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  1. Re:"Videogame Stories." I Always Chuckle at That.. on Developer Panel Asks Whether AAA Games Are Too Long · · Score: 1

    Never mind that the videogame stories are inevitably dreadful imitations of book and movie plotlines that have been done before by legitimate storytellers.

    What book or movie is Infocom's Trinity or A Mind Forever Voyaging derived from?

  2. Re:Reroof with solar panels on Bill Clinton Says 'Paint Your Roofs White' · · Score: 1

    Aren't they an expensive niche product because they're just now coming on the market? Doesn't Dow Corning intend them to be a breakthrough in cost-per-watt from the labor side, since relatively unskilled roofers can do almost the entire installation; as well as gaining economies of scale on standard components like inverters once volume increases?

  3. Re:THIS IS NEWS?? on Bill Clinton Says 'Paint Your Roofs White' · · Score: 1

    Isn't the summer heat gain from a black roof greater than the winter heat loss from a white roof, assuming proper roof venting and insulation? If' you're relying on your roof color as a form of heat-retaining insulation, you've already lost.

  4. Re:You can stop them on Phone Customers Pay $2B Yearly In Bogus Fees · · Score: 1

    How about 100% uptime, 911 service, no dropped calls, no batteries, massively better sound quality, the ability to use a fax machine, and drastically lower monthly charges?

  5. Re:Blame "Pirates of the Caribbean" on Space Invaders: The Movie · · Score: 1

    I liked the second one for the way the action scenes were structured - Each one had three characters or groups fighting/saving each other rock-paper-scissors style.

  6. Re:Desperation in Hollywood on Space Invaders: The Movie · · Score: 1

    They did, but they botched it. It was called Scary Movie.

    P.S. - "Not his cheese, his KEYS!"

  7. Re:Sorry, this is photoshopped. The Shadows. No? on Star Wars Landspeeders Are Here · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't the lines in a proper picture be parallel? The sun casts shadows indistinguishable from parallel for any earth-bound distance.

  8. Re:No problem. Build the Glomar Explorer II on Japanese Team Finds New Source of Rare Earth Elements · · Score: 1

    My favorite thing about Glomar is how the manganese mining cover story made it into the undersea pavillion at EPCOT.

  9. Re:Gone in 10 years. on RIM Responds To an Employee's Open Letter · · Score: 1

    What percentage of those people are AOL users because they're actively being scammed by the company? As in, they have broadband in the home but pay AOL for their client software in order to open it, minimize it, and run IE? Or who are too afraid to switch and lose their @aol.com email address, not realizing that you can use AOL's webmail for free without subscribing?
     
    How many new users are they getting?

  10. Re:Why "Chess Engine" Programmers? on World's Best Chess Engine Outlawed and Disqualified · · Score: 1

    Ken freakin' Thompson was on the panel. You wanna step to that?

  11. Re:Man some of these "activists" are dumb as rocks on Video Game Free Speech Ruling Aftermath · · Score: 1

    When Gunther Grass was outed as having joined the Nazi Youth, his excuses included being unable to stand hearing them have sex every night in their shared bedroom.

  12. Re:Man some of these "activists" are dumb as rocks on Video Game Free Speech Ruling Aftermath · · Score: 1

    Yes, and the song Baby Come Back" is about pedophilia.

  13. Re:Wasting time on Video Game Free Speech Ruling Aftermath · · Score: 2

    Huh? There are a few broad guidelines about homosexuality, masturbation, and some OCD dont-touch-menstrual-blood stuff in Leviticus, but there's tons of polygamy, concubinage, rape, and incest that's treated as an unremarkable part of the scenery throughout the old testament..

  14. Re:a little understanding? on 18 Months In Prison For Making iPad 2 Cases · · Score: 1

    Kibbutzes in Israel. Important distinction being that its a)a small community, where b) everyone is opting in. They've had tremendous problems with intergenerational continuity, though.

  15. Re:Not much of a tooth brusher on The Iceman's Last Meal · · Score: 4, Funny

    If he's getting a colonoscopy as part of a dental procedure, I'd say his dental problem is far from simple...

  16. Re:A more profound effect than one might recall on Building a Gary Gygax Memorial · · Score: 1

    If you own a home, your mortgage interest deduction generally exceeds your standard deduction (at least for the first decade or so), so tax-deductible whatever becomes more significant. Even more so if you're also self-employed, and pay the flat 7.5% self-employment social security tax on top of your regular federal tax.

  17. Re:They will never focus on Obama on Crowdsourcing Analysis of the Palin Email Trove · · Score: 1

    Please, consider for a moment the possibility that "running government like a business" is a bad thing. That maybe government is there to do the unprofitable, necessary things we need done in order to have a functioning society.

  18. Re:Did they add noscript yet? on Google Releases Chrome 12 · · Score: 1

    It's a seperate application. I have 20 or 30 live bookmark feeds I can scan in about 10 seconds in firefox without stopping what I'm doing.

  19. Re:Did they add noscript yet? on Google Releases Chrome 12 · · Score: 1

    It's not an add-on, it's a core firefox feature. That having been said, I agree. Also, try them. You can make a bookmark folder full of slashdot headlines and go straight to articles that look interesting.

  20. Re:Is this the version with Print Preview? No. on Google Releases Chrome 12 · · Score: 2

    What's "printing"?

  21. Re:Did they add noscript yet? on Google Releases Chrome 12 · · Score: 1

    Do you have a suggestion for firefox-like live bookmark folders in Chrome? I've tried a couple of the RSS chrome extensions, but none of them feel right.

  22. Re:It depends on the objective. on Why the US Govt Should Be Happy About Wikileaks · · Score: 1

    Oh, come on. Constitutions, representative government rather than direct referenda on day-to-day issues, an apolitical judiciary and civil service, an apolitical military, supernational organizations like NATO and the UN, international law, worldwide treaties on issues of global import, and international human rights tribunals all serve to prevent the darkest excesses of democracy. In themselves they are all anti-democratic, but they make possible an environment in which democracies can thrive.

  23. Re:Am I the only one who saw this? on MIT Develops Fast Charging Liquid Flow Batteries · · Score: 2

    Like how private trucks drive on public roads, and the government hires contractors to build infrastructure with tax money? You're a moron.

  24. Re:And they worry about retailers and PCI on RSA Admits SecurID Tokens Have Been Compromised · · Score: 1

    PCI compliance requires servers be in a locked room. If the business is a three person operation and the server sits under the owners desk then is that really a big security risk, or should the owner of this small business build a secure server room?

    Yes. They should use a colocated server in a datacenter or a third-party payment processor if they're that small.

  25. Re:NetHack on Ask Slashdot: Best Adventure Game To Start With? · · Score: 2

    Wanna win nethack? Read this (327 page PDF warning), learn its lessons (primarily retreating to base camps when things get hairy), and ascend. Do it on NAO and the veterans can help you through the planes via IRC in real time, too.