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  1. When green lasers are outlawed, only outlaws will& on FBI Investigating Laser Beams Pointed at Aircraft · · Score: 5, Funny

    You'll take my green lasers when you pry them from my cold, dead fingers.

  2. Nope. on GIMP Interface Proposals? · · Score: 1

    Read your own link. Gimp.app is just a standalone application that you double click instead of opening in the terminal, I guess the package is also sure to include all the dependancies and such-except X11. And it doesn't use Aqua, except to the extent that any other X11 sits on top of it.

  3. Re:I'm not a GIMP developer on GIMP Interface Proposals? · · Score: 2, Informative
    From the ReadMe on GIMP.app:

    If you are using Apple's X11 and find it annoying that you must click on a window once to bring it to focus and a second time to use a tool on it, open a terminal window and type: defaults write com.apple.x11 wm_ffm true This will enable "focus follows mouse". X11 must be restarted for the change to take effect.

    Don't know if that info is in with the Fink version or not but I imagine it would work exactly the same.

  4. Re:The Dangers of Adaption on Le Guin Peeved About Earthsea Miniseries · · Score: 1

    Then again, William Goldman wrote the screenplay as well and was one of the best in the business. He won an Academy Award for All the Presidents Men IIRC and also wrote Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid which is genius and may have won also.

  5. Get it right. on Lusternia Age of Ascnension Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    John Romero never wanted to kick your ass. He wanted to make you his bitch.

  6. Re:Does it have any video games? on Neverland Theme Park Opens in Second Life · · Score: 1
    Are there any video games in Neverland?

    Just one.

  7. Re:new wife a freebsd user? on Energy Efficient and Cheap Servers for Home Use? · · Score: 1

    And the real question: does she have a sister?

  8. Re:Don't get your hopes up... on Linux, OS X Ports For Star Wars: Battlefront? · · Score: 1
    I mastered the Pod Racer demo to the point that I could beat it using two buttons. I'd program the left arrow to be left and thrust; the right arrow was right and thrust. Hold both buttons to go straight, lift the right button to go left.

    I tended to obsess over games like that back then, I spent all that time before I realized the only reason I could do that was the demo was really easy. The full game was probably a lot more complex, too bad I didn't have any money.

  9. Re:Top predator? on Jaws Snapped Up By Ecco Developers · · Score: 1
    Seriously, though, I doubt mice fear lions, even though lions are above them in the food chain. Your main worry should be what is one step up from your position in the food chain.

    That's what I like so much about being a human.

  10. Most Feared Predator? on Jaws Snapped Up By Ecco Developers · · Score: 3, Funny

    Let's take a poll. I, for one, live about 1500 miles from any ocean and feel much more fearful of, say, pumas. Heck, weasels are pretty nasty, I'm probably 100 times as likely to stay up at night unable to sleep for fear a weasel will slink from under my bed than that a shark will ambush me in the tub.

  11. To someone who has played it… on Paranoia XP Tabletop RPG 'Goes Gold' · · Score: 1
    and knows what I'm talking about.

    Is this game based in any way on Jean-Luc Goddard's film Alphaville? If I recall correctly that was about a city controlled by a computer, with non-conformists executed by teams of synchronized swimmers and such.

  12. Re:Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri on Which Classic Games Have Aged Well? · · Score: 1
    I always found Alpha Centauri to be a disappointment compared to Civ2. That and I got ticked off when they released a book based off of it, seeing how the game was based off a book to begin with

    I read one of them. The story was a complete rip off of the Iliad.

  13. Re:Control affected by camera on Game Cameras Prone to Problems? · · Score: 1
    Yeah, I hated Mario 64 the few times I tried it. I like 3rd person games but in my opinion control should be absolute and not based on where the camera happens to be at the time. Maybe I would have gotten used to it eventually but it was just to confusing on a basic level for me. If I press up, my character should walk forward in a straight line no matter what the camera does.

    I played most of Oni, besides looking though walls the moving camera was fine for me. I prefer games such as Alice though, where the cam stays on behind, moving up and down, in and out as needed when you're close to objects or looking up, but always behaving in a way you can predict.

  14. Elvis on Getting Things Done? · · Score: 2, Funny

    The King prefers TCB. Takin' Care of Business. Seems way catchier than GTD.

  15. Re:Safe? on Sapphire: A Liquid That Won't Get Things Wet · · Score: 1, Informative

    Tell that to the NCO's in Viet Nam who had to drink glasses of Agent Orange to show the men it was safe. Many had children with severe birth defects, assuming the stuff didn't make them completely infertile.

  16. Re:"Water"-cooling on Sapphire: A Liquid That Won't Get Things Wet · · Score: 5, Insightful
    If they're using it to put out fires, it's a safe bet that it can handle your Athlon.

    Not the same thing. You aren't trying to put out fires by cooling them, you're depriving them of oxygen. It could be that it's just as good at that application in gaseous state as when a liquid. In processor's, on the other hand, you want something to conduct away the heat from the processor. Gasses are usually bad heat absorbers.

    I do like what was said below about using the state change to cool, pumping the gaseous Sapphire away and re-condensing it. It would be more complicated than just putting your computer in a fish tank full of the stuff and letting convection do the rest (circulate the liquid keeping the coolest of it at the bottom), though.

  17. Re:Flamebait? Stupid mods on Auto-Censoring DVD Player · · Score: 1
    Or "Clockwork Orange" without the rape scenes? Granted, "Clockwork Orange" would be a very short movie if you took the sex and violence out, but if somebody really just wants to watch Malcome MacDowell extoll the joys of drinking "milk plus" for 10 minutes, that should be up to them.

    You wouldn't even get that. Remember, all the milk bar furniture was made of anatomically correct nude manikins. Off the top of my head, it seems like viewers would be stuck with a few shots of Alex's parents talking-though Mum's blue hair might be too frightening.

  18. Re:This looks cool, however.... on Google Offers Personalized Search · · Score: 1

    10:00 AM Google releases the beta of its "personal search" crawler 2:21 PM Slashdot item on it comes out 2:21:03 PM the internet is Slashdotted.

  19. Re:Obligatory Matrix Quote on Earth Acquires a Quasi-Moon · · Score: 1

    Neo: "There is no Moon."

  20. Bad trade on Cell Phone-Controlled Game Invades Times Square · · Score: 5, Funny

    In the old days, Times Square used to have hookers. Now you're supposed to want to go there to play a game on your cell phone? I don't know about you, but this sounds like a downgrade to me.

  21. Lucas not a genius on Star Wars DVD Cover Art Leaked · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    We're just all idiots.

  22. Re:FPL on GoldenEye Hackers Find Hidden FPS Level · · Score: 5, Funny
    "They then went on to discover the secret level of that hot new First Person Live game. Known as "the outdoors," it was accessed by passing through a heretofore undiscovered "doorway"..."


    I tried playing this level after I read the article, but I don't think it's finished. I couldn't find any weapons at all, nor any ammo for the shotgun I took along. Once I ran out of shells, there was nothing to do.

  23. Re:Morpheus on Matrix Revolutions To Be Released On Imax · · Score: 2, Funny
    "i saw reloaded on imax and the thing i noticed most was the pits on fishburnes face were about a foot tall. kinda scary. you could fit a small child inside them"

    I didn't see it, but on that scale you could probably drive a tank through the gap between his front teeth.

  24. Re:Uh oh! on Microsoft Offers A DRM Patch · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's Connor, not Conner. That's why you can't find him. Check the phone book. Even Arnold figured that one out.

  25. Re:So... on Memory Activity LEDs · · Score: 1
    "No, Flash memory got its name because older models of it were nonvoltile memory modules that could be erased when exposed to ultraviolet light. It has nothing to do with blinking LEDs."

    Yes, Flash Memory is what we call the mental scarring that results when older models expose themselves. Nothing to do with any kind of electronics at all.