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  1. I wonder if it'll be like my college experience... on Sims University Ships in March · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't think it would be very fun to watch your Sim be promising throughout grade school, then sit around in his tiny dorm room, occasionally going to classes, constantly on his computer or masturbating or watching cartoons, until he flunks out the second semester. Man, what a depressing game The Sims is. Also, life.

  2. Re:/. is not tech support on Is Firefox 1.0 Less Stable than Firefox PR1.0? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How's Amnesty International causing deaths?

  3. lordy b'goo on Fixing That Old Game System · · Score: 0, Troll

    20 comments and it's slashdotted. They need to fix the broken NES that they're using to host the thing.

  4. Re:Hmm. on DS Pre-Orders Stopped as Sales Soar · · Score: 1

    Sure, but the PSP is only 33% more (compared to, yknow, 3x as much for your example). For gamers that want a DS but also are interested in the PSP, if they can't find a DS anywhere maybe they'll pick up a PSP instead and perhaps not get a DS for a while if at all.

    Probably won't be enough to be anything but a negligible benefit for the PSP, but I should think it'll happen.

  5. Hmm. on DS Pre-Orders Stopped as Sales Soar · · Score: 3, Funny

    I wonder if this might prove advantageous for Sony; if the DS sells out (supply can't meet demand), then maybe consumers will settle for the PSP in lieu of a DS.

  6. Re:Turnabout is hardly fair play. on The Votemaster Is...Andrew Tanenbaum · · Score: 1

    Well uh... who is running against Mr. Blair? You don't run for Prime Minister, you run for office and then your party either gets a majority or forms a coalition to become in the majority, and then the coalition (/party) selects a prime minister. You can say that there's favorites for PM if opposition parties gain control, but nobody is running for Prime Minister because of the caveats mentioned, right? Tony Blair is the Labour party leader, I know without having to Google, and I'm afraid I don't know any opposition parties besides the Lib Dems and the Tory (Tories?), which are rather liberal and rather conservative, respectively.

  7. Re:Independant voting not spoilers on Kerry Concedes Election To Bush · · Score: 1

    Your logic is flawed. Voting is an incomplete-information game; we know who we're going to vote for but we don't know who everybody else is going to vote for. Ohio and Florida were both polling at dead-even, and two votes could've swayed them if they'd tied; then a third-party vote would have indeed been a wasted one. One can vote for Badnarik if they know that Bush is going to win the state by 538 votes, but nobody knows that Bush is going to win the state at all when they cast their vote, in some battleground states.

  8. Re:Talking alot without saying anything on PSP Developer Interview · · Score: 1

    Heh, I was going to ask why you would need to import a DS, then I looked at your username and realized you're probably not in N America.

  9. for cd ripping, at least, on Centrally-Controlled Home Music System on a Budget? · · Score: 1

    I swear by ABCDE. Or at least I did, until I didn't run FreeBSD anymore. But it's a great commandline based mp3 grabber, and you can set it up to store everything in your own custom directory structure (just do it once with abcde.conf).

  10. Re:Dual Screens, Dual CPUs on Nintendo DS to Launch November 21 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A friend of mine's a developer for a Guillemot subsidiary, working on a DS launch title, and he says that it would be pretty trivial to port Linux to it. So, there you go, straight from the friend-of-an-anonymous-developer's mouth.

  11. Re:This thing has separate hardware for DVD/MP3s? on Windows Laptops Ship With Linux Media Player · · Score: 1

    Why would you need flash memory when you have a hard drive in the computer? How much does a BIOS chip cost? I don't think it's anywhere near the $400 my dad paid for his portable DVD player.

  12. Re:This thing has separate hardware for DVD/MP3s? on Windows Laptops Ship With Linux Media Player · · Score: 1, Troll

    Uh, it's not seperate (not separate) hardware for DVDs and MP3s. It's probably a half-gig partition, if that, with a Linux installation that can play DVDs and MP3s from the main, Windows partition.

    Dumbass. RTFM.

  13. Re:The other side? on Defending The Skies Against Congress And The Elderly · · Score: 1

    I've known religiously fanatical people who were well-advanced in years. Now, these people didn't happen to believe in a religion which asked its followers to kill people for the cause, but I'm sure that there are fantatical elderly people who would be more than willing to help out. The folks that holed up a fellow that bombed an abortion clinic somewhere in the Bible belt were in their 60s, as I recall. It's not that big of a leap, like you said.

  14. Re:Is this the place? on FreeBSD Moves to X.Org · · Score: 1

    'Course, if you pronounce it as if it's an ancient Chinese demon, it'd be CHORG. which is a good name too.

  15. Re:Not only a repost, a non-issue. on Hatch Pushes INDUCE Act · · Score: 1

    Point 8: Republicans like to hold votes open until they can get a majority of votes (something they used to yell at Democrats for doing, back in the day when they were the majority body in the House.)

    Point 10: GWB hasn't used a veto yet in his presidency.

  16. Re:So Sorry- I've only got one. on Big Bang of Convergence · · Score: 1

    Heh, the classic "say a feature you want isn't supported, and then be told how to do it instead of looking in the manual or Google for it" maneuver. Originally it was just for people in Linux. "Linux sucks, there's not even a built-in CLI command to dump out the first 10 lines of a file!" Convergence indeed, when this technique has been applied to remote controls!

  17. Re:Wi-Fi Power on Native American Wireless ISP Launched · · Score: 1

    Personally I didn't care for the movie much at all. I thought the bit about "magic" was pretty contrived and pretentious, the acting was almost uniformly sub-par, and the comedic relief (e.g. "Frybread Power," "Dances with Salmon") wasn't especially comedic. All of the allegory made me annoyed, rather than inspired.

  18. Re:All right, this will get me flamed, I'm sure. on Native American Wireless ISP Launched · · Score: 1

    Actually, it was only recently that Spokane overtook Tacoma as the second-biggest (population-wise.) It was front-page news in the Idaho-Spokesman Review.

  19. Re:It won't matter much... on Microsoft Changes Tune Again On SP2 Installs · · Score: 1

    When I updated to SP1 and my installation broke, that's what I did. Actually, it was FreeBSD, but who's counting?

  20. Here's one from me: on Spam as Poetry · · Score: 1

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  21. Re:trust on The World's Most Dangerous Password · · Score: 1

    An analogy would validate vigilante justice. By not going to the Security Council to dictate what measured should be taken against Iraq for their material breaches of U.N. resolutions, the US defied the UN just as much as Iraq had. The UN is the one to decide what measures should be taken to enforce UN "laws," and saying that there's no resolution that says the US can't unilaterally, extra-organizationally act in the name of the UN is just absurd.

  22. Re:trust on The World's Most Dangerous Password · · Score: 3, Informative

    Article 42:

    Should the Security Council consider that measures provided for in Article 41 would be inadequate or have proved to be inadequate, [the UN Security Council] may take such action by air, sea, or land forces as may be necessary to maintain or restore international peace and security. Such action may include demonstrations, blockade, and other operations by air, sea, or land forces of Members of the United Nations.

  23. Re:trust on The World's Most Dangerous Password · · Score: 1
  24. Re:trust on The World's Most Dangerous Password · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Oh, you were trying to blame the current President? Maybe if he'd actually started this war that would make sense, but since there is an unbroken string of broken UN resolutions dating back to Saddam's invasion of Kuwait[...]

    Link me to the UN resolution that gives the US executive power and the ability to act as its security council without oversight or resolution.

  25. Re:Play on words? on Cellular Automata and Music Using Java · · Score: 1

    Clearly it is. On that note, I just finished my first year at the University of Idaho (incidentally, it has the only music college named after a jazz musician--Lionel Hampton, who moved to the town it's in, Moscow, Idaho and helped with the university a lot)... me and some music major friends put together a jazz trio called Theophilus Monk, since I lived in the Donald R. Theophilus Residence Hall Tower. So, marginally more clever. :)