Slashdot Mirror


User: The+Step+Child

The+Step+Child's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
103
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 103

  1. Re:Stranglet vs Human on Do Strangelets Pass Through Earth? · · Score: 1

    And with that in mind, perhaps there was no thrid gunman on a grassy knoll. Maybe Kennedy was the victim of a stray bit of cosmic matter?

    So that was what the "magic bullet" was... :)

  2. Re:some times i get so angry about this.... on Video Games Not Protected Form of Speech · · Score: 1

    There should be times when the child can be with their friends without parental supervision. And when that happens, I see no problem if the parent gets a little assistance from retailers who won't sell overly violent video games, or porn, or beer or cigarettes to their children

    It doesn't matter - anyone under 18 who wants to drink, smoke, or watch porn does. When was the last time you heard a 15 year old say, "I really want a cigarette but I won't smoke until I'm 18!"? Or how about taking a poll in the US for the number of people who started drinking before they were 21?

  3. Re:Mutations are grrreeeat! on Thumbs Are the New Fingers for GameBoy Youth · · Score: 1

    Something that strikes me as odd is that most of the long-time guitar or piano players that I know have no problems with their hands, but the people who work at a keyboard or game controller all the time do (not considering people who spend their time doing both of these things).

  4. Re:Olden days... on First 802.11 Wireless Movie Theater? · · Score: 1

    Although, sometimes the movie itself doesn't matter at all, depending on whoever you're with :)

  5. Yup, and... on Designer Babies, Version 1.0 · · Score: 1

    ...sickle cell anemia. In some parts of the world - I don't remember why exactly - sickle cell anemia is actually a genetic advantage...hence selection against people without that trait, and eventually a high distribution of people who have it.

  6. Easy solution: on Designer Babies, Version 1.0 · · Score: 1

    Socialist health care

  7. Sounds like a good idea... on Review Of Netflix DVD Rental Service · · Score: 1
    ...but (and correct me if I'm wrong):

    If you live on the east coast, you're going to have to put a lot of faith in the post (ha)

    They don't seem to rent out porns

  8. Re:What saddens me the most about this. . . on USA Busted Trying to Bug China's Presidential 767 · · Score: 1

    I must be missing the point to all of these "Well the US president lives better than I do!" replies. The US isn't communist. Capitalism is all about a handful of people at the top of the economic ladder, and a lot of people at the bottom.

    From way back in 10th grade government class, it was my understanding that real communism is all about everyone having the same amount of everything. Of course, such a society doesn't and has never existed. I think that was what the original poster was trying to say.

  9. Re:No more horrible RF & induction... on New External Sound "Card" · · Score: 1

    Since youre going outside the case, remember to be a few feet away from your CRT monitor and TV too :)

  10. Re:seriously? on Nintendo Declares GCN Most Popular Console Ever · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    (insert Neo/Matrix joke here)

  11. Re:I agree with the plan on Next Restricted CD Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    If you decide to do this, do it at a large music store. Pissing off local small record stores doesn't do much for the cause.

  12. Re:GNUTELLA on Korean Brothers Arrested For File-Sharing Site · · Score: 1

    Not everyone has an OC-192.

  13. Re:DOOM? on Quake 4 Announced · · Score: 1

    Nothing happened to it. Quake 4 might even use DOOM3's engine.

  14. Re:hey... you know... you don't like it... on EPIC Makes Privacy Case Against Windows XP To FTC · · Score: 1

    Try telling your boss that.

  15. Re:Digital Copies on Restricted CDs Quietly Distributed · · Score: 1

    SBLive Value does have digital in. Takes a little more toying around to access it (ie making homemade connectors), but it does work quite well.

    Anyway, there are new standards emerging, like SACD (Super Audio CD) and DVD-Audio. If they catch on, we won't have to worry about Macrovision for that much longer.

  16. Re:I swear I read about this somewhere else alread on MSDN Subscriber Forced to use Passport · · Score: 1

    Funny how at first glance that looks like -Revelations 13:37.

  17. Re:They won't need our DNA to spank us on "Encounter 2001" To Send Human DNA To Space · · Score: 1

    Any alien race sufficiently advanced to travel the interstellar distances to reach us will be able to do whatever they please to us, DNA or no.

    Not if we do an SCV rush.

  18. Re:making music on Insanely Audiophile · · Score: 1

    Then again, one could spend just as much on instruments.

  19. Re:Bugs, security, and featuritis on Software Tracks Kids At School · · Score: 1

    Homework assignments: Do they really expect teachers to spend the time to type in whether each individual student turned in any given assignment? Don't they have anything better to do?

    I don't know if you realize this or not, but currently, most teachers do their record keeping/grades on a computer. Assuming that the software they use on the website supports the software they use for keeping track of grades, updating would simply be uploading a file or two every night.

  20. Re:Too much technology.... on Berners-Lee On The Semantic Web · · Score: 1

    This reminds me of a very similar discussion over at K5.

  21. Re:Probably won't work on Why Offshore Napster Won't Work · · Score: 1

    International waters, eh...?

    "We can't hear you! Come about 15 meters this way!"

    Seriously though, I seem to remember a similar article from awhile back.

  22. So what exactly... on QT 2.3, With Anti-Aliased Fonts · · Score: 1

    ...is the difference between interpolation and anti-aliasing?

  23. Re: Yes on QNX Now Free For Non-Commercial use · · Score: 1
    Microsoft is not the answer, Microsoft is the question. The answer is "no".
    One could also say, "If Microsoft is the answer, it must have been a stupid question."
  24. Re:Hey, we're talking England here! on Speeding To Become Impossible In UK? · · Score: 1

    No, Oprah gave us the Mad Cow Disease

  25. Re:Are Hollywood films an Artform anymore? on Shadow Of The Vampire · · Score: 1

    While I agree, all is not lost - go rent The Cell, on DVD if you can. It's an excellent movie, and it doesn't get much more artistic than this. :)