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  1. The plural of "Jedi" on The World's Largest Lightsaber Fight · · Score: 1

    Damn it, get it right!

  2. Re:TI-89 on TI-Nspire Hack Enables User Programming · · Score: 1

    The catch being, they don't let you use 92s on SAT/ACT etc. because of the QWERTY. The 89 is the same OS, with a keyboard that's allowed. Although they might not let you use an 89 in the near future, either...

    Besides, after awhile you can type pretty fast on an ABCDE anyway.

  3. Re:WHY? on TI-Nspire Hack Enables User Programming · · Score: 1

    Nobody is going to bother modifying the OS when all the math/cheating/etc. functionality is available in programs that don't. Unless you count hooks as "modifying the OS." And they do have an app for teachers (I think it's called TestGuard) that you run over a link that disables certain functionality on the student's calculator. Of course, countermeasures have been made against that, but the newer 84+ OS's have a similar functionality built in if you hold L+R+ON or something on bootup.

  4. Re:They'd have to sell XP if it weren't for monopo on Microsoft Wins Windows XP Downgrade Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    He made reference to bodily wastes 23 times, if anybody was counting. "Fuck" occurred 11 times as well.

  5. Re:Sleep and Work? on Cell Phone Data Predicts Movement Patterns · · Score: 1

    95% of people agree with you. 50% of the time.

  6. Re:Seriously flawed logic on Use Open Source? Then You're a Pirate! · · Score: 1

    Around here, it seems that "Think of the children!" is more or less the official sarcasm indicator. Maybe not *exactly* sarcasm, but more frustration with fools and resignation to our continuing suffering of them, but close enough, right?

    PS: I'd mod up GP, but no points...

  7. Re:if everyone ignored the quacks... on Use Open Source? Then You're a Pirate! · · Score: 1

    It's like the NO CARRIER thing. Paradoxical and all.

  8. Re:people still play that shit? on Second Life Tries To Backpedal On the GPL · · Score: 1

    It seems to me that calling people stupid seems to more often be about feeling better about ourselves rather than any actual desire to see them improve.

  9. Re:Parhelion on Atlas V's Sonic Boom Made Visible By Sundog · · Score: 1

    Isn't that a Mozilla product? Sunbird, Firefox, Thunderbird...

    Any idea what that name is supposed to mean? After looking at the Wikipedia article, it seems to me that it would make about as much sense to call it a Sunhippo or Sunrhino...

  10. Re:Damn it, now they tell me on Interstellar Hydrogen Prevents Light-Speed Travel? · · Score: 1

    So obviously an inertial damper will need to be developed, too. For comparison, the highest application of g forces that anyone has survived was ~45g. (Was there some story about somebody who fell out of an airliner at altitude and survived?)

  11. Re:Fuckin' Noobs on Interstellar Hydrogen Prevents Light-Speed Travel? · · Score: 1

    Let me know if you're willing to test that theory personally :-)

  12. Re:I Don't Think This Was Well Thought Out on Utah Assembly Passes Resolution Denying Climate Change · · Score: 1

    The temperature staying exactly the same for the next X years?

  13. Re:I Don't Think This Was Well Thought Out on Utah Assembly Passes Resolution Denying Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Regardless of what the actual claim is, how can you say it is the "biggest failure" if what it's predicting is 25 years in the future? It could still happen, if nothing else for reasons that we haven't thought of yet.

  14. Re:Sandisk suck on Quality Concerns For Kingston microSD Cards · · Score: 1

    How dare you complain about a feature you couldn't have know about before you used the product! You should have done extensive online research first!

  15. Re:Sandisk suck on Quality Concerns For Kingston microSD Cards · · Score: 1

    Booting off a flash drive? As if the average consumer is EVER going to want to do that? And if they do, they can boot up J Random Linux LiveCD and just plow over the device with *parted.

  16. No way! on Tour de France Champion Accused of Hacking · · Score: 1

    The French accusing an American Tour de France champion of doping?!

  17. Re:Makes me think of Arthur Clarke. on Toshiba Developing High-Density 1TB SSD · · Score: 1

    It would still be an iPad, so everyone would mock it.

    What's that? I'm missing the point? Hmmm...

  18. Re:Customer of Size? on Southwest Declares Kevin Smith Too Fat To Fly · · Score: 1

    "Person of size" and "person of color" *do* seem to imply that the rest of us have no size or color of our own. Apparently white is not a color.

  19. Re:Yes, but... on New Interactive Black Hole Simulation Published · · Score: 1

    Yes. Run it on Linux

  20. Re:Pretty impressive release on Opera 10.50 Beta Out, With Competitive JavaScript · · Score: 1

    They sell those? Can't say I've ever seen one...

  21. Re:Who cheats who on How Easy Is It To Cheat In CS? · · Score: 1

    It's a combination of C# and that new F# they just announced. With Potassium.

  22. Re:Pretty impressive release on Opera 10.50 Beta Out, With Competitive JavaScript · · Score: 1

    Because it's not really a button. The reason I've never gotten into middle-"clicking" anything is because it takes like 3 times the normal amount of effort to make sure you're pressing it straight down, instead of scrolling it. And God help you if you have one that you can tilt side-to-side.

  23. Quality of Service on Facebook Now Supports Jabber/XMPP · · Score: 1

    Does this mean that facebook chat will be any more reliable than it was before, or will it still be buggy as heck? I got so tired of "oh sorry, we lied, this person isn't actually online at the moment..." that I signed out months ago.

    Also, yay for Pidgin! I upgraded from 2.6.1 to .5, but once I remembered my password it seems to work fine so far.

  24. Re:Hurray for LandFills! on XCore's EduBook, a Netbook That Runs on AA Batteries · · Score: 1

    *Please* tell me you're being sarcastic...?

  25. Re:DOOMED I say... DOOMED! on Verizon Blocking 4chan · · Score: 1

    Well, if you survive a run-in with the kids, your wounds will probably heal...lawsuits for large amounts of money don't heal so well.