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  1. Mirror incase of slashdotting on The Planet's Most Moronic Hacker · · Score: 5, Funny
  2. Re:Classic games. on Freeciv-2.0.0 Stable Released · · Score: 1

    I take my install of KDE, and I theme it like windows XP, I even set "bliss" as my background. By your logic, KDE is literally just a new front-end for an existing OS!

    Apologies for feeding the troll.

  3. Online Preview on WBEL4 Preview Ready For Testing · · Score: 1

    available here.

  4. Re:256-bit encryption? on How the Secret Service Cracks Encrypted Evidence · · Score: 1

    So is lead.

  5. Re:Does it suppot serial port re-direct on Via Now Shipping Dual-Processor Mini-ITX Board · · Score: 1

    True, it is hard to fit up an emergency monitor/keyboard to something in a rack, I suppose.

  6. Re:Does it suppot serial port re-direct on Via Now Shipping Dual-Processor Mini-ITX Board · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with ssh?

  7. Re:Podcast = download. Doesn't even stream on Galactica Commentary Podcast Available · · Score: 2, Informative

    Have you even the faintest idea what joint stereo is? The difference between left and right is encoded seperately, and last I checked, zero compresses quite well.

  8. Re:Better to burn out than to fade away on Debris is Shuttle's Biggest Threat · · Score: 1
    At the time there was alleged to be a catalog of 8,000+ known objects in orbit

    What the real problem is is not the objects we know about and can track, it's the ones we can't. There's quite a range of sizes between "ignorable" and "trackable" that could cause damage, and we have no way of knowing where they are. Sweet dreams, ISS!

  9. Re:Video link on LiveCD Lets You Try Out Project Looking Glass · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nice going, you managed to slashdot the sun, I guess we'll have to implode Saturn now.

  10. Re:Odd on Cox on Torvalds and Linux Kernel Development · · Score: 3, Funny

    Cathedral? The 90's called, they want thier jargon back.

  11. typical purchased science on Sun Storms Deplete Ozone, Too · · Score: 0, Troll

    There's a natural cause, we don't need to stop driving SUV's.

  12. Re:Oh my God! on TrekUnited Reports Mission Successful at Trek Rallies · · Score: 1

    I think you mean schleck, since of course you can't be badmouthing the webtoon Schlock Mercenary

  13. Re:Savantism on A Savant Explains His Abilities · · Score: 1

    The parents do.

  14. Re:Savantism on A Savant Explains His Abilities · · Score: 2

    It's not associated as such, I'm guessing that savants like this who aren't autistic are just bog-standard geniuses. We forget all the hundreds of thousands of people with autism who aren't geniuses.

    Severely autsitic children are just heartbreaking.

  15. Re:CherryOS on QEMU Accelerator Achieves Near-Native Performance · · Score: 1

    Yeah, iirc there was a variable called SPIRO_MULTIMAX_3000

    Not really common, I would say.

  16. Re:OT: EMERGENCY. TAKE THESE SCAMMING FUCKERS DOWN on New Yorker on Miyazaki · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Note that the images on the site are stolen from the real red cross, so hitting on the page repeatedly isn't the best way to do it.

    while true; do wget -q http://www.american-redcross.org; rm -f index.html; done

  17. Re:Radiation in a reflective cavity. on House Paint Foils Wardrivers · · Score: 3, Informative
    The microwave is tuned to optimally excite the rotational frequency of aqueaous water.

    Er, no it's not. Microwave ovens radiate at about 2.3-2.4 GHz, but the resonant frequency of water which that affects is about 10 GHz. The suboptimal matching means that microwaves penetrate food, rather than flash-boiling the outside layer and leaving the inside raw.

  18. Re:MOD PARENT UP - SECONDED on iPod Shuffle, Mac Mini, iLife '05, iWork · · Score: 1

    Seconded

  19. Re:We[re very 'neutral" the mans sez on WikiPedia Founder Wales Speaks About Wikinews · · Score: 1

    In all communal efforts on the internet, a pecking order seems to establish itself loosly based on how long someone has been there, even in cases where people were supposedly equal in the eyes of the substrate. To these guys, you probably looked like a troll or an unwelcome outsider, bringing change and/or fresh ideas to steal attention from them.

  20. Re:This was pre-Web. on WikiPedia Founder Wales Speaks About Wikinews · · Score: 1

    How handy.

  21. Re:Why isn't BitTorrent defeatable? on Wired Interviews Bram Cohen, Creator of BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    the .torrent contains an MD5 of each chunk, and the entire file, and I think the tracker itself does something to protect against corrupted .torrents.

  22. Re:And of course, the always ironic banner add... on IDC Proclaims Linux Is Now Mainstream · · Score: 1

    Shut up, slashdot is fleecing MS for lots of advertising revenue, 60% of the users block them with firefox and the other 40% are forced into using IE at work. This is one of the funniest things I've encountered for a long long time.

  23. Re:STOP BELIEVING HOLLYWOOD'S BULLSHIT! on Updated LOTR Nitpicker's Guide · · Score: 1
    He made up the 3 laws to get away from that frankenstein crap, dammit!

    WRONG. Every single robots story was about how the laws were flawed, and they explored the consequences of those flaws. In that sense, the film is true to the spirit of the books.

  24. Re:Pity the performance sucks on Games Knoppix · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, but it'll take 6 hours to start the game

  25. Re:Thank you Poland. on Poland Blocks European Software Patent Vote, For Now · · Score: 1

    Aah, trolling the daily mirror. Sport of kings.