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  1. Re:rampage killers on 27 Reported Killed In Connecticut Elementary School Shooting · · Score: 1

    Cue the nanny state arguments, 1, 2, 3...

  2. Re:Let's do some statistical research on 27 Reported Killed In Connecticut Elementary School Shooting · · Score: 1

    Even more interesting would be to correlate gun control laws with deaths per head of population in each country!

  3. Re:what would you miss? on 27 Reported Killed In Connecticut Elementary School Shooting · · Score: 1

    You shoot Chicken with a gun? Where I'm from you reach into the coup or chase it round the yard and do the job with a knife/hatchet/cleaver etc

  4. Re:It is a wonder... on How To Use a Linux Virtual Private Server · · Score: 1

    Exactly. An analogue would be going to vogue.com and saying:

    "I just moved from Velcro to shoe laces but couldn't work them out at first so I wrote this blog article in case any of you guys at Vogue Magazine hadn't worked them out yet".

    Fair enough, there are probably many mouth breathers who still need help tying their shoe laces but I doubt that would include anyone who is a regular at Vogue.

  5. Re:pronounciation on Swimming Robot Reaches Australia After Record-Breaking Trip · · Score: 1

    battled and surfed the east Australian current to reach his final destination in Hervey Bay, near Bundaberg

    ? Many are the times that my final destination has been near Bundaberg, if I remember correctly?!?

  6. Re:Three Steps on Ask Slashdot: What Web Platform For a Small Municipality? · · Score: 1

    Nice blinking text. Nice use of html4/loose.dtd (the only doctype your page could possibly validate as)

  7. Re:Wlak away, just walk away. on Ask Slashdot: What Web Platform For a Small Municipality? · · Score: 1

    I completely disagree, walking is far to slow a way to retreat.

  8. Re:Surprised? on Dell's Ubuntu Ultrabook Now On Sale; Costs $50 More Than Windows Version · · Score: 4, Funny

    Personally I'm not buying one of these Developer laptops until they get Norton trial version running under WINE

  9. Re:Sure I will pay.... on Hotel Keycard Lock Hack Gets Real In Texas · · Score: 1

    Also, I bet 99% of break-ins aren't down to technical vulnerabilities but are caused by social engineering attacks (or as I call it in this case: PEBKAFD, Problem Exists Between Keycard And Front Desk).

    So I can see why replacing millions of $$$ worth of hardware to fix 1% of break-ins would sound like a false economy.

  10. Re:UPGRADE TO WINDOWS 8 !! on Ask Slashdot: Finding Legacy UnixWare Installation Media? · · Score: 1

    It's Movember

  11. Re:glacial tsunamis in Lituya Bay, Alaska on Ancient Tsunami Devastated Lake Geneva Shoreline · · Score: 3, Informative

    Doesn't have to have been triggered by an earthquake, normal glacial movement can trigger a sub-glacial lake to burst it's banks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacial_lake_outburst_flood

  12. Re:Tech Fell behind on The Tech Behind Felix Baumgartner's Stratospheric Skydive · · Score: 5, Informative

    Did you read abou this on Fox News by any chance? You obviously didn't watch the actual footage.

    Felix stabilised the spin manually WELL before deploying his parachute.

    They had a drogue chute ready to help stabilise the spin if it was required but he didn't use it because it could have prevented him from reaching Mach speed.

    If he HAD deployed his main parachute while in an uncontrollable spin it is VERY UNLIKELY that it would have deployed properly, much more likely he would have remained in a spin, not so fast but with his body mass further away from the centre of rotation and hence still massive G forces.

  13. Re:Good on Lawsuit Challenges New York Sugary Drink Ban · · Score: 1

    So it's a bit like alcoholism which is an 'illness'? Does that mean that businesses should provide drunk-safe premisses with padding everywhere in case I fall over?

  14. Re:16oz is very small on Lawsuit Challenges New York Sugary Drink Ban · · Score: 1

    I'm scared of the fact he/she thinks 16oz is small! In Europe soft drinks are mostly soft drinks are sold in 33cl cans which you average person finds to be a suitable size for a serving but apparently not in the States where everything is big, including the people.

  15. Re:Good on Lawsuit Challenges New York Sugary Drink Ban · · Score: 2

    How many millilitres are there in an American litre anyway? *ducks*

  16. Re:Good on Lawsuit Challenges New York Sugary Drink Ban · · Score: 4, Funny

    How about narrower door ways, I know the cat flap was quite good at keeping my cats weight down.

  17. Re:Updates daily? on Ask Slashdot: How Often Do You Push To Production? · · Score: 1

    This. is exactly why I left a year ago.

  18. Engineering tolerances? on Graphics Cards: the Future of Online Authentication? · · Score: 2

    TFA doesn't mention how they calculate these metrics but (maybe naively) I assume it's deduced by measuring differences in performance for a given task?

    This begs the question: what happens if the performance of your graphics card changes, say for example your GPU overheats or the fan gets clogged up with dust, surely that will change the results of the 'authentication' process?

  19. Re:Incidentally... on Beer Is Cheaper In the US Than Anywhere Else In the World · · Score: 1

    (hand drawn out of a live keg, no gas or course)

  20. Re:Incidentally... on Beer Is Cheaper In the US Than Anywhere Else In the World · · Score: 1

    My current favourite, available on draft at my local right now: http://www.alesbymail.co.uk/shop/pick-n-mix-beer/thornbridge-jaipur

  21. Re:Some people think bilingualism causes confusion on Bilingual Kids Show More Creativity · · Score: 1

    Quelle est cette confusion dont vous parlez? Je viens d'utiliser Google Translate...

  22. A bit OT but... on Ask Slashdot: Stepping Down From an Office Server To NAS-Only? · · Score: 1

    ...this seems like a good time/place to ask for advice.

    I'm setting up an external, hardware raid1 disk dock as an on-site back-up solution.

    I know 'raid is not a back-up' but I'm planning to use this as a once a week back-up of my internal HDD, I'm talking a home/single computer environment.

    The specifics are a StarTech, 2 disc dock with on-board raid 1 and 2x WD Black HDDs. As I said, I'd be making back-ups weekly and it wouldn't be attached to anything at other times. I realise that this is an on-site backup (i.e useless in the case of theft or fire/disaster) but would anyone disagree that this is a good on-site solution?

  23. Re:Have they mentoned on Skype Bug Sends Messages To Random Contacts · · Score: 1

    Blink and you'll miss it...

  24. Re:Stellar application potential on Record Setting 500 Trillion-Watt Laser Shot Achieved · · Score: 1

    It'd also be a great way to keep people of my lawn...

  25. Re:Stop using the word "US" on US "the Enemy" Says Dotcom Judge · · Score: 1

    Microcosm probably wasn't the right word considering how bloody huge the Americas are... sorry about that.