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  1. A quicker alternative to fingerprints? on Dept. of Homeland Security To Test Iris Scanners · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ummm, how do you dust for irises?

  2. Re:Has anyone asked.... on PayPal Withholding Indie Game Dev's €600,000 Account · · Score: 1

    Yeah, maybe Pay Pal had a look at the Minecraft site and figured nothing a site this shitty is selling could make this much money. Something's gotta be rotten here. And if it was anyone other than Pay Pal, I'd probably believe that too.

  3. Re:The key to not getting beaten up as a nerd on Nerds Still More Likely To Get Bullied · · Score: 1

    Where was all this good advice when I was in high school?

  4. Re:Why, oh why do they do these studies on Study Claims $41.5 Billion In Portable Game Piracy Losses Over Five Years · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Either that or that many people lacking sufficient disposable income, if forced somehow to buy legit copies of all media, would shift the money they spend on food and housing toward that. Dream on, IP holders.

  5. Re:Priceless on 15 Vintage Tech Ads · · Score: 1

    They pulled it off the opposite of well, imho. It was the only one I couldn't watch. It's just cringe worthy.

  6. Re:When we confirm much of it is coming from China on Military Asserts Right To Respond To Cyberattacks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Buying cheap was the only way a lot of people could have all the things they were told they needed by the marketing industry.

  7. Re:Congratulations on The Pirate Party of Canada Is Official · · Score: 2, Funny

    You're right. Sharing a name with such a shitty baseball team could result in a lowered public perception of the party's competence.

  8. Re:Sorry to hear about that, but... on Songbird Drops Linux Support · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it's not too good at being your music library tool. I did find it useful when exploring for music on blogs and such.

    It can parse a webpage and puts all the mp3 links it finds into a playlist, downloading them to a configurable directory as it plays them. A pretty useful feature, imho.

  9. April Fool's!! on Ed Roberts, Personal Computer Pioneer, 1941-2010 · · Score: 0, Troll

    lol

  10. I'm sooo lucky! on NASA Launches Giant Magnifying Glass Into Space · · Score: 1

    Good thing I couldn't get online for too long yesterday, and thus missed reading the Slashdot stories. I can read those now instead of the useless unfunny overdone crap we're getting today.

  11. So what's this thing supposed to do again? on LHC Hits an Energy of 3.5TeV · · Score: 1

    All I hear is how they keep turning it on and shutting it down.

  12. Re:A point to note on Scientology Tries To Block German Documentary · · Score: 1

    Based on your other post above, it seems that, if not "an idiot and an inoramus", you were at the very least being a troll.

    "You atheists seem to be a very hostile and angry group yourselves!"

    That's painting with a fairly broad brush, don't you think?

  13. Re:I Agree With The Mighty Floyd... on EMI Cannot Unbundle Pink Floyd Songs · · Score: 1

    Spoken like a true dinosaur.

    If the only modern music you've been exposed to is Top 40, then I guess I understand your POV, but trust me old timer, there's a lot of good music still being made.

    I guess the difference between now and back in the day is that the cream tended to make it into the mainstream back then. Now the mainstream is mainly determined by marketing budgets, so you have to do a bit of work to find the good stuff, but it's out there.

  14. Re:If I suspected my boss issued such a phone on New Phone Allows Bosses To Snoop On Staff · · Score: 1

    Yeah, for the first couple weeks anyway. After that you'd settle into a trackable pattern.

  15. I think this is great on Bloggers Now Eligible For Press Passes In NYC · · Score: 1

    Traditional print hasn't figured out how to stay competitive in the new world and is reducing quality of reporting by reducing to a skeleton staff. Might as well remove the barriers and allow the alternative media equal footing. Sure there are a lot of schmucks with blogs, but there are also a lot of knowledgeable and passionate folks out there who write blogs. Sure the wrinkles still need to be worked out, as in, what, if any, should the qualifications be for bloggers. Should it be based on readership? Past output? Who makes that decision? This stuff can be ironed out over time as problems present themselves. But you have to start somewhere.

  16. Am I weird...? on Learning and Maintaining a Large Inherited Codebase? · · Score: 1

    ...because I actually enjoy going through someone else's code? I roll up my sleeves and, using print statements and/or a debugger, I diagram object relationships, flow, data structures...anything I can think of. It's like figuring out a puzzle. Of course, I've had the luck of never inheriting a total pile of crap. But give me anything from not-perfect-but-serviceable on up, and I not only can deal, but I'll have a good time doing so.

  17. Re:A note for Christians and Atheists on Texas Textbooks Battle Is Actually an American War · · Score: 1

    What the hell are you going on about? Yeah I'm an atheist. All I really want is for others to stop pushing their religion on me and allow me to raise my kids religion free, which includes keeping religion out of public schools. You can keep on believing what you want as far as I'm concerned. I have no desire to ban religion, and would, in fact, oppose it.

  18. Re:Public vs private on Google Buzz — First Reactions · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow, look at you. Roughin' it, all off the grid and shit.

  19. Re:Retards on Oracle Drops Sun's Commitment To Accessibility · · Score: 1

    I must commend ./ for its awesome a11y features, which allow even the likes of these to contribute.