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  1. Re:Finally...the future on Disney Research Can Turn Nearly Any Surface Into a Touch Screen · · Score: 1

    Doesn't the Roomba count as an affordable household robot?

  2. Re:Bad enough I pay for microtransactions in MMO's on Windows 8 Won't Play DVDs Unless You Pay For the Media Center Pack · · Score: 1

    Writing VB Script is kind of fun, but I think I would rather write in C...

    Please, for ${deity} sake, drop VBScript like the turd it is and learn PowerShell.

  3. Re:Crazy, but honest. on Rand Paul Has a Quick Fix For TSA: Pull the Plug · · Score: 1

    Too bad we don't have any real conservatives in the GOP anymore. Real conservatives keep the liberals honest.

    Under the bush administration Homeland security was created, Literally the largest and most expensive Government bureaucracy ever created. Literally the biggest of the big government created by people that scream they're all about small government in the same breath.

    Too bad we don't have many liberals either. Most Democrats aren't much more left leaning than a typical Republican of 20 years ago. We need both sides to keep the other honest. As it is now both are in short supply.

  4. Re:Android on Android Ported To C# · · Score: 1

    Having dealt with both I can say Oracle is much more evil than Microsoft.

    Impressive. How is that even possible?

    --

    Posted from my Android tablet

    Easy. Once you work with both you realize that Microsoft isn't quite as evil as you thought (perhaps only about the 660th level of Hell evil) and Oracle is more evil than you could have possibly imagined. (667th level of Hell, they are digging out a new level just for Larry E.!)

    Actually with an Enterprise contract Microsoft support is among the best I've worked with. Oracle support is among the worst.

  5. Re:Pulled for false advertising on B&N Pulls Linux Format Magazine Over Feature On 'Hacking' · · Score: 2

    I bought a copy because I'm coughing incorrectly.

  6. Re:Other examples on Oracle and the End of Programming As We Know It · · Score: 1

    No, the programmer would write code with ten lawyers telling him what he has to re-write.

  7. Re:c# what a lousy name on Android Ported To C# · · Score: 1

    They should have renamed ado.net as Db.net.

  8. Re:Android on Android Ported To C# · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Having dealt with both I can say Oracle is much more evil than Microsoft.

  9. Re:Other examples on Oracle and the End of Programming As We Know It · · Score: 1

    Programmer pay will remain unchanged, however there will be ten lawyers employed for each programmer.

  10. I but I bet by now you are really sick of the "free credit report.com" band...

  11. Fixed it for you on Congress Wants To Resurrect Laser-Wielding 747 · · Score: 2

    Congresscritters seek pork to defend against threats of being voted out of office.

  12. Re:More lifeboats. on Australian Billionaire Plans To Build Titanic II · · Score: 1

    640 lifeboat seats should be enough for anyone.

    There were enough lifeboats for first class. If the riff raff hadn't got on the lifeboats there would ave been plenty of room for the ' important' passengers.

  13. Re:Very Clever Long-Term Business Planning on Microsoft Invests $300 Million In Nook e-Readers · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Sharepoint is enormously successful and even as a free product generates huge amounts of money for Microsoft by requiring Windows Server and SQL Server licenses to run on, but more importantly it's a huge tarpit that locks you into Windows, SQL Server, Office, and Exchange upgrade treadmill forever.

  14. Re:Well that's okay on WW2 Vet Sent 300,000 Pirated DVDs To Troops In Iraq, Afghanistan · · Score: 1

    There are 7 billion people on Earth, We only sold a million or so copies of 'Bucky Larson: Born to be a Star' or 'Jack and Jill'. Obviously there are about 6,999,000,000 pirated copies of each movie. There is no other logical explanation! These are cinematic masterpieces that everyone would want in their collection!

  15. Re:Late night word processing will never be the sa on Apache OpenOffice Lagging Behind LibreOffice In Features · · Score: 4, Funny

    No! C'est la emacs!
    (sorry, wrong flamewar.)

  16. Re:Well that's okay on WW2 Vet Sent 300,000 Pirated DVDs To Troops In Iraq, Afghanistan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Several hundred Trillion by MPAA math.

  17. I've heard of this before... on Apple Planning To Build Private Restaurant · · Score: 5, Funny

    Most larger companies have one of these. It's called a cafeteria.

  18. Re:Black Swan events on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Most Dangerous Lines of Scientific Inquiry? · · Score: 1

    Natalie Portman in a leotard. Did i mention a lesbian sex scene?

  19. Re:Sounds like a "Statue of Liberty Play" on Univ. of Florida Announces Plan To Save CS Department · · Score: 1

    If that were the case they would have shut down the athletic department.

  20. Re:Wait, Vmware code stolen from China Military on VMware Confirms Source Code Leak · · Score: 1

    And to prove that the US (or other) government hasn't added code to spy on them, etc.

  21. Re:Wait, Vmware code stolen from China Military on VMware Confirms Source Code Leak · · Score: 1

    Not forced, just easier to use an existing OS with wide hardware support than to roll thier own including a gazillion device drivers.

  22. Re:Opening the JPEG takes Eternity on World's Largest Digital Camera Project Passes Critical Milestone · · Score: 1

    Unless the storage array has the letters E, M, and C along with the number 2 in which case it's more like $60,000.

  23. Re:The U.S. demands extradition on Australia's Largest Police Force Accused of Widespread Piracy · · Score: 2

    The U.S. also demands extradition of those cool police interceptors from Mad Max.

    The Chevrolet Caprice police car is a rebranded Aussie built Holden Commodore. (untill '09 out was available to the public as the Pontiac G8)

  24. Re:Mod parent up! on Software Engineering Is a Dead-End Career, Says Bloomberg · · Score: 2

    Increasing short term stock price is the only thing that matters at most companies. Long term viability is a problem for whoever the current investors sell thier stock to.

  25. Re:Curious Choice for the Spokesfrog. on Frogger Synchronized To Real-Life Traffic · · Score: 1

    They couldn't afford Kermit.