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  1. Re:This is why the good lord made virtual machines on Microsoft Blocks 3d-Party Browsers In Windows RT, Says Mozilla Counsel · · Score: 1

    Performance and reliability is better if you can actually run the program...security, not so much.

  2. Re:Not only that... on Some USAF Pilots Refuse To Fly F-22 Raptor · · Score: 1

    Call me crazy, but I'd rather ZERO cities get nuked instead of playing the numbers. Anybody who pulls out nukes at the first sign of a symmetrical war is asking for trouble.

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

    If you look at the marketing, they do actually use a sharp sign; the slant of the crossbars is different. It's just that there's no sharp sign on your average keyboard...

  4. Re:Not only that... on Some USAF Pilots Refuse To Fly F-22 Raptor · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and so do they. You really want to let off a few and see how they react?

  5. Re:Habit on Hobbit Film Underwhelms At 48 Frames Per Second · · Score: 1

    You give a compelling argument for me to NOT get HD equipment/media, as the vast majority of the TV I like to watch came out before HD got big :-)

  6. Re:Advice: Overuse of the Red Channel in Colors on Code Name, Theming Update Announced For Ubuntu 12.10 · · Score: 1

    What else do you want to change? Usually the window contents are "control"-colored (i.e., "gray") for J Random Program.

  7. Re:oops on Code Name, Theming Update Announced For Ubuntu 12.10 · · Score: 1

    The different version come with largely disjoint software collections, and when you install another desktop it all gets put into the menus unless you go through and uninstall everything. Plus, it's an extra step.

  8. Re:How do you pronounce it? on Code Name, Theming Update Announced For Ubuntu 12.10 · · Score: 1

    So our only two options are using provocative sexual innuendo or one-letter names, huh?

  9. Re:How do you pronounce it? on Code Name, Theming Update Announced For Ubuntu 12.10 · · Score: 2

    I know *I* enjoy the confidence and professionalism that comes along with GSpot Codec Information Appliance and ScrotVM.

  10. Re:Advice: Overuse of the Red Channel in Colors on Code Name, Theming Update Announced For Ubuntu 12.10 · · Score: 1

    I actually like the Brown/Orange approach...but you know what, I just had the biggest idea ever! They could write a tool, you know, which let us select themes!

    Emerald?

  11. Re:Control, Control, Control on Student Charged For Re-selling Textbooks · · Score: 1

    I decided to just sell them books I found on ebay and bought from other students ... awful NC state laws forbid them from acquiring more used copies on Amazon, eBay, etc. For this they treated me like a criminal

    So they were acquiring these books from somebody else who got them off eBay...isn't that like even worse? Now it's third-hand instead of second-hand. Maybe not against the letter of the law, but it seems pretty clearly against the spirit of it.

  12. Re:Rinse and repeat with CD/DVD/BluRay on Student Charged For Re-selling Textbooks · · Score: 1

    Thus far the only country to decide that mod'ing your player that allowed grey market imports has been Australia

    I think you're missing a conclusion to that thought. They decided that modding it to allow grey-market imports is legal? Or illegal?

  13. Re:square peg round hole on Ask Slashdot: Movie/Video Search Aggregation? · · Score: 1

    From what I've seen, as the number of friends in the room increases, your ability to accurately predict what everybody wants to/is willing to watch approaches 0 :)

  14. Re:square peg round hole on Ask Slashdot: Movie/Video Search Aggregation? · · Score: 1

    If it's some random thing my friends want to watch that there's a minimal chance I will feel the burning need for in the future, IMHO I'd rather stream it because a) I don't want to buy it and b) streaming for free is rather less illegal than downloading for free, right?

  15. Re:Does this mean even more pown'd windows boxes? on Windows Vista Enters Extended Support · · Score: 1

    Hey, he asked for a new feature. If Windows 8 is Compiz-ified, I'd still call that a new feature. For Windows, anyway.

  16. Re:Obligatory on IT Calls of Shame · · Score: 1

    No kidding; your username is misspelled, too.

  17. Re:Many possibilities on Mercedes Can Now Update Car Software Remotely · · Score: 1

    He didn't say it was still secure, he said it *was* secure for *long enough* that they recouped the cost.

  18. Re:Does this mean even more pown'd windows boxes? on Windows Vista Enters Extended Support · · Score: 1

    Snap-to-Edge? Once you start using it, you hate to go without.

  19. Re:On the fence on this. on Student Expelled From Indiana High School For Tweeting Profanity · · Score: 1

    But it's *on the Internet*! Ooh, that reminds me, I gotta go down to the patent office...

  20. Re:Tape never died or lost its supremacy on After 60 Years, Tape Reinserts Itself · · Score: 1

    Crash.

    That's the sound of the truck carrying your backups getting in a car accidently

    This sentence is very confusing, grammatically...assuming you meant "getting in a car accident"?

  21. Re:See troll (TheRaven64) RUN everyone (lol)... ap on The Fall of Data Haven Sealand · · Score: 1

    So - now the shoe's on the other foot

    The same shoe? Doesn't sound very comfortable...

  22. Re:I think you miss the point, though.... on The Fall of Data Haven Sealand · · Score: 1

    Not to mention you might not want to start with a former British military outpost which is located beyond any doubt what so ever inside the territorial waters of England and has ALWAYS been considered British soil.

    Except for the part where it *wasn't* "beyond any doubt what so ever"...from Wikipedia:

    The location chosen was approximately six miles from the coast of Suffolk, outside the then three-mile territorial water claim of the United Kingdom and therefore in international waters.

    I'd say "in international waters" is at least enough doubt to discount "none whatsoever," regardless of their intent in putting the platform out there obviously for defensive purposes. Your analogy of someone in the Ozarks is hyperbolic.

  23. Re:It's cool on 11-lb Robot Can Jump 30 Feet Into the Air · · Score: 1

    Autonomous.

  24. Re:It's cool on 11-lb Robot Can Jump 30 Feet Into the Air · · Score: 1

    And from the video, even that doesn't look particularly true. I wouldn't call it "keeping it oriented" if it involves a nearly 90-degree spin before it lands again.

  25. Re:Status light? on New Samsung TV Watches You Watching It · · Score: 1

    Makes no sense to fully trust Logitech but not Samsung or anyone else.

    Innocent until proven guilty? I have not been repeatedly screwed over by Logitech. But otherwise, yeah, you raise a good point.