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  1. Re:Never mind Windows 8 sucks! on Windows 7 Is the Next Windows XP · · Score: 1

    I've always hated the joystick nobbies.

  2. Re:Excellent News! on Windows 7 Is the Next Windows XP · · Score: 0

    Oh yeah, because the cost of a touch screen monitor is the last thing to consider.

  3. Re:oh please on Adopt the Cloud, Kill Your IT Career · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ohhhh, and when you can't use external hosting, put it on your "private cloud."

  4. Re:How they locate ore deep underground ? on Ore-Sniffing Dogs Rediscovered By Mining Industry · · Score: 1
  5. Re:Plexiglass ? on Ask Slashdot: Skype Setup For Toddler's Room? · · Score: 1

    As soon as I get home tonight, this is happening.

  6. Re:Firing in US on Interview With TSA Screener Reveals 'Fatal Flaws' · · Score: 1

    Congratulations. You've completely ignored the entire conversation to say something obvious about the TSA's role in general.

    Thank you for your contribution.

    I suppose you're the kind of person who replies to people discussing different games with something about using Linux and not playing games because they're stupid.

  7. Re:Firing in US on Interview With TSA Screener Reveals 'Fatal Flaws' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If an employer was loading guns at random, and paying you to point them at people and pull the trigger, could you just walk away? Or would you feel a responsibility to stop them?

    That is what happened in this case. The TSA is NOT making sure everyone who goes onto a plane is not a terrorist, resulting in plane-guns that are randomly loaded, or not, with terrorists.

    You want to just walk away and ignore the situation entirely.

  8. Re:How to tell whether you are infected on Flashback Trojan Hits 600,000 Macs and Counting · · Score: 1

    I agree, but there are a lot of things Apple-related that get blown out of proportion. I'm a Windows guy and I still think this.

    Foxconn, antennagate, missing iPhones, whatever the latest 1% issue with iPad 3 is... It all gets too much press for no reason I can really think of.

  9. Re:Macs don't get hacked on Flashback Trojan Hits 600,000 Macs and Counting · · Score: 1

    I may be wrong, but I believe it only asks for a password if the logged in user is not in the local administrators group. In this case it asks for a local admin username and the associated password.

  10. Re:heh on Why Linux Can't 'Sell' On the Desktop · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure we don't need to compare closed source software to the forced imprisonment and labour of a sentient lifeform, do we?

  11. Re:There's Your Problem Right There on Tennessee Passes Bill That Allows "Teaching the Controversy" of Evolution · · Score: 1

    I don't like correcting people. Especially an obvious error like that one, or typos.

  12. Re:There's Your Problem Right There on Tennessee Passes Bill That Allows "Teaching the Controversy" of Evolution · · Score: 1

    Should be "sun is center of our solar system"

    Sorry.

  13. Re:Huh? on Detecting Chess Cheats Taxes Computers · · Score: 0, Redundant

    RTFA?

    THIS! IS! SLASHDOT!!!!!

  14. Re:Finally on Wikipedia Didn't Kill Brittanica — Encarta Did · · Score: 1

    Does that even work if you post as AC?

  15. Re:The Warrior's bland acronym, MMI, obscures... on New Interface Could Wire Prosthetics Directly Into Amputees' Nervous Systems · · Score: 2

    I think, and my thoughts cross the barrier into the synapses of the machine - just as the good doctor intended.
    But what I cannot shake, and what hints at things to come, is that thoughts cross back.
    In my dreams the sensibility of the machine invades the periphery of my consciousness.
    Dark. Rigid. Cold. Alien.
    Evolution is at work here, but just what is evolving remains to be seen.

    -- Commissioner Pravin Lal,
    "Man and Machine"

  16. Re:first bomb on US Military Working On 'Optionally-Manned' Bomber · · Score: 1

    We certainly should not give him a pass. But a lot of people had already made their decision regarding Obama before he took office. Just look at the price of bullets between election and inauguration.

    Obama is not the best president, but you can't say he was the worst until his time is done.

  17. Re:first bomb on US Military Working On 'Optionally-Manned' Bomber · · Score: 1

    It was already a 4 by the time I replied, so I'm not too broken up about it.

  18. Re:first bomb on US Military Working On 'Optionally-Manned' Bomber · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wasn't a lot of war time spending actually kept off the books? Wouldn't it make sense that you'd collect less taxes during a recession?

    If you want to blame Obama, remember that Bush had 4 years with a Republican Majority in both houses with which to balance the budget.

  19. Re:In Soviet Russia ... on Russian Scientists Revive Plant From 30,000-Year-Old Seeds · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Holy crap. That sounds like the beginning of a novel.

  20. No way! on Fair Labor Association Finds Foxconn Factory "First Class," Says Labor Watchdog · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Is anyone actually surprised by this? Did anyone actually think they might say the factory is a pile of shit?

  21. Re:Power piracy on Sony Outlets Control Electricity Through Authentication · · Score: 1

    But that's just it. Because the outlet has no authenticated device plugged in, there would be minimal current running to it. So you remove it and take it home.

  22. Re:I believe him, but on If You're Fat, Broke, and Smoking, Blame Language · · Score: 1

    I know this is Slashdot, but the sample size is a lot bigger.

    Just RTFA.

  23. Re:Cryogenic data storage on New Technique Promises Much Faster Hard Drive Write Speeds · · Score: 1

    It's a Family Guy quote, calm down.

  24. Re:Cops set up FAILED exortion sting on Cops Set Up Extortion Sting On Symantec's Source Code Thieves · · Score: 1

    Don't they know the only way to trace anything is with a VB GUI interface?

  25. Re:SpeakToIt Assistant on Siri Competitor Evi Arrives, But Already Overloaded · · Score: 1

    I had a phone like that. The only setting change you make for that damned voice recognition was to either have it work off the button or have it work off the button and screen open.

    For a brief moment I thought it would only work with the screen open and the button pressed.

    They probably should have used "or" instead of "and."