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  1. Re:Try something different on Pringles Can Designer Dies, Buried In a Pringles Can · · Score: 1

    But I'd like a product which suck.

    Look at the Tenga Super Sucking, there you have a "can" which really suck:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7vUUv7kzWU (Some idiot have moderated it not suitable for minors so the link won't work unless you can login or embed it somewhere.)

    The product are only supposed to be used one time though, may be ok for the average Slashdoter since it's still a huge improvement, but for most men it won't cut it. Tenga do have other men covered with the flip hole instead:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV9surmlxnQ

    (No, this isn't Slashvertisment, I don't work for Tenga or a company which sell the products, fuck I don't even work. And I haven't bought a Tenga, I got Fleshlight products instead, the flip hole wasn't released back then. It makes me curious though :D)

  2. Re:Pringles cans suck. on Pringles Can Designer Dies, Buried In a Pringles Can · · Score: 1

    Now of to google "build your own masturbation device pringles can."

  3. Re:Still using safari or IE? on The Smartest Browser and OS · · Score: 1

    When was it that you used to use opera? 8.5 was unstable for me, 8.52 quite stable, 8.54 and 9.x hade been very stable.

    Note that I was using them in Solaris and Windows I belive. May differ from various OSes I guess.

  4. Re:These guys... on Judge Refuses To Sign RIAA 'Ex Parte' Order · · Score: 1

    If the 100 was in hex aswell it's nothing weirder than that 100+357 are 457. In hex your numbers are 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F so the last FF's remain and the first E becomes and F if you add one to it.

  5. Re:These guys... on Judge Refuses To Sign RIAA 'Ex Parte' Order · · Score: 1

    I doubt they have all the artists in the world, and:
    "Buy high-quality MP3s for your iPod® or other portable player"

    So you can only play the music within their software and don't download and "own" a copy which you can play whenever you want? Autofail.

  6. Re:These guys... on Judge Refuses To Sign RIAA 'Ex Parte' Order · · Score: 1

    Of course I knew there was a very limited amount of people who didn't copy things.

  7. Re:All of them! on Judge Refuses To Sign RIAA 'Ex Parte' Order · · Score: 1

    I don't think it's for profit, they was already criminals.

  8. Re:These guys... on Judge Refuses To Sign RIAA 'Ex Parte' Order · · Score: 0

    Sure, but I don't buy this "omg I'm so being harassed and paid them because I can't fight for my rights because I'm really innocent!", to begin with a very weird justice system where you can't fight and try to prove your innocence because you can't afford it, secondly most people just paid because they know they had done wrong and it would be cheaper than the trial anyway. And I think the cases where the wrong person are being prosecuted are easily counted (And I seriously doubt any such person would agree to just pay them and since there won't be any proof in a real trial how could they get caught if they haven't done shit?)

    My non-legal view: Of course they was shared, but it shouldn't matter because everyone does it ;D. Even IF they would come up with a decent system it will be sooo hard to change how people use they media and get them to actually pay. For instance I would never pay on per tune bases, if I pay I want to be able to play a lot of tunes, the amount I can listen to in a day are limited anyway, how does it matter if it's the same song 200 times or 200 songs for 1 time? But unlimited songs would probably cost quite much in the industries view, say 50 dollar / month or so, and many people would probably say fuck that because they can already get it for free.
    I could have paid $5 for those 4 NIN albums if the music didn't sucked (I downloaded the slip but it wasn't my kind of music so =P)

    It's just to late to fix it now, they have waited to long without coming up with a solution. Also we all want the record companies, distributors, agents, resellers/stores to die. They are not needed any longer, we already have the distribution part covered, we solved it ourself. So if anything let us pay the artist and nothing more, very little money / album or download (easier to get paid per download I guess, if you offer very good quality, album art and so on.) will go a long ditance if it all ends up in the pocket of the artists themself.
    But sure the industry will cry and try to keep it as it is, but it's to late and they have failed.
    Artists doesn't need their marketing and things like that either, just upload your song/video to youtube or similair, free marketing for hundreds of million of potential costumers.

  9. Re:These guys... on Judge Refuses To Sign RIAA 'Ex Parte' Order · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And how many people are actually innocent?

    I don't see the issue in that a few innocent people may get caught, I see the issue in that we are all criminals ;D
    (And I think it's to late for them to fix it, all crimes of copyright infrigement should just be statute-barrred.)

  10. Re:Something even more exciting... on Shaun White Snowboarding Wii to Use Balance Board · · Score: 1

    But I guess the problem for most people are that they can't snowboard as the character in the game, but I agree that it's probably much more fun IRL. But then weather and economy may limit your chances to do that all the time. As others have mentioned.

    But yes, track & field II was useless imho (never played it but I know how it works), and all similair games since then are aswell ;D

    I played a little SSX 3 and the other game, was it called tricky? But I guess there you don't actually get the feeling of snowboard, you don't get your kick from going downhill on a snowboard, you get your kick from timing your tricks. That is press the right buttons at the right times.

  11. "Stuff that matters" on Firefox Goes for World Download Record · · Score: 1

    Spam your friends, useless news which doesn't matter, omg lets get lots of hits for mozillas download page! Who needs missions to mars and particle colliders when we have awesome news like this!?!

  12. Re:Something even more exciting... on Shaun White Snowboarding Wii to Use Balance Board · · Score: 1

    I was thinking in terms of CS and playing like terrorist instead =P

  13. Re:Something even more exciting... on Shaun White Snowboarding Wii to Use Balance Board · · Score: 1

    ... or: Venture into a real dungeon, throw your boomerang and kill some skeletons, get yourself a princess!

  14. Re:Ummm.... on Shaun White Snowboarding Wii to Use Balance Board · · Score: 1

    I seriously doubt they are targeting ONLY those. They just support it.

    Just like you could use a microphone in the mario party games, but you didn't had to. Same with the new one I guess. If you have the balance board the game will support it, if you don't it will work anyway.

  15. Re:Saved By The.... on Shaun White Snowboarding Wii to Use Balance Board · · Score: 1

    Knowing the mario inflation on Nintendo consoles I'm amazed how it's not called "Mario snowboarding."

    Personally I would prefer to not see mario & co in so many games :), though I guess overall that can help a not that good title to get seen as something a little better. But it makes Mario as trademark/character worse.

  16. Re:Ummm.... on Shaun White Snowboarding Wii to Use Balance Board · · Score: 1

    But then the hardcore people "knew" how ds and wii would fail aswell, and how bad children games are and how shitty the gamecube was. And still Nintendo made the most money all the time, so I doubt they care ;D

  17. Re:And people on Adobe Flash Zero-Day Attack Underway · · Score: 1

    I was thinking about youtube exclusively, true that things like gaming review sites and such add flashads before the actual videos. Thought nothing stop them to do that in a regular video file either.

  18. Re:And people on Adobe Flash Zero-Day Attack Underway · · Score: 1

    Your analogy fails. With or without condom I'm still well protected, and I don't have to use it.

    If your analogy was correct NoScript would be something I have/use even thought I'd never stumble upon any scripts.

  19. Re:And people on Adobe Flash Zero-Day Attack Underway · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If only that video-in-webpages-standard was implemented (is in Safari now) and used it would be so sweet to just remove that flashcrap alltogether. Too bad on webpages made only in flash but well, those suck anyway =P

  20. Re:Still using safari or IE? on The Smartest Browser and OS · · Score: 1

    I guess it could be some issues with a memory module of mine or something, but if I run activity monitor under real memory it says 659MB atm, and I've ran Safari for 2-3 days now so it's been very stable this session, but usually it crash ones it reaches 7-800 or so. I don't run any addons for Safari which I can see crashing it, I do run CleanApp or whatever it's called in the background but I guess the OS uses memory protection and that shouldn't affect it?

    But as I said Firefox 3 beta 5 crashes within hours for me if I remember correct so I only ran it like once, then I updated to RC1 and have run that a couple of days but I can't really say much regarding stability for it. Most of my usage have been Safari and Opera and Opera are much more stable for me, but uses more CPU for some reason which make my laptop hotter.

    I will probably send this machine back to Apple anyway because in the LCD backlighing there is something which looks like a bright scratch but behind the pixels, the aluminium around the button which you use to open the machine have lost it's stickyness to the material behind or something so it stick out like 1-1.5 mm and sometimes I get graphics glitches (which may be either some ram issue, os issue or gpu issue.)

    But first I waited for the new models to come out, just in case, but I doubt I'll get one ;D, and then I've waited because it will be so annoying to get a disk for backup and wait without a computer and so on.

    All my crashes for Safari say uhm.. mem_execv or something I belive. I just expect that it tries to write memory it haven't allocated or something like that, or can't allocate enough.

  21. Re:Still using safari or IE? on The Smartest Browser and OS · · Score: 1

    No, you expect me to be talking about how it runs on a PC. I run Safari on my Macbook Pro H2 2007.

    And I don't talk about features, I talk about Safari crashing every day due to it allocating all my RAM (which I have 2GB of, which one would expect to be enough to surf the web ...)

    There ARE no stability at all in Safari, that's the problem.

  22. Re:Still using safari or IE? on The Smartest Browser and OS · · Score: 1

    Well, I used to use Opera. I tried Firefox 3 beta 4 or 5 and it died just as quick as Safari if not quicker. I've just tried RC 1 for a few days in total so I can't say much about it.
    537 MB Safari allocation now, but it has probably been running for over 24 hours now and I have loads of tabs open, been scared it would crash because I've been doing quite a lot of moviestuff in imovie, so far no crash.

    Anyway, I'm 100% confident Safari is shit, so if you found Firefox even worse try Opera :)

  23. Re:Still using safari or IE? on The Smartest Browser and OS · · Score: 1

    Well, as I said Safari does that on a daily bases, so atleast firefox are way better :)
    (And if Safari have used up all your ram and you close all tabs and in the end the last Window it will still use as much ram, awesome!)

    But yeah, maybe Opera are better in that manner. With firefox and opera atleast you can close the browser and restart it with all the last things open, no such thing with Safari, so either you bookmark it all and wait until it crash and lose your tabs. It's really great.

    And I must say I agree with your point in stability nowadays. For instance to read Sun UFS and rewrite it as OS X HFS+ I needed Linux, but Ubuntus installer wouldn't work on my machine because they had gone graphical livecdapproach. Tried Debian and ofcourse it worked perfectly.

  24. Re:Still using safari or IE? on The Smartest Browser and OS · · Score: 1

    Such things can change between each version of the browser so just because it was a huge issue in firefox for instant doesn't mean it have to stay that way forever.

  25. Re:Still using safari or IE? on The Smartest Browser and OS · · Score: 2, Informative

    Back in the day atleast firefox zoom changed the page layout and didn't worked for embedded content. Operas webpages still looked like the original, only bigger, same zoom everywhere.