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  1. There was QBASIC (later quickbasic... or they just really hid the full name for early versions) and before that GW-BASIC.

  2. Usborne on Uborne Children's Books Release For Free Computer Books From the '80s (usborne.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    I know editors don't actually do any editing, but come on...

  3. Re:Timed Exclusive? on BitTorrent Announces Exclusive TV Shows · · Score: 1

    The exclusivity is what is timed, not the availability.

  4. Re:Bean has done drm free for years on Why eBook DRM Has To Go · · Score: 2

    You got the URL right, but you spelled the name as "Bean" twice. o.O

  5. Re:This wouldn't be a big deal except on Google+ Account Suspensions Over ToS Drawing Fire · · Score: 1

    During the trial run, I was under the impression that it was restricted to 18+ users only, but that that will be changed after it finally goes public.

  6. Re:No Privacy == No Security on Ex-NSA Chief Supports Separate Secure Internet · · Score: 1

    The U.S. has separate wires too, known as the SIPRNet.

    [...]Its complete architecture will be achieved by constructing a new worldwide backbone router system.[...]

  7. Re:I gotta hand it to them. on Sony's Solution To Split-Screen Multiplayer · · Score: 1

    The short story Double-Take by Winston K. Marks covers the concept, although in there it was in a theatre as an evolution of 3D movies, where one viewer could watch a movie from the male lead's perspective, and the other from the female lead's perspective.

    The story was written in 1953. Is that prior art enough? You can check here a bit over half-way down for the story.

  8. Re:Cat5 on HDMI Brands Don't Matter · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it require that and running another cable? or having a switch on each end?

  9. Re:Penny on Anonymous Under Civil War? · · Score: 1

    You can get onto Netflix to browse by trying to log in once, and letting it tell you PSN is under maintenance, but it won't let you actually watch anything without logging on to PSN. :P

  10. Re:they may want to remote admin it aka WSUS / AV on Ask Slashdot: Do I Give IT a Login On Our Dept. Server? · · Score: 1

    Or a BSD server, like in the OP...

  11. Re:Not hard to track down on $1.2 Million Worth of MS Points Taken After Hackers Figure Out Code Algorithm · · Score: 1

    I purchase MS points a few times a week, and I have a feeling I'm not alone. I don't see how that would help narrow down the evil doers.

    In 160MSP increments?

  12. Re:horse on Military Bans Removable Media After WikiLeaks Disclosures · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think you meant to respond to The Snowman... But either way, he wasn't saying you got your definitions wrong, but that you got the direction wrong... NIPR -> SIPR has always been just fine (although the media, once connected to the SIPR side, is no longer allowed to be attached to the NIPR side) but SIPR -> NIPR has never been allowed...

  13. Re:Merry xmas, thanks for the free tech! on Hi-Tech Nativity Security · · Score: 0

    I recommend burying baby Jesus directly beneath the food trough.

  14. Re:Missed opportunity on Analyzing Game Journalism · · Score: 2

    If only it were used that way... It's more like horrendous, horrible, horrid, average, great.

    Or, if I'm being slightly more cynical, horrendous, horrible, horrid, wretched, average.

  15. Re:Obvious on UVB-76 Broadcasts New Voice Message · · Score: 1

    fighting game

  16. Re:Obvious on UVB-76 Broadcasts New Voice Message · · Score: 1

    Tager main?

    (It's a quote from the fighting BlazBlue Calamity Trigger's bonus DVD explaining how to use one of the characters known as the Red Devil)

  17. Re:Anonymous Coward on Blizzard Sues Private Server Company, Awarded $88M · · Score: 1

    Wasn't trying to imply that they were, just that they were guilty of violating the EULA as well as the server admins.

  18. Re:Anonymous Coward on Blizzard Sues Private Server Company, Awarded $88M · · Score: 1

    The WoW server doesn't need player or enemy models, it just needs to know a bunch of numbers out of a database, how to manipulate them, and the protocol for communicating with the clients (as well as miscellaneous other things also not related to the models or artwork). Regardless, charging users for things still a blatant violation of the EULA, regardless of your opinion on just running a private server. Both on the server side (the admins have probably played the game before, and likely run around in the server as well) and also on the client side, as they get to see the EULA on install of the application.

  19. Re:Don't f* with the IT guy like at restaurant you on Child Porn As a Weapon · · Score: 1

    Or disproves it. They're allowed to do that too...

  20. Re:Nested parentheses for the masses on C Programming Language Back At Number 1 · · Score: 1

    There are plenty that will highlight the matching parentheses to whichever is under the cursor though.

  21. Re:how cheap? pfsense? on Best WAP For Dense Crowds? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes, we should be able to mod people up to remove our comments.

  22. Re:I don't come to slashdot for the stories on xkcd, Devotion To Duty · · Score: 2, Informative

    Did you know that they have a forum to discuss individual comics?

  23. Re:Nonsense on Mozilla's VP of Engineering On H.264 · · Score: 1

    Chrom(e/ium) will have No Script features eventually.

  24. Fred Physarum on Slime Mold Could Lead To Better Tech · · Score: 4, Insightful

    To think. After all these years, Fred Physarum is finally getting the recognition he deserves.

  25. Re:How do we know it's not already in use? on Newly-Found Windows Bug Affects All Versions Since NT · · Score: 1

    [...]Only one security hole found in over 10 years!

    That's something of a misstatement. The claim only relates to remotely exploitable holes, and there have now been two of them. Although without digging too deep, for all I know the first was over 10 years ago...