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  1. Re:Pi is wrong. on What Pi Sounds Like · · Score: 1

    TL;DR. Please summarize and explain why we should care.

  2. Re:String theory comes to mind on The Encroachment of Fact-Free Science · · Score: 1

    Faith never claims to be science. Faith only occurs in the absence of evidence.

  3. Re:Double clicking titlebar... on GNOME To Lose Minimize, Maximize Buttons · · Score: 1

    Nice! You learn something new every day :-)

  4. Re:Already Running that Version on Ubuntu on GNOME To Lose Minimize, Maximize Buttons · · Score: 1

    The important detail is that all those other options for minimize involve more than one click, and actually having to read the menu to make sure you click the right one (at least until muscle memory kicks in or whatever). So it'll take 5 times more effort now, rather than just point and a single click. Brilliant.

  5. Re:Good for them on Red Hat Stops Shipping Kernel Changes as Patches · · Score: 1

    You heard it hear first.

    Heh, unintended irony :-)

  6. One word on Comment Profanity by Language · · Score: 1

    Refactor?

  7. Re:Am I missing something?! on Comment Profanity by Language · · Score: 1

    Obligatory XKCD about secrets. Leaving secret messages that other boilermakers may or may not ever see sounds like fun.

  8. Re:In Soviet Westboro, church baptizes you! on Anonymous Denies Targeting Westboro Baptist Church · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Baptist church, Westboro accidentally itself and everybody spends the entire Slashdot article concerning it arguing about whether Anonymous does, in fact, have leadership. Also, Microsoft sucks, religion is for losers, and we all run Beowulf clusters of Linux installed on dead badgers while complaining about lawyers and DRM.

  9. Re:Who Owns Your Playstation3? on Sony Gets Geohot's Hardware, But Not YouTube/Twitter User Info · · Score: 1

    ...And this would help the cause?

  10. Re:Fuck Sony on Sony Gets Geohot's Hardware, But Not YouTube/Twitter User Info · · Score: 1

    Slipped on "Funny" and hit "Overrated." Posting to undo :-P

  11. Re:The new Version Number War on Mozilla Aims To Release Four Firefox Versions In 2011 · · Score: 1

    Fibonacci versioning? Sounds like fun, we could be at...5, 9, 14...23 by the end of the year! :-D

    37, 60, 97, 157...157 by 2013 might be getting a little out of hand though.

  12. Re:tl;dr from the roadmap on Mozilla Aims To Release Four Firefox Versions In 2011 · · Score: 1

    2. Always respond to a user action within 50 ms

    Is 50 ms even perceptible? I know that I have on occasion not realized that I was on a new page because I blinked when the (admittedly light) page loaded.

  13. Re:Math, Mozilla-style on Mozilla Aims To Release Four Firefox Versions In 2011 · · Score: 1

    I agree, blame Google. 6 new "major" versions in the last year? And do they actually have any new features? Since Chrome first came out ("isolated threads!!!!11!"), all I've heard of being added is an extension system which they frankly should have had to begin with imho.

  14. Re:Magic version numbers on Mozilla Aims To Release Four Firefox Versions In 2011 · · Score: 1

    One is made by Google; one is made by Apple. Take your pick.

  15. Re:Oh Great on Mozilla Aims To Release Four Firefox Versions In 2011 · · Score: 1

    Skip straight to 11 and then release a new number every month. I DARE Chrome to keep up with that pace ;-)

  16. Clunky Title ~ Forces on Microsoft Makes Chrome Play H.264 Video · · Score: 1

    "You'll play 264, and you'll LIKE IT!"

  17. Re:This is getting confusing. on Microsoft Makes Chrome Play H.264 Video · · Score: 1

    Enter mega corp B (Google), releasing yet another browser, which is faster than either of the old ones, but lacking in open licensing and extensions (compared to Firefox). Then hey presto they buy YouTube

    Google bought YouTube (2006) some time before they even mentioned Chrome (2008).

    PS: One sentence does not a paragraph make.

  18. Re:Internet kill switch on Egypt Shuts Off All Internet Access · · Score: 1

    Don't tempt them to pass a "we have the right to kill the Internet" amendment.

  19. Re:lol on Xbox Live Labels Autistic Boy "Cheater" · · Score: 1

    who's truth exactly?

    No, Who's on first. And let me assure you, he lies like the best of us.

  20. Re:SGU bad? on J.J. Abrams Promises 'Fringe' Will Die Fighting · · Score: 1

    Agreed. The only character I was interested in was Zoe the Magical Robot Thing for the technical perspective, not all the completely non-veiled references to political climate. OMG, the terrorists are blowing themselves up in the name of a monotheistic deity!?? And it has particularly irritated me that basically the entire show is predicated on the false premise that Zoe blew herself up. But that's apparently "good writing," being ironic and all...

  21. Re:only go see that guy at 4:45 PM on a Friday on J.J. Abrams Promises 'Fringe' Will Die Fighting · · Score: 1

    ...And the diagnosis that was dismissed in the first 5 minutes of the show was actually the correct one, and somehow House is still considered "right."

  22. Re:Ha, what about Red Flag Linux? on Ballmer Says 90% of Chinese Users Pirate Software · · Score: 1

    The image of RMS being martyred--in China--is an interesting one. Ramifications: discuss.

  23. Re:Sorry to spoil a good M$ bash but on Ballmer Says 90% of Chinese Users Pirate Software · · Score: 1

    I think they would be more likely to call it ¥0.

  24. Re:Queue endless discussion on allowing add-ons... on Mozilla Flips Kill-Switch On Skype Toolbar · · Score: 1

    It was too Karmic to be a good idea.

  25. Re:But you still can't uninstall it... on Mozilla Flips Kill-Switch On Skype Toolbar · · Score: 1

    I'm trying to decide whether I'd be more angered at an "Uninstall" button you can't click, or one that you click and does nothing...