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  1. Re:Bad Planning on $75K Prosthetic Arm Is Bricked When Paired iPod Is Stolen · · Score: 2

    Perhaps an app that can be downloaded to a new device?

  2. we need to focus on If Fusion Is the Answer, We Need To Do It Quickly · · Score: 1

    On other methods that don't fall into the bigger hotter heavier paradigm...

  3. I use fluxbox, because both gnome and kde are bloated and eat my processor just to sit there and do nothing...

  4. Grammatical Error Point made... on Microsoft CEO To Slash 18,000 Jobs, 12,500 From Nokia To Go · · Score: 1

    That was funny. While reading the post you are ranting on, I didn't even notice the lack of periods or capital letters...and since talking about visas, i completely understood that the 'us' meant 'U.S.'...you must be having a difficult day at work...

  5. Teach yourself on Ask Slashdot: Best Way to Learn C# For Game Programming? · · Score: 1

    you have your game...what's the first thing you're gonna need to program? (I needed a GUI for a project of mine...teaching myself python...started there) Ask google how to accomplish this. You may end up spending time in and around the stack exchange sites...and as each 'challenge' arises, you dig around and find out how to write it yourself, and in the process, slowly teach yourself c# (or any other language for that matter)...the important thing you already have, is familiarity with object oriented programming...the rest is just syntax. You're likely to get better results that way. Also as you spend your time sifting through answers on google, you'll likely come across peoples suggestions for reading or teaching etc...good school sites, sites bent on game creation and language of your choice...

  6. Re:Well, he's not wrong on Tesla CEO Elon Musk: Fuel Cells Are 'So Bull@%!#' · · Score: 1

    Don't forget about this http://phys.org/news/2013-01-nanosilicon-rapidly-electricity.html though i think what they are 'stumbling' onto is the effective surface area to volume ratio more than anything else.

  7. I've said this before... on Battlefield Director: Linux Only Needs One 'Killer' Game To Explode · · Score: 1

    the PS3 is running linux...go to the 'about software' menu and see for yourself...how is it that linux hasn't 'taken off' again?

  8. Reminds me of the 'range check' patent war on Did Goldman Sachs Overstep in Criminally Charging Its Ex-Programmer? · · Score: 2

    When a judge, who coded as a hobby, looked at the attorneys and said that any 9th grader could have written a 'range check'... Jury selection is never to get the most intelligent person in a seat...they want the ones who they can paint the picture for, and have them accept it...

  9. Re:Double Agent? on US Lawmakers Want Sanctions On Any Country Taking In Snowden · · Score: 1

    seems the gov't is a little too quick to confirm the leaks instead of cover up or misdirect attention...*shrugs*...

  10. Double Agent? on US Lawmakers Want Sanctions On Any Country Taking In Snowden · · Score: 1

    Anyone ever considered the possibility he's an NSA Plant? What better way to get on the 'inside' of the 'enemy'...proper media coverage and a bit of spin...some 'secrets' to leak to gain the trust of the 'whistle-blower' community? *shrugs*

  11. Re:Different versions of Windows on Why Microsoft Shouldn't Worry About Cannibalizing Their Userbases · · Score: 1

    PS3 is running linux...

  12. U.S. Citizens have historically... on Technology, Not Law, Limits Mass Surveillance · · Score: 3, Insightful

    We've been told that we've been protected from such things, a la the constitution...yet if you go back into history, it's never really been seen by the gov't as a 'limit' to their power...they just make up a 'reason' why they needed to do it. Reasons why it's legal to do so. We have not been historically protected...we've been historically monitored, invaded and exploited for one reason or another in the name of national security and 'fighting enemies'...oh, and marketing. Just because there's not a dictator behind the Securitate, doesn't mean it's not being done behind the scenes.

  13. He's Lying on Snowden Is Lying, Say House Intelligence Committee Leaders · · Score: 1

    says the committee that is supposed to lie to us about any 'intelligence'...

  14. Re:China is America on China Criticizes US For Making Weapon Plans Steal-able, Alleges Attacks From US · · Score: 1

    I spend most of my time NOT being in debt up to my eyeballs. No credit cards, no loans, no student debt, no insurance, no drivers license, no mortgage... I can tell you as a casual observer of the world media, and a former soldier, that war is profitable...and if it's not, cleaning up the mess is. Ask Halliburton, and look into their purchase of Boots and Coots bout a week or so before the Big Oozy (gulf oil spill). Ask the schools that they are building in Iraq that fall over in a nominal wind storm. Ask Ray Nagin bout how he helped to spend the Katrina Relief funds on things like a house in Dallas. Most of this world is pissy right now about the inordinate amount of debt in the world, and how everyone is now paying the price for bad business at the top. 40% of the debt in the US is student loans. Who owns you...that is, how much money do you owe to banks, and what can they take from you if you don't toe the line?

  15. I've seen this before... on Android Users Get Scammed With In-App Antivirus Ads · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of a popup I used to see. Always liked telling me that I had 3786 problems with my windows registry. I'm running linux...i'm sure that the first of those 'problems' is that I don't have a windows registry. XD

  16. I figured it out... on Tiny Tentacled Microorganisms Named After Cthulu · · Score: 2

    the reason we haven't found 'The Great Old One' is because he's not in a singlular spot...but i'm willing to bet if there was a 'family reunion' of these little critters...if there was a ba-jillian come together...we may just have some sort of 'celestial alignment'...creating peculiar geometries within the mind...

  17. Re:reductio ad absurdum on Creationist Bets $10k In Proposed Literal Interpretation of Genesis Debate · · Score: 1

    Emperor killed Vader...not Luke...:p

  18. Hasn't this been done already? on Creationist Bets $10k In Proposed Literal Interpretation of Genesis Debate · · Score: 2

    someone should point him at Kitzmiller v. Dover.

  19. Don't be hostile to people on Ask Slashdot: What Is a Reasonable Way To Deter Piracy? · · Score: 1

    as long as the bottom line matters more to the company than the people, you're not going to get an argument focused on keeping customers, rather litigating additional revenue. treat your potential customers better, you'll generate repeat business and customer base to comfortably provide for everyone, everything AND the bottom line. You loose your customer base to a certain point, and then you have to resort to the new 'fee schedules', 'litigation revenue' etc. which will only serve to push more people away.

  20. Re:OpenSCAD ? on Ask Slashdot: Best 3-D Design Software? · · Score: 1

    You, Anonymous Sir, just made my day...thank you very much.

  21. Re:what happened to not wanting to sue? on Apple Bringing Second Lawsuit To Samsung, Won't Wait For Appeal · · Score: 0

    Well then i see a future for Tim Cook in politics if you ask me...

  22. Re:Altitude Sickness... on Three-Mile-High Supercomputer Poses Unique Challenges · · Score: 1

    *nods*...these guys couldn't sit still...disoriented, nauseous, migraines...they had teh sickness bad...

  23. Re:Altitude Sickness... on Three-Mile-High Supercomputer Poses Unique Challenges · · Score: 1

    you didn't drive from sea level to 10,000 feet in about four hours...that's rather a bit fast to be ascending that far...it'll getcha if you do...i promise

  24. Altitude Sickness... on Three-Mile-High Supercomputer Poses Unique Challenges · · Score: 2

    Drove three of my friends over Tioga Pass in the Sierra Nevada's in the north of Yosemite...couple of them had never been out of Louisiana...between 8000 and the summit of the pass at ~10,000 ft meant me driving while everyone else suffered from altitude sickness...the only cure is to remove to a lower elevation. Having grown up in the sierras, i was used to the elevation...but if you're not acclimated, then you're going to walk 20 feet and have to sit down to rest for 10 minutes.

  25. Re:Who cares? on Pakistan Lifts YouTube Ban For 3 Minutes, Finds More Blasphemy · · Score: 1

    I have also done two years in the US Army...so i consider myself one of the 7% that have earned their citizenship...and those oaths to the Constitution I have not forgotten...but I will not play their games. Had there been but people speaking about the coming police state...or as to why our soldiers are sent overseas to kill others and die while our police at home are bulletproof and backed with free drones and tanks courtesy of DHS...i found no one i thought worth voting for. Thanks for the encouraging words though...