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  1. Source on Did an Unnamed MIT Student Save Apollo 13? · · Score: 1

    Original story is an IAMA on Reddit

  2. Hipster Fizzl on Power-Saving Web Pages: Real Or Myth? · · Score: 1

    Bah, I was using red and neon green on black bacground (with twinkling stars) on Geocities before it was cool. I think my Yellow and Black "Under Construction" ribbon consumed someones 14" CRT energy thou.

    ...turns out there is a not insignificant difference

    Very crafty! I couldn't decipher that double-negative sentence fragment, so I had to actually read the article to come into some kind of conclusion myself!

  3. Re:This isn't nearly as bad as the division bug on AMD Confirms CPU Bug Found By DragonFly BSD's Matt Dillon · · Score: 1

    /facepalm

    The amount of fuck in just this single slashdot thread offends my eyes. I browsed reddit couple of years ago daily, but it seems the glory days are over.

    Unless GoodNewsJimDotCom is trolling, slashdot needs an enema.

    Replying to this specific reply because I am impressed by the amount of idiocy one can contain in four words of less than four letters each.

  4. resolv.conf on Coders Develop Ways To Defeat SOPA Censorship · · Score: 1

    Just point your DNS to 8.8.8.8

  5. OMA on Apple Transfers Patents Through Shell Company To Sue All Phone Makers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Fucking apple. Why can't they just join Open Mobile Alliance like everyone else and share the patents. In return they would get access to the whole pool of patents from the other companies.

  6. Oh no... on Linux Journal Goes — Surprise! — Digital · · Score: 1

    This is like the only magazine I would find interesting when browsing for something to read on a train trip.
    I used to be a subscriber, but it got a bit expensive with shipping to Finland. I will dearly miss this magazine and will now go and encase my hard copies in lucite.

  7. Re:I Can Has Subject Title? on Judge Prevents 23,322 Filesharing Does From Being Sued For Now · · Score: 1

    punters?

  8. The Onion? on Apple Plans New Spaceship-like Campus · · Score: 1

    I was expecting -- nay -- hoping to see the onion news logo in the video.

  9. Re:1Password FTW on Cheap GPUs Rendering Strong Passwords Useless · · Score: 1
  10. What about the levy fees? on Finnish Record Labels Want To Block Pirate Bay · · Score: 3, Informative

    We pay ungodly amounts for our blank media so we can legally copy. Fuck you Teosto and Gramex.

  11. Re:Seriously on China Alleged To Use Prisoners In Lucrative Internet Gaming · · Score: 1

    "If I couldn't complete my work quota, they would punish me physically. They would make me stand with my hands raised in the air and after I returned to my dormitory they would beat me with plastic pipes. We kept playing until we could barely see things,"

    Sounds like typical raid leader behaviour to me...
    Competition at the top is TOUGH!

  12. Re:I fail to see the point.. on Japanese Researchers Test Flying Trains · · Score: 1

    Well, I work for a software company that works with different industries. I was asked to make an estimate for an quote. We won the deal and here we are. :P

  13. Re:I fail to see the point.. on Japanese Researchers Test Flying Trains · · Score: 2

    I'm actually now designing software which calculates the parameters for the hardware that supports the power lines.
    It's amazingly precise and complicated. Even at 200km/h tracks, the tolerances where the line should be in the sky are in millimeters. For example, there should be enough tension to hold the line almost straight, but not quite straight. You have to let it hang just enough so the that the weight of the line holds it firmly to the receiver on the train.
    You have to account for tilted rails in turns. You have to move the line over the rails in a zig-zag so as not to stress the receiver from one point only. Then you have to account for turns, where the train goes on a nice radial track, but the line moves straight from pole to pole.
    Etcetc... It is very interesting and perhaps the most math and physics hard project I have ever been involved in in my +10 year development career.

    Anyway, it makes my mind boggle to even think how precise the electricity feed line has to be installed in some 500m/h tracks.

  14. Re:Only to free on Who Killed Spotify? · · Score: 2

    But who the fuck wants to use iTunes?

  15. Re:The Jews on Who Killed Spotify? · · Score: 1

    mod +5 lolocaust

  16. Re:I'll believe it when I see it... on Blender 2.57 Released — and It's Easy To Use! · · Score: 2

    Well, I learned with 3d studio max (whatever version was new in -97).
    It took around one year of self learning to get in grips with the features to actually produce something nice, but I made steady progress and it was always enjoyable to learn new things.
    Since then, I have also learned some Maya and some NURBS specific package I forget now.

    I have tried to learn blender several times. The starting curve is just too steep. It is not fun. I once waded through the newbie guide and managed to do some basic modeling and texturing, but it took a lot of effort. I tried to do something on my own and was completely lost again. I accidentally did something and was utterly lost of how to get back on track. The workflow was just weird to me. I could follow tutorials, but couldn't apply what I learned to what I wanted it to do. Finally I just gave up.

    Immediately after seeing this post, I added the ubuntu PPA for latest blender and updated.
    Yeah. "OMGZ IT'S FINALLY DOING WHAT I WANT!"-moment, just as someone described would not happen.

  17. Explain on Hacking a Car With Music · · Score: 2

    ... car's stereo system, giving attackers an entry point to change other components on the car...

    Explain?
    Wtf? This is just silly.

  18. Re:Is the US any better? on Italian Police Seize Blog Over 'Kill Berlusconi' Satire · · Score: 1

    Schutzstaffel?

  19. Re:Cheap computers for the asses on UK To Offer PCs For £98, Subsidized Internet Connections · · Score: 1

    £200 perhaps?

  20. Re:Cheap computers for the asses on UK To Offer PCs For £98, Subsidized Internet Connections · · Score: 1

    Well, that was supposed to be a pun :/

  21. Re:Cheap computers for the asses on UK To Offer PCs For £98, Subsidized Internet Connections · · Score: 1

    Uh, doh. I ment ebay.co.uk.

  22. Cheap computers for the asses on UK To Offer PCs For £98, Subsidized Internet Connections · · Score: -1, Redundant

    You can soon buy these for £50 at the amazon.co.uk.
    At least some of the disadvantaged are poor alcoholics/narcotics addicts. They will quickly sell the computer to get a fix.

  23. I wanna be a rich man... on Steve Jobs Taking Medical Leave of Absence · · Score: 1

    Man, it would totally suck to die as a billionaire at his age...

  24. Re:In Germany? on OSI Refers Novell Patent Deal To Authorities · · Score: 2

    Are you implying some other countries court could do more?
    File it in US and watch it unfurl in a torrent of doldrums in a matter of decades!

    Or perhaps they just saw that they may be breaking German law in particular, I dunno...

  25. Re:Can't get there from here on Why Teach Programming With BASIC? · · Score: 1

    I didn't want to complicate my broken analogy by bringing fairies into this man!