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  1. I don't get it on De Icaza Regrets Novell/Microsoft Pact · · Score: 1

    Call me dim, why has anyone cared about Novell since, well, the mid '90s when anyone who wasn't locked into legacy stuff could just plug a network together?

    Seriously, I read the Novell's Wikipedia page, but aside from some fond reminiscing of one-upon-a-times, do they do anything other than collect old buzzwords?

  2. Is he going to Heaven or Hell? on D&D Co-Creator Gary Gygax Has Passed Away · · Score: 1

    Let's roll and find out...

  3. Re:stability on Experiment Shows Traffic 'Shock Waves' Cause Jams · · Score: 1

    'If they had set up an experiment with robots driving in a perfect circle, flow breakdown would not have occurred.'

    Doubt it.

    I BREAK FOR OLD PEOPLE'S MEDICINE
    -- Robot Bumper Sticker

  4. Re:I want tougher LCD's on Obituary For the Sony Trinitron · · Score: 1

    Put a layer of glass over the front for protection, I'll accept the weight penalty.

    This layer of glass is one of the reasons why, when buying a refurbished Mac this week, I decided to get the current (aluminum) iMac instead of one from the previous (white) generation.

  5. Re:Fake Blog, Fake Student- on Industry Group Sponsors College Course To Create Fake Blog · · Score: 1

    Authenticity and originality are key to the youth demographic

    Which is pretty funny considering what a bunch of sheep the youth demographic is.

  6. Re:Let's face it: on The Ruby Programming Language · · Score: 3, Funny

    get RAD with Java.

    These kids. In my day we used to get funky with Fortran and we liked it.

  7. A web site? on End Software Patents Project Comes Out Swinging · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well fuck me with a shovel, those folks are serious.

  8. "Quality" is not an adjective! on A Good Style Guide Under the Creative Commons? · · Score: 1

    In addition to just documentation, what other UI advice can Slashdot readers offer in order to ensure quality development?

    Do you mean "quality development" as how to develop of some sort of measure of quality, or do you simply mean development that fails to suck?

  9. Re:This is aimed at power users... on Microsoft Cuts Vista Price In 70 Countries · · Score: 1

    ...Windows zealots

    Oh, man, you had me going right up until then.

  10. Re:Crashes will happen... on Military Grounds Stealth Bomber Fleet · · Score: 1

    It's also important to consider that much of the technology that is developed for military aircraft will find its way into civilian aircraft in one way or another. Fly-by-wire, composite materials, titanium details etc. are all a result from the military development.

    I already have composite materials and titanium details on my Honda, dude.

  11. Re:You cannot be serious on Japan Launches "Super-Speed" Internet Satellite · · Score: 1

    So a subsistence farmer in rural Indonesia gets a better download speed than me, a sophisticated suburban Australian. Awesome.

    Payback for Yahoo Serious is a bitch.

  12. Re:roadwarriors on Mossberg Reviews the Lenovo X300 Vs. MacBook Air · · Score: 1

    Can we stop calling travelling salesmen 'road warriors'.

    Are we still allowed to call prostitutes 'choad warriors?'

  13. Re:Bending Space-Time Lights the Way on Gravity Lamp Grabs Green Prize · · Score: 1

    why not ship the damn thing with slightly yellow-tinted acrylic?

    Because they don't allow smoking in the factory?

  14. Re:15% efficiency on New Solar Cell Harvests Hydrogen From Water · · Score: 2, Informative

    I thought that current solar cells have efficiencies of up to 40%. So how is this better?

    It allows energy storage (in the form of hydrogen) for later use. Maybe it's not as efficient as using compressed air, as was described in the cover story in January's issue of Scientific American, but it's still worth investigating.

  15. Re:Welcome to a new low on Steve Fossett Declared Dead · · Score: 4, Funny

    Instead of attending stupid show-off parties, he used his money to make his dreams become reality.

    Two chicks at the same time?

  16. Re:The Facts vs Global Media Reporting. on UK Commissioner Seeks To Ban Ultrasonic Anti-Teen Device · · Score: 1

    As many others have said, the UK has a very serious problem with gangs of youths causing trouble, and we're not just talking a little petty crime, there have been a number of recent cases where individuals, often adults, have actually being kicked to death or stabbed by such groups. In some areas, entire communities will not leave their homes at night, because the streets aren't safe. We're not just talking about the stereotypical elderly couple here, we're talking about regular families, it really is that bad.

    This can't be true. I was informed that all of those cameras in the UK would make people safe.

  17. It's like one of those "best mix" radio stations on Microsoft Battles Vista Perception With Prizes · · Score: 3, Funny

    that secretaries listen to that suck so much that they have to give away money every hour to get people to listen.

    Microsoft: The most free money every hour!

  18. Re:I don't know about this ... on DARPA Advances AI Program For Air Traffic Control · · Score: 1

    I see we're still on track for Judgment Day, even if it's taken a bit longer than Cameron originally estimated.

    Don't blame Cameron; she was distracted by her thing for House.

  19. Re:Thank goodness on Has Ron Paul Quit? · · Score: 1

    The Austrian School was founded in the 1870's by Carl Menger. Mises and Hayek are respectively the 3rd and 4th generation of Austrian economists. Hayek studied under Mises, who studied under Böhm-Bawerk, who studied Menger (not under him though; by reading his works).

    Yeah, whatever. Their football team still sucks.

  20. Re:I am Muslim and... on Muslim Groups Attempt to Censor Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    Honestly, Muslims around the world need to shut the fuck up.

    If you complain about something, especially on the internets -- people are going to do it MORE.


    Just ask that Streisand Jewess.

  21. Re:Bunch of pussies. on Canadians Wary of 'Enhanced Drivers Licenses' · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but Gandhi outsourced to India. Oh, wait.

  22. Re:You're asking (partially) the wrong question on Best Laptop for Going Around the World? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I agree with wonkavader, but I suggest using a laptop sleeve. A sleeve offers better padding than a shirt as well as some rudimentary water repellence. I carry my MacBook in an InCase neoprene sleeve in my old knapsack and nobody knows unlike those folks walking around with laptop bags and obvious computer knapsacks.

  23. Re:Obama good, Huckabee bad on Best Super Tuesday Candidate for Technology? · · Score: 1

    When my wife and I took our concealed carry shooting tests in Boston, all applicants had to fire double action using the Boston Police's revolvers. My wife would have much rather used her own Hi-Power.

    On the semi-auto oddness, Texas differentiates between carry permits for semi-auto or revolver, so all applicants are encouraged to use semi-auto, even if they have to borrow one.

  24. Re:Romney being a mormon is a plus on Best Super Tuesday Candidate for Technology? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Unfortunately, Bain & Company made lots of money by advising folks to send jobs overseas.

    Also I lived in Boston while he was governor and saw what an absolute overreaching fucktard he was during the whole gay marriage thing. Instead of just letting the issue make its way through the Massachusetts courts and legislature he tried time and again to interrupt the process and make it go his way. Having seen what he'd do on an issue as harmless as gay marriage, I can only imagine what he'd do with the War on Terror as his soapbox.

  25. Re:A Good Reference on Best Super Tuesday Candidate for Technology? · · Score: 1

    Pity one has to go through 50,000 page views to read it.