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  1. Re:let's see on Scrabulous Is Dead, Hasbro's Version Brain-Dead · · Score: 3, Funny

    And why would that in any way affect their choice of dictionaries? Are some dictionaries illegal in the US?

  2. Re:let's see on Scrabulous Is Dead, Hasbro's Version Brain-Dead · · Score: 1

    Facebook is a US site

    What is that even supposed to mean?

  3. Re:Slightly off-topic on Microsoft Bets Big On Computing For the Car · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Whats the state of navigation for linux in car systems?

    Well, as soon as Microsoft gets their project finished far enough that it can be copied, I'm sure we'll get several incompatible Linux implementations that all implement different subsets of the functionality.

  4. Re:I don't buy that on Have Modern Gamers Lost the Patience For Puzzles? · · Score: 1

    Except, like I said, Lucasfilm games were specifically known for not doing things that way.

  5. Re:LaTeX does what I need it to do on Modern LaTeX Replacement? · · Score: 1

    but truly I am getting tired of its complexity

  6. Re:I don't buy that on Have Modern Gamers Lost the Patience For Puzzles? · · Score: 1

    I remember games like "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" and "Full Throttle" where if you didn't catch something 2 levels back you couldn't proceed.

    You obviously don't remember them very well, as neither had anything like "levels", and while Indy 3 may have had a few parts like that, pretty much all later Lucasfilm games never had any parts where you couldn't backtrack far enough to solve the puzzles.

  7. Re:They make pills for that... on Ubuntu Is Hyper-Active At OSCON · · Score: 1

    Oh, my mistake, I thought you were actually trying to have an honest conversation, not just spew garbage. Won't happen again.

  8. Re:They make pills for that... on Ubuntu Is Hyper-Active At OSCON · · Score: 1

    Oh, so software availability is now a measure of OS worth?

    I guess Windows wins again!

  9. Re:They make pills for that... on Ubuntu Is Hyper-Active At OSCON · · Score: 1

    I get paid to do embedded programming on stuff like atmega8 controllers. I use Linux at work, and a Mac at home, and I'd never even think of changing the home computer.

    And I develop software for the Mac in my spare time. You know, the Mac has a pretty damn active third party developer community for an OS with that kind of market share.

    So kindly take your "I'm a PROGRAMMER so I am BETTER than you because my OS is DIFFUCULT" attitude and shove it.

  10. Re:eh? on UK Mobile Operator O2 Leaks MMS Photos · · Score: 1

    Google can't index them if it can't see links to them. So there are probably just the tiny subset of images that ended up linked from publicly-accessible web pages that Google crawled.

    Quite a storm in a teacup.

  11. Re:Put a picture of Zeus on them. on Warning Future Generations About Nuclear Waste · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that if anything shows how ridiculous this kind of thing is. It's just a bit of radioactivity, it's some ancient demon that must be kept sealed.

  12. Re:The idealistic young become the cynical old. on Linux's Security Through Obscurity · · Score: 1

    But that also means that there is never a time when you can "let people know", except when it's not an issue any more, at which point there is no _point_ in letting people know any more.

    Because people always use the newest version of something at all times?

  13. Re:Prince of Ico? on First Real Gameplay Video of New Prince of Persia Game · · Score: 1

    The new batch of Prince of Persia games have been pretty derivative of Ico since the first one.

    Which is sort of funny considering how derivative Ico was of the original Prince of Persia.

  14. Lowered bars on First North American OpenMoko/FreeRunners Arrive · · Score: 5, Funny

    Although, in my own personal completely unscientific test, 2 out 3 AT&T SIM cards worked.

    Sounds like Open Source to me!

  15. Re:Thanks. on Shuttleworth Sees Possibility For a QT-based GNOME · · Score: 1

    You gotta admire the audacity of how after dedazo called him out beforehand on replying with a name troll account, he went right ahead and did it anyway. That shows some dedication to being a complete nutjob!

  16. Re:The back-biting is shameful on Paul Vixie Responds To DNS Hole Skeptics · · Score: 1

    Haven't enough people been hurt by blindly trusting "experts"?

    Do tell us what you think the ration of people saved to people hurt by blindly trusting experts is.

  17. Re:ATTENTION MODERATORS: MOD PARENT DOWN on Paul Vixie Responds To DNS Hole Skeptics · · Score: 3, Funny

    User ID 1352 trollin' it old skool!

  18. Re:I have always been a Sony fanboy... on Final Fantasy XIII Is Coming To Xbox 360 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You have a problem with Microsoft, but not with Sony?

  19. Re:Not Surprising on Joss Whedon's "Doctor Horrible" Set To Launch · · Score: 1

    real geeks

    These words usually translate into "I".

  20. Re:The back-biting is shameful on Paul Vixie Responds To DNS Hole Skeptics · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So, you figure eighty vendors coordinated a simultaneous patch for some issue that is not really a big deal, probably just some guys vying for attention?

  21. Oh please on Tesla Motors Is Delivering Cars · · Score: 1

    Was it really necessary to include a link to some webcomic with less art than xkcd and less funny than User Friendly?

    I mean, really?

  22. Re:Good work on Most CF Cards Fail DMA Transfers · · Score: 1

    I hope you do understand that posts on slashdot can actually be replies to other posts, not just to the article itself.

  23. Re:You need to increase them by three times that on Researchers Improve Solar Cell Performance · · Score: 1

    And where exactly are you getting the figures for the amount of energy needed to build them?

  24. Re:That would make sense on Changes In Rocks Noted Before Earthquakes · · Score: 2, Funny

    The largest recorded quake in the middle of a tectonic plate occurred right in the middle of a tectonic plate? That's remarkable!

  25. Re:Here's a Summary! on Linux Alternatives To Apple's Aperture · · Score: 1

    No, it does not. A few camera makes have changed raw formats a few times.

    You're confusing the inability of software to read raw files from new cameras with a change in the format. Software can't read the new files because each camera needs its own bayer grid and filter coefficient parameters, and these can vary arbitrarily between camera models.

    It would certainly be better if cameras would write these parameters to the files they produce, but by and large they don't. That's a shortcoming of the format, certainly, but it does not mean the format is changing in any way.