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  1. Re:Another Year of Offensive Darwin Awards on 2007 Darwin Award Winners · · Score: 1

    I've met many people with degrees who are complete morons. Just because you're educated doesn't mean you're smart, as you've so helpfully provided an anecdote to prove.

    Darwin laughs at the stupid people. Not uneducated, or uncreative, or unproductive. Stupid. If you should have known better, and still went ahead and did it, you're deserving of derision and publicity, because hopefully someone else will learn to not be stupid in the same way you were.

  2. Re:Enema Within: How is it qualified for a "Darwin on 2007 Darwin Award Winners · · Score: 1

    Whether they did before isn't the issue. They removed themselves from the gene pool, so they don't have any future opportunities to add to the pond scum in the gene pool.

  3. Re:I would blame this on... on Firefox Struggling to Compete as Corporate Browser · · Score: 1

    A guaranteed response can include "Sorry, you just can't do that. Deal with it." They may not even acknowledge that you have found a bug. Just because Firefox development doesn't turn on a dime or do everything you want right now for free does not make a proprietary browser that does all of the above as well as disavowing any knowledge of the bug any better. Really, it makes it worse. You're either a troll, a MS shill, or both.

  4. Re:I would blame this on... on Firefox Struggling to Compete as Corporate Browser · · Score: 2, Funny

    Please, please, PLEASE tell me that you're not an IT professional typing like that. You're making the rest of us look illiterate and stupid.

  5. Re:God dammit on ID Tech May Mean an End to Anonymous Drinking · · Score: 1

    Most major commercial American beers may be like that. But come to Colorado, or go to Oregon... there are some stellar microbrews that are better than anything I've had elsewhere.

  6. Re:Huh? on ID Tech May Mean an End to Anonymous Drinking · · Score: 1

    If they don't want my money, fine by me. I'll patronize some place that respects me as a customer, rather than treats me as another bank card.

  7. Re:Target for Some Civil Disobedience on ID Tech May Mean an End to Anonymous Drinking · · Score: 1

    If they did that, I'd tell them to fuck off and proceed to spend my money elsewhere. I don't need to put up with that bullshit, thank you very little.

  8. Re:God dammit on ID Tech May Mean an End to Anonymous Drinking · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've always heard it as "What does having sex in a canoe have in common with Bud Light? They're both fucking close to water"

  9. Re:Huh? on ID Tech May Mean an End to Anonymous Drinking · · Score: 1

    Avoidance? Use a hefty degausser on your card, so the magstripe no longer has anything, and then "accidentally" leave a nice gouge through the 2D barcode at an angle, from top to bottom. There's no law requiring that your ID be machine readable, as far as I know.

  10. Re:Frosty Piss, now checking for ID on ID Tech May Mean an End to Anonymous Drinking · · Score: 1

    I think that this has to be the first frosty piss comment that has ever appeared on slashdot that truly is on-topic. Too bad the author's anonymous, otherwise I'd wanna give him mod points.

  11. Re:I wish I considered this good news on FBI Wiretaps Canceled for Non-Payment · · Score: 1

    Well, the US has a lot bigger job than the Netherlands. A LOT of the world's communication goes through our networks, whereas you've only really got your country to worry about. It's like trying to find the needle in a haystack vs. finding the needle in a breadbox full of hay. Scale does matter, even with computers.

  12. Re:If you give it away on Identity Theft Skeptic Ends Up As Fraud Victim · · Score: 1

    But he also wrote that back when the only thing you could do was disparage someone publicly, which is filching their good name, sullying it. He got it right, given the context of history. Given the modern context, it changes significantly. I mean, it's not like many people have a sense of honor any more to worry about.

  13. Re:Let's get the preliminary stuff out of the way. on XP/Vista IGMP Buffer Overflow — Explained · · Score: 1

    Hrm... doesn't seem to crash for me. What version are you using? Or do you have your Insert key somehow tied to something else? Because I just hit Insert 20 or 30 times while typing this and nothing happened.

  14. Re:Let's get the preliminary stuff out of the way. on XP/Vista IGMP Buffer Overflow — Explained · · Score: 1

    I seem to remember assembly programmers saying the same things about high-level languages...

  15. Re:Why Windows 95 and NT 4 are enough on XP/Vista IGMP Buffer Overflow — Explained · · Score: 1

    If you're backing up a disk (especially a bigger hard disk or something), use the bs argument. bs=1M can really speed up hard drive imaging.

  16. Re:I'm surprised that number isn't higher. on Vista Shipped On 39% of PCs In 2007 · · Score: 1

    But it is Microsoft's fault. They give 3rd parties priority access to your computer, and they have more permissions and rights to it than you do. I lay that blame squarely on MS's shoulders.

  17. Re:Upload bandwidth? on Comcast Promising Ultra-Fast Internet · · Score: 1

    I'm gonna chime in... I use comcast, and I have publicly accessible servers running on ports 80, 443, 22, 25, and 993. Comcast doesn't block your ports until you get complained about in my experience.

  18. Re:What's the big deal? on Alienware's Curved Monitor · · Score: 1

    You've still got a huge division between the two. Call me when you have that figured out.

    This display is made for gamers people who want to run one programs fullscreen, not for someone who wants to run two programs fullscreen. I certainly hope you aren't so stupid you couldn't figure that out.

  19. Re:Flight Simmers on Alienware's Curved Monitor · · Score: 1

    Most planes I've seen don't have rear windows. Why not just two of these? That'll cover what, 250 degrees or so? That should be more than enough for a very realistic flight sim.

  20. Re:initital thoughts on Alienware's Curved Monitor · · Score: 1

    It's got a vertical resolution of 900 pixels. That's barely enough to browse the web on nowdays, much less do actual image work. I think we're safe from all but the most amateur of PhotoShop "artists", which I ignore anyway. Apple's 32" monitor is MUCH better designed for image work, and this one is positioned directly for gamers, which it will be awesome for (assuming they fix the seam issue)

  21. Re:Will it run... on BitMicro Takes Wraps Off 832 GB Flash Drive · · Score: 1

    This from the guy who's nick is a synonym for fucking nuts. Linux will take over desktops as long as it fills the needs of people, and I guarantee you that you wouldn't get Windows or OSX filling the need of the GPP.

  22. Re:Wrong question. on BitMicro Takes Wraps Off 832 GB Flash Drive · · Score: 1

    Dude, you forgot about the DRM. How are you going to integrate usable DRM onto a USB drive? If you can't, the industry won't support you, and you're SOL. Besides, a 50GB USB stick will always cost more than a 50GB plastic disc.

  23. Re:Breeze to Program on MS To Push Silverlight Via Redesigned Microsoft.com · · Score: 1

    If the Wii2 did HD, I'd buy it in a heartbeat. Especially if it ran current games at the higher resolution.

  24. Re:Basic premise in the USA .. on EFF Busts Bogus Online Testing Patent · · Score: 1

    Read it again. And then apologize. The NEW office opened in Alexandria, and the OLD office was in Crystal City.

  25. Re:I'll bite. on HD Monitor Causes DRM Issues with Netflix · · Score: 1

    You don't own any commercial DVD's? At all?