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  1. Re:Sony's problem on Kutaragi Admits Sony Hardware In Decline · · Score: 1

    yeah
    i bought
    a pair of headphones from them not too long ago
    they're still working fine

    sony still makes the best headphones

  2. Re:where's the original Reuters link? on Kutaragi Admits Sony Hardware In Decline · · Score: 1

    Once people stop calling the BMG rootkit the "Sony rootkit" then it'll stop being unwarranted.

  3. Re:In other news ... on Shuttle Atlantis Finally In Orbit · · Score: 1

    That one's easy. The Pegasus Galaxy, of course. Don't you watch any Stargate?

  4. Re:Most bots are not resource hogs on Botnet Business Model Comes to Life · · Score: 1

    Nope. You're thinking that virus is a fourth declension noun. Even if it were, it's not self-pluralization. virus, virus, m(the second is the genitive) would become virus, viruum, m.

  5. Re:There's a perfectly good word for rocky worlds on Hot Jupiters May Indicate Hospitable Planets · · Score: 1

    The "-ial" is one of the many endings English adds to Latin words in order to make it sound Englishy or something. Much like how "-ical" and "-alic" are the endings to a lot of English words but "-icalis" and "-alicus" in Latin are much less common.

  6. Re:There's a perfectly good word for rocky worlds on Hot Jupiters May Indicate Hospitable Planets · · Score: 1

    Paedans, paedantis, IIRC.

  7. Re:My Thoughts: "Star Trek" Follow-ons Are Travest on The 40th Anniversary of Star Trek · · Score: 1

    What does this say about the poster: He's afraid of smart women.

  8. Re:There's a perfectly good word for rocky worlds on Hot Jupiters May Indicate Hospitable Planets · · Score: 1

    "Terrestrial" is the Latin for "earthlike".

  9. Re:so, is MS okay to bundle now? on Business 2.0 Says 'Boycott Vista' · · Score: 1

    No.

  10. Title inconsistent with summary on Hot Jupiters May Indicate Hospitable Planets · · Score: 3, Funny

    At first it says that a Hot Jupiter would make a habitable planet, but then it says that the Hot Earths it makes will be uninhabitable.

  11. Re:oh, the misstatements! on Space Shuttle Atlantis Delayed Again · · Score: 1
    The shuttle has *three* fuel cells, so it's not a major problem if one is acting a teensy bit unusual.
    No, you need three ZPMs to fully run Atlantis, but you only need one for day-to-day operation, and currently the Atlantis expedition has only found one.
  12. Actually, the Ancients on Space Shuttle Atlantis Delayed Again · · Score: 1

    You need three ZPMs to take off Atlantis!

  13. No way on The 40th Anniversary of Star Trek · · Score: 1

    Let's get drunk and harass the Browncoats!

  14. Re:One problem on Amazon Unbox Video Store Launches · · Score: 1

    Are you part of the botnet that jl.hb.com uses to harass twitter?

  15. Re:The GTK+ theme engine is lacking. on GNOME 2.16 Released · · Score: 1

    It has nothing to do with C. GTK+ can do class heirarchies quite easily because it uses glib which is basically OO for C.

  16. Re:Almost sounds like KDE 3... on GNOME 2.16 Released · · Score: 1

    Memory isn't really what matters once you have the memory to run either one of those two interfaces. KDE's interface is an order of magnitude more bloated than GNOME's. Right click on a file in Nautilus, and right click on a file in Konqueror. Compare the number of menu items. Admittedly it's been a while since I've used either but Nautilus had a menu half as long as Konqueror's. Long menues make it harder to find individual items.

  17. Mod Parent Up on Do-It-Yourself Robotics · · Score: 1

    for using the plural "Legos" of Lego.

  18. Re:PS3 sacrificed for Blu Ray on Sony Promises 1M PS3s This Year · · Score: 1

    For the last time, Blu-Ray is NOT PROPRIETARY!

  19. Re:Lefties are f*cked up by nature .. on Left Sided Windows Scrollbars? · · Score: 1

    The funny thing is, trying to make a left-handed person use eir right hand is a recipe for disaster.

  20. Re:The Lorax on Xerox Reveals Transient Documents · · Score: 1
    7625597484987 is the perfect number. Do you know why?
    I'm pretty sure it isn't because the only perfect numbers we know so far are even.
  21. Re:VIBRATORS, BUTT PLUGS, and DILDOS...Oh my!! on You Have Been 'Randomly' Selected? · · Score: 1

    It's amusing posts like this that make me remember why I friended you.

  22. Re:Star Trek vs Star Gate on mythology. on Star Trek PhD Thesis Wins Academic Prize · · Score: 1

    He probably took the title from the Uncyclopedia article, which does call it "Star Gate".

  23. Re:I run computers from the trash. on Windows Vista RC1 Impresses Critics · · Score: 1
    He'd probably blow a gasket at my XP box with its 11.5 month uptime record (only ended due to a lightning storm), or even at this Win98 box that right now has been up since [checking] July 20th.
    I hope neither of those are Internet-connected. I know XP has security problems that require reboots. (So does Linux, but you do a full reboot much less due to the higher modularity of the system. Not being a basher of any sort, merely stating facts.)
    I'd also say that an OS that tries to be friendly to the average man(like Windows, Mac, and some Linux flavors) should be easier to set up, make secure, etc. than the Linux and BSD flavors that don't cater to those users. And this is neither here nor there but I want real orthogonal persistence.
    Another random fact I noticed is that the pro-Linux extremists like twitter always seem to have a cluster of anti-twitter types following them(you're not one of them because you actually have a valid point, these types respond to just about every post he makes with the exact same crap) and yet the people like Overly Critical Guy(who, 95% of the time, formulates his opinions by the simple formula of inverting what people like twitter say) have nothing such. But again, neither here nor there.
  24. Re:I run computers from the trash. on Windows Vista RC1 Impresses Critics · · Score: 1

    I will call it whatever the hell I want to call it. People should take me seriously for my argument, especially in a place like Slashdot where argument should be more important than presentation.

  25. Re:Useful research on Dark Matter — "Alternative Gravity" Team Responds · · Score: 1

    If it weren't for DARPA you would still have to worry about 30 different TCP-type protocols.