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  1. Re:I don't know what this guy is whining about... on OMG Girlz Don't Exist On Teh Intarweb! · · Score: 2, Funny

    This becomes a problem because you have millions of men growing up on Internet and not believing in the opposite gender. Or they only believe that woman have really big boobs and dress like sluts.

    Dress up? Real women don't wear clothes!

  2. Re:Not necessarily good on Microsoft Calls for National Privacy Law · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Complying with a national privacy law costs a lot less than complying with 50 different privacy laws.

  3. Too late on Microsoft Calls for National Privacy Law · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    My head a splode.

  4. Re:LOL IT'S SOCIALISM on GPL 3.0 Rewrite Drive Is No Democracy · · Score: 2, Funny

    ou created an account just for that comment? I really think you need to get a life.

    This is the future of Slashdot. Really, how many comments here are truly original? One man with a few dozen such accounts could replace 90% of posts on Slashdot!

  5. What Wikipedia says: on Is a CS Deg Needed to Make Game Soundtracks? · · Score: 1

    Computer science (abbreviated CS or compsci) encompasses a variety of topics that relates to computation, like abstract analysis of algorithms, formal grammars, and subjects such as programming languages, program design, software, computer hardware, artificial intelligence, and numerical analysis. By definition, computer science is the accumulated knowledge through scientific methodology by computation or by the use of the computer.

    Computer scientists study what programs can and cannot do (see computability), how programs can efficiently perform specific tasks (see algorithms and complexity), how programs should store and retrieve specific kinds of information (see data structures and databases), how programs might behave intelligently (see artificial intelligence), and how programs and people should communicate with each other (see human-computer interaction and user interfaces).


    Article continued here.

    If reading that article doesn't tell him that CS will not help his music career, nothing will.

  6. No comments? on Speaker of the House Starts Blogging · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Smart man.

  7. From TFA: on Microsoft Loses Two Key Executives · · Score: 4, Funny

    Microsoft insiders report that the company still does not know exactly where the two executives went. Local law enforcement has become involved, and has collected a substantial amount of evidence, including two slightly bloody chairs. Microsoft has declined to comment on this evidence.

  8. Re:Nintendo is Desparate on Handwriting Recognition on DS · · Score: 1

    s/mature/insecure adolescents/

  9. Re:Yes but on Quake 4 Graphics Performance Compared · · Score: 1

    I can say without doubt that, no, they have not made the same improvements. Why bother with such a minor tweak when their Linux drivers are so far behind the Windows drivers? UT2004, for example, is too choppy to play under Linux with settings that are fine under Windows.

  10. Your sig on Quake 4 Graphics Performance Compared · · Score: 1

    Trying to install Linux on a laptop with nocdrom or Ethernet but DLINK usb wi-fi. I NEED HELP!

    Get an external cd-rom drive, or a housing to turn an old internal drive into an external drive.

  11. Re:No Redundancy? on Building a Massive Single Volume Storage Solution? · · Score: 1

    "I can't imagine having that much data I didn't care about."

    Hollywood film archive.


    Fixed it for you.

  12. Re:Fanny packs!! on Recommend a Tech Toys Bag? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Go to that store. Buy something cute. Put the iPod in it. No need to ask slashdot for silly permission or reassurance. GET A PURSE.

    How's this one? It looks like it holds a lot....

  13. Re:Reassess your kit on Recommend a Tech Toys Bag? · · Score: 2, Funny

    You do _not_ need to bring the mouse everywhere. $5 says your computer has a touchpad or one of those nipple things.

    He should really get a girlfriend. She can help carry gadgets, and she'll even have two of those nipple things!

  14. Re:Stupid. on Congress Pays You $3 Billion to Keep Watching TV · · Score: 1

    The worst part is that the three billion is just a drop in the bucket. The federal budget is about 2.5 trillion dollars.

  15. Re:What about the Patent examiner responsible? on Company Claims Patent Over XML · · Score: 1

    By the late 1950s, Klein's monochrome works were almost exclusively in a deep blue hue which he eventually patented as International Klein Blue (IKB, =PB29, =CI 77007). As well as conventionally made paintings, in a number of works Klein had naked female models covered in blue paint dragged across or laid upon canvases to make the image, using the models as brushes. This type of work was called by Klein Anthropometry. Sometimes the creation of these paintings was turned into a kind of performance art - an event in 1960, for example, had an audience dressed in formal evening wear watching the models go about their task while an instrumental ensemble played Klein's 1949 The Monotone Symphony, which consisted of a single sustained chord.

    Sounds like Klein was a talentless attention whore.

    Klein is also well known for a photograph, Saut dans le vide (Leap into the Void) [1] , which apparently shows him jumping off a wall, arms outstretched, towards the pavement. Klein used the photograph as evidence of his oft-mentioned unaided lunar travel. In fact, "Saut dans le vide" was published as part of a broadside on the part of Klein (the "artist of space") denouncing NASA's own lunar expeditions as hubris and folly.

    And fucking barmy, to boot.

  16. Re:Don't worry. on Who's Afraid of Shinra Tower? · · Score: 1

    We should totally start a "/. Games category readers' club" or something.

    Count me in.

  17. Re:You know what this means... on Who's Afraid of Shinra Tower? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, a good movie can do this, a game should do it as well. However I'd imagine all the sockermums (yes, I'm a stubbborn Brit) will be up in arms.

    Don't you mean footballmums?

  18. Re:Why not movie ratings? on ESRB Should Stand Down? · · Score: 1

    PSV sounds like a workable concept, but it seems like the big trouble is that all of these video game ratings are reinventing the wheel. Little Billy Schmidt's Mom may not know an E rated game from an M, but she sure knows what an R rated movie is.

    But the 'R' rating is pretty useless by itself. For example, compare The Matrix with Kill Bill. Kill Bill is much higher on the graphic violence and profanity scales, but both got the same rating.

  19. Re:He needs to fix his WHOIS data on Jack Thompson Under Investigation · · Score: 1

    His email works. I just got a reply from his greytop address. I suspect he's getting a lot of mail, because he didn't even take the time to insult me.

  20. 2.5 cents per minute per customer? on Federal Court Shuts Down Pay As You Go Wireless · · Score: 1

    Buy Freedom Wireless stock!

  21. My favorite standard.... on World Standards Day 2005 · · Score: 1

    ....is sub-standard.

  22. Re:Remember... on World Standards Day 2005 · · Score: 1

    My native language is Klingon, you insensitive clod!

  23. Hey! on Insect Substance Synthesized For Science · · Score: 1

    I spent a full two minutes researching that article, you insensitive clod!

  24. Re:In a capitalist society... A lottery is better on Space Tourism? · · Score: 1

    There aren't enough rich morons to make this work as a business model, and the cost-benefit ratio is being total distorted by this kind of foolishness.

    I never said that it was a good business model, but consider this: these "rich morons" are in a position to help space programs. They have money to invest in aerospace firms, education, and advertising.

    If the only motivation they need to spend that money is a few days of freefall, then send 'em up by the dozen. Of course, the trick would be figuring out which ones would try to help after their orbital vacation. ;)

  25. Re:In a capitalist society... on Space Tourism? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. More money for space programs is usually a Good Thing(TM).