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  1. Re:Is this really a problem? on Google Unveils goo.gl URL Shortening Service · · Score: 1

    Here's a tip: stop using Twitter.

  2. Re:Hmmm on Gran Turismo Gamer Becomes Pro Race Driver · · Score: 1

    And don't forget that in a videogame, you're instinctively much more likely to take greater risks, where as in real life, you're much more careful to not cause damage when driving aggressively with $125,000 worth of driving equipment.

    You sir, have apparently never watched Top Gear.

  3. Re:Looks like a fit guy to me on Gran Turismo Gamer Becomes Pro Race Driver · · Score: 1

    So if you're 275 pounds and keep a bag of Doritos next to your PS3, probably *not* gonna go pro.

    I don't think anyone would do this. The bag would collect a lot of heat from the PS3. Everyone knows warm Doritos are less appetizing than room-temperature ones. Ever leave a bag of them in your car during the summer? Yuck.

  4. Re:Nothing unique to Gran Turismo on Gran Turismo Gamer Becomes Pro Race Driver · · Score: 1

    The difference between Forza and GT is that Gran Turismo's licensing tests actually teach the player some proper driving techniques. IANAPRCD, but I have participated in several autocross events and placed quite high (top four) in each event with little autocross driving experience. Most of what I was able to do I learned from years of playing Gran Turismo.

  5. Re:GBPVR strongly recommended! on Best PC DVR Software, For Any Platform? · · Score: 1

    +1 for GB-PVR. I just built two of them for family members as Christmas gifts. Roughly $200 each for a used Pentium 4 computer and DVR bits. Runs great at 1920 x 1080 on my 1080p LCD TV. Scheduling, recording and time-shifting are flawless. One thing I want to get working is sharing recordings between DVRs peer-to-peer style, a la ATT U-Verse DVRs: "Record on one TV, play back from any TV in the house." I asked on the GB-PVR forums about this, seems it's possible. I suppose I have to build myself several of these in order to test this out.

  6. Dynamite? on Man Chisels Hole in Mountain to Park His Truck · · Score: 1

    A few key blasts could probably have gotten the job done in like... 14 hours.

  7. Re:Damn moronic 'anti-spam' laws. on Spammer Lance Atkinson Fined $16 Million · · Score: 1

    According to the original documentation, 'In early 2008, a security company identified one botnet -- which it dubbed "Mega-D" -- that sent sparn promoting Affking's VPXL and King Replica products as the worst botnet in the world, accounting for 32% of all spam.'

    "Sparn"?

  8. Fugly on MacBook Mod Gives Base Station Chassis New Purpose · · Score: 1

    That double-wide Linksys case looks stupid. I'm just sayin'.

  9. Re:Health Aspects on Where Are Your Contact Lens Displays? · · Score: 1

    There's no "focusing" at that point since the image is right on top of the cornea. I'd imagine the lens would display images "in focus" directly to the retina.

  10. Re:Half an hour to insert on Where Are Your Contact Lens Displays? · · Score: 1

    I cross my eyes while putting in my contacts. I focus out the eye accepting the contact lens and use the opposite eye to watch what I'm doing.

  11. We all assume on US Air Force Buying Another 2,200 PS3s · · Score: 1

    That they're going to run Linux on them. What if they inked a deal with Sony to provide them the SDK's to make their own "games" that use 100% of the hardware capabilities? Heck, maybe they have their own private area on the PlayStation Store for distributing software to 2,200 consoles.

  12. Re:Why are you using Winzip? on Software Piracy At the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    Regarding 7zip...

    • The interface sucks. Looks like my five-year-old cousin designed with his crayons. In fact, I'm pretty sure he would have done a better job.
    • 99% of the world uses WinZip-compatible "standard" .zip formats, not .7z. 7zip is its own format that WinZip does not support (neither any other "zip" program, for that matter).
    • Claiming FOSS doesn't immediately make something a better product. A lot of FOSS products are immature and/or underdeveloped.
  13. Report them on Software Piracy At the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    Anonymously to the BSA. And start looking for a new job.

  14. Re:Don't Defrag on Reliability of PC Flash SSDs? · · Score: 2, Informative
  15. Sure... on AU Government To Build "Unhackable" Netbooks · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This needs a "goodluckwiththat" tag...

  16. Re:Overshadowing the fact on Trapped Girls Call For Help On Facebook · · Score: 2, Interesting

    As kids, my friends and I used to play in the storm water drains by our houses all the time. They were about 10' tall, 15' wide, and 150' long. (They were basically under-passes for where the streams ran under the roads.) One could hardly get trapped unless there was an immediate flash flood.

  17. They need more slashdot on Woman Fired For Using Uppercase In Email · · Score: 1

    Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.

    This.

  18. Re:What could go wrong on Drug Vending Machines · · Score: 1

    Somehow, in this crazy mixed-up world of ours, the prison is still responsible...

  19. I don't understand... on Don't Copy That Floppy! Gets a Sequel · · Score: 1

    ...why some (most?) people seem to think it's okay to download something simply because they can. Am I the only person left who finds it morally objectionable to obtain something that I very well should have paid for? If I want a CD or DVD or video game, I go to the store and buy it. If a new NIB copy is too expensive for my tastes, I hit up the local resale shops. If that's still too much, then I rent or borrow it to make sure I like it and am willing to invest in it. Otherwise, I wait until the price goes down. Perhaps I'm up on my moral horse again. Perhaps I'm just wrong. Or perhaps I'm one of the few people left who still sees things properly in this up side down world.

  20. deja vu on Open Government Brainstorm Defies Wisdom of Crowds · · Score: 1

    For those who remember Obama's earlier Online Town Hall, it's deja vu all over again.

    So this is the second time we're experiencing deja vu? Am I the only one who fails to RTFA because they can't get past the horrible grammar in the synopsis?

  21. Re:What could possibly go wrong on Virus Tamed To Attack Cancer, Cancer Drugs To Treat Alcoholism · · Score: 1

    But if you play with living things there, things that try to survive replicating, mutating, and in the case of virus, finding more hosts.

    Viruses aren't really considered "living things" by current definition... Life

  22. Re:Article not about Regular RedBull on Cocaine Test Prompts Red Bull Removal In Germany · · Score: 2, Informative

    Many don't seem to realize their talking about the newer REDBULL COLA they put onto the market. I have to say, it's one of the best I've tried, the ingredients read like a simple list of herbs, and the taste is pretty interesting/complex. Hope they don't ban them here, they are hardly the same strength in terms of stimulant property as the regular redbull(the cola being weaker).

    Agreed. Those who claim it "tastes like shit" are entitled to their own opinions, however wrong they may be.

    viyh writes to mention that six German states have mandated pulling Red Bull Cola energy drinks off the shelves after testing found trace amounts of cocaine in the drink.

    RedBull Simply Cola is also NOT an "energy drink" as the description says. It's Simply a Cola.

  23. Is there some new law on Terminator Salvation Game Launched, PC Version Recalled · · Score: 1

    that says for every new movie there has to be an accompanying video game released? What's the point? Milk the cash cow a little more?

  24. Blue Screen on The Hard Drive Is Inside the Computer · · Score: 1

    This little gem of a term has been making its rounds lately. It took us hours of troubleshooting one day to realize that when our user said "I have a blue screen and can't log in" he wasn't referring to Microsoft's Blue Screen of Death but instead, to the teal blue color of his Desktop in Windows XP.

  25. Re:Business Plan on Apple Rumored To Want To Buy Twitter · · Score: 1

    1) Launch free web service 2) ??? 3) Profit

    Can someone remind me how Twitter makes money. Or, at least how to justify a $700 million valuation?

    Correction...

    1) Launch really crappy free web service

    Twitter has got to be the absolute bottom-of-the-barrel in social networking sites.