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  1. Re:Let's be honest... on The Sims 3 Racks Up Over 180,000 Downloads Prior To Release · · Score: 1

    The game's target audience (twelve-year-old girls) probably wouldn't even know how to pirate it, they'll just ask their daddies to get it from the mall.

    My 12-year old daughter gets her daddy to pirate it off Bittorrent (if there is a DS version anyway, and if others have the cartridge and she wants it too)

  2. Re:A Suggestion: Smart? on 18 Android Phones, In 3 Flavors, By Year's End · · Score: 1

    what's a "smartphone"? It's one that has some "freedom" in its software (freedom with very small f), i.e. you can decide what apps to put on it, as in S60 or WindMobile or the jesus phone. Or Android. They're more expensive simply because an OS like that needs more silicon to run on. (err,that and the fact that people will pay more for it). So what's the point of an Android-powered dumb-phone? If it's underpowered and the UI gets slow, noone will want it as you'd be better of with your Nokia 3310.

  3. never Gonna... on YouTube To Block Music Videos In the UK · · Score: 1

    At least i won't be able to be rick rolled now

    just checked (from UK): it's still up there. Damn.

  4. ..use arsenic the way we know it uses phosphorus on Earth May Harbor a Shadow Biosphere of Alien Life · · Score: 4, Informative
  5. always trust phronix to mess a benchmark up on Java Performance On Ubuntu Vs. Windows Vista · · Score: 5, Insightful

    they used java 1.6.0_10 on linux and 1.6.0_07 on windows. Hate to give the benefit of the doubt to ballmer & co but in spite of the minor version number, a lot of work in performance has been done on Java recently. The result is pretty meaningless.

  6. acorn years on Acorns Disappear Across the Country · · Score: 1
    there are good and bad acorn years. Depends on the weather when oaks are in flower (oaks are wind-pollinated). We had a really good acorn crop last year here("here" being Lancashire / England).

    And good riddance to the goddamn squirrwels.

  7. I'm a Protozoa.. on Resisting the PGP Whole Disk Encryption Craze · · Score: 2, Funny
    ..you insensitive clod.

    I don't want my data leaked, thank you very much!

  8. Re:In Germany on People Prefer Angry-Faced Cars · · Score: 1

    it's all right if you've got the right connections

  9. f**k Fick!" on Coating a Motherboard In Thermal Resin? · · Score: 1

    'nuff said

  10. Re:Superhuman children? on A Grand Day Out For British Rocketman · · Score: 3, Funny

    not fast enough for salford kids (recalls being beaten up by Salford kids in the past) (ducks)

  11. Researches on /. find article similar to this on Astronomers Locate Solar System Very Similar To Our Own · · Score: 5, Funny

    dupe

  12. clean on Researchers Create a Protein Map of Human Spit · · Score: 1

    My brother, who works in a museum restoring old wooden objects, sometimes uses spit to remove stains. he smiles and says: this needs an enzymatic clean... spit...rub... gone. Does this research mean that some chemical company can now manufacture and sell this stuff? Superfluous nonsense. Spit is brilliant, also excellent for wiping spectacles, and to remove stains from clothes.

  13. Re:Sweet! on Israelis Sue Government For Laser Cannons · · Score: 1

    Why can't people see that until we stop killing each other there will never be peace.
    quite the contrary. Only once you've all killed each other there will be peace in the middle east.
  14. invade mental privacy? on Brain Scanner Can Tell What You're Looking At · · Score: 1
    truly a horrible prospect: the stuff that Azimov's (and other's) darker visions are made of. Did anyone gather from TFA if any of the brain-decoding is "generic", or if all of it is trained to a specific individual?

    FBI agent: Please Mr. Terrorist, prior to our interview, could we ask you to look at these few thousand pictures whilst strapped into our MRI machine? And don't think of anything other than what's on the pictures. Thank you very much for your cooperation.

    Terrorist: Thank you for the lovely slide show!

  15. I've got it deployed against the greenhouse effect on Submersible Glider Powered By Thermal Changes · · Score: 4, Interesting

    and it works brilliantly. Mind, it's not a submersible so it's not quite so cool. it's just a device that opens the window in my greenhouse so that the tomatoes don't get too hot in the summer!

  16. Re:Rumors become reality? on How Apple Rumors Became Reality · · Score: 1

    except they forgot the new "will it blend" video on youtube.

  17. Re:Bush is relieved... on Iran Builds Supercomputer From Banned AMD Parts · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A western republic is as democratic as it can be without encroaching on the ruling class.

    there, fixed that for you.

    Elections don't change anything else they would be banned.

    that aside, thanks for the informative post.

  18. new revenue stream for GPS map companies on British Village Requests Removal From GPS Maps · · Score: 1

    sell "discouraging" of routes so that rich people can pay money to re-direct lots of traffic away from their doorstep!

  19. Re:TV-turn-off devices on Open Source Hardware Gift Guide · · Score: 1

    a brick will do. Source code to brick-making has been in the public domain for thousands of years.

  20. RALINK drivers on Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" Is Out · · Score: 1
    the ralink rt2500 driver is somehow borked, at least wireless doesn't work in gutsy any more unless i boot the old feisty kernel. Now there is a "windows" driver that you can install with ndiswrapper and that's supposed to work, and support the "network manager" interface as well, which the open source driver doesn't.

    That's supposed to be the other way 'round, open sopurce stuff is hackable and someone could fix that particular piece of opensource code, but somehow it's not happening. I haven't got the skill or time to do it. Looks like that chipset is going to fade into obscurity before it gets quality linux support!

  21. many write cycles? on Alienware Puts 64GB Solid-State Drives In Desktops · · Score: 2, Interesting

    can s/o comment on the durability of these (presumabily flash-based) devices? What if the OS decides to write stuff to certain sectors all the time?

  22. Re:Terrorism or Suicide? on In the UK, Possession of the Anarchist's Cookbook Is Terrorism · · Score: 1

    > This all just sounds barmy to me. This is slashdot. You should have written "balmy" (because FFox spellcheck told you so)

  23. Re:Wait for next on A Gut Check On Gutsy Gibbon · · Score: 1

    Can you explain where this cave is? Is it a secret cave for people with 5 digits UID and below? I've looked for it quite a bit now, and cannot find it! I checked the FAQ too but to no avail. Thanks.

  24. Re:Sounds right on Gartner Says Open Source "Impossible To Avoid" · · Score: 1

    bless the spell checker in firefox!

  25. Yeah, it is a scam. And you can be part of it! on 'Flying Saucers' to Go On Sale Soon · · Score: 1
    anyone notice that one of the two jobs that moller is advertising is for a CGI artist to make "Computer generated photo-realistic animated sequences of Moller M200-based volantors"? If those shaky youtube vids (with strings attached) are not prone to extract money from gullible investors... maybe (even more) fake ones will!

    Fire up your Blender!