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  1. Re: Linux sales figures on Crytek Ports CRYENGINE To Linux Support Ahead of Steam Machines Launch · · Score: 1

    Certain Steam games have followed me from Windows, to OS X and now Linux. This is a significant extra value and very convenient and I really hope that Valve manages to get a significant portion of the gamer crowd to switch. For me it's simple, if the game does not run in linux, I won't play it. Wine and emulators like DosBox are thankfully available to play some #oldwarez and the occasional game of SCII.

  2. Re: "Sight"? On slashdot? on The Tangled Tale of Mt. Gox's Missing Millions · · Score: 1

    It's knot a bout the sob knitter, it' a bout the nun ax is tin editin.

  3. Re:Every decade event on Dirigible Airship Prototype Approaches Completion · · Score: 1

    And this is what became of said hangar: http://www.tropical-islands.de/

  4. Re:DuckDuckGo on Microsoft Urging Safari Users To Use Bing · · Score: 1

    Another commenter suggested this: https://startpage.com/ Uses google directly.

  5. Kickstarter with dividends? on Are App.net's Crowdfunders Being Taken For a Ride? · · Score: 1

    Does anyone know, is there a Kickstarter like service that provides you a percentile return on your investment depending on the success of the project, instead of just a t-shirt? If there is not I might have to start such a service of course using Kickstarter to source funds.

  6. Re:us too! on Internet Explorer Market Share Drops To Almost 15% · · Score: 1

    y is popularity and x time

  7. Re:Why is CP illegal? on FBI Hunt For Child Porn Thwarted By Tor · · Score: 1

    The problem is not that the patient may have already committed a crime. Psychiatrist have to report a there mere fact that a patient has pedophile tendencies, no matter if they are acted on or not.

  8. Re:Old Timers Ressurected? on Leisure Suit Larry Comes Again (Video) · · Score: 1
  9. Re:Google Drive on Google Drive Launching Next Week With 5GB Free Space · · Score: 1

    Whatever the reason for the 50Mb limit, especially pirates know how to use split RARs. With that kind of limit, you can't share high res PSDs, 3D renderings or anything else where a 25Gb online storage space actually makes sense. And actually, it sounds perfect for sharing music, even FLAC are less than 50Mb per track.

  10. Re:"a reverse-engineered incarnation" on Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Goes Stable On Linux · · Score: 1

    Have you tried Emacs?

  11. Huh? on Plantronics Helps Make Remote Workers' Lives Easier (Video) · · Score: 1

    And I thought I checked the "Disable Advertising" box on the front page.

  12. Re:obviously on Have Online Comment Sections Become Specious? · · Score: 2

    There is a german IT news site called heise.de which appeals to a similar mindset as /. Over there every can moderate and the "wrongthought" moderation is even worse to the point if that I do not pay attention to moderation any more nor do I actively moderate. This is just an example, but I am skeptical of opening up moderation to everyone. As an anecdote, for a while I was up-moderating posts which were punished for going against the /. groupthink. Suddenly I stopped getting any mod points for months, after having received them on a continuous basis. Gradually I am getting mod points again now. Maybe it was coincidental, but it is possibly part of the moderation system. If that is the case, that is where I would start making adjustments.

  13. Re:Examples include on New Programming Languages Come From Designers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You should at least provide some arguments as to "why" you think those are bad examples. Otherwise do not be surprised to be modded flamebait.

  14. Re:At the Oscars? on Should There Be a Sci-Fi Category At the Oscars? · · Score: 1

    Books primarily targeted at women in general seems to get top shelf-space. This is not some sort of conspiracy though, the self-help addicted female crowd are probably the best customers, so you have to cater to them. Just be happy your book store even still carries sci-fi. So really the fault is not in the book store, it is the fact that males in general seem to read a lot less these days.

  15. Re:Good on Mozilla Announces Long Term Support Version of Firefox · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I hope they will do the same for Thunderbird.

  16. Re:Wow on HIV Vaccine Approval For Human Trials · · Score: 1

    I think in relation to viruses, the better term is to "disable" a virus rather than to "kill" it since it is not all clear that a virus is actually a living thing. This is a point that seems still to be in discussion.

  17. Re:RIP on Diaspora Co-founder Dies At 22 · · Score: 1

    Nice troll, but it only worked because the summary was badly written (once again).

  18. Re:Bounce==Backscatter on Ask Slashdot: Spoof an Email Bounce With Windows? · · Score: 1

    Not even that, it's some random guy that has absolutely no connection to the issue whatsoever. You are basically sending mail to whatever random email address (usually form a spammers address list itself) is in the from field which is about the easiest thing to forge. If anything, a bounce should go to the sending MTA which will handle these things gracefully. I have enjoyed backscatter and it is no fun.

  19. Re:Standardise on Fedora Aims To Simplify Linux Filesystem · · Score: 1

    Why stop there? I'd go even further and use \Program Files\ and \Windows\System. A simple simple sed s/\//\\/g on all system source files should fix any incompatabilities.

  20. Re:Why would this be a surprise? on Fish Evolve Immunity To Toxic Sludge · · Score: 1

    Indeed, what needs to be done is shoot a few hundred thousand people in the head and have those that survive breed.

  21. Re:extracted binaries on German Government's Malware Analyzed · · Score: 1

    In the german paper at least, it says that it is not currently detected.

  22. Re:So in other words... on Syndicate Reboot Coming Next Year · · Score: 1

    Uhm what about SC2? Imagine that as an FPS.

  23. Wikileaks destroying itself,no intervention needed on WikiLeaks Publishes Cable Archive In Full · · Score: 1

    It looks like the whole wikileaks, and all related like openleaks, issue (to whom ever it is an issue) is solving itself. It is really rather unfortunate to see this play out in such a childish way. The general idea, to provide a save haven for whistleblowers is really something valuable, but it does not look like the current platforms are the hands of capable and responsible people. So something valuable is really getting lost here since any future attempt at a similar institution will have it that much harder to become credible. Lots of ego play at work here, which is very unfortunate. It seems like the greater goal has gotten out of sight.

  24. Thanks for all the on Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot · · Score: 1

    great times!

  25. Re:Audio webcast link on HP Spinning Off WebOS and Exiting Hardware Business · · Score: 1

    Their http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF05a/15351-15351-4237916-4237918-4237917-4248009.html is really great product. It's small, need almost no cooling, uses little power just like any random Atom system, but support ECC memory, has a really nice case, ip kvm and full server support by HP and is cheap! I would really miss this system.