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  1. Re:Difference to the boxer engine? on Looking Beyond Detroit For Engine Innovation · · Score: 0

    Fuck you. Those engines are lighter because they're two strokes, not because they're opposed piston designs. The Jumo 205 used that design for the reason that it could get good scavenging with ports, as two strokes of the era couldn't get good scavenging with ports with conventional cylinder heads. Nowadays, they can, so nobody uses that archaic layout anymore. Because it sucks.

  2. Re:Difference to the boxer engine? on Looking Beyond Detroit For Engine Innovation · · Score: 1

    Yeah. Instead, you have a whole other crankshaft on the other side, and extra gearing to go with it. Heavier, not lighter.

  3. Re:WORK WITHOUT JAVASCRIPT on Help Shape the Future of Slashdot · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Agreed. It's basically unusable.

  4. Re:Java? on Looking Back On a Year of LibreOffice · · Score: 1

    I've encountered the same behavior with Azureus. What turned out to be causing it was the garbage collector taking up more and more time as the memory in use crept closer and closer to the heap size. The "solution" was to increase the heap size so it could use the gig of memory it wanted to.

    Eventually I switched to qbittorrent, which has its flaws, but it never does that to me.

  5. Re:It feels too heavy and old on Looking Back On a Year of LibreOffice · · Score: 1

    And those fools can use Office, and leave the sensible interface for the rest of us. And I never said that what he said was offtopic or flamebait, although some people are arguing that he is a shill, which could be the case.

  6. Re:Java? on Looking Back On a Year of LibreOffice · · Score: 4, Informative

    The problem is generally that Java applications become huge and bloated because the language is so verbose and inexpressive. See Steve Yegge's essay on the topic.

  7. Re:It feels too heavy and old on Looking Back On a Year of LibreOffice · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You prefer the ribbon interface? That sort of response is not surprising. Not everyone likes the ribbon - I loathe it and would love for its designers to never have a job in software again - and right now, LibreOffice hasn't been infected with it, and I would like to keep it that way.

  8. Re:Take out a hit? on Patent Troll Says Anyone Using Wi-Fi Infringes · · Score: 1

    Murdering people like this is not a sin, unless their deaths are too quick. They should be skinned alive.

  9. Re:So what is new? on Wiki Editor Helps Reveal Pre-9/11 CIA Mistakes · · Score: 1

    Wow, you're a nutcase.

  10. Re:Oh goodie... on Mozilla Develops Gladius 3D Game Engine · · Score: 1

    Set sail for browser exploits. Over and over and over again.

  11. Re:are you kidding me? on Firefox 8.0 Beta Available · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, the difference is that Chrome doesn't fuck with things on every new version, and Firefox DOES.

  12. Re:Simple. on Congress May Permit Robot Calls To Cell Phones · · Score: 2

    Because his party can do no wrong?

  13. Re:So in other words... on Groupon Loses COO, Drastically Cuts Reported Revenue · · Score: 1

    How is that not fraud? If they lost money on a purchase, why can't they just put it down as a loss? Why zero, even when that's a damned lie?

  14. Re:In my opinion... on The Great JavaScript Debate: Improve It Or Kill It · · Score: 1

    Are you retarded? People actually run JS on modern computers and it's still slow. Nobody runs SNES emulators on a pentium 133.

  15. Re:What is the impact of those inhalers? on EPA Bans CFC-Based Asthma Inhalers · · Score: 1

    ...how many more die indirectly from producing and releasing these gasses?

    Zero, since they contribute an insignificant amount. The world would be better off if you died instead of the ahsma sufferers who will as a result of this.

  16. Re:If I stole and destroyed a $75k sports car on Court Reinstates $675k File Sharing Verdict · · Score: 1

    Rolls Royce once even sued somebody for putting Rolls Royce markings on the custom car he built which had a Rolls Royce Merlin engine in it. They're horrible, horrible people.

  17. Re:WISP stands for sat/cell on Indie Devs Upload Their Own Game To The Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    Wait, if you have 90 GB/month, then why do they care what form that traffic takes? (since you mentioned you aren't allowed to torrent) What kind of psychopaths are running the ISP?

  18. Re:Propaganda or Bad reporting? on UK Man Jailed For Being a Jerk On the Internet · · Score: 1

    You are a pedantic little shit. In the US, they go over everything you say to see if it can be used against you in a court of law. That in itself is a use of what you say and makes the statement valid. Moreover, it's important to realize that they are going to do that, which makes the statement important.

  19. Re:WISP stands for sat/cell on Indie Devs Upload Their Own Game To The Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    That sounds pretty awful.

  20. Re:Propaganda or Bad reporting? on UK Man Jailed For Being a Jerk On the Internet · · Score: 1

    "anything you say can and will be used against you" which is clearly nonsense

    No it is NOT. It is how the courts and police work in the US. If you have been arrested and you tell them things which support your innocence, they can't testify to them in court (although they could release you or drop the charges). Prosecutors are even worse: their only concern is to convict you unless they both believe you are innocent and have the integrity to not prosecute. But neither of them can testify in your defense base on what you tell them, so telling them anything doesn't help you in any way at all unless you actually manage to convince them that you are innocent.

    So the statement "anything you say can and will be used against you" is not nonsensical in any way.

  21. Re:Link on Indie Devs Upload Their Own Game To The Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    Where do you live where ISPs are THAT bad? Need to know so I never ever go there.

  22. Re:Cue more irrational nuclear panic in 3...2... on Explosion At French Nuclear Site Kills One · · Score: 1

    You know that nuclear reactors require FAR less uranium than coal plants require coal, right?

  23. Re:InfoWorld and Slashdot on The State of Open Source Software · · Score: 1

    Somebody needs to mod the GP up.

    So others can see it, he said: "InfoWorld promotion has been going on for a long time in slashdot, but seriously now. Milking for link juice and keywords like "best open source applications" and "best open source development tools" straight in the summary? Hooray, SEO spam."

  24. Re:Not just Mozilla's problem on Updated: Mozilla Community Contributor Departs Over Bug Handling · · Score: 1

    You expect the developers from Gnome to ADD an option?

    You must be used to disappointment.

  25. Re:Apache is too bloated on Apache Warns Web Server Admins of DoS Attack Tool · · Score: 1

    Regardless, my server isn't vulnerable - that's all I care about.