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  1. Re:In indiana... on 22,000 Indiana Students Using Linux Desktops · · Score: 1

    Mainly because it blocks the line of sight when looking for traffic at an intersection.

  2. Re:In indiana... on 22,000 Indiana Students Using Linux Desktops · · Score: 1

    I say "Theme park" and provide a link to the theme park that uses "more than corn" as a slogan, and get modded -1 off-topic, and someone in reply to a reply to me gets modded 4 Funny, and then you come in here with "Soybeans" and get modded Funny. What's up with the mods?

    Also Slashdot appears to be eating the subject after 'Re:'

  3. Re:I just have one question on Unrestricted vs. Limited Shareware, In Dollars · · Score: 1

    But the thing is, if you are using covers and not daubers, a Bingo set can be had for much less than $25.

  4. Re:In indiana... on 22,000 Indiana Students Using Linux Desktops · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    There's also a theme park!
    http://www.indianabeach.com/

  5. Re:SEC on A 'Witch Hunt' in Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    No, I mean that in regards to the companies, the investor's confidence or lack thereof is well founded. With respect to the market itself, the SEC's role is to ensure that the investor has the information it needs to decide whether any companies in the American stock markets are worth investing in

  6. Re:To the Moon, Alice! on NASA Learns Anew From the Apollo Program · · Score: 1

    What I don't understand is why, when the scope of the last pointer in the system of equations a memory location is involved with is closed, the memory is not freed. I mean, sure, there may be a few nontrivial cases, but how many are those? How many are the trivial ones?

  7. Re:Well... on A 'Witch Hunt' in Silicon Valley · · Score: 1
    But I thought the SEC's role was to build investor confidence.
    No the SEC's role is to make sure that the investor's confidence or lack thereof is well founded.
  8. But seriously on U.S. Satellite Plan Could Knock Out GPS and Radio · · Score: 1

    Why don't they send it the other way into space?

  9. Better yet, Liger Zero! on Beyond DirectX 10 - A glance at DirectX 10.1 · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Dupe? on Has Anyone Seen the Moon Pictures? · · Score: 1

    I've never been able to see them either. Going to http://slashdot.org/my/tags/ results in "You are unable to read tags at this time."

  11. It's alive! on Intel Open Sources Graphics Drivers · · Score: 2, Informative

    No. Intel is open sourcing their driver not their entire card. Even so, this project could use open source resources from other sources and get a boost in the arm from something like this. You don't seem to understand how open source works.

  12. Re:Games are merely copies of bits. on Gaming Memories Helping to Heal Katrina Wounds · · Score: 1

    Except when you discover that they've stopped making the game and no one's selling their used copies.

    Things like Working Designs closing up shop is another issue. They were also in the business of making their games rare.

  13. Nah... on Gaming Memories Helping to Heal Katrina Wounds · · Score: 1

    We'd up the tempo, to make sure it wasn't us again. But I only live here folks, and I'm only one person. I'm not saying what I would or could do, just reporting what I think is an extrapolation of the attitudes around me.

  14. Re:Uh, no. on Piracy Killing PC Gaming? · · Score: 2, Informative
  15. Cosmology on Solar Wi-Fi To Bring Net to Developing Countries · · Score: 1

    1. The metaphysical study of the origin and the nature of the universe.
    In my cosmology, I can't find a distinction between mind and soul in the fashion that you do.

  16. So your customers are getting... on Easy Fix for Scratched CDs · · Score: 1

    So your customers are getting a dose of dissolved latex glove with their pulled pork... Somehow I don't like the sound of that.

  17. Nevermind... on Cedega and Linux Games · · Score: 2, Informative
  18. HOTU? on Cedega and Linux Games · · Score: 1

    In Wikipedia, HOTU redirects to "Home of the Underdogs". What does it mean to you?

  19. Re:We already have a Bangs and a Thompson on Technology And The Decline of Gonzo Journalism · · Score: 1

    I may like it, but that doesn't mean it should be called journalism. I don't really think of columnists as journalists.

  20. Press-only on E3 2007 A More 'Targeted' Event · · Score: 1

    Refocusing to benefit the fans and not the press would be a good thing though. Too bad they don't just open E3 to the public, but it looks like what's left over is going to be even more exclusive.
    http://www.megatokyo.com/index.php?strip_id=1

  21. Re:We already have a Bangs and a Thompson on Technology And The Decline of Gonzo Journalism · · Score: 0

    I don't know anything about these Bangs and Thompson people, but somehow "a tastemaker, a voice of authority, who can put it all in perspective and knock our heads together with his or her crazy-yet-dead-on arguments." isn't quite what I think of when I think of a real journalist. What I think of when I think of "real journalism" is more along the lines of "just the facts".

  22. Re:Why just Americans? on Photograph the Police, Get Arrested · · Score: 1

    Traitor to the UN doesn't work because people don't consider themselves in any way aligned with or a part of the UN. Traitor to Michael Jackson doesn't work becase Michael Jackson is a scope of one person.

  23. Where does authority come from? on Big Dig - One of Engineering's Greatest Mistakes? · · Score: 1

    It seems to me that law is not sufficient to ensure that one has authority, any more than a law against speeding is sufficient to keep people from ever speeding.

  24. Why just Americans? on Photograph the Police, Get Arrested · · Score: 2, Informative

    Why not "Traitor to sentient beings of the universe, wherever and in whatever form they might be"

  25. Re:Ethics on Big Dig - One of Engineering's Greatest Mistakes? · · Score: 1

    After having a whole life in which ethics is a nebulous concept, do you really think it will be something he will have a rigorous grasp of, that he can rely on being there when the pressure is on?