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  1. Re:FP on Google Lively Review · · Score: 1

    You forget, this is /. you're talking about.

  2. Re:Can this be a good idea? on Robots Aim To Top Humans At Air Hockey · · Score: 1

    Mutant cyborgs. From outer space.

  3. Re:I for one welcome... on Robots Aim To Top Humans At Air Hockey · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That's what's commonly called a "singularity". A point that changes things so much that it's impossible to predict its effects with any certainty. Depending on how we handle things, it could be a violent occasion worthy of a large-budget action sci fi movie, a quiet fade and disappearance of humanity, or a metamorphosis of humanity into a new form. Or it might not ever happen. *shrug*

  4. Re:Compare to LCDs on Samsung Mass Produces 128GB SSD · · Score: 1

    Write limits are rather high now...100k or so per memory block. The drives also tend to have write-balancing algorithms, which spread the writing more evenly over the storage device, so a cell is written to less frequently. Essentially to the point that a hard disk drive is likely to fail before the solid state drive.

  5. Re:BLASPHEMY! on Linux For Housewives. XP For Geeks. · · Score: 1

    Sounds more like a software problem than an OS problem. You can like an OS without it being practical to use.

  6. Re:Local admin rights on Windows on TrueCrypt 6.0 Released · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The whole point of encryption is to make the algorithms as well-known as possible. After all, *anyone* can create encryption strong enough that they don't know how to break it. What you want is to have the smartest possible people looking at your code, to make sure someone above you hasn't found something sneaky that you didn't think of.

  7. Re:That might betray the presence of a hidden volu on TrueCrypt 6.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I learned Linux on Slack. I used Gentoo for about a year. My current job has me working with half a dozen UNIXes. After all that...I run Ubuntu at home. It's pretty, it's hassle-free, and it's Linux. All-around awesome.

  8. Re:Suggestions... on Learn a Foreign Language As an Engineer? · · Score: 1

    If my *what* into blondes?

  9. Re:As an English teacher... on How Technology Changes Classrooms · · Score: 1

    The actual stories/poems/etc don't matter. It's more to teach you an appreciation for literary devices, study the structure of the writing, etc.

  10. Re:As an English teacher... on How Technology Changes Classrooms · · Score: 1

    I remember in my early years of grade school that we were taught sentence diagramming. This included lessons on which conjunctions could be used in which positions, what constitutes a noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, etc. I always had fun seeing what the shape of each sentence was. I can't help but think that being taught in that way helped positively shape my grammar.

  11. Re:Nooo! on Dial-Up Users "Don't Want Broadband" · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes, I always hate it when I can't quickly load car manufacturers' websites!

  12. Re:I want what most users want. on What Do You Want On Future Browsers? · · Score: 1

    That is more of a theoretical peak rate. OS overhead, seek times, file fragmentation, etc all contribute to a lower transfer speed overall.

  13. Re:stability? on What Do You Want On Future Browsers? · · Score: 1

    1. Deletes your bookmarks and history? I've never had that problem with it, and I'm guessing not too many others have, either. It sounds like something's wrong with your configuration, somehow.
    2. I'm sure there's a way to turn off that autocomplete. I tend to use the arrow keys to select one of the options from that box, instead of reaching for the mouse.
    3. I just tested that. Type a partial address, or click the down arrow, and clicking on the address takes you there. No enter key necessary.
    4. Oh, really? Processing more things takes more time? Never would've guessed. It would be kind of cool to be able to save the list of previous downloads to an archive or something, though.
    5. "Just pray"? I've never had a problem with this. I don't know anyone who's ever had a problem with this.

    It sounds to me like if you fix the problems with your machine, you'll have a better browsing experience. Of course, my apologies if there's something I've overlooked...

    Oh...and calling it "LiarSucks"? About as mature as saying "Micro$uck$", and a good deal more confusing.

  14. Re:because I want pain on The Interactive Linux Kernel Map · · Score: 2, Insightful

    OSX would be doable, since Darwin (its kernel) is open-source (at least some versions). Windows would be nearly impossible to "poke around in" and come up with a map like this. You need source-code level access for this kind of detail.

  15. Re:Sweet on Supreme Court Holds Right to Bear Arms Applies to Individuals · · Score: 1

    ....A banana?

  16. Re:Easy to Increase the budget or add servers on Huge Traffic On Wikipedia's Non-Profit Budget · · Score: 1

    I'm fine with truthiness, myself.

  17. Re:I just did some work on my thinkpad on Revitalizing an Aging Notebook On the Cheap · · Score: 1

    On your cluster? You're expecting some sort of Linux raytracing version of DNF? Hmmmm....I guess we could *hope* for something like that, after all this time ;-)

  18. Re:Those "horseless carriages" people mentioning.. on Revitalizing an Aging Notebook On the Cheap · · Score: 1

    No, didn't you hear? The fastest horse drags along the slower ones! Duh!

  19. Re:one funny side-effect on Internet Pirates In France To Lose Broadband · · Score: 1

    At least you didn't say "there internet". We grammar nazis thank you!

  20. Re:Not a thief on Confessions of a Wi-Fi Thief · · Score: 1

    Don't give me that screwdriver business. It's like a leaky car, and you know it!

  21. Re:Not a thief on Confessions of a Wi-Fi Thief · · Score: 1

    Yes, especially in countries outside of the US. And where they aren't pure per-GB plans, then they have a relatively low cap, such that when you exceed that amount you are charged either higher fees or the speed of the connection is cut significantly.

  22. Re:Too busy playing to care on Wii Update 3.3 Defeats Twilight Hack, Freeloader · · Score: 1

    The point is that we can play games on the console which are often as good or better than the new games being released. It's much more convenient for me to load ROMs on an SD card and play on the Wii than to load the same onto my computer to play.

    The use of the game console shouldn't be limited by what the manufacturer wants, it should be limited by what *the user* wants to do with it. Anything less is an artificial handicap on what the machine is capable of.

  23. Re:I don't see what the big deal is on Register, Others Call Plagiarism in "Limbo of the Lost" Game · · Score: 1

    *whoosh*

  24. Re:People actually buy games still? on Mass Effect DRM Still Causing Issues · · Score: 1

    Then those hundreds of people better get their crap together and not release software that's so much trouble to use that the illegal route starts looking attractive for someone that actually *wants* to pay for the software.

  25. Re:Irony on Anatomy of a Runaway Project · · Score: 2, Funny

    *Always* put salt in your internet!