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  1. Re:Is it worth it? on Smart Optical Fibers Could Save Lives · · Score: 1
    Aren't already 99% of lazer surgeries succesfull? So will it be worth it to buy and install the new technology to make it 99.9%?

    Well, lets say it depends:
    If you are in the .9 marginal, I don't give a shit. If it's me who gets injured, I'll raise a hell to make the equipment safer.
  2. Finally face to face spam! on Use of Student Plants to Pitch Products Rising · · Score: 1

    Wohoo!
    I have waited for this day! Finally I can give immediate feedback to the spammer who aproaches me. Most likely in fork-in-the-eye-fashion.

    RL spammers beware: I'm one of them.

  3. Re:license issues on Original BeOS Developer Now at Trolltech · · Score: 1

    I think they are misinterpreting the GPL. Or possibly have written that answer to obscure it, but still actually saying what the GPL says.
    It is OK to develop using the free QT, as long as you do not release anything outside. No beta testing either. Or multiple developers.
    As long as it is only in your hands, it is ok to develop and use it. You know, when you are the only one holding the binary and the sources, you are fully complying to the GPL as long as you do not give it to anyone else. The second you give it to someone else, you are required to also give the source and the second person is now eligible to redistribute the whole thing to whomever he wants.

  4. Re:huh? on Microsoft Helping Nigeria Fight Scammers · · Score: 1

    I was thinking about quoting some priceless snippets out of your posts, but decided I would had to quote all of it to give it justice. OTOH, You (the reader) can hit the parent button to figure out the context.

    Anyway. Now even the standard monkeys are fleeing microsoft? Now they have to hire uneducated, illiterate, incoherent monkeys out of THE zoo?
    (Yeah, I'm drunk and nasty as per usual when posting.)

  5. Re:huh? on Microsoft Helping Nigeria Fight Scammers · · Score: 1

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  6. Re:A sure sign of bloat on Open Source Services Come of Age · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Hello Mr. Retarded Sales Droid.

    Learn the words, and what they mean, and you'll find an amazing amount of wisdom you were previously denying yourself.

    It's not that the marketroids are using terms engineers can't understand. It's that they are making up fancy words to describe trivial matters which do not need a term. They are ment to obfuscate trivial matters to make clients think it's something new and exciting. And most importantly, something only the marketroids solution can provide (as opposed to just hiring one guy to do it for them.)

    And that's god-fucking-damn annoying.

  7. Re:The UN has finally lost it on EU, UN to Wrestle Internet Control From US · · Score: 1

    Minitel here I come!
    Oh, wait. That's wasn't exactly global network.

  8. Or... on Ask Sid Meier · · Score: 1

    Ultima IV

    (*Sigh...* Nine installments from Lord British I never finished without help. And never actually finished IV because it was so buggy I gave up after 3 reinstall-retries.)

  9. Re:Buy NVIDIA and ATI stock on Bulky System Requirements for Windows Vista · · Score: 2, Funny

    HS: "Extended warranty! How could I lose!?"
    Me: "Stock tips on /.! How could I lose!?"

  10. Re:After the bet... on Climatologists Wager on Global Warming · · Score: 1
    ...it turned out that their work was shoddy. Basically, they had major flaws with the data and had not done their homework.

    Well yeah... Thanks for elaborating the method of failure so thoroughly.
    So, what exactly was wrong with their data. Or what was this Texan group anyway?
  11. Re:You, my friend . . . on Internet Security Warnings · · Score: 1

    How exactly am I going to get hosed by it?
    I don't care if that game/video editing machine is down for a day or two. All my data is on my server anyway. The hours wasted on researching each and every MS update would greatly outweight the inconvenience of repairing the machine once every infinite years. Infinite because the update hasn't hosed the machine thus far. I'll post an update when I get hit by it for the first time.

    PS. What's the point of using quotation marks if you are not going to quote anyone?

    Go get a cup of coffee wanker. ;)
    (Ha! Now you can't mod me flame bait because I used a smilie to counter the personal insult at the end of the post!)

  12. Re:Windows Update on Internet Security Warnings · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I also had the automatic updates set to wait for my approval. For a long time. Then I finally realized that in the years approving the updates, I haven't rejected a single one. I can't remember even researching most of the updates to see if there's something I don't want. To the extent that I didn't even bother reading the descriptions because they always were pretty useless.

    Now I just have it on full auto. What the heck. If they fuck up, I think I'll be reading about it on slashdot within few minutes and some comment will have link to instructions on how to undo the evil one.

  13. Re:Choosing an inkjet printer on A Buyer's Guide to Inkjet Printers · · Score: 1

    I understood alright. I was trying to be funny.
    I mean, the last paragraph seemed so out of place considering the on-topic start of the post.

  14. Re:When the power goes out on Completely Silent Media PC · · Score: 1

    I personally enjoy the sound of a bat making a high velocity turn into the forest.
    I live at a river side. The bats hunt insects on top of the river and sometimes have somekind of rusttles where they swoop all over, make high velocity turns, fly throught the vegetation with allmost no sound etc.
    Also looks very cool when you sit in the dark forest, next to the river, looking at them against the clear, bright Finnish night sky.

  15. Re:Choosing an inkjet printer on A Buyer's Guide to Inkjet Printers · · Score: 1
    (...Some talk about printers snipped...) Can you e-mail your files, or host them on some web space somewhere? If you want to show off some photos, try burning them onto a CD-R -- most DVD players will read CD-Rs of .jpg files and display them on the TV. Even if the person hasn't got a DVD player, you should be able to connect your DVD player to your VCR with a simple SCART to SCART cable. Just running out of screen space? Increase your number of virtual desktops.

    Either you are, or I am stoned. I'm not sure which but I think you just went a light year off-tangent with the end of your post.
  16. Re:Yeah, Assembly was there 2004 too on Hackers Gather in Finland, Netherlands, and Vegas · · Score: 1

    -97 was already mostly about gaming.
    I had the privilege to have a linux hacker sitting next to me. (well, at that time, anyone who could use Linux and GNU tools for anything was a hacker)

    He had the coolest setup thou. I had a plain gray box PC and a 15" monitor with me. He had this long and thin 8" black&green display and and a sports bag full of components with him. Before my eyes, he just put together somekind of a computer out of that bag'o'crap and booted linux out of a cd.
    Lemme tell you... Atleast for me, at that time, it was something special.
    Oh yeah. I also bought a LAN card and VGA card from him for 10 marks. (1.3 euros or so) for my machine-on-the-spot and for my experimentation machine at home. ...Linux didn't like whatever video card I happened to have in that.

    (...Who? Me? Rambling!? Never! ...And we used to put onions on our belts because that was the fashion at that time...)

  17. Re:Coming from an ameteur brewer.. on Free Beer That's Free as in Speech · · Score: 1
    This recipe is terrible. The most glaring error is they don't specify the type of yeast. Is this an Ale or a Lager?

    Hello mr. expert.
    It seems you are unaware of the fact that there are only one type of yeast. Only thing that matters about yeast is that if you mix it in with the "mäski" (sorry, I don't know the correct word for the barley concentrate in english), the sugar, the water, sprinkle on top of the mix or mix it in after the hot and cold ingredients have been mixed.

    Damn newbies :P
  18. Re:cool things about this idea on Utah Teens Invent Better Air Conditioner · · Score: 1

    Actually, nowadays turbocharged diesel vans need additional heater in extreme conditions. ..Extreme, as in 8 months of a year in Finland.
    This company seems to be so much de-facto supplier of these heaters that usually car fuel heaters are called Webasto's. At least in here.

  19. Re:oh no on Firefox Community Site Hacked · · Score: 1

    Well yeah, but how about your home address!?

  20. Re:in related news on Longhorn to Require Monitor-Based DRM · · Score: 1
    With sound.

    Also in ASCII?
  21. Re:Cures and money. on Possible Breakthroughs in Cancer and AIDS Research · · Score: 1
    curering

    If that's a word in English language, I say that you have come a loooooong way from the times I started learning it. I always found English to be easy to learn because of absence of irregularly declinable verbs.
    .
    ..
    ...

    (I'm just putting words together. Nevermind me.)
  22. Re:-1 Troll on Who Cares if Analog TV Goes Dark? · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    True. But what about those who can't afford a computer or the internet (or don't know how to use them effectively) who still watch a 20 year old set and for whom upgrading will be a significant expense?

    Well, those losers could do something productive instead of wasting their time, donchathink?

    And no, it doesn't make me an elitist for proposing that those who cannot get a decent job, should do something.
  23. Re:what the?! on Commission Says NASA Failed on Shuttle Safety · · Score: 1

    Well Do'h!

    They should have extensive toolkit and a decomissioned broken shuttle for spare parts with them ofcourse!

  24. So? on The Strange Energy Budget of Ethanol Production · · Score: 1

    It's for you, not for car.

  25. Re:Sony PD-150 on Rugged Mini-DV Camcorder for the Road? · · Score: 1

    Second! Great cam.
    Thou... If they said they can't get any MiniDV cam to last more than 12 months, I wouldn't put my money on semi-pro cams either.
    There has to be a line of products for extreme conditions from some company. I haven't seen such this far.

    (*doodles with his Sony DCR-HC19 which has so dinky foily mechanics that even loading a new cassette is a risk*)