User: darthgnu

Re:LOL! How about in...

On: Ask Slashdot: Replacing Paper With Tablets For Design Meetings?

I use bash, dash and ash for that !

Re:Planck trumps Moore

On: How Vacuum Tubes, New Technology Might Save Moore's Law

Donald Trumps Fractal universe.

Re:A Question from a Stupid Foreigner.

On: The FCC Can't Help Cities Trapped By Predatory Internet Deals With Big Telecom

Is the 8th word "Net Neutrality" ?

Re: and so meanwhile...

On: Will Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn Stay With MySQL?

That "design" philosophy turned out to be 100% compatible with PHP's. Crap tends to form clumps.

Re:Spagettification

On: Why the LHC Won't Destroy the World

Indeed, humanity shall join the Flying Spaghetti Monster in pure Spaghettification.

Ramen !

Re:Yeah

On: Dreams Actually Virtual Reality Threat Simulation?

You may well be dreaming without remembering. Apparently, having the intention to remember a dream can help you get started. Some people keep a dream journal.

Re:We are Borg. Resistance is futile !

On: The City of the Future

Makes me wonder if I would get a noodly appendage...

Re:root listens to audio?

On: Multiple FLAC Vulnerabilities Affect Every OS

Bah, just restore your wife's brain backup, you have one, don't you ?

Sorry to say

On: Best Advanced Linux Kernel Training?

Sorry to say, but experience is very often the best teacher. Experience being mistakes with time.

Re:Nothing new under the sun

On: Vista Games Cracked to Run on XP

I would consider SDL + OpenGL to be a similar offering in this matter. I must agree that consistency within an API is crucial.

New Delhi, we have a problem

On: Robot for India's Moon Mission by IIT Kanpur

I've fallen and I can't get up.

Re:Yeah right.

On: A Space Junkyard

Mitch Bainwol, is that you ?

Re:Moo

On: Google a "Wake-Up Call" For Microsoft

It's "you insensitive clod", you ignorant clod !

Re:What about the more immediate solution to Silic

On: First Graphene Transistor

Bah, it's barely haf way there.

Re:Ok but that brings me back to the 2nd question

On: $25M Bounty Offered for Global Warming Fix

Hey, you could even create new species for all the extinct ones we killed.

Re:+5 informative

On: Is Interoperable DRM Really Less Secure?

That reminds me, Bram Cohen has some nice conjectures about program obfuscation.

In short, they prove that program obfuscation is mathematically impossible.

...offtopic

On: Vista to be Downloadable (Legally)

Hey, nice username, x2A is 42 in hexadecimal, it is also my blog's url: http://x2a.org/, nice to see it in the wild. Cheers.

Re:Bugs?

On: 3D Printers To Build Houses

PC LOAD LETTER

Re:That's great!

On: Formula For Procrastination Found

Bah, I'll just procrastinate later.

Re:What have they done to our language

On: The Hacker Profiling Project

Remember kids, George W. Bush doesn't care about white people.
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Re:Standard Slashdot response

On: A Hands-On Zune Review

Try a tinfoil condom.

Re:In Other News...

On: Pluto Decision Meets with Frustration

Dwarf unions ? Santa claus sure is in a heap of trouble !

Re:Pleasant vs. unpleasant magnetic sensations?

On: Implants for Sensing Magnetic Fields

Hmm, I could imagine a few bad sensations...

• Magnet heated by radio waves (extra points for sticking your hand in a working microwave)
• Having "fun" with hard drive magnets
• Finding out that there was a strong magnetic field somewhere after you realise your implants are missing (ouch)

Re:Obligatory Meteor Video

On: Record Meteorite Hits Norway

Just ask McGuyver (tm)

Cool !

On: Droids on the ISS

I remember the Yoko Tsuno books had those on the Viniean ships, cool stuff. I would not have imagined that these kinds of machines would be feasible during my lifetime.