33689861 comment Comment Re:2012 the year of the Linux desktop (Score 1) 299 by flytripper on Wednesday June 06, 2012 @10:18AM (#40231959) Attached to: Steam For Linux Will Launch In 2012 Actually most of those no's are yes's with a bit of a tweek. http://www.steamgamesonlinux.com/
33356067 comment Comment Payback! (Score 1) 667 by flytripper on Saturday May 26, 2012 @11:58AM (#40121267) Attached to: Photographer Threatened With Legal Action After Asserting His Copyright This story is HI larious. http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=conny_permission
32990131 comment Comment Re:Prey (Score 1) 241 by flytripper on Sunday May 13, 2012 @08:46PM (#39990363) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How To Secure My Life-In-A-Briefcase? You obviously never removed a cmos battery and set a wipe jumper before.
32989997 comment Comment Re:helpful suggestion (Score 0) 241 by flytripper on Sunday May 13, 2012 @08:42PM (#39990337) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How To Secure My Life-In-A-Briefcase? O yeah we're the SPACEBALLS!!
32989965 comment Comment Re:helpful suggestion (Score 0) 241 by flytripper on Sunday May 13, 2012 @08:41PM (#39990329) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How To Secure My Life-In-A-Briefcase? We're the SPACEBALLS!
32925965 comment Comment Re:How do you plan on getting to that ER? (Score 1) 911 by flytripper on Saturday May 12, 2012 @12:43AM (#39976527) Attached to: Facebook Co-Founder Saverin Gives Up U.S. Citizenship Before IPO This is going to turn into a car analogy isn't it :(
32915103 comment Comment Re: 20 seconds? (Score 1) 587 by flytripper on Friday May 11, 2012 @04:46PM (#39972767) Attached to: DVDs, Blu-Rays To Show 20-Second Unskippable Govt. Warnings Its the security key handshakes between the devices, player and screen. It annoys me to no end.
32914997 comment Comment Re:Educate the public? (Score 1) 587 by flytripper on Friday May 11, 2012 @04:43PM (#39972697) Attached to: DVDs, Blu-Rays To Show 20-Second Unskippable Govt. Warnings The "education" will be akin to equating a ripper, d/l'er to a pedophile.
32842131 comment Comment Why dont they (Score 1) 247 by flytripper on Wednesday May 09, 2012 @08:22PM (#39949107) Attached to: Password Protection Act: Bans Bosses Asking For Facebook Passwords Just ask us to bend over while they lube up a finger?
32706953 comment Comment Proof of concept! (Score 1) 154 by flytripper on Sunday May 06, 2012 @01:34PM (#39909083) Attached to: Study Aims To Read Dogs' Thoughts UP!
31992007 comment Comment Re:Cure v. treatment (Score 2) 190 by flytripper on Saturday April 21, 2012 @12:41AM (#39753831) Attached to: Computer Game Designed To Treat Depression As Effective As Traditional Treatment Apply frustration,anxiety,hopelessness,despair,long period of unemployment or any other negative to a sane rational person for a length of time and you will get the end result: depression. The length varies but the result is the same.
31991189 comment Comment Re:Chronic Depression, type 1 diabetes, (Score 1) 190 by flytripper on Saturday April 21, 2012 @12:26AM (#39753765) Attached to: Computer Game Designed To Treat Depression As Effective As Traditional Treatment Troll is obvious or you sir are heinous. When I saw this after medicating on gaming for years I realised it was time to wake up and do something about it instead of feeling sorry for myself. http://www.ted.com/talks/jane_mcgonigal_gaming_can_make_a_better_world.html
31506253 comment Comment Re:Mac's don't get malware (Score 1) 409 by flytripper on Tuesday April 10, 2012 @06:18PM (#39637545) Attached to: Apple Snubs Security Firm That Spotted Mac Botnet Isn't this the calculator using bidmas to calculate and not a real brain?
31496397 comment Comment hmmmm (Score 1) 99 by flytripper on Tuesday April 10, 2012 @01:39PM (#39633877) Attached to: Kubuntu To Be Sponsored By Blue Systems, Rather Than Canonical As long as they don't expect me to use my desktop like a tablet I don't give a damn.
30558349 comment Comment Re:Pathetic... (Score 1) 234 by flytripper on Saturday March 17, 2012 @09:59AM (#39388737) Attached to: Microsoft Patent Monetizes Your TV Remote Aye. Patents are a joke. Never been a fan of Microsoft. Even less so with the introduction of paper COA's that rub off easily.