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  1. Re:Vista and DX10 on Microsoft Makes Direct X 11.1 a Windows 8 Exclusive · · Score: 1

    Yes, they did and an early exclusive was 'Shadowrun'. Upgrade to Vista to run a half-baked tactical shooter knock-off of a property they got with the FASA interactive purchase.

  2. Re:How is it defamation if it's true? on $200,000 Judgement Against Google In Mokbel Shots Case · · Score: 1

    Truth isn't a complete defense for defamation. Where's the public interest?

  3. Re:VMs on Ask Slashdot: Little Boxes Around the Edge of the Data Center? · · Score: 1

    Virtual isn't a problem but Vmotion between hosts that don't have accurate hardware clocks sucks big time.

  4. Re:Desktop Android on Nexus 7 and Android Convertibles Drive Massive Asus Profit · · Score: 1

    Desktop Android? Why will it be better than any other desktop Linux distro?

  5. Re:I'm pessimistic! on Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm, Star Wars Episode 7 Due In 2015 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Iron Man v. Boba Fett is more likely.

  6. Re:Switch ? more technically on Yahoo Will Ignore IE 10's "Do Not Track" · · Score: 1

    That sounds like something to add on a proxy.

  7. Re:Diplomatic Amunity on Texas Attorney General Warns International Election Observers · · Score: 1

    Sure, just flip the DIP switch.

  8. Re:2*WTF on Spammers Using Shortened .gov URLs · · Score: 1

    Don't forget opening a new window. There are still sites that hate the back button.

  9. What else would you expect? on Spammers Using Shortened .gov URLs · · Score: 0

    It's obviously a Libyan plot.

  10. Re:Undercover? on Facebook Won't Take Down Undercover Cop Page In Australia · · Score: 1

    Given the drivers are usually in uniform, I wouldn't call them undercover.

  11. Re:Basic seamanship on US Navy Cruiser and Submarine Collide · · Score: 1

    Good thing Titanic didn't hit the iceberg head on.

  12. Re:turn it off? on Mozilla To Bug Firefox Users With Old Adobe Reader, Flash, Silverlight · · Score: 1

    We're running 10 at work, so this shouldn't bug us for a while.

  13. Re:I'll take getting a job Alex on Is a Computer Science Degree Worth Getting Anymore? · · Score: 1

    I took it as one-trick ponies that know a single tool(set) and can't move to a different set of tools. Those that only know what they were taught and can't adapt. His whole thought hung on 'only' and not the tools mentioned.

  14. At least they're not unfairly anti-Apple.

  15. Re:begone rational thought on Ask Slashdot: Personal Tape Drive NAS? · · Score: 1

    Inexpensive and those things are dirt cheap now. The drives, however, ...

  16. Re:USB and disk Speed on Ask Slashdot: Simple Way To Backup 24TB of Data Onto USB HDDs ? · · Score: 1

    Don't worry T'Pol, it's a human thing.

  17. Re:USB and disk Speed on Ask Slashdot: Simple Way To Backup 24TB of Data Onto USB HDDs ? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bacula went on to be Enterprise grade software.

  18. Re:USB and disk Speed on Ask Slashdot: Simple Way To Backup 24TB of Data Onto USB HDDs ? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Send error messages to a Blackberry and it's a RIM job.

  19. It's MAD on What If There Was a Microsoft Appreciation Day? · · Score: 1

    MAD, I say.

  20. The sock-puppet party on Washington State To Allow Voter Registration Over Facebook · · Score: 2

    They support Farmville aid and voting by like button.

  21. Re:SPAM WARE alert! on New 'Reloaded Edition' of Alien Arena Open Source FPS Released · · Score: 1

    Was that after installing 'Desura'? The only way I could find to download the thing was to install some other piece of crap. No, thanks.

  22. Re:Already Posted to Slashdot on China Pirates Austrian Village · · Score: 4, Funny

    China pirated the story.

  23. Re:Uh... on Ask Slashdot: How To Evacuate a Network · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Take lots of photos. Quick phone camera photos can help put things back right and are quicker than scribbling notes.

  24. Re:Patents? on Looking Back At Australia's First Digital Computer · · Score: 3

    Welcome back to the one day Trollfest where TechLeadNY has just been dismissed for a duck. Pretty piss, poor effort, really.

  25. Re:Not Everybody Worships Turing, Sorry on Honoring Alan Turing, "Father of Computer Science" · · Score: 1

    Von Neumann Bottleneck The GP was complaining about Turing providing a bad architecture.