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  1. 16-bit number mod 20 (plus 1) for a d20.

    That would not be fair unless the range of the counter is a multiple of 20.

  2. Re:Always seemed redundant to me. on Mozilla Plans To Remove Support For Firefox Complete Themes · · Score: 2

    Same for me. I cannot understand why Tree Style Tab is not the default. It is obviously much better than the default way to organize tabs.

  3. Re:Who would receive this money? on Apple Loses Patent Suit To University of Wisconsin, Faces Huge Damages (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    never mess with a large university that has a law school as they are just as vicious as a large corporation, if not more formidable.

    Of course they are just as vicious as a large corporation. That's because they are a large corporation.

  4. Re:Backdoor Discovered Into Seagate NAS Drives on Backdoor Discovered Into Seagate NAS Drives · · Score: 1

    If it is incompetence, then it is criminal incompetence. Someone should be jailed for this.

  5. Re:Knowledge on How the Internet Is Taking Away America's Religion · · Score: 1

    What is the difference?

  6. Re:Answer: No. on Tech Titans Oracle, Red Hat and Google To Help Fix Healthcare.gov · · Score: 1

    True, but once you get up to speed, they can give you almost a baby each month. Assuming no twins, you could get 9 babies in 17 months, and if you keep going, 52 in 50 months.

    Err, I mean 52 in 60 months.

  7. Re:Answer: No. on Tech Titans Oracle, Red Hat and Google To Help Fix Healthcare.gov · · Score: 1

    True, but once you get up to speed, they can give you almost a baby each month. Assuming no twins, you could get 9 babies in 17 months, and if you keep going, 52 in 50 months.

  8. Spain is caving on Stop Being Poor: U.S. Piracy Watch List Hits a New Low With 2012 Report · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Actually I'm pissed off because Spain got off the list :-(

  9. Re:Attacking the soul of France... on French President Proposes Jail For Terrorist Website Visitors · · Score: 1

    It is certainly true that some people Simply Aren't Interested in ye olde western enlightenment values

    This is looking less and less like "some", and more and more like "most".

    You both are talking about Sarko and his friends, right?

  10. Re:More slashcrap on Spanish Website Blocking Law Implemented · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You may be Spanish, but don't seem to know shit about what you are talking about. There is no much fearmongering in the linked articles. The point of the law is precisely to bypass the due process that you claim that exists in Spain.

    Thanks to this law, any copyright holder can ask to have a website closed without having to prove before a judge that there is an actual copyright infringement. There is a judge involved somehow, but he does not get to judge the case before closing the site (as was the case until now). This law opens the gates for American style corporate censorship (like when US Immigration and Customs Enforcement decides that a web site should have its DNS stolen because Warner Bros or Universal say that it hosts "illegal" content).

    And the change in government has very little to do with this law. Both PP and PSOE agree with it. Both voted for it.

  11. Re:Which side were the Greens on? on Canadian Supreme Court Rules Linking Is Not Defamation · · Score: 2

    However, the guy is a member of the green party. If he thinks that linking to something is the same as publishing it, I would not want him near any position of power. Hence, I would only consider voting for the greens if they expelled him from the party (and if I were German).

  12. Re:What did you expect? on Alternative 2009 Copyright Expirations · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yay for living in Europe, where the spirit of the law still counts for something.

    I am European, but I am sick of reading claims like this one in Slashdot and elsewere. It makes no sense to pretend that we are better than the Americans, or that our laws are more fair or that our politicians are better. In most areas we are almost as bad as the states (and copyright is one of them), while in other areas we are even worse.

    And we both (Americans and Europeans) are seeing our laws changing continuously for the worse, and we will end up with a very similar set of laws in the end: those that are good for the people in power (i.e.: the corporations).

    You think "the spirit of the law" counts for something in Europe? Do you trust those currently in power in your country to uphold it? Do you think the European Comission cares about "the spirit" of anything?

  13. Undoing wrong moderation - do not read on Google Found Guilty of French Copyright Infringement · · Score: 1

    This comment is to undo a wrong moderation. Slashdot interface sucks.

  14. Re:Disgusting... on EU Demands Canada Rework Its Copyright, Patent Law · · Score: 1

    This type of news is disgusting to me as a Canadian.

    They disgust me as an European, too.

  15. Re:netflix tracks birthdates? on Netflix Sued For Privacy Invasion · · Score: 1

    Why not?

  16. Re:lies, damn lies, and advertising on AT&T's Net Neutrality Doublethink · · Score: 1

    In graves?

  17. Re:Copyright issue is a scam on Backlash Builds Against US Copyright Blacklist · · Score: 1

    One thing I see in the halls of the faculty offices that's really scary is that the textbook reps are pushing electronic books like crazy -- but these books are apparently distributed with DRM, on a rental basis, so that as soon as the student stops paying, the book stops working.

    Sounds familiar.

  18. Re:Sure it will. on BYU Prof. Says University Classrooms Will Be "Irrelevant" By 2020 · · Score: 1

    you will not truly understand anatomy until you actually cut into a cadaver.

    Bullshit. You can learn anatomy perfectly well cutting into living people.

  19. Re:Whats on the laptop, son? on US District Ct. Says Defendant Must Provide Decrypted Data · · Score: 1

    It's that simple.

    No. It's just ridiculous.

  20. Re:Not now my friends, not ever on The History of Slashdot Part 4 - Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    I agree. I have been reading slashdot since so long that I cannot remember. Much longer before I got an account. I hope to be able to read it 10 years from now.

  21. Re:Mod Parent Down on A Cynic Rips Open Source · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And since "The scarcity is artificially enforced" then there is no free market, which was the parent's point. His last sentence may be wrong, but his point still holds.

  22. Re:Ease of understanding & teaching. on Ramanujian's Deathbed Problem Cracked · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Looks like your university was crap, no matter how famous it was.

  23. Re:This isn't a clash between science and religion on U.S. Classrooms Torn Between Science and Religion · · Score: 5, Funny

    Of course, you are right. There is also imagined evidence, which is very important!

  24. Re:I Don't Know, Man on Illumninatus! Author Needs Our Help · · Score: 1

    Commenting just to fix a wrong moderation. It's too easy to moderate with this new system :(

  25. Re:Who gets the money? on Microsoft Hit With 280m Euro Fine · · Score: 1

    The money goes to the EU budget, but does not increase it. That means that individual states have to pay less, hence less tax pressure for their citizens.