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  1. Re:See... on Secret Service Investigating Small Drone On White House Grounds · · Score: 1

    [the] Bureau of Drones, Quadcopters, and Very Large Kites

    Sounds like something from Monty Python.

  2. Re:Jackpot! on Secret Service Investigating Small Drone On White House Grounds · · Score: 1

    Someone somewhere is seriously wondering if we can scale an air defense battery to the size of toy firetrucks and SAMs that are the size of bottle rockets.

    Yes there is. His name is Lt. Gen. Leland Zevo.

  3. Re:Will this scale? on Secret Service Investigating Small Drone On White House Grounds · · Score: 1

    Handheld Zapper to the rescue!

  4. Re:Windows 10 on DirectX 12 Lies Dormant Within Microsoft's Recent Windows 10 Update · · Score: 1

    I'm running XP on a new computer that I built myself about six months ago. I installed XP because it's the only Windows license I have.

    And there's no such thing as a "cheap" Windows 7/8 license, it's still 130$CAD everywhere. I'm not paying 130$ for the OS of my gaming PC, my CPU and GPU combined didn't even cost that much,

  5. Windows 10 on DirectX 12 Lies Dormant Within Microsoft's Recent Windows 10 Update · · Score: 1

    Microsoft still hasn't announced how much a Windows 10 license will cost. And don't reply with "it's free" because not everyone runs Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8/8.1.

  6. Re: sponsored links? on Doomsday Clock Moved Two Minutes Forward, To 23:57 · · Score: 1

    I've actually written a comment about this and it's doable today, with crypto-currencies.

  7. Re::p on A Call That Made History, 100 Years Ago Today · · Score: 1

    Why the upside-down smiley face?

  8. Re:Time to stop using bitcoin on Winklevoss Twins Plan Regulated Bitcoin Exchange · · Score: 1

    I don't mind if I get an "overrated" to cancel the moderation made by someone else, but my baseline "2" is neutral and doesn't have any significance (insightful or whatever).

  9. Re:I won't notice on UHD Spec Stomps on Current Blu-ray Spec, But Will Consumers Notice? · · Score: 1

    People have called the pixel dimensions "resolution" since the late 1980's.

    It's also what's on Wikipedia.

    It is usually quoted as width × height, with the units in pixels: for example, "1024 × 768" means the width is 1024 pixels and the height is 768 pixels.

  10. Re:Time to stop using bitcoin on Winklevoss Twins Plan Regulated Bitcoin Exchange · · Score: 2

    I don't know which dumbass keeps modding me "overrated"... don't you know that people with an excellent karma automatically post with a score of 2?

  11. Re:Thank god I bought a 980. on NVIDIA Responds To GTX 970 Memory Bug · · Score: 1

    If Bitcoin ever hits a value of a million dollar per coin, I'll be able to afford a 980. Maybe.

  12. Re:Hey! I've been gypped! on NVIDIA Responds To GTX 970 Memory Bug · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well thank you very much. I'll be here all week!

  13. Re: Performance Mouse MX on Ask Slashdot: Where Can You Get a Good 3-Button Mouse Today? · · Score: 1

    Still the same almond colour as when I bought it. Is it so hard to keep your hands clean when you're using your computer?

  14. Re:Ring finger dangles? on Ask Slashdot: Where Can You Get a Good 3-Button Mouse Today? · · Score: 1

    Logitech M-BA47. I cannot hold that mouse any other way than with my thumb on the left side, three fingers on top and pinky holding the right side. My three main fingers land on the left button, scroll/click wheel, right button. And I only need slide my thumb down about 5mm to reach the left-side fourth button.

    Today's mice are so small that I think they only test them with children.

  15. Re:just swap the buttons on Ask Slashdot: Where Can You Get a Good 3-Button Mouse Today? · · Score: 2

    You're right, that command doesn't work on OS/2.

  16. Re: Performance Mouse MX on Ask Slashdot: Where Can You Get a Good 3-Button Mouse Today? · · Score: 2

    M-BA47 user here.

    Now get off my lawn.

  17. Re:Thank god I bought a 980. on NVIDIA Responds To GTX 970 Memory Bug · · Score: 2

    I also avoided the same fate. I bought a fanless Zotac GT630 1GB.

  18. Re:What a coincidence on NVIDIA Responds To GTX 970 Memory Bug · · Score: 1

    I've looked at it, and it's all just a bunch of zeros and ones. Shouldn't be too hard to fix, right?

  19. Re:Hey! I've been gypped! on NVIDIA Responds To GTX 970 Memory Bug · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes, you have been lied to. Windows is in fact a 32 bit extension and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprossessor, written by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition.

  20. Re:Hey! I've been gypped! on NVIDIA Responds To GTX 970 Memory Bug · · Score: 4, Funny

    I you want real shivers, don't forget to use EMM386 and to LH your CD-ROM and mouse drivers.

  21. Re:RPP on NVIDIA Responds To GTX 970 Memory Bug · · Score: 0

    Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow.

  22. Re:I won't notice on UHD Spec Stomps on Current Blu-ray Spec, But Will Consumers Notice? · · Score: 1

    Furthermore, pixel density is a relation between resolution and physical size, so if you think resolution means pixel density, you learned things the wrong way.

    A programmer doesn't care about the size of the display when he makes sprites and bitmap images. A bitmap image takes exactly the same number of bytes wether the display is 2" or 200" as long as the resolution is the same, which is measured in pixels.

  23. Re:I won't notice on UHD Spec Stomps on Current Blu-ray Spec, But Will Consumers Notice? · · Score: 1

    That's exactly what it means: resolution is the number of pixels, always has been. There is no direct relationship between the size of a display and its resolution. If a company wanted to make a 60" display with a resolution of 192x108 pixels, they could.

  24. Re:Pump and dump on Winklevoss Twins Plan Regulated Bitcoin Exchange · · Score: 0

    I heard they want to exchange their Bitcoins for Dogecoins.

    Dogecoins to the moon!

  25. Re:Time to stop using bitcoin on Winklevoss Twins Plan Regulated Bitcoin Exchange · · Score: 0

    Dogecoin to the moon!