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  1. Re:OMFG compile! on WRT54G Successor Falls Flat On Promises · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You know the man pages are the manual right?

    How about you bother to learn something instead of coasting on the work of others for a decade then complaining things don't fulfil your every need after you've contributed exactly bugger all.

  2. Re:Time to start patenting... on Reviving a Commodore 64 Computer Using a Raspberry Pi · · Score: 1

    It's okay, he can pay for them with the power generated by his perpetual motion device and the winnings from his nobel prize.

  3. Ah, antimatter on Why Are We Made of Matter? · · Score: 5, Funny

    God hid it.

    God is made of it.

    Okay, that's the god excuses out of the way... now on with the physics!

  4. Re:old news on Gunshot Victims To Be Part of "Suspended Animation" Trials · · Score: 1

    You're new here, aren't you.

  5. Re:going to be terrible on Sony Announces Virtual Reality Headset For PS4 · · Score: 2

    The 3DS is shite and is still selling in some numbers.

    So will this.

    It doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to work.

    (Am I the only person who on seeing this thought "Hrm, a potentially cheaper than all the others VR headset, how will I be able to hack this for PC use etc.?")

    Also, those whining that the PS4 doesn't have enough horsepower to run it are clearly dumber than pond scum, the PS3 had enough horsepower to do it. You may need a little less detail, explosions/reflections etc. might be a tad less realistic but does it matter? Do you sit there pausing the game and criticising the graphics or actually play the damn thing, good lord.

  6. Re:In unrelated news... on NSA Can Retrieve, Replay All Phone Calls From a Country From the Past 30 Days · · Score: 1

    Hey

    We have our own problems thankyou -.-

  7. Re:Google search is already doing that: on NSA Can Retrieve, Replay All Phone Calls From a Country From the Past 30 Days · · Score: 1

    Aye, the CPU and bandwidth requirements would be non-trivial

    I call FUD on the above, surprising there's anything left to call FUD on at this point -.o;

  8. Re:All the more reason... on How the NSA Plans To Infect 'Millions' of Computers With Malware · · Score: 1

    You could afford a 1541?

    Most of us couldn't, cost more than the computer itself!

  9. Re:You keep using that word on Author Says It's Time To Stop Glorifying Hackers · · Score: 1

    I'd say the stupid people are those who allow words to be redefined by journalists who could write what they know about hacking on the back of a stamp.

    There was an earlier attempt to popularise the use of the term 'Worm' for crackers which would have avoided confusion with racial terms but heh, cracker is what we're stuck with now.

    The white hat / grey hat / black hat distinction as mentioned above does seem to be the most well understood way of making the distinction these days however.

  10. Re:There is at least hope. on The Ultimate Hopes For the New Cosmos Series · · Score: 1

    Also, he killed Pluto, that bastard

    (but seriously, he's pretty good and a sensible choice for the new Cosmos, imho)

  11. Re:A looping simulation, apparently on Mathematician: Is Our Universe a Simulation? · · Score: 1

    e^(i*pi)+1=0

  12. Re:increasingly inaccurate acronyms on Wine On Android Starts Allowing Windows Binaries On Android/ARM · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wine Is Now Emulation

    Not so tough -.o

  13. Re:Irony on Is the West Building Its Own Iron Curtain? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    War is Peace
    Freedom is Slavery
    Ignorance is Strength

    More seriously, it is getting a bit that way here and the idea that you can be held simply for travelling to a country the government of the day doesn't like is outrageous.

    For a start anything you do outside the country is none of their damn business. Secondly people may well have very legitimate reasons for going, perhaps they have friends/family there, perhaps they're working for an aid agency, amnesty, independent media or doctors without borders? This country is going to hell in a handbasket.

    Additionally, this scumbag government is trying to get rid of the human rights act and withdraw us from the european convention on human rights, the tabloid fodder they're using to justify it is that prisoners may get the vote if we stay in. (which they should have anyway, they're supposed to lose their liberty, that is all, not be tortured/raped/beaten in private prisons or detention centres and not disenfranchised.)

  14. Re:Hrm...fuck off on New Russian Fighter Not Up To Western Standards · · Score: 2

    Indeed it was a reference to the Potemkin villages (Apparently NK still has them for the tourists) -.o

    Wow, never had so much hate directed at me for using a Facebook login before, good lord.

    ~makes a note to use his real slashdot login in future~

  15. Hrm... on New Russian Fighter Not Up To Western Standards · · Score: 5, Insightful

    From model villages to model aircraft eh?

  16. Re:When will it come to a screeching halt? on How Quickly Will the Latest Arms Race Accelerate? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It was Einstein...

    "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

  17. Re:Kids can access P0RN sites while playing SimCit on EA Caves: SimCity Offline Mode Coming · · Score: 1

    That isn't exactly what I said and your strawmandering is offensive.

    Also, there is no gay propaganda, grow the fuck up, what is it, american southern hick day on here or something?

  18. Re:Kids can access P0RN sites while playing SimCit on EA Caves: SimCity Offline Mode Coming · · Score: 1

    Well, perhaps not

    But there's a lot less of it these days, here in the UK at least.

    Mind you, we don't have a government/(in)justice system that seems to lock far more blacks up than whites and is someting like 8 times more likely to execute blacks for identical crimes, so YMMV, particularly in the USA

  19. Re:Oh My God! on Programmer Debunks Source Code Shown In Movies and TV Shows · · Score: 1

    You do occasionally get a message reading "Permission granted"

    Although not full screen unless you're using a very large console font -.o

  20. Re:Kids can access P0RN sites while playing SimCit on EA Caves: SimCity Offline Mode Coming · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why do you think your kids would care?

    Homophobia is well on the way to being consigned to the dustbin of history where it belongs.

    See the 'race mixing' protests of 50 years ago for an example.

  21. Re:Not so fast ! on India Frees Itself of Polio · · Score: 2

    I suspect you'll hope in vain.

    The Americans are responsible for the attacks on doctors

    Their fake vaccine programme that preceded their extra judicial murder of Osama Bin Laden is what has caused the distrust.

    You cannot place all the blame on the brown people, the united states has become an international bully preying on those with resources it desires, that's the real problem but don't expect to hear much about that.

  22. Re:Where Hyper-V Supervisor? on Why We Think There's a Multiverse, Not Just Our Universe · · Score: 2

    It'd explain wave particle duality...

    Rendering optimisations.

  23. Re:Really??? on UK Benefits System In Deeper Trouble? · · Score: 1

    Why should we all have to sub the bankers?

    These things cut both ways, the people at the top cocked it up and those at the bottom are suffering.

    Also, kindly remember all benefits are not paid to people who won't get a job, some are paid to people who can't, for valid medical reasons, why should they be condemned to a workhouse style existence in a modern civilised society*?

    Think about it...

    * I realise I'm stretching things a bit here...

  24. Re:Really??? on UK Benefits System In Deeper Trouble? · · Score: 1

    I do apologise, the MPs pictured in the link above are Labour, although the Tories were at it too, Guido and his selective reporting -.-

  25. Re:Really??? on UK Benefits System In Deeper Trouble? · · Score: 2

    It certainly can!

    Who do you think the losers will be?

    Hint, not the people who wasted a fortune on a system that doesn't work.

    Already people are being driven to food banks (much to the amusement of the Tories*, as seen in a debate on the subject) and that's just the few changes they've managed to get through so far.

    When UC comes in it'll be a lot worse, homelessness will skyrocket as those who are unable to take care of their finances fall behind on rent (Currently rent is paid direct to landlord by the government, when UC comes in it'll be a single lower payment, all paid to the claimant with them being responsible for paying the rent, it's not hard to see that anyone with drug/alcohol/mental problems is liable to spend the rent)

    This country is heading for disaster and the poor are being made to pay for the actions of the bankers etc. who got us into this mess in the first place.

    * Laughing Tories: http://order-order.com/2013/12/19/shamed-pictures-of-mps-laughing-in-food-bank-debate/