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  1. Re:An intriguing challenge for mathematicians. on Robots With Square Wheels? · · Score: 1

    That would also seem to be the only possible way in which to get that "challenge" to work. If, as is claimed, all posible roads have to be squashed inverted caternaries, then there would have to be concavity in the road as well as convexity (/-\_/-\ etc). But no regular polygon exhibits these qualities. I'm thinking the article writers are idiots.

  2. Re:With a Group Like That on Film Documents Software Creation · · Score: 1

    Sadly, no.

  3. Re:Put them to use: "Baby's First Debugger -- GDB" on Geeky Gifts for New Dads, The Goodfather · · Score: 1
    I've been around slashdot long enough to hear all the cliche's, but I think that most slashdot readers definately do more than eat, cry, and poop.

    Yeah! They cry ONLINE!

  4. Re:Slashcode? on Blog Software Smackdown · · Score: 5, Funny
    Are there any meaningful sites out there that run slashcode?

    I can think of one...

  5. Lemme guess. on Free OpenOffice.org Training Videos · · Score: -1, Troll

    Minutes 0-20 of video: OpenOffice loads. Minute 21: OpenOffice crashes.

  6. Re:Factor? on RSA-640 Factored · · Score: 2, Funny

    You ARE using a one-time pad. It's just that the method of getting the pad to the other person is quantum in nature, making it completely secure. And as we all know, one-time pads are unbreakable if they are random and the key is not intercepted and the government doesn't use TEMPEST to read our screens and our computers don't have keyloggers and nobody has a secret camera hidden in the building and we mask our keystrokes so that computer that MIT made can't tell what we're typing just from the sounds and we wipe our hard drives afterwards and then set them on fire and melt them and put them into the fusion reactor that is being built and ...

  7. Oh, there's a 2.7 kernel! on SCO Demands Linux 2.7 Information · · Score: 5, Funny

    IBM just hasn't released it yet. Bastards.

  8. Re:Yep on Grokster Shutting Down? · · Score: 1

    Sadly enough, I really do. Seriously. Oh, and that public domain sci-fi movie that came out a while ago.

  9. Re:Novell SUE Linux 10.0 on New Zealand Government Open Source with Novell · · Score: 1

    No, actually it's the private distro that SCO uses internally.

  10. Re:Back to the moon to do what? on NASA Scraps Shuttle And Returns to Rockets · · Score: 1

    The fact that it's been thirty years since the last one, not one or two? I know I want to see a moon landing in color, anyway.

  11. Re:And TiVo will be buried by... on TiVo Buries the VCR · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Unless the content can be enlarged to tv-size (and there are very large televisions out there ;) But let's say your average sized one) with no degredation (well, no quality-loss that a human can perceive anyway), I can't see the Itunes Video Store taking off.

    At some point, the content will be TV-sized with no loss of quality. Bandwidth and storage sizes are increasing at an exponential rate (see this and this). In five or ten years, I'd be surprised if cheap, extremely high-resolution TV shows and movies weren't avaliable for download, possibly even through the TV itself. Apple iTV, coming soon to a shop near you!

  12. Hmmm... on IBM Vows Not to Genetically Discriminate · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm only stupid because of genetic makeup! IBM, hire me or I'll sue you for genetic discrimination!

  13. One problem. on Jamming Cellphones with Text Messages · · Score: 4, Interesting

    165 messages a second would cost you about ten thousand dollars a minute, at the prices the cell companies charge.

  14. Re:Maybe they are just using it as a buzzword on BBC Releases P2P TV Client Test · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Maybe I should read more than one article next time.

  15. Re:DRM-encumbered on BBC Releases P2P TV Client Test · · Score: 2, Informative

    From the article:

    iMP uses peer to peer distribution technology (P2P) to legally distribute these programmes.

    Somebody is wrong, and I doubt it's the BBC in regards to their own technology.

  16. Re:So? on Peter Jackson to Executive Produce Halo Movie · · Score: 1

    But nobody should care.

    Oh right, people are idiots.

    I get it now.

  17. So? on Peter Jackson to Executive Produce Halo Movie · · Score: 5, Informative

    From Wikipedia:
    An executive producer of a motion picture is typically a producer who is not necessarily involved in any creative or technical aspects of production. They generally handle business issues, and may be a financier of a movie. Some executive producers act as representatives of the studio or production company that is releasing or producing a film, occasionally being credited as Executive in charge of production.

    So, um, why does it matter that he's doing this?

  18. Re:Connection? on FBI Agents Put New Focus on Deviant Porn · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, you will remember that the terrorists learned all of their flying and hijacking and so on techniques from bestiality porn sites. Now that they'll be closed down, everyone is safer. And remember - we're defending liberty!

  19. Re:Oh no, not miscigination on FBI Agents Put New Focus on Deviant Porn · · Score: 0

    Well, some of them can lead to the abuse of the participants - if you were a horse, YOU wouldn't want to be in bestiality porn, would you? And other than that, at least from a utilitarian viewpoint ... um, people who look at porn aren't contributing to society? Or something?

  20. Re:Microsoft should fear FOSS, not google.. on Why Vista Had To Be Rebuilt From Scratch · · Score: 1

    Did you just imply that Luna is a good thing? Those of us with less than ten gigs of RAM beg to differ.

  21. Well... on Preference Engines Side-Effects in Online Retail · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In my opinion, at least at present, this is not the case - the opposite is true. Whereas normally upon hearing about, say, the newest Harry Potter book from a friend, you would only check out that one book and maybe the rest of the series, you can now find a huge range of similar novels (most of which suck). Your tastes are widened (as you don't lose interest in old tastes) and significantly deepened (duh).

  22. Yeah, sure. on TeraGrid Gets an Upgrade · · Score: 1

    The NSA certainly doesn't have computers anywhere near this. No siree.

  23. Re:Bullshit! on Cursing as Peephole Into Brain Architecture · · Score: 1

    You're just mad you didn't post it first.

  24. Re:Bullshit! on Cursing as Peephole Into Brain Architecture · · Score: 1

    Addendum: Fuck

  25. Bullshit! on Cursing as Peephole Into Brain Architecture · · Score: 5, Funny

    There is no fucking way that this bullshit is anything but bullshit! Motherfucking fuckfuckers! Fuckshitfuck! Fuck!