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  1. Re:North Korea about to be disappeared in 3... on North Korea Threatens US With Preemptive Nuclear Strike · · Score: 1

    They need additional nukes.

    They require more vespene gas.

  2. Re:Great on Version 2.0 Released For Open Skype Alternative Jitsi · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It seems people can only read into small details and aren't able to look at the big picture.

    Skype, Facetime and all others are all incompatible with each other. Even basic text messaging services are not compatible with each others, unlike email and websites.

    That's why I quoted xkcd. Not because of the standards used by other programs, but because we seriously need to force Microsoft, Apple and others to unite and support a single standard. All this fragmentation reminds me of the MS-DOS/Mac OS 9/AmigaOS/TOS days.

  3. Great on Version 2.0 Released For Open Skype Alternative Jitsi · · Score: 0, Redundant
  4. Re:Blame the pirates on SimCity 5: How Not To Design a Single Player Game · · Score: 2

    Again, this pointless "every game pirated is a lost sale" arguments. I'd say that most kids who pirate the game would never have had the money to buy the game in the first place.

    I'd bet that companies lose more money into trying to make their games secure than the total of potential lost sales.

  5. When will we trust robots? on When Will We Trust Robots? · · Score: 1

    After they get equipped with GPP.

    Share and enjoy!

  6. Re:Sensitive sensor on Canon Shows the Most Sensitive Camera Sensor In the World · · Score: 1

    Stop, you're going to make it cry.

  7. Re:Tesla is nasty! on Tesla Motors Loses Appeal Against BBC's Top Gear · · Score: 1

    Is the Volt worth its price? How long can you go on the battery alone, on your average week?

  8. Re:That's not DRM on DRM Chair Self-Destructs After 8 Uses · · Score: 1

    Here's your loaf of bread. That will be 2.25 million dollars please.

  9. Re:Which is the best 3d printer? on 83-Year-Old Inventor Wins $40,000 3D Printing Competition · · Score: 1

    The Printrbot is cheaper and from the videos I've seen on YouTube, it seems to work just fine.

  10. Re:What is the problem? on 83-Year-Old Inventor Wins $40,000 3D Printing Competition · · Score: 1

    The diameter of the filament must be 1.75mm, ± 0.05mm

  11. Re:Hypothetical Scenario on UK Court Orders Block of Three Torrent Sites · · Score: 1

    Me neither. That's why I only buy single tunes for 99 cents each, on iTunes.

  12. Filament quality? on 83-Year-Old Inventor Wins $40,000 3D Printing Competition · · Score: 2

    One of the thing that makes a good 3D printer filament is a perfectly round one with a constant diameter. I'm guessing it was two requirements of the contest but the author was too lazy to put a link on the "Desktop Factory Competition" text.

    Yes I can search "Desktop Factory Competition", but so will 500 other people. I'm not being lazy, I'm saying one person should have worked 5 seconds more to write the post instead of making 500 people waste 2 seconds. It's basic mathematics.

  13. Re:You binned some SGI workstations??? on Ask Slashdot: Projects For a Heap of Tech Junk? · · Score: 1

    2400bps is pure luxury, 300bps would be a better punishment.

  14. Re:You binned some SGI workstations??? on Ask Slashdot: Projects For a Heap of Tech Junk? · · Score: 2

    Windows 3 on a 486? You're being generous.

    I'd go with Windows 3.11 on a 286 with a Hercules graphic card.

  15. Scanners and printers on Ask Slashdot: Projects For a Heap of Tech Junk? · · Score: 2

    Scanners and printers are a good source of hard polished rods and bushings, belts and stepper motors with pulleys. You can build 3D printers and small desktop CNC mills with these parts. Old business-grade hardware usually has better parts too such as thicker rods and stronger motors.

  16. Re:As a Mac user, let me be the first to say on Blizzard Set To Debut 'Something New' At PAX East · · Score: 1

    Maybe, but without Steam we would only have Blizzard games and Cider-wrapped Windows games from EA.

  17. Re:So What's The Point on HTML5 Storage Bug Can Fill Your Hard Drive · · Score: 1, Funny

    And those ads will be from Western Digital, Toshiba and Seagate.

  18. As a Mac user, let me be the first to say on Blizzard Set To Debut 'Something New' At PAX East · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Finally, another game available for the Mac! We almost have a dozen good games now!

  19. Here's my guess on Blizzard Set To Debut 'Something New' At PAX East · · Score: 1

    Eastern Kingdom and Kalimdor Xtreme Beach Volleyball.

    Which will be followed in about five years by
    Leisure Suit Larry in the land of the night elves.

  20. Re:Not for a lack of soul on Is Code.org Too Soulless To Make an Impact? · · Score: 2

    And The Woz.

  21. Re: wtf on How Paid Apps On Firefox OS Will Work · · Score: 1

    Anonymous Paid Koward?

  22. Re:So -- the terrorists win in the end on Software Lets Scientists Assemble DNA · · Score: 4, Funny

    So what you mean is that we should be monitoring Linux users?

  23. Re:Sounds great on Software Lets Scientists Assemble DNA · · Score: 2

    Distribute that kind of power, you say? Let's make a beowolf cluster of DNA! We'll call it.... Earth.

  24. Re:Lossy doesn't mean what you think it means on Music Industry Sees First Revenue Increase Since 1999 · · Score: 1

    I'm trying to point out the difference between "digitization losses" vs "perceptual encoding losses". It's two entirely different things.

  25. Re:Futurama reminiscence on Plans Unveiled For Full Scale Replica of the Titanic · · Score: 1