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  1. Re:Short Story on Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Depressing Sci-fi You've Ever Read? · · Score: 1

    "O God Ashton Kutcher is trying to act" kind of way

    We must have seen different versions; I saw no evidence that there was any attempt at acting...

  2. Slashdot has just jumped the shark... on Ask Slashdot: Personal Tape Drive NAS? · · Score: 1

    Really. Look behind you - there it is.

  3. Re:Utterly useless design on How a 3-Year-Old Can Open a Gun Safe · · Score: 1

    FFS even something simple like a bolt driven by a small stepper motor and a worm gear would be orders of magnitude better.

    Yes, that's really simple. You don't want something complex like a lock and key...

  4. Re:gun safe? on How a 3-Year-Old Can Open a Gun Safe · · Score: 2

    Try committing suicide with a lever action Winchester. Now try committing suicide with a large single action revolver. Notice any differences?

    Yeah - it was easier with the revolver since I'd already killed myself with the Winchester.

  5. Re:what is a "gun safe"? on How a 3-Year-Old Can Open a Gun Safe · · Score: 1

    You missed:
    3) An oxymoron

  6. Re:This research brought to you by the contrarians on 'Seeds' of Supermassive Black Holes Discovered · · Score: 1

    You mean for the spectral analysis of plaid?

    ... or plaid-nets... (I'll get me coat)

  7. Re:Guns should be banned alright on The World's First 3D-Printed Gun · · Score: 1

    Remember when they had a war on drugs, and now we don't have drugs anymore??

    Isn't it funny how the most powerful military force in the world had a war on drugs - and couldn't beat the stoners.

  8. Re:But ... on The World's First 3D-Printed Gun · · Score: 0

    What is it that the NRA wants to ban in law, exactly?

    They want to ban laws which ban firearms.

  9. Re:But ... on The World's First 3D-Printed Gun · · Score: 1

    The NRA is 4.3 million Americans

    This is something I've always found ... curious. If the NRA only has 4.3m members, why don't members of the anti gun lobby sign up? If enough of them do, they'll be able to change the NRA's policies from the inside...

  10. Re:laws on Ask Slashdot: Preempting Sexual Harassment In the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    Let me guess - you were going for "+1 Funny" but nobody reading /. understands irony....

  11. Re:Lock the door when inside on Open Millions of Hotel Rooms With Arduino · · Score: 1

    Yeah...I can't imagine that hostel thing would go over too well in the US....we like our space and don't really want to share a room overnight with total strangers.

    I've stopped in hostels on three continents, and had a great time. For the young an impecunious traveller, they have the advantage of being cheap (a fraction of the cost of a hotel). I wouldn't want to stop in one in the US though, since it would most likely be full of Americans.

    I went to Europe once...and was shocked to find in one hotel there...there was only ONE bathroom per floor, that everyone had to share, rather than every room having its own bathroom and shower/bath.....

    You must have chosen to stay in a really cheap hotel - those places exist, but they're not typical. I've been to Europe a couple of hundred times, and never stayed in a hotel where I've had to share a bath/shower.

  12. Re:Lock the door when inside on Open Millions of Hotel Rooms With Arduino · · Score: 1

    Is hostel a EU spelling of hotel? Not familiar with the hostel spelling.

    They're spelt differently, because they're different words having differing (albeit related) meanings.
    Hostel
    Hotel

  13. Re:Edgar said it best. on Earth, Night Glow, Aurora and Atmosphere (Video) · · Score: 1

    One slight modification - take the whole fsckin' lot of 'em and leave them there.

    One (additonal) modification: leave 'em there without life support.

  14. Re:Prefer the TRS-80 Model 100 on Thirty Years of Clamshell Computing · · Score: 1

    Many, many years ago, I worked on an embedded single board system for monitoring traffic signals. We used the Model 100 to do site visits to update firmware/run diagnostics etc. I've moved on, as have the monitoring systems - but the service guys there are still using the same Model 100s to do the same job. It's proven to be a remarkably reliable machine.

  15. Re:And more then 20 years since the first tablet. on Thirty Years of Clamshell Computing · · Score: 1

    Windows for Pens was released in 1991

    Or:
    1991: Windows for Pen Is Released

  16. Re:Comparison to Facebook on Why Is Wikipedia So Ugly? · · Score: 2

    Intelligence barrier to entry.

    Wikipedia has a lower limit; Facebook has as upper limit.

  17. Re:Gosling was pushing NetBeans on Emacs 24.1 Released · · Score: 1

    I don't know how well Eclipse would appeal to non-Java programmers or people who do many different things

    It doesn't.

  18. Re:Finally! An interesting question. on Ask Slashdot: Temporary Backup Pouch? · · Score: 1

    Extra extra extra bonus points if you compress the changed files when storing them on the flash drive.

    Hint for the bonus question: gzip ;)

  19. Re:Unison? on Ask Slashdot: Temporary Backup Pouch? · · Score: 2

    Yes.

  20. Re:Unison? on Ask Slashdot: Temporary Backup Pouch? · · Score: 5, Informative

    rsync doesn't handle deletions

    rsync handles deletions just fine - that's why it has a --delete option...

  21. Re:Flat Files FTW! on Living Fossils: Old Tech That Just Won't Die · · Score: 1

    If XML isn't fixing your problems, you must be using it...

    FTFY...

  22. Re:Vaxes on Living Fossils: Old Tech That Just Won't Die · · Score: 1

    Some would argue that American english is bad english.

    There are others would argue that American "English" isn't English.

  23. Re:Technology on Living Fossils: Old Tech That Just Won't Die · · Score: 1

    So... pick the good ones and ignore the bad. eg. Windows 7 is a massive improvement over XP.

    "better than XP" != "good"

  24. Re:No easy answer on Ask Slashdot: What's a Good Tool To Detect Corrupted Files? · · Score: 1

    Why bother hashing? Just compare the contents of the files.

  25. Re:compare them to an intact backup on Ask Slashdot: What's a Good Tool To Detect Corrupted Files? · · Score: 1

    Consider the possibility that the backup already contains corrupted files

    In which case, it's not a backup - it's just a waste of storage space.