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  1. Re:Units on Larry Ellison Buys His Own Hawaiian Island · · Score: 1

    I beleive that the scientific unit for area is football field.

    American or European?

  2. Re:Their secret to making the balloon fly higher on Company Wants You to Visit Near-Space In Their "Bloon" · · Score: 1

    Not anymore, he had gastric bypass

  3. Re:Or, well, you know? on Netflix Subscriber Base Eclipses Comcast's · · Score: 1

    Offline is a thing of the past.

    Tell Playstation 3 users that...

  4. Re:HP - Dell? on New MacBook Pro Teardown Reveals 'Shoddy Assembly' · · Score: 1

    One way to combat this is to have the QC label on the outside with assembler's initials. "Let's see here, CHS, eww, no thank you. I only buy products of this brand that are assembled by TML, SRS, or MRB."

    Thats all good, then they will just hire all the people with the same surname of Li, there are roughly 100 million of them in the world.

  5. Re:Sounds like moving to a third party OS was smar on Nokia and Open Source — a Trial By Fire · · Score: 1

    4) Buy Palm and use WebOS as base.

    Make that three options, HP purchased Palm almost a year ago

  6. Re:History on Slashdot Launches Re-Design · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is /., so you will see yesterday's new... next Friday.

  7. Easy win with any non English questions on Jeopardy-Playing Supercomputer Beats Humans · · Score: 1
    From the article

    "it doesn’t understand foreign languages yet"

    "Ferrucci is keeping his cards close to the vest before the big match, refusing to reveal too much about his prize quiz-fighter, like which categories might be his weakest"

    Cue the following categories for Double Jeopardy; Middle English, French, Latin, etc

  8. Re:Math error plus translation problem on 2012 Mayan Calendar 'Doomsday' Date Might Be Wrong · · Score: 1

    Close, it is actually the relese date of Duke Nukem Forever.

  9. Re:Can be nice on IT's Last Hope — a Job In the Boonies? · · Score: 1

    Wow that got under your skin. You made it through most of the list of likely insults.

  10. Re:Can be nice on IT's Last Hope — a Job In the Boonies? · · Score: -1, Troll

    we have actual seasons

    Never saw that as an advantage. Everyone I know from "season" country has winter horror stories. My sister lived in a Chicago suburb for a few years, and has pins in her leg as a souvenir.

    What does the fact that your sister is dumb have to do with Midwest winters.

  11. Re:They might want to review basic security on Indian Military Organization To Develop Its Own OS · · Score: 1

    If it is anywhere near some of the code I have seen from some India based developers, no one will ever be able to figure that shit out.

  12. But 1/3 of the Corcoado photo is water, so what is the difference?

  13. Re:Nice robot... on Lego Robot Plays Tetris · · Score: 1

    ... thou it deserves a way better tetris algorithm. The current one fails a lot, specially for level 1.

    That is what I thought as well watching the video, why put the straight in a line on top of another. Also, it seems pretty slow to move things around, is this why he is showing it on level 1? Does it not move fast enough for later levels?

  14. Re:Mirror.... on Details Emerge On EU-Only "Browser Choice" Screen For Windows · · Score: 1

    I liked this from the register article
    Still, it's interesting to note that in Microsoft's posting, Explorer has been discretely pushed to almost the end of the list.
    Please, here is the code they used to get IE in that place

  15. Re:Well, that explains a lot on EA Spends 3x More On Marketing Than Development · · Score: 1

    MLB The Show is a Sony game. I don't think EA has an MLB licensed game anymore.

  16. Re:2K football? on EA Spends 3x More On Marketing Than Development · · Score: 4, Informative

    2K doesn't have a soccer game, but Konami does. Pro Evolution Soccer was considered the best soccer game for quite some time. Fifa 09 gave EA the upper hand once again and the competition has forced both of the companies to put a fair amount of innovation in their upcoming titles.

  17. Edited for Content on Iran Tries To Pacify Protesters With Lord of The Rings Marathon · · Score: 1

    Come on, do you seriously think they are seeing the theatrical release. No way in hell, shit the version of the trilogy they get is 20 minutes of drama before Sauron gets the ring and 8 hours and 40 minutes of Sauron enslaving everyone.

  18. Re:Wanted 3D but no colour printer on Google Launches CADIE, the First True AI · · Score: 2, Funny

    I printed them out in color, but I can't see through the paper.

  19. Where is my notification on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 1

    I was really hoping for an instant notification when I did something to earn a new achievement. For example on the PS3 you get a box in the upper right hand corner that flashes. "You have earned Trophy 'You play way to many f-ing video games'".

    Come on Taco make it so, and make the pop over pink please.

  20. Name on Khronos Launches Initiative For Standards-Based 3-D Web Content · · Score: 1

    Couldn't they come up with a name that was not so similar (read: identical) to a fairly popular software package. http://www.kronos.com/

  21. Re:What the hell? on How Do You Deal With Pirated Programs At Work? · · Score: 1
  22. Quit being paranoid on Linked In Or Out? · · Score: 1

    Quit being paranoid, unless you have a really obscure name you should be okay. Here is my name http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&q=scott+Loomis&aq=f, apparently I make a mean wind flute.
    Oh, I also have a linked in account but you won't find me on the linked in results page that is displayed on those search results. You have control to a point over what is publicly searchable.

  23. Summary on Major Cache of Fossils Unearthed In Los Angeles · · Score: 1

    Man...is the...summary...for this...story...awesome

  24. Re:Utterly Ridiculous on Startup Hopes To Crowd-Source the Developing World · · Score: 1

    Nah, you hire locals at a daily rate of 4 schekles or junebugs or whatever the hell they want.

  25. Where have we seen this before? on Toward Autonomous Unmanned Aircraft Technology · · Score: 1

    Man this sounds familiar, where have we seen this before?
    Oh yeah, here
    And we all know how that turned out. Err, maybe not no one in their right mind watched that movie