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  1. Re:Them new DE's, man on 5 Out of 11 Crashed Unity In Canonical's Study · · Score: 1

    Shrug, I haven't had Windows crash on me since 9X days. Just admit it people, Win2K/XP is the pinnacle of OS releases ever. There is not one single Linux distro who can challenge the stability and usability of Windows. (in desktop land, I'm not saying for server usage!)

  2. Re:Questions. on FBI Releases Document Confirming Roswell UFO · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the '"Disrupted by radar" gives it away. This is some kook with attention issues.Funny how all alien technology magically gets disrupted and makes them crash all around the planet :)

  3. Re:only a few years after, it came to home PCs on A Multitasking GUI, Circa 1982 · · Score: 1

    I'd say the Amiga 500 was the breakthrough. A lot more people have an A500 lying around in the basement, than the A1000.

  4. Re:Unexpected benefits on Google Won't Pull Checkpoint Evasion App · · Score: 2

    In Norway, this is allowed for that exact reason. These services are mostly targeted at speeding checkpoints but also works for DUI checkpoints (they are usually the same) There was a lot of fuzz from the police in the beginning but research showed otherwise. They discovered that people actually drive slower if they know about the checkpoints.

  5. Re:Should be titled . . . on Futurama Renewed For 7th Season · · Score: 1

    Good news, everyone. FTFY.

  6. Re:Prior art on USPTO Gives Google Patent For Doodles · · Score: 1

    VLC media player will turn into a Santa Claus-hat instead of the usual orange cone during xmas.

  7. 20/20 by the masters of 20/20 on US Alarmed Over Japan's Nuclear Crisis · · Score: 0

    Because the US has handled all their disasters with flying colors....just shut up already USA.

  8. Re:What does this improve? on GNOME To Lose Minimize, Maximize Buttons · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Seems to me Gnome 3 screenshots had their titlebars eating like 20% of the vertical space. Plenty of room for _more_ buttons in the title bar, actually. This is bull.

  9. Re:Interesting comments here on Upgrading From Windows 1.0 To Windows 7 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Shut up and be quiet, I am at a critical stage of hex-editing a drivers binary code trough a serial cable so I can Linux to boot again. Then I can finally have a go at getting the sound to work again after submitting the patch to the distro managers. Sniff.

  10. Re:Summary box for the book completely mixed-up on Book Review: PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance · · Score: 1

    This comment is missing because there are no guarantees in NoSQL-type databases.

  11. Re:I realize this is off-topic... on Book Review: PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance · · Score: 1

    the number of replies to articles so far.

    Aye. And there are small formatting/CSS problems all over.

  12. Re:Creationism on Bombay High Court Rules Astrology To Be a Science · · Score: 1

    Irony? thump thump thump

  13. Re:Okay, hold on a minute. on NASA Finds Family of Habitable Planets · · Score: 1

    I don't know exactly what this telescope can see, but I hope it can detect magnetic fields. If a planet doesn't have that it will most likely be fried by radiation. Also it is an indicator that the planet is not geologically active.

  14. Re:Yes... on NASA Finds Family of Habitable Planets · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Let me just add that light year is a measure of distance not time. You heard it here first, the timestamp of the post is just wrong.

  15. Re:Oracle Software on Ruby Dropped In Netbeans 7 · · Score: 1

    I don't see what's wrong with Eclipse, although its best used for Java development. There's other plugins for lots of languages but they seem not to have as many features compared to the 'native Java mode'.

  16. Re:This is slashdot? on Slashdot Launches Re-Design · · Score: 1

    v1 was uber. still miss it. still like the v2 over this design. remains to see if it works better than v2. (was there anything wrong anyway except for beeig slow?)

  17. Re:Queue endless discussion on allowing add-ons... on Mozilla Flips Kill-Switch On Skype Toolbar · · Score: 1

    vi is better ? you must be smoking crack. emacs is the only thing you need besides sliced bread.

  18. Re:Wikileaks == scapegoat on Espionage In Icelandic Parliament · · Score: 1

    Wikileaks would not even have to plant such a device, it already has support in the highest circles of the Icelandic government as well as among the people. This is the country which WL has possibly had the highest positive effect on, so far. Wikileaks has been offered to have it's HQ on Iceland and the country wants to establish itself as the high seat of free press.

  19. Re:FF4 vs. Chrome? on Firefox 4, A Huge Pile of Bugs · · Score: 1

    I don't surf the internet without NoScript, AdBlock and BetterPrivacy. As soon as Chrome gets their 100% working equivalents, I won't switch. It helps browsing speed, CPU usage, and security a lot. Other than that, my test runs with Chrome has been very impressive.

  20. Poor aussies on Sharks Seen Swimming Down Australian Streets · · Score: 1

    Not only do they have the highest concentration in the world of different nasties like crocs, spiders and snakes (scorpions?), which now are forced in a higher degree to relocate to unflooded parts of houses and property etc, where people also must take refuge. Now they have sharks in addition so it's hazardous to wade trough the streets. Poor people!

  21. Re:Hell of a unit test on Stuxnet Authors Made Key Errors · · Score: 1

    AFAIK, the virus changed the pattern in the movement of the machinery that would somehow 'stir' whatever mix they need to produce the weapons grade uranium. This change caused the resulting mix to be less pure and unsuitable for weapons use.

  22. Re:Hit them back on Wikileaks To Name Swiss Bank Tax Evaders · · Score: 1

    Does anyone know where the old leaks went ? The hundreds and thousands of leaks that was before the whole Collateral Murder and War Diaries are still interesting and relevant but they only exist on archive.org AFAIK. (And that is too slow to actually be worth browsing, I've extracted a few documents that I really needed though)

  23. Re:An obvious kook... on Florida Man Sues WikiLeaks For Scaring Him · · Score: 1

    Me too, grandparent comment is truly insightful. No mod points to give though.

  24. Re:Need a bigger knife on Jerry Brown Confiscates 48,000 Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    If you drink so much that the tax part added to the price is a problem, the problem isn't the price but your drinking habits. I live in Norway with about 80% tax rate on alcohol and it's not a problem for me, when I choose to drink occasionally. A pint of beer costs about 12 dollars. Even here bootlegging isn't a big problem because the quality, health and criminal risks associated with the merchandise does not justify the lower price. Some alcoholics certainly don't mind being sold moonshine cut with methanol and god knows what, but that is the minority. So no, people don't migrate to the cheaper source unless they have a habit beyond the norm. They want reliable quality and monitored manufacturing. The same goes for pot. The black market would be seriously hurt if pot was legalized, and influx into heavier drugs and crime would diminish. Only the worst addicts would have to resort to unlicensed goods, and fortunately pot addiction is much easier to manage than alcohol addiction.

  25. Re:Important question on Honeywell To Sell Miami-Dade Police a Surveillance Drone · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Exactly how many laws have been changed and politicians gotten fired due to common peoples demands ? Pretty close to zero? That is why people are thinking about building rocket launchers before trying to reason with those idiots. Laws that punish law enforcement ? Not in anyones lifetime. This kind of people go into politics and enforcement to stay above the law and will keep it that way.