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  1. Re:Stay out of warzones on Ask Slashdot: Working As an IT Contractor In a War Zone? · · Score: 1

    Is the money worth it if you're killed in a car accident during rushhour traffic on your way to work in *insert city here* USA?

    Cars are not actively trying to kill their occupants.

  2. Re:Not Really Lost... on Two Lost Doctor Who Episodes Found · · Score: 1

    People assume that Doctor Who ...

    Do the ones, that mod this as funny, recognize reference to one of the episodes?

  3. Oil companies tried centuries ago. It was called Standard Oil.

  4. Re:Touch lag on First Quad-Core Android Tablet Reviewed · · Score: 1

    I wonder when this will finally be solved. Previously, the lag was blamed on poor hardware. With this beast, that excuse really does not hold at all anymore.

    They still can say that GPU does not match GeForce GTX 570 Ti.

  5. Re:How about... on China Probes US Renewable Energy Policy · · Score: 1

    We should put tariffs

    Good ol' tariff war. Yep, that worked very well century ago. Who will react faster? WTO or Chinese?

  6. Re:Hmmm on Valve's Gabe Newell On Piracy: It's Not a Pricing Problem · · Score: 1

    The Euro issue I don't know about.

    Patrician IV - 6.79 USD or 6.79 EUR
    Patrician IV Gold - 10.19 USD or 11.89 EUR
    http://store.steampowered.com/sub/11830/?cc=mx
    http://store.steampowered.com/app/57620/>

    FYI. Current USD/EUR exchange rate is 1.32370 USD for 1 EUR.

    Same shit on other American and Canadian stores.

  7. Re:Another victim of prohibition on 88-Year-Old Inventor Hassled By the DEA · · Score: 1

    Can we just end prohibition already?

    While we at it we should also start selling methylphosphonyl difluoride, Bis(2-chloroethyl)sulfide and O-Isopropyl methylphosphonofluoridate in every drug and farm store. Poor farmers have to resort to some useless tools for pest control instead of using tools that are designed for that.

  8. Re:#0 on 11 Amazing Things NASA's Huge Mars Rover Can Do · · Score: 1

    The landing strategy is

    Lets hope they don't land in Mars spring time

  9. Re:Anti-competitive? on MS To Build Antivirus Into Win8: Boon Or Monopoly? · · Score: 1

    What if MS made their OS inherently secure, such that it didn't need AV? Would that also make it anti-competitive?

    They are not making their OS inherently secure. They are bundling it with product which has competitors in commercial market.

  10. Re:Anti-Trust on MS To Build Antivirus Into Win8: Boon Or Monopoly? · · Score: 2

    you really really should have a antivirus

    No you don't. Best antivirus sits between chair and keyboard.

  11. Re:Perspectives on MS To Build Antivirus Into Win8: Boon Or Monopoly? · · Score: 1

    Did you have the same worries when MS put a firewall in XP with Service Pack 2 in 2004?

    Firewall was already there. It just could not stop worms and even SP2 upgrade failed to stop worms sipping though UDP/135-137.

  12. Re:Perspectives on MS To Build Antivirus Into Win8: Boon Or Monopoly? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Microsoft AV is among the lest resource intensive AV programs I have seen.

    only snake oil uses less resources.

  13. Re:Argh. on MS To Build Antivirus Into Win8: Boon Or Monopoly? · · Score: 1

    I know, they could get rid of security holes
    is also monopolistic?

    Then you should also understand that antivirus does not improve system security. Security is improved by fixing security holes and not by applying AV patches on insecure things.

  14. Re:I use an optical drive to install the OS on Whither the Portable Optical Drive? · · Score: 1

    Mac OS X Lion now installs from the Internet [apple.com] into completely blank hard disks (yes, even if the recovery partition is wiped or the original disk replaced), if necessary. No installation media required.

    If you use your brain, you would know that you haven't wiped some hidden os partition, which includes basic gui and networking. If your computer is completely wiped out, it will boot only from removable media or from local network.

  15. Re:This annoys the hell out of me ... on Hybrids Safer In Crashes — Except For Pedestrians · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised that someone hasn't required noisemakers on bicycles for the same reason.

    If bike weights over 1 ton, moves at more than 20 km/h and is controlled by somebody who can ignore traffic rules, it should make noise just like normal cars do.

  16. Lame lawsuit excuse on Andrew Tanenbaum On Minix, Linux, BSD, and Licensing · · Score: 4, Interesting

    BSDI got stuck in a lawsuit and was effectively stopped for several years

    Linux kernel started in 1991. Lawsuit started in 1992 and settled in 1993. Linux kernel 1.0.0 was released in 1994.

    Good to know that mature BSD was no match to Linux v.1.0.0.

  17. Re:Stealth rockets on US Army Completes First Test Flight of Mach 6 Weapon · · Score: 3, Funny

    Amazing the USA still has the funds

    Printing presses still work.

  18. Re:I like the way we're getting open standards on Barnes & Noble Names Microsoft's Disputed Android Patents · · Score: 1

    They've got such a reputation for dominating every market they enter

    No. They got such reputation not for dominating every market they enter. They got it for trying to dominate every market they enter and for using existing dominant markets and income from profitable markets to leverage their entry into new market.

  19. Re:Some credit to Google on Android Ice Cream Sandwich Source Released · · Score: 1

    Free offline and IMAP/SMTP/POP access to gmail from day one

    Check your calendar. For some reason your gmail calendar does not start at April 1, 2004. Your day one is even later than February 7, 2007.

    If you say "who haven't patent trolled anyone (except in retaliation of course)", you have two contradicting statements. You said yourself that they patent trolled someone (in retal).

  20. Re:How about an echolocation app :) on iOS App Acoustically Measures Distances Up To 25 Meters · · Score: 2

    if we could have an app that sends clicks and chirps and processes the echos and creates a picture or 3D model.

    I am not sound technician, but such app won't see the difference between open space and sound absorbing surface. Picasso might draw better 3d model than echo app given that different materials have different sound absorbing characteristics.

  21. Re:James Bond film waiting to happen on X-ray Facility To Simulate Conditions At Earth's Core · · Score: 1

    and no sharks. Lame.

  22. Re:I would just change my password to on Judge Makes Divorcing Couple Swap Facebook Passwords · · Score: 1

    or [insert judge's name]isamorron
    or 'thispasswillbevalidfornext5seconds'

  23. Re:Russian Space Pencils? on Russians Can't Make Contact With Busted Space Probe · · Score: 1

    turned the Mir space station into a zero gravity death trap

    It lasted longer than Skylab and Russians did not get bill for littering.

  24. Re:How about Fedora? on Linux Mint: the New Ubuntu? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Is there some specific reason I don't see?

    You did see it. For some reason your mind interpretered apt as annoyance. Debian package management was and is way ahead of any rpm distro.

  25. Re:Good 'ol Grandma on Ask Slashdot: Unity/Gnome 3/Win8/iOS — Do We Really Hate All New GUIs? · · Score: 1

    Don't insult intelligence of good 'ol Grandmas. Correct name is idiot and not Grandma.