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  1. Re:In my dreams on IBM Policy Switches From MS Office To OO.o · · Score: 1

    Open Office is not that program.

    Maybe Excel then?

  2. Re:How soon we forget on Risk Aversion At Odds With Manned Space Exploration · · Score: 1

    Well actually, the King of Portugal thought that finding a trade route to India by sailing West was a stupid and dangerous idea and he refused to commission that adventure. Columbus went to Spain and got the funding he needed. So let NASA work for other countries and new Jamaicas may be found (even if they're looking for India).

  3. Re:Installable File System on Which Filesystem Do You Use On Portable Media For Linux Systems? · · Score: 1

    EXT2 IFS works like that on Windows if you have the admin password for that machine. Also, if Windows crashes while having your EXT2 partition mounted, you'll need to fsck it, ie: keep a portable version on linux in that drive because you might need it.

  4. Re:of all the things to copy from Chrome on Firefox 4.0 Goes Chrome, New UI In Q4 2010 · · Score: 1

    you can! Just press CTRL+N before going to another site!

  5. Crikey! on Australian Defence Force Builds $1.7m Linux-Based Flight Simulator · · Score: 1

    Crikey! look at the size of that linux-based cluster of Opteron servers!

  6. Re:What about suicide on Depression May Provide Cognitive Advantages · · Score: 1

    what a bunch of downers. Who'd welcome these high-IQ cognitive-enhanced suicidal overlords anyway?

  7. Re:Too Many Free Variables on Fewer Than 10 ET Civilizations In Our Galaxy? · · Score: 4, Funny

    So you are saying that our whole freaking planet is a reality show? agh!

  8. Re:Does this affect us who never upgraded from 7/8 on 92% of Windows PCs Vulnerable To Zero-Day Attacks On Flash · · Score: 1

    I don't know if it does, but I would certainly like to know the secret to living with Flash 7 when everyone and their uncle check the version of Flash before allowing me in to their website. Is there a way to declare a different version instead of updating something that is (was) actually working fine?

  9. Re:Greater benefic on Is Jupiter Earth's Cosmic Protector? · · Score: 1

    And in Roman mythology Jupiter is the god of all gods, god of sky and thunder. Clearly the astrologers don't know jack shit.

  10. Beeatch on Free Web Content a "Myth," Claims Barry Diller · · Score: 1

    Shut up beeatch. you'll do exactly how the advertisers tell you to do.

  11. Re:Dumb on Consumers May Find Smart Appliances a Dumb Idea · · Score: 1

    If we had a big battery pack that could charge at off-peak rates and then all appliances would feed from there instead of going to the grid individually, that would make the PhD's theory more useful.

  12. duh! what a silly project! on Navy Spends $33 Million For Hybrid of the High Sea · · Score: 1

    Why don't they just use the energy from the waves to generate electricity? it would be just like a bycicle with a dynamo and an electric motor!

  13. Re:Suing yourself is collusive litigation. on Wells Fargo Bank Sues Itself · · Score: 1

    tnk1 for president! :D

  14. Stupid to commit a crime? on Eye In the Sky For City Crime Fighting · · Score: 3, Informative
    It takes someone stupid to commit a crime? maybe someone with motivations that are hard to understand... Just yesterday on BBC3 we had interviews with 14-18 year old thugs who were really keen on their "street cred", their "reputation", the robbing and stabbing of other kids who ventured into their post code, and the appeal these activities have when looking for a girlfriend.

    Not one seemed so keen on going to school or on avoiding the police. Actually, going to prison was part of the networking with other thugs and the reputation building. So yes, there could be an investment of millions on cameras that can even see through the £5 hooded clothes but I don't think it will be much of a deterrent.

  15. German dildos do what?! on Germanium Diodes Mean Progress Toward Silicon-Chip Lasers · · Score: 2, Funny

    that was my WTF moment for today. I'll get some coffee now. sorry for the interruption.

  16. Re:Guilty conscience? on Bugatti's Latest Veyron, Most Ridiculous Car on the Planet? · · Score: 2, Informative

    There are no bugatti dealerships selling this. They plan to produce 300 units and they're all accounted for. The oil cartel people get most, which is about right considering the 115L/100km (2.5mpg) these things can consume.

  17. Ramen! on Comets Probably Seeded Earth's Nitrogen Atmosphere · · Score: 1, Funny

    I can easily picture the Flying Spaghetti Monster lobbing comets around ...

  18. Re:And we want the gov to run health care? on EPA Quashed Report Skeptical of Global Warming · · Score: 1

    This may be true, but Government control of medicine is actually worse. I live in Britain...

    Congratulations, you live with one of the worst implemented of socialized medicine.

    what he said for the UK matches what I have experienced in Portugal. My friend from Estonia feels the same about her "NHS" but still prefers to fly from London to Tallin to go to the dentist because overall it's cheaper.

  19. Re:Best Photos on Hitler's Stealth Fighter · · Score: 1

    I would have done it like the Chinese did, up to the 13th century. [...]I wonder how it would have ended, if they continued that method until now. Eurasia as one Chinese country, without communism, but with a democracy instead. America found by Columbus, the Spanish-Chinese.

    Careful with that time machine! If you send your terminators too far back in time into the XIII century to help the Chinese, and they conquer everything between china and the Atlantic, then you prevent the Portuguese and Spanish from competing for trade routes between Western Europe and India... if that happens, Columbus doesn't get his commission to go to India sailing towards the West, Jamaica isn't discovered and Will Smith will not stop the aliens from killing us all. Consider yourself warned.

  20. Go to a dating site on Where Does a Geek Find a Social Life? · · Score: 1

    Try a normal dating site instead of slashdot! Write a no-nonsense profile there and go out with a bunch of different people. Some you'll like, some you won't and that's the way it will work the other way around. It's all good practice. Be at peace with your geekiness.

  21. Re:Great quote... on US House Democrats Unveil a Health Care Plan · · Score: 1

    Do you really think that we're just worse than them?

    if USA cuisine can be used as an indicator...

  22. Re:Volcano! on A Supervolcano Beneath Mt. St. Helens? · · Score: 1

    you should have finished somewhere around the middle of the third paragraph with [NO CARRIER]

  23. Re:Not-so-awesome encryption on DRM Group Set To Phase Out "Analog Hole" · · Score: 1

    Who even has a RGB input on their TV these days?

    Sammy does. Sammy as in Samsung.

  24. Re:Welcome! on How Do You Greet an Extraterrestrial? · · Score: 1

    yes, but HOW?

  25. Re:Ugh on Google's "Wave" Blurs Chat, Email, Collaboration Software · · Score: 1

    Facebook already has instant "status notifications" (tweets) and online chat. I'm quite happy with it, especially after finding the ZX Spectrum emulator. let's see Google beat that :)