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  1. obviously on How Would You Benchmark an IT/IS Department? · · Score: 1

    use one that makes you look the best

  2. Re:Wow. on Lineage III Source Code Stolen? · · Score: 2, Funny

    must be that exchange rate
    thanks for the laugh

  3. Re:Grasping at straws on The Future of Cinema - 'Real' 3D · · Score: 2, Funny

    at least they're not implementing smellovision with crap movies

  4. Re:I'd better get one, too on DARPA Developing Defensive Plasma Shield · · Score: 5, Funny

    if you're wearing your tin foil hat you may be able to reflect the beam back at the shooter

  5. Re:Sweet! on Scientists Create Sheep That Are 15 Percent Human · · Score: 1

    The GP brings up a good point that you completely ignored. This "technology", so to speak, is backed by a group of researchers who see some excitement and opportunity (I am not expert on stem cell research, but I have trust in scientists to a degree) in the field. If this can teach us something or otherwise flourish to improve, extend, or usefully augment human life I am all for it. We learn more every day and this is just the beginning. It is good that we understand the risks but we should not preemptively ban any chance for research to improve, may it be to dead-end, become a stepping stone, or completely diverge. God damn it I want robot parts, body parts that can keep me running or alive where my normal pack a day lungs, a liver and nervous system that can take a beating or a dampening. These improvements are necessary and imperative to improvement. Humans will do alright in the long run, let's see how smart we can get.

  6. Re:Sweet! on Scientists Create Sheep That Are 15 Percent Human · · Score: 1

    The sheeple will never rise up! We will be saved by the shepherds. Oh shit, maybe it is true after all.

  7. Re:Kramer was right on Scientists Create Sheep That Are 15 Percent Human · · Score: 1

    You've got it all wrong. The pig-men will rise up to take power after assuming their position in the LAPD after the great coming of Duke Nukem Forever signals them.

  8. Re:MS controls /.? on Microsoft Segments Linux "Personas" · · Score: 1

    enable javascript and then you'll get further to a "plugin required" message

  9. Re:Good job Harvard on 2007 ACM Contest Winners Announced · · Score: 1

    yea but from glancing at the problems (http://icpc.baylor.edu/icpc/Finals/2007WorldFinal ProblemSet.pdf pdf!), A and H are pretty much cakewalks (this is from a CS student with half a degree who only rarely dabbles with code in his free time).

  10. Re:Why is it "funny" to exploit security bugs? on April to See Month of MySpace Bugs · · Score: 1

    basically these "month of x bugs" are free security audits. i'd much rather have someone finding vulnerabilities in my code and saying something, even if it's public, than some one else finding 30 vulnerabilities and owning me over and over.

  11. Re:Change MAC when renewing DHCP? on Do You Need to Surf Anonymously? · · Score: 1

    from here: http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/index.shtml
    it seems like valid OUIs reliably goes up to 00-1B(28)-D5(213). thanks for the script though.

  12. Re:WarCraft vs StarCraft on The Ten Most Important Games · · Score: 1

    but dune 2 isn't fun to play, i think westwood figured that part out in their c&c series. i understand the importance of giving credit to the firsts (and why choose dune 2?) but it usually takes a while for a genre to start producing gems as long as the genre does not become tiresome.

  13. Re:Simcity on The Ten Most Important Games · · Score: 1

    download a genesis(or whatever) sf rom
    grab the sprites from vram and cram dumps of a genesis emulator http://www.emulationzone.org/consoles/genesis/util .htm
    enjoy (or not)

  14. Re:pong on The Ten Most Important Games · · Score: 1

    i agree, surely the significance of the "scene" a game creates says something to it's importance. perhaps the first cracked games should be included in "this game canon".

  15. Re:pong on The Ten Most Important Games · · Score: 5, Funny

    It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

  16. Re:MTBF on Intel Stomps Into Flash Memory · · Score: 1

    Any statisticians on slashdot?

  17. 1 server per "place"? on Looking Inside the Second Life Data Centers · · Score: 3, Funny

    is wyoming running on a 386 in a closet somewhere then?

  18. Re:Addons memory usage on 20 Must-have Firefox Extensions · · Score: 1

    if you really must know,
    memory used by firefox with extension - memory used by firefox w/o extension ~= memory used by extension

  19. Re:I can't say those actors are a bad choice. on Star Trek To Return Christmas 2008 · · Score: 1, Funny

    it's ok, you can come out of the closet on the internet

  20. Re:I've got a bad feeling about this on Star Trek To Return Christmas 2008 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    you don't watch many movies do you?

  21. Re:No Firefox is not evil. on Microsoft "SiteFinder" Quietly Raking It In · · Score: 1

    dude, just for future reference, when you use the word "Windoze" in place of "windows" and M$ when referring to microsoft your point instantly becomes worthless. why don't you just drop the caps to express your contempt.

  22. Re:Where's the bullet point for "fun"? on Ten Maxims Every FPS Should Follow · · Score: 1

    shit, you consider tfc to have no learning curve? your general fps gamer these days doesn't know how to bunny hop or rocket/conc jump

  23. Re:A Real web attack honeypot project on Honeynet Delineates Web Application Threats · · Score: 1

    FTFA: "About 6% of attacks were detected as using a proxy server."
    you're not too far along are you?

  24. Re:Ban all Microsoft Users from the Internet... on DNS Root Servers Attacked · · Score: 1

    i'd be flabbergasted to hear that doesn't windows support groups

  25. Re:So just don't turn on the heater... on The Power Consumption of Modern PCs · · Score: 1

    I like to think of winter as mother natures gift of a few hundred extra MHz.