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  1. Re:Apple's strategy on Apple Tablet Rumor Wrap Up · · Score: 2, Interesting

    When you claim "meh" on my iTablet thingy, this will only increase my smugness because we both know you secretly want one. Even if you really don't. the more you deny it, the more the rest of us will know you really really do.

    Go ahead.

  2. Re:Ten years from now - "WoW killed Blizzard" on Failed Games That Damaged Or Killed Their Companies · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Just about every game they do release is a hit.

    Also they will be operating WoW at a profit for the next 10 years if they did nothing else with it other than supply power. Its hard to be a convincing doomsayer when they have 10,000,000+ subscribers without giving a compelling reason to believe that they would fail. You're not liking that fact does not make it less true.

  3. Re:the sky is falling! on Legislator Wants Cancer Warnings For Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    If enough Satellites have you within range, they use the strength of the signal and their own relative positioning to calculate where you are. Thing of it like a Ven Diagram which overlaps, but also has the complexit of 3D space.

    I think maybe you have your Numb3rs confused. GPS satellites simply don't give a shit where you are. Its your Sprints that track you, not your Magellans.

  4. Re:copyright? on Music By Natural Selection · · Score: 1

    ... call 1.800.783.8068 and ask for John Edward. He will get the message through.

  5. Re:Focus group... on BBC Lowers HDTV Bitrate; Users Notice · · Score: 1

    I am sure he was referring to the cataracts. However I can see how you being a grandmother and feminist might take issue with the obviously racist wording: "my wife".

  6. Just explain the circumstances on Best Way To Clear Your Name Online? · · Score: 1

    Explain that you were required to do this after being issued notice of double-dog-dare.

  7. Re:BA on Gigantic Spiral of Light Observed Over Norway; Rocket To Blame? · · Score: 1

    From what I understand its fairly common to put a missile into a spiraling trajectory then blow it up. Its a standard test before you try making go strait.

  8. Re:no ufos on Gigantic Spiral of Light Observed Over Norway; Rocket To Blame? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I am sure someone can identify it, but won't.

  9. It sounds like a lot consumed on Each American Consumed 34 Gigabytes Per Day In '08 · · Score: 1

    however it was mostly catabolic data, consuming more information that it provided.

  10. The system provides value to us on How Does the New Google DNS Perform? (and Why?) · · Score: 1

    in the form of easy to remember IP addresses.
    Additionally its a DNS service.

  11. Re:Hiding from the government is different. on Shedding Your Identity In the Digital Age · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Only a few points of ID can get you started, and if you do it right you can use exactly one false document as a seed for the rest "authentic but false" documents. It takes time and a lot of hard work. It really has to be worth it to forget about your past. In this case only a fool would succumb to issues like past loves.

    --dant

  12. Re:What on US Government Using PS3s To Break Encryption · · Score: 1

    You have a right to a speedy trial after the charges are in place ( and speedy is relative ). I don't think there is a right to a speedy investigation. I suspect it just boils down to statute of limitations, I would bet 816 days would fit nicely into that.

  13. The cast of badguys is official on Russia Recalls Modern Warfare 2 · · Score: 1

    it will be zombies, aliens and rednecks from here on out. When we discover aliens, it will end up being alien zombie rednecks. In any case rednecks will always be OK to shoot at as long as they are zombies and so long as they are not pregnant with anything other than alien zombie babies.

    Its really pretty strait forward put any other way.

    Wait, I forgot about demons.

  14. The instant this happens on Murdoch To Explore Blocking Google Searches · · Score: 1

    the irrelevance will be complete.

  15. Re:Well, screw that then on Review: Dragon Age: Origins · · Score: 1

    The way I understand it, all box sets comes with keys to get you the downloads. I think the idea is if you borrow/purchase the game second hand, you get to pay EA some dues ( ~$15? ) if you want the extra content.
    At least you don't need a unique CD key registered on some central server in order to play. I haven't looked but I doubt you can rent Diablo 2 very effectively.

  16. Re:No coop or multiplayer? on Review: Dragon Age: Origins · · Score: 1

    Then people who *have* friends could play this game together.

    Why do *you* worry about those people?

    ( -1 flame, +1 burn. Net 0 )

  17. Re:One word: on Possible Dark Matter Signs At the Core · · Score: 1

    So we'll just mark you down for "6000 years" then?

  18. Re:We're short on sarcastic anti-MS comments..so.. on In Test, Windows 7 Vulnerable To 8 Out of 10 Viruses · · Score: 1

    I suspect installing IIS may increase chances of compatibility.

  19. Its just the demographic is changing on DVRs Help Some TV Shows Improve Ratings · · Score: 1

    As the tivo crowd gets older, we increasingly forget what the hell we were doing.

  20. Its not of unknown origin. on Giant Ribbon Discovered At Edge of Solar System · · Score: 1

    Its just that the veil of the suns atmosphere seems to be way different than all largely accepted theories.

    Its not unknown dammit. Its just different. You all should relate.

  21. There was glory on Has the Glory Gone Out of Working In IT? · · Score: 1

    Yah, there was glory for all of you till one of you got all of you exposed as the red-necks you probably are. Everyone knows your just doing this to keep from fixing fences.

    Now quit your lingering and get back to work on the firewalls.

  22. Re:since when did slashdot provide BS units? on SKA Telescope To Provide a Billion PCs Worth of Processing · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you can just say 10^18 bytes. This is slashdot, not msnbc

    Right, so how many tenths of a gagillion is that?

  23. Re:Oooo ya on New Wheel of Time Book — Chapter One Online, Released Oct 27 · · Score: 1

    It was the only way women in the universe knew how to communicate, you know... snorting and sniffing a lot. Many pages of it. Over and over again. Probably going to need some fancy pants editor to keep the flow going, or a Perl script.

     

  24. Why? on Sending Astronauts On a One-Way Trip To Mars · · Score: 1

    I mean, I probably would, however there would seem to be limited practical value for sending someone to mars in order to let them die. About the only lasting value I can see is to simply have done it, as in "Well thats done, now what?".

  25. Re:Space Shuttle? on Noctilucent Clouds Spread and Mystify · · Score: 4, Funny

    Further proving there were secret shuttle launches in 1885