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Comment Re:What OS? And how annoying? (Score 1) 366

The submitter should use something like Visual Basic (6.0 or .NET, whichever is more suitable for the OS) to program a custom "virus" that can do whatever he wants it to do. After giving them several tips and letting them attempt to diagnose/fix it, he can simply tell the students exactly how to disable it from doing what it does (pop-ups, file deletion, keyboard hooks, phoning home, etc). It's exactly what I would do and it would provide the students with a great hands-on learning experience.

Comment Re:Hopelessly confused by dark matter. (Score 0, Troll) 89

The Earth and Neptune and Sirius are all affected by gravity, why don't they simply clump up? Dark matter is quite accurately simulated in this endeavour, though we are unsure of the direct significance of the results. The dark matter reacts to semi-traditional gravitational forces, but only with other dark matter. Dark matter does not, in any way, react with the normal matter we are familiar with; this is because dark matter is simply the type of unusual matter that a black hole spits out once it absorbs regular matter.

The only possible interaction we could have with dark matter is when you turn on a walkie-talkie and hear static -- that static is deemed unpredictable simply because we can't model the dark matter creating it precisely enough. One of the reasons dark matter doesn't directly interact with light matter is because it can actually have nine electrons in its valence shell, hence making it unable to "fit" into the aether that we have access to. That being said, it is nearly impossible to accurately simulate its behavior and the scientists who took on this endeavour are to be praised for effort but ignored for their 'precision'.

Comment Re:Joy, another app store... (Score 1) 165

The point is that it is NOT like "brick-and-mortar" stores because no one in the real world is limiting you to only shopping at one particular store. Concerning Android, users and developers alike are worried that the providers will lock you into one store.

You are 100% right -- more stores are better, but only if you are not limited to any one store, and you know how the providers are with vendor lock-in.

Comment Re:Why the hell was this posted? (Score 1) 223

I recently bought that game after its creator/owner was featured in a recent Slashdot article. One of the most fun games I've ever played, period, and my friends and I even played together (everyone took a computer and did multiplayer survival mode). So fun to work together to create simple but beautiful structures. Felt like the possibilities would never run out. .

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