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  1. Re:Pet Peeve: Imperial units on Boeing Delivers Massive Ordnance Penetrator · · Score: 1

    which has several different meanings (including one in the metric world).

    Why are using you "ton" rather than "megagram"? Wasn't the whole point of Metric to get away from having to remember multiple unit definitions?

    The choice to copy a Standard unit name was silly.

  2. Re:Headline is flat wrong on Study Finds Frequent Gaming Changes Your Brain · · Score: 1

    So the headline is completely wrong.

    Hopefully you don't still find that sort of thing surprising after a dozen years? :)

  3. Re:The inevitable(?) decay of Slashdot on Pristine Big Bang Gas Found · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's just one of the ways the young destroy the old to make way for new things.

    Plenty of longtime members fell for the religion troll thread above despite the fact they ought to have known better. Don't pin it all on the newbies... :)

  4. Re:True to every corporation on End Bonuses For Bankers · · Score: 1

    The problem is not the idea of the free market and capitalism. The problem is the implementation of the system. In a real free market system...

    No True Scotsman...

    Forgive us for questioning the One True American Religion.

  5. Re:But then again... on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Won't Fit On a CD · · Score: 1

    Putting the boot ISO on a USB drive gives you an even faster install with no noise... and if the image creation process goes wrong, you can simply try again instead of throwing a disc in the trash.

  6. Meh on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Won't Fit On a CD · · Score: 1

    If your hardware is so old it doesn't have USB booting, I really doubt Ubuntu would be a good distro choice anyway.

  7. Re:Hate Unity? Use Kubuntu ... on Ubuntu Heads To Smartphones, and Tablets · · Score: 1

    Kubuntu 10.04 is easily the buggiest version of Ubuntu I have ever used. I highly recommend Kubuntu 11.10 instead.

    Having the system supported for longer is little use when the system runs like crap. :)

  8. Re:"Post Tech or GTFO!" on Australia's Biggest Airline Grounds Its Entire Fleet · · Score: 1

    I would note the tagline "news for nerds, stuff that matters" no longer appears in the page header...

  9. Re:Explains a lot about the economy on World's Biggest Gold Coin Minted In Australia · · Score: 2

    She was born in London, which makes her British last time I checked.

    He's referring to this: The House of Windsor is the current royal house of the Commonwealth realms. It was founded by King George V by royal proclamation on the 17 July 1917, when he changed the name of his family from the German Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to the English Windsor, due to the anti-German sentiment in the United Kingdom during World War I.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Windsor

  10. Re:FALAC on Apple's Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) Now Open Source · · Score: 1

    a duck that sounds like Gilbert Gottfried?

    Gilbert lost that job for being insensitive, you insensitive clod!

  11. Re:wrong category! on Avira Anti-Virus Detects Itself · · Score: 1

    The place slashcode goes to, well, break.

    Idle pages now render just the same as the other categories for me.

  12. Re:Does not apply in the US on Jaguar Recalls 18,000 Cars Over Major Software Fault · · Score: 1

    It's more that the smog regs were written with gasoline engines in mind. A modern diesel produces more of certain pollutants than a gasoline engine, and less of others. These engines were blacklisted because in some categories of emissions they were over the limits, even when the total emission output across all measures isn't really worse than a gasoline engine.

  13. Re:The next generation is in your hand on Next-Gen Game Consoles Still Years Off · · Score: 1

    Why would you bother plugging and unplugging it from a phone rather than just leaving it attached to a console... especially when the phone costs more money to buy and is less powerful?

  14. Re:Years off? on Next-Gen Game Consoles Still Years Off · · Score: 1

    Today PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii-U are all happy filling the current 1080p diplays, there is no real need for anything better.

    Very few PS3/360 games natively render at a full 1280x720, let alone 1920x1080.

    We could get much better graphics out of existing screens, never mind moving on to stuff beyond FullHD.

  15. Re:Good enough already on Next-Gen Game Consoles Still Years Off · · Score: 1

    I don't know what game you could say that about on a current gen console.

    Heh... you could say that about any PS3 game, really. Let's use GTA4 as an example.

    The basic gameplay is the same, but every single detail is very different... more realistic. The visceral thrill of a car chase or a gunfight is much greater than with the old games, just because of the better graphics, sound, and physics. It's easy to dismiss this stuff, but I tried picking up San Andreas again and it just wasn't the same. GTA4 had changed my expectations for these games.

    Not try to bash you here... I have an original PS3 with PS2 hardware, and I continue to play PS2 and PS3 games in a near 50/50 split on it. But saying you could do the same things on PS2 that you can on PS3 is silly.

  16. Re:Good enough already on Next-Gen Game Consoles Still Years Off · · Score: 1

    Funny thing is, the N64 actually had a RAM upgrade that many games could use... or even require.

    https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Expansion_Pak

    Why don't the PS3 and 360 have something similar? Because they could certainly use it.

    Even a bump to 1GB would be very useful.

  17. Re:Urban myth on Why Computer Voices Are Mostly Female · · Score: 1

    Urban myth that dovetails nocely with american stereotypical views of foreigners, Germans in particular.

    WalMart found their concept of "door greeters" didn't' go over well in Germany. This hardly means Germans are unfriendly, just that they have a different set of communication norms.

  18. Re:Blame the right entity on Universal Uses DMCA To Get Bad Lip Reading Parody Taken Down · · Score: 1

    While your point is true, it is also irrelevant. They already agreed to host the content, which was how it was there to be DMCA'd in the first place.

    As sibling states, you can't enjoy DMCA safe harbor status if you are trying to say "I'm not going to put this video back up because I decided I don't want to host it anymore, even though I previously agreed to host it." Safe harbors are not to engage in decisions about DMCA validity, they are merely to follow the written procedure for takedown/putbackup.

  19. Re:I'm a fake and proud of it on Google+ To End Real Names Policy · · Score: 1

    I actually created a new gmail account just yesterday without needing to provide a phone number.

  20. Re:Mint- How many slashdotters out here use it? on Linux Mint Will Adopt Gnome 3 · · Score: 1

    I have had zero problems with PulseAudo since Ubuntu 9.10... so GP isn' t the only one with dated complaints here. :)

  21. Re:Prevent "sexting"? on Making Sensitive Data Location Aware · · Score: 1

    No, it's more like 30 or 32. I'm not even there yet (almost, couple more years), and I know I have a long way to go, so stop kidding yourself.

    You're kidding yourself by thinking you are still climbing the brain power totem pole. We are at the peak (27-28) right now, man... it's all downhill from a nuts and bolts perspective afterwords. :)

    I can't learn quite a easily as I used to be able to, but hopefully the accumulated knowledge (wisdom?) makes up for it.

  22. Re:One company on Amazon Bypassing Publishers By Signing Authors Directly · · Score: 1

    Don't browse at -1 if you aren't man enough to handle it. :)

  23. Re:Mars is closer and easier to send people to on Why Mars Is Not the Best Place To Look For Life · · Score: 1

    Sterile planets are better for terraforming

    In Mars's case, we'd need to terraform it a new magnetic field...

  24. Re:Read the Release Notes before Upgrading on Ubuntu 11.10 ('Oneiric Ocelot') Released · · Score: 1

    This issue is not Ubuntu specific, it affects all distros using recent kernels.

  25. Re:Xubuntu? Lubuntu? on Ubuntu 11.10 ('Oneiric Ocelot') Released · · Score: 1