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  1. Re:I don't know why the slashdot crowd is surprise on Microsoft Spinning Against OpenDocument Via Fox News · · Score: 1

    Have you ever actually watched FOX and seen the ads for the news, and then watched the news? They skew everything so that they can get more viewers. "Government official wastes millions of dollars in taxpayer money!" as though it was something terribly unusual and vitally important. "School cafeteria fails health inspection" as though its the end of your children's lives. Thats the sort of reason people are against FOX News. Also, you never need to have more than one question mark in a row, and there's three periods in an elipsis (you had it right the first time), but you didn't need one in either place. In addition, you break your sentences with question marks in odd places, and nonquestion punctuation goes inside quotation marks. Perhaps if you worded yourself more seriously and didn't scream "NEVER???" then more people might take you seriously.

  2. Re:Would hate to be a sonar operator on Sonic Torpedo Defense · · Score: 1

    Just thinking about that made me wince, but the thing is, wouldn't a sonar operator already have taken off the headphones because they were firing a torpedo? So only a sonar operator from a third party would really be affected, and they'd quite possibly realize that a torpedo had been fired, and avert losing their hearing.

  3. Re:What? on Jamming Cellphones with Text Messages · · Score: 1

    My text messages regularly take hours to get a response, while I can simultaneously make a call just fine. I think this it probably is different depending on the network: hence the discrepancy.

  4. Re:Acronym Expansion on Reuse Engineering for SOA · · Score: 1

    Thank you. I hate it when summaries use acronyms without expanding them. Especially, of course, when I don't know what they stand for!

  5. Re:hey on Third 'Space Tourist' Blasts Off Into Space · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Perhaps in some part of the world, but if you're talking about the collapse of the World Trade Center buildings in New York City, it most definitely was September 11 in this timezone. Way too much film was released that day. My younger brother saw the second one live.

  6. Re:Should work in free air on A Fanless Graphics Card from ASUS · · Score: 1

    Something made out of metal would be the better choice, because it would also serve as a Faraday cage, which is important if you use wireless devices like cellphones nearby, or use wireless networking. Computers put out a lot of RFI.

  7. Music on Games Can Make Us Cry · · Score: 1

    Nobody seems to have mentioned it, but I think the music in a game has a lot to do with the emotion. If I see a character die, so what, but if I see the same character die accompanied by strings, especially well played violin or piano, that'll make my skin crawl. A recent example I can think of is FFX (not 2), that game had really good music in my opinion.

    By the way, what's up with slashdot's formatting right now? Its strange!

  8. Re:Missing the point, really. on Building an Open Source "Clicker"? · · Score: 1

    (do you understand this or do we need to cover it again? y/n)

    I think you need to have some of those action buttons. I would have NO idea what I would be answering for this question... =P

  9. Re:NPR, Deadwood, Carlin on Cursing as Peephole Into Brain Architecture · · Score: 1

    How about "YEEOOWCH!"? I think it works pretty well too.

  10. Re:OSX Virus on Computer Security Still Totally Inadequate · · Score: 1

    Can we mod you -1, Hypocrite? You go and accuse him of making claims and being anonymous, and do exactly the same thing yourself. Personally I think your claim is less likely.

  11. Re:Space.com lacking an editor? on The Return of Saturn's Spokes · · Score: 2, Interesting
    The actual text is in a style I see very often in journalism, even when it is generally edited well. Personally, I think the best way to write it would be:

    Saturn's odd ring spokes were photographed during NASA's Voyager mission, which swung passed the planet in the 1980s, and were later observed by astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope.
  12. Honestly... on Extending Games With Lua · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think they need to take Bob's advice. Very irritating to read.

  13. Re:Never use a vacuum cleaner! on What's On Your Tech Bench? · · Score: 1

    There are vacuums made for this sort of application that create no static electricity. I believe a line is called "Data Mate" or something. Anyway, they exist.

  14. Re:Why is this news? on Canada's Do-Not-Hesitate-To-Call List · · Score: 1

    Have you ever read, for instance, The Jungle? Well guess what, government regulations are the only things that stopped slaughterhouse workers' fingers from winding up in your sausages. Other companies? Balderdash, they just did the same thing.

    Companies that rip people off have tended to fail only because of government. Railroads ripped people off, they were wildly successful until the government starting prohibiting trusts and pools. Standard Oil monopolized horizontally, you almost had to buy from Rockefeller. It wasn't a failure, even after regulations.

    Its not your anti-socialist position that gets you modded troll, its the fact that history is on the side opposite to you, and you barely back yourself up with evidence.

    PS. Last I checked, flouride was GOOD for your teeth. At least, that's what my dentist says, so I dont know, he might not know much about teeth.

  15. Re:Either stupid or obvious on The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security · · Score: 1

    1) In relation to 5, you obviously aren't going to give any users permission to do that. Its going to be the admin deciding whats good to run.

    2) The point is that there's a whitelist of stuff for the "virus scanner" to ignore, and everything else shouldn't be there.

    3) Its a lot more in depth than that.

    4) Care to explain why? Basics like buffer overflows are important, but learning the security vulnerabilities in Apache or Internet Explorer or whatever is what the author is criticizing.

    5) Yes, thats what he's saying. He's saying don't allow users to install random programs they found on the internet.

    6) Yeah, it may seem obvious, but most people don't follow it.

  16. Re:Article lacks accuracy? on Titan Occupies A Solar System Sweet Spot · · Score: 1

    I know, but that's got nothing to do with a "sweet spot," and everything to do with a "sweet size." Plus, he article attributed freezing, not atmospheric retention, to planetary size.

  17. Re:mod parent down on California Legislature Passes Violent Game Bill · · Score: 1

    Actually, they don't. The Constitution doesn't apply to minors.

  18. Article lacks accuracy? on Titan Occupies A Solar System Sweet Spot · · Score: 4, Informative

    In both of their "sweet spot" scenarios, they attribute boiling water to solar proximity, but then frozen water to planetary mass. In both cases, the whole thing can be explained just with solar proximity, as it usually has been. Planets farther away have colder temperatures. Yes, its true that a smaller planet will retain less heat, but the primary factor here is still solar proximity.

  19. Re:Religion vs. Science on UK Scientists to Create Embryo From Two Women · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So you think that we deserve to have had Gore in 2000? After all, that's who we (the populace of the USA) voted for.

  20. Re:Do the average person NEED that big a drive? on Half-Terabyte Hard Drive Reviewed · · Score: 1

    The average person doesn't need that big a drive. The average person also has one testicle and one ovary.

  21. Re:Ouch on Secretaries Sacked After Flamewar at Work · · Score: 1

    How come the names and specifics are different in that transcript than in the article in the summary? Level 19 vs. level 22, the names were different, Bird and Nugent vs Smith and Willis (honestly dont quite remember, I read it a minute ago and am not going to bother looking again just to check those names, but the point stands).

  22. Re:Pots and Kettles on Valve's Gabe Newell Speaks on Console Development · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'll bite. First off, 1-2, is that unusual to you? You're attacking one of the few realistic ways to easily convey plot: characters. As for 3, I dont know what orifice you pulled that from, because in my not-so-humble opinion, compare HL2 to ANY other FPS game, minus tacticals like SWAT 4, and its encounters are far better (DOOM3 for instance was way more predictable, and how many people complain about that?). Fourth, you don't like completing goals? I was under the impression that most people didn't play a singleplayer story mode for random killing, but since this AC knows so much more than me about how things work, I better concede.

    As for physics, yes, you can find all that in simple programs, but do they do anything else? No. In HL2 physics is just one of its realism features that you can, unlike in older games, use to your advantage.

    In summary, you're entitled to your opinion, but when you try to base it on something, base it on something, don't just reiterate the same sort of drivel.

  23. Re:The Anwser is the ACLU on Mom, and Now Judge, Stand Up to RIAA · · Score: 1

    I don't mean to feed the troll here (dont you try to get out of that, no doubt this is a troll post) but apparently you've never been married.

    Homosexuals sue to get married, which is an act under GOD and not man.

    This is quite false, because marriage is, in fact, an act that has to go through the government. Ever hear of a marriage liscence? I won't get into the details of why that is important, but even a troll should base his flamebait off of something. The fact is, that marriage is performed by both a religious official (if so wished) and a government official.

  24. Re:Yahoo News about Google on Google Forays into Print Advertising · · Score: 1

    Is this a new thing? In the past, Yahoo would post stories from tabloids and the like, or that their writers came up with. I only trust something on Yahoo if it does come from the AP or Reuters, otherwise I've got to read it somewhere else to believe it. Their past has tarnished their reputation, at lesat in my opinion, because they did just make it up, or posted what other people had invented.

  25. Re:Studies, Papers, Research on Scientist Says Most Scientific Papers Are Wrong · · Score: 1

    How about that 79.5% of statistics are made up on the spot?