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  1. But didn't Ender on USAF Enlists Shrinks To Help Drone Pilots Cope · · Score: 1

    take a whole lot longer to figure out how horrible his actions are? These Airmen are figuring it out *right* in the moment. Maybe we can skip the wholesale genocide entirely, and get over the urge to slaughter? That'd be ~swank~.

  2. Animated comparison on A Super-Efficient Light Bulb · · Score: 1

    Suggestion: create animated comparisons of your two cases, bright points of light & gulfs of darkness versus more even illumination. Something like this, which compares traffic behaviors (which drivers can actively influence) in the left and right animations: http://amasci.com/amateur/traffic/seatraf.html

  3. Freedom of the press on Ask Mike Godwin About Internet Law · · Score: 1

    From the Bill of Rights: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press"

    Since my personal computer and my printer form my own private press, can Congress legally make any law abridging my freedom to use my press? [DRM, fair use, etc.]

  4. Re:If you don't like my hypotheses, what are yours on What (non-PC) Hardware Do You Hack? · · Score: 1

    Thank you, it is nice to see so many pages in a row on Slashdot that have thoughtful debate, back and forth, on a serious topic.

  5. Re:Slashdot wrong about Iraq Liberation on Answers On LUGs, Life, and Linux in Iraq · · Score: 1

    Isn't he a reporter? I suspect his DSL is subsidized by the company he works for.

  6. Metal bras & lack of cover charge on Linux Top Gun Hacker Contest Report · · Score: 1

    There was no cover charge. That's one of the initial requirements.

    The hottie in the metal bra runs a bookstore, so you dreamers who would be intimidated by a Viking shaped lass in person, in metal, might acctually enjoy a conversation with the one wearing the dainty dragonfly. Having avoided the contest, you'd also miss her serious questions about what was going on on-screen.

    I'd say there were more than 10 women in attendance, but maybe not more than 20.

    Please, someone get informative and tell me where else on a weekend night can you find as many thinking, technically oriented, conversational individuals enjoying a beer in a non-smoking room, in Austin? Don't try to push your Dave & Busters claims on me, that place is fun, but not conversational, and has fewer coin-op video games than Alamo has. Super groovy would be getting the owner of this place north of town involved somehow, he doesn't have the arcade open over the winter season.

    Maybe linuxtopgun can get a game console company involved, one of the ones that has linux-ability (that discounts Xbox, yes?)

    The technical difficulties decidedly do need to be addressed exponentially better as the event continues to mature.

    Personally, I miss the glory days in Austin, when there were weird cool venues to dress-up for on a closer to weekly basis. Planet Austin, Proteus, Paris25... Places you could get a mix of danceable music, see interesting and even well done fashion efforts, with a few nooks where you could talk without having to shout.

  7. Contacting Cartoon Network on Ghost In The Shell TV Series · · Score: 1

    The Cartoon Network 1050 Techwood Dr., NW, P.O. Box 105264, Atlanta, Ga., 30318. 404-885-4390

    From: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/entertainment/tv/sfl-t vradiocontact.htmlstory?coll=sfla-tv-utility

    As well as the potentially lame: http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/gen/help/index.html

  8. FPS Nethack, turn based, single player on Nethack 3.4.0 · · Score: 1
    Ok, I totally love Nethack and can't be won over to Emacs due to being trained by Nethack in the smooth moves of VI. (There have been attempts to convert me..)

    But! I would still enjoy seeing a turn based, first person, single player interface for Nethack. A different sense of discovery would be offered to the player, and the Myst-like quality would add interesting variety. Same gameplay, same strategy opportunities, but show me the little dog that I'm about to kick.

    The saddest part is that it took me years to figure out that it was "Net-Hack". I was so into Elvish funky words that I pronounced it to myself as "Neh-Thack". Ah, the pitfalls of being turned loose on an Xterm with no real mentor to tutor me in the proper way to speak about the game...

  9. Re:What a coincedence! on Google Programming Contest · · Score: 1