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  1. Guess those SUV drivers will be SECOND in line on The SUV Is Dethroned · · Score: -1

    At the pumps now, won't they?

  2. Re:Verizon on WWDC '08 Sees Slimmer, Improved, 3G iPhone · · Score: -1

    With custom rims you'd be even more set.

  3. Re:Where's the beef? on Vint Cerf on Why TCP/IP Was So Long in Coming · · Score: -1

    Yep.

    ATT, AboveNet, etc. lots of people out there using it for backbone purposes.

  4. Re:Trouble on Gentoo in Crisis, Robbins Offers Solution · · Score: -1

    emerge --sync && emerge -uDN world

    Iteratively updates any newly synced ebuilds. Pretty much a no brainer and I think when you say "some time ago" you actually mean 2004.

  5. Re:Many managers are saddened they actually have t on Young IT Workers Disillusioned, Hard to Retain · · Score: -1

    ^^^ "Millenial" ^^^

  6. Re:And THAT's the problem Einstein on Russia Weighs Going Cyrillic For DNS · · Score: -1

    This is a phishers wet dream, actually.

    And yet it's no small coincidence that Russia is spearheading this, isn't it?

  7. Re:Loudness War on The Death of High Fidelity · · Score: -1

    Maybe sound engineers should produce the music properly, then send radio stations a special crappy remastered version with no dynamic range.

    Almost all FM stations use multi-band compression (even sometimes as much as 6+ bands) on the output stage, pre-transmission, to make up for issues with FM itself. They wouldn't need special versions.

  8. Re:2005 Called on Faster Chips Are Leaving Programmers in Their Dust · · Score: -1

    IO bound due to the inherently slow nature of current IO solutions. As these are improved, changed, etc. things will become CPU bound again. Even with slow IO, once something is off of slow storage and into fast storage (DRAM or better yet L3->L1), things are then CPU and MMU bound.

  9. Funny if you think about it.. on Microsoft and Google Duke It Out For the Future · · Score: -1

    If we went by google's version, we'll have gone from dumb terminals to.... dumb terminals.

  10. Re:Rating Articles on Google's "Knol" Reinvents Wikipedia · · Score: -1

    IF anything - and especially coupled with the purported talk of ad revene - wouldn't you think this to be more prone to potential astroturfing?

    Now astoturfers can just segue their inaccurate/dilluted/etc. data/knowledge into Google's database and benefit from the inherent increased "reputation" it will receive as part of the "knol" project.

    For instance, rather than have Microsoft host it's own articles to explain to you why Vista is better than XP (which you'll be weary of in the first place considering the source) they can now just resort to around the bend 3rd party publishing of "papers" or outright hosting the same kind of data within the Knol project knowing that will most likely receive greater visibility or potential reading than if they had hosted it themselves.

  11. Re:vi on The 5 Users You'd Meet in Hell · · Score: -1

    Nope, but "SIGTSTP (ctrl-z) ; kill % ; fg" does - and any unix user should know how to issue that in a heartbeat.

  12. Re:Also look for this! on The 5 Users You'd Meet in Hell · · Score: -1

    Rather than give google traffic, here's a link:

    http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/hack/academic.html

    6+7 seem to dominate today, unfortunately.

  13. Re:So? on Copy That Floppy, Lose Your Computer · · Score: -1

    USA is going down the shitter.

    The country used to rely on it's strength and ingenuity to make raw progress. We/they used to show the rest of the world new advancements, new methods, new ideas. I don't live in the US anymore, but as a natural born citizen it's even more sad to watch the steady decline from the outside.

  14. Does this mean I can log back into demonoid? on Canadian DMCA Bill Withdrawn · · Score: -1

    Can't lose that ratio.

  15. Re:That's it, Dvorak, treat the symptom on Dvorak Slams OLPC As 'Naive Fiasco' · · Score: 0

    The cause of the hunger in the first place is the lack of mental feeding. Hungry bellies are just a symptom of the broken society over there. Sure, money can buy rice to feed the hungry kids for a while. They'll still be hungry when that money runs out. People have been throwing food supplies at Africa for generations and Africa is worse off than ever.

    As Dr. Phil would say, "How's that working for ya?" That's not the only thing people have been doing to Africa for generations. They also haven't been completely isolated and left to their own devices by any merit - so it's not as if they're entirely responsible for their current situation.
  16. Re:Dictators like to steal on Dvorak Slams OLPC As 'Naive Fiasco' · · Score: 0

    You also seriously think said dictator would allow use of those laptops? Cmon.

  17. Re:I'm cringing... on Bar Codes Keep Surgical Objects Outside Patients · · Score: 0

    Your sock has a hole in it.

  18. Re:BMW on Bar Codes Keep Surgical Objects Outside Patients · · Score: 0

    Or ratchet wedged on the intake plenum, you know the drill. :)

  19. Re:Say the barcode becomes damaged on Bar Codes Keep Surgical Objects Outside Patients · · Score: 0

    I'd say it's pretty safe bet they'll have a manual override mode - complete with associated paperwork and required signatures. I'm sure surgeons are just loving it.

  20. Re:I'm cringing... on Bar Codes Keep Surgical Objects Outside Patients · · Score: 0

    Oh and Slashdot... please stop with the non-sense. Most of you are software or hardware nerds. You're not lawyers, doctors or surgeons. Leave the arm-chair medicine to someone more qualified such as my colleagues. Honestly, some of these comments are embarrassing. Then put your money where your mouth is and post with your slashdot ecock-ID.
  21. Re:diagonal! on Mozilla Inks Deal With Chinese Search Giant · · Score: 0

    Seeing as it took less braintime to figure out what the person really meant compared to making a point of admonoishing them for something they obviously already know - yes it's a pointless pedantic reply on ALSP's part. But nice strawman justification, btw.

  22. Re:Interventionism isnt completely "useless" on Fighting Spam Through Regulation and Economics · · Score: 0

    Undefined label: 1

    Anyways, consider this though: does reading a single subject line, and deleting on sight cost more than .01$?

    If you make more than 36$/hr and it takes ~1s to delete on sight - then yep, costs you a penny to delete any
    unfiltered crap.

  23. Unbelievable on Fighting Spam Through Regulation and Economics · · Score: 0

    You mean actually examine the source of underlying problems in the first place Batman?

  24. Re:diagonal! on Mozilla Inks Deal With Chinese Search Giant · · Score: -1, Redundant

    It's pretty obvious he just transposed them, ya' anonymous little shit pedant.

  25. Re:If you want a good laugh, go into repair on Unusual Data Disaster Horror Stories · · Score: 0

    Hahaha, this is one of the funniest ones I've read here for a long time.

    I can just imagine the scene - with this guy's eyes looming at you through a chain link fence the entire time.