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  1. Re:Here's why on Most Mac Owners Also Own a Windows PC, But Not Vice Versa · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Instead of crying out loud that you can't afford it, you should start wondering WHY you can't afford it and start planning HOW you can afford it... Just a pass-by motivational thought

  2. Re:"200Kw, which is enough to move the ISS" on Ex-Astronaut Developing Plasma Rocket To Revitalize NASA · · Score: 1

    Yes. It only takes all of the astronauts in the ISS to jump in the same direction all at once. It's called jump-steering. Although is not very reliable to do fine maneuvering that requires many corrections, as you would have the astronauts going from one side to the other to jump in the correct direction every time a correction is required.

  3. Obligtory on Miniature Stonehenge Discovered In Wiltshire, UK · · Score: 1
  4. Why are we even talking about this here? on Iran's Nuclear Ambitions · · Score: 1

    I think this is the most offtopic submission I've read here ever! This clearly shows that /. is not immune to biased journalism. Have any of you know what's happening in Honduras? Personal liberties have been suspended! Why nobody's talking about that? Because the new guys in power are functional to Washington, that's why. I don't see /. following Honduras situation as closely and I understand why, because this is NOT a site to talk about such things. Oh, but it's the evil Iran right? What? Now Iran has WMDs? Yeah right. This time is for sure, right? And if so: So what? Israel has an unaccounted number of nukes and nobody says anything about it and a guy in Iran shoots a .22 and they are all "Oh no the evil terrorists have shot a .22!" Please... All of them, and I mean ALL of them are a bunch of greedy leaders fighting for power. And that's it. It all comes down to that. Who controls what and for how long. Now please stick to the f'ing News for nerds and stuff that matters.

  5. A rather simple way on Schneier On Un-Authentication · · Score: 1

    Pressure sensor on the chair hooked to the computer using bluetooth or something.

  6. Re:Eyecandy in cost of usability on Firefox To Replace Menus With Office Ribbon · · Score: 1

    Make parent president of the Mozilla Foundation

  7. Puzzle solving techniques on Rome, Built In a Day · · Score: 5, Funny

    The newly developed code works more than a hundred times faster than the previous version. It first establishes likely matches and then concentrates on those parts.

    It would have been even faster if they'd have started with the edges and leaved the sky for the end like in any other puzzle.

  8. "Based on a F22 radar" on Ford's New Radar Technology Based On Open Source · · Score: 2, Insightful

    For values of "based" near to zero.

    This is just marketing to make feel the buyer like Maverick in the danger zone. OTOH I guess it is just what a large segment of American consumers want. The closer the car is to a military vehicle, the better.

  9. Re:New Safety Features I Actually Want! on Ford's New Radar Technology Based On Open Source · · Score: 1

    I've used the automatic flash lights in a Citroen C4. They are great when you are in the road. They also turn off automatically when you accelerate again to more than 5mph or something. So it's one less thing to keep your mind on.

  10. Re:Only REAL Programmers! on Russia's New Official Holiday — Programmer's Day · · Score: 1

    Real programmers use CAT and ECHO instead of SELECT and UPDATE

  11. Good for Amazon on Tracking Stolen Gadgets — Manufacturers' New Dilemma · · Score: 1

    If they had bricked it, they wouldn't be helping to solve the problem. The guy would have bitched about them not requiring any legal order and how easy would be for a social engineer to brick any device.

    They actually taught the guy a valuable lesson: You are responsible for your property. You are a grown up, act like one.

  12. Entrepreneurs! Entrepreneurs! Entrepreneurs! on Bootstrapping a New Technology? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You people should encourage entrepreneurship. Not only he had a great idea, he has actually made it real and had the balls to quit his job in pursue of his dream. Way much more that many of the rest here has ever done with their lives.

    You have to relax and take a step back. Get yourself out of the day-to-day in order to reevaluate your position.
    I would recommend you this book:

    Little Black Book of Entrepreneurship

    BTW I'm not affiliated or anything. It's just is the best book about the matter I've ever read.

  13. An offer you can't refuse on Steve Ballmer Directing "House Party 7" · · Score: 1

    I'm sure that they saw Open source launch parties (Firefox comes to mind) and said: - Hey, we can do that! I like the idea!-. As Tony Soprano would do.
    I bet MS employees are "encouraged" to host or attend to these parties. And they better have a good time and have a smile on their faces the whole night! Inspectors might show up to check everything's in order.

  14. no wind or weather there at all on Astronomers Find the Calmest Place On Earth · · Score: 2, Funny

    No weather at all? Wonder what those people will talk about:

    - God it's so nothing out there!
    - You tell me, I've been out there the whole morning! I can't stand this nothingness anymore...
    - Hey, have you seen the snow today? It's kind of yellower today isn't it?

  15. Re:Tabs on top, do it NOW! on Firefox 4.0 Goes Chrome, New UI In Q4 2010 · · Score: 1

    Indeed. Also, you can read more of the page title that way and avoid having 10+ tabs whose title starts with "Slashdot Com...". For those who don't know, you can do this in Firefox using "Tree Style Tab" plug-in right now.

  16. Re:External Forces on Apple Blames 'External Forces' For Exploding iPhones · · Score: 1

    More like midichlorian concentration. The problem is just the force is strong in those users. This also explains why Apple engineers couldn't reproduce the problem in their labs.

  17. Ugh! on Disney Buys Marvel For $4B · · Score: 1

    Imagine Wolverine sharing the parade with Mickey at Disney Land...

  18. Take the money on Company Laptop, My Data — Can They Co-exist? · · Score: 1

    Not to troll but someone has to tell this AC the truth. You aren't going to come up with "One Great Internet Business Idea or write the Great American Novel" Sorry to tell you. I know your parents told you to never let anyone tell you can't do something, but they said that because it's what parents say to their kids. So you can stop worrying about these what ifs, cause the possibility of that actually happening is closer to zero every minute you spend on /. reading for advise. Take the money and buy yourself an airplane ticket to a nice destination. You won't regret it.

  19. Re:Hack The Planet on Offshore Drilling Rigs Vulnerable To Hackers · · Score: 1

    What do you mean it was in the garbage folder? The Gibson ran out of disk space and I've emptied the recycle bin 24 years ago!

  20. Re:One word.. on Dirty Coding Tricks To Make a Deadline · · Score: 1

    Black holes are GOTOs. If it's good for the universe, why shouldn't they be good for you?

  21. Re:Just moments before coming up again on Pirate Bay Archive Goes Online · · Score: 2, Funny

    YARRRR!!!

  22. Let's pretend on Pirate Bay Archive Goes Online · · Score: 1

    Let aside the legal angle. Let's say I want to make a torrent tracker, a TPB kind of site. Is there a package I could install that allows me to do that? I'm looking something that is as easy to install as Wordpress or something like that. Is there anything like that out there?

  23. Re:Whatever!!!! on Pirate Bay Archive Goes Online · · Score: 1

    That would make you a Torrentrist!

  24. Re:Such a beautiful day on Nokia Leaks Phone With Full GNU/Linux Distribution · · Score: 1

    Ugh! I think Guantanamo prisoners are allowed to use better browsers!

    Somebody should make a Firefox-in-an-Active-X or something. Nobody should take to that kind of suffering.

  25. Re:Hi, this is... on A Video Ad, In a Paper Magazine · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't miss the Rap Chop