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  1. Re:"they should have used ZFS or btrfs" on Server Failure Destroys Sidekick Users' Backup Data · · Score: 1

    Your comment is fucking retarded. Do you even know what a striped array is? (that's what I assume you mean by "stripped"). How is it +5 Insightful?

  2. Re:Not really on Microsoft Leaks Details of 128-bit Windows 8 · · Score: 4, Informative

    For the uninitiated, v- and a- are Microsoft's way of identifying vendors (Microsoft is their client for whatever reason) and CSGs respectively (a fancy acronym for contractors).

  3. The Mirror? on Cyber-criminal Left In Charge of Prison Computer Network · · Score: 1
  4. wtf? on Bad PC Sales Staff Exposed · · Score: 1

    Undercover investigation done online? Do you actually know what "undercover" means? The "hot shot investigator" chatted online until there was enough damning text transcripts. This is a story?

  5. Full Story? on Sony Announces PS3 Slim, Price Cut, Improvements To Home · · Score: 1

    Here's a rumor posted on the PSN boards: http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/message?message.uid=42798489 I said rumor but the post raises some questions that no one has addressed so far:

    - "OtherOS" support has been removed.
    - A Cheaper Blu-ray drive is being used. It wont be any slower, but expect to see similar issues that another competitor had a while ago.
    - Touch-sensitive buttons on the front for power/eject are gone in favour of cheaper push buttons.

    This makes the first batch of PS3s that came out, the "best" ones to own (backwards compatibility with PS2 games from having the full emotion engine on hardware, ability to swap in drives as big as 500GB and being able to install other OSes)

  6. Re:As a Former Tech Support Person of 12 years... on Verizon Sued After Tech Punches Customer In Face · · Score: 3, Funny

    What made you stay in tech support for 12 years? Not enough "respect" for yourself?

  7. Re:Pure Evil? Check out latest contract killing. on Team Aims To Create Pure Evil AI · · Score: 3, Funny

    Looks like it is taking longer than twenty years in your case...

  8. Re:zoltan's 10,000+ point armory listing on WoW Gamer Earns Federal Investigation Achievement · · Score: 1

    What exactly is your point? You are impressed that someone is more of a gamer than you are?

  9. Annoying as hell? on Apple Update Means Palm Pre Can No Longer Sync With iTunes · · Score: 0

    From the article: "It works, but is annoying as hell. Will Palm respond? Who knows. In the meantime, welcome to your new reality, Pre users." Uhh Eric Zeman, not being able to use your precious palm to sync with Itunes is inconvenient and mildly annoying. Not sure it's as annoying as hell.

    I was trying to come up with examples..."Cell phone yelling on a bus", "Madonna" - annoying as they are, nowhere near as annoying as hell. I know, I know, figure of speech but fucking drag your files or buy an Apple device or even better..here it comes..STOP USING ITUNES.

  10. Gaming with Hardware rendering perhaps... on Virtualbox 3.0 Announces OpenGL/Direct3D Support · · Score: 1

    I used a much older version of Vmware (4.x) to install WxP and run Unreal Tournament using Software Rendering. The game was playable, didn't look pretty and the FPS were a bit on the low end, but the game was playable. Won't Windows 7 support D3D over RDP?

  11. Re:oh noes! a _picture_ threatens society! on Tennesee Man Charged In "Virtual Pornography" Case · · Score: 1

    No, but the video does. A tenant (of the accused) found the said photos. One of the photos (well the face) belonged to the tenant's kid. Calm the fuck down.

  12. The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka? on Frog Species Discovered Living In Elephant Dung · · Score: 1

    Someone had to mention it.

  13. Re:I get it but... on Possible Extra-Galactic Planet Detected · · Score: 1

    Milky Way != one self.
    Research != looking for places to have picnics on
    You = shallow.

  14. Re:Idiocy on Homeland Security To Scan Citizens Exiting US · · Score: 1

    WTF does fescisious mean? Facetious?

  15. 2010? on MS, Intel "Goofed Up" Win 7 XP Virtualization · · Score: 1

    Microsoft is pretty much ready to release Windows 7 now. All they need is a back to school or a holiday time-frame to kickstart the PC shopping spree. That's when they like to release. Not really insider info - ask any MS employee (except the one who uses chairs to build up his arm muscles).

  16. Re:Did you even try online gaming? on Virgin American In-Flight Internet Review, From In-Flight · · Score: 1

    Yea like wow raiders ever get out. Also, raid times don't revolve around someone flying.

  17. Re:Srsly? on Virgin American In-Flight Internet Review, From In-Flight · · Score: 1

    Try paying 15 Euro for an hours worth internet in Schiphol.

  18. Re:At Least It's Egier to Use and Less Glib on Debian Switching From Glibc To Eglibc · · Score: 5, Informative

    " Any change will negatively impact well
    designed architectures for the sole benefit of this embedded crap."

    ^ Actual Quote.

  19. Re:Question on Richard Garriott To Sue Former Employer NCSoft · · Score: 1

    1. Options usually need to mature or unlock if you will

    2. There is something called a cash-less transfer (you can sell your options for the difference in the option grant price and the current stock value)

    3. I don't know about the "don't last forever usually" - it all boils down to a case by case or company by company.

  20. Re:Fun Read? on The Biggest Cults In Tech · · Score: 1
  21. Re:"unprintable expletive" on Russian Manned Space Vehicle May Land With Rockets · · Score: 0

    Level 80 epicced DK here bitch, prepare to lose.

  22. Re:DUPE on US ISPs Using Push Polling To Stop Cheap Internet · · Score: 1

    Somehow I just knew kdawson was behind this. Don't slashdot editors read their own articles?

  23. In Other News... on Miro Asks Users To "Adopt" Lines of Source · · Score: 1

    The code-base of Miro doubled in size with 99% of the new lines coming from comment...err programmer documentation.

  24. Re:Questions from an 8.10 user on Ubuntu 9.04 Released · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "M$"
    "windoz"

    Oh hai, btw the best OS MS has cranked out is Windows 2000.

  25. A little OT but Monty will be talking in the US on Sun Announces New MySQL, Michael Widenius Forks · · Score: 1

    Bellingham, WA will be hosting their 10th LinuxFest Northwest this coming weekend (25th and 26th) and Monty Widenius will be a speaker on the 25th. Just a heads up for anyone in the area wanting to see and hear the man speak.