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  1. Re:Will someone please clarify "free" for him? on Hilf Claims Free Software Movement Dead · · Score: 2, Funny

    He also calls Apache, MySQL and PHP "the Visual Basic of open source". Not even PHP deserves bashing like that.

  2. Re:Kind of a concern on Landline Holders Increasingly Older, More Affluent · · Score: 2, Interesting

    While POTS will eventually disappear, fixed (desk) telephones probably won't. Two different issues.

  3. Re:Oh Yeah? on Posting Porn Link Judged Unlawful in Hong Kong · · Score: 1

    and other sex-toys.
    "That's no moon, those are Ben Wa balls!"
  4. Re:China has a population problem on Posting Porn Link Judged Unlawful in Hong Kong · · Score: 1

    Unlikely, it's probably only Chinese nationals. Anyway, you can have more than one child, but you need to pay a fee that increases per additional child. A 'child tax', if you will. It's not a strict one-child-only thing.

  5. Re:Why The Third World Focus? on OLPC Project Rollout Begins In Uruguay · · Score: 1

    Korean?? I had no idea there were lots of adoptable children in Korea.

  6. Re:Intended or not... on IPv6 Flaw Could Greatly Amplify DDoS Attacks · · Score: 1

    It's not at all ignorant to say that NAT is not a security feature. It's a hack at best, and no-one would miss it if we didn't need it. And it frequently breaks things, actually, unless you only surf on the web.

  7. Re:Estonian is like Finnish indeed - Not Russian on IPv6 Flaw Could Greatly Amplify DDoS Attacks · · Score: 1

    Well to me, Estonian sounds like some totally whacked-out Finnish slang. I always think I can understand it, but after a few seconds I realise I didn't get anything. Subtitles FTW.

  8. Re:The Singularity is Near.... on Scientists Create Artificial Blood · · Score: 2, Informative

    Unfortunately, it's not low blood oxygen level that triggers breath hunger, it's high CO2 levels, so I doubt a blood implant would give 15-minute pool sitting benefits.

  9. Re:I discounted that bastard while parsing the hea on Lucas To Make New Live Action Star Wars Films · · Score: 1

    No kidding. And there was another genius headline on adoption at the bottom: "If Your Daughter Doesn't Look Like You, Are You Still Her Mother?". Unsurprisingly, the article behind it makes my bones cringe. Remind me not to go to that site anymore.

  10. Re:NetHack on What is Your Desert Island Game? · · Score: 1

    Right, it's really the same age-old save/load balancing problem that also crops up in FPS's and the like. Some games solve it with savepoints, and I'm thinking that wouldn't be a bad idea for Nethack either. As it is now, it's like Diablo in hardcore mode, with no other difficulty settings.

  11. Re:Are consumers that dumb? on Jobs to Labels- Lose the DRM & We'll Talk Price · · Score: 1

    I had problems extracting the first track from a DRM'd CD. I just downloaded that particular track, but then I found that I could just tweak EAC a bit to make it read the CD properly anyway.

  12. Re:NetHack on What is Your Desert Island Game? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Nethack probably wouldn't be as deep if you didn't have to start over. There's so many things that can happen, that if you breeze through the game it'll register barely as a 'meh'.

  13. Re:Insult Dvorak if you want, but he on EFF and Dvorak Blame the Digg Revolt On Lawyers · · Score: 4, Funny

    An English guy is telling a joke in the EU parliament. All the Brits laugh immediately, the French laugh after a short moment as the translator catches up, the Germans laugh as the translator reaches the verb at the end of the sentence, and the slashdotters laugh 15 minutes later when the first +1 Funny comes in.

  14. Re:Microsoft just needs to innovate on Microsoft Invents Split Screen PC · · Score: 1

    That's easy, get a split keyboard. One types letters from Y,H,N to the right, and the other one types T,G,B and to the left. Come on now, let's practice touch typing!

  15. Re:Extreme programming on Microsoft Invents Split Screen PC · · Score: 1

    But you're supposed to use the same keyboard, mouse and screen in XP. What's this then, Quad Programming?

  16. Re:Shortage of consoles? on Nintendo's Iwata Confirms Big Games This Year · · Score: 1

    When I bought one, we got one of two remaining consoles on that day. I also hear they're nowhere to be found in the Netherlands.

  17. Re:wait! on Winner of NASA Glove Contest Named · · Score: 1

    Hopefully they won't be testing in space then.

  18. Re:The electrical nature of the universe on Astronomers Again Baffled by Solar Observations · · Score: 4, Funny

    The term "Intelligent Plasma" is preferred, I believe.

  19. Re:Crank crackpottery on Astronomers Again Baffled by Solar Observations · · Score: 1

    Maybe he meant to write "eclectic universe".

  20. Re:TTY? on Text Messaging Device For the Hearing Impaired? · · Score: 1

    Put a message in your answering service that says the person needs to send a text message instead, then turn it on permanently. Anyone who calls will then immediately get the answering machine message, instead of making your phone ring.

  21. Re:Good for him on Obama Requests Creative Commons for Presidential Debates · · Score: 1

    And those criticisms will assure that he never gets my vote.
    That's an awfully high horse you've got there. Do you ever get down on the Earth?
  22. Re:Good for him on Obama Requests Creative Commons for Presidential Debates · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So, props to Obama for trying to look like a progressive to those who cannot see through such ploys for voter support.
    What's your point? That you won't support his proposal, or that you hate politics in general?
  23. Re:Did I miss something? on Steve Jobs Personally Resolves Customer Complaint · · Score: 1

    a manufacturing plant filled with Jobses.
    A typical day at Apple Corp...


    Steve Jobs 1: Jobs, JobsJobs.
    Steve Jobs 2: JobsJobs? Jobsjobs Jobs jobs-Jobs.
    Steve Jobs 1: Jobsjobs jobs _jobsjobs_. Jobsjobsjobs Jobsjobs.
    Steve Jobs 3: *jobs* J00bs! jObSJoBs !!11jobs!
    Steve Jobs 1+3: JOBS!

  24. Re:Understood... on Student Arrested for Making Videogame Map of School · · Score: 1

    The stick-like devices come in pairs. Humans eyes come in pairs. Coincidence? I think not!

  25. Re:Easy on NASA Tackles Ethics of Deep-Space Exploration · · Score: 1

    What impression, and what would be wrong with it?