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  1. Re:It's a trap! on Lucas Says Ford, Fisher and Hamill May Return For Next Star Wars · · Score: 1

    See: LICD for further explanation.

  2. Re:I am having a vision of the future... on Researchers Create New Cheap, Shatterproof, Plastic Light Bulbs · · Score: 1

    If you lived in Ohio, you could be drinking this now.
    Sadly, I don't live nearby either.

  3. Re:So you like NDAA, SOPA/PIPA and high unemployme on Ask Slashdot: Which Candidates For Geek Issues? · · Score: 1
    Which is why the Commerce Clause obviously applies to this issue and gives Congress the right to intervene.

    Just like everywhere else.

  4. Re:This is not the same test on Are You Better At Math Than a 4th (or 10th) Grader? · · Score: 1

    The answer to which is obvious, even to someone that took geometry nearly 30 years ago, or never, if they're willing to think for a few seconds.
    The question is really: "which statement would explain why we can equate the lengths of the two line segments" - and there's really only one that's likely.

  5. Re:Or you never visualized them in the first place on Are You Better At Math Than a 4th (or 10th) Grader? · · Score: 1

    Bingo. I did the simplification to get 3 * 47, then looked in the ones place for likely results.

  6. Re:I think it's kinda silly on Do Developers Really Need a Second Monitor? · · Score: 1

    My kingdom - such as it is - for mod-points. This is exactly what I'm doing now, and it would be insanely painful to have one monitor with all this crap crammed into it. Also holds true developing and debugging windows applications; code/IDE on one monitor, application on the other; in certain cases, the window flip will cause events to be hit in code you don't want, and the "extra" monitor pays for itself almost instantly in reduced frustration and developer time.

  7. Don't worry on White House To Drop Details of Cyber ID On Tax Day · · Score: 1

    It'll be For The Children. Or to help Thwart Terrorism. But really, it's just to help pay off the MPAA & RIAA, and make the jobs of the vast legions of winged lawyers that much easier.

  8. Re:Infinite harddrive! on Magical Chinese Hard Drive · · Score: 2

    If /dev/random is web scale, then I will use /dev/random

  9. Re:Version check on New Adobe Flash 0-Day · · Score: 1

    Neat. According to that page, I have version 10.2.154.18 installed, which isn't listed in their table. Mind you, I'm running a dev version of Chrome, so who knows what vulnerabilities I'm actually exposed to.

  10. Re:A new low on Apple Patents Remotely Disabling Jailbroken Phones · · Score: 1

    This seems remarkably topical, for some reason

  11. Re:Chromium Browser? on New Sandbox Framework For Chromium Released · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm astounded that you - or anybody else would agree with RIAA's heavy handed tactics. For shame.

  12. Only Nine Hours? on 400 Turns of Civilization V · · Score: 1

    Not to put to fine a point on it, but somebody's doing something wrong. Remains to be seen if it's Civ V or the reviewer.

  13. Re:Big whoop. It's not terribly useful. on Zune HD Twitter App Censors Tweets For You! · · Score: 1

    Nigh-obligatory PA reference, since I couldn't find a relevant one from XKCD: Le Twittre

  14. Re:Copyright on Secret Copyright Treaty Leaks. It's Bad. Very Bad. · · Score: 1

    Nope, they were charging too much to see a copy of the memo, and there was this NDA that I would have had to sign...

  15. A friend of the devil? on Sony To Put Chrome On Laptops · · Score: 1
    Makes you wonder what the full terms of the deal was. Hard to see that you could make any kind of deal with Sony and not have some Evil rub off on you.

    This becomes a nasty little quandary for the ethics department - and it'll be interesting to see what comes of it. The Chrome browser is not only fairly decent (ignoring the current lack of extensions), but evolving at what can only be considered to be an alarming rate, at least if your a competitor.

  16. He's only looking out for the good of the people! on Apple Allegedly Sought Non-Poaching Deal With Palm · · Score: 2, Funny

    Best response thus far: http://www.fakesteve.net/2009/08/likely-illegal-bitch-please.html. Glad he's back, honestly.

  17. Re:Checks on Deposit Checks By iPhone · · Score: 5, Funny

    Probably, considering that I couldn't get my state treasury to issue a single old person. Stupid economy.

  18. Re:Not too worried on Bill Would Declare Your Blog a Weapon · · Score: 1

    If I call you a mealy-mouthed anti-intellectual pompous turd-brained gutter rat with a Terry Schiavo-like IQ and all the sense one would expect from a decayed chunk of dog vomit, you think I should be fined or go to jail?

    No, but I do think that you should work harder on your insults if you really mean them 'to cause substantial emotional distress'.

  19. Re:Wow on Swedish ISP Deletes Customer ID Info · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Case in point: working for money and customer support are not mutually exclusive.
    Watch for people asking where to sign up...

  20. Re:Probable Cause? on College Police Think Using Linux Is Suspicious Behavior · · Score: 1

    No, but having those things mean you have the ability to do things the government doesn't want you to do. The easiest way to prevent crime is to take away everyone's freedom.

    Actually the intent is to make everyone a criminal to further empower those in charge. They don't want to prevent crime, they want everyone to be a criminal waiting to happen.

  21. Re:...What? on What Restrictions Should Student Laptops Have? · · Score: 1
    See the state of Maine for details. There's a laptop program in place, statewide for grades 7 & 8 called MLTE. They're MacBooks - the state got some sort of "deal" with Apple.

    They kids aren't given root access, and the schools maintain an image for restoration in case of things getting ruined. AFAIK, there are browse restrictions at school, but no other filtering software is installed that I know of.

  22. Boost to graphics card sales on Intel X58 To Be First Non-NVIDIA Chipset To Get SLI · · Score: 1

    Opening up a larger market for their bread-n-butter card sales can't hurt. Probably a bigger win for nVidia than trying to continue to cut in on chipset sales. Intel's X38 & X48 chipsets have been major successes, and have probably boosted sales of ATI (er, AMD) boards. Both nVidia and Intel have a vested interest in reducing the market share of AMD...so it's not completely off the wall. Makes you wonder what sort of tradsies are involved. Probably not an x86 license.

  23. Re:The question remains.... on IE8 Beta Released To Public · · Score: 1

    Or for that matter 5.5. The answer - from a webdevs point of view - is practically never, which is really unfortunate.

  24. Re:Pen and Paper on Diebold Admits Ohio Machines May Lose Votes · · Score: 2, Funny

    And the ACLU would have a field day with it, being an effective poll tax. Won't anyone think of the illiterates?