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Man Gouges Eyes After 1 Hour Reading Slashdot v3->

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An anonymous reader writes "After merely one hour of reading articles and comments from the new SLASHDOT v3 interface a man from Unkerville, MD has gouged out his eyes. He is quoted as saying "I would have liked to have kept them, but the pain was unbearable. Additionally, by removing my eyes I have prevented myself from any further viewing of the site which I'm certain would have resulted in either insanity or a shooting spree." Thank god for rusty spoons."
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Comment: Re:is waterboarding next to get the info? (Score 2, Informative) 486

by ipX (#32704756) Attached to: FBI Failed To Break Encryption of Hard Drives

No, they just need to send it to Wikileaks and tell them it's a video of waterboarding.

In all fairness I don't think parent is a troll, I think it's a weak attempt at a joke about wikileaks breaking encryption:

Somehow -- it will not say how -- WikiLeaks found the necessary computer time to decrypt a graphic video, released Monday, of a United States Army assault in Baghdad in 2007 that left 12 people dead, including two employees of the news agency Reuters.

Comment: Re:Clones? (Score 1) 584

by ipX (#31457858) Attached to: Here Come the Linux iPad Clones

Wow. The iPad was revealed only after other tablets in the category had been revealed, such as the HP Slate and the Joojoo, yet they are the clones. Nothing seems to be able to escape the distortion field -- not even a Linux enthusiast.

Thank you. I was just about to post about how silly this is. It shows how powerful the Apple marketing machine is. They're apparently a trendsetter, even though we've seen similar (real and concept) devices in the past. Everything that comes after the iPad is doomed to be a 'clone'. *sigh*

Comment: Re:Is it time to look yet? (Score 1) 368

by ipX (#31088612) Attached to: KDE 4.4 Released Alongside Website Redesign
It wasn't literal hours of just configuration. It was hours of reading docs and trying to figure out how to tweak things without losing functionality and minimizing clutter. Some of that was just learning a new environment. It wasn't terribly hard but it was not intuitive. Like getting rid of sounds for instance. Anyways you post is pretty condescending. I am just posting an opinion, it's not a manifesto and it doesn't need to concern you too much.

Comment: Re:Is it time to look yet? (Score 1) 368

by ipX (#31077528) Attached to: KDE 4.4 Released Alongside Website Redesign
Yeh it is PEBKAC for the entire reason that I tried KDE 4.3. The rest is my opinion, and it took me hours to get it configured, so that gave me a headache. Granted I am used to Gnome, but I've tried KDE 4 before. I am going to give 4.4 a shot, I don't want it to be Gnome, I just want it to not make me want to bash my head against the wall. I'm not trying to put KDE down; otherwise I would post flamebait as AC to be modded down. Oh, here come the mods now... *ducks*

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