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  1. Re:My prediction on CCP and White Wolf Games To Merge · · Score: 1

    Oddly enough, White Wolf's main lines (WoD and, oddly enough, Warcraft) are doing quite well. Mage: The Awakening has apparently been performing much better than expected.

  2. Re:"What are you in for" on BitTorrent Site Admin Sent To Prison · · Score: 1

    It's common enough that there's some wonderful slang for it: "a deuce less". I'm spending about half of my days every week up to my arms in prison literature right now; it's surprisingly good.

  3. You can't be! on The Future of ReiserFS · · Score: 1

    Jack McCoy would never talk like that!

  4. Re:Take it from an American on The Daily Show as Substantive as Broadcast News · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The CBC? They're very good, but I've grown up with them.

  5. The thing I love about science... on High Temperature Bose-Einstein Condensation Observed · · Score: 2, Funny

    it's the only way to lose an English major in an English sentence.

  6. Re:The Slashdot moderation system proves.... on Could a Reputation System Improve Wikipedia? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Of course it was. It was perfectly formed for the best karma payoff with the least amount of effort. That's what posting to Slashdot is all about, right?

  7. Re:What is the point? on UnBox Calls Home, A Lot · · Score: 1

    Here's a hint: There's more replayability (and as such, more time entertained) with music than with movies.

  8. Re:Profiling is worse than random searches. on You Have Been 'Randomly' Selected? · · Score: 1

    You're right, because this never happened.

  9. Re:Baby Nuggets on Stem Cells Generated From Adult Cells · · Score: 1

    Dude, you need to start listening to something *other* than Cannibal Corpse.

  10. Re:And dont forget the new songs! on New Guitar Hero 2 Info · · Score: 1

    Michel Langevin has disclosed that Voivod has been approached for inclusion, and has agreed to let one of their songs be used.

  11. Re:Do you have _any_ evidence of that? on Google Brazil Pressured to Give Up Names · · Score: 1

    Neither does the US.

  12. Re:I can see both sides of this on Some Bands Still Refuse Music Downloads · · Score: 1

    This article summarizes the single-track albums in metal.

  13. Re:Yogurt one hour after every antibiotic dose on Viruses the New Condiment · · Score: 1

    I don't know what YOU'RE taking, but MY antibiotics have a giant warning label saying "DO NOT DRINK/EAT DAIRY PRODUCTS FOR TWO HOURS BEFORE/AFTER DOSE". That might be why it's an hour --- because the pharmacists and doctors that actually know something say that's right to avoid problems with the antibiotics, as opposed to random Slashbot.

  14. Re:Newbie gamer question: 1-on-1 game options? on Gen Con 2006 in a Nutshell · · Score: 1

    Stay far, far away from 3e D&D itself --- the challenge balancing system is anathema to solo play unless you really, really know what you're doing.

  15. Re:Soln: Profile passengers, or go on pretending. on Is Your Laptop At Risk While Traveling? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because everyone knows the IRA are just really big fuzzy bunnies.

  16. Re:SomethingAwful's experiments on Study Claims Men Play Female Avatars to 'Win' · · Score: 1

    If nothing else, all the uninformed associations to trans issues that come up every time this topic comes around show that transfolk get mired in this sort of idiocy, too.

  17. Re:They are missing the human touch ... on Law of Unintended Consequences Strikes Grocers · · Score: 1

    John Updike fucking loves you.

  18. Re:If god doesn't want you to to have kids... on Mice Produced Using Artificial Sperm · · Score: 1

    "With his one ball, and my lazy ovary...it's like the Special Olympics of Procreation."

    ---Miranda Hobbes, Season 4 of Sex and the City.

  19. Re:Deceptive advertising on School Software Licenses Under Review · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My school board did that: http://slashdot.org/articles/04/06/08/0328257.shtm l?tid=102&tid=146&tid=185&tid=187&tid=99

    They licensed it in 2004, and it made it into the 2005 updates to school IT infrastructure.

    You know how many times I've seen it used?

    Once.

    You know why?

    Because as a TA for a Writer's Craft class, the final assignment I created necessitated using the PDF export features that StarOffice had and MS Word did not.

    I spent at least six hours that semester helping students fix formatting problems that had occured in the transition using nothing more complex than page breaks.

    Mind share does not correlate to market share; in this case, despite the installed alternative, the students stuck to what they knew best, which is Microsoft Office.

  20. 5 or 6 projects... on Microsoft Ponders Windows Successor · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does anyone else see a future code merge revealing that the protoypes work off horribly incompatible file systems?

  21. I've never even heard of Chamillionaire. on U.S. Joins Hollywood in War on Piracy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How can I be downloading his album if I've never even heard of him?

  22. A suggestion for the Slashdot editors... on Verified: Record-breaking Pitfall! Run · · Score: 1

    Quotation marks go a long way in readability.

  23. Dammit! on One Small Breath For Man · · Score: 4, Funny

    The article title made me think /. had finally opened its' much-awaited Corsetry section...

  24. Re:Patch available on MS Word Zero-Day Exploit Found · · Score: 1

    Then why not use Notepad, or nano, or vi/emacs or SciTE? You don't need Word for that, either.

  25. Re:Patch available on MS Word Zero-Day Exploit Found · · Score: 1

    And this is why we should all switch to using LaTeX.