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  1. Re:Yay!! on Disney Turned Down George Lucas's Star Wars Scripts · · Score: 1

    I don't think the directing was necessarily bad in ST:V. Let's be honest, the story as a whole was ridiculous didn't leave him a lot to work with.

    That's right. The blame doesn't really belong to the director, William Shatner, but to the writer...

    Whose name was also William Shatner. That's a funny coincidence, don't you think?

  2. Re:Yay!! on Disney Turned Down George Lucas's Star Wars Scripts · · Score: 1

    I think he was talking about one of those low-budget fan films.

  3. Re:Lucas has lost it. on Disney Turned Down George Lucas's Star Wars Scripts · · Score: 1

    And let's not even talk about Indiana Jones 4 (what, there are only 3 Indiana Jones movies? Ok, I feel you).

    Three? There was Raiders of the Lost Ark, and then Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. That's only two movies. Maybe you counted the Highlander movie as well.

  4. Re:Who wrote the original on Disney Turned Down George Lucas's Star Wars Scripts · · Score: 1

    I believe it was a group effort involving Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni, Ryuzo Kikushima and Akira Kurosawa.

  5. Re:He's baaaaaack! on Disney Turned Down George Lucas's Star Wars Scripts · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought everybody knew that Palpatine was just the fall guy and Darth-Darth Binks was the real power behind the Empire.

  6. Re:Censorship? on Blogger Who Revealed GOP Leader's KKK Ties Had Home Internet Lines Cut · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's not about making a statement, it's really about ethics in games journalism.

  7. His secret is out. on Moot Retires From 4chan · · Score: 1

    Moot can't triforce.

  8. Re:Ehhh on Moot Retires From 4chan · · Score: 4, Funny

    To paraphrase Gene Spafford, "[4chan] is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it."

  9. Re:So how are they on Star Trek Continues Kickstarter 2.0 · · Score: 5, Informative

    They _are_ the original series. Same sets, same costumes, same props, just a different cast.

    It's not a "reboot" or "reimagining", it's actually an attempt to continue the original Star Trek as though it had never ended. While there naturally are some differences in writing style, the similarities to the original series are amazing.

    If you liked Star Trek (1966), watch it. If you preferred Star Trek (2009), then it may not be your thing.

  10. This looks like a job for... on Steam For Linux Bug Wipes Out All of a User's Files · · Score: 1

    $ man rm

    Where's "rm --preserve-root" when you need it?

  11. Re:Anyone else concerned? on Man Saves Wife's Sight By 3D Printing Her Tumor · · Score: 1

    You may want to read Richard Feynman's "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" (Or watch the movie "Infinity", with Matthew Broderick as the famous bongo player if that's more your thing) for another example of this. Being able to apply research skills isn't something unique to any one field, and having only one patient to worry about can make things a lot clearer.

  12. Re:Nostalgic for Windows 7? on Microsoft Ends Mainstream Support For Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    Same here. And what's with the random [use of] brackets? I have nostalgia for when people could communicate.

    It's not about being unable to communicate The use of square brackets is about ethics in journalism.

    Or, more to the point, proper use of quotations as described by most style guides in the English speaking world.

  13. This is horrible on Inside North Korea's Naenara Browser · · Score: 5, Funny

    This means that North Korea is VIOLATING RFC 1918! Forget all that other stuff, this must be stopped by any means necessary!

  14. Re:Seems obvious but... on Ask Slashdot: High-Performance Laptop That Doesn't Overheat? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Really their question is where can we get a laptop that gives us desktop features and desktop performance, without any explanation as to why they need a laptop.

    I think you've missed the obvious reason. A desktop takes up too much space on the table at Starbucks.

  15. Re:Life imitates art, as usual on Thync, a Wearable That Zaps Your Brain To Calm You Down or Amp You Up · · Score: 1

    True, but Louis Wu is more quotable than Gil the Arm.

    "It was a standard surgical job. Owen could have had it done anywhere. A hole in his scalp, invisible under the hair, nearly impossible to find even if you knew what you were looking for. Even your best friends wouldn’t know, unless they caught you with the droud plugged in. But the tiny hole marked a bigger plug set in the bone of the skull. I touched the ecstasy plug with my imaginary fingertips, then ran them down the hair-fine wire going deep into Owen’s brain, down into the pleasure center.

    No, the extra current hadn’t killed him. What had killed Owen was his lack of willpower. He had been unwilling to get up.

    He had starved to death sitting in that chair."

    -- Larry Niven, "Death By Ecstasy", 1969

  16. Re:Mod parent up. on Paul Graham: Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In · · Score: 1

    Citation? Or just urban myth?

    --
    I've taught at both union and non-union schools. Unions are better for students and teachers.

    By the post secondary level you wouldn't have noticed as much, but in K-12 gifted students whose needs are not being met will frequently exhibit poor academic performance. If it's an urban myth, then it's one which the New York State Education Department has fallen for.

  17. Re:Teachers Salaries Gone up by 3x Since 1980 on Paul Graham: Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In · · Score: 1

    I think you may have misquoted that. Your original source stated that "Teachers' salaries have gone up three times since 1980".

  18. Life imitates art, as usual on Thync, a Wearable That Zaps Your Brain To Calm You Down or Amp You Up · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "Current addiction is the youngest of mankind's sins. At some time in their histories, most of the cultures of human space have seen the habit as a major scourge. It takes users from the labor market and leaves them to die of self-neglect.

    Times change. Generations later, these same cultures usually see current addiction as a mixed blessing. Older sins -- alcoholism and drug addiction and compulsive gambling -- cannot compete. People who can be hooked by drugs are happier with the wire. They take longer to die, and they tend not to have children.

    It costs almost nothing. An ecstasy peddler can raise the price of the operation, but for what? The user isn't a wirehead until the wire has been embedded in the pleasure center of his brain. Then the peddler has no hold over him, for the user gets his kicks from house current.

    And the joy comes pure, with no overtones and no hangover.

    -- Larry Niven, "The Ringworld Engineers", 1980

  19. Re:Dropbear on Tips For Securing Your Secure Shell · · Score: 1

    You could save yourself a lot of time and effort and consider using Dropbear.

    You could save even more time and effort by using rlogin with a very liberal hosts.equiv file.

    Or were you suggesting that every compiled version of dropbear has already implemented all of stribika's recommendations without any need for additional configuration? If so, feel free to elaborate on that claim.

  20. "Is there... on Extra Leap Second To Be Added To Clocks On June 30 · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...a better way of dealing with the need for leap seconds?"

    Well... It could be worse. The last time we let the clocks go off we lost almost two weeks trying to fix it.

    Let's just keep up with the leap seconds so that nobody has to cancel Christmas again.

  21. Re:Better way? on Extra Leap Second To Be Added To Clocks On June 30 · · Score: 1

    Thanks, Obama.

  22. Re:learn your rights! on Gun Rights Hacktivists To Fab 3D-Printed Guns At State Capitol · · Score: 1

    You mean other than the part about "Being Batman"?

  23. Re:Not expensive for an audiophile device on Sony Thinks You'll Pay $1200 For a Digital Walkman · · Score: 1

    SONY clearly does not think *you* will pay $1200 for this device. But they know that *someone* will. This isn't a mass market device. It's a very niche product, well-targeted at its niche.

    As a dedicated audiophile I wouldn't touch this product unless it came with directional audio cables (honestly, half of you plebians have yours plugged in backwards!), headphones with integrated vacuum tube amplifiers, a solid gold power cord to preserve the fidelity of the charging signal and a place to put my Shakti stones. Not being able to install my own high performance teak knobs is also a big problem.

    I don't know what Sony is thinking here.

  24. Re:learn your rights! on Gun Rights Hacktivists To Fab 3D-Printed Guns At State Capitol · · Score: 2

    So, you are saying that Batman originated in England???

    Yes, they did, although the practise was quite common in many other countries.

  25. Re:Highly supported? on Gun Rights Hacktivists To Fab 3D-Printed Guns At State Capitol · · Score: 1

    My opinion is simply that when everyone open carries, I will have a harder time discerning who is a threat and who isn't.

    Quite the opposite. When everybody becomes a threat, determining who is a threat becomes child's play.