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  1. Re:Sooner or later... on Robot Demonstrates Self-awareness · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why would a DALEK want to exterminate it's mirror image?
    The only purpose of a DALEK is to rid the cosmos of everything NOT DALEK so that it can become the supreme master of the universe.

  2. Re:Show women some respect on UK Female Sci-Fi Viewers Now Outnumber Males · · Score: 1

    You Sir, are the biggest idiot I've ever bumped into on slashdot.

  3. dollars on Google Summer of Code Results · · Score: 3, Funny

    $4500. No problem.

  4. Re:So on Quake 4 Linux · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is a good question, been wondering the same myself. I guess all we're going to get it a gameplay video which doesn't really demonstrate much. I'm certainly not going to buy I game I've never tried.

  5. Re:Wasn't this obvious? on Butterfly Unlocks Evolution Secret · · Score: 1

    Dating can refer to the determination of the approximate period of origin of an object, particularly in the case of historical or archeological finds such as antiques or fossils.

    Duh!

  6. Goin for da gold on Easy, Fast, Cheap Way to Generate CPU Load? · · Score: 2, Funny

    yes|grep no

  7. Re:Interesting answer on Fragging on Linux and TransGaming · · Score: 5, Funny
    Official Gentoo-Linux-Zealot translator-o-matic

    Gentoo Linux is an interesting new distribution with some great features. Unfortunately, it has attracted a large number of clueless wannabes and leprotards who absolutely MUST advocate Gentoo at every opportunity. Let's look at the language of these zealots, and find out what it really means...

    "Gentoo makes me so much more productive."
    "Although I can't use the box at the moment because it's compiling something, as it will be for the next five days, it gives me more time to check out the latest USE flags and potentially unstable optimisation settings."

    "Gentoo is more in the spirit of open source!"
    "Apart from Hello World in Pascal at school, I've never written a single program in my life or contributed to an open source project, yet staring at endless streams of GCC output whizzing by somehow helps me contribute to international freedom."

    "I use Gentoo because it's more like the BSDs."
    "Last month I tried to install FreeBSD on a well-supported machine, but the text-based installer scared me off. I've never used a BSD, but the guys on Slashdot say that it's l33t though, so surely I must be for using Gentoo."

    "Heh, my system is soooo much faster after installing Gentoo."
    "I've spent hours recompiling Fetchmail, X-Chat, gEdit and thousands of other programs which spend 99% of their time waiting for user input. Even though only the kernel and glibc make a significant difference with optimisations, and RPMs and .debs can be rebuilt with a handful of commands (AND Red Hat supplies i686 kernel and glibc packages), my box MUST be faster. It's nothing to do with the fact that I've disabled all startup services and I'm running BlackBox instead of GNOME or KDE."

    "...my Gentoo Linux workstation..."
    "...my overclocked AMD eMachines box from PC World, and apart from the third-grade made-to-break components and dodgy fan..."

    "You Red Hat guys must get sick of dependency hell..."
    "I'm too stupid to understand that circular dependencies can be resolved by specifying BOTH .rpms together on the command line, and that problems hardly ever occur if one uses proper Red Hat packages instead of mixing SuSE, Mandrake and Joe's Linux packages together (which the system wasn't designed for)."

    "All the other distros are soooo out of date."
    "Constantly upgrading to the latest bleeding-edge untested software makes me more productive. Never mind the extensive testing and patching that Debian and Red Hat perform on their packages; I've just emerged the latest GNOME beta snapshot and compiled with -O9 -fomit-instructions, and it only crashes once every few hours."

    "Let's face it, Gentoo is the future."
    "OK, so no serious business is going to even consider Gentoo in the near future, and even with proper support and QA in place, it'll still eat up far too much of a company's valuable time. But this guy I met on #animepr0n is now using it, so it must be growing!"

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  8. Researchers these days on MIT Researchers Grow Beating Heart Tissue · · Score: 1

    This represents the first time scientists have succeeded in using an electrical current to produce dense heart tissue that beats in a rhythm mimicking that of a live animal's heart.

    They are calling themself researchers but they never watched that frankenstein documentary?

  9. Re:Favorite Unix/Linux Links on Happy 13th Birthday Linux! · · Score: 2, Funny
    Official Gentoo-Linux-Zealot translator-o-matic

    Gentoo Linux is an interesting new distribution with some great features. Unfortunately, it has attracted a large number of clueless wannabes and leprotards who absolutely MUST advocate Gentoo at every opportunity. Let's look at the language of these zealots, and find out what it really means...

    "Gentoo makes me so much more productive."
    "Although I can't use the box at the moment because it's compiling something, as it will be for the next five days, it gives me more time to check out the latest USE flags and potentially unstable optimisation settings."

    "Gentoo is more in the spirit of open source!"
    "Apart from Hello World in Pascal at school, I've never written a single program in my life or contributed to an open source project, yet staring at endless streams of GCC output whizzing by somehow helps me contribute to international freedom."

    "I use Gentoo because it's more like the BSDs."
    "Last month I tried to install FreeBSD on a well-supported machine, but the text-based installer scared me off. I've never used a BSD, but the guys on Slashdot say that it's l33t though, so surely I must be for using Gentoo."

    "Heh, my system is soooo much faster after installing Gentoo."
    "I've spent hours recompiling Fetchmail, X-Chat, gEdit and thousands of other programs which spend 99% of their time waiting for user input. Even though only the kernel and glibc make a significant difference with optimisations, and RPMs and .debs can be rebuilt with a handful of commands (AND Red Hat supplies i686 kernel and glibc packages), my box MUST be faster. It's nothing to do with the fact that I've disabled all startup services and I'm running BlackBox instead of GNOME or KDE."

    "...my Gentoo Linux workstation..."
    "...my overclocked AMD eMachines box from PC World, and apart from the third-grade made-to-break components and dodgy fan..."

    "You Red Hat guys must get sick of dependency hell..."
    "I'm too stupid to understand that circular dependencies can be resolved by specifying BOTH .rpms together on the command line, and that problems hardly ever occur if one uses proper Red Hat packages instead of mixing SuSE, Mandrake and Joe's Linux packages together (which the system wasn't designed for)."

    "All the other distros are soooo out of date."
    "Constantly upgrading to the latest bleeding-edge untested software makes me more productive. Never mind the extensive testing and patching that Debian and Red Hat perform on their packages; I've just emerged the latest GNOME beta snapshot and compiled with -O9 -fomit-instructions, and it only crashes once every few hours."

    "Let's face it, Gentoo is the future."
    "OK, so no serious business is going to even consider Gentoo in the near future, and even with proper support and QA in place, it'll still eat up far too much of a company's valuable time. But this guy I met on #animepr0n is now using it, so it must be growing!"

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  10. I don't see the problem at all! on Passwords - 64 Characters, Changed Daily? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Luckily I have Gator for remembering all my passwords!

  11. aha! on Doom 3's Release Date; Quake Turns 8 · · Score: 1

    So this is why they've been delaying it for so long. I knew there was a logical explanation!

  12. Re:Sad flamebait... on Fedora Core 2 Dud or Dodo? · · Score: 1


    Heck, if I'm going to recompile RPMs, I might as well just go for the source

    Yeah to hell with it, if you use fifteen minutes to compile a few applications you might as well go for the whole nine yards and recompile them all! Surely this will increase your productivity.

    [...] have to know more to get it going.
    Well, how conveniet. Re-read the second paragraph please.

    Gentoo handles it just fine, and I guarantee it blows past any off-the-shelf RPM distro.
    Re-read the fourth parapraph please.

    To each his own. That's the real value of Open Source.
    Now i think you should read up on those definitions, the idea of keeping the source code for software open is for developers to collaborate on the development of software which will eventually speed up the development process and also add to the productivity of the developers, which gentoo surely doesn't do.

    Also, this entire Gentoo-Linux-Zealot translator-o-matic is to be interpreted as what it is, a joke. I have myself used Gentoo for a short period of time, I can't say it was bad but I just found Debian slightly better.

  13. Re:Stopped using it when my update crashed.... on Fedora Core 2 Dud or Dodo? · · Score: 2, Funny
    Official Gentoo-Linux-Zealot translator-o-matic

    Gentoo Linux is an interesting new distribution with some great features. Unfortunately, it has attracted a large number of clueless wannabes and leprotards who absolutely MUST advocate Gentoo at every opportunity. Let's look at the language of these zealots, and find out what it really means...

    "Gentoo makes me so much more productive."
    "Although I can't use the box at the moment because it's compiling something, as it will be for the next five days, it gives me more time to check out the latest USE flags and potentially unstable optimisation settings."

    "Gentoo is more in the spirit of open source!"
    "Apart from Hello World in Pascal at school, I've never written a single program in my life or contributed to an open source project, yet staring at endless streams of GCC output whizzing by somehow helps me contribute to international freedom."

    "I use Gentoo because it's more like the BSDs."
    "Last month I tried to install FreeBSD on a well-supported machine, but the text-based installer scared me off. I've never used a BSD, but the guys on Slashdot say that it's l33t though, so surely I must be for using Gentoo."

    "Heh, my system is soooo much faster after installing Gentoo."
    "I've spent hours recompiling Fetchmail, X-Chat, gEdit and thousands of other programs which spend 99% of their time waiting for user input. Even though only the kernel and glibc make a significant difference with optimisations, and RPMs and .debs can be rebuilt with a handful of commands (AND Red Hat supplies i686 kernel and glibc packages), my box MUST be faster. It's nothing to do with the fact that I've disabled all startup services and I'm running BlackBox instead of GNOME or KDE."

    "...my Gentoo Linux workstation..."
    "...my overclocked AMD eMachines box from PC World, and apart from the third-grade made-to-break components and dodgy fan..."

    "You Red Hat guys must get sick of dependency hell..."
    "I'm too stupid to understand that circular dependencies can be resolved by specifying BOTH .rpms together on the command line, and that problems hardly ever occur if one uses proper Red Hat packages instead of mixing SuSE, Mandrake and Joe's Linux packages together (which the system wasn't designed for)."

    "All the other distros are soooo out of date."
    "Constantly upgrading to the latest bleeding-edge untested software makes me more productive. Never mind the extensive testing and patching that Debian and Red Hat perform on their packages; I've just emerged the latest GNOME beta snapshot and compiled with -O9 -fomit-instructions, and it only crashes once every few hours."

    "Let's face it, Gentoo is the future."
    "OK, so no serious business is going to even consider Gentoo in the near future, and even with proper support and QA in place, it'll still eat up far too much of a company's valuable time. But this guy I met on #animepr0n is now using it, so it must be growing!"

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  14. Hey, what about.. on Where Can I find Sources for Learning LaTex? · · Score: 1
    info latex
  15. mr. frodo mr. frodo on LOTR to Become a London Musical · · Score: 2, Funny

    Mr. frodo Mr. frodo
    *everyone*: MR. FRODO MR. FRODO

    Gollum: Can you get the ring?
    Sauron: you know, that little thing?
    Frodo: Im not sure, but i know I can sing!

    *everyone*: MR. FRODO MR. FRODO

    and so on..

  16. free gba emulator on GBA Emulator Creators Vow To Take On Nintendo · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  17. the funny part on Man Admits to Bigfoot Hoax · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ok, now the funny part of this is that it's under the science section ;)

  18. nightsurf! on MSN Search Blocking Results For XFree86? · · Score: 5, Funny

    I continued to nightsurf and i found another side of XFree86!

    Live Now: Free cams with 'xfree86':(Click to zoom)

    Get 'xfree86' at the Websites of the Hottest & Naughtiest Webcam Starlets, Hunks, Couples & Groups in the World. Click any star to visit!

    Looking for xfree86? I deliver, and I'm live right now.

    It sure it convenient with a graphical user interface but this is TOO MUCH.

  19. Size coding on POVRay Short Code Contest, Round 3 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Size coding can be a lot of fun, you should check by pouet (seem to be down right now) for some 256b, 128b and even 16b productions, 256b.com has some more.

    Very impressive stuff. :)

  20. Re:RSS Readers on RSS Web-Feeds, The Next Big Thing? · · Score: 1

    Emacs with Gnus! :)

  21. Ian on Toward a New Kind of Linux Distribution · · Score: 5, Informative

    Progeny co-founder Ian Murdock wrote

    Wouldn't it be worth mentioning that he is founder of Debian as well?

  22. purchase songs? on Napster Sells 5 Million Songs · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why purchase songs when you can download them for free?

  23. MADMEN on How We Knew AL00667 Would Miss Earth · · Score: 2, Funny

    Where is my MADMEN when i need one?

  24. it has been going on for some time now on Yahoo! Switches Search Engines · · Score: 1

    I think you mean it has been going of for quite some time now.

  25. hmm. on MyDoom Windows Worm DDoSing SCO · · Score: -1, Troll

    Wasn't there just a story on this?