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  1. Re:Nice, but one of the less useful rare earths on Massive Rare Earth Deposit Found In Australia · · Score: 1

    Australium! Shines like gold, crafts nice weapons!

  2. Re:Dupe.. on A Few Million Monkeys Finish Recreating Shakespeare's Works · · Score: 3, Funny

    October 25, 2011 hasn't happened yet. Is it a Dupe From The Future!?!?

  3. Re:Phoronix? on Kernel Bug Means Linux Power Usage Remains High · · Score: 1

    The fact of the OSX Steam release gives me hope (if they'll do OSX, they've done most of the work, go after Linux too), but the counter-fact that nothing has been released or announced, despite most of the work being done, takes that hope away again.

    Wine still works, though.

  4. Re:Phoronix? on Kernel Bug Means Linux Power Usage Remains High · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I'm still a little bitter that that issue came to nothing in the end. It certainly did look like parts of a Linux-native Steam GUI.

  5. Re:Did the market really shift? on Can Newegg Survive the Post-PC Future? · · Score: 1

    Actually, iOS 5 really changes that paradigm. It used to be true that iTunes was necessary, at least for the initial loadup and occasional backup/updates, but iOS 5 makes it possible to do almost everything without a host computer.

  6. Re:nobody has ever been hurt on New Images of Tumbling US Satellite From Theirry Legaullt · · Score: 1

    It's a quibble, I know, but those are not RE-entering. The original statement is correct.

  7. Re:Well... on Microsoft: No Windows 8 ARM Support For x86 Apps · · Score: 1

    Actually, based on a lot of the answers MS is giving out, and specifically the wording thereof, I don't know that Win8 ARM will ever be available as an FPP. You may not be able to just install it.

  8. Re:Security cameras on Ask Slashdot: Low-Cost Tools To Track Employees' Web Use? · · Score: 1

    Nobody said to watch them.

    "Fear will keep the local systems in line..." - Tarkin

  9. Re:Cognition without drugs and video games. on Bejeweled Yields Cognitive Benefit In Older Adults · · Score: 1

    I'm so sorry to hear that.

  10. Re:Is a multi-GPU problem. on FPS Benchmarks No More? New Methods Reveal Deeper GPU Issues · · Score: 1

    Actually, if you read TFA, it's not only multi-GPU setups doing it. Also, the 'solution' you describe has been used by Nvidia since the GeForce 8 era. They call it 'frame metering', and it's not a perfect solution either.

  11. Re:TFA is a bit more interesting on Costly SSDs Worth It, Users Say · · Score: 1

    You may have missed the news, but 'Taco isn't bringing you anything these days. Imploring him to give you any kind of story is likely to be about as effective as invoking a deity.

    Deities help us, I think we're all in the hands of kdawson now....

  12. Re:Awesome. on PS3 Counter-Strike To Support Keyboard and Mouse · · Score: 1

    Portal 2 takes place hundreds of years after the HL2 episodes, so I'd HOPE Freeman is done with the Combine by then.

    The linkage point between HL and Portal remains the Borealis... and possibly also the incendiary lemons.

  13. Re:What countries? on Why Some People Don't Have Fingerprints · · Score: 1

    Actually, chalk dust alone doesn't help, in fact it impedes grip slightly. Chalk dust plus small quantities of sweat, though, makes a very abrasive/grippy mud.

  14. Re:Funny it should be this game... on Low Violence Red Orchestra 2 For Australia · · Score: 1

    Wow. I'm going to download RO and give it another try when I get home. When I originally tried it back in the UT2K4 days, all servers were full or empty, no exceptions.

  15. Re:Earth may once *have* had two moons. on Earth May Once Have Had Two Moons · · Score: 1

    Funny to hear a new guy invoking the Great Old Ones. (This is my second UID, FWIW.) What do you consider G.O.O. status? Anything six digits or less?

  16. Re:So what. on AptiQuant Browser/IQ Study Was Likely a Hoax · · Score: 1

    I think you misuse or misunderstand averages. You don't need the majority of people to be at the stated level to make an average, a few outliers can drag the average way up for you.

    For 120 average, you can have 5 120s, yes, or you can have 4 100s and a 200. Practicality and the Bell curve lean more towards the former, but the latter is possible (though unlikely).

  17. Re:Linguists don't "out" anyone. on Linguists Out Men Impersonating Women On Twitter · · Score: 1

    It's totally cromulent.

    Signed,
    A cunning linguist

  18. Re:Linguists don't "out" anyone. on Linguists Out Men Impersonating Women On Twitter · · Score: 1

    I don't understand, it's completely cromulent.

    Signed,
    A cunning linguist

  19. Re:Yeah right on Space Station To Be Deorbited After 2020 · · Score: 1

    War. War never changes...

    ...but it does adequately convey the default state of humanity.

  20. Re:It's a drive-by download exploit on Apple IOS 4.3.4 Jailbroken Hours After Update · · Score: 1

    That's nice. My iPad 3G has been doing those things for over a year as well. Those are through apps, not natively. Unless the exploiters are writing and installing a custom baseband, they are NOT making premium SMS or premium calls from either of our iPads. I doubt AT&T would know what to do if you spoofed a data iPad's SIM and tried to make a call, they'd probably just drop the connection.

  21. Re:NASA Spacecraft Enters Orbit Around Asteroid Ve on Stanford Students Build "JediBot" · · Score: 1

    That's the most informative and non-controversial troll post I've ever seen. Next you'll pretend to be on-topic or something.

  22. Re:It's a drive-by download exploit on Apple IOS 4.3.4 Jailbroken Hours After Update · · Score: 1

    You're going to call and send SMS with an iPad? Good luck with that.

    "Use premium data" maybe? Again I lawl, sir.

  23. Re:aaaand... on iOS 4.3.4 Prevents Hacking and Jailbreaking · · Score: 1

    Not new, not special and not noteworthy.

    There are two flaws in the bootloader for all the pre-iPad2 devices. They are commonly referred to by the names of the exploits against them, SHAtter and GreenPois0n. These will not ever be patched by Apple, they are too low level. This means that every iDevice before the iPad2 has a jailbreak for life.

    On the other hand, the bootloader exploits will only give you a tethered (needs a computer to help boot) jailbreak, so if you're on 4.3.3 or have saved SHSHs for it, STAY THERE. 4.3.4 offers you nothing but a restriction.

    Likewise, all the iOS 5 betas have been jailbroken by the same method, and give the same tethered JB. We need iOS 5 to go gold, and for a nice untether or escalation to be found in it.

  24. Re:Wait, what?! on Hotmail To Ban Common Passwords · · Score: 1

    I less than three cats!

  25. Re:So... on Open Radeon 3D Driver Runs At 60~70% of Proprietary Driver Speed · · Score: 1

    Fair enough. I have an HP Elitebook 8530p with Radeon Mobility 3650, and it works perfectly, 3D, 2D, sleeps and wakes, under Gentoo and Win7 both, so we'll just have to be opposing sides of the anecdotal coin.