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  1. Re: not err on Coding Flaws Caused Moody's Debt Rating Errors · · Score: 1

    And people will do that by investing in things that are historically safe, not new fangled structured credit products that some company tells you are safe.

  2. Re:Keep fighting, but be realistic on Video Game Actors Say They Don't Get Their Due · · Score: 1

    in comparison the GTA voice could have be replaced by some other guy without losing 100 millions in sales ...
    For now. I imagine the EA marketing machine is hard at work planning the "Staring Brad Pitt" titles of the future. For and example, see John Madden.

    How long is it before the Tomb Raider games actually star Angelina Jolie, hmm?
  3. Re:Since Slashdotters can't use Google on How Japan's Biggest BBS Keeps Things Simple · · Score: 1

    There's some pretty touching scenes in it too. Like the alienated husband and wife who are chatting on the same thread and are unaware of each others identity. It's a nice film, watch it.

  4. Re:Japan just likes it 1.0 on How Japan's Biggest BBS Keeps Things Simple · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's really true and not just restricted to the internet. The newspapers my girlfriend reads are pretty rammed with content and advertisements. There's always quite a violent and vivid conflict of colours there too. :)

  5. Re:If you want to check out an English version... on How Japan's Biggest BBS Keeps Things Simple · · Score: 1

    I love that movie, the ending is a bit too soppy but it's funny enough.

  6. Re:That assumes someone is actually screening them on Tech's 10 Worst Entry-Level Jobs · · Score: 1

    #12 Reading Fark.

  7. Re:Once again on UK Teen Cited For Calling Scientology a "Cult" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Oh please, if everyone who said something bad about GWB was arrested, they would have to turn half the country into prison.
    Now that's irony.
  8. Re:iIt has done so already. on The Changing Face of World of Warcraft · · Score: 1

    I think we better call in The Hardly Boys.

  9. Re:Remember 'The Meaning of Life" on Using RFID Tags Around the House? · · Score: 1

    I think you mean The Life of Brian...

    Boring Prophet: There shall in that time be rumors of things going astray, erm, and there shall be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia-work base, that has an attachment. At that time, a friend shall lose his friend's hammer, and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before, about eight O'clock.

  10. Re:Imagine the first alien message! on ET Will Phone Home Using Neutrinos, Not Photons · · Score: 3, Funny

    For a person that quotes Hitchhiker's Guide in their sig, you've got an awfully pesimistic view on the comedic potential of the universe.

  11. Re:Imagine the first alien message! on ET Will Phone Home Using Neutrinos, Not Photons · · Score: 1, Funny

    It's not a penis, it's a snerkleopter.

  12. Re:solved within 7hrs... on Breaking the Fermilab Code · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Further to my previous post, E3 is the hex representation of the ASCII code for pi:

    ASCII Table

    It's 227 in decimal.

  13. Re:solved within 7hrs... on Breaking the Fermilab Code · · Score: 2, Interesting

    From your theory, Bass E would be keyboard note E3 which is key 32 on a standard piano. It is also 164.814Hz.

  14. Re:Give it to them for free on Microsoft and OLPC Agree To Put XP On the XO Laptop · · Score: 1

    It's not really what I meant. The purpose of this project is to put computer hardware in front of every child. I think the choice of operating system is really not so important in comparison to that.

  15. Re:new meme on Air Force Aims for Control of 'Any and All' Computers · · Score: 1

    Exactly. While they're rooting your box they'll also add a few jihadi videos and a paper trail for importing ak-47s in a shipping container full of washing machines. Have a nice holiday in Guantanamo.

  16. Re:Give it to them for free on Microsoft and OLPC Agree To Put XP On the XO Laptop · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I agree that this smells like a bad deal and I love Linux. However, open source advocates should also be careful not turn this education project into a battleground.

  17. Re:A Black Hole on Black Holes Don't Trap Information Forever · · Score: 1

    I have no idea what you're talking about but I'm convinced that you're wrong.

  18. Re:Locusts on Swarming Ants Destroy Electronics in Texas · · Score: 1

    That's right. When there's a bug in my system that caused the users to loose data, I tell them that it was an Act of God. As usual, no amount of praying can fix it. :)

  19. Re:And your solution is? on Swarming Ants Destroy Electronics in Texas · · Score: 1

    And to make it all worse, you're letting the ants win too. Damn you!

  20. Blame Apache on Swarming Ants Destroy Electronics in Texas · · Score: 4, Funny

    The ants are finally tired of building my Java code for me I see.

  21. Re:Doesn't make sense.... on Youngest Galactic Supernova Found, But No Aliens · · Score: 1

    Haha, you jest. We all know it can't be older than 6000 years!

  22. Re:solves the hangar space problem on Terrafugia CEO Responds To "Flying Car" Criticism · · Score: 1

    People drive even more expensive cars on the road all the time. You see, we have this thing called insurance...

  23. Re:Slashdot-proof? on Earthquake In China · · Score: 1

    I live the in the UK and we experienced an earth quake near London a while back. It was something pathetic like 2.8 but it made big news. Lots of reporters sounding traumatised while trying to get answers from professionals. The BBC got an American expert out of bed for a phone interview and he more or less laughed. He explaned that there are hundreds of earthquakes every week and they are all at least this strong.

  24. Re:Heart ? on Earthquake In China · · Score: 1

    I agree with you in the main but I also hate how the GPs have made almost immediately switched context to Tibet. Dumbasses.

  25. Re:Why would they need basic auth? on "Crimeserver" Full of Personal/Business Data Found · · Score: 1

    No, not that one. That's my country you bastard. :) I'm not joking.