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  1. Re:election process on Lawrence Lessig to Leave Copyright Sphere · · Score: 1

    Wanna fix corruption? Fix the election.

    Bush did fix the election, remember?

    So why hasn't the corruption gone away?

  2. Re: Here's hoping... on Fallout 3 Trailer Available Online · · Score: 1

    Although the game was developed by Interplay, Wasteland was actually published by Electronic Arts, who held the rights while Fallout was being made.

  3. I'm fired, aren't I? on The Need For A Tagging Standard · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He said "blogosphere." Instantly, I don't care.

    Only thing worse would be something like, I dunno, "tags should be a Web 2.0 standard" or somesuch.

    Excuse me, but "proactive" and "paradigm"? Aren't these just buzzwords that dumb people use to sound important?

  4. Re:Negative or less than one? on Material With Negative Refractive Index Created · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, he said _faster_

  5. Re:Worst List Ever on The Top 100 Best-Selling PC Games of the Century · · Score: 1

    RTFA. It's based on sales.

  6. Re:Will it run bioforge? on FreeDOS 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    If Lotus will run, then FreeDOS ain't done!

  7. Re:"Serenity," anyone? on Snakes on The Net Fail to Put Butts in the Seats · · Score: 1

    Unless you also want to have young goth girls jump in your pants, in which case it behooves you to familiarize yourself with his work.

    Also, Firefly kicked ass.

  8. Re:The Doctor on Favorite Film Scientists? · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's not like he had a choice. What women weren't younger than him? He's a bloody timelord!

  9. Re:Ofcourse... on Life on the Other End of the Tech Support Line · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Where are you going that bread costs $2.50?

    I can get a white loaf for $.85, and pretty much any style fresh from the bakery for $1.75 or less. You can spend that much on bread if you want to, but I dont.

    Although maybe that's because I work in tech support :)

  10. Re:Aeron Chairs... on Last Great Internet Bubble Auction · · Score: 1
    • Damn
    comfortable. Sitting on one now.

    Of course I do work for a bankrupt company, but I'm sure the two things are unrelated.
  11. Re:Great Heinlein-ism on The Most Incorrect Assumptions In Computing? · · Score: 1

    But my favorite was...

    "Always store beer in a dark place"

  12. +1 Insightful on Mozilla 1.4 RC3 Is Out · · Score: 1

    Mod this up. Please :)

  13. Re:I have a large collection of 4D media on See 4-D Space With 3-D Glasses · · Score: 1

    Ah, but is it an... EVIL movie?

  14. Re:Toshiba DK40 + Stratagy on Suggestions for Home PBX/Key System? · · Score: 1

    Oh dear God... not the Toshiba! That thing is the biggest POS! If you think it's not too bad; you must have a puch card interface for your other machines. Lord.

    Oh, but you can program it all through the phone. I've lost hours of my life doing just that. What was it, Extension #499?

    I just wish the damn thing had understood daylight savings. Or not getting trapped in a loop on Friday at exactly 5:01 pm.

    I wish I was employed, but I seriously don't miss that job in the slightest.

  15. Re:Does it finally work with SCSI CD-ROM drives? on Transgaming's WineX 2.1 - Supports WarCraft 3 · · Score: 1

    It seems to me WineX supports copy protected CD's on SCSI drives as well as Windows does. That is from badly to not at all.

    Don't blame TransGaming for the idiocy of publishing executives who think it's a brilliant notion to sell their customers discs^H^H^H^H^Hcoasters that they can't use.

  16. Re:Impediments. on John Gilmore Sues Ashcroft et al. for Freedom to Travel · · Score: 1

    But damn you're a tall mudderthumper. Acerbic to boot. Clearly a danger.

    I'd honestly expect you to get 4 out of 4.

  17. But the hero wasn't corrupted :) on Extra Scenes in FotR Special Edition DVD · · Score: 1

    So many people assume that Frodo was the novels protagonist. But they're wrong (IMHO). It's Sam.

    Don't believe me? Read it again :)

  18. Re:Hello! Anyone have eyes!? on NVidia announces Cg: "C" for Graphics · · Score: 1

    Honestly, you'd be better off just hiring saintlupus to bitch about the government and ramble on about nutmeg than to keep going like this. I mean, do you even care? This place is going to end up like Steve Miller; a couple of hits and a lifetime of wasted potential. That's right... I just compred Slashdot to Steve Miller. Sad thing is, I bet that wouldn't even embarass the sloppy taco club. :/

  19. Hello! Anyone have eyes!? on NVidia announces Cg: "C" for Graphics · · Score: 0, Troll

    Do you people ever read your own website?

    Just what do you all do with your time, anyway? There's about a dozen of you, and you post about a dozen stories a day. Thats all you do. And still after years of doing the same thing everyday, you people keep making the same sophmoric mistakes again and again.

    I'd expect a little content from a buch of slackers whose jobs it is to sit around in their underwear and read email. No, then again, I wouldn't.

    This site could be great if you guys wanted it to be.

  20. Slashdot... on Carmack on Doom 3 Video Cards · · Score: 0, Troll

    Old News for Nerds. Stuff that mattered last week.

  21. Who's the foolio? on Bioware Release Neverwinter Nights Beta Toolset · · Score: 1

    User DO NOT have to download a module in order to play it, anymore than you need to run perl and mysql to read slashdot. All you need is a browser, which requests an action from the server... the server sends the client browser only what it need to display the specific request, not the entirety of slashcode.

    The same with NWN. The client makes specific requests of the server and the server sends down just the information required, telling the client to display certain game objects (shipped with the client) doing certain things. The only way for Bioware to see your module is to login to your server and play it. They wouldn't ever see the code you wrote unless you released it.

  22. Re:Anyone remember Monkey Island? on Matrox's New Three-Head Video Card · · Score: 1

    I thought he looked great... just gotta crank the FSAA.

    Everyone knows that a mighty pirate has to be 3D.
    2D = !Mighty

  23. Re:He should THANK them for the brain damage on Slashback: Blender, Pictures, Servitude · · Score: 1

    I would hope that the FDA wouldn't be regulating this. Last I knew the US had yet to take over Canada :) Still, who knows, maybe it's time to take out the canucks for harboring terrorists. And Bryan Adams.

  24. 0riginal Usenet Post on Bobby Fischer Online? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Short's full story was posted on usenet. A bit more information than in either of the press stories.