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  1. Re:They used her picture on the back of the book.. on Bogus Harry Potter Book In China · · Score: 1
    And Voldemort is of course a reference to Stalin, while Harry himself embodies the classic hero archetype. Dumbeldore is the mentor figure, with perhaps a tribute to Karl Marx's Das Kapital. Hermoine is a homage to Jung's theory of the collective unconscious, and Draco is a parody of Sauron.

    Or it could just be a normal children's story written by someone looking to get some money, but nah, that's too easy.

  2. Re:Executor on New Amiga Hardware Runs Mac OS · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Making a mac emulator for PC also requires emulating the hardware, which isn't easy to do. There are a few out there, but they don't work terribly well. here is the google directory.

  3. Army FPS on Slashback: Armed, Cracked, Cables · · Score: 2, Funny

    Uncle Sam wants you to go and frag those biznatches!

  4. Re:Simple on Do You Have The Time? · · Score: 0

    Forget date and time, I want to know what year it is!

  5. Re:What about on Do You Have The Time? · · Score: 0

    Older machines had no way of synchronizing time with a more accurate clock. I have an old 486 with windows 3.1, and the only source for time is the computer's internal clock. This is a problem since when the battery dies, the clock stops working. Back in the day, if you wanted to change the time, you had to change it manually with some other clock as a reference.

  6. Re:Uhhh.... on U.S. House of Representatives Makes Resolutions in XML · · Score: 0

    Since they're making the files with microsoft products on windows machines, from their point of view it doesn't make sense to test anything but mozilla. Since IE is used by most of the people on the web now, seeing if it renders the pages being designed is more logical than testing them on mozilla or netscape, even though mozilla and netscape are far cooler than IE. Such is life.

  7. Unfortunate name on New Red Hat Beta: LIMBO · · Score: 0

    LIMBO doesn't seem to be a terribly good name for a release, is it saying that they just barely kept the release from going straight to hell? On the other hand, it's nice to see that they're using a real version of GCC. I'm running 7.1, and I had to upgrade GCC from the broken 2.96, which wasn't easy for me, me being a linux n00b.

  8. education potential? on Mathematical Lego Sculptures · · Score: 0

    This might be a good way to start kids on geometry. Being able to actually build something like a mobius strip makes it much easier to understand it. And to think that the only things I built with legos were space ships.

  9. Re:Great news for Linux! on Slashback: Disclosure, Maricopa, Telecoms · · Score: 1

    In the long run, switching to linux saves money. There're no licenses to buy when you upgrade, there's no need to cough up dough for machines fast enough to run the newest resource hogging version of windows, and there's no need to buy propriatry software when gpl'd programs work just as well. And of course, switching to linux helps keep those hackers from doing anything.

  10. and I thought on A Foundry in Every Kitchen · · Score: -1, Redundant

    that melting cds was impressive.

  11. Not that big of a deal on News Sites Getting to Know You · · Score: 0

    If the registration is free, I don't really see a problem. From a business standpoint, it doesn't make sense to provide a service (news) without some form of payback. Some sites ask for registration, some ask for subscriptions (cough cough). Such is life.

  12. Lucite ball isn't doing much on Moon Rock Winds Up In Court · · Score: 0

    Wouldn't it be more logical for the person in possession of the rock to be the defendant instead of the lucite ball? Is there some legal reason I'm missing?

  13. Re:Reminds me... on Optical Mouse Saves Space in Cellphones · · Score: 1

    I wish I could MAKE CALLS AND ACCESS INTERNET!!!! Maybe they'll build that into the pointer too.

  14. D'oh on Optical Mouse Saves Space in Cellphones · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of those????? *slaps self*

  15. Rejected title on Translucent Databases · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Translucent Databases: Sex, Violence, and Intrigue in the Action Packed World of SQL

  16. Simple to fix on Pledge of Allegiance Ruled Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    Just take a cue from funkadelic, and make it "One nation under a groove, getting down just for the funk of it."

  17. Re:Eye for an eye... on Legalizing Attacks on P2P Networks · · Score: 1

    Of course, some (the people with money and lobbyists in particular) are created more equal than others...

  18. Re:what am I missing about vid cards? on Matrox Parhelia Benchmarks and Review · · Score: 1

    Since the human eye can't see more than about 30 fps, anything over is just a safety buffer. Assuming that you always got the average framerate (which you don't), there wouldn't be any difference between 35 fps and 200 fps. The extra 120 fps are just there to guard against dropped frames and slowdown.