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  1. Re:The interface doesn't need to be changed much on KDE 4.7 – a First Look At Beta 1 · · Score: 1

    The taskbar at the bottom with a start menu in the same location. The kde desktop is nearly identical to the windows desktop.

  2. Re:If I worked at wikileaks on How WikiLeaks Gags Its Own Staff · · Score: 1

    This is a great way to owe someone 20 million dollars. Just agree to shit on paper because you think it doesn't mean anything.

  3. Double tap to open on Ask Slashdot: Where Is the Universal Gesture Navigation Set? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In what bizarre app are you doing this. I've had one for a couple years and never heard of such a thing.

  4. Re:real math, science 'different' than chosen ones on Free DARPA Software Lets Gamers Hunt Submarines · · Score: 1

    What in the shit just happened

  5. Re:Apples and Oranges on Is Science Just a Matter of Faith? · · Score: 1

    Faith has attempted to explain the fundamentals of the world around us since the beginning of civilizations. That is the purpose of religion.

  6. Re:Or maybe they did their research? on Newspaper Plagiarizes Blog, Taunts Real Author · · Score: 1

    Why yes, obviously the only place the newspaper could have discovered this is your blog. Nobody involved in as non-technical field as the *press* could ever have heard of whois, or the many web interfaces to that command. You are right in assuming that you are the only person who was curious about this ad campaign to do even the most rudimentary amount of research.

    Unless you have logs showing hits from IPs that resolve as being at the paper, I think Occam's Razor applies.

    It turns out he does have logs showing hits from the LIP 10 minutes before they published their own story.

  7. Re:"Everybody wins" mentality on Sputnik Moment Or No, Science Fairs Are Lagging · · Score: 2

    You are really creepy with the "hun" and "my sweet" crap.

  8. Electronic tolls way faster on Golden Gate Bridge To Eliminate Tollbooths · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'd much rather cruise through tolls without having to stop, and I really have no desire to see these human toll booth operators.

  9. Re:Summary wrong, not so bleak on Teachers Back Away From Evolution In Class · · Score: 1

    The numbers are not mine. They are the reality of the survey.

  10. Re:Summary wrong, not so bleak on Teachers Back Away From Evolution In Class · · Score: 2

    Yea the summary is misleading people into thinking that 60% of highschool biology teachers aren't teaching evolution. The reality is better than what is described in the summary, hence reality is "not so bleak".

  11. Summary wrong, not so bleak on Teachers Back Away From Evolution In Class · · Score: 3, Informative

    Unsurprisingly, the summary is wrong. 28% actively teach evolution as if it is a correct theory, 60% teach both evolution and ID and do not make claims as to their validity. The last 12% actually only teach creationism. All of this survey was done with biology highschool teachers.

  12. Re:Denial is bliss on Herding Firesheep In NYC — Do Users Care? · · Score: 1

    Single engine planes are very safe. An engine failure does not translate into a death either, its just a forced emergency landing...

  13. Re:Sad, actually on James Cameron Commissions Submarine To Visit Challenger Deep · · Score: 1

    What makes you think that we are not capable of going to the moon? It would be relatively simple to achieve at this point, as we have not forgotten anything.

  14. Re:This is why... on Armed Man Takes Hostages At Discovery Channel HQ · · Score: 1

    Lack of faith in your god has no relevance to why this asshole went nuts. He could have expressed his insanity in a much more violent way in the name of your god

  15. Re:This is why... on Armed Man Takes Hostages At Discovery Channel HQ · · Score: 1

    Atheism embodies the absence of religion. And science the absence of faith. Atheism cannot be a religion by definition.

  16. Re:As a Tester on Microsoft Unveils New Xbox 360 Wireless Controller · · Score: 1

    I can navigate menus just fine... Where is the difficulty?

  17. Nuke it on The Moon Is Shrinking Like a Wrinkled Apple · · Score: 2, Funny

    The only way to guarantee our safety is to nuke it to ashes before anything unexpected or bad happens. Plus everyone will receive free apple pie from the sky.

  18. Re:Welcome to College on Your Online Education Experience? · · Score: 1

    Can you get into a Ph.D program for web design?

  19. Re:I like it on Airlines Get Billions From Unbundled Services · · Score: 1

    My flight experiences have been pleasant and quick, and commuting by car or boat is simply not an option for the vast majority of business fliers like me.

    You are scarred by some kind of horrible experience and obviously cannot speak for everyone. Airlines can be the cheapest/quickest or quite luxurious/quickest way to get wherever you want to go.

  20. Re:payback on The Verizon Wireless HTC Eris 'Silent Call Bug' · · Score: 2, Informative

    Him saying that android devs care more about bells and whistles (like tethering) is the cause of the phone calls not working is the same thing as blaming tethering.

    HTC didn't make the OS, and yet you are blaming the Android OS for this problem. You are blaming the open source community of focusing on making apps which is somehow hurting the quality of the actual phone capabilities.

    HTC's track record is actually pretty great; They make plenty of customized phones, and they did wonders in making a usable front-end of the microsoft OS.

    Yet none of this really matters, the point is that this guy made a silly comment. It is not development of apps that caused this problem, and it wasn't trying to catch up to the iPhone either.

    Sometimes shit happens, and it's how companies handle that shit that matters. Apples track record is really crapping up, especially when they told users that they were holding their phones wrong because of the shitty antenna design.

  21. Re:payback on The Verizon Wireless HTC Eris 'Silent Call Bug' · · Score: 1

    No, I'll update my opinion now that I am informed. My point still stands that it is silly to blame this phone issue on tethering

  22. Re:payback on The Verizon Wireless HTC Eris 'Silent Call Bug' · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Tethering is an almost effortless addition to a phone that already uses the internet. Apps are for the most part developed by 3rd party members that never even contributed to the core functionality of the phone to begin with.

    To blame this problem on the development of apps and tethering is silly, and I think the only reason you mentioned tethering was because that's one thing the iPhone lacks.

  23. Re:This is 100% Apples fault on Experts Explain iPhone 4 Antenna Problem · · Score: 1

    Actually, every phone will short out. It's not a hard concept bro, they are all the same hardware.

  24. Re:Everything Old is New again on Khan Academy Delivers 100,000 Lectures Daily · · Score: 0

    Professors today also teach by answering questions and encouraging new ones, as well as spouting knowledge according to a set curricula. Much like what Socrates would and should have been doing.

  25. Re:So basically... on Neutrino Data Could Spell Trouble For Relativity · · Score: 1

    I eat muffins, and I probably will not die before I'm 70