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  1. Re:Real Life Generally Isn't Fun on Why NASA's New Video Game Misses the Point · · Score: 1

    Orbiter? They'll realize all the fun trips require spaceships which don't exist and shoot themselves.

  2. Re:Completely disconnected from reality on Why NASA's New Video Game Misses the Point · · Score: 1

    Well, being a great nation isn't the goal either (unless you mean proving the US has a larger dick than the URSS in 1969). The primary goal is the military and communications progress enabled by spaceflight. For instance, those needs determined the specs for the Shuttle.

  3. Re:So should I unplug all my stuff or not? on The Sun Unleashes Coronal Mass Ejection At Earth · · Score: 4, Funny

    Rather, "must... preview... wait 5 seconds... hit submit!"

  4. Re:Yes. on Should Professors Be Required To Teach With Tech? · · Score: 1

    He gave us Rock and Roll (Led Zeppelin) for integration. That explains why so many people don't get past that course.

  5. Re:Yes. on Should Professors Be Required To Teach With Tech? · · Score: 1

    I had a professor who posted tips for doing homework, books and even music (he recommended we listen to "Lazy" by Deep Purple when studying mathematical successions). Very handy.

  6. Re:$20 for 8 bits?!?! on A $20 8-Bit Wikipedia Reader For Your TV · · Score: 1

    Sure beats my data charges...

  7. Re:...really? on Possible Room Temperature Superconductor Achieved · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, with all the ad-blockers, they lose money on every page load. Taco's trying to piss everyone off so they'll leave.

  8. Re:Standardized tests on TI vs. Calculator Hobbyists, Again · · Score: 1

    The way tests work at my physics course (which is basically mechanics) is you get a problem and all the parameters are only given names. You're supposed to find formulas for position or whatever. In addition to making calculators obsolete, the answer gives you an idea of how the system behaves as you change the parameters.

  9. Re:Permanently brick sort of like permanently dead on Motorola Says eFuse Doesn't Permanently Brick Phones · · Score: 1

    That's suposed to make the firmware CRC check fail, so it enters a mode where you can upload new firmware. It's way safer to use JTAG (many people have fucked up their routers by shorting pins). Besides, you can backup the CFE (some important part of the flash-thingy) and be sure you'll be able to fix a brick.

  10. Re:Euro on India's New Rupee Symbol Won't Show On Computers · · Score: 1

    Yeah, if you type it properly it's "56 Euros", instead of "56EUR"

  11. Re:Add a random delay on OAuth, OpenID Password Crack Could Affect Millions · · Score: 3, Informative

    the amount of delay caused by the password check and the amount of delay randomly added can NOT be differentiated.

    Take a bunch of samples, average them.

  12. Re:A movie comes to mind. on The Verizon Wireless HTC Eris 'Silent Call Bug' · · Score: 1

    Well, merely making a call can be enough to signal something. For example, a buddy and I want to get on the same bus, I call him when I'm near his stop and he doesn't have to pick up.

  13. Re:2010: Year of the Linux Desktop on A Flood of Stable Linux Kernels Released · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yup, this kernel fixed the task-switching problem that was keeping the general public from using linux as their main OS. Take that, Microsoft!

  14. Re:Sigh, I just threw out my VT320 on MeeGo, Zero To VT320 In Seventeen Seconds · · Score: 1

    Your post makes me feel like a young whippersnapper. To me, vt100 is just a terminal emulation mode on minicom...

  15. Re:OMG! on Oil Means More Arsenic In Seawater · · Score: 3, Funny

    Boring? The guy sweats acid!

  16. Re:Minigames on How Game Gimmicks Break Immersion · · Score: 2, Interesting

    RPGs are another place where stuff like this breaks the flow of the entire game. I can smash chests, but not doors? I can pick some locks, but not others? I want to go down this road, but I'm not allowed to? This lack of consistency is EXACTLY what breaks the feel of the game

    That's what I loved about Arcanum. You can break, loot, lockpick or kill anything and anyone you want. However, it's (usually) not gonna make your quest any easier...

  17. Re:So? on Empathy Is For the Birds · · Score: 2, Funny

    In the same way a Slashdot comment dissing research is surprising.

  18. Re:Old? on DIY Synthetic Aperture Radar · · Score: 1

    Besides, who doesn't like to be outraged at libertarian/socialist/gun/anti-gun/etc nuts?

  19. Re:but then... on NASA Says Moon Has More Water Than Great Lakes · · Score: 2, Informative

    Moon to the earth? It's called a GRAVITY WELL. Give things a kick, they come down on their own; all you need is enough casing to survive reentry

    That better be a 1000km/s kick, if you really expect it to fall to earth. Otherwise it's gonna end up orbiting the Earth or the Moon.

  20. Re:Where's the applications? on Fermilab Experiment Hints At Multiple Higgs Particles · · Score: 1

    That's a common myth. It was actually his bastard son

  21. Re:Double-ewe Tea Eff on High-Tech Burglars May Get Longer Sentences In Louisiana · · Score: 1

    life for having eyebrows while committing a felony

    At least that'll make criminals easier to spot. And weird as fuck.

  22. Re:Turn everything off on Your Computer Or iPad Could Be Disrupting Sleep · · Score: 1

    If you shutdown from the KDE button, it remembers the apps you left open. I think that doesn't happen with the shutdown command

  23. Re:Turn everything off on Your Computer Or iPad Could Be Disrupting Sleep · · Score: 1

    occasionally I let my computer run with shutdown -h +40 and let it play some music like vangelis or enya

    If you're running KDE and want it to work like a normal shutdown try this script

    #!/bin/sh
    sleep $1
    qdbus org.kde.ksmserver /KSMServer org.kde.KSMServerInterface.logout 1 2 2

    Just run it like ./scriptname 30m or whatever.

  24. Re:Err right? on Microsoft Accuses Google Docs of Data Infidelity · · Score: 1

    Do a diff next time

  25. Re:2012? on Lidar Finds Overgrown Maya Pyramids · · Score: 1

    It's just like Y2K, except there is nobody around now to fix their code.

    It's worse, there are some Mayan programmers still around but nobody can afford them :(