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  1. Oh, and I almost forgot... on Geist On Copyright As Canada Consult Nears End · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It should only be a violation of the law to circumvent a technological protection measure if the underlying purpose is to infringe copyright.

    And you happen to be a corporation.

  2. Re:Standard finalized but... on IEEE Approves 802.11n Wi-Fi Standard · · Score: 1

    now how long will it be before anyone actually supports the standard.

    Don't worry, your car radio will be picking up 802.11n any minute now.

  3. n00b on Creating a Quantum Superposition of Living Things · · Score: 1

    The smell, if there is such a thing. I feel saturated by it. I can taste the Slashdotters' stink and every time I do, I fear that I've somehow been infected by it.

    You must be new here. Welcome to slashdot.

  4. Re:I've done similar experiments before... on Scientists Levitate Mice for NASA · · Score: 1

    ...using a 3-man slingshot and dead squirrels.

    Really? That sounds pretty cool. How did you get the dead squirrels to operate the slingshot?

  5. Re:I thought.. on Facebook Releases Open Source Web Server · · Score: 1

    Also, I hear they have some sort of advanced programmable turtle carrying requests between servers.

  6. Re:In the immortal words of Tom Servo: on Alan Turing Gets an Apology From Prime Minister Brown · · Score: 1

    Better still, how about not doing something grossly inhumane to someone?

    Aye. But at this point, we can't even get them to stop murdering thousands with invasions, even when people take to the streets en masse. I think that would be a first step.

  7. Re:Portable Encryption Please on Which Filesystem Do You Use On Portable Media For Linux Systems? · · Score: 1

    Largely the same thing in my experience. Usually if I can get the freedom to install whatever I need, I can get the freedom to do it myself.

  8. Not forced on Alan Turing Gets an Apology From Prime Minister Brown · · Score: 5, Insightful

    An online petition got more than enough signatures to force an official statement

    Bullshit. The British Government happily ignores these online petitions whenever it doesn't suit them to agree. It's simply a matter of them saying something like "We expect the results of an investigation into this matter. We will make a decision in due course. Thanks for playing." They normally rephrase that last part though.

  9. Re:damn! on AMD's DX11 Radeons Can Drive Six 30 Displays · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Best code-words for masturbation to porn ever.

    http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/innuendo

  10. How many degrees? on AMD's DX11 Radeons Can Drive Six 30 Displays · · Score: 1

    Seriously, because I dream of nothing more than to have to turn my head a full 90 degrees in order to read a full line of text.

    !yruxuL ?seerged 09 ylnO

  11. Re:gunna be great on AMD's DX11 Radeons Can Drive Six 30 Displays · · Score: 5, Funny

    Affordable, graphics on six 30-inch monitors, or playable framerates. Choose 2.

  12. Portable Encryption Please on Which Filesystem Do You Use On Portable Media For Linux Systems? · · Score: 1

    NTFS with LUKS and FreeOTFE does the trick for me.

    Unfortunately it doesn't for me, as FreeOFTE requires admin access on the workstation you're using, which isn't always available.

    Choosing a filesystem is the easy part, compared to finding a decent cross-platform encrypted FS solution.

  13. Re:DOK on Which Filesystem Do You Use On Portable Media For Linux Systems? · · Score: 1

    Even five years ago, I don't recall this term being remotely popular.

  14. Re:Interesting on Bacteria Used To Make Radioactive Metals Inert · · Score: 1

    They have this amazing stuff now, called bleach.

  15. Re:American "Justice" on Facebook Ordered To Turn Over Source Code · · Score: 1

    Megacorps don't often go after other megacorps

    Yet. Usually, there's little reason for megacorps to fight each other when they can take resources from the lower-hanging small companies. Eventually though, they'll probably face off.

    If you pay attention to history, you might notice a pattern, as larger kingdoms attacked smaller kingdoms, growing in size, until eventually, there were world wars.

  16. Re:Wait a sec... on Microsoft Launches Its Own Open Source Foundation · · Score: 1

    Care to elaborate?

  17. Re:Embrace, Extend, Extinguish on Microsoft Launches Its Own Open Source Foundation · · Score: 1

    The open-source community has been doing that just fine by themselves for years now.

    Which is interesting, since microsoft's halloween documents spoke of insiders years ago.

  18. Re:damn! on AMD's DX11 Radeons Can Drive Six 30 Displays · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I don't think that word means what you think it does . . .

    The post uses irrelevant concepts like the physical size of display, as if that's relevant to a graphics card. GP was just following the post's lead.

  19. Re:sign me up on Asus Plans Dual-Display E-Reader · · Score: 1

    Flipping through books is a bug. It's usually done when you want to find your last place (which is better implemented with bookmarks), find some place (which is better implemented with indices/tocs/hyperlinks/search), or get a summary (which is better implemented with an actual summary).

  20. Re:How can you... on Future of NASA's Manned Spaceflight Looks Bleak · · Score: 1

    I read the Lord's Prayer as a request for assistance making one's way through the world, not a request for absolution of facing life.

    It's true, a large part of it is seemingly similar, but afaik, the personal stuff (deliver us etc.) was tacked on later, and it seems to be a lot more self-serving than the initial parts. I agree that it's not all bad though, just not an ideal example for me.

    only on the Internet can a discussion about NASA go off on a tangent

    Why? Tangents are natural and healthy, when humans connect concepts together using a network of word associations. It's not even uncommon for them to establish interesting principles, then swing back around to the main topic, bringing those principles in for interesting twists.

  21. Re:Color screen rules out E-ink? What? on Asus Plans Dual-Display E-Reader · · Score: 2, Informative

    I can.

    Ordinary e-Ink + additional technology.

  22. Re:sign me up on Asus Plans Dual-Display E-Reader · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The point of e-Ink is that it doesn't need to refresh multiple times per second to keep the text on there. It works more like paper, and so refresh time isn't really important. What's the refresh time on your paperback, when you turn a page?

  23. O RLY on Asus Plans Dual-Display E-Reader · · Score: 1

    and the rest of us read it and say "that's nice".

    You say that like "the rest of you" is more than you and your virtual cat.

  24. Re:That's Great, But... on Asus Plans Dual-Display E-Reader · · Score: 1

    Well said. But in fact:

    Will it primarily deal with some bizarre custom, DRM-protected format?

    That's the one real make-or-break question for me. Secondary formats don't matter much to me if the platform trend is going to be towards more DRM.

  25. Re:How can you... on Future of NASA's Manned Spaceflight Looks Bleak · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No, that's a liturgy about fear of life. Christianity, and all religion actually, is about having the courage to face life and serve others. St. Francis summed it up nicely:

    Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace;
            where there is hatred, let me sow love;
            where there is injury, pardon;
            where there is doubt, faith;
            where there is despair, hope;
            where there is darkness, light;
            and where there is sadness, joy.

            O Divine Master,
            grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
            to be understood, as to understand;
            to be loved, as to love;
            for it is in giving that we receive,
            it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
            and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.

            Amen.