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  1. Re:Wow on Recipe for Making Symetrical Holes in Water · · Score: 1

    Frequency of disappearances is not enough to say that a special explanation is not needed. The question was not "Are there more disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle?" but, "Are the circumstances of disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle unusual?" Also, while people keep saying there are statistics, I haven't seen them, nor are sources for the statistics cited. The Wikipedia article doesn't link to any, and a Google search for '"Bermuda Triangle" statistics' turns up no statistics in the first few hits.

  2. The other justification... on .xxx registry sues US government · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    We don't want to incur the costs involved in figuring out whether we don't want you to know something, so just to be safe we'll just prevent you from knowing, because once someone knows something they can't unknow it, but the reverse is not true.

  3. Simplest environment possible on Should Students Be Taught With or Without an IDE? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    copy con file

  4. Automation on Should Students Be Taught With or Without an IDE? · · Score: 1

    For me, one of the main points of using an IDE is because the creation of make/build type files is automated. Different ideas of automation, I suppose.

  5. IDEs vs not on Should Students Be Taught With or Without an IDE? · · Score: 1

    All of you make the division seem magical. Care to clarify the difference? Remember any technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.

  6. Other game functionality... on MacSaber Turns Your Macbook into a Lightsaber · · Score: 1

    Once they write a program to allow you to turn around in video games with this, I'm definitely getting a Mac!

  7. Thankful? (2) on Slashback: Sony Blu-Ray, Phone Records, Korean Cloners · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    More precisely, if I'm really that useless to them, then they should quit beating around the bush and take me (and others like me) out.

  8. Thankful? on Slashback: Sony Blu-Ray, Phone Records, Korean Cloners · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'd rather be dead.

  9. Dog Food Re:FDA? on Moving a Development Team from C++ to Java? · · Score: 1

    Oddly enough, that also explains how all the English Bible translations came about.

  10. FDA? on Moving a Development Team from C++ to Java? · · Score: 1

    That puts a whole new spin on "eating your own dog food".

  11. Re:God on Human Genome Sequencing Completed · · Score: 1

    He did, however he injected the data for this planet into chaos, so it all got corrupted. Adam didn't fall by eating the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, it was just a data integrity check. When God creates, that which is created falls from him.

  12. Re:HEY on Slashback: Sony Blu-Ray, Phone Records, Korean Cloners · · Score: 0, Troll

    Alright fine. Did you go to public school? The govenment's been having it's fix in. It isn't so much that I want the government to fix my brain, half as much as they'd quit pacifying everyone that the government says the brain is broken so that they would organize for a place at the work bargaining table. I'm not too crazy to get a job, it's that I'm a social pariah in a dying society. Read Les Miserables. Also, if the government didn't pacify the social outcasts, they'd have an uprising here to deal with as opposed to fighting wars in the middle east.

  13. Diebold on Slashback: Sony Blu-Ray, Phone Records, Korean Cloners · · Score: 1

    So were these the same machines used to re-elect George Bush in 2004? Which states used Diebold devices then? I seem to remember some counties in Ohio did.

  14. One man's virtue is another's vice on Stereotyping the Horde · · Score: 1

    For example, what I call not betraying what I belive to be true, another may call arrogant, self-righteous, and condescending, which has a history of being rather sloppily used.

  15. Re:Worthwhile? on Bio-Engineered Rice Uses Human Genes · · Score: 1

    So if I decided to have bunches of children without any means of supporting them, would someone please bail the little tykes out? Thanks! Gee, if we were having children at the rate of the ones needing help, we'd be a lot closer to the fix they are in instead of being in a position to render them aid. And once they are slightly better off, they'll be in a position to upturn the apple cart for everyone!

  16. Re:Soylent Green on Bio-Engineered Rice Uses Human Genes · · Score: 1

    Now all we need to do is bio-engineer people to result in a tastier product.

  17. Re:Clarity in reporting please. on U.S. Supreme Court Deals a Blow to Patent Trolls · · Score: 1

    It's clear enough for writing in general, but people who get paid to write for Forbes should be held to a higher standard.

  18. Re:normal on Controller Comparison - PlayStation 3 vs. Wii · · Score: 1

    and by normal, of course, you mean mundane.

  19. I liked the ET game too... on Life After the Videogame Crash · · Score: 1

    I think the people who are dissing it expected it to resemble the movie more than it did.

  20. Re:What the user wants to do on Can Ordinary PC Users Ditch Windows for Linux? · · Score: 1

    The user doesn't want to "use an application". He wants to do someting with a document. I put apps in the QuickLaunch menu, which I have run across the top of the screen. In the upper right corner my "media" folder is turned into a toolbar hanging off the edge of the QuickLaunch menu, such that I click on the chevrons to access its contents. I wrote a simple executable called new that creates a file with the name that I've typed on the command line. This avoids the whole question of what application do I use to generate the file I want to make. Windows has a new command on Explorer's right-click menu, but its a bit braindead in that if you have "Show file extensions" turned on, it selects the whole default filename including the extension to be edited, so you either have to retype the extension that you already had to specify, or find some other way of getting rid of the default text which consists of "New " + filetype + "Document".

  21. Testament? on Examining Tokyo's Media Immersion Pods · · Score: 1

    Funny, I thought it was some sort of running gag.

  22. Re:Your trash is metered? on HD Video Could 'Choke the Internet'? · · Score: 1

    Uh, you said your trash was metered. Nice tidbit on what an ISP could do, but you were using the trash example as part of a larger example for the near-ubiquitous desirablity of metering.

  23. Re:Your trash is metered? on HD Video Could 'Choke the Internet'? · · Score: 1

    Where do you live exactly? This is a relatively new concept for me? How exactly do they meter it? I live in New Castle, Indiana currently.

  24. Re: "have to know" on HD Video Could 'Choke the Internet'? · · Score: 1

    No, despite what you think, slashdotters, yourself included do not know that current model is not sustainable. While a case can be made for this general notion, none of us have all the data to reach a firm conclusion. Furthermore, the current model is continuously undergoing changes, so the information you are using is already out of date. Companies are seeing that it is feasable to run fiber to the home, for example.

  25. Non-stupid person? No such thing! on The Economy of Online Crime · · Score: 1

    There are no non-stupid people, just stupid people with areas in which they are decidedly less stupid.