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  1. Sadness on Oculus VR Co-founder Andrew Reisse Killed In Auto Collision · · Score: 1

    Too young :(

  2. Re:I was just 10 years old on How Did You Learn How To Program? · · Score: 1

    I feel like we need an IRC channel for people who started in the pre-GUI era.

  3. Re:I was just 10 years old on How Did You Learn How To Program? · · Score: 1

    Ah, QB45.exe ..... I could finally build an executable without having to pay any money! I had a lot of ideas back then. They're coming in handy now that I've realised the world hasn't changed much.

  4. I was just 10 years old on How Did You Learn How To Program? · · Score: 1

    QBASIC on I think a Toshiba T2200. I thought my Dad was a brilliant programmer, but actually he was converting old BASICA games from a different system. I learnt from those snippets.

  5. Re:Just like with porn. on Australian Police Move To Make 3D Printed Guns Illegal · · Score: 1

    Damn you, Slashdot. I wish to give this anonymous coward my upvote!

  6. Re:Oh, well... on Australian Police Move To Make 3D Printed Guns Illegal · · Score: 1

    Though, considering the frivolity of it all.... .....those 2D computer games, where you always had the big 'boss' at the end.... that seems like what law enforcement will be like in the future >_>

  7. Re:Oh, well... on Australian Police Move To Make 3D Printed Guns Illegal · · Score: 1

    ....why have I never noticed how wrong that is? :\ Why the hell didn't we, the internet community, say 'hey guys, we need a law here'....

    We are such a disorganised society....

  8. Re:Can Apple Actually Stage a Comeback? on Ask Slashdot: Can Yahoo Actually Stage a Comeback? · · Score: 1

    Oh herp derp. That's for OTHER companies.

    So then who maintains slashdot code? CmdTaco? samzenpus?

  9. Re:Can Apple Actually Stage a Comeback? on Ask Slashdot: Can Yahoo Actually Stage a Comeback? · · Score: 1

    Of course it can. Eventually someone will get pissed off and ask to get involved. ....k, I just looked at their job listings...

    http://slashdot.org/job_board.pl

    How on earth could this website take that many people to run?!

  10. Re:*** IT IS TIME FOR REVOLUTION *** on Ask Slashdot: Can Yahoo Actually Stage a Comeback? · · Score: 1

    Wait. Exclamation mark.

    Dammit.

  11. *** IT IS TIME FOR REVOLUTION *** on Ask Slashdot: Can Yahoo Actually Stage a Comeback? · · Score: 1

    This means they can FINALLY drop that stupid fucking question mark! :D

  12. Re:Wut? on Immigration Reform May Spur Software Robotics · · Score: 1

    Oh, a *software* machine. You mean those new fandangly things with the opcodes and punchcards and stuff! Nice!

  13. Wut? on Immigration Reform May Spur Software Robotics · · Score: 1

    This story tells me nothing.

  14. Re:Yep on "Dramatic Decline" Warning For Plants and Animals · · Score: 1
  15. Re:Yep on "Dramatic Decline" Warning For Plants and Animals · · Score: 3, Insightful

    so is yours. the forests of the world have been torn to shreds over the last 100 years, science says trees are the planet's lungs, and yet skyrocketing carbon has nothing to do with it? -_-

  16. Re:Does that mean? on (Highly Divided) Federal Circuit Opinion Finds Many Software Patents Ineligible · · Score: 1

    Not entirely relevant, but the Chinese care not for Western frivolities:

    http://www.neowin.net/news/ballmer-9-out-of-10-copies-of-windows-in-china-is-pirated

  17. Re:I wonder how much was skimmed by the bag men on ATMs Compromised, $45M Taken · · Score: 0

    *gets popcorn*

  18. Re:Maybe our universe is a 'matter bubble' on Does Antimatter Fall Up? · · Score: 1

    Think of the nucleus as a shadow.

  19. Re:Is this going to start happening more often? on Boston Tech Vs. the Bomber · · Score: 1

    Just deduced from all the different news stories :\ "there will be a lot of amputees", said they... while charities begin to ramp up their efforts...

  20. Is this going to start happening more often? on Boston Tech Vs. the Bomber · · Score: 1

    marathon run...
    bomb goes off...
    hundreds injured...
    into hospital...
    in come the businessmen...
    "here's your free treatment, ma'am"...
    fleet of cyborgs now living in downtown Boston...

  21. Excellent timing on ZDNet Proclaims "Windows: It's Over" · · Score: 1

    :p

  22. Re:need more disclosure on Ask Slashdot: Building a Web App Scalable To Hundreds of Thousand of Users? · · Score: 1

    people who what? PEOPLE WHO WHAT?! i need more disclosure *twitches*

  23. Re:Seems legit on Australian Networks Block Community University Website · · Score: 1

    Bogans. Lots and lots of bogans.

  24. Re:Synopsis: Arms Waving In The Air on Australian Networks Block Community University Website · · Score: 1

    My DNS had been shit too lately. Bloody feds. *shakes fist*

  25. Re:Seems legit on Australian Networks Block Community University Website · · Score: 2

    Australian checking in. Yes, they raid our universities to find kids breaching copyright, so we have US DMCA influence. What better way to deal with crime than to make studying even more difficult to afford...