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  1. Finally, a site to play proper LARP on Hobbit Hole + World Class Fallout Shelter · · Score: 1

    Mmmm, Fallout LARP...
    (And *no*, I *don't* think hitting (or shooting) each other necessarily has anything to do with LARP).

  2. Re:Nah... on Weta Digital Supercomputer For Hire · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah, let's start making jokes that are about things we can *all* agree on are funny.

    No point in dragging down a person who has proclaimed himself to be the most devout Christian since the Apostles.

  3. Good on Weta Digital Supercomputer For Hire · · Score: 1

    I thought I was going mad, and that stuff just appeared in my head.

  4. So what's phase two? on Apple iPod with Video and WiFi Capabilities? · · Score: 1

    [Silence]
    Gnome 1: Hey, what's phase two?!
    Gnome 2: Phase one we collect underpants.
    Gnome 1: Ya, ya, ya. But what about phase two?
    [Silence]
    Gnome 2: Well phase three is profit. Get it?

  5. Re:The links are endless on HP To Start Selling Its iPod · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Tyr browsing the /. clonesites front page, and marvel at the ingenious torture of the English language...

  6. ... funniest... post... yet... on Making Stuff Out Of Broken Computer Equipment? · · Score: 1

    ... heee... heeee... *cough* *cough*...

    can't... heeee... breathe... heee... heee...

  7. Not true on Making Stuff Out Of Broken Computer Equipment? · · Score: 0

    I'm God's appointed representative on Earth, and I know for a fact that there is no way that we would ever see a genuine post on Slashdot from God.

    You, sir, are grand-delusional.

  8. But why pay for the service? on Get Rid of Internet Explorer - Browse Happy! · · Score: 1

    All the revenue from the banners and the paying users can't be for server costs alone - someone is making money off of this, and the customers are complaining.

  9. Re:Replace the Windows key? on Cherry Announces Linux keyboard · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Don't be surprised if keyboard manufactorers have to pay a small fee per shipped unit with the windows key... ... which means, that buying a keyboard with a windows-key is just another way of supporting MS.

    Petty? Yeah. But Microsoft can be real bastards.

  10. Re:Photocopying Textbooks? on Information Preservation and Data Havens? · · Score: 1

    Step 0: Ask if any of your clasmates will pay for copies

    Step 1-3: ...

    Step 4: Profit!

  11. Re:This isn't counter strike 2, just CS: Source on A Look at the CounterStrike Source Beta · · Score: 1

    An update which is free for people who bought the CZ-addon to CS.
    Apart from that, what do you mean, 'allow'? How hard is it to set up your own server?

  12. MD-recorder on Note Taking Devices for Students? · · Score: 1

    A friend of mine recorded his psychology-lessons on MD for future reference. Had a whole library of lectures.

  13. After having tried both palm and laptop on Note Taking Devices for Students? · · Score: 1

    I'd agree with parent.
    It's a lot easier to take notes on a laptop, especially since it is easier to structure the notes in a word processor than in, say, Palm Vx-notepad. Get on of those with a full-sized keyboard if she needs to take notes involving many numbers. ... Though, that would usually bust the economical frame you mentioned.

    In general, it's nice to have a laptop. If she buys a used laptop and a laptop-specific webcam, she can even take pictures to add to her notes, in case there's illustrations she needs (mind the quality of the picture, though, it's often quite illegible if there's any writing on a blackboard more than 3 metres away)

  14. The sun is shining, on AM Radio Waves May Be Harmful? · · Score: 1

    the birds are singing, and it's GREAT weather today... And I'm sweating like a warthog.

    Actually, the name of my motherland has to do with the history of my fatherland... ^_^
    (Well, Scandinavia, anyway)
    Back in the time of the Sagas, a person name Erik das Rote (nm the casus), an icelandic castout sought North for a place to live free (he couldn't go back to Scandinavia, because he was the son of another outcast)... And at the time of the Vikings, the weather was very mild (on the Northern hemisphere, anyway), and he came in the summer time. I've been there a dozen times in the summer, and it is, indeed, very green...

  15. Re:Taxes at work on AM Radio Waves May Be Harmful? · · Score: 1

    I don't know anything about the preserved vegetation on Greenland, but my guess would be that it easily could have been preserved from aeons ago, where Grrenland was nowhere near it's current geographical placement.
    The worrying thing about retreating poles is that the rate of which it has been happening; it has accelerated steadily since the onslaught of the Industrial Age.
    - As for the growth of the antarctic ice, I must again admit ignorance.

    How did you know I was german?
    I dont know whether it was the Nena CD in the background or your tiny moustache and fervent body language, but it does not need five years of german lessons to decipher 'the wolf'...
    -And statistics were on my side, as the other german-speaking countries are marginal in size as compared to the Mutterland... ^_^

  16. Re:Taxes at work on AM Radio Waves May Be Harmful? · · Score: 1

    Of course I know that the whole truth of the matter has not been uncovered, but when you use statements like " you can not stop the gulf stream unless you stop earth from rotating.", I have to fight fire with fire.

    What I *do* know, is that the pollution of the northern hemisphere slowly wanders north, contaminating the ecosystem surrounding my family in Greenland, giving them cancer. What I *do* know, is that the ice off the east coast of Greenland is melting at an alarming rate. What I *do* know, is that the Gulf Stream is slowing down, both as a consequence of but also as a cause to the melting of the ice. What I *do* know, is that the weather of Western Europe is reliant on the Gulf Stream.
    I also suspect you didn't read any of my linked articles, and that you're from Germany.
    I am from Denmark, btw.

  17. Taxes at work on AM Radio Waves May Be Harmful? · · Score: 1

    Well, my tax kroner at work is giving me an education that helps me understand how the world works.

  18. And Lavasoft actually *does* quantify on The Spyware Inferno · · Score: 1

    all the evil spyware, which in part is what the article called out for.
    I'm surprised that no language nazis have complained over the /. summary yet, though.

  19. Re:So... on The Spyware Inferno · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm guessing the Malebølge.

  20. Re:Cliche on The Spyware Inferno · · Score: 1

    ...to idiots who will go out of business in half a year... making room for another new wave of idiots...

  21. Re:Incomplete testing on AM Radio Waves May Be Harmful? · · Score: 1

    Temperature rise -> Ice melting back home (Greenland) and on the poles -> Disruption of the salt balance in the Gulf Stream -> Gulf Stream dies -> Ice age.
    Whatwhat with the kettle and the junkscientists?

  22. Re:So.... on Pay To Have Your Phone Tapped · · Score: 1

    Look at the two hundred other posts that have similar content. Duh.

  23. I'll take it, on Pay To Have Your Phone Tapped · · Score: 1

    and if you pay a 2$ daily surcharge, I'll even wear boots

  24. Hvad er nu det? on AMD and Intel Update CPU Roadmaps · · Score: 1

    Det lyder sørme som et mindreværdskompleks! ..
    Altså, bare fordi vi sad på magten i Skandinavien i et halvt årtusinde betyder det altså ikke at I er mindre værd. Øhm. Nej.
    Det er der MASSER af andre årsager til!

    Med det værende sagt så ser jeres lunarspam mere indbydende ud end vores...

  25. Re:That's just other types of repression on Inside Al-Qaeda's Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    When you've lived your whole life repressed, there's a lot of things that you want to get out. Apart from that, the life of most commoners didn't change much during the revolution years, which is why it kept flaming up...

    As for the greeks, they did have a golden era of philosophy (guess who's been playing too much Civ...), I grant that I had a very specific intellectual in mind, and after checking up on timelines and whatnot, I've found out that my statement was wrong, or at least that I can't prove it.

    Too bad I can't remember all the stuff my history teacher tried to cram into my head about ancient history. Then again, he focused mainly on the Romans.