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  1. Re:Opera? on What's New With IE, Firefox, Opera · · Score: 1

    Now you know two.

  2. Re:MySQL on Windows vs. Linux Study Author Replies · · Score: 1

    See, the only way to guarantee the intended result in these studies is to have a linux admin that is literally dumb as fuck.

    So fuck is actually very, very dumb? I don't understand your use of the word "literally" here, as it seems misused.

  3. Re:How it will change games? on How The Revolution Will Change Games Forever · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How the hell is it "insightful" to complain about the moderating on a post that wasn't even moderated that way?

  4. How it will change games? on How The Revolution Will Change Games Forever · · Score: -1, Troll

    For me, it won't.

    I know that's not the point of TFA, but it's nonetheless a truth.

  5. Re:Less, not worse. on Geeky Gifts for New Dads, The Goodfather · · Score: 1

    Do you mean *fewer*? If you're talking about quality, proofread your own posts.

  6. I thought it _didn't_ work? on How The 360 Works · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought something like 15% of Xbox's *didn't* work. Source? Slashdot. Surprise, surprise. It's funny. Laugh.

  7. Re:Skype at Radio Shack on Skype Makes U.S. Retail Debut · · Score: 1

    You can't, I believe. We're now The Source by Circut City. (Yes, I work there.)

  8. cheese? on Lunar 'Lawnmower' Devised for Moon Colonists · · Score: 0

    So, instead of cutting chucks out of the moon and send them back here for grating onto our favourite mexican meals, we're just going to grate it ON the moon? With lawm mowers?! Oh dear...

  9. well? which one? on Blog Software Smackdown · · Score: 1, Redundant

    You can't have linear growth and exponential growth at the same time! So is it about 70,000 new ones per day, or is it doubling every five months? Since it can't be both, pick one!

    Okay, okay, so it's possible that the number is about 70,000 new/day right NOW, but that'll change very, very soon, so what's the point of even including it?

  10. hm? on The Place Of Modern MIDI Music? · · Score: 0, Troll

    "What do the you think?"

    Apparently, you don't think.

  11. Fire...fox? on Favorite Firefox Extensions? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I use Opera you, insensitive clod!

  12. death? on The Death of Used Game Sales? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    While many are aware of the double profit companies make on pre-owned games, this would ensure the death of trading games between friends and even going to a friend's house to play a little multiplayer.

    The death of trading games? Sure. Just like DRM has brought about the death of trading music. Yep! That's going to happen! When oh when will the "death of..." articles stop?!

  13. nitpicking on Set PHASRs On Stun · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "(PHASR) laser"

    So now it's a Personnel Halting and Stimulation Response Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radation?

    /me is confused.

  14. Re:Nice acronym on Set PHASRs On Stun · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's not an acronym. It's a backronym.

  15. hats on, everyone! on RSA-640 Factored · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Cue tin foil hats.....now!

    As the owner of a cryptography website...this news is interesting to hear. I remember people saying that the later sets of problems in RSAs would hold out. Guess not. (Note the growing gaps in dates in the table in TFA). A good read, actually. Congrats, guys.

  16. flying cars? on Eight Year Old Physics Student Admitted to College · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I thought *all* eight year olds talked about building flying cars? Seriously, I know I did! I swore I'd never have to learn to drive since by the time I was old enough, we wouldn't even have cars anymore. So much for that. And poor, poor child. Pretty soon I bed he'd give anything to be "normal".

  17. the cost on Carnegie Mellon Resists FBI Tapping Requirement · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Big deal already! I mean seriously, isn't the issue here the privacy concerns of the students? I'm not trying to make a point and say that the FBI should get OUT of there (though I do believe that to be true)...but what's with the emphasis on money? Everyone's talking about the people in charge...won't someone think of the children?!

  18. the point of windows live is... on MS To Launch Internet Versions of Office And Windows · · Score: 2, Informative

    what, exactly? since you seem to have to have the real windows to use it, what's the point of using a web based version of an operating system which you're already using?

    I'm posting this in the context that live.com is COMPLETELY broken in opera and mostly broken in firefox on my linux machine, which is all I have access to right now.

    worst. service. ever.

  19. is OSS haunted? on Is Your Office Haunted? · · Score: 1

    AFAIK, my installation of OOo is just fine, but all you MS lovers out there using Office XP - you better watch out. It's been statistically proven that BSODs occur at a higher frequency on Halloween...

  20. Re:Who the heck is SBC? on Ma Bell is Back · · Score: 1

    Southwestern Bell Corporation

    (I'm not an American either, I looked it up on *gasp* Wikipedia, so don't throw a chair at me if I'm wrong)

  21. how about...? on Geeky Gadgets for Halloween Parties? · · Score: 1

    a theremin? a custom built one could work very well...

  22. Re:cell phone on Video iPod Screen Test · · Score: 1

    Cell phone users say this because it's true. That is to say, most cell phones these days are loaded with features that go completely unused, whereas the voice encoders and speakers on the cell phones are incredibly and horribly poor quality. This comment doesn't at all work for the iPod because, as well all know, it's a perfectly decent music player - you yourself pointed this out.

  23. Re:Let me be the first to say... on Interview with Tony 'Say No to Windows' Bove · · Score: 1

    Why? It's not like you can't play solitaire on linux, you know...

  24. previously on Microsoft Spinning Against OpenDocument Via Fox News · · Score: -1, Troll

    As previously said, fox news previously sucks previously.

  25. also interesting to note on Happy 60th Birthday IBM Research · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    is their contribution to the Nazi party by selling them computers which, unless I'm mistaken, helped them tabulate and record the deaths and methods of death of millions of people.

    oh, and DES? Eh? I wouldn't say that's a *positive* contribution..

    But who am I to complain? I'm just as grateful for IBM as the next guy, don't get me wrong. I'm just trying to point out that the even the celebratration of something so wonderful is also the celebration of some of the darker moments in the company's history.