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  1. Stupid DNS on Chess Games Translated To Music · · Score: 1

    Why is slashdot linked to twitter? Oh wait.....

  2. Re:Getting the game is easy... on New Video Game Controlled By Kissing · · Score: 1

    Well, for most Slashdotters, but in many other cases, her dad is the ....

  3. 16 years later somewhere in the desert on Egyptian Father Names His Daughter "Facebook" · · Score: 1

    Abdul: "Yow Mohad, why are you crying?" Mohad:"Ah Abdul, I had this girl, for over 9000 days. She left me. Gone... vanished. Noone heared of her since months". Abdul" Aye mate, that sucks sandstorms. What's her name, I will keep an eye out?" Mohad "facebook" Abdul: *palm/face, gives business-card of lawyer, assuming he bought stocks.*

  4. Encryption on chip approved by on New SHA Functions Boost Crypto On 64-bit Chips · · Score: 1

    Just what I would want to use to encrypt that really sensitive data.... No thanks. Let's keep encryption software based. It isn't controllable for backdoors as it is for 99.999% of the people depending on it, let us not make that 100%.

  5. Re:Meaningless statement on Google To Merge Honeycomb and Gingerbread · · Score: 1

    I don't know, ask the guys that run youtube, sjee.

  6. Re:Meaningless statement on Google To Merge Honeycomb and Gingerbread · · Score: 1

    I was about to ask, what is minus 289.000.000 when you double it, and is this good?

  7. Re:Portal on Postal III, Source Engine Still Coming To Linux · · Score: 1

    *make a hole in the wall and step through it* vs *kill a fanfare and gary coleman* And yet he choses Portal... *sigh*. "Those who give up Postal for Portal deserve neither" - Santax.

  8. Can't wait for this one. on Postal III, Source Engine Still Coming To Linux · · Score: 1

    The day it comes out I am gonna rent a a complete fanfare to accompany me to the store where I will buy the game :D

  9. Re:I call shenanigans... on The Most Violent Video Games of All Time · · Score: 1

    Eh yes... anyway, is that a fanfare I hear coming there? Brb.

  10. Thanks! on The Most Violent Video Games of All Time · · Score: 1

    Just the list I was looking for. #boredashell.

  11. Re:My solution on File Organization — How Do You Do It In 2011? · · Score: 1

    I know how you feel, if I had done it like that the video I took of 2 girls and a cup would never made it big time.

  12. Re:It won because it's easy. on Why the Arduino Won and Why It's Here To Stay · · Score: 1

    well to me it looks most like c#

  13. Re:Suggestions on Why IP Laws Are Blocking Innovation · · Score: 1

    Whehehe, I could make a fire, but fuck it... Then some can steal my idea. I'd rather freeze to death. You say it really funny, but you are so right. I would have modded you up if I had points left. Now you will have to do with this comment.

  14. Re:Great! on Why the Arduino Won and Why It's Here To Stay · · Score: 0

    Ok, I'll take one for the team... A chicken pooped on it? Whut?

  15. Re:Context, please on Why the Arduino Won and Why It's Here To Stay · · Score: 1

    hehe, glad I could be of help. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3FyJZbtSBk There are more of them, but this one is quite nice.

  16. Re:Low barrier to entry on Why the Arduino Won and Why It's Here To Stay · · Score: 1

    Yep, my girlfriend has one of those parallel ports. It's great as input, but when it's used as output it sort of stinks. And it's not multi-threaded. It absolutely refuses to take multiple inputs at once.

  17. Re:A few problems I have had with the Arduino boar on Why the Arduino Won and Why It's Here To Stay · · Score: 1

    You are using it wrong. The arduino itself uses 20ma. It has a sleepmode... For your data you should add an extra eeprom with i2c for example. Or even a flashcardwriter. You can run the arduino of a 9 volt battery btw. It takes anything from 9 to 17 volt I believe. Not completely sure and can differ by manufacturer. The RAM should be used as RAM btw. For variables. For your data use my earlier mentioned option or use the build in eeprom if it's big enough for your goal. I do agree that a bit more memory would have been nice. But this is ok. It gets most jobs done.

  18. Re:Context, please on Why the Arduino Won and Why It's Here To Stay · · Score: 2

    Well, look at it this way. An arduino is a complete circuit with a couple of digital and analog inputs and outputs that you can control. People love to drive LEDS with them for example and it's very easy. For example, to drive a led all you need is a resistor and the led. You connect the resistor to an output pin of your choice and attach the led to the resistor. The negative side of the led goes into the groundpin on the arduino. If you want that led to blink this would be you code: http://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/BlinkingLED With another ledpin though, because pin13 happens to be the build in led on the Arduino. As you can see it's just C. So you have a complete environment that makes it very easy to connect hardware like sensors and you have this very easy and readable programming language. That makes for very easy and rapid developing. This doesn't dominate the pic and microworld by a long shot. It's far to expensive for mass production of projects. But it does dominate the hobby world. And people make really cool things with them. From laserharps to autohovering quadrocopters. And ledcubes. Lots of led-cubes lol. Look at youtube for it when you have some time to burn.

  19. It won because it's easy. on Why the Arduino Won and Why It's Here To Stay · · Score: 1

    The ardiuno is expensive, but it's easy to program with the included c#/java like language. Anybody can use it really. And anyone willing to invest a bit of time can easily learn the C-like syntax. It's relative powerful and it can make leds go blink in minutes after you unpack it. Personally I also have an arduino. I use it for prototyping. But the board is to expensive to use in applications. However, the chip itself the atmega is relative cheap and for your apps you don't need all that fancy stuff that's on the arduino. So you just buy the chip, program it in the arduino, and put in your electro-project.

  20. Re:The beginning of the end for the US on Amazon Pulling Out of Texas Over $269 Million Tax Bill · · Score: 1

    Eh no, the US really has the highest debt... % don't say nothing anymore when put next to the concrete numbers. The US really has a very very large debt. More so than france, greece, hell, more than the Europe combined. Besides, in Europe they don't print money to pay of that debt. You should look into this a bit further, because it's important to you and not only if you happen to be from the US.

  21. Re:46 DC EA D3 17 FE 45 D8 09 23 EB 97 E4 95 64 10 on Sony Gets Geohot's Hardware, But Not YouTube/Twitter User Info · · Score: 2

    That 46 DC EA D3 17 FE 45 D8 09 23 EB 97 E4 95 64 10 D4 CD B2 C2 is a funny number indeed. It's like sig-worthy.

  22. Insane on Sony Gets Geohot's Hardware, But Not YouTube/Twitter User Info · · Score: 0, Troll

    Bloody insane this. What is happening here is a guy who tells you: hey when I throw this rock, I can break your window. Nothing more, nothing less. And while war-criminals like Bush get updated by the CIA every fucking day, this guy gets the full load of the injustice system. And the US is pushing hard to get this sort of injustice the standard in the rest of the world. Seriously America... go fuck your self. That country is fucking insane and the whole world has to suffer. Go fix your shit, then come back.

  23. Re:The beginning of the end for the US on Amazon Pulling Out of Texas Over $269 Million Tax Bill · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Let me put it this way, as a business-owner in Europe I don't let American companies buy on credit any more. It's just to dangerous, the US is printing dollars to make up for foreign debts and thus increasing it's debts and inflation. Combine that with the debt that is already out there... and I just know that if I want to see my money from US companies, they have to pay up front, because it won't be long before that whole system in the US will collapse. And I can see a lot of other companies doing the same at this point. Not just yet with the really big deals (MS and Google are good partners on a financial level) but I do believe that if the US keeps this up (printing money) it won't take 5 years before those big companies will have to pay up front also. It's just getting very risky doing business with the US... next to all the lawsuits you can get involved in, the unfair protecting of US manufacturers, and now this.... Man, the US should get it shit sorted before it's to late.

  24. Re:Since when? on Why Debian Matters More Than Ever · · Score: 1

    Help me out here, where does it do that? I have installed Debian many times but have never seen the option to add non-free and contrib to the sources list. Maybe I just missed it, but I would find that weird. For the codecs it's understandable to me. I add deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ to my sources for that. Good point btw, someone who is not a tech and just wants a pc that works will have great problems with playing vids on debian. That should be fixed asap.

  25. Re:Ice cream is really just milk and sugar and fla on Why Debian Matters More Than Ever · · Score: 1

    Yes, but a whole lot slower and irritating with all those *you want to do something? Give me your password*-crap.