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  1. Re: Cataloging write-only archives on Ask Slashdot: Best Software For Image Organization? · · Score: 1

    Speak for your self, my emails go back to 1988 and even worse are in a propriator format - Outlook front end on Exchange backend, but odly enough I can get em on my OSX PC at home and my andriod phone when I'm anywhere else, don't bet on formats for important stuff going out of sytle any time soon.

  2. Re:Will Microsoft ever learn? on More Eye Candy Coming To Windows 10 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This, This, this, I liked Aero, I had a PC that could run it, I like buttons that look like buttons that click whan you push em and have a bit o shiney hi-light.
    I like translucent effects and stuff showing through.
    Who really likes flat blah square windows with little indication as th who has focus and whats on top.

  3. Re:I wonder... on TrueCrypt Website Says To Switch To BitLocker · · Score: 1

    Nope if Snowden was aware that Trucrypt was compromised by the NSA he wouldnt have organised a cryptparty in Hawaii showing people how to use it and TOR after he had allready stolen his pile o docs.

  4. Re:Many classes of non-human on Book Review: The Human Division · · Score: 1

    I don't have a problem with them being treated as mental illness, but then I think the cure for such illnesses should be high speed injection of lead to the head, it also comes with the added bonus of no relapse by the subject.

  5. Re:Just threw in random ST reference on Space Diving: Iron Man Meets Star Trek Suit In Development · · Score: 5, Informative

    Re just in case nobody want to read this they actually did a bit of research

    From the article..
    So where have we seen this before? If you are a Trekker, you will remember the scenes from 2009's Star Trek (The Future Begins) where James T. Kirk, Hikaru Sulu and Chief Engineer Olson performed a space dive to the Narada's drill platform. They jumped from a shuttle craft above planet Vulcan wearing high tech suits and used parachutes to land on the rig. “Super” Trekkers will also know about the space dive scene cut from the 1998 Star Trek Generations movie and the holodeck simulated "orbital skydiving" in Star Trek Voyager (Episode 5x03), also in 1998.

    So more than just a headline reference to suck in the readers.

  6. Re:Why the hell would you even want to try? on Ask Slashdot: Is TSA's PreCheck System Easy To Game? · · Score: 1

    Umm boat?

  7. Re:Piper on Ask Slashdot: Most Underappreciated Sci-Fi Writer? · · Score: 1

    I have to agree Piper's stories are awesome, far reaching and entertaining.

    Fuzzys FTW.

  8. Re:Because insurance pays for them on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Hearing Aids So Expensive? · · Score: 1

    Umm Math dude,
    50*3000=150000
    100*500=50000
    the insurance price gets you 3 times the dollars for 1/2 the production cost. Not saying these numbers are remotely like the real world situation, but if they make financial sense.

  9. Re:so what on Kepler May Uncover Numerous Ring Worlds · · Score: 1

    Didn't you know, a Dyson Sphere radiates energy that makes it look like a Red Giant, so we may have already discovered hundreds of them.

  10. IFPI Norge on Pirate Bay Legal Action Dropped In Norway · · Score: 0

    Considering that a lot of the Pirate Bay listings are Porn I was impressed to see the International Federation of the Pornographic Industry Norway was taking a stand untill my brain re-registered the name correctly and I realised that are probably a bunch of old guys in beards muttering about all the illegal downloads of 78" vinyl.

  11. Re:Go the whole hog... on OpenSolaris Or FreeBSD? · · Score: 1

    Someone did that already it was called BeOS, it was awesome, it also bombed.

  12. Re:No More - No Less on Review: F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin · · Score: 1

    I want to be able to play a game of pool by shooting the balls round the table.

    In the same place if I am attacked I want to be able to spray the pool table with a machine gun and have lethal balls flying round the room.

    and in reference to the guy below...."shake it shake it baby"

  13. Tree House on Otherland MMO Announced · · Score: 1

    Ever since I read the series I have done periodic checks of the web to see if anyone has setup a version of the Treehouse even just as a forum.

    Either no one has "borrowed" the idea and run with it, or they have and stuck close to the origins in making it super exclusive and very hard to find.

    It will be interesting to see how this concept is translated into the game. Maybe it will be where the actual game developers hang out.

  14. Re:Dual Boot on Securing Your Notebook Against US Customs · · Score: 1

    I don't get how can you be stuck in Africa, it's a massive continent attached to Asia and Europe, if he wanted out, catch a bus.

  15. Re:Riaa-Radar on How Do You Find New Non-RIAA Music? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I don't know too much about the rest of the world, but for new australian music downloads I go to

    http://www.triplejunearthed.com/

    and

    http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/listen/mp3s.htm

    Both sites are run by the local government (read tapayer) funded youth network radio station and aussie music rips the rest of the world to pieces.

  16. Re:Not the first time on The Russian Mafia Doesn't Like Spam Either · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What about those people who are paying him to do it, should they not take some responsibility for the service they are paying for?

  17. Re:Ignorant Mods on Time Dimension To Become Space-like · · Score: 1

    OK I'll bite, what's the joke?

  18. Re:College kids on Apple Now Selling Better Than One Laptop In Six · · Score: 1

    Nope I'm hiding in my room playing WoW on my 2 year old mac ibook while waiting for the October release of Leopard.

  19. Re:What about the edges? on Halo Science - Ringworlds and Plasma Weapons · · Score: 1

    They were called spill mountains, because sludge from the sea bottoms was pumped up through the edges and spilled down the internal sides of the atmosphere walls. A massive effort of recycling dirt.

  20. Re:hum on Why Do Computers Take So Long to Boot Up? · · Score: 1

    I gotta say after having IBM, Dell and Acer laptops and not having Suspend or hibernate ever work reliably, I am amazed at how well it DOES work on my Mac IBook (the last pre-Intel version). I'm not bashing PC's or pushing Macs, just saying it was one of the other things that just works how I allways expected it to work in the past, but never did.

  21. Got 1 thing to say to all you folks on Halo 3 'Feels' Like Halo 1 · · Score: 1

    that think that Halo didn't introduce anything new to FPS

    STICKY BOMBS

    Still my fav way to take someone out is to charge in weaving, shove a sticky bomb in their face and then run away laughing.

  22. Re:No, that's NOT how we do it in the USA on How to Deal w/ Dubious 'Contracts'? · · Score: 1

    Erm, he lives in Canada dude.

  23. Re:fetchmail only makes sense with POP on Exchange Alternatives Round-up · · Score: 1

    Exchange is an IMAP server, just point thunderbird at it as an IMAP, you get folders and all, can copy what you want to another Thunderbird profile etc, It's how i move mail off Exchange all the time.

  24. Re:Not really... on Experts Suggest Replacing Definition of Kilogram · · Score: 1

    1 meter = one ten-millionth of the length of the earth's meridian along a quadrant (one-fourth the polar circumference of the earth). In 1791, the French Academy of Sciences selected the meridional definition, using the meridian of Paris.

  25. A kilogram is not abitrary. on Experts Suggest Replacing Definition of Kilogram · · Score: 1

    I thought that 1 kilogram=1000 gram

    1gram=the weight of 1 ml of pure water at sea level

    ie it's not an abitrary unit of measure, just the representation of as alump of platnim is abitrary, it could have been gold, lead or any other long lived metal.