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  1. Re:some of us can work arouynd it without bitching on Yahoo! Music Going Dark, Taking Keys With It · · Score: 1

    Serious question: why do you rip to mp3 instead of to wma or ogg or some other more efficient format? mp3s are stone age; their only remaining use, so far as I can see, is as a common format of exchange on p2p.

  2. Re:He's got to be right on Apollo 14 Moonwalker Claims Aliens Exist · · Score: 1

    Wait - you're saying aliens are from Belgium?

  3. Kudos goes to my bank then on Most Bank Websites Are Insecure · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Since if I enter my username (composed from my real name) and an incorrect password three times, it locks me out.

    I say "my" username, but if I enter any username - easily deductible by composing any two first and last names - and an incorrect password three times... that account gets locked out.

    I'm sure that nobody with malice aforethought, a dictionary of names, and a frisky Perl script will ever feel the urge to increase every customers' security by having them locked out.

  4. Re:3 minutes? on Ultra-Light Micro Air Vehicles · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    ^^^
    s/have/haven't.

    Not that it matters: it'll get modded as insightful, funny, and troll anyway.

  5. Re:3 minutes? on Ultra-Light Micro Air Vehicles · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It doesn't looks as though they have overcome the twitchiness. Perhaps the idea is to buy them by the gross. You only need one to get through.

  6. Re:Video link: on Ultra-Light Micro Air Vehicles · · Score: 4, Funny

    OK, they win. I was going to moan about the refresh on the camera being inadequate, the flight time being useless, and the inability to hover meaning that it has two modes: flying, and crashing.

    But having seen in action? Must... own... tiny... whirring... affront to God. Must.

  7. Re:I'll wait for the Fourth Generation on Ultra-Light Micro Air Vehicles · · Score: 5, Funny

    Roofies are technology.

  8. Re:Bacteria? on Floating Cities On Venus · · Score: 1

    Lets terraform the Terran atmosphere first, then worry about the Venusian one.

  9. Re:So long, "hardware gamers" on Wii Is the New US Console Leader · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm not sure why you bought it then, since it was pretty clear that it wouldn't be carrying the same range of sequels and franchises as the PS3/XBox 360.

    I guess it depends how fast you want to spend money, and how much time you've got to grind through games. After a hard day's work, sometimes Wii Sports is really all I can manage. My son and I enjoy puzzling through Zack and Wiki, the missus grudgingly admits to liking Lego Star Wars, and when they've gone to bed, I can bust out Resident Evil 4.

    I think it's probably fair to compare the Wii's sales to most of the sum total of PS3 and XBox if we want to know how many casual vs hard core gamers there are. So it's not really true that "most people" enjoy casual gaming. At most, it's pushing 40%.

  10. Congress told them? on USAF Counter-Terror Funds Buy "Comfort Capsules" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The USAF doesn't report to Congress. Since their Commander in Chief treats Congress like a jizz rag, it's unreasonable to expect anyone in the armed forces to show them any respect. They won't cut budgets, and the most that they every do is write Sternly Worded Memos, or go running to the courts like little snivelling bitches, wailing "Pretty please make everyone obey the law."

    I swear, the USA is one lost staring contest away from a bloodless military coup. I mean, if it hasn't already happened. How would we tell the difference?

  11. Re:Technology? on Warning Future Generations About Nuclear Waste · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's optimistic; can you evolve one of those in only 10,000 years?

  12. Re:Who really gets paid? on EU Proposes Retroactive Copyright Extension · · Score: 1

    OK, let's talk about what the GPL actually says. Specifically, the difference between the GPL and the LGPL.

    Why is the LGPL not sufficient to achieve the FSF's goals? They don't like it, they heavily discourage its use: what is it about the GPL that's so significant to the FSF, and why?

  13. Re:Vista vs XP on What Does It Take To Get a PC With XP? · · Score: 1

    And I'm happy enough with my wife, but Alyson Hannigan is slimmer and I bet she'd be more responsive. Why settle?

  14. Re:Who really gets paid? on EU Proposes Retroactive Copyright Extension · · Score: 1

    The license can claim whatever it wants about its purpose, but Stallman's oft-stated goal is to destroy proprietary closed source software by any means necessary. The GPL mechanism intended to achieve that isn't the freedom-to-distribute clause, it's the viral clause. If that weren't the significant clause, then why does the FSF keep banging on and on about using the GPL instead of the LGPL? Infection is the

    If we're sharing opinions, then I think it's very difficult to take an "extreme" view of the GPL.

  15. Re:What happened to ethics when hiring? on Hack a Million Systems and Earn a Job · · Score: 2, Informative

    He wasn't convicted, so the judge considers that what he did didn't break her interpretation of the law.

    RTFA. The judge let him slide because he's (apparently) a retard. The theory seems to be: smart enough to steal from thousands of people, too dumb to know that it's wrong. He is effectively above the law, because the law is a liberal ass.

  16. Re:Qwest's legal problems predate the NSA's reques on McCain Campaign Uses Spider/Diff Against Obama · · Score: 1

    Bad things never happen to bad people?

  17. Re:Like Freeman, but more not theoretical on Steven Hawking Considering Move To Canada · · Score: 5, Funny

    There may have been a velociraptor hiding under the seats without you even knowing. Those things are smarter than Republicans, and nearly as smart as cats.

  18. Re:the third parties are running idiots too..... on McCain Campaign Uses Spider/Diff Against Obama · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Unfortunately, the question is: what happened to them.

  19. Re:Why do we care anyway? on The Push For Quotas For Women In Science · · Score: 1

    Only if they don't care about the quality of the employee. By that argument, we should welcome fat, ugly hookers simply because they drive the price down.

  20. Re:I've never been a Sony fanboy.... BUT on Final Fantasy XIII Is Coming To Xbox 360 · · Score: 4, Funny

    On the bright side, you only have to live with the noise until the next time your 360 breaks down, then you get a respite while you wait for them to send you another refurbished box.

  21. Re:Did everyone miss the massive irony here? on Blizzard Wins Major Lawsuit Against Bot Developers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And if it's not against the EULA of MMOGlider to be loaded by Warden, you can bet it will be by tomorrow.

  22. Re:Leader of the discovery team wrote a blog entry on Makemake Becomes the Newest Dwarf Planet · · Score: 1

    Your correctitude will be scant solace as you burn in hellfire for all eternity, heretic.

  23. Re:It's the "objects", stupid on Amazonian Tribe Has No Word To Express Numbers · · Score: 4, Funny

    With only 300 people, they're probably all closely related, which explains why they might have trouble counting family members. It also explains why they have a word for "5 or 6", doubtless used for fingers and toes.

  24. Re:Words are made up as they are needed on Amazonian Tribe Has No Word To Express Numbers · · Score: -1, Troll

    Frost, hoar, slush, ice, black ice, falling, dusting, lying, drift, blizzard.

    Clearly you - like your hero, Hitler - are simply saying that those retarded Nanooks are incapable of constructing such a rich language as English, the language of Shakespeare and the Baby Jesus.

  25. Re:Title on Tesla Motors Is Delivering Cars · · Score: 4, Funny

    Who's "them"? AFAIK, Slashdot replaced its "editors" with a very small shell script back in 2002.