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  1. Re:Why can't we mod down submitters? on NIST Announces Round 1 Candidates For SHA-3 Competition · · Score: 1

    That's the biggest WHOOSH I've ever seen on Slashdot.

  2. Re:typing pool on "See-Through" Touchscreen Solves Fat Finger Problem · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it be simpler (and cheaper) to just install voice recognition software on the cell phone?

  3. Re:Doesn't have a built in update mechanism? on Microsoft Rushes Internet Explorer Patch · · Score: 1

    It's already got that feature - just run the normal update process, and when it finishes and pops up that box asking if you want to restart now or later, after a few minutes it'll restart itself without warning.

  4. Re:Just dump. on 2009, Year of the Linux Delusion · · Score: 1

    That's because they can't produce them fast enough to keep up with demand.

  5. Re:Foundations on 2009, Year of the Linux Delusion · · Score: 1

    That's the problem with linux distros and has always been a problem. Too much choice and not very much consistency with apps installed by default and their GUIs.

    http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/microsoft-learn-from-apple-II.media/vista.png

  6. Re:So what? on Plethora of New User Space Filesystems For Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    Naturally you can always comment "Why use a Mac in the first place when you could have a linux desktop?"

    Why not both at the same time?

  7. Re:cool, now lets make in run on linux on Plethora of New User Space Filesystems For Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    I don't get it... are you genuinely that clueless, or just retarded?

  8. Re:And file sharers may be violating copyright law on RIAA May Be Violating a Court Order In California · · Score: 1

    And since Disney's business revolves around stealing out-of-copyright works created by others and shitting "®" signs all over them before pass them off as their own, the pool of public domain works is also slowly shrinking.

  9. Torture is commonplace in games these days. on Torture in Games · · Score: 1

    "Loading"

  10. Re:I don't get it... on 20-Year Copyright Extensions Coming To Europe · · Score: 1

    Ugh. I heard him on the radio once spreading propagandist bullshit about how there's a bunch of rich bastards like him at risk of living in poverty because they sang something 50 years ago. People like that deserve to expire before their cash cow copyrights.

  11. Re:Christmas? on Larry Wall Talks Perl, Culture, and Community · · Score: 1

    Just for completeness...

    $ grep "/ruby" {/usr,}/sbin/* 2> /dev/null | wc -l
    0
    $ grep "/python" {/usr,}/sbin/* 2> /dev/null | wc -l
    18
    $ grep "/perl" {/usr,}/sbin/* 2> /dev/null | wc -l
    2

    (although I blame Gentoo for there being so many python scripts there)

  12. Re:Secure erase on Will 2009 Be the Turning Point For SSDs? · · Score: 1

    If that data is so important, it shouldn't be stored in the clear in the first place. Trying to cover things up after the fact is not security.

  13. Re:Awwww on Followup To "When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux" · · Score: 0, Troll

    Y'know, I rarely see any of these "freetard lunatics" you're rambling about. Maybe it's because I don't use BSD? I did look at the OpenBSD mailing lists once though and wow, those were something else entirely...

  14. Re:It simply illuminates a single fact. on Followup To "When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux" · · Score: 1

    You may as well say that you wonder why they aren't required to take classes in auto repair or biochemisty.

    I don't know where you come from, but in my school basic computer literacy was _slightly_ more likely to be used in a classroom than the ability to replace a spare tyre or administer local anasthetic...

  15. Re:Get off your high horse, kid on Windows Cheap Enough For $2B Aussie Laptop Deal · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It is never upgraded

    Well when you're used to an OS that needs reformatting every six months to get it back to a usable speed, I can see why that might be an issue.

  16. Re:Why on Photos of the Damage To the Large Hadron Collider · · Score: 1

    Sometimes they "leak through" to normal users for whatever reason.

  17. Re:Queue the n00bs on Slackware 12.2 Released · · Score: 1

    s/Slackware sucks/Windows XP sucks/g

    After I realised that, the only thing stopping me from dumping Windows completely was a winmodem... which didn't last long after that.

  18. Re:Wouldn't there be an empty space? on Birth of the Moon: a Runaway Nuclear Reaction? · · Score: 1

    The European (and everywhere _but_ America's) definition of thousand million is giga-.

  19. Re:Not even close. on Graphene Transistors Clocked At 26GHz · · Score: 1

    With the way things are going toward optical transistors, holographic storage, optical fibre networking, maybe in a few years we'll be replacing the power supply with a lightbulb...

  20. Re:MySQL join performance deficiency, 2 orders of on Sun's Mickos Is OK With Monty's MySQL 5.1 Rant · · Score: 1

    select count(*) from twobillionrows;

  21. Re:Pollution = More Gay Men on Chemical Pollution Is Destroying Masculinity · · Score: 1

    Basically, live like a lumberjack (that's okay).

    Sleep all night and work all day? Hell no!

  22. Re:My solution which also fixes the whole economy on RIAA Sues 19-Year-Old Transplant Patient · · Score: 1

    People who interpret everything they read literally are functionally illiterate.

  23. Re:How did the RIAA get her name? on RIAA Sues 19-Year-Old Transplant Patient · · Score: 1

    Presumably using the same methods they use to find the names of dead people and people who don't own a computer?

  24. Re:How is this relevant? on RIAA Sues 19-Year-Old Transplant Patient · · Score: 1

    Or to put it in a way you might understand:

    "This kitten can't afford its medical bills, but who cares? I'm going to kill it with the other 19 anyway!"

  25. Re:How is this relevant? on RIAA Sues 19-Year-Old Transplant Patient · · Score: 1

    It demonstrates that the RIAA doesn't care about reimbursement, they do this for some sort of sadistic amusement. What other reason would they sue someone for when they know the victim will never be able to pay up?