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  1. Re:MS And The Dreamcast 360 on How Jeff Minter Met The 360 · · Score: 1

    I hear ya. Llamatron on the ST made sure I stayed the hell away from drugs!

  2. Re:The article doesn't say that on Owner of the Word Stealth 'Protecting' Rights · · Score: 1

    I was visitor #1141 on S******iswebsite.com...

  3. Re:alchemy as an allegory on Royal Society Finds Lost Newton Papers · · Score: 1

    Wait 'till you get to The System of the World!

  4. Re:Bad Interface? on A $251 Million Typo · · Score: 1

    Why associate the worst screen with the smallest amount?

  5. Re:Computers can process "shades of gray" on Our Brains Don't Work Like Computers · · Score: 1

    Actually, even floating point is overkill here. But I applaud your correct use of the word "phenomenon" here.

  6. Re:Definition of Zombie on U.S. Scientists Create Zombie Dogs · · Score: 1

    Holy Zombie Jesus!

  7. Re:To a second hard drive? on Best Way to Back Up Photos and Video? · · Score: 1

    In fifty years, he'll have put that data on a really small, really reliable, really cheap, storage crystal, and have multiple copies of it in different locations (including one in his flying car).

    Really, in even ten years, the big harddisks of now will be considered to be small.

  8. Re:Opps on Microsoft Cuts Anti-Virus Support For Unix / Linux · · Score: 1

    Okay, that is weird. I must admit, I've never had cause to use the select-thingy to sleep for fractions of a second.

  9. Re:More Info on Newly Formed Solar System · · Score: 1

    That's interesting. If that planet has 5% of the mass of the ring, and the ring has 20-30 times the mass of earth, it means that planet has 1-1.5 times the mass of earth.

    And the Eye of Sauron is something that resembles the picture taken by the HST :-P

  10. Re:So now we have on Newly Formed Solar System · · Score: 1

    I do seem to remember seeing photos of a moon that looks a lot like the Death Star. Oh, wait, that's no moon!

  11. Re:Yearly Fee... on Death On Demand Drive Tech · · Score: 1

    Okay, imagine there are quotes around that...

  12. Re:Yearly Fee... on Death On Demand Drive Tech · · Score: 2

    Actually, our yearly fee is another security feature. If you don't pay, we'll assume you've been captured by the black helicopters, and you'd want your disks destroyed.

  13. Re:Hmmm... on Death On Demand Drive Tech · · Score: 1

    You mean like with drug use?

  14. Re:164 year old prophecy comes true on Software Piracy Seen as Normal · · Score: 2, Informative

    Definitely. How would you like it if some company used your GPLed code in their proprietary application? Now that's software piracy!

  15. Re:A deposit? on A Gaming God For Dollars A Day · · Score: 1

    Well, if someone does that to all the characters, the $300 deposit isn't really going to cover the losses, is it? (Assuming they're expensive high-level characters that they'd have to re-buy at substantial costs.)

    Also, isn't this against the ToS of most of those games, which usually prohibit account sharing?

  16. Re:Windows / Mac on What's the Best Geek Joke You Know? · · Score: 1

    Somehow it would be more in-character for the MS employees to steal the ticket from the Apple employees...

  17. Re:On computer theorist... on What's the Best Geek Joke You Know? · · Score: 1

    On the same note:

    Would you like coffee or tea?

    (And to be even more obscure, one could then say T, for true, but actually want coffee...)

  18. Re:Opps on Microsoft Cuts Anti-Virus Support For Unix / Linux · · Score: 1

    So why are you using system "perl -e '...'" inside a perl program?

  19. Re:Sex offenders have no rights? on Slashback: Summer, Sail, Sex Offenders · · Score: 1

    Read the grandparent post again. The poster makes the point that the child molesters, a subset of sex offenders, generally can't change, even if they want to.

  20. Re:One little problem: MSN Messenger on Hotmail To Junk Non-Sender-ID Mail · · Score: 1

    Yes, but the MSN client (or GAIM) will inform you when you have new mail in your Hotmail account, but that doesn't work for other kinds of email accounts.

    So MSN users with Hotmail accounts get informed that they have new mail, and they can check it. GMail users will have to log in and just wait and see if they have new mail.

  21. Re:Opps on Microsoft Cuts Anti-Virus Support For Unix / Linux · · Score: 1

    Try reading perldoc -f sleep. Sleep .1 won't sleep for a tenth of a second.

  22. Re:"Nothing happens until someone buys something" on Marketers Back "Cookies Are Good For You" Campaign · · Score: 1

    I agree. You should stop manipulating the Slashdot readers and cease posting :-P

  23. Re:Couldn't be any worse than the blacked out area on Google Maps Now Cover Whole World · · Score: 1

    Well, in The Netherlands, there's a publicly available database of car licence plates. You type in a licence plate number, and the site returns information about the car and its owner.

    Except for cars used by undercover cops and secret agents, then it returns the error that no information was found.

    So, add one and one together, and criminals can easily notice if they're being followed by the cops...

    Oh, and they're also going ahead with the GPS-enabled ankle-doohickeys, while their signals can be easily blocked by -- you guessed it -- tinfoil...

    They're just fooling themselves.

  24. Re:No no no! on New Model Solves Grandfather Paradox · · Score: 1

    "Yeah, and if I ever want to go back to the year 2000, I'll just freeze myself again."

  25. Re:Doesn't work, see explanation on Google's Site Ranking Secrets · · Score: 1

    I was under the impression that the official Slashdot-approved anti-spammer device was the baseball bat? Or has that turned out to be ineffective?