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  1. Re:Sounds like a step backwards to me on One Step Toward a Babel Fish: Real-Time Voice Translation For Phones · · Score: 2

    also agree. try jewish and israeli culture. there are words and phrases in hebrew that have no translation to anything in english. this ac is hopelessly clueless. also, what kind of interest do you think you have in a culture when you don't care to learn the language? if you love japanese culture you don't just read manga and play jrpgs.

    my sister loves the japanese culture and besides learning to draw anime she took kendo sword fighting classes, japanese history classes, learned to speak japanese (and speaks it around her house, even though she knows you can't understand her), learned to write kanji and katakana, and is saving up for a trip to visit. she has a real interest, not a fleeting ADD version of "ooh shiny culture, what's tha-- oooh shiny culture over here too"

  2. Re:10 LET M$ = "Microsoft" on Microsoft's Hidden Windows 8 Feature: Ads · · Score: 1

    let it go, man. just...just let it go...

  3. what's the problem? on Airlines Face Acute Pilot Shortage · · Score: 1

    we have a bunch of trained pilots sitting on their ass in guantanamo. they just need to finish their landing training. i don't think they need 6 figures either, i bet 73 virgins would do it.

  4. test motivations on Ask Slashdot: Taming a Wild, One-Man Codebase? · · Score: 1

    and now a versioning system would mean going through proper deployment/rollback in order to get real feedback.

    not true. using a versioning system does not necessitate testing. just to be clear, testing is always necessary, and not enforced by any versioning system. you can use svn or git or cvs to keep versions of your files so when you do your testing on the production environment (shame on you) you won't have a stack of the same files with extensions like .bak, .bak.bak, .old, .delete, .undo, etc. sitting on your server.

    test because it's the right thing, the proper thing, to do. not because you think some tech you choose to use is forcing you. you should be forcing you.

  5. Re:Copyright KILLS! on Art School's Expensive Art History Textbook Contains No Actual Art · · Score: 1

    fair use includes educational purposes. why doesn't that apply here? because the school is private?

  6. just because fring's dead, don't mean it's safe on Wi-Fi Illness Claim Doesn't Impress New Mexico Court · · Score: 3, Funny

    this guy's not crazy, or sick. check for the blue meth.

  7. Re:Probably on Can a Court Order You To Delete a Facebook Account? · · Score: 1

    i think the root of the problem is forgiveness. let's take that mass murderer in norway. anyone feel like he deserves forgiveness? do a majority? is there hope for reform? do we believe in the salvation of his soul and attribute value to that in our corporeal society, or his he ultimately dead weight? it doesn't really do any good (objectively) to have the death penalty, we've studied that and learned from it. but we feel like they deserve it, right? a guy rapes and kills a dozen kids, you don't let that guy live, right? who forgives? that's why we have the death penalty. there are some things most of us can't forgive. the death penalty is legalized vengeance.

  8. Re:Silly on Is the Can Worse Than the Soda? · · Score: 1

    what? come on. kids drink lots of soda, kids get fat, it's obviously the bpa lining the can. after all, we never did obesity studies during the time before we added bpa to the can, sooo ... wait a second ... i know what makes kids fat! it's the obesity studies! like quantum mechanics, just stop observing the kids get fat and they'll stop being fat. i'm going to start ignoring the obese for a healthier world in which we all can live (in a van, down by the river).

  9. Re:I was actually disappointed by this. on xkcd's 13-Gigapixel Webcomic · · Score: 1

    so i could go to the click and drag episode, find your mario bros tile, look up the png name in the developer toolbar, then take the png and drag it into a google image search and presto, there you are.

  10. Re:Can't post - watching Revolution on Switching Tasks Changes Worker Bee DNA · · Score: 1

    don't mark that guy a troll, i would totally do flo too. god, she is hot in a really weird way that i can't quite describe. put a gun in her hand and it's porn.

  11. Re:Let's Just Hope They Leave Well Enough Alone on Dice Buys Geeknet's Media Business, Including Slashdot, In $20M Deal · · Score: 4, Funny

    like if they start enforcing RTFA through cookies and google analytics event tracking. there'd be a worldwide riot

  12. Re:still a lot of energy on Warp Drive Might Be Less Impossible Than Previously Thought · · Score: 1

    right, i misread your post as an implication that the football reference was to its size. i understand your example though.

  13. Re:still a lot of energy on Warp Drive Might Be Less Impossible Than Previously Thought · · Score: 1

    it never said football-sized. it said football-shaped. like stewie or hey arnold. there's not enough information in the article to make any useful assumptions about how much energy it would take.

  14. Re:I'll believe it when I see... on Warp Drive Might Be Less Impossible Than Previously Thought · · Score: 1

    i think they mean the space-time outside the craft's bubble. you could travel through space by pulling the fabric of time around you toward you -- but space is inseparable from time, so you could theoretically pull yourself toward the past or (relatively) distant future.

  15. Re:This is partly true, but is it news? on Hardware Is Dead — At Least Most Expensive Hardware Is · · Score: 1

    i'm afraid my chinese import tablet will be made with lead-coated buttons covered in cyanide powder, or i'd buy one. natch.

  16. Re:Nope on Hardware Is Dead — At Least Most Expensive Hardware Is · · Score: 1

    it looks like lemmings <> china

  17. if i were the author on The Perils of Developers Hooking Up · · Score: 1

    i would help my naive little coworker out. first, there'd be none of this "but..but.. you're his girlfriend..." she'd get exactly what she asked for (and a lot more) and i'd get pictures (video if she lets me, and she probably will). then i'd show poor jerry and say "your girlfriend's a slut, so i did you a favor. now you can get the upper hand and dump her." and if he's a friend worth keeping, he'll get over it.

    friends don't let friends get strung along for weeks or months by sluts. the author never learned this, but the manager, chuck, did.

    oh, and pics or it didn't happen. it's sad when a code geek turns to harlequin fantasies to prop up his need to feel wanted.

  18. Re:Why is publishing useful? on Study Attempts To Predict Scientists' Career Success · · Score: 1

    and soon they'll determine your potential success metric in the womb based on how many papers your parents published and just abort you if you (they) don't measure up. "papers! where are your papers?"

  19. Re:what do you mean, "run out of addresses?" on RIPE Region Runs Out of IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1

    maybe if it were 2006. and if it had a better punchline. i like mine better.

  20. what do you mean, "run out of addresses?" on RIPE Region Runs Out of IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1

    obligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/865/

  21. Re:Blind the camera on Cameras To Watch Cameras In Maryland · · Score: 1

    i don't think a single one will work, a group of them though... maybe try those modded blu ray laser pointers? and don't believe everything you see on mythbusters, that show needs its own mythbusting sometimes.

  22. Re:Blind the camera on Cameras To Watch Cameras In Maryland · · Score: 1

    infrared laser pointers

  23. Re:Heh on French Court Levies First Fine Under 3-Strikes Piracy Law · · Score: 1

    thanks, ac. i think. just want to clarify that positing a hypothetical scenario in which a woman might cause violence against a man is not the same as advocating it. on this site and around the internet people posit hypothetical scenarios for things they don't approve to make a point that it could happen. in the context of a joke, it's bad form to suggest one is advocating anything slapstick or otherwise negative should occur. at the least it shows you have no sense of humor and don't understand jokes. worst case, you can cause a misunderstanding that snowballs against you. one example is girlintraining getting several new assholes torn by the readership here. i'll give you another example:

    suppose an overweight friend of mine jokingly compares himself to a car. i might then joke that if he steals the last of my cookies and it gives him a heart attack i'll have to put jumper cables on his nipples. nowhere in such a joke do i advocate electrocuting fat people with car batteries (even for the crime of stealing cookies). this is common sense. pick some up on your way home today. and yes, my fat friend thought it was hilarious (we were also drunk).

  24. Re:stupid head on Ask Slashdot: What Tech For a Sailing Ship? · · Score: 1

    whoosh

  25. Re:Heh on French Court Levies First Fine Under 3-Strikes Piracy Law · · Score: 1

    wow. just wow. i think you must be her.

    look, it's a sort of "mobius strip" joke, where the logic twists on itself at the end. it was facetious. anyone not having a shitty day can see that. change your fucking tampon and move on, bitch. i'm not your fucking boyfriend so don't yell at me (don't hit me, either).

    for all your trouble, my post is 50% mixed positive/50% troll (labelled troll), while your actual woman bashing poster has 50% funny/50% troll (labelled funny). so your crusade really, really, lost big time here.