galaxy S without the phone guts. Sadly, it hasn't come out yet, and it will come out with FroYo (although they have stated that, just as the Galaxy S, it will get Gingerbread).

  3. Re:The Duke ain't PC on Duke Nukem Forever Multiplayer Mode Predictably Controversial · · Score: 1

    Are you telling me that a game about Alien Police Pigs and a guy in a tight shirt shooting freezing or shrinkin' rays isn't a documentary!?

  4. Re:How cheap is cheap enough? on Cutting Prices Is the Only Way To Stop Piracy · · Score: 2

    Is a song worth a dollar?

  5. Re:Almost anytime they... on Ask Slashdot: Worst Computer Scene In TV or Movies? · · Score: 1

    They are using IPv5!

  6. The Recruit on Ask Slashdot: Worst Computer Scene In TV or Movies? · · Score: 1

    The Recruit had a computer virus capable of spreading through the fucking electrical outlets.

  7. Re:Teletype Displays on Ask Slashdot: Worst Computer Scene In TV or Movies? · · Score: 1

    And how would you represent the internal processing of a robot as an engineer?

    It's perfectly plausible that what you were seeing was the equivalent to a tail -f /dev/log.

    I know that when I was playing with face recognition I would overlay relevant debug text over the live feed of the camera to help me easily see when I fucked up something.

  8. Re:"Doom creator"? on Doom Creator Says Direct3D Is Now Better Than OpenGL · · Score: 2

    That's the Other John, Romero. Carmack is the great one.

  9. Re:I was talking to a friend in my CCNA class on Are We Too Reliant On GPS? · · Score: 1

    Thus ruining space for everyone and making me finally realize humans in general are worthless shitheads.

    You are going to wait for full out world war for that? I passed my threshold quite some time ago.

  10. Re:New business model on What Would You Do With Open.org? · · Score: 1

    Sorry for the delay, I was having lunch.

  11. 10 years on Stuxnet's Legacy: Get Back to Basics or Get Owned · · Score: 1

    protecting against the same threats that they've faced for the last 10 years. SQL injection, phishing, malicious attachments, social engineering.

    10 years? Those attacks have existed for as long as those technologies have existed.

    See

    (Google won't go further than the '90s, but you get my drift.)

  12. Re:FlightGear on Trying To Lure Suckers, Company Resells Open Source Blender · · Score: 1

    Damn! It isn't identical treatment, it's the same treatment!

    Look!:

    Availability:

    The site is provided on an “as is” basis. At times, this website may not be available or may be affected by faults or maintenance, or by conditions outside our control. No warranty is given about the quality, functionality, availability or performance of this website or any content on this website. To the fullest extent permitted by law, all warranties, terms and conditions implied by law in relation to the performance of this website or otherwise are hereby excluded. FlightProSim reserves the right to modify or withdraw content of this website at any time.

    You must not damage, interfere with or disrupt access to this website or its content, nor do anything that may impair its functionality or interfere with another person's access to or use of this website or its content. You must not use this website or content in any way that is unlawful or damaging to FlightProSim or any other person.

  13. "Too Early" on Android Honeycomb Born Too Early · · Score: 2

    Too early? If anything the summary gives you the idea that it came too late. But I digress.

    Only time will tell if Android 3.0 is any good, but as long as nothing extremely unlikely happens, Android isn't going anywhere: it has a sizable market presence and some of us even like it. As long as I can add my home-made apps to my handsets/tablets, I'll keep using Android. It can only get better.

  14. Re:Dead people have publicity rights??? on Tolkien Estate Says No Historical Fiction For JRR · · Score: 2
  15. Re:And this will stop what? on Kids Who Skip School Get Tracked By GPS · · Score: 1

    Students get fine and/or jail time for skipping class in the USA!?

  16. From the video in TFA on Teacher Suspended Over Blog About Students · · Score: 1

    That teacher is being accused of posting the kind of things no student likes to hear about themselves.

    Since when that should be a fireable offense?

    “I think she should be fired. Hopefully that is what will happen,” said parent Wendy Yazujian.

    I think she should be able to say whatever she wants to as long as she doesn't fall into libel. Sadly, that is beyond a lot of people.

  17. Re:What's taking them so long? on Ballmer Turns To Geeks For Salvation · · Score: 2

    Of course, registering a .com is highly regarded as evil nowadays.

    I mean, who uses ActiveX anymore?

  18. Re:Here. on Hotmail Launches Accounts You Can Throw Away · · Score: 2

    Just to let people looking into this, it's Google Apps. I'd recommend you have a registered domain before you begin.

  19. Re:Net kill switch on Egyptians Turn To Tor To Organize Dissent Online · · Score: 2

    The legislation lays out penalties for failure to comply with such orders.

    Does it lay out penalties for misuse of such powers?

  20. Re:No on Are Gamers Safer Drivers? · · Score: 1

    And isn't that a problem with the public transport available to you then? I travel 20 km each day all in subway or bus. I get from one point to the other in one hell of a big city in about an hour.

    You would rather people be left without options than allow your idealism to be dented. This is the same radical behavior used by left and right purists who can't get shit done because they don't comprimise. I suggest you step back and look at your ideas from a birds eye view and evaluate it more logically.

    This isn't a matter of idealism. I don't see what is so radical of thinking that public transportation should be efficient and cheap enough for one to be able to move across a city without the need of a car. If people that have problem driving are pretty much stranded, then there is an problem that isn't solved by throwing cars at it.

  21. Re:No on Are Gamers Safer Drivers? · · Score: 1

    Another point is out-of-shape or old people: I know some older people here who have switched from manuals solely due to the soreness in their leg from driving in that same traffic.

    May be that's a sign that they shouldn't be driving?

    I'd rather other drivers not be focused on the pain in their leg and be more focused on the road. No, telling them to get in shape is not an acceptable option: two of these people were in major accidents that weren't their fault, and have medical reasons they can no longer maintain strong muscles.

    I've never understood the American insistence of driving everywhere, even within cities where you do have other ways of transportation that require no mental nor physical involvement to use, leaving both your hands and mind free to do as you please with that time.

  22. Lost on Mail Service Costs Netflix 20x More Than Streaming · · Score: 1

    I'm now 450 hours behind on viewing and I haven't even added Lost yet.

    Do yourself a favor and don't. If you do, assume that it got cancelled midway through. You'll enjoy it much more.

  23. Re:I realize this will harm my "Karma". on Wikileaks To Name Swiss Bank Tax Evaders · · Score: 1

    After a lot of thought, I actually reached the opposite conclusion as you. One of the core objections leading to the U.S. Revolutionary war was "No taxation without representation." That's a principle I think most people would still agree makes sense. And since I believe corporations should have no influence on government, I can't simultaneously justify to myself wanting to tax them.

    I just had a thought. How about turning the "no taxation without representation" thing around and having "no representation without taxation"?

    Wouldn't that turn into "no representation without money"?

    Wait, what would be the difference with what we have now?

  24. Re:Now it's a mandatory 2 handed device? on Apple May Remove the Home Button On the Next IPad · · Score: 1

    One to hold the device, another to interact with it using all your fingers.

    I regularly use my Galaxy S using only my thumb.

  25. Re:Batman: Arkham Asylum on Evolution of the Batmobile · · Score: 1

    I'm an idiot, it's right there separated from the rest in its own box.