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  1. Re:Net gain not the obstacle! on China Claims Successful Fusion Power Test · · Score: 1

    Being ignorant on the matter I'd say being able to make the thing keep running for hours on end is the main requirement for viability, then you can fine-tune things to get net energy out.

  2. Re:Missing out on the real features... on A Mac Fan's Take On Vista · · Score: 1
    UAC annoying? Not really, it finally juts alerts you to a change that affects your system as a whole. [...] It takes 2 seconds to disable it if you don't like it. Windows R, msconfig, disable UAC, reboot.

    And that is the problem with it. If it's too lax, it lets things by that you want to be notified about. If it's too strict, it gets in the way and your turn it off. And finally, a better security model can eliminate the need to even consider asking the user in many cases.

  3. Re:I did this on Your Life On a Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    Hmmm, you could watch the first 25 years you recorded, then watch those 25 years of yourself watching yourself. Kind of like in Spaceballs, the movie.

  4. Re:Made Up Statistics on WGA — Too Many False Positives · · Score: 1

    You're wrong; it's 87.12% that are made up on the spot. I think you just made that up.

  5. Re:Self-Programming Computers, HA! on BT Futurologist On Smart Yogurt and the $7 PC · · Score: 1

    Forget computers, even humans can't write programs that fit a client's requirements without knowing a lot about the client's unstated assumptions and needs.

  6. Site unavailable due to "power failure" on Optimus Mini Three OLED keyboard reviewed · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Door een stroomstoring in het datacentre zijn wij even bezig de boel te herstellen. Due to a power failure at our hoster we are busy trying to fix the database.

    Apparently "stroomstoring" means "Slashdotting", and their translation software approximated that as "power failure".

  7. Re:MacOS on the right?! on Sharp Develops Triple Directional Viewing LCD · · Score: 1

    Obviously the Mac should be on the left, since that eye is connected to the right hemisphere.

  8. Re:multi what? on Sharp Develops Triple Directional Viewing LCD · · Score: 1

    Their previous two angle system was good for auto-stereo applications, since there's no need for glasses. A three angle screen makes for a good switchable privacy screen.

    Don't forget us triclops!

  9. Re:"Ultimate digital reading experience" on Sony Reader Now Available · · Score: 1

    Or finger-reading, if there is such a thing.

  10. Re:The music sucks on Does File-Sharing Really Hurt the Music Biz? · · Score: 1

    Music may not be getting worse, but the mastering techniques are.

  11. Re:Tim and Money on Online Budget Database Planned by White House · · Score: 1

    How much time and money will be wasted looking at how much time and money we're waisting..

    Ahhh, so that's where they stuff all that money! It explains the increased waistline.

  12. Re:Front page is pointless on Microsoft Launches Social Network · · Score: 1

    I get the "exclusive social experience" every day, living alone in the basement and reading Slashdot. Why do I need to sign up to a service that I'm the only member of?

  13. Re:ok, so the game gives him MORE than promised on The Myth of the 40 Hour Game · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or get him a console that's a wii bit less hard-core.

  14. Re:The GPL3 process is not closed on Why Torvalds is Sitting out the GPLv3 Process · · Score: 3, Funny
    The original GPLv2 was, in fact, printed on a giant cookie.

    Jokes aside, the GPLv2 was, in fact, chiseled into a large stone tablet. Those things most certainly crumble after a few millennia.

  15. Re:We don't need any steenkin' new paradigms... on GUIs Get a Makeover · · Score: 1

    That DVD player is hilarious! The buttons themselves have arrows (pointing diagonally), then the little triangles printed next to them are almost ambiguous.

  16. "Don't do adaptive behaviors" on GUIs Get a Makeover · · Score: 1
    Microsoft has pulled back from this idea. "We had design tenets for Office 2007 that said, "Don't do adaptive behaviors,'" he says.

    So instead they're doing maladaptive behaviors. Sounds about right.

  17. 500 miles until the next charge, on Charge in 5 minutes, Drive 500 miles? · · Score: 0, Redundant
  18. Re:I LOVE DD-WRT on Open Source Router on Par With Cisco, Users Say · · Score: 1

    Anyway, my problem with it clogging up was solved by setting up a cron job within the router so that it reboots at 5am each day.

    "Clog" you say, as in "it's trying to receive an internet or two over the tubes but not getting there until Friday?" Just get a bigger tube!

  19. Piracy? on Hypoallergenic Cats · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm sure these are copy-protected cats. I can't wait until someone pirates one! Cheap hypoallergenic cats with eye patches for everyone!

  20. Re:Copyright Notices? on Students Protest Turnitin.com · · Score: 1
    Copyright 2006 [Insert author's name here]. All rights reserved. No portion of this document may be duplicated, redistributed or manipulated in any form.


    That's the thing, what you wrote is the default already, without you having to state anything. By writing it, you are the copyright holder. Being the copyright holder, nobody has any distribution rights unless you specifically grant them (beyond fair use). On the other hand, making it explicit might give the professors pause before submitting it.

  21. Re:same as it ever was on Gran Tourismo HD Cars Sold Seperately? · · Score: 1

    Don't give Sony any more ideas! A PS3 that ran only on non-rechargeable batteries, that would be bad (though they wouldn't explode... maybe).

  22. Re:Wait 'til the FAA sees this... on Alan Cox's Exploding Laptop · · Score: 1

    If I were going to fly on an airplane, I'd sure as hell not want any laptop batteries anywhere on the plane, either in the cabin or the cargo area.

  23. Re:"unexploded" batteries on Alan Cox's Exploding Laptop · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's a useful word, too:

    FS: Two unexploded laptop batteries cheap!

  24. Re:Legally binding? on GPL Successfully Defended in German Court · · Score: 1

    The GPL license primarily governs what can be done with the source code, not the program itself. This hardly compares to restrictions on most proprietary software, which list all sorts of behavior that the user is not allowed to do.

  25. Re:I was almost arrested for arguing with Diebold on Maryland Fights to Keep E-voting · · Score: 1

    Come on, you were being disruptive. You weren't there to merely ask questions; you were here to share your opinion and what you've heard. That was their booth, not your soapbox.