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  1. Re:horrible thing to do on Tortoise Gets a new 3D Printed Shell After Forest Fire · · Score: 1

    There are no plans to release him into the wild right now and he looks to be about full size for that species of tortoise already anyway.

  2. Re:Perspective on Dwarf Fortress Gets Biggest Update In Years · · Score: 4, Funny

    There's a reason the motto of the game is "LOSING IS FUN!"
    With a little practice and judicious use of the wiki it's not too hard to get to semi-stable fortress that won't collapse from internal forces (instead it'll be the goblin or elf sieges).

  3. Slow News on Popular Shuttered Torrent Site Demonoid Returns · · Score: 5, Informative

    It came back two months ago, in March. I know Slashdot is slow with news but this is a little ridiculous.

  4. Re:This is ONE EXAM, get a life on The Whole Story Behind Low AP CS Exam Stats · · Score: 1

    50% of the population taking the CS AP exam ALREADY score a 3 or lower. Which is effectively failing since no college will take that low of a score as credit. The average went up slightly since they dropped the AB test, which is the harder version, because only about 5k people a year took it, but had a much higher average than the A test because those were the people who knew how to program and were confident in their ability to do so.

  5. I'm pretty sure that radiocarbon dating only helps you figure out how long ago an organism (or piece) died. When it's living it's taking in C14 and C12 from the environment. Once it's dead and stops taking in carbon you can compare the ratio of C14 left to the C12.

  6. Re:Um on No FiOS In Boston? We'll Make an Ad Anyway · · Score: 1

    The way FiOS works, it's partially incumbent upon groups like homeowners and condo associations...or apartment building management...to request that Verizon come in and install the local infrastructure for "last mile" delivery. It's not just a situation of them coming up to one home and plugging you in, otherwise. We recently went through this in the condo development where I live, and it was an involved process...but when you want fiber to your home, guess what? You have to have someone install the fiber, which means asking them to do so. Hence the advertising to build up demand.

    Could the ad have been a little more up front about this? Sure. But it's not actually silly that they are doing this.

    This! FiOS was being advertised and available to houses in my area for over a year before an agreement finally went through with my building's management office to wire it up. Verizon had people at a desk in the lobby trying to get people to sign up for weeks after that. Was there the first day and it's been great since then. They've gotten nearly the entire building signed up based on the number of 4 letter wifi networks encrypted with WEP around me. Verizon could do with setting better default security on their routers.
    Time Warner has taken to sending people door to door trying to get people to switch back, offering all kinds of deals. I don't think anybody has taken them up on their shit service.

  7. Re:I'm a little confused about GTA 5 on GTA V Proves a Lot of Parents Still Don't Know or Care About ESRB Ratings · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because graphic violence only gets a game an M rating. Full nudity and sex automatically get a game an AO (Adult Only) rating. Most retailers refuse to stock AO games and getting an AO rating is effectively a death sentence for a console game since the only place you'd be able to sell them is the Internet and smaller stores. If you want big sales your game has to be sold in Walmart, Toys R Us, Gamestop etc.

  8. Re:Yes on Technologies Like Google's Self-Driving Car: Destroying Jobs? · · Score: 1

    My brain isn't working and I completely misread the parent of my post. Please disregard my stupidity.

  9. Re:Yes on Technologies Like Google's Self-Driving Car: Destroying Jobs? · · Score: 1

    The Eloi are cattle. It's literally spelled out in the book! How do you miss that?

    "These Eloi were mere fatted cattle, which the ant-like Morlocks preserved and preyed upon -- probably saw to the breeding of."
    "Very pleasant was their day, as pleasant as the day of the cattle in the field. Like the cattle, they knew of no enemies and provided against no needs. And their end was the same. "

  10. Re:So what's the point? on Amazon Debuts Multi-Platform Indie Games Store · · Score: 1

    Amazon and Greenmangaming buy a ton of keys in bulk. Valve gets money now in a lump sum instead of in individual sales. If they care at all, it's to encourage it.

  11. Except there was no logging in. Just the form to phish passwords.

  12. Supposed I should have been more suspicious that searches failed. But I was hopeful it was just some sort of database failure explaining why I couldn't login. Whatever. I didn't use that password for anything else, spammers. Have fun with it.

    Although this raises the question why even make a functional password reset form? I tried it after my login didn't work and they sent me a new one.

  13. Re:How does he fit in a diplomatic bag? on Photo Reveals UK Plan: "Assange To Be Arrested Under All Circumstances" · · Score: 1

    Diplomatic bags do not have to be literal bags. They can be large crates or any type of container. People have been smuggled out of countries in them before. Which leads to the question what they actually planned to do if he is smuggled in one. Cause a car accident and hope he really really has to pee?

  14. Re:It's a start on Sony Prototype Sends Electricity Through the Air · · Score: 1

    Shush! You're ruining it!

  15. Re:It's a start on Sony Prototype Sends Electricity Through the Air · · Score: 5, Informative

    Already sold as a product. http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/wec.shtml

  16. Re:Quick Call the Doctor on Astrophysicists Find "Impossible" Planet · · Score: 1

    That's why the episode is called "The Impossible Planet". Because it's crazy and shouldn't be possible, the characters are all well aware of that. It's the reason they're there studying the planet. Also, the satan creature wasn't the one producing the beam, it was part of his prison.
    When it comes to Doctor Who, I like to take the Clarke's third law view of everything. It fits nicely.
    "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

  17. Re:Meh on Blizzcon 2009 Wrap-Up · · Score: 1

    Ah, but SOE normally kills their MMOs by actively messing with them. SOE just leaves PlanetSide to die, it gets no support at all. The only thing they have been doing is pulling servers, there will only be one left by the end of this month.

  18. Re:Meh on Blizzcon 2009 Wrap-Up · · Score: 1

    If PlanetSide wasn't the bastard child of SOE. The population levels are going to drop as soon as this month's free play ends and all the old players who left disappear again. If SOE ever bothered to advertise PlanetSide or even give it a dev team that consists of more than one guy who messes with it for shitty events, it might be successful.

  19. Re:Only 52 hours of homework? on Microsoft Invents $1.15/Hour Homework Fee For Kids · · Score: 1

    Notebook paper? Are you crazy? Writing by hand is so damn slow. I haven't written a homework assignment for years, I type everything.

    Although there are still people who write it out, regardless of how long it is. I don't understand why anyone would prefer writing by hand over typing.

  20. Re:Fun fact... on NASA Contractor Needs Urine · · Score: 2, Informative

    In Enterprise they had normal water showers. Sonic showers were mentioned in the others.

  21. Re:Next Story: on Dell Colludes With RIAA, Disables Stereo Mix · · Score: 2, Informative

    Right-click your desktop.

    Seriously need an edit for comments. =/

  22. Re:Next Story: on Dell Colludes With RIAA, Disables Stereo Mix · · Score: 5, Informative

    You have to turn your hardware acceleration off.

    Right-click
    Properties
    Settings Tab
    Advanced
    Troubleshoot Tab
    Drag slider to the left

    Take you pictures and just slide it back to the right.

  23. Re:On the Speakers list.. on Last "Hackers On Planet Earth" Conference In July · · Score: 1

    Except ones with a deadlock seal, or if they're made of wood.

  24. Re:Military budget on People Believe NASA Funded As Well As US Military · · Score: 1

    Oh, yeah? Tell that to the virtual UK that I kicked the crap out of in Super Power 2!

  25. Re:Misread - RIAA USES Usenet on RIAA Sues Usenet.com · · Score: 2, Funny

    What's scary is that were modded interesting and not funny...