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  1. Re:Pun... on Vista an Uneasy Sleeper · · Score: 1

    Are you sure that wasn't you, Oedipus?

  2. Re:Wait! What about good ol' YouTube? on Word of the Year - "Truthiness" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Actually SWF is as proprietary as PDF--that is to say, it only looks proprietary.

  3. Re:It's obvious on How to Protect a Home When Away in Winter? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, Tiberian Sun had them as a bonus unit in crates(and I think one of the Firestorm missions) and Red Alert 2 has a lot of Tiberian Sun voxels left over so it could be enabled in rules.ini. (Of course, if you've even seen rules.ini you know how much RA2 was based off of the TibSun codebase)

  4. Re:Fucking Philistines! on Word of the Year - "Truthiness" · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wow, how truthy. That's exactly what Colbert would say about Colbert if Colbert weren't Colbert.

  5. Re:'truth that comes from the gut, not books.' on Word of the Year - "Truthiness" · · Score: 3, Funny

    And you're a positionally challenged /.er because it's not dotslash and will never be dotslash.

  6. Re:Linux on Vista an Uneasy Sleeper · · Score: 4, Funny

    Linux: It doesn't suck.

  7. Re:Great... on RIAA Wants Artist Royalties Lowered · · Score: 1

    Open-source software is orders of magnitude better than closed-source.

  8. Re:What the fuck man, have you no compassion? on RIAA Wants Artist Royalties Lowered · · Score: 0

    Bodies don't decompose before your very eyes unless you have a Time Dilation Field. And if you have one of those you could probably sell it for much more than any record deal would get.

  9. Re:It's obvious on How to Protect a Home When Away in Winter? · · Score: 1

    Unless of course you're using Harriers to rape their base. (The third Allies mission is most easily done by building a bunch of Airforce Commands, pummelling that small base first due to its annoying nature, then going straight to the Beacon with 16-24 Harriers.)

  10. Re:It's obvious on How to Protect a Home When Away in Winter? · · Score: 1

    Actually, although every Command and Conquer game(even Generals which was only marginally C&C) has a really big double-barreled tank which is pretty much the trademark of the series, in RA2 it was called the Apocalypse.

  11. Re:It's obvious on How to Protect a Home When Away in Winter? · · Score: 1

    And the Allies had an Airforce Command, which was their radar and also held four Harriers. Although all four of those were in Red Alert 2 pre-YR, Yuri's Revenge was the high point of the series--that expansion had more content in it than most games.

  12. Re:Soviet Microsoft on Activating Vista Enterprise Using a Spoofed Server · · Score: 1

    The Penis Game is isomorphic to Nim.

  13. Re:Stroustrups on Bjarne Stroustrups and More Problems With Programming · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Programming, yes, but not in C++. Generally, Computer Scientists use languages like Smalltalk, Scheme and Haskell which aren't bundles of watered-down paradigms.

  14. Re:You're an example of the Slashdot paradox. on TV Networks Discussing YouTube Rival · · Score: 1

    American Idol tops the ratings charts. That is ultimate proof of human stupidity. Most Slashdotters complaining about the general decline of TV also complain about general human stupidity, which, being something proven, Occams itself in. (I complain about the latter but not the former--I watch the shows that I like and only mention those I don't as an example when I need it, and I know that Sturgeon's Law rules over mankind)

  15. Re:Whatever on TV Networks Discussing YouTube Rival · · Score: 2, Informative

    NBC has already put up all eleven episodes of Heroes in full.

  16. Re:learn PHP on Open Source CMS Solutions Based on Java? · · Score: 1

    But things written in PHP, Perl, and Java tend to only get the job done to a minimum standard.

  17. Re:This line explains a thing or two on Bjarne Stroustrups and More Problems With Programming · · Score: 0, Troll

    Remember that you're talking about a guy who thinks that if something is designed correctly then it becomes stillborn.

  18. Re:Stroustrups on Bjarne Stroustrups and More Problems With Programming · · Score: 0, Troll

    No, he has nothing to do with computer science. Programming, yes, but computer science doesn't use C++.

  19. Re:I Am Shocked on HR 5252 Bill Dies · · Score: 1

    The Democrats have Congress now. They tend not to be owned by the oil companies.

  20. Re:Suspension of disbelief on Servers, Hackers, and Code In the Movies · · Score: 1

    Toronto? I thought Vancouver was where everything was shot.

  21. Re:It's funny? Laugh? on Servers, Hackers, and Code In the Movies · · Score: 1
    Like when Neo is going akimbo with 22. caliber pistols and .223 caliber brass is hitting the ground?
    Obviously, the machines that made the Matrix weren't firearm aficionados.
  22. Re:DARE make a "true" hacker movie! on Servers, Hackers, and Code In the Movies · · Score: 1

    The Matrix Reloaded had a real exploit. But it was one that had already been patched in real life but was extant in 1999 which is the year the Matrix was emulating.

  23. Re:The Mac in Indepedence Day on Servers, Hackers, and Code In the Movies · · Score: 1

    The real question is, why would somebody want to program that stuff on a pre-OSX Mac?

  24. Re:So, using this mystery math... on The True Cost of One Laptop Per Child · · Score: 1

    It's quite simple, actually. He's not using Microsoft Windows.

  25. Re:I have three words for you on Servers, Hackers, and Code In the Movies · · Score: 1

    Sometimes it's fun to criticize Hollywood's scientific accuracy. "So they fly halfway across the galaxy in a highly advanced spaceship, but they don't use their technology to take over the planet. You know what their weakness turned out to be? Water! I mean, if that's true, why go to all the trouble to invade a planet that's two-thirds water. Not to mention the rain."-Samantha Carter