User: kensai

Slashdot Beta = New Coke

On: Graphene Conducts Electricity Ten Times Better Than Expected

why mess with what works and fans love. FUCK BETA

Block letters

On: 26 Years Old and Can't Write In Cursive

Hell I'm 36 and write in all block letters. Even though I can do cursive, years of drafting has trained my muscle memory to write in block letters.

Hardware

On: Phoenix BIOSOS?

I wonder how this virtualized BIOS will handle native hardware access when multiple "native" OSes try access it at the same time.

Goofy

On: Girl Who Named Pluto, At 11, Dies At 90

If she would only have named it Goofy, she could have lived to 100.

Re:Honestly though

On: AMD Overclocks New Phenom II X4 To 7 GHz

Wrong. ePeen values are extremely practical. How else are you going to judge your nerd value?

Re:If you ask me.... you didn't but....

On: Air Force Aims for Control of 'Any and All' Computers

They can have them when they pry them from my dead cold pc case...

US Government to zappepcs: We accept your terms.

Re:I save in ODF

On: Do OpenOffice Users Save In Microsoft Format?

Last time I checked he said to edit a PDF not to export to one.

Re:This points to a wider problem...

On: Debian Refuses To Push Timezone Update For NZ DST

you can pry my extra evening hour of daylight during the summer out of my cold dead hand (so to speak). /me cocks shotgun. Your terms are acceptable.

Under what license

On: QNX "Opens" Source Code

I didn't see it in the article, but what license are they releasing this under I wonder. Will be one of the standard ones or will it be YAOSL (Yet another open source license)?

Whew

On: Tim Berners-Lee Discusses the Future of the Web

For a second there I thought he said Symantec Web and said to myself "We're all doomed."

Is it just me

On: EU Privacy Directive — Coming To the US?

or has this whole "Czar" thing been way overused.

Dominoes

On: California Joins Open Document Bandwagon

The dominoes are beginning to fall.

Re:then make them out of plastic or such...

On: US Pennies To Be Worth Five Cents?

Insert slot joke here.

Re:Vista is a clusterfuck - from _my_ blog

On: Microsoft Admits Vista Has "High Impact Issues"

Do you routinely use all these boxes as development boxes, installing and uninstalling one or more different applications each day?

That's what VMWare || qemu || Parallels || VirtualPC is for.

Re:We're not ready for IPv6 yet.

On: Every Vista Computer Gets Its Own Domain Name

Most of the spam blocking systems depend upon IP addresses.

They'll just have to come up with a better way to block spam (anything is better than that braindead scheme) or fall by the wayside.

They probrably didn't receive your internets

On: When Can I Expect an Email Response?

because the email is down due to clogged vacuum tubes.

Re:Gecko based IExplorer?

On: Mozilla Developers Invited to Redmond

Couldn't they just put that site in their Trusted Sites list to avoid all the popups?

Not to get all metaphysical

On: Deja Vu Recreated in a Lab Setting

but how can these scientists claim to have recreated a feeling? Sure they can measure brain activity and the like. But deja vu is more than just recognition of a "familiar" item or setting.

Well at least

On: CIA Blogger Fired for Criticizing Torture Policy

she was only fired and not tortured for her views on torture.

And the Internet responds

On: Stephen Hawking Asks The Internet a Question

with a STFU n00b! Like OMGWTFBBQ!

Re:Hey Mon

On: Two Jobs and Retire Early?

Nice In Living Color reference.

Re:Stupid.

On: O'Reilly and CMP Exercise Trademark on 'Web 2.0'

How will we know it's cool without hip words attached to it.

Re:Let me answer your question with a question

On: Which OS Makes the Best VMWare Host?

There probrably positioning VMWare Server as a "gateway" for people to purchase ESX Server.

Re:Summary is wrong

On: Symantec Sues Microsoft, May Delay Vista

You can use dynamic disks as the boot partition. I'm doing it now. Not sure about the software RAID bit though.

Re:Wireless? DVD's? MP3's for crying out loud?

On: Can Ordinary PC Users Ditch Windows for Linux?

What get old fast? the reboots or making love to the wife. 8^O