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  1. Re:Times change on What Early Software Was Influential Enough To Deserve Acclaim? · · Score: 1

    Think back to kindergarten: count out two popsicle sticks in one pile, then two sticks in another pile. Now put the piles together, and count out the number of sticks to get the answer.

    Interesting... So if one line represents a popsicle stick...
    First Pile \ |
    Second Pile | /

    The piles put together \/||

    So, in summary, || + || = \/II

  2. Re:VisiCalc on What Early Software Was Influential Enough To Deserve Acclaim? · · Score: 1

    My 20-something daughter just the other day complained about the difficulty of getting the babel fish in your ear!

    My problem was always trying to catch the pesky babel fish... I haven't played that in ages... Thank God I don't have to hear the poetry..

  3. Re:Because the firmware's copyright? on What You Need To Know About Phone Unlocking · · Score: 1

    How true. Wow.

  4. Re:Isn't banning unlocking anti-competitive ? on What You Need To Know About Phone Unlocking · · Score: 1
    For the anonymice, his signature reads:

    Home of the land. Free of the brave.

  5. Re:dead or alive? on Ask Slashdot: Anti-Theft Devices For Luggage? · · Score: 1

    Hmm... maybe something based on the Magnavolt?

  6. Re:Correct you if you're wrong, but... on Microsoft Fails Antivirus Certification Test (Again), Challenges the Results · · Score: 1

    "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

    Whoever said this was an idiot. It is not possible to do the same thing more than once. The very fact that you have done something before will make it a different thing the next time.

  7. Re:Correct you if you're wrong, but... on Microsoft Fails Antivirus Certification Test (Again), Challenges the Results · · Score: 1

    "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

    Whoever said this was an idiot. It is not possible to do the same thing more than once. The very fact that you have done something before will make it a different thing the next time.

  8. Re:This is why on Microsoft Fails Antivirus Certification Test (Again), Challenges the Results · · Score: 1
    I did read Microsoft's response, according to the article.
    This part scared me:

    “We were looking for files that slipped through because of gaps in our telemetry or file collection process. And we found that 2 percent of these files existed across 0.003 percent of our customers,” Blackbird said. “The other 94 percent of the samples don't represent what our customers encounter. When we explicitly looked for these files, we could not find them on our customers' machines.”

    Personally, I'm not opted-in to the "Microsoft Active Protection Service" portion of MSSE, but nowhere in their terms did I find that they could explicitly look for files on my machine....

  9. Re:Depends on... on Aaron's Law: Violating a Site's ToS Should Not Land You in Jail · · Score: 1
    Dear Mr/Ms/Mrs Anonymous Coward,
    Your sentence,

    This change is simply trying to remove that insanity.

    is offensive to me. Please turn yourself in to the nearest federal penitentiary.
    Have a nice day! Best regards,
    Your Local Lawmaker

  10. Re:Sigh... on EFnet Paralyzed By Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    1998 Called?!! Did you WARN them???!

  11. Re:It has to be said. on New IE Vulnerability Used In Targeted Attacks; IE9, IE10 Users Safe · · Score: 1

    Yeah... I don't recall ever seeing any kind of major exploit with lynx ... ah, good ol' lynx.

  12. Re:How To Make PC Gaming Better on How To Make PC Gaming Better · · Score: 1

    Are you sure a 7' device counts as a tablet?

  13. Re:Complexity is failure on Pirate Radio Station In Florida Jams Automotive Electronics · · Score: 3, Insightful
    I know this is completely off-subject...

    ...before the auto exec took over and ruined it...

    If you think the auto exec is bad, wait until you see the config sys!

  14. Re:Too east on Ask Slashdot: What Was Your Favorite Web Comic of 2012? · · Score: 1

    Thanks. I just wasted over a half hour.... and still going

  15. Re:Already Happening on Krugman: Is the Computer Revolution Coming To a Close? · · Score: 1

    As a psychic , I see the future...

    ftfy :)

  16. Re:vi and cc on Ask Slashdot: Android Apps For Kids Under 12 Months? · · Score: 1

    Hmm.. I thought vi is a text editor and emacs is an operating system... oh well.

  17. Re:NVIDIA is worth $7.87 billion on Nvidia Wins $20M In DARPA Money To Work On Hyper-Efficient Chips · · Score: 1

    I thought "irregardless" meant without disregard to, or actually to simplify it more, "regarding" ...
    it's a very nonflawless opinion of mine, though.

  18. Re:NVIDIA? on Nvidia Wins $20M In DARPA Money To Work On Hyper-Efficient Chips · · Score: 1

    AMD generally has faster chips

    Perhaps, but at what cost?

  19. Re:Isn't this economic without DARPA funding? on Nvidia Wins $20M In DARPA Money To Work On Hyper-Efficient Chips · · Score: 1

    Let's just hope it's not a 386 ... :)

  20. Re:Pay the $3.99 on Ask Slashdot: Where Do You Draw the Line On GPL V2 Derived Works and Fees? · · Score: 1

    From the question description, I think that the person trying to get the source code has not actually obtained a binary form of it yet. Could be wrong, I just didn't read that they actually got a binary anywhere...

  21. Re:What else does a mail client need to do? on Ask Slashdot: Current State of Linux Email Clients? · · Score: 1

    I'm all for that! How about elm (or if you want to get real fancy, pine)?

  22. Re:Hydrophobic? on Water Bottle Fills Itself From the Air · · Score: 1

    Frankly, I think you people are all nuts

    That's okay. We all think you are nuts, too. :)

  23. Re:Science and Spiritual Things on The Science of Thanks Giving · · Score: 1

    Are you sure? When my clock broke, the numbers wouldn't light up at all.

  24. Re:A few nice words on The Science of Thanks Giving · · Score: 1

    10 print "thank you for your input. i will take this suggestion under consideration."
    20 goto 10

  25. Re:What Ever You Have to Say About Hostess Company on Ask Slashdot: Should Hosting Companies Have Change Freezes? · · Score: 1

    You don't see the connection? The summary mentions "hosting", which is obviously a reference to hostess twinkies. Furthermore, the word "freezes" is in the summary title, which could only indicate the process of freezing a hostess twinkie. I mean, what else could these terms mean on a slashdot story?