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  1. Re:because you can't? on Fastest Waves Ever Photographed · · Score: 1

    Aww, I thought you magnified it to show the texture; how disappointing.

  2. Re:I won't... on Speculation on Google / YouTube "Hardball" · · Score: 1

    Does the phone company lose it when they allow court-ordered wiretaps?

  3. Re:No on PS3 8x More Power Hungry Than PS2 · · Score: 1

    Yes, but what is needed by the console is enough to cover spikes, therefore the normal draw is still much lower. The parent post stands.

  4. Boom on Japan To Get Wii With DVD Player · · Score: 1

    Why not offer DVD functionality in their little built-in store where you can buy Opera, etc.? The drive is there, it is just an issue of the licensing fees (PS2 ate DVD licensing fees on every unit sold, even though many (most?) didn't wind up being used as DVD players. On the other hand, Microsoft kept these fees separate by including the software on the little dongle that came with the $30 remote (a good chunk of that $30 was for the license)).

  5. Re:A step in the right direction on FTC's Game Teaches Social Networking Skills · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think you are wrong. It is more like:

    Public: "Something is happening!"
    Politician: "Everything must be done!"

    Cue the Bear Patrol.

  6. Re:No Bubble This Time on Reddit and JotSpot Acquired · · Score: 1

    Hilarious; shortly after that post by the 37 Signals folks, Jeff Bezos made an undisclosed investment in 37 Signals! Bezos!

  7. Re:I won't... on Speculation on Google / YouTube "Hardball" · · Score: 1

    So when you call your kid over the flippin' Ma' Bell and sing happy birthday to him, AT&T is "a party to redistribution of copyrighted content without consent of the copyright holders"? Nope, common carrier. How is this any different, so long as they comply with any DMCA takedown notices?

  8. Re:HardOCP too on Alienware Admit Trying to Fiddle Reviews · · Score: 1

    And then to give those companies a taste of the "bad consumer experience" I bet they box it back up and return it to the stores.

  9. Re:Page length on Slashdot's Vastu · · Score: 1

    So basically it looks like they are viewing your site on a miscolor-calibrated monitor with a low contrast?

  10. Re:Seems like a strange contest on First Hutter Prize Awarded · · Score: 1

    And conversely, modding up your post would be like adding a negative number, so it would be a net loss.

  11. Re:Daft words.... on Carpenter Breaks Previous Scrabble Point Record · · Score: 1

    Is latin medical jargon allowed?

  12. Re:erm.. on Valve's Source on 360 Explored · · Score: 1

    Well, ignoring keyboards, computers tend to have a 5.

  13. Re:useless suggestion on Root Exploit For NVIDIA Closed-Source Linux Driver · · Score: 0, Redundant

    So why even have an NVidia card? You could get cards with open source drivers that offer much better 2d acceleration, and pay less doing it.

  14. Re:Subset/superset on Adult .IE Domain Names Banned As Immoral · · Score: 1

    This seems conflicting. If there is such a thing as a proper superset, then what is the proper superset of all sets?

  15. Re:What about media? on Linux Kernel Goes Real-Time · · Score: 1

    If you are running a window manager in that makes dragging occur in outline mode on X, and you have audio playing in Firefox in a flash applet (e.g. with youtube or pandora), no matter what your kernel is you will get skipping in your audio. This is because when dragging around in outline mode in X nothing is allowed to draw to the screen, and either firefox or flash just basically lock up.

  16. Re:Robots Exclusion Standard on Publishers Thank Google for Book Sales · · Score: 1

    Wow you sound like Fox News.. there can only be one alternative? How about this, if this thing isso great for their business, etc. etc., let them contact you and opt in.

  17. Re:Hot air buys more hot air on YouTube's Plans for a Google-Owned Future · · Score: 1

    Hey, you're the same guy who said Murdoch was insane to purchase MySpace for 700+ million. Of course, shortly thereafter MySpace landed a billion dollar advertising deal... I don't trust your intuition.

  18. Re:Interesting Responses on Great Programmers Answer Questions From Aspiring Student · · Score: 1

    To add to that list: when writing a long rambling blog post about how every language sucks instead of getting out there and coding, give me Yegge.

    (I guess I should preemptively add: when writing a meaningless slashdot post instead of getting out there and coding, give me Pants)

  19. Re:So ungoogle on Google Buys YouTube for $1.65 Billion · · Score: 1

    Surely you complicate the matter: YouTube is to Google what AOL is to Google (you remember that AOL stock purchase right?).

  20. Re:Live by the Sword on Calif. AG Files Felony Charges In HP Probe · · Score: 1

    It still doesn't change the point at hand: there is a law to cover this. This isn't a civil suit, so no one has to prove harm. "No harm, no foul" is not a defense in court, no matter what you might have learned by watching Zack's antics each time he was called into Principal Belding's office.

  21. Re:Look at the seismic data. no spinning this one. on North Korea Says It Has Conducted Nuclear Test · · Score: 1

    Don't forget that Don Rumsfeld was on ABB's board when they sold North Korea 2 light water reactors in 2000. No picture of him shaking Kim's hand has yet surfaced, but don't worry, Breakfast Pants is on the lookout.

  22. Re:just an example of how "buggy" OSS software. on Bug Hunting Open-Source vs. Proprietary Software · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Perhaps their scanner can't detect bugs in C++ code as well as it can plain C.

  23. Re:So how did they test? -- badly on Bug Hunting Open-Source vs. Proprietary Software · · Score: 1

    Proof that what, GNOME has no browser?

  24. Re:Yes. on Publishers Thank Google for Book Sales · · Score: 1

    First I was talking about the librarian him/herself. Even if I wasn't, there are things called private libraries. Now, back to my point. Is it your claim that a public library, just because it doesn't make money is allowed to engage in copyright infringement? Why the hell do they spend so much money paying for books then?

  25. Re:Robots Exclusion Standard on Publishers Thank Google for Book Sales · · Score: 1

    And what is the standard for a published book? You have to individually contact everyone you don't want scanning it?