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  1. Re:Computers will NEVER be used well in schools... on Looking Back From the 1980s At Computers In Education · · Score: 1

    Campbell's Biology Seventh Edition and on are completely online, if you have class access codes.

  2. Re:Acid 3 test on Opera 10.0 Released, With Integrated Web Server Functionality · · Score: 1

    Is Joe Sixpack a novice on the methods of drinking beer? I've always wondered about this. May be offtopic. Anyways, I can't see how having a full-featured Web server in your browser can be good for security.

  3. Re:StatCounter's Baidu Stats is Alarming on Has Bing Already Overtaken Yahoo? · · Score: 1

    Most of the internet users in Asia are in Japan and South Korea, probably. And Baidu and Google cannot compete there. How's the percentages for Naver?

  4. Re:Sounds about right on Is Your Mood a Result of Where You Live? · · Score: 1

    Los Angeles is not all of Southern California.

  5. Achievement post on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 1

    This is actually a good idea. Sure. Yeah.

  6. Re:NASA should be grateful. on NASA In Colbert Conundrum Over Space Station · · Score: 1

    4-chan /b/ were one of the main driving forces in the vote. They put forth "Battletoad", for a NES

  7. Re:Scary philosophical thought on Drug Deletes Fearful Memories · · Score: 2, Interesting
  8. Re:Do you know what this means for gaming? on All Korea To Have 1Gbps Broadband By 2012? · · Score: 1

    Grinding MMORPGs is not the half of it. I recall that the most popular game in Korea is Kart Rider, playerbase 6 million(of a country of 24 million). Obviously a racing game. There are some extremely popular FPSes, including CS2 and a Korean game named SuddenAttack. I'm just telling you that MMOFPS's are quite viable over there. For a combination of grinding and FPS, see Gun.

  9. Vista on Windows 7 To Skip Straight To a Release Candidate · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    SP3.

  10. Japan on New Law Will Require Camera Phones To "Click" · · Score: 5, Informative

    I recall that Japan has a similar law, to prevent photos being taken of. . . things that Japanese men want to take pictures of, I guess.

  11. Teenishness on Brand Names Take On Generics In PSU Showdown · · Score: 0, Troll

    Is there any hope that we will get a non-schizoid titling scheme? This one seems more worthy of a Seventeen or a Teen People than of a Slashdot.

  12. Re:It's not so blasted difficult... on Report Indicates Widespread H-1B Visa Fraud · · Score: 1

    Isn't Ruby only 13 or so years old?

  13. Re:Let's cancel the olympics on EV71 Outbreak In China Sparks Fears For Olympics · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But every few Olympics, we have someone like South Korea hosting, and dictatorships get weakened. Is South Korea an extreme? Perhaps. Are they an isolated case, and will they be an isolated case in the future? I think not.

  14. Re:what do they all have in common? on Prince, Village People to Sue The Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    Two pairs of couples should be 2 ^ 3, or 8 people. I was aware that ABBA had 4.

  15. Re:Colonial Thinking Not Dead on Molten Salt-Based Solar Power Plant · · Score: 1

    America? Land of the 610 calorie Super-Size Fries, replete with 29 grams of fat, dancing around your plate?

  16. Re:decimated? on Child's Play Breaks a Million Bucks · · Score: 1

    Common use is the only way in which words are formed. Even a coinage depends on its common usage in order to flourish. Therefore, what you are suggesting to do(to reject common usage) is to stagnate our language, make it a breeding ground for foul things. Better to stir it a little, and at least enjoy it for the little while it lasts. The dictionary-makers define misused, as of a word, as a word said to be misused. If there is no intent to create a word or new meaning(since the old meaning is ancient, the new meaning middle-aged). The usage panel(66%) accepts the usage for people(Here), but not things. Yet in the thesaurus of that very same dictionary I linked to, the synonyms-- annihilate, etc-- are perfectly suitable for things. Why should not decimate expand its usage to things, then? The English language is plenty big enough, the countries with it plenty wide enough, to accommodate such a meaning. Do we use the word "myriad" to mean "10,000"? Does "inculcate" still mean "trample"? Words change.

  17. The pre-emptive dupe. on Gene Found to Explain Repeated Mistakes · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This article will be duped. Be sure of it.

  18. Re:what it's really about... on When Did Star Wars Jump the Shark? · · Score: 1

    Anecdotal evidence time! I watched the entire series for the first time last week(should I retroactively hand in my geek card?). #4 had the best plot, while the 6th had the best CGI, of the originals. The quality of Lucas's work declines in proportion to CGI quality, and thus I must conclude that the prequels suck, the first most of all because of the now-poor CGI quality along with the acting. I gather now that this is what /. has pretty much come up with.

  19. A few duties. on Provider of Free Public Domain Music Shuts Down · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Since the poster is so handily throwing around opinionated statements, I thought I would serve one up, steaming. Has anyone heard of a relative semblance of neutrality here? Sure, you can be famous for hating Microsoft with all your might, but that's the shtick; if we just throw away neutrality, then we're now idiots. . . without a shtick. There has to be a normality elsewhere so that the abnormality surfaces.

  20. Re:Use brain, open mouth. on Making War On Light Pollution · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The article does touch upon the subject of crime: The object of security lighting is to see the criminal while not letting the criminal see you, so gigantic bright lights on all the time can only do one. Nobody's suggesting we get rid of streetlights, by the way: just make them illuminate straight downwards.

  21. Re:Oblig... on MIT Startup Unveils New 64-Core CPU · · Score: 4, Funny

    When the number of cores equals the hertz, then the number should stop doubling.

  22. Re:Sad news ... Stephen King, dead at 54 on Net Neutrality Act On the Agenda Again · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Troll Post writer Anonymous Coward was found dead in his parent's basement in Antartica this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will woop with joy - even if you did enjoy his work, there's absolutely denying his contributions to the Slashdot culture. Truly an Armenian scumbag.

    (no offense towards Armenians)

  23. Re:In other news... on Microsoft Launches Comical Effort to Fight Piracy · · Score: 1

    They changed style, because, I think, Chick got a heart attack or a stroke or some thingagummy. They're drawn by some friend now, but Chick still does the writing. I'm surprised, however; Chick is notorious as an asstard who confuses DnD with satanic rituals.

  24. Good example of a /. story. on Largest Twin Prime Yet Discovered · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Succinct, on a subject undeniably nerdy, and mostly devoid of spelling mistakes. Also, not 'edited' by Zonk.

  25. No vaporware tag? on Nanobatteries — Safer By Design · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Come on, you all know that in tech, 2-4 years has a 50% chance of equalling never.