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  1. Re:Good Read on Bill Gates Answers Questions From Redditors · · Score: 1

    It's interesting that your first argument is about ethical behavior, and your second argument is about determining who is and is not fit to live.

  2. Re:Handwriting on Bill Gates Answers Questions From Redditors · · Score: 1

    Last time I was in an Apple Store, buying an iPhone, my purchase was completed on a Windows CE device.

  3. Re:Problem? on Fox News: US Solar Energy Investment Less Than Germany Because US Has Less Sun · · Score: 5, Funny

    Comedy Central: Best news channel that isn't a news channel.

    Fox News: Best comedy channel that isn't a comedy channel.

  4. Re:GW can suck it on Games Workshop Bullies Author Over Use of the Words 'Space Marine' · · Score: 1

    They'd be 'Space Recruits.' The real question is, if some civilization didn't have a maritime navy tradition, but developed space troops, then invaded, say, Earth, and needed to use those troops in amphibious assaults, would they be 'Marine Spaces?'

  5. Argh! Fluff piece! on Life After MS-DOS: FreeDOS Keeps On Kicking · · Score: 0

    Great, development is ongoing. What, exactly? What sort of interesting things have happened in the development? What sort of 'bugs that have become features' had to be included?

  6. Re:What I liked about BB on RIM Unveils BlackBerry 10, Its Big Turnaround Hope · · Score: 2

    As long as the battery lasts through the day, I have no problem plugging it in overnight.

    Hell, you might as well just go back to the Palm Vx, which could go a month of constant daily use between charges. Or the Palm IIIs and what not, which just took AA batteries.

  7. Re:McDonald's doesn't on 64GB MS Surface Pro Only Has 23GB of Free Space · · Score: 1

    Quarter Pounder (*pre-cooked weight)

  8. Re:Giving up so quickly? on Alan Cox: Fedora 18 "The Worst Red Hat Distro," Switches To Ubuntu · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dear Alan: Thank you for your comments. You are free to download the source, make any fixes you deem appropriate, and send us back the patches.

    What, isn't that the Linux Way?

  9. Re:You are already on the metric system on Petition For Metric In US Halfway To Requiring Response From the White House · · Score: 1

    Let alone that any US manufacturer that deals in any way with a non-US company, is working in metric.

  10. Re:ComplainersThe world is passing you by... on Valve Reveals First Month of Steam Linux Gains · · Score: 1

    Given that Linux is built around DRM, it's surprising how many Linux users howl about it.

  11. Re:Criticism should be handled delicately... on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Explain To a Coworker That He Writes Bad Code? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Actually, that might not be a bad idea. Submit some non-critical or non-copyright code to such a contest, and hand him the award/accolade.

  12. Re:B.A.T. Agent on Notch Expands On 0x10c, Microsoft and Quantum Computing · · Score: 1

    Origin had a game called Omega, for the C64 amoung other platforms, to put it in historical perspective.

    You built, then programmed, a cybertank. Basic procedural language with subroutines, conditionals, loops, and inputs from the tanks' devices.

    Mindrover was similar, kinda, but used a visual metaphor of dragging lines from inputs to outputs. Not as cool.

  13. Re:NES 8 bit obviously on Ask Slashdot: Best Console For the Kids This Holiday? · · Score: 1

    Screw that. Require them to beat Impossible Mission. On a C64. Don't tell them about the bug that can render the game unwinnable.

  14. Re:Dubious claims in summary and TFA on New WiFi Protocol Boosts Congested Wireless Network Throughput By 700% · · Score: 1

    Or better yet, just switch to a TDMA polling system. Clients talk when they're allowed to talk. Done.

  15. First of breed? on RIM Offering Free Voice Calling In Attempt to Remain Competitive · · Score: 3, Funny

    It also can be counted as an advantage for RIMâ(TM)s platform over Android and iOS, at least until RIMâ(TM)s rivals begin to roll out similar solutions."

    Well, if you want free wifi voice calling from iPhone to iPhone, start FaceTime, and put your thumb over the camera.

  16. Re:Standards are unnecessary on IEEE Standards For Voting Machines · · Score: 1

    Well, you just hit on the answer. E-voting, which prints out your ballot. You look at the ballot, confirm everything is copacetic, and drop it in a motherfucking ballot box.

    The e-vote gives you your quick results, and hand-count gives you the final count a day or two later.

  17. Re:Perhaps the number one reason on Apple Delays Simpler and Cleaner iTunes 'to Get It Right' · · Score: 1

    I dislike the fact that flat out tells me that video files 'are too big to play on your PC' when I can right-click, 'show in windows explorer,' and play the file with, say, WMP, no problem.

  18. Well, is there any way that you could honestly mean to use the word in a non-insulting manner? That's kind of like saying 'Yes, I pointed the gun and fired it at him, but I didn't mean for him to get shot!' It's one thing to say 'you're fat' as an observation or factual statement, quite another to use a word with 100+ years of history and meaning.

  19. Think of it as mens rea. If a statement is intended to be insulting, it's insulting, even if the person being insulted doesn't realize it. If a statement is not intended to be insulting, does it matter if the person being described finds it insulting? There's a difference between 'that's an insult' and 'I'm insulted.'

  20. Jason! on Would You Put a Tracking Device On Your Child? · · Score: 1

    Would have ruined the entire plot of Heavy Rain, though.

  21. Re:In other news on Microsoft Urges Businesses To Get Off XP · · Score: 1

    By that logic, you have to go back to at least windows 1, if not even dos.

  22. Re:In other news on Microsoft Urges Businesses To Get Off XP · · Score: 1

    What does not upgrading a 5 year old OS have to do with running a 10 year old one?

    Red Hat Linux didn't even exist when XP was released. Now they're on version 6. Obviously, one is intended to upgrade.

  23. In other news on Microsoft Urges Businesses To Get Off XP · · Score: 2

    In other news, nobody here is running Red Hat 9, either.

  24. Re:A very MS centric blog indeed... on Surface RT vs. iPad: a Comparison · · Score: 1

    Antialiasing fonts, and 'the iPad screen is SO DAMN SHINY you can't even see the pixelz through the HORRIBLE GLARE it's so EPIC FAIL LULZ'.

  25. Re:Business doesn’t necessarily create jobs on US Presidential Debate #2 Tonight: Discuss Here · · Score: 1

    Demand creates a need that companies will then fill. Companies 'creating jobs' creates a surplus that consumers will not necessarily feel the need to take up.