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  1. Re:My experience with the TSA and Patriot Act on What Examples of Security Theater Have You Encountered? · · Score: 1

    Whoa, hang on. It's not like he asked the teenager running the starbucks if he could just blow through the door, he asked someone airport security what his options were. She made something up and he paid for it.

    Put it this way, what would you do if you asked a state cop what to do in some situation, then out of nowhere the FBI take you in for the actions suggested by the cop? All the meanwhile, no one acknowledges the cop that told you it was okay to do said action.

  2. Our's is: on Getting Rid of Staff With High Access? · · Score: 1

    People leaving on good terms maintain access through the last day.

    Now people we want to get rid of immediately are either fired or promoted, depending on how many systems they could potentially break back into... Yes, our department follows a variation of the Dilbert Principle.

  3. Re:Identity? on LifeLock Spokesperson's Stolen ID Inspires Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    So that was the master plan:

    1. Make fraudulent company
    2. Take money from customers
    3. Ensure own identity is stolen many times over.
    4. Make an escape with the cash when no one can find the legitimate you.

    No ???? needed for this one.

  4. Re:nerd credentials? on The Secret History of Star Wars · · Score: 5, Funny

    Really? Because I felt like a loser for signing up. :)

  5. Re:Man.. on Nanotubes "As Deadly as Asbestos" · · Score: 2, Funny

    They're your one-stop shop for all your cancerous needs!

  6. Re:uh, where does CmdrTaco live on Nanotubes "As Deadly as Asbestos" · · Score: 1

    Of course he does, he's too leet not to.

    Alright, time to see what I rolled: expecting funny, may get troll, I'll LMAO if I get informative. :D

  7. Re:In other news on Oil Billionaire Building World's Largest Wind Farm · · Score: 1

    Just some of the FACTS Big Wind doesn't want you to know about! :D

  8. Re:Whats the difference? on UK Teen Cited For Calling Scientology a "Cult" · · Score: 1

    In a way; it was marketed to the slave class which were generally uneducated people. The biggest draw was that it claimed anyone with any amount of wealth was to be punished in the afterlife. (The concept of hell wasn't created until much later, just that they would be punished in some way.)

    But by the time it made it's way into the Roman Senate and translated into latin, the translation of the requirement to be poor was liberally interpreted as a requirement to be poor in spirit.

  9. Re:Once again on UK Teen Cited For Calling Scientology a "Cult" · · Score: 1

    A random passer-by told Dick Cheney to go fuck himself on CNN. If you can get away with that, then you can pretty much say whatever you want about Bush.

  10. Re:Natural progression on Microsoft Reaches Out To Blender · · Score: 1

    Actually, ???? in itself is pretty spot on for once.

    By creating all of these faux-open standards, they hope some projects will mistakingly try to use them. Some won't, creating a divide in which programs support which formats. Through this confusion, Microsoft will look like the only guys with a stable plan.

  11. Re:Message to people who gripe about interfaces on Microsoft Reaches Out To Blender · · Score: 1

    Nope, the third dimension is under the BSD License. I'm sure there's some deeper meaning to that phrase, but luckily I couldn't care less.

  12. Re:Just a tad over the top? No ECC = NO buy on DDR3 RAM Explained · · Score: 1

    Yet somehow millions of non-ECC machines give the impression that they're working on a daily basis.

  13. Re:Lots of code? on VIA Releases 16K-Line FOSS Framebuffer Driver · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey, this is Slashdot; if they're a hardware manufacturer, they're doing something wrong.

    Now grab your pitchfork and stop trying to be rational!

  14. Re:No I would not on Metallica May Follow In Footsteps of Radiohead, NIN · · Score: 1

    So to paraphrase: Metallica is 20 years of suck... hmm, yeah that seems about right. :)

  15. Re:The way things are going on Humans Nearly Went Extinct 70,000 Years Ago · · Score: 1

    The problem with scientists is, they are not geologists. In related news, rectangles are not squares, musicians are not drummers, and birds are not hawks.

    Was the term 'scientist' a generic substitute for the term 'meteorologist' because saying that made the statement entirely counter-intuitive?
  16. Re:This is my fault... on The End of Non-Widescreen Laptops? · · Score: 1

    Well, that sheep looked pretty damn confused.

  17. Re:I couldn't find anything specific - will nVidia on Nvidia Physics Engine Almost Complete · · Score: 1

    Aside from all the physics software others mentioned that would benefit greatly from that, the statement about zero Linux games ever using it is quite a bold one. Please point out where in the license agreement you must work for a video game company that isn't id nor Epic in order to use CUDA.

  18. Re:Market Share on Why Aren't More Linux Users Gamers? · · Score: 1
    That's what makes me think that the title of this was a bit misleading; it assumes that Linux users aren't that big into games of their own volition. In a way they are, in the sense that they chose to use Linux over a gaming OS. But would you like to review the list of relatively mid to high-profile commercial games released for Linux in 2007?
    • Introversion's DEFCON
    • SplashDamage's Quake Wars
    • The broken promise of UT3 which has yet to be seen.
    • Oh, and technically Eve Online by CCP, but they just wrapped it in Cedega for us rather than releasing an actual client.
  19. Re:Silly, ignorant children. on FreeBSD 7.0 Bests Linux In SMP Performance · · Score: 1

    I don't think it counts as a distro if the underlying system is forked to the amount Darwin has from FreeBSD. But it's definitely a Darwin distro.

  20. Re:Still about Florida and Michigan. on Clinton Takes Ohio, Texas; McCain Seals The Deal · · Score: 1

    The only question left is Florida and Michigan. Particularly the latter. If she manages to seat her Michigan delegates and none for Obama (since he wasn't on the ballot), I will be disappointed if Detroit doesn't take to the streets. Not a good idea; Detroit doesn't exactly have the best history when it comes to taking to the streets in race-related matters.
  21. Re:What a shock on NIN's Music Experiment Sells Big Numbers · · Score: 1

    This is a very interesting point, especially if you take into consideration that the people who don't play nice in this setting, won't disrupt the nice people's experience, and thus there's no need for any punishment or law against it. Additionally, the people not playing nice are inadvertently helping those who are by providing a lot bandwidth to actually get the album when the official downloads fail. And considering the amount of strain on their servers, that is not a trivial plus.
  22. Re:Mass Extinction on 'Death Star' Aimed at Earth · · Score: 1

    I know; cockroaches and Balmer are a given... but rats?

  23. Re:Identifying Juvenile on Teen Phone Phreak Targeted by the FBI · · Score: 1

    Sure will, in the middle of page 12 on a thursday evening edition in Seattle.

  24. Re:Didn't realise this was debated on Astronomers Say Dying Sun Will Engulf Earth · · Score: 1

    I was thrown off by this as well, considering I had astronomy books that stated this about at least a decade ago.

  25. Re:Research? on Do Gamers Enjoy Dying in First-Person-Shooters? · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, they didn't. I just skimmed over the article: they just monitored the facial expressions of 36 finnish students playing 007 and super monkey ball.