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  1. i don't care about the dead horse on New Wheel of Time Book — Chapter One Online, Released Oct 27 · · Score: 1

    I won't even bother reading the free content if it has anything to do with Jordan. Sorry.
    It started interesting, it became boring, then when he started resurrecting antagonists, it became ridiculously annoying.

  2. Re:So.... on Church of Scientology Proposes Net Censorship In Australia · · Score: 1

    No need of a new religion. The Church of the FSM welcomes all new Believers, i guess.

  3. Looks like M$ didn't get enough patent troll abuse on Microsoft Pushes For Single Global Patent System · · Score: 1

    They should get to sued in every new country which adopts the USA patent system for every patent infringement they were found guilty already.

  4. patents are like hurricanes on IBM's Supreme Court Brief Says That Patents Drive Free Software · · Score: 1

    That's so true, gotta steal it :) Hope you give me license to use this IP.

  5. Re:New type of scientist - extreme! on Airborne Boeing Laser Blasts Ground Target · · Score: 1

    "Both systems employ a Chemical Oxygen Iodine Laser (COIL) that is made by combining a bunch of nasty chemicals - potassium, peroxide, chlorine, iodine and other stuff and then fired at supersonic speeds."

    Huh, supersonic? Incredible! And how the lethality of the laser is affected by the 'nastiness' of chemicals?

  6. Re:I don't understand... Simple: Greed. on Behind the 4GB Memory Limit In 32-Bit Windows · · Score: 1

    Well, it happens. It depends on how much data you load into memory :)
    Nothing requires to keep all of it in memory, you can always swap it out, even with movie editing or sound recording.
    Sometimes you just don't want to.
    Sometimes you designed your software to load everything, and it works for years.
    Then suddenly, someone presents it with a 100 times larger dataset, and it would process it, except for this pesky 4G (2G?) limit.

  7. Re:Know your market. on Microsoft Poland Photoshops Black Guy To White One · · Score: 1

    And that's why we don't see black people on the ad, right? No?
    Then how could this post be insightful.

  8. Re:Dark Tan? on Microsoft Poland Photoshops Black Guy To White One · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, all the black people living in Hungary would make up for the loss of sales. Right?
    Where are the chinese, mexican and native american people from the original? Heh?

  9. Re:At Apple, employees just work on Apple Allegedly Sought Non-Poaching Deal With Palm · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It is only our current standing in technology that prevents some of these being employed :)

  10. Re:Just because they failed to detect any on Initial Tests Fail To Find Gravitational Waves · · Score: 1

    Yeah, theologians detected gravity waves for centuries.

  11. Re:Free speech and democracy? on Flickr Yanks Image of Obama As Joker · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So the terms of service forbids parody of some selected people?

  12. Re:It's from April? Really? on Local Privilege Escalation On All Linux Kernels · · Score: 1

    Yeah, 8 years are nothing in the world of Linux...
    The only difference between Linux bugs and M$ bugs is that when they become known, an informed user could fix his system in hours.

    Though i agree, the GP is most likely bullshitting.
    And i'm still in shock how could something like this stay invisible for such a long time.

  13. Re:This isn't sensationalist, it's the truth on Leaving the GPL Behind · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When you say, you are 'going with BSD', do you mean, your whole application is going under BSD, or just you ninja'd a BSD library?

  14. Re:Wouldn't this make a good source of fossil fuel on Expedition To Explore an Alaska-Sized Plastic "Island" · · Score: 1

    You misunderstood.
    It is trivial, that if something prevents an entity from survival and multiplication, that entity will either mutate to shed this setback, or simply die out.
    This is the "Nature" of survival and multiplication.

  15. Re:ASCII Delimited Security Issues on XML Library Flaw — Sun, Apache, GNOME Affected · · Score: 1

    Maybe he is in the hotel business.

  16. Don't forget the time machine on Null-Prefix SSL Attacks Enabled In New sslsniff · · Score: 1

    And it would require some kind of time machine to jump back before Mozilla fixed the same vulnerability.

  17. Re:Orbit is a gravity well on Panel Recommends Space Science, Not Stunts · · Score: 1

    Landing/set off burns even more fuel.
    We barely have the technique to land on Earth.
    An orbit is safer, and local probes would give almost the same science.
    The only setback is a lower hype factor.
    Local probes got a big advance: much more data could be processed.

  18. Re:Oh Noes! on 26 Years Old and Can't Write In Cursive · · Score: 1

    We can worry about this once the machines stop working for us.

  19. Re:re comments on Linus Calls Microsoft Hatred "a Disease" · · Score: 4, Informative

    Microsoft is sharing its stuff because they were caught red handed.
    This 'sharing' is a good thing, but it isn't the merit of Microsoft, it is a merit of the GPL.
    Some people still don't want to realise this.
    If Linus will ever use this Microsoft code, he can thank this to the license he chose years ago, he couldn't do the same now if he started Linux using the BSD license.

  20. Re:Driver issue on Amazon UK Refunds Windows License Fee, With Little Hassle · · Score: 1

    If they plan to sell the machine without OS, it will be bought by a Linux user. (Or maybe an OS pirate).
    So, they could safely use linux based drivers to test it.

  21. Re:Whole Disk Encryption on Delete Data On Netbook If Stolen? · · Score: 3, Funny

    If your lawnmower doesn't work, one answer would be: try goats.

  22. gpl violation? on A GNU/Linux Distro Needing Windows To Install? · · Score: 1

    If you cannot use the binary, it wasn't even 'distributed'.
    How would it be a gpl violation?
    Got the sources? Or do you know whether the sources are available for download?

  23. Re:Why is this on Slashdot ? on Brazil Demands Repatriation of UK Hazardous Waste · · Score: 1

    Huh? I read US or Canada based fuckups all the time here. Some little variety won't hurt!

  24. Re:Apple viral marketing campaign on Korean DDoS Bots To Self-Destruct · · Score: 1

    The HD is not destroyed, only its content :)

  25. WOW on Korean DDoS Bots To Self-Destruct · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Actually it does something useful.
    This will teach all negligent users to actually defend against zombifying.
    One of my colleagues says, he wouldn't care if his machine is a zombie as long as it doesn't slow the machine significantly.