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  1. Re:Next up... on Apple Planning To Build Private Restaurant · · Score: 1

    Aren't they supposedly building some with their future campus in Texas?

  2. Re:Users disagree with him on The Condescending UI · · Score: 1

    Did you single-click on the ribbon? That temporarily reveals it and makes it hover instead of moving the document around.

  3. Re:GV still doesn't support sms via email on Google Voice Teams Up With Sprint · · Score: 2

    i guess it's cool if you're single and have no kids

    The average slashdotter, then.

  4. Re:Article with pictures on Engineers Create Tiny Wires WIth Old Technique · · Score: 1

    Are we going to start installing cube-like processors into our motherboards in the future? That would honestly be pretty cool, but it'd probably require different ways to cool the chips rather than simply pasting a cooling assembly on top of them.

  5. A wordle of the comment feed on Russian Google Competitor Embraces Open Source Messaging · · Score: 1
  6. Re:The one surprise in the article... on Dell To Sell Its Computer Factories · · Score: 2, Funny

    Didn't you see the commercials with the guy ordering a computer? None of the people in the factory were nationalities that are frequently outsourced to.

  7. Re:Better quality for games/voice? on Comcast's New Terms of Service Disclose Traffic Management · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up on this! I have the same problem and all of my other friends have this problem, too. It's ridiculous, especially when we use Vonage and frequently dropped calls.

  8. Re:SlashVertizement? on Yahoo! Answers, A Librarian's Worst Nightmare · · Score: 1

    Welcome to Slashdot?

  9. Re:Has she offended since? on Database Finds Fugitive After 35 Years · · Score: 1

    Because a life sentence for murder is actually a very reasonable deterrent. Remember that almost all murder is done in a premeditated manner (otherwise it would be manslaughter (I'm in the UK)). There are some crimes where you are right, and it is not productive to attach a lengthy jail term as a deterrent (drug use, theft/robbery/burglary etc) but with murder is not one of them.

    Murder is the most serious crime, and if you neither attach a jail sentence (to deter) nor a therapy/rehab course (which is pointless because murder, as you said, has a tiny recidivism rate) you aren't actually attaching any judicial response, and murder ceases to be criminal behaviour.

    I understand your frustration at the seemingly fruitless punishment for murder (and you are correct; it serves no purpose for the betterment of the convicted), but having a long jail sentence for murder actually does serve society: by deterring murder. One thing that angers me about the punishment of murder, is that you said, most murders are pre-meditated. It means the deterrent isn't stopping the people it's supposed to stop. I just want to say, then shouldn't someone come up with a better deterrent that allows the punishment to better the criminal while deterring murder?
  10. Re:Go to SilentPCReview... on New Water-Cooled Hard Drives Coming · · Score: 1

    How can I trust a site that has its first topic on the board "Has anyone died from liquid cooling system?"

  11. Re:Finally.. on A New Global Memory Card Standard · · Score: 2, Informative

    So you didn't bother to look at the image the parent posted? Apparently all of these cards can be plugged into USB ports, unlike special SD cards that need to have an internal USB plug.

  12. Re:TrustedFlash security? on Microsoft & SanDisk To Provide Desktop on Thumb Drive · · Score: 1

    It's because the laws of slashdot dictate that if any story is related to the unholy triangle (M$, DRM (DCE), MAFIAA), it must include a reference to another member of it

  13. Re:Who cares? on Some Truth to Wii as GameCube 1.5? · · Score: 1

    It would be even better if retailers kept on stocking the GC controllers...

  14. Re:Who cares? on Some Truth to Wii as GameCube 1.5? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think you missed the point of the Wii...it's to have fun, not obsess over how good it would look in HD. If you need it to look good, then why do you even have a Wii?

  15. AMD version on Neverwinter Nights 2 Review · · Score: 1

    Does anybody know that there's an AMD executable for the game? It stopped the game from stuttering with my 3800 X2.

  16. Re:Look at what you get for the price on Low-End PS3 Comes with HDMI, Cheaper in Japan · · Score: 1

    If I had redundant mod points, I'd mod them to this post. This has been beaten to death on many forums across the internet...

  17. Re:This is just dual dual-core on AMD Launches Counterstrike Against Core 2 Duo · · Score: 2, Informative

    They're doing it with upcoming Mac Pro from Apple. Two Woodcrest based processors in the same computer in the high-end configuration.