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  1. Re:Yes, however... on U.S. Army Guide to Code Breaking · · Score: 1

    I love the +4 Insightful you got.

  2. Re:The iPod hardware is too weak for anything usef on Piezo-Acoustic iPod Hack · · Score: 1

    A little screen

    Although I am all for installing Linux to an iPod, somehow I don't think installing it will change the size of the screen.

  3. Re:The iPod hardware is too weak for anything OGG on Piezo-Acoustic iPod Hack · · Score: 1

    The 4G iPods have two processors -- with just the one processor of the 3G and below, you can nearly play OGG. Therefore, I conclude that yes, you will be able to.

  4. Re:The iPod hardware is too weak for anything usef on Piezo-Acoustic iPod Hack · · Score: 1

    No you don't -- you can dual-boot. And yes, you really can.

  5. Re:Brings up an entirely different issue on Steam Users Steamed · · Score: 1

    ...or bitch that Valve might decide to screw me over a decade from now.

    Well, intelligence would be a start. What if the electric company decided not to service your area? It's the same thing. You'd move, right? What about the value of your property when it no longer has electricity?

  6. Re:Brings up an entirely different issue on Steam Users Steamed · · Score: 1

    failing all this, there's a crack anyway

    Ah, there it is -- if you have a problem, turn to piracy. You can either condemn or condone piracy, you cannot do both. By saying Steam is a good idea, you are saying that Valve should fight software pirates. I don't understand the logic.

  7. I'm sorry, what were you saying? on Steam Users Steamed · · Score: 1

    I think you meant "Mod parent down". This is Slashdot, News for Nerds. We are supposed to have news about this kind of thing. A large portion of Slashdotters are against DRM, and this is a prime example of why DRM schemes are a Bad Idea. I'd say this qualifies as a relevant thing to be discussing.

  8. Re:What About Laptops? on Steam Users Steamed · · Score: 1

    I don't Think Anybody At Valve thought about those among us with laptops, I want To Be able To Play Half Life 2 on the plane, but noo, I can't even get an offline login. I love the game ,but the drm scheme would be so much better if I could Use a USB dongle Like They Do With ProTools, That I can Deal With, I'd Pay up to $10 For A dongle.

    I have corrected your capitalization problem. However, every bone in my body wants to scream out, "Are you a native English speaker? If not, then honestly, what the fuck were you smoking when you wrote this?"

  9. Re:skype in insuranc e on Businesses Discover Skype · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Yet another verbing of an innocent noun."

    Yet another instance of a noun being changed into a verb.

  10. Re:wrong on New Standard Keyboard · · Score: 1

    OMG. I've been using a laptop solely since I moved to Japan (5 months ago). Have I forgotten completely where Ctrl is on a standard keyboard? I could have sworn it was to the lower-left of Z. Am I that off? Because if it's to the lower-left of Z, I cannot for the life of my vizualize how you can just move your thumb down to it.

  11. Re:wrong on New Standard Keyboard · · Score: 1

    In order to not be an ass, I shall clarify -- "Someone Set Up Us the Bomb"

  12. Re:Spot on on AOL Kills Usenet Access · · Score: 1

    A better, more explicit way to phrase it is
    IQ = Score/(Average score of someone that age) * 100

    Now, the average score of someone that age /means/ actual age

  13. Re:Linux community already donates on Gates Pledges $750M to Vaccinate Children · · Score: 1

    Your Linux thing makes no sense -- there are huge numbers of Windows USERS that you are not factoring in. You should only consider Linus. Bill : Linux :: Windows : Linux. Kind of. But still, what Bill did is great. Don't deny that. Would you rather have him NOT donate the money?

  14. Re:wrong on New Standard Keyboard · · Score: 1

    I second this. Someone must be playing a cruel joke on us. Is this some obscure acronym? I got "AYBABTU" but not "IOCATB".

  15. Re:wrong on New Standard Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Ctrl-Z with just your thumb? Aren't Ctrl and Z both underneath your pinky? Doesn't that mean you're moving your entire hand a palm's width to the left to hit Ctrl-Z?

  16. Re:wrong on New Standard Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Not me. Because I touch type, I never look anywhere but the screen. Unless of course you're talking about transcribing text. In which case, yes I imagine that would suck.

  17. Re:wrong on New Standard Keyboard · · Score: 1

    I prefer the SSUUTB layout for the redundant S and U keys.

  18. Re:Lets bring some plain old reason on New Standard Keyboard · · Score: 1

    But why would you WANT to type a word with one hand? That's incredibly inefficient, compared with alternating hands to allow your fingers more time to move. Disclaimer: I use QWERTY because I don't have two weeks to relearn a keyboard layout and get back to my >100 wpm typing speed. QWERTY works well enough for me, but I got no hate for Dvorak, either.

  19. Re:Betamax? -- The parent is flat out wrong on The Lost 1984 Mac Video · · Score: 1

    How's about capturing that and torrenting it? Or just snail-mailing me a copy. My email's right at the top of this comment. I'd LOVE to get my hands on a copy of that!

  20. Re:buffered stuff.. on Real Pays For Legal MP3 Playback On Linux · · Score: 1

    No, I download things from the internet that are in the public domain, you insensitive clod!

  21. Re:Is this true? on eXeem Lite Public Beta Released · · Score: 1

    I wanna back this up -- I believe those who say Cydoor was installed. However, it most definitely is not doing anything on my computer. Nothing is dialing in, no pop-ups, nothing. Could it be that I installed/run eXeem in a limited user and not admin account? And yes, this came right off exeem.com

  22. Re:A shame original bittorrent didn't use GPL on eXeem Lite Public Beta Released · · Score: 1

    Well, Azureus is Java, so I doubt that eXeem borrowed code from them.

  23. Re:Good news for the computer savvy on eXeem Lite Public Beta Released · · Score: 1

    If you're down with legal stuff, i found some Charlie Chaplin movies on eXeem earlier. I'm seeding with 20% complete, waiting for the original seeder to come back online.

    That's the problem with eXeem -- a lack of sense of community, so the seeders will just leave whenever they feel like it, and you don't know if they'll be back or not...eXeem feels too much like kazaa and not enough like bittorrent for the community atmosphere to support the downloads.

    On the other hand, the "comments" part of eXeem is pretty nice -- read comments on the files before downloading.

  24. Re:Good news for the computer savvy on eXeem Lite Public Beta Released · · Score: 2, Funny

    We need an emulator called WEED Emulates Executable Directions so we can call Jon Stewart in every time a new Windows program comes out -- "but have you run this software...on WEED?"

  25. Re:Two modern remakes of Beowulf? on Robert Zemeckis to Direct Beowulf Movie · · Score: 1

    No, three. You forgot one from a handful of years ago with Christopher Lambert (of Highlander fame) in it.