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  1. Re:Issues on Slashdot Discussion System Updates · · Score: 1

    Just 15 minutes-- or better yet- hold all versions so people can see what you posted first so you can't lie but CAN fix stupid errors.

    only a git would fix stupid errors

  2. Thoughtcrime on Northrop Grumman To Develop Brain-Wave Binoculars · · Score: 1

    Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.

  3. Re:*sigh* on Hans Reiser To Reveal Location of Wife's Body · · Score: 1

    Would we just toss aside General Relativity, never to see it again, because we don't want to be associated with the author?


    The difference here is that Hans produced a large piece of code which now needs to be vetted in its' entirety. Albert produced a (relatively) smaller piece of code which has already been vetted, time and time again.
  4. Closure of Channel BT. on Post-Quake, China Cuts Access to Entertainment Web Sites · · Score: 1, Interesting
    Translation: close all torrent sites.

    All non essentials, ie p2p, will be shut down. All resources are to go into humanitarian relief.

    Be prepared to wait a while for your latest episodes via Channel BT.

    I'm really starting to hate China.
    This is no reason to hate China... What did the rest of the US do when Cyclone Katrina hit? Oh, thats right, they sat on their bums and continued to watch Channel BT as they didn't want to know about their fellow citizens people drowning.
  5. Re:Xbox Fiasco, Zune, Vista, Stock Price on Does Ballmer Need To Go? · · Score: 0

    Bill Gates sold his stock and got out around the year 2000 as well...

    Bill ain't stupid.

  6. Re:Lawful reason on Laser Pointers Classed as Weapons in Australia · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is a little excessive, and I challenge the govenrment in NSW to define a lawful reason. I can think of a logical reason (if you can call it logical).

    This whole exercise is not much more than a political diversion. Sydney has some major water/traffic/infrastructure/social/political problems. Rather than deal with them and have everyone talking about how bad the public transport is to the outer suburbs (for example), get everyone talking about laser pointers!!! The lower classes lap it up. It's exactly the same tactic as the Tasmanian governments tactic to push for a state bogan-ball team in the national competition, while avoiding the more pressing issue of two deputy leaders being sacked for corruption within a very short space of time.

    It's got very little to do with safety and much more to do with politics and power.
  7. all well and good on Software to Randomize Police Operations at LAX · · Score: 1

    All well and good, as long as you don't have long hair and aren't from an Arab family...

  8. The last big market scam. on Oil Deposit Could Increase US Reserves 10x · · Score: 1

    The last big stock market scam before the US economy completely collapses?

  9. Re:Great Blazing Colors on What Font Color Is Best For Eyes? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's usually green on black.

    Any shells that default to black on white, I switch immediately. It's not so bad in a web browser, but there's something about a shell and typing in it that hurts my eyes. Same here. I think it may have something to do with green lying in the middle of the visible spectrum. Similar concept as police/emergency lights being red/blue at opposing ends of the visible spectrum allowing for maximum visibility under maximum conditions.
  10. Not even a speed bump. on ARIA Sells a Licence for DJs to Format Shift Music · · Score: -1, Troll

    Most DJs deal drugs as well. This issue with ARIA won't even register as a speed bump on their radar (no pun intended). Business as usual.

  11. Re:I'm not shocked on 95 Of Every 100 Windows PCs Miss Security Updates · · Score: 1

    Then again, not every piece of software alerts you when a new version comes out, so actually keeping 100% of all software on the box current is harder for Windows than say, Ubuntu.
    ...and for a distro like ubuntu which misses oh so many updates it is harder than say, Debian.
  12. Re:factual errors. on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon vs. Mac OS X Leopard · · Score: 1
  13. Re:She's in Russia on Hans Reiser Interview on ABC's 20/20 · · Score: 1

    From what I understand, there are lots of South Americans entering and leaving your country without anyone keeping records.

  14. ocw.mit.edu on Best Way To Teach Oneself Math? · · Score: 4, Informative
  15. Re:Can't it be both? on New York Taxi Drivers To Strike Over GPS · · Score: 1

    ...and these truck drivers are being paid by the hour?

    Cab drivers are paid by the job...

    Big difference.

  16. Re:Cost vs SSD? on New Water-Cooled Hard Drives Coming · · Score: 1

    You obviously haven't been following the recent relative price trends with respect to solid state and platter based technologies.

    The real question about water cooling for platter based technology is... Why? Especially when solid state is about to overtake platter technology.

  17. Fast food on Giant Squid Washed Ashore in Australia · · Score: 1, Funny

    Giant calamari rings anyone?

  18. DNA. Sending life into deep space. on NASA Purchases $19M Russian Space Toilet · · Score: 1

    All I can think of is how cool it would be to send piles of this waste into deep space. The DNA of the living organisms contained within would have the opportunity to start life on another rock somewhere else in the universe. It would also come with some good nutrients to get it started.

  19. Re:MWI is cool and all.... on 50 Years of the Multiverse Interpretation · · Score: 1

    The Heisenberg uncertainty principle gives a lower bound on the product of the standard deviations of position and momentum for a system, implying that it is impossible to have a particle that has an arbitrarily well-defined position and momentum simultaneously.

  20. Re:2nd level firehose? on ISPs Inserting Ads Into Your Pages · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I thought that as I read the linked articles.

    How did a crap story like this get onto the front page of slashdot?

  21. Google on MS Wants To Identify All Web Surfers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Surely Google is doing this already?

    MS is dropping the ball.

  22. Re:It's almost as if... on Windows Media Center Restricts Cable TV · · Score: 1

    My new .sig :)

  23. Re:Article is flawed. on Why Web Pirates Can't Be Touched · · Score: 1

    Intellectual Property is to Property as Fools gold is to Gold.

  24. Re:Light on details on Reiser Murder Case Gets Stranger · · Score: 1

    What I find intereting about his confession is this line, "He also said that Sturgeon had confessed to a potential ninth murder, but that Sturgeon wasn't sure if the victim was fully dead when he left him." Something about that just seems wrong.


    The 9th victim is Hans.
  25. Re:I did that too! on Reiser Murder Case Gets Stranger · · Score: 1

    However, if this guy confesses to killing 8 (maybe 9 people, he's not sure), why wouldn't he confess to her death if he did it? What, they're going to kill him an extra time? Make him serve an extra life sentence?

    Well, Sean Sturge might just be so deranged that he wants to take out someone else on his way down as well... this someone else could be Hans. Hans may have been lined up to be victim number 10, however, Sean may have been busted before he got the chance, so, he is finishing the job...