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  1. Re:Every person's right on Terry Pratchett Considers Assisted Suicide · · Score: 1

    A right is not a duty.

  2. iMortalized on Steve Jobs: the Comic Book · · Score: 1

    It's not a typo.

  3. You can (some) things with BitCoin on Ask Amir Taaki About Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    I accidentally the (whole) thing.

  4. Re:right then on Shuttleworth: Chrome Nearly Replaced FF In Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    You can embed evince (and presumably okular or whatever), which loads slightly more slowly and doesn't capture the Ctrl+F and Ctrl+P hotkeys (those will be picked up by the browser and not work), but has a few more features than the non-free PDF viewer by Google Chrome.

    I've also had trouble getting the Chrome viewer to work consistently in Chromium. It repeatedly crashed or failed to load, requiring a browser restart. This could be related to version discrepancies, though, as I used the .so from Chrome 13 (dev) with Chromium 11 (stable).

  5. Re:Reading these comments on Apple Store Employee Attempts To Form Union · · Score: 1

    Yeah, they overcompensated their workers until their CEO was barely able to afford even one corporate jet.

  6. Suing a bar association? on The Ongoing Case of Rakofsky vs. Internet · · Score: 1

    An entire guild of lawyers? Now that takes some balls.

  7. Re:Phonebook websites on European Pirates Arrested in Massive Police Operation · · Score: 2

    Bingo! Comparing the unauthorized distribution of data to the sexual abuse of children, and it only took two comments to get there.

    Now all we're missing is "terrorists" and "communists".

  8. Re:Russia is really corrupt on Microsoft Pursues Botnet Herders Via Newspaper Ads · · Score: 2

    "Suspect sought job at Google"

    I can guess which of the two crimes pisses MS off more. :P

  9. Re:I Can Has Subject Title? on Judge Prevents 23,322 Filesharing Does From Being Sued For Now · · Score: 2

    In any case, why "Doe"? It seems as though placeholders should be blander, more common names, like "Smith".

    Of course, when you go up against 23,322 Smiths, you should make sure your attorney is Neo.

  10. Re:Brought to you by Bayer. on Just Months After Jeopardy!, Watson Wows Doctors · · Score: 1

    I thought subluxication is a technical term for the terminal decoherence of a flux capacitor operating in excess of 1.21 gigawatts.

  11. No worries on Checkpoint of the Future Coming Soon To Airports · · Score: 1

    If you opt out, they might still give you the special service with happy ending.

  12. Privacy on New Tool Shows Would-Be Emailers If You're Swamped · · Score: 1

    The only people with whom I would comfortably share the status of my inbox are people I know and like well enough to prioritize their messages over others, and are too few to swamp my inbox by themselves.

    And even then, I like controlling how soon an answer is expected from me. The whole point of email over IM, to me, is to have time to form a response or even get other stuff out of the way before reading it.

  13. Myst, Avernum on Ask Slashdot: Best Adventure Game To Start With? · · Score: 1

    You're asking for adventure games, which are puzzles that involve no combat, but list only action RPGs like Fate and Diablo.

    I can't think of either adventures or RPGs with network capability that aren't MMOs (which I'd dismiss out of hand because they're mostly grinding scams rather than games). Myst and its sequels are unbelievably awesome adventure games, and work well when a group sits before the screen too. Other such puzzle games include Monkey Island, as well as Zork and the old Infocom text adventures if you don't need graphics.
    As for RPGs, my favorites are the Exile, Avernum and Geneforge series (all with turn-based combat). There's also a steampunk RPG with a somewhat Diablo-like interface, but more dialogue and options for real-time or turn-based combat. And again, if you don't insist on graphics, the Rogue-likes like ADOM and Angband are also fun.

  14. Re:I'll be most disappointed if.... on Two Elements Added To Periodic Table · · Score: 2

    ... German.

  15. Re:If that's not playing God, on CERN Ups Antimatter Confinement Record to 15+ Minutes · · Score: 0

    Assuming the last part is true, then the theoretical minimum (ie. the limit that can never be reached) of energy required to produce a milligram of antimatter is also the energy required to put the shuttle into orbit. The actual energy requirement will suffice to put anywhere from a few to a few millions (maybe billions) of shuttles into orbit, depending on the efficiency of the particle accelerator.

    What you save is in the mass of liquid fuel you don't have to carry anymore. That's about as much as an empty shuttle weighs. So you save one shuttle-launch out of those millions.

  16. Re:If that's not playing God, on CERN Ups Antimatter Confinement Record to 15+ Minutes · · Score: 2

    Fissile material with vast stores of potential energy occurs naturally. Every subatomic particle of weaponized antimatter would have to be synthesized using orders of magnitude more power than the weapon would have. Before you create enough antimatter to light a bulb, you could wipe out most of humanity with ordinary nuclear weapons. Regardless how easy it will become to produce or store antimatter, it will always take more energy than it is worth.

  17. Re:Bad cop, no donut on Man Ordered At Gunpoint To Hand Over Phone For Recording Cops · · Score: 1

    That's a good idea, but we will need more low-profile cameras for that. This guy probably didn't go out of his way to make his recording obvious...

  18. Re:Bad cop, no donut on Man Ordered At Gunpoint To Hand Over Phone For Recording Cops · · Score: 1

    to Youtube

    If you can't trust the police, how can you trust the cloud? Back it up to your own computer, which should ideally create a torrent automatically...

  19. Re:Ubuntu 12.0 on Harnessing the Energy of Galloping Gertie · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wouldn't that have been a potential name for Ubuntu 7.10? Otherwise, they won't loop around to G again till 2020. :P

  20. Re:Isn't this story about 2 years old? on China Calls US Culprit In Global 'Internet War' · · Score: 1

    Now that they're no longer operating in China, they can't exactly threaten to close their China office again, so the Chinese government can hack them pretty much with impunity. (Not that the Chinese government really cared the first time.)

  21. Re:I'd like to participate in a DDOS, but... on Anonymous Steals 10,000 Iranian Government Emails · · Score: 1

    Unless Iran calls its big buddy for help and China tells us to leave them the fuck alone.

    Iran imports a significant fraction of China's weapons, China buys a fuckload of Iran's oil and has their back in the Security Council when it comes to Iran's nuclear program. (Wikipedia)

  22. Re:Quantum Errors on Simulations Show Quantum Error Not As Bad As Believed · · Score: 1

    I thought on a quantum hard drive you can't read any data without writing to it at the same time?

  23. I see where this is going on UK Plans Cyber Weapons Program · · Score: 1

    US, North Korea, China and the UK all decide to Cyber together.

  24. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on North Korea Training "Cyberwarriors" Abroad · · Score: 1

    Can't; not with their family held hostage.

  25. Re:"acts of war" on North Korea Training "Cyberwarriors" Abroad · · Score: 1

    And if we're talking about Stuxnet, the target was Iran.