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  1. Re:Why? Heres why! on The Extinction of the Programming Species · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry; nerds are cool now. Everyone's got a computer and knowing them inside and out is a valued skill. What you have to do is not harp on it and develop some other sort of personality - this from a high schooler.

  2. Re:Bittorrent... on Halo 2 Available on the Net · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Software is not able to be "performed".

  3. Re:Inherently biased on SCO To Counter Groklaw With 'Fair' Coverage · · Score: 1

    Your choice of "supposedly" is a bit biased - try "allegedly".

  4. Re:a real application for internet2 on Proposal: Put Library of Congress' Contents Online · · Score: 1

    Multiple internets would imply that they weren't connected, else they'd just be one internet.

  5. Re:Storage on Proposal: Put Library of Congress' Contents Online · · Score: 1

    The hogshead is already a unit of volume - it's in the dimension length ^ 3 (i.e. it would convert to cubic inches or cubic centimeters). A cubic hogshead would be of dimension (length ^ 3) ^ 3 or length ^ 9 - what's being kept in the other 6 dimensions? Maybe that's where they put Jimmy Hoffa...

  6. Re:Er on Proposal: Put Library of Congress' Contents Online · · Score: 1

    Oh, come on...you know this would make the greatest torrent ever.

  7. Re:Psychic Slashdot? on IBM Shipping More PCs with Trust Chips · · Score: 1

    Are you familiar with the concept of function creep? If such damning functionality becomes ubiquitious, we then have to defend ourselves from the negative implications forever (generally regarded as unlikely, if not impossible, due to public apathy and limited attention span) instead of simply stating that it will not be tolerated. I don't care if Jesus Christ himself wants to introduce trusted computing; it's the guys who will inherit the Earth in 10 years that I'm concerned about.

  8. Re:Plain Engrish? on Blizzard Stomps Bnetd in DMCA Case · · Score: 3, Insightful
    That's not a boycott. That's screwing Blizzard in the ass and some probably illegal (copyright violation / fraud (?)) shenanigans.

    Real boycott howto:
    1. Don't buy Blizzard products.
    2. Make sure all your friends follow steps 1 adn 2.
    3. ???
    4. Consumer power grab!
  9. Re:Assassins take note! on A Liquid That Turns Solid When Heated · · Score: 1

    Then use liquid nitrogen, you doof! =)

  10. Re:Now we can buy on A Liquid That Turns Solid When Heated · · Score: 1

    So're fats. I meant hydrocarbons, but that term doesn't apply here either. Oh well...

  11. Re:Weapons technology. on A Liquid That Turns Solid When Heated · · Score: 1

    And then it would break.

  12. Re:Assassins take note! on A Liquid That Turns Solid When Heated · · Score: 3, Funny

    Putting it in someone's bloodstream would probably kill them ANYWAY - wouldn't cheaper poison be easier?

  13. Re:Now we can buy on A Liquid That Turns Solid When Heated · · Score: 1

    You don't want this stuff in your coffee...organic chemicals + you = death.

  14. Re:what it says on A Liquid That Turns Solid When Heated · · Score: 1

    Learn some chemistry. Hydrogen bonds have a lot to do with the interesting properties of water (which is quite an odd chemical, by the way).

  15. In Soviet Russia... on Flaw in Microsoft JPEG Parsing · · Score: -1

    JPEG parses you!

  16. "cd .." on What Should be Included in a Linux Crash Course? · · Score: 1

    Apparently, cd.. is a shell built-in or something on Windows that does the same thing as "cd ..". I recently got my coworkers to try Knoppix at home, and they said it took them a while to figure out what was "wrong". Either wean them off it quickly, or show them how to alias it in .bash_profile.

  17. Re:Nothing wrong with this... on Searching For Trouble With Google · · Score: 2, Insightful

    s/rabbits/bacteria/;

  18. Re:Don't let your kid brother hold the controller. on Halo 2 Direct-feed Multiplayer Video Released · · Score: 1

    It's kind of like UT - all the weapons are useful, but one needs to know how to use them. This includes the needler. You can't just sit around sniping forever and expect to "be a sniper".

  19. Re:Don't think so on How Google Could Overthrow AIM · · Score: 2, Informative
  20. Re:Ummmm... $$$ for Downloads? Not so Killer anymo on Xandros 2.5 Business Edition: A Windows Killer? · · Score: 1

    Uh...I believe you mean "n'est-ce pas." For those of us who don't speak French, it translates to "yes?" or "no?" or "right?". Basically, it's just a construction that turns a declarative sentence into a question.

  21. Re:IT'S A TRAP! on Not Enough Ads? Install Adbar. · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I believe you mean Admiral Ackbar.

  22. Re:Why Fuel Cells? on Getting Serious About Fuel Cells · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Fuel cells aren't nuclear; therefore, there is no "hydrogen bomb" under your hood.

  23. Have Fun With It on Olympics to Have Massive Surveillance Network · · Score: -1, Troll

    Start a massive movement via the Internet to have people stand around muttering the words "bomb", "gun", "kill", "rape", "bin Laden", "Allah", and "terrorist". They'll be swamped!

  24. Re:Openlynks on Amateurs Pushing the Dreamcast's Boundaries · · Score: 1

    Nitpick - that isn't a port, that's a clone. Porting would imply that he had the code for Zelda and was adapting it to work on Dreamcast, whereas cloning is just replicating the functionality of the original Zelda on Dreamcast.

  25. Re:Dreamcast CD-reading question on Amateurs Pushing the Dreamcast's Boundaries · · Score: 1

    Fyi, when darc says "cracked", he means that the audio and video were downsampled so the game would fit on a CD-ROM - GD-ROMS hold around a gig.