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  1. Re:From the No Duh Dept. on How To Build Roads To Control How Fast You Drive · · Score: 1

    "When you don't exactly know who has right of way, you tend to seek eye contact with other road users,'' he said. ''You automatically reduce your speed, you have contact with other people and you take greater care."

    Clearly they were not dealing with North American drivers. They always know exactly who has the right of way, and demonstrate that fact to the other, lesser, drivers around them by increasing their speed and not making eye contact.

  2. Re:2 hours? on Self-Destructing USB Stick · · Score: 1

    Some mornings I can't get into my own e-mail account in under two hours, why so low? Why not.. three?

    Because, naturally, after two hours the thieves will start feeling bad and want to give the drive back. It has a picture of a sad looking kitten on the case to make sure that this happens.

  3. "If X is less than the cost of a recall..." on The Economics of Perfect Software · · Score: 1

    Is this still Slashdot? Why has nobody made the obvious quote from Fight Club yet?

    I haven't even seen a numbered list ending in "Profit!" Why are you all letting me down?

  4. Re:Cannonical is just trolling us on Ubuntu Will Switch To Base-10 File Size Units In Future Release · · Score: 1

    But there are many applications and areas which are not appropriate to shoehorn into the decimal system. Binary computer memory sizes are one such application. It is not appropriate to group base 2 numbers using a base 10 units.

    Exactly. So stop using words like 'kilobyte' and 'megabyte'.

  5. Re:WTF? Just ask the patient. on Could Colorblindness Cure Be Morally Wrong? · · Score: 1

    How about "Would you like your eyes altered in a way which might make them more like those of other people, but we're really not sure? All I can really promise is that you'll see things differently and that it's irreversible."

    Can I still hear a "Hell yeah"?

  6. Brillant! on Can Ubuntu Save Online Banking? · · Score: 1

    That's a great idea.

    Especially since the technology for building your own pre-owned version of Ubuntu, writing it to a CD-ROM and then printing a bank logo on it is very complicated and expensive and thus completely out of reach of all but the most well funded banks and governments, so we won't ever see anyone tampering with this process.

    Simply brillant.

  7. Re:He shouldn't be arrested on Obama's Twitter Account "Hacked" · · Score: 1

    There's no point in making sure your passwords Really strong if your security question can be as weak as a noodle.

    You just need to use a strong password as the answer to your security question too. Ms. bxa)jdWu0U3$[d*=Wh$S`XYft?g%q~% didn't raise no fools.

  8. Re:Poor choice of verb. on Best Buy Offers Bogus "3D Sync" Service · · Score: 4, Funny

    No sign of intent to mislead or defraud.

    From Best Buy? That is an alarming development. I don't think I have ever had an experience with that chain which didn't involve either of those value added services.

  9. Re:STOP! on Photoshop CS5's Showpiece — Content-Aware Fill · · Score: 0

    So is the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser...

    But that's for cleaning things. You're not supposed to sniff it.

  10. Re:Lucid what? on Ubuntu's "Lucid Lynx" Enters Beta · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm more enthused by their upcoming Masturbating Monkey release in October.

  11. "Does away with" the Human theme? on Ubuntu's "Lucid Lynx" Enters Beta · · Score: -1, Redundant

    That's funny, after upgrading I still have Human as an option. It's just not the default for new installs.

    This must be some new definition of "does away with" which actually means something completely different.

  12. Re:...Or an arms race on SSD Price Drops Signaling End of Spinning Media? · · Score: 2, Informative

    it'd still have a SATA jack to wire it to the motherboard.

    Because otherwise it might run too fast? The SATA interface is the big bottleneck holding SSD speeds down. If you put the whole thing directly on the PCIe bus it would be a lot happier. Fitting a fast SSD into a PCIe slot and then tying it to SATA is just cruel.

  13. Re:Any software project that is a Democracy on Open Source Is Not a Democracy · · Score: 3, Funny

    That must be why they changed their name to Miro.

  14. Re:Portrayal on Blazing Fast Password Recovery With New ATI Cards · · Score: 1

    a person [...] is going to go out and buy one of these video cards, install it in a machine capable of supporting it (PSU wattage, bus speed, OS, etc), purchase the proprietary "password breaker" software (sold by the company that authored this "story"), all just to recover their password. I think the typical usage for this type of setup is of a more nefarious sort.

    I think you're right. Someone could use this kind of setup to play Crysis.

  15. Re:Forget about the copyright on Licensing an Abandonware Game? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    After all, open office exists along side microsoft office.

    And there's OpenOffice.org, which is a completely different product from Open Office. Which brings us right back to copyrights and all that...

  16. Re:Watch out! or else.. on Hollow Spy Coins · · Score: 1

    the Defense Department might think these coins are for espionage, just like the foreign Canadian quarters from 2007

    As opposed to domestically produced Canadian quarters?

  17. Re:Suicide? on Accidental Wii Suicide · · Score: 1

    There's a loaded Glock 17 and EAA Witness in .40 on my coffee room table right now. One or both of them is always near me or on my hip. Because you never know when it's needed.

    Absolutely right. You never know when you may be attacked by a three year old girl.

  18. Re:Similar to Lucas' Car Crash on The Lost Film That Accompanied Empire Strikes Back · · Score: 1

    Wikipedia Brown, is that you?

  19. Re:So the phone case has to go on a place that mov on Nokia Targets Mobile Kinetic Energy Charging · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sorry about that, Chief.

  20. Re:Hostages.. on Cybercrooks Surpassed Old School Bankrobbers In '09 · · Score: 1

    If he wasn't robbing banks, perhaps "Slippery Jim" deGriz could have gone around breaking windows with the same justification.

  21. Re:It's a new riff on the old joke on Game Devs Only Use PhysX For the Money, Says AMD · · Score: 1

    Try again please. That statement is a grammatical failure. I'm not even sure what you were trying to say.

    If you use Google Translate to translate it back into Korean, then Portuguese, Russian, Welsh and then finally back into English everything becomes much clearer.

    "Children play with a puppy."

  22. Re:InfoWorld SUCKS on What To Expect From HTML5 · · Score: 1

    And here is what to expect from an InfoWorld article - very little substance littered over at least 5 pages soaked with advertisements.

    You expect that there will be some substance to it? I think you're setting yourself up for disappointment.

  23. Re:Tar Pitting on Coping With 1 Million SSH Authentication Failures? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Fail2ban can do stuff that automatically!

    Let me see if I have this right. If iptables can keep count of incoming connections within the kernel and drop incoming connections as they happen without any intervention from a userspace program, that's _not_ automatic.

    But running a gigantic shell script to scrape text messages out of your system logs and then call randomly chosen commands which may or may not have any effect on the observed problem some time after it occurs, then that's "doing that stuff automatically"?

    Maybe those words don't mean what one of us thinks they do.

  24. Re:Exactly on Coping With 1 Million SSH Authentication Failures? · · Score: 4, Funny

    "How can I stop people from driving past my house and seeing if the lights are on?"

    That's easy, just move the front door to where one of your upstairs windows is and install tiny robots that will draw the curtains if the traffic noise gets too loud.

  25. Re:Glad it didn't fry mine. on NVIDIA Driver Update Causing Video Cards To Overheat In Games · · Score: 2, Funny

    or some intern optimized a complicated piece of logic by noticing it's essentially an idle loop---a very important idle loop.

    You mean it wasn't a Speed-up Loop?