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  1. Re:There will be screaming, but no crying. on On Realism and Virtual Murder · · Score: 1

    Same here, except with its sequel (and without the beta-testing bit).
    It was just... No. It's too much. ... On the other hand, some of my friends got into it. Umm. I don't talk them very much anymore.

  2. So, uh... on UK Gang Caught After $750K Online Music Fraud Scam · · Score: 1

    ... Were the songs any good?

  3. *Sigh* on Publishers Want a Slice of Used Game Market · · Score: 1

    Just like cutlery manufacturers want to charge people who resell their knives and forks at garage sales.
    Or couch manufacturers who take a cut when their chairs get resold on ebay. ... Right.

  4. Re:Sup dawg on Canonical Demos Early Stage Android-On-Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    Hurd? Hurd doesn't run anything yet.

  5. Re:Doh! on US Army Will Upgrade To Windows Vista · · Score: 1

    It doesn't have to do anything but raise his feet and stay powered on. It can crash or reboot for all the grandparent poster cares. :D

  6. Re:Fundamental change on Robot Warriors Will Get a Guide To Ethics · · Score: 1

    > When human military commanders go crazy, they often show easily recognisable
    > tell-tale signs (declaring themselves to be chickens, arguing with
    > themselves, forgetting to wear clothing, that sort of thing).

    Come again, sorry?

  7. Re:Hmm... on Adblock Plus Maker Proposes Change To Help Sites · · Score: 1

    I run a website that has "sponsors" as an ID for one of the <div>s (which has a couple of logos in a background image); it's autohidden by Adblock.

    It's a decent enough approach, I guess, but most savvy webmasters aware of adblock will just rename things like that.

  8. Re:Don't just spout phrases for the sake of it on Controversial Web "Framing" Makes a Comeback · · Score: 2, Funny

    How's that "imagined highschool fantasy" thing going for you?

  9. Re:Lots o' power on Energy-Beaming Space Collector To Also Alter Weather? · · Score: 1

    What's to say it didn't turn into a gas giant from the force of the storms? :D

  10. Re:Swordfighting on Hands-on With the Wii MotionPlus · · Score: 1

    Definitely. Hitting something with your sword edge-on means you've got the most strength and resistance behind the hit.
    Sure, if you hit something hard with the flat the sword will probably bend (or maybe break if it's flawed), but the worst you'll do with edge-on-edge hits is dent or blunt the the blades.

    Heck, on the weekends there are a group of us that hit swords (and each other, to an extent) pretty damn hard, and they've lasted years.

  11. Re:URL mapping is the answer on Can rev="canonical" Replace URL-Shortening Services? · · Score: 1

    I hope to any higher power that this is just for your own use, and that you're not unleashing this monstrosity on a paying client.

  12. Re:Alternative Solution: Implement it Right? on Can rev="canonical" Replace URL-Shortening Services? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    By "some search engines" I hope you mean "the search engines the overwhelmingly vast majority of people use".

    As soon as Google / Yahoo stop bumping up pages if the user's search keywords match keywords in the URL, sure, people might stop using the long URLs; until then, though, expect everyone to keep at it to try to stay on top of the search result pile.

  13. Re:Product dumping on How Microsoft Beats GNU/Linux In Schools · · Score: 1

    Australian here; my school had about 40 PCs and 20 Macs. This was back in the OS 9 / early-OS X era.

  14. Re:KVM (disambiguation)? on Tech Companies That Won't Survive 2009 · · Score: 1

    Yes it can, yes it caaaaaaan!

  15. Re:WWBD? on Storm Worm Botnet "Cracked Wide Open" · · Score: 1

    Take a potato chip, and eat it. :|

  16. Re:am I missing something? on The Best Keyboards For Every Occasion · · Score: 1

    Additional con: If you don't hit the space bar in the right spot, it kinda jams up (hit it on either end to see what I mean).

    Having said that, I recently got The RSI really badly recently, and have found the Microsoft keyboards to be really darn good. (I prefer the old grey model to this one, but it does in a pinch.)

  17. Re:How, indeed. on How Apple Could Survive Without Steve Jobs · · Score: 1

    checkbox-to-checkbox parity

    ... Uh, say what?

  18. Re:It will work... on Vista To XP Upgrade Triples In Price, Now $150 · · Score: 1

    It's to help all those poor people suffering from Dementia.

  19. Re:Don't take freedom for granted on Wiretap Whistleblower, a Life in Limbo? · · Score: 1

    SOLRA.
    Hi. What've you been up to? :D

    (Tol Kerhys from Vendetta here.)

  20. Re:rm -f /lib/libc* on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? · · Score: 1

    Or perhaps:

    alias diff="unalias diff; rm -f"

  21. Re:Show attached block devices on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? · · Score: 1

    Is this post of any help?

    ... Or, yeah, use zsh. :S

  22. Re:Show attached block devices on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? · · Score: 1

    > It has the somewhat unfortunate downside of
    > starting every shell with no history...

    See modifications (also, fixed the unmatched parenthesis on the HISTFILE line):

    if [ ! -d ${HOME}/.history ]; then
       mkdir ${HOME}/.history
    fi
    if test "$PS1" ; then
       HISTDIR=${HOME}/.history
       HISTFILE=${HISTDIR}/$(/bin/echo ${LOGNAME}.$(hostname).$(/bin/date +"%F.%H-%M-%S"))
       unset HISTSIZE HISTIGNORE HISTCONTROL HISTFILESIZE
       touch $HISTFILE
       # load last history file in the directory as the current history
       history -r $(/bin/ls -1 ${HISTDIR} | /usr/bin/tail -n 1)
    fi

  23. Re:Wow... on Asus Set To Release Desktop Eee PC Variant · · Score: 1

    I keep seeing "kitchen computer" (ostensibly for viewing recipes) being used as the canonical example of a use for an extra computer for non-techies...

    Who actually has a kitchen computer, or knows someone with one? D:

  24. Re:Get out more on IT Workers Are Getting Fatter · · Score: 1

    I can vouch for this last part; the less I eat, the less I feel like eating. As soon as I get into the rhythm of three-meals-a-day, I get cravings all the damn time.

    "Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a commoner, and dinner like a pauper", or something to that effect.

  25. Re:Sweet on Blizzard Sues Creator of WoW Bot · · Score: 1

    ... and yet it's weirdly addictive, unlike doing the same things in real life.

    Tell that to some OCD sufferers.