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  1. Re:With all the recent US layoffs ... on NHTSA Has No Software Engineers To Analyze Toyota · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well I don't know if "talent" is the right word. The people who get laid off are the worst 10%. Usually the real slackers.

    I thought the most expensive got laid off first

  2. Re:Perhaps another Sudoku app... on Apple Bans Sexy Apps, Developers Upset · · Score: 1

    Apple has been in this situation before. History has shown that this course of action is the wrong one.

    are you saying the Iphone is the new betamax?

  3. Re:Quoting something about not quoting something? on New English/Arabic Translation Site Hopes To Promote Citizen Diplomacy · · Score: 1

    Wait... Are you saying XKCD Is the new monty python?

  4. Re:ATT Uverse runs over coax on Suggestions For a Coax-To-Ethernet Solution? · · Score: 1

    The Cool Part about the Uverse Set top boxes is if you plug them in via coax you can use the ethernet port as a switch, This is how my ps3 is hooked up, beats wireless anyday.

  5. Re:unlike Mac or Linux on New Linux-Based Laptop For Computer Newbies · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I use linux, Except when i need a real GUI.

  6. Re:Totally idiotic conclusions on Google Buys iPhone Search App, Kills It · · Score: 1

    That's why they killed POP access, too!

    Oh, wait, no they didn't.

    Slashdot should be embarrassed for all the FUD they've been posting. Apple is the new Microsoft, except for Apple fanboys, who hold Google as the new Microsoft.

    What does that make Microsoft? The new IBM?

  7. Re:VAC is a joke on Valve's Battle Against Cheaters · · Score: 1

    Atleast in TF2 if you are on a good server people are easily banned by unique ID.

    My clan has been playing Modern Warfare 2 recently and if you find a cheater the only thing you can do is back out of the match.

    I concur.

  8. Really? on Valve's Battle Against Cheaters · · Score: 1

    'Cheating is more of a serious threat than piracy.'

    What are they going to start suing their clients now?

  9. Re:To Firaxis on Civilization V Announced For This Fall · · Score: 1

    Planet busters > Nukes.

    I wish Civ had Planet busters

  10. Re:Mac on Civilization V Announced For This Fall · · Score: 1

    Or they could follow the example of Blizzard and release only the stoneage for single player (while letting you play through all ages in multiplayer, minus 50% of the military units) and then next month, release classical age with another 25% of the units, and then modern age with the rest of the units.

    Wow.... I concur....

    Bliz has really sold out since they released wow.

  11. Re:Hmm on PA School Spied On Students Via School-Issued Laptop Webcams · · Score: 1

    What if some kid was doing their homework in their underwear, or naked? That's using the laptop for sanctioned purposes.

    In hindsight, if they haven't already added it, I'm sure they'll add a clause to the contract stating you can't be undressed using the laptop. To be honest, that should have been in the contract regardless, spying via the cam or not. No one wants the laptop back after its been sitting on the balls of some school kid while he hot chats some 40 year old guy claiming to be a 18 year old female elf pixie fairy load on WoW.

    Its rather messed up that they are spying on the kids this way, but the thought of kids screwing around with a loaner laptop while indecent is not appealing in the least, and unsanitary for a number of reasons.

    That's elf pixie fairy lord

  12. TAMS on New Plan Lets Top HS Students Graduate 2 Years Early · · Score: 1

    How is this different then TAMS? Get with the times people.

    http://www.tams.unt.edu/

  13. Re:I don't understand the value of this to robbers on I Use Twitter, Please Rob Me · · Score: 1

    *knock knock*

    Housemate opens door. "Hello?"

    "Good morning, sir, I'm with $CHARITY, and we're looking for donations. Our truck will be coming through your neighborhood on $DATE, do you have anything to help the $NEEDY_POPULATION?"

    Housemate replies appropriately, burglar goes to the next house.

    *knock knock*

    Silence.

    *window smash, goodbye valuables*

    *click-clack* BOOM!!
    *click-clack* BOOM!!

    *dial tone*
    *ringing*

    "Hello 911. What is your emergency."

    "No emergency. Someone forced entry to my home and I shot them to death with a twelve gauge. Just send a meat wagon."

    This is how we deal with robberies down here intexas, That way it frees up more cops to harass wet backs and black folk minding they're own business.

  14. Re:Led by Negroponte and Chertoff? Pass the salt. on Mock Cyber Attack Shows US Unpreparedness · · Score: 1

    What did i do with that mod point?

  15. Re:Nostalgia on 20 Years of Photoshop · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, Adobe has some smart people in Marketing. .

    My theory is they all came from macromedia, Adobe kept the engineers and replaced all the Marketeers.

  16. Nostalgia on 20 Years of Photoshop · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sometimes I really miss photoshop 5.5.

    7.0 was also pretty good. Things started to go down hill when they switched to the cs moniker

  17. Re:some facts about nuclear energy. on US To Build Nuclear Power Plants · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It was actually the incident at Three Mile Island that began the movement against nuclear energy in the US.

    Which caused a massive loss of life?

  18. Re:Save everything that can move away fast enough? on Robots To Clear the Baltic Seafloor of WW-II Mines · · Score: 2, Informative

    I disagree, Peta protests are the best, There all about hot semi-naked chicks spouting on about something you could careless about.

  19. Submitter's Username? on A Simple Guide To Net Neutrality · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Am I the only one that read the submitter's username as Super Rape Commando?

  20. Re:Standards... anyone? Anyone? on Mobile Operators Fight App Store Fragmentation · · Score: 1

    so the answer to app store fragmentation is another app store?

  21. Re:Question on Operation Titstorm Hits the Streets · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What is universal that should be banned (e.g., child porn) as opposed to filtered out by parents? I don't agree with how they're going about it Down Under, but I am wondering about this question.

    How can you say that somethings are so taboo that they can't ever be viewed?

    Down Under even Hentai counts as child porn.

  22. Re:THIS is how you get "infinite" battery life on Tiny ARM-Based Sensor System Makes Battery Replacement Obsolete · · Score: 1

    I was expecting something more like these, which use radioisotopes and ambient vibrations to generate power respectively.

    Finally! A device that will actually get better performance when you Kick It!

  23. Re:The I-pad on IdeaPad U1, What We Wanted the iPad To Be · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The better question is how much did mr. taco make?

  24. Re:How bad could it be? on Texas Textbooks Battle Is Actually an American War · · Score: 1

    +1 funny

  25. Re:A Christian's take on Texas Textbooks Battle Is Actually an American War · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    One is science the other is religion. Guess which one does not belong in a schoolbook?

    Science can't explain how the universe was formed from. At one point it couldn't explain how the earth was formed, or why the rain fell, what was lightning.

    Why is a concept like Zues' lightning bolt sound more absurd then 'a big bang'

    are you saying because something is not well understood it should be ignored?