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  1. Re:Thanks, Trump! on CO2 Emissions Rose for the First Time in 4 Years (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Irony: Anonymous Coward calling someone with a 6-digit ID an NPC!!! LOL, you're a real funny guy for a Russian troll!

    I must have missed where the number of digits in your ID means anything other than that was the next number available in the database index when you signed up for an account. Please explain the special status you hold by virtue of this magical "6-digit ID".

  2. Get! Off! My! Lawn!

  3. Sysadmins beware! on Meet Norman, the Psychopathic AI (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    This is how they'll train AI to take over the System Administrator jobs. The time is now to demand that only natural psychopaths be allowed to be SysAdmins!

  4. Re:Slashdot needs to ban some people, I see on Atari Co-Founder Ted Dabney Dies at Age 81 (eurogamer.net) · · Score: 1

    You mourn for a time that never existed. Trolls have always been with us, since before slashdot was slashdot.

  5. Feel like I've lost an old friend that I never actually met.

    Godspeed, Roblimo. May God grant your family peace in the days ahead.

  6. Re:No problem, and thanks on Slashdot Outage Update · · Score: 1

    Nice to see an old-timer around here.

  7. Re:Hmm... on The Manti Te'o of Physics · · Score: 1

    Yeah, those guys with low UIDs are freaks.

  8. Re:A Quake2 sewer64 server on Of the Love of Oldtimers - Dusting Off a Sun Fire V1280 Server · · Score: 1

    I still have one of those E5500's running in production.

  9. Re:It does look half bad on Slashdot Launches Re-Design · · Score: 1

    I have this problem. I'm thinking username length might not be it.

  10. Re:store and release energy? on Going Faster Than the Wind In a Wind-Powered Cart · · Score: 1

    Or better yet, something involving a horse and carriage?

  11. Re:One question on Austria Converts Phone Booths To EV Chargers · · Score: 2, Funny

    A toll booth for the PSTN.

  12. Re:Nope on New Linux Petabyte-Scale Distributed File System · · Score: 1

    Good to see you too, old timer.

  13. Re:Is data integrity really necessary for large da on New Linux Petabyte-Scale Distributed File System · · Score: 1

    Why? Is there something special about those?

  14. Re:I'mma boycotting the boycott. on Arizona "Papers, Please" Law May Hit Tech Workers · · Score: 1

    I think you'd be surprised what business goes on in Arizona.

    Let's just say if you've got the latest intel processor, or an iPod, or if your company just bought a shiny new Sun box (I know, not as likely as last year), there's a good chance it or parts for it were built, programmed, or integrated in a Phoenix suburb.

    Oh yes, and a former San Francisco icon had decided to move it's headquarters to that same suburb a few years ago. Don't know how far along that ever got. I'll give you a hint, stagecoach.

  15. Re:Uh... contradictory? on Arizona "Papers, Please" Law May Hit Tech Workers · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Why let facts get in the way of a sensationalist headline?

  16. Re:Seven years for eight hours work on Novell Wins vs. SCO · · Score: 1

    Well, hello there, Ms. O'Gara. So nice to see you again.

  17. So far on Some Early Adopters Stung By Ubuntu's Karmic Koala · · Score: 1

    So far I've found that flash doesn't seem to work anymore, despite being the latest version. Also, I still have the old "Roll 'em up" pinball game, played fine under Ubuntu 9.04, gets choppy at times under 9.10.

    I was almost convinced that there was a DNS problem, but it just so happens that my ISP decided to start sucking again right after the upgrade.

  18. Great on Apple Discontinues ZFS Project · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now if you're using zfs on Mac OS, you can't complain if it loses your data. You already knew it was forked.

  19. Am I the only one on NSA Whistleblowers Reveal Extent of Eavesdropping · · Score: 2, Informative

    Hasn't anybody read the book "The Puzzle Palace"? This stuff has been going on for a very long time.

    I can remember throwing random mentions of the phrases "nuclear bomb" or "atomic bomb" to add chaff to the system in the late 80's and early 90's when I was in Europe.

    Anyone who doesn't know that all international phone calls are being monitored by any one of several governments automated systems hasn't been paying attention for the last 25+ years.

  20. Re:Branching of the species? on Communities of Mutants Form as DNA Testing Grows · · Score: 1

    So what if there is a genetic "excuse." Most people have problems, and but are able to overcome them to integrate better into society.
    This bullshit gets labeled "insightful"?

    Some people have problems that are simply too severe to ever be "overcome". No one who functions at the level of a 7 year old, even when they are 35, will ever be able to "integrate better into society". And that's without other obvious physical handicaps.

  21. Re:Branching of the species? on Communities of Mutants Form as DNA Testing Grows · · Score: 1

    As a parent, it sounds like Jackson is just another spoiled little brat, and he's acting that way because he has bad parents, not because of any genetic difference.
    It's obvious you know fuck all about autism and how autistics react to their routine being interrupted, yet have no problem laying it all at the feet of the parents. Do yourself a favor, STFU, STFD, and thank $DEITY that your child(ren) fall(s) within the range of "normal". That or just start marking your posts as "troll".
  22. Re:Wow! on Your Worst IT Workshop? · · Score: 2, Funny

    We're still here, just not posting like we used to.

  23. Re:hey, screw you guys! on Top Inventions of 2007 · · Score: 1

    If you were going to go back and finish the teleporter, you would have already completed it, so it's obvious you won't. Slacker.

  24. Don't forget online BBS postings on A Brief History of Slashdot Part 1, Chips & Dips · · Score: 1

    That's where I saw the "ads" for Chips 'n Dips.

    I seem to remember several other people telling you to knock it off, too. They're gone, you're here.

  25. That's what happens on Apple Now Selling Better Than One Laptop In Six · · Score: 2, Informative

    When you make products that suck less.