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  1. indeed on Opera CTO Hits Back at Microsoft's Standards Push · · Score: 1

    ...and sig'd in tribute.

    Even more classic perhaps, 'The "layer" element?!' Sure raised my eyebrow; a huge change from "Netscape engineers are weenies!" by any metric. :)

  2. long-time Slashdot quirk...editor's fault? on Meetings Make You Dumber · · Score: 2, Funny
    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/04/23/151322 4

    Title: "Learn The Language Of Math"

    Text: "...from first principles. Metamath does not claim to teach you mathematics, just as..."

    From Metamath (around that time): "The choice of title for this story, "Learn The Language Of Math," was unfortunate and was the Slashdot editor's, not mine."

    Some things never change...*tags story "confictingtitleandsummary"*.

  3. Re:He should've got the death penalty. on DoD Warez Leader Faces 10 Years in Jail · · Score: 1

    Getting rid of this guy will only server to further melt the ice caps
    Everytime you run a server on an ice cap, Al Gore kills a White House puppy.

    Please, networkBoy, think of Barney!
  4. haven't you heard? on MS Dirty Tricks Archive Trickles Back Online · · Score: 1

    Vista Ultimate comes with everything.

    Hell, if I buy fifty of those limited-edition Bill Gates-signed numbered copies, I'd probably get a nymphomaniac Alessandra Ambrosio clone and a pony for free, rush-delivered.

    (hey, at the total price, it might even be possible...)

  5. Re:"approached by two red-haired teenagers" on YouTube Users Attend First Official Get-Together · · Score: 2, Informative

    These might be the groupies (sadly).

  6. not that extreme, really on Godwin's Law Invoked in Linus/Gnome Spat · · Score: 5, Funny

    They just try to replace Save As... with SEIG FILE! whenever they see it in source strings.

  7. sigh on Consumer Vista Upgrades Moving at Snail's Pace · · Score: 5, Informative
  8. the Rare? on Rare Co-Founders Leave Company · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    In addition to Pinata, the Rare released Kameo and Perfect Dark Zero at the Xbox 360's launch and shipped Conker: Live & Reloaded and Grabbed By the Ghoulies on the original Xbox.

    I wonder if they've partnered with the Google.

  9. going by the movies on DieHard, the Software · · Score: 1

    It would probably mean that you died hard with a vengeance.

  10. So it wasn't a conspiracy after all. on Microsoft Adds Risky System-Wide Undelete to Vista · · Score: 4, Funny
    Actually, I'd be more worried about what can be discovered in a lawsuit - the raw ruminations of some employee could be very damaging - whether or not they were correct. This makes it harder to destroy working papers.

    In other news, Kenneth Lay's heart attack confirmed by new autopsy, found to be caused by shock from leaked secret Microsoft "undelete-feature" memo.

  11. Damn... on August 2nd Release For Street Fighter II · · Score: 1

    ...those Kirstie Alley Jenny commercials finally made E. Honda take action.

  12. This ain't new. on Firefox 2.0 'Beta Candidate 1' Released · · Score: 1
  13. Re:There's a special law just for this symbol on Red Cross Condemns Misuse of Emblem In Games · · Score: 2, Informative

    Nintendo had some great foresight then. Or good lawyers. (See the Rule 7 section.)

  14. Oops. on No Time Travel, Sorry · · Score: 1

    blockquote from that wiki thingy.

  15. I love this part. on No Time Travel, Sorry · · Score: 1
    In 1949, Gödel announced to the world that Einstein's general theory of relativity allows time travel to the past via "closed time-like curves." The only thing Gödel proved, in my opinion, was the incompleteness of his frontal lobe.

    Quoted for awesomeness. There's something I can't stand about Gödel--it seems like he's almost mocking Einstein's theory with that. Or maybe it's his incompleteness theorem.
    Gödel's theorem has another interpretation in the language of computer science. In first-order logic, theorems are recursively enumerable: you can write a computer program that will eventually generate any valid proof. You can ask if they have the stronger property of being recursive: can you write a computer program to definitively determine if a statement is true or false? Gödel's theorem says that in general you cannot.
    Things like that make grown men cry. So much for Metamath I guess...
  16. As an added bonus... on Ultra-Stable Software Design in C++? · · Score: 1

    ...if null_functor learns D well (and|but) decides to quit (his|her) job, (s)he can make a kick-ass game with it.

  17. Next on slashdot... on Creative use for empty whiskey bottles · · Score: 2, Funny
    "How to fit a mainframe (pimped with blue lasers on the bottom!) into one of Snoop's 40s." ;)

    (Fo'shizzle, Seymour Crazizzle.)

  18. meh on Imagining the Google Future · · Score: 1

    "Micro$oft, Google & Taco Bell."

    I forgive your inadvertent misspelling of McDonald's and your ignorance (and mine) of Firefox. Still, correct.

  19. typo on SCEA Acquires SOCOM Developer · · Score: 1

    GameDailyBiz reports that SCEA has acquired Zipper Interactive, the makers of the highly-acclaimed SOCOM series of games.

    You misspelled highly-buggy (highly-intrusive is acceptable too--the very notion of them asking for a credit card number for any reason other than selling things is suspect; I guess this is why Sony bought Zipper in the first place, to strengthen its DRM power). No console game should ever have glowing graphical artifacts (I though those died with the NES and cartridge-blowing?).

    SOCOM 3 killed my love (and my brother's love) of SOCOM games. The first was acceptable. The second corrected some things but made hit-detection far buggier. The third was just atrocious. Think of going from Windows XP SP2 to a Windows Me beta, or from Opera 8.5 to IE4. Zipper should've hired guys from the Windows team; they'd have done a much better job. Instead, they blew it--and not in the game-fixing NES sense either.

    Ugh. Just...ugh. *vomits from Zipper's incompetence*

  20. Re:If the gamers still play... on Advergaming to Hit $4 Billion in 2008 · · Score: 1

    Personally...I'm not throwing my support behind any game that puts in ingame ads. I'll stick with console games if I have to.

    Players who've seen the Motorola and developer ads and logos in True Crime: New York City for the PS2 reply to you accordingly.

    Ok, ok, so it's a "computer entertainment system"...*cough*'nother*cough*'onsole*cough*

  21. Re:Wait for the hack... on A Look at Google DRM · · Score: 1

    They already "respond to notices of alleged infringement that comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act". They won't have a problem searching for evidence (with Google, no less) to back up their own claims of violation.

    I'll just pay for whatever is worth such restraint (only if it's something really super-awesome, like unedited footage of the End Of The World) and ignore the rest of their secured content. Ultimately, you all might find their videos unsecured anyway, as they show up (for small periods, before they find them) on Google Search. ;)

  22. Re:Wow, cool. on Scanjet Music · · Score: 1

    Do try to be precise for chrissake, the hope and future of the nation log on to this site.

    You misspelled those we have lost all hope for. ;)

  23. Yep. on More to the North Star Than Meets the Eye · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's retina-burning, hydrogen-fusing, yellow-white-hot star-on-star-on-star action! ;)

  24. Re:Wow, cool. on Scanjet Music · · Score: 1

    Maybe your dog won't make it to Slashdot. If you can get that Windows XP search dog to do that, however, I'd consider you God.

  25. Yep. on Scanjet Music · · Score: 1

    Doesn't this mean that the printers will have to come with a means to detect if they are going to be used to play or copy DRM'd music?

    Yep. It'll come with SSSSPMT (Super Silly Secure Scanner-Played Media Technology)