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  1. Wow on Windows 8 Pre RTM Metro UI Leaked · · Score: 3, Informative

    It sucks just as hard as I thought it would!

  2. They don't do it for the money. on Bank Robbing a Terrible Business, Statistically · · Score: 1

    They do it for the lulz.

  3. Re:Occasional_dabbler? on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Beef With Windows Phone? · · Score: 1

    Nah. No one ever astroturfs or shills on Slashdot.
    They save that for the influential and widely read tech sites.

  4. Re:Bonobo Chimpanzee on Bonobos Join Chimps As Closest Human Relatives · · Score: 1

    There's also the biological definition of species that requires that they be able to interbreed, we have never seen that happen.

    But isn't that more a matter of geographic distribution rather than lack of interest or ability?

  5. Re:Cool. on ESA Announces the Summer of Code In Space 2012 · · Score: 1

    It wouldn't have happened if they has just programmed everything in javascript instead of using an obscure, baroque language like Ada.

  6. Re:hopefully something better than this on ESA Announces the Summer of Code In Space 2012 · · Score: 1

    import time;
    warnees = ('Will Robinson', 'Penny Robinson', 'Judy Robinson', 'Dr. Smith')
    interval = 1
    for warnee in warnees:

    Spacefaring civilizations don't use toy languages like this.

  7. Re:Woah! on 64 Drone Bases Located On American Soil · · Score: 1

    Rules only apply to you and I, not to their group.

    Speak for yourself. I am an elitist.

  8. Bonobo Chimpanzee on Bonobos Join Chimps As Closest Human Relatives · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What reason is there to consider the Bonobo and Chimpanzee different species?
    Is it just a matter of behavior? If so, has it been proven that the behavioral differences aren't cultural?

  9. Re:Keep yer knickers on on 64 Drone Bases Located On American Soil · · Score: 1

    The president will always have control. He is the Commander-in-Chief and every soldier is sworn to obey his orders. Each person in the military knows the chain of command that starts at the President and down to themselves, it is not ambiguous.

    So when the president orders the military to break all resistance to his autocratic rule by decree, they'll gladly comply...

  10. Re:Woah! on 64 Drone Bases Located On American Soil · · Score: 1

    Slashdot is NOT the Twilight Zone. It is merely the reflection of that Twilight Zone which is now the USA. The USA today is a full-fledged national security surveillance police state on the very cusp of martial law & military dictatorship. The Republic is dead, no confirmation needed or wanted from NetCraft. The Constitution has been shredded. The Bill of Rights has been destroyed. Congress has relinquished all their powers to the Unitary Executive.

    You're saying that as if it's a bad thing.

  11. Re:Woah! on 64 Drone Bases Located On American Soil · · Score: 1

    We can't all run around in tricorns with muskets, trading negroes and telling our wives to stay home, just because that's how the Founding Fathers would have done it.

    Why not? Sounds good to me!
    (well, except for the tricorn part, I look better in a bicorn)

  12. Re:American Weapons Found in United States on 64 Drone Bases Located On American Soil · · Score: 1

    Next we'll hear that there are nuclear weapons in North Dakota, like that's some kind of privileged informat...

    +++ NO CARRIER

    Good thing Slashdot is full of old fogies, otherwise no one would understand your joke.

  13. Re:Damn! on Blocking Gun Laws With Patents · · Score: 1

    No need for extra firing pins, though; a bit of sandpaper is all that is needed to remove the microstamping.

    Criminals aren't going to stand around the crime scene, collect the casings, sandpaper them off, and put them back on the ground, before running off.

    And why would they, when they can sand the microstamping off the firing pin in their leisure time at home, before they go out to kill?

  14. Re:How about $40 for unlimited on Verizon Wireless Goes Ahead With 'Bucket' Data Plans · · Score: 1

    Just a jump over the 49th parallel (Canada) we have Wind Mobile (major cities only). $40 for pretty everything unlimited, no contract. You guys in the U.S. are getting screwed up the ass.

    But then again, you have to live in Canada.

  15. Re:I have Realistic Consumer specifications on Analyzing the New MacBook Pro · · Score: 1

    My laptop doesn't even have ten eighty peas. I cry myself to sleep every night, snuggled up against my turtleneck that isn't even black.

    Because 100 Mhz is worth 1 million pixels.
    And 10 FPS is worth 2 million pixels.
    That's why good display panels are a waste of money.

  16. Re:Did I miss something? on Analyzing the New MacBook Pro · · Score: 2

    The company who made the screen increased the screen resolution. Apple just bought the new display and dropped it in their box and filled it so it may not break.

    So, if Apple weren't around this same screen would be available in some other computer this week?
    Or, did Apple maybe drive the production of this panel by, for example, investing in research, investing in production lines, signing contracts for the purchase of large numbers of panels, or actually paying for large numbers of panels up front, etc.

  17. Re:BasilBrush, AKA bonch on Analyzing the New MacBook Pro · · Score: 0

    Where can I sign up for this Apple shilling job?
    It sounds like it would be pretty easy and hopefully lucrative as well...

  18. I have to admit... on VMware's Serengeti Brings Hadoop To Virtual, Cloud Environments · · Score: 3, Funny

    So, if I've got only one server, then up to now, I would have to just run an application on that server.
    But now, with only a little overhead, I can pretend to be running the same application in a distributed manner on a cluster, even though it's actually still running on the single server.
    I have to admit this is pretty awesome.

  19. Re:no user-replaceable parts on Analyzing the New MacBook Pro · · Score: 1

    Then why does iFixit sell screwdrivers that can open this laptop?

  20. Not only that on Analyzing the New MacBook Pro · · Score: 1

    Apple had better be careful about pissing off tech savvy people. We are the market leaders. We set the trends.

    And of course, you are also TEH K-R4D AW3$0M3 !!!

  21. I am outraged! on US Defense Contractors and Universities Targeted In Cyberattacks · · Score: 2

    How dare China try to hack another country's computers, infect them with malware, and otherwise snoop on us!
    Only a ROGUE STATE would do such a thing!!!

  22. Re:Medical on Ask Slashdot: Ambitious Yet Ethical Software Jobs? · · Score: 1

    Well there is the unexpected cost of having to put them down.

  23. Re:No Classic or Rosetta on Apple News From WWDC and iPhone 5 Rumors · · Score: 1

    Apple has abandoned Classic and Rosetta so now there is a tremendous amount of software, and the data accessed by said software, that can't run on the new machines.

    Yeah!
    Like... uhh... like MacPaint!!!
    Yeah... and... uhhh... MacDraw!!!

  24. New Mac Pro Too! on Apple News From WWDC and iPhone 5 Rumors · · Score: -1, Troll

    You forgot to mention the new Mac Pro.
    It's a Macbook Air stuck inside a big metal tower!
    No one has ever done anything like that before! Apple ROCKS!

  25. Re:What? on Ask Slashdot: Ambitious Yet Ethical Software Jobs? · · Score: 1

    Actually you may be surprised to learn that solar panel farting unicorns are treated quite well.
    They are well fed, and have their coats brushed daily by virgins.
    We only saw off their horns because otherwise they'd hurt each other in their crowded conditions.