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  1. Re:Good. on Man Who Pointed Laser At Aircraft Gets 30-Month Sentence · · Score: 1

    This is the slashdot crowd, forget CHA, DEX, CON & STR - they have all been min-maxed into INT & WIS, though sometimes I wonder about WIS...

  2. Its a decent little movie (1959) starring Peter Sellers. I like the doomsday bomb, looks like a football and really does not like to be moved.. at all. Wikipedia on the book and movie; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mouse_That_Roared

  3. Re:Figures on Study Estimates 100 Billion Planets In the Milky Way Galaxy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Your only hope is to start hanging around in English bars and keeping an eye out for a weird looking dude carrying a towel.

  4. Beer Glasses Ver 2.0? on Google Glass Could Be the Virtual Dieting Pill of the Future · · Score: 1

    Kinda makes the whole "bigger oreo" example moot.

  5. Well I'm not a Doctor but... on The Virtues of the Virtual Autopsy · · Score: 1

    If I was an intern, I think I would be more emotionally impacted by cutting into what used to be a living person, rather than staring at some innards on a monitor. The loss of this may hinder the education of medical students.

  6. Re:Minecraft on Ask Slashdot: Best Book Or Game To Introduce Kids To Programming? · · Score: 1

    Or take the advanced class, RedPower 2.

    Caveat, it is hard to get into MC modding, due to the relatively difficult learning curve, and getting the environment setup (Eclipse, MCP'd Java code, etc) so, although fun, its not my first pick.

    There was a game released a few years ago though (5?) that involved landing on a planet and writing small scripts for controlling robots used in exploring the planet. I cannot remember the title, but it was easy to learn the scripting, I think it was based on Java...

  7. bad FS, BAD on Reiser4 File System Still In Development · · Score: 1

    No! don't re-integrate it, it's cursed!

  8. Re:Do hosting companies have a clue? on Millions of Blogs Knocked Offline By Legal Row · · Score: 1

    Uhm, I read the article. I read both articles - and no, it was not "only visible internally", lets see what ServerBeach said on that topic shall we?

    I envisioned you saying this in the comic book guy voice...

  9. Define "tracking". If it is an RFID (near field, like HID cards) then this cannot be used to pinpoint some kid walking around town while he should be in school. Likely it is a card reader that must be swiped by the student... so big deal. We used this in university to gain access to labs. The uproar is more likely parents who just don't RTFA. Caveat; I didn't RTFA either :)-

  10. Re:How Much Would What Cost? on Ask Slashdot: Explaining Version Control To Non-Technical People? · · Score: 1

    SVN/TortoiseSVN will do a 3-way merge (for conflict resolution) on a MS word document, at least for the newer releases of MS Word (2010+). I am not sure if the document has to be a .docx or not though.

  11. make a wish on Austrian Skydiver Prepared to Leap From Edge of Space · · Score: 5, Funny

    I see a bright future for this man.

  12. Looks strangly familiar... on Toyota Unveils Helpful Human Support Robot · · Score: 1

    Does it have a finger that lights up when it extends its "neck" ?

  13. Re:Let me get this straight on Monkeys Made Smarter With Prosthetic Device · · Score: 1

    Ah, MIMO... ok its slightly less ridiculous.

  14. Let me get this straight on Monkeys Made Smarter With Prosthetic Device · · Score: 1

    Brain damaged monkeys... High on cocaine. ... playing MMOs.... ... Are you sure its not April 1?

  15. Re:We need more DEVELOPERS! on Do Tech Entrepreneurs Need To Know How To Code? · · Score: 1

    I play with virtual Lego, AKA Minecraft. Then I write mods in Java and create my own blocks. I suppose you could mod real Legos, but I don't want to glue my fingers together.

  16. Re:maybe they don't use ruggedOS? on FAA Denies Vulnerabilities In New Air Traffic Control System · · Score: 1

    maybe they don't use ruggedOS?

    I'm pretty sure they are running HollywoodOS http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?HollywoodOs http://nand.net/~demaria/hollywood.txt

  17. Re:Not an issue on Bad Software Runs the World · · Score: 1

    One company that depended on several million TCP/IP connections a day had no idea that TCP/IP data might not all arrive in one packet.

    As long as all they cared about was opening connections then it doesn't matter how much data a packet could hold... :-)

    But seriously, what you describe I'm pretty sure is common across most companies.

    This issue could have had to do with TCP/IP stacks placing closed ports in a limbo state for ~ 60 seconds (for catching late data or FIN packets) . When you only have 64535 ports (not counting any below 1000) then having most of them in limbo is a big deal when you are cycling through millions of connections, with short connect periods, per day.

  18. Re:Stanislaw Lem on Ask Slashdot: Most Underappreciated Sci-Fi Writer? · · Score: 1

    Works by Stanislaw Lem were in my public library and I read them. Mind you that was back in the early 80's when I was in high school. I read what I could find.. interesting perspective.

  19. Re:Typo in summary on US Resists UN Push For Control Over Internet · · Score: 1

    "Unitied Nations", seriously?

    I guessed you missed the typo in the word internet then. I can understand a typo for UN in slashdot, but "interenet"... really? Hang your geek head in shame.

  20. Re:Threat on 50 New Exoplanets Found, Billions More Await · · Score: 1

    A "Relativistic kill vehicle", or Relativistic Bomb (big comet or other space debris moving at a high fraction of c) may be more do-able. Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_bomb all it takes is money and a complete lack of common sense. - Eddy_D

  21. Re:Not suitable for 15 yr old boys? on Left 4 Dead 2 Banned In Australia · · Score: 1

    Man, sounds a lot like living in Canada, where you have to build igloos to protect you from the grizzly bears and hockey pucks, then listen to the same ol boring story, for the 11 months of winter, about the moose and the squirrel.

  22. Count the astronauts on Main Toilet On ISS Craps Out · · Score: 1

    One of them will have to go...

  23. Oh good then Windows 7 doesn't need it on RIAA Spokesman Says DRM Is Dead · · Score: 1

    Oh good then Windows 7 doesn't need it... Because if DRM is dead, what good is support for it in an OS? Yeah I know, dream on...

  24. Re:Post it notes on 32 inch TV on How To Track the Bug-Trackers? · · Score: 1

    My question is: When did TV's ever come with a non-glossy screen?

    Just get a TV from someone who smokes heavily. The smoke tar does a lovely job of creating a non-gloss coating on the screen...

  25. Re:The song on Future Astronauts May Survive On Eating Silkworms · · Score: 1

    Sulk worms ...