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  1. Respawn times are too looong! on The Military Plans To Regrow Body Parts · · Score: 1

    I was killed Monday and didn't make it back to the field till Wednesday. Respawn times are boring.

    I request this glaring bug to be corrected by next patch.

  2. Re:What's next? on The Military Plans To Regrow Body Parts · · Score: 1

    Adamantium skeletons? Let's hope it's not a belt with gadgets and a bat shaped boomerang.

  3. Re:In the future battlefield... on The Military Plans To Regrow Body Parts · · Score: 1

    If you strike me down, I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine! But you'll also have much bigger breasts. Die!
  4. Re:Sociological breakthrough! on Some 12% of Consumers 'Borrow' Unsecured Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Even when it comes to non-free things. All those MP3s on the P2P networks were originally ripped from CDs that were purchased for cash. All the items at a charity food pantry were bought with real money. Cash goes into the church collection plates and Salvation Army buckets. Buying an object with money doesn't make sharing it non-free. I may buy a cd because I like it, and then share it because it's free for me to do so.

    I may buy pants, because the judge told me so, and then give to charity later, if I would throw them away otherwise (if they have 0 value for me for any reason).
  5. Sociological breakthrough! on Some 12% of Consumers 'Borrow' Unsecured Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    People actually share free things.

    Collectively we're quite evil, but when it comes to free things, we can make the superhuman effort of sharing them.

    However, this usually only works when it takes more effort to avoid sharing them.

    Check for your natural sharing instincts in this situations:

    You have to take out the garbage. You'd rather:

    A. Take the garbage out yourself.
    B. Share the garbage with the neighbor.
    C. Pull out your own eyeballs with a rusty wooden sock.

    You have to set up your network. You'd rather:

    A. Configure it securely with a complex password you'll have to remember.
    B. Not give a shit. At all. Not even to understand what a network is.
    C. Cowboy Neal.

  6. Re:How 'bout some quid pro quo on Senator Proposes to Monitor All P2P Traffic for Illegal Files · · Score: 1

    I propose we monitor all government communication for evidence of corruption. "Ok, but you can only read those with "kiddie porn" in the title." ...

    "No! Wait!"
  7. Re:Solution on Software to Randomize Police Operations at LAX · · Score: 1

    "Ok, Bob and Jane, today you'll be looking for terrorists on *rattle, rattle* ... 15 ... hmm ... GEHENNA!"

  8. Re:The answer to this and most other decisions. on For CS Majors, How Important Is the "Where?" · · Score: 1

    However, in my country, right now, there's no chance of not finding a nice job with any kind of CS higher education. Even if you use double negatives? Maybe you should have gone to a liberal arts school... Is the original sentence correct?

    As far as I know, the "double negatives" mistake applies only when removing both doesn't change the meaning. In this case: "There's a chance of finding a nice job" changes the meaning.

    English is not my first language but I'd like a second opinion anyway.
  9. Re:The answer to this and most other decisions. on For CS Majors, How Important Is the "Where?" · · Score: 1

    Spain.

  10. The answer to this and most other decisions. on For CS Majors, How Important Is the "Where?" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'd choose the college with the most beautiful women.

    However, in my country, right now, there's no chance of not finding a nice job with any kind of CS higher education.

    Also, take into account the importance of your choice of college will fade after some years. At 45, your rank (?) won't really depend on your college but on your skill and abilities.

  11. OpenSourceTerroristMan and his sidekick... on Iron Man's New Villain — an Open Source Terrorist · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sharerman!

    He will share global economy to it's knees!

    His nefarious plan of... sharing stuff, has to be stopped!

  12. Why particle systems? on Nvidia Physics Engine Almost Complete · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They should test physics systems with spheres on irregular ground, with uneven μ (coefficient of kinetic friction), and changing wind.

    Those are the kind of problems that force programmers to use approximations when using a physics engine.

    The next step is really abstracting the physics from the development, not having pretty water.

  13. Re:Predict the prediction. on Brain Study Calls Free Will Into Question · · Score: 1

    Then how the heck do I make split-second decisions when playing a FPS, reacting to the unknown factors like enemy movements? You've subconsciously learned the way people move in FPSs.

    In every situation the possibilities seem infinite, but only one is optimal. The better a player is, the more often he'll choose that optimal path.

    That's why between two very skilled players, the results are consistent (the less skilled loses every time they encounter) but between a skilled player and an unskilled one, they are more random.

    The unskilled player surprises the skilled one by constantly choosing unoptimal paths; those actions usually end up costing him a loss, but, sometimes, the weirdness of his movements gets him a kill.

  14. Re:3D or Stereo? on Pixar to Release All New Movies in 3D · · Score: 1

    For me it can only be 3D if you can walk around the projection and see other sides as if it was a solid object. I see. Where do you want your copy of Beowulf + glasses, sent?
  15. Re:Slashdotters Locate Article Very Similar to Thi on Astronomers Locate Solar System Very Similar To Our Own · · Score: 1

    Wasn't that the tripe joke that was already duped in two tripes?

    Does this turn it from dupe tripe joke to tripe tripe joke?

    (My head hurts)

  16. Tracking and identifying a piece of data. on EU Recommends Slashing Search Data Retention · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How much do you have to process the data so it stops counting for data protection issues?

    In six months you can intermingle the data items so much there's no way of proving you're actually storing the data and you'd still have what you need of that data.

    How does law track the identity line of a data item? Data has no memory and leaves no trace.

  17. Re:How does it get in? Duh! on New Botnet Dwarfs Storm · · Score: 1

    I find it hard to believe it got that many machines by having users click "olsontwinsnude.jpg.exe". I try not to believe many things, but as I grow older and know more people it's becoming harder.
    Oh, the happy days when I believed I was finding many times my share of stupid people.
  18. Re:Don't buy into this... on ARIA Sells a Licence for DJs to Format Shift Music · · Score: 1

    You missed out John Peel. How could you? John Peel is not enough.
  19. Australian DJs are funding terrorism! on ARIA Sells a Licence for DJs to Format Shift Music · · Score: 0, Troll

    Australia has to be invaded before they release all they terrorist, pirate, and probably also ninja DJs to kill us all.

  20. Re:Not a secret message. on Blocking Steganosonic Data In Phone Calls · · Score: 1

    The butterfly flaps its wings twice. Oh dear God no! Quick, everybody to the shelter. Micky, take the tinfoil, Becky, the red ink. John, the condenser and the racket.

    Just hope we're not too late.
  21. Re:Two? on Two Totally Unique Star Systems Discovered · · Score: 1

    So if I find, lets say, a neon blue apple and an apple with a cube shape.. Did I not find two unique apples? But not totally unique. They aren't unique in appleness, only in shape or color.

    Those are a clear example of partially unique, or quite unique, apples.

  22. Re:Two? on Two Totally Unique Star Systems Discovered · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've always wondered about the English expression "quite unique".

    It seems for English speakers, uniqueness is not binary.

    I suppose two instances of double rotating stars make them "somewhat unique in a certain way". Uniqueish, even.

  23. Aren't those configurations expected? on Two Totally Unique Star Systems Discovered · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I mean, it's not so hard to imagine two stars circling one another. Don't they study how would that work without waiting to find an instance?

    Actually, I supposed astrophysicist first studied the effects of an unobserved configuration and from the results they described what data to expect from such a configuration. Actually finding it was the last step, in my supposition created world.

    The article, however, seems to describe the discovery as quite a surprise.

  24. Re:Clandestine? on Clandestine Operations at Google · · Score: 5, Funny

    I agree. Is IKEA evil if they provide the NSA with desks? It depends, do they provide special waterboarding boards?
  25. Major breakthrough for Business Software on Ray Tracing To Debut in DirectX 11 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Raytracing allows the implementation of mirrors in 3d environments.

    Finally all business software will have the feature of showing the cause of most problems. (See also "Error Id: 10T" and PEBKAC)