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  1. Re:If.... on Rockstar Finally Wins a Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Please give an easier to follow, less convoluted, counterexample than the one you provided. I find that when someone can only scrape together something like that they tend to not have a point; I'd love to be shown otherwise.

  2. Re:That's not what the laws are for on UK ISP PlusNet Accidentally Deletes 700GB of Email · · Score: 1

    He can't clarify, because you are right and he made no sense at all.

  3. Re:Spend Here, or Spend There. on Search Companies Team Up Against Click Fraud · · Score: 2, Funny

    "but I get my drink, go to the bathroom, and pop popcorn during commercials."

    There are too many commercials for this to be a viable long-term strategy. And anyway, didn't you mean to say, "but I get my Pepsi, go to the bathroom (wiping with Charmin of course), and pop Orville Redenbacher's popcorn during commercials.

  4. Re:Wiki works, but it shouldn't be the only 'Sourc on Stephen Colbert Wikipedia Prank Backfires · · Score: 1

    No it isn't. Papers written by college students get read by no one.

  5. Re:Should have been too far, but it probably wasn' on Children Arrested, DNA Tested for Playing in a Tree? · · Score: 1

    "Let's be serious here. We're talking about three 12 year olds, not a gang armed with axes and chainsaws. What damage could they possibly do to a cherry tree?"

    Are you kidding? George Washington was 6 when he took down his first cherry tree (apocryphal nonsense though it may be).

  6. Re:Um on Halving Half Lives · · Score: 1

    'Any material to shield radioactivity will also become radioactive.'

    What a bullshit statement. It completely depends on many things, such as the products of radioactive decay for the element/isotope combo you are talking about, and to simplify it into that all encompasing statement is meaningless.

  7. Re:More treatments on Cancer Therapy with Radioactive Scorpion Venom · · Score: 1

    Oh god, I'm outing you. Everyone take note this looney is a Kevin Trudeau fan.

  8. Re:Video link on Liquid Armor the New Bulletproof Vest · · Score: 1

    So you are telling me a solar sail is just as effective if it is radiator black as it is if it is reflective? Odd that they make them reflective.

  9. Re:Its probabbly true. on 'Perfect Storm' of Mac Sales on the Horizon? · · Score: 1

    So would you trade me $1075 for $18 a month for the next five years? I'll take you up on it; I mean hey, that's $25 in your pocket right?

  10. Re:Kosner Sucks. on Raph Koster on Fire · · Score: 1

    "Yet he believes that he should be cracking down on behavior he doesn't like, rather than allowing freedom which is what most people want in a virtual world."

    Yes, because not being able to the enemy race for fear that little kid's might get offended is such a world changing freedom brought to us by WoW. In UO I had many enemies, and most were born out of arguments, revenge, petty things like that but at least there was some sense of reason. In WoW you make enemies based on which one of two buttons you clicked during character creation 6 months ago.

  11. Re:I could be wrong, but ... on Microsoft's Security Meeting Causes Unease · · Score: 1

    man unlink

  12. Re:4 simple steps... on Will Image Installs Benefit Vista Adopters? · · Score: 1

    -2 funny modifier seems to do it for me. Combined with sort by highest (except when you are moderating) Slashdot has bar none the best discussion on the web.

  13. Re:Share nothing architecture? on Amazon's Werner Vogels on Large Scale Systems · · Score: 1

    Im' almost 100% sure he's talking about penny-arcade; which incedentally serves probably 99% cached data.

  14. Re:who can submit it? on $5000 Award for Open Source CMS · · Score: 1

    Yes, this flawed contest, which is based on votes. Because everyone is going to vote on your 'Drupal + 1 character from unofficial dude' instead of 'The Official Drupal Team Presents: Drupal'.

  15. Re:Thanks for getting my hopes up, NASA on Project Orion to Bring U.S. Back to the Moon · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Compromise is actually very important to engineering.

  16. Re:What about extensions? on Browser Comparison - Firefox 2 b1, IE7 b3, Opera 9 · · Score: 1

    Pixel based layout still won't be zoomed; Some stuff will automatically expand because the images 'stretch' it, but typically only table based sites. Try a site like penny-arcade; zooming all the images still gives you a tiny column of text. In opera everything zooms.

  17. Re:What about extensions? on Browser Comparison - Firefox 2 b1, IE7 b3, Opera 9 · · Score: 1

    It isn't just zooming images that is the main good thing about say Opera's page zooming; it is that it even zooms pixel based layouts. Slashdot is fine, it uses a flowing layout. Look at digg, it is pixel based; increase the font size in firefox and the margins don't get larger.

  18. Re:What about extensions? on Browser Comparison - Firefox 2 b1, IE7 b3, Opera 9 · · Score: 3, Informative

    It isn't just images that need to be zoomed; it is also the layout. A site like penny-arcade or digg is almost unreadable on my tiny laptop screen because they use a fixed pixel width layout. Opera shines here as it zooms everything. You currently can't get the same out of firefox, even with an extension.

  19. Re:Standard versus Proprietary? on Dvorak Rants on CSS · · Score: 1

    It is pretty easy for pdf to do that given that pdf documents have fixed documents; e.g. when you horizontally expand your browser the whole page has to be dynamically rerendered. In pdf this just causes a zoom in/out.

  20. Re:Record Clubs on Netflix Users Experience Paradox of Abundance · · Score: 2, Funny

    Your mom's snatch got into a weedeater incident?

  21. Re:It's only a matter of time on Internet Gambling CEO Arrested by FBI · · Score: 1

    So I'm guessing booze is only sinful if jesus didn't craft it out of water?

  22. Re:Old debate on High-level Languages and Speed · · Score: 1

    Why not just use C++ and only use very little beyond the C subset. Namespaces come to mind as something C is sorely missing.

  23. Re:Wether it's worth it depends on what you want on Is Graduate School Useful in Today's World? · · Score: 1

    And where might that be? Behind the preposition?

  24. Re:So the gaming industry isn't dying? on U.S. Game Sales Up 25% In June · · Score: 1

    Analysts have consistently underestimated the appeal of the Virtual Boy, and they continue to do it despite all evidence that consumers actually, really do LIKE this thing.

  25. Re:regain market share? on Intel's Core 2 Desktop Processors Tested · · Score: 1

    I'm well aware that Intel has more marketshare than AMD. It still stands that they have lost a lot of it in the recent past.