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  1. Re:MTV itself is helping with the decline on MTV: 2007 Borked the Music Industry · · Score: 1
    You've grown 10 years older since MTV was the best on TV. That counts for something too.


    Old fart. :p

  2. Re:Take this Egypt! on Egypt to Copyright Pyramids and Sphynx · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I think Canada should get a copyright on beavers. Porn sites, beware!
  3. Re:Dumbest video ever on Jingle Bells Played With Graphics Card, Santa Wonders Why · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I was expecting someone to have found a way of controlling the video card fan to belt out jingle bells Don't go giving people any ideas now. Next thing you know, a virus starts to spread that plays jingle bells by switching the monitor resolution really fast.
  4. Re:Global warming on Extreme Christmas Lights In Orlando · · Score: 1
    If anyone is unfortunate enough to have a bedroom window facing that display, I think they'll be gratuitously legislating it with an axe and chainsaw.


    To clarify: it's an awesome display, but it's also kinda like a meatspace gif. With background music. And no adblock.

  5. Re:Random Trivia on Extreme Christmas Lights In Orlando · · Score: 2
    Garish display of lights? Oh my, I looked at the videos and there was a link in the beginning that tops the light display. You haven't seen garish until you've seen this hell-hole. (NSFEyes, and probably NSFBrowsers)


    Incidentally, is that message on the door, "Jesus, the reason for the season", common? Not only is it a painful pun, it's wrong too.

  6. Re:Education on OLPC a Hit in Remote Peruvian Village · · Score: 0
    Insightful? Now look here, how many of you slashdotters find that you surf porn to the detriment of any other activities? (sex excluded)


    Porn is great and all, but damn, there really are better and more interesting things to do with spare time, and it doesn't take that long to realize it, once you're over 16.

  7. Re:$208,569 on Afterlife Will Be Costly For Digital Films · · Score: 1

    AAC has less patent issues, actually, decoders are free from restrictions.

  8. Re:but on Email In the 18th Century · · Score: 3, Funny

    This was enterprise mail, hence not available to the plebes.

  9. Re:Nintendo! Hire Johnny Lee! on Head Tracking w/ the Wiimote · · Score: 1

    This artificially limits what you can do in a game and is why head tracking systems have not replaced traditional controls for looking along the X & Y axis. TrackIR has solved the problem by having a small range of motion translate into a larger range in-game. Now, for FSP-like purposes, like in the video I don't think it'd matter. The headtracking is useful for controlling leaning, such as around corners, and most importantly it will give a sense of immersion, regardless of how much range of control you have. Regular movement is still best controlled by the nunchuk + Wii, with headtracking simply adding on to that.
  10. Re:Nintendo! Hire Johnny Lee! on Head Tracking w/ the Wiimote · · Score: 2, Informative

    Eh, sort of like what TrackIR already does? This is not all that innovative, just on-the-cheap.

  11. Re:Where we live ... on Toshiba Builds Ultra-Small Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 1

    Planting a tree temporarily increases CO2 uptake, that will be canceled out by a temporary increase in CO2 production later on. No harm done, other than soot.

  12. Re:Hmmmmmm on Perl 5.10, 20 Year Anniversary · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The speedier regex engine is going to be a great boon. Not to mention the named captures. Finally, no more empty capture vars because some parentheses were removed in the middle of the expression!
  13. Re:Informative to whom? on Enceladus "Sea" Mystery Deepens · · Score: 1
    WTF? Are you talking about some sort of democratic science where the public at large is "shown the evidence" so they then can "decide for themselves"? Classic pseudo-science behaviour. If you want plasma socmology to be taken seriously, then supporters would do well to cut the crap and bring the substance, because though it's an intriguing theory, I see a lot of kooky stuff going on.


    You also say:

    Many of the conventional astrophysicists are refusing to consider the *possibility* that electricity in space does things of importance. Extraordinary claims, and all that. If you're the expert, shouldn't you do the science then?
  14. Re:Whoa on Synthetic DNA About To Yield New Life Forms · · Score: 1

    What scares me is when trojans and botnets start to appear in biological form.

  15. Re:Way to be taken seriously.. on Black Hole Blasts Neighbor Galaxy with Deadly Jet · · Score: 3, Funny

    On the contrary, the karma-bonus modifiers are strong in this one.

  16. Re:Bet there still isn't a decent "Stop!" button on HTML V5 and XHTML V2 · · Score: 1

    In general, one should be wary of making regexes do things they're ill-suited for. Parsing complex languages seems quite obviously one of those things.

  17. Re:Oh yes, It's just you. on A Legal Analysis of the Sony BMG Rootkit Debacle · · Score: 1

    I think Sony has made some dreadful mistakes, but still the PS3 is really decent, and quite a piece of hardware. I don't think that the problem for Sony is whether the PS3 is a flop or success, because it seems to be gaining speed finally, it's that the Wii is a steamroller they never even saw the rear lights of as it disappeared beyond the horizon.

  18. Re:Oh yes, It's just you. on A Legal Analysis of the Sony BMG Rootkit Debacle · · Score: 1

    The "outselling Wii in Japan" thing was reported on /. within the last few weeks, the PS3 has been outselling the 360 in europe for a while now. "Outselling" the Wii is a stretch, looking at the numbers. It did so temporarily a few weeks ago, but not anymore, certainly not in Japan. It is indeed outselling the 360 in Europe/Japan though.
  19. Re:This is a great idea and all, but... on Opera Files EU Complaint Against Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Actually, Opera is arguably an "internet browser", since it handles not just http, but ftp, irc, bittorrent, mail and feed aggregation.

  20. Re:Something smells...and it aint my pants on A Child's View of the OLPC · · Score: 1

    That's the point: it's a laptop for 3rd world kids, hence it has been made easy.

  21. Re:Affordable health care on Switching Hospital Systems to Linux · · Score: 1

    I can't find an equivalent procedure right now, but it appers that e.g. a scan of the knee, including an arthrograph, costs about 620 euro (910 USD). A regular x-ray of lower limbs is 35-45 euro (50-65 USD), depending on specifics. According to hearsay, my suspicion is that procedure prices tend to be higher in the US across the board, for some reason.

  22. Re:Closed drivers on Intel Demos Software Defined WiFi/WiMAX/DVB-H Chip · · Score: 2, Funny

    Not to mention that air pressure is the standard way of measuring altitude. You'll need a fairly powerful radio transmitter to interfere with that system.

  23. Re:Affordable health care on Switching Hospital Systems to Linux · · Score: 1

    I concur, at the hospital where I work, aging mainframes are slowly being replaced. A few years ago with a few Windows servers, but now with Red Hat servers. It's a pretty diverse collection though, so I don't know what the trend is.

  24. Re:Affordable health care on Switching Hospital Systems to Linux · · Score: 1

    Indeed, a broken bone is usually an automatic x-ray, because there's no other way to know what's going on inside, and it's not terribly expensive either. I don't know why a doctor would order an MRI scan for a broken bone, though, I don't think it'd say very much, other than what the x-ray already gives.

  25. Re:LOL antartic humor on Ch-Ch-Chatting With the South Pole's IT Manager · · Score: 1

    I guess he ch-ch-chats with a p-p-powerbook.