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  1. Getting used to it on Usability Eye for The GIMP Guy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm getting used to it. But there are some flaws, like that you don't get a standard file selector from "Open" that lets you enter a file name: you have to use "Open Location" instead (it should be one function), and the oddity of having two "Rotates", one crippled and one not. The more useful one is buried deeper.

  2. Re:The Book is Wrong! on Videogames: In the Beginning · · Score: 4, Funny

    Give the man some credit. It was dangerous work back then. I lost my arm playing the early version of Pac Man. We used real monsters back then.

  3. Re:That's before MacGyver. on NES Controller Laser Mouse · · Score: 1
    "Anyway he retires - John Crighton is now in charge of the SG1 team."

    But unlike McGyver, Crichton can't fashion a complete working stargate out of a hula-hoop and parts from an 1987 Toyota Celica. Even if he did used to hang around a blue chick and a Muppet mushroom-guy.

  4. Re:Mouse article does not work on NES Controller Laser Mouse · · Score: 1

    The mouse does not work? No, but I do think it runs Linux.

  5. A warning. on NES Controller Laser Mouse · · Score: 3, Funny

    Do not stare into laser mouse beam with remaining eye.

  6. Re:no mention of new command on NES Controller Laser Mouse · · Score: 1
    "Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A"

    Laser mouse steps: Up, Up, Down, use fire extinguisher to put out burning lampshade, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, wipe up melted monitor plastic on floor, Left, Left, B, A, call 911, Left, Right, B, A.

  7. That's before MacGyver. on NES Controller Laser Mouse · · Score: 3, Funny

    Give him an optical mouse, a paperclip, and some belly-button lint, and he'll have a laser weapon strong enough to take out a battlestar before the next commercial break comes along.

  8. Re:Akari? on NES Controller Laser Mouse · · Score: 1

    I thought it was Atari Worriers, myself.

  9. Re:Good morning, Captain. on NASA Supporting Nanotech Development · · Score: 1
    "I wonder how long till Gates' wallet collapses in on itself and forms a black hole swallowing the entire universe? "

    If it does, look for the sperm whale to materialize out of the vortex and begin its plummet to the ground.

  10. Good morning, Captain. on NASA Supporting Nanotech Development · · Score: 1

    Captain Obvious! So nice of you to join us! I'm sure that no-one else on Slashdot had ANY IDEA that this came "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"!

  11. End result on NASA Supporting Nanotech Development · · Score: 2, Funny

    "As the result of a miscalculation involving metric vs imperial units, the entire NASA shuttle fleet was swallowed by a small dog"

  12. Other security applications on RFID Tags in Law Enforcement · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This could be useful for tracking sensitive documents in archives, and tracking when someone like Sandy Berger violates security and steals documents to use in a political campaign.

  13. Re:Keep space green on It isn't Easy Being Green and Getting to LEO · · Score: 1
    "By the way, I think you meant ergs instead of Ents: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erg_(disambiguation)"

    Informative! I did mean Ents, as I mangled a Tolkien reference into the "tree" topic. I had somehow forgotten entirely about those ergs "used to drive Treeships through space."

  14. Re:We must do something ... on Do We Really Need Space Weapons? · · Score: 1
    " against roadside bombs, Explosive Laden speedboats, and backpacks"

    He got tired of people calling him "Ben", right? Not to mention the drunk U.S. senator who kept calling him Barak Obama.

  15. Keep space green on It isn't Easy Being Green and Getting to LEO · · Score: 1
    Read "Hyperion" by Dan Simmonds to find out about the guys who fly trees through space. Most remember those books for the walking ginsu dude, not for the trees.

    What can be more green than trees in space? Just make sure they are crewed by Ents.

  16. Re:Anarchy is not freedom on CAFTA Treaty Exports DMCA · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Protectionist trade laws too often are mainly to "protect" those who do a bad job of producing something.

  17. Re:Anarchy is not freedom on CAFTA Treaty Exports DMCA · · Score: 1
    "meant anything goes there would be all out trade wars as one country tried to dump its most profitable exports"

    Sounds good to me: it would lower the price of the goods.

  18. Airholes? on CAFTA Treaty Exports DMCA · · Score: 1
    "I wonder if they will put George Lucas' live head in a jar, that way there will always be official Star Wars merchandise."

    Depends on if you put airholes in the jar. Jar...

  19. DOS aint done until there is no use for it. on The 'DOS Ain't Done 'til Lotus Won't Run' Myth · · Score: 0
    I'll say DOS is done when it is useless. In Windows, there are still a lot of things that are faster, easier, and quicker using a DOS prompt.

    Well, I guess you could say that DOS is really done when you replace it with Linux on the PC, but...

  20. French airline logo on The 'DOS Ain't Done 'til Lotus Won't Run' Myth · · Score: 1

    Really? All I could find on it was this cool French airline company logo

  21. mmmm... on Python's Cheese Shop Now Open · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    mmmmm. free government cheese. mmmmmm.

  22. Don't forget the black widows on Stealing Data? A Sniffer Shows it's Easy · · Score: 1
    "Just for added security, have the thing self-destruct if it is moved or tampered with, and have an armed guard ready to "shoot the disk" if anyone unauthorized gets near"

    You realize that all of this can be defeated with Tom Cruise lowering himself into the room on wires. Keeping a nice health population of large black widow spiders inside the room would greatly reduce the chance of success of such missions.

  23. Forgot? on Stealing Data? A Sniffer Shows it's Easy · · Score: 1

    Forgot? Read parent: "After this, it is encased in carbonite". Maybe you thought I said corbomite, which would also be very secure!

  24. Thanks. on Mac mini Built Into Wall · · Score: 1

    Thanks. I always wondered why Greedo was called Greedo. I had no idea it was really Bill Gates wearing a mask.

  25. Didn't you read? on Mac mini Built Into Wall · · Score: 1
    "Warning: mysql_connect(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (11) in /home/l1lmucke/public_html/functions.php on line 383"

    Didn't you read? All the bugs at that site are Microsoft's fault. You should not have used Microsoft. And, if you really were not, then your Aunt Doris who uses Microsoft is to blame.