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  1. Re:Enough! on Rubik's Cube Now Solvable in 20 Moves · · Score: 1

    Goes to show why I have 7 digits next to my nick. I am enlightened.

  2. Re:Enough! on Rubik's Cube Now Solvable in 20 Moves · · Score: 1

    Why do you want to know -- you're a Slashdotter after all, remember?

  3. Re:More evidence... on More Than 10% of Mozilla Bug Finders Refuse Cash · · Score: 5, Informative
    I realise that we might only end up debating semantics and matters concerning law (*shudder*) but, for what it's worth,

    The Mozilla Foundation, which is registered as a charity in the United States...

    Source And, California registration by the Mozilla Foundation as a charitable trust.

  4. Re:More evidence... on More Than 10% of Mozilla Bug Finders Refuse Cash · · Score: 1

    Charity? Do you mean like the Mozilla Foundation?

  5. Re:So what's the meteor shower go to do with this? on Equatorial Mounts For Budget Astrophotography? · · Score: 1

    Thanks.

  6. Re:So what's the meteor shower go to do with this? on Equatorial Mounts For Budget Astrophotography? · · Score: 1

    I already know what the Perseids are, thank you; please read my question again (which has a small typo, btw -- it's supposed to be got, not go; but "go to" is an unintentional pun in itself).

  7. So what's the meteor shower go to do with this? on Equatorial Mounts For Budget Astrophotography? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, just what the title reads. I'm simply curious.

  8. Re:Slashdot Had the Option to Interview Him in Mar on Interview With the Man Behind WikiLeaks · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Where are his efforts to find the Taliban documents showing their human rights violations? Or clear violations of the Geneva Convention? And how they are the ones putting civilians in danger by not following the Geneva Convention

    Seriously, are you suggesting that terrorist organisations commit mass murder keeping in mind the statutes of the GC? The Taliban do not pretend like some governments do -- they openly state their threats, and are pretty successful at bringing many of them to fruition -- and violate many a convention in full public view and do not regret a bit in doing so.

    And where are the documents showing the amount of effort the US soldiers put in distributing contributions from US citizens, including medical, school, and sport supplies? Putting themselves in harms way to protect civilians during firefights? Or the extrodinary efforts they take to try to limit civilian casualties.

    You can watch heart-warming/heart-wrenching documentaries on CNN for that.

  9. Re:Cryptochrome? on Some Birds Can See Magnetic Fields · · Score: 1

    They actually have a better grasp of the Greek language and thought of colour-based encryption instead.

  10. Re:Hmmm... on Indian Government Threatens RIM, Skype With Ban · · Score: 1

    How sure are you of the Government in your country not reading correspondences via Gmail?

  11. Re:Slashdot: Don't believe everything you read on on Exoplanet Reports Exaggerated · · Score: 1

    Most of the times, I get disinterested reading comments beyond a point if the first few are off topic or just plain silly. In fact, I knew that the story was not as what the title suggested (essentially what Phil is talking about), but I did not bother posting it only for it to get buried.

  12. Re:Should have aimed for 10/10/10 on Next Ubuntu Linux To Be a Maverick · · Score: 1

    And the digits add up to 10.

  13. Re:Well, at least the important keys still work. on Microsoft Says, Don't Press the F1 Key In XP · · Score: 1

    Check the Windows documentation -- press F1 for help.

  14. Re:"How long until the first actual robbery" on I Use Twitter, Please Rob Me · · Score: 1

    Those are for the observant. The is for Gen 2.0.

  15. Re:The Sun on What Objects To Focus On For School Astronomy? · · Score: 1

    Not quite. With my 3.5" reflector I have been able to discern cloud bands on Jupiter. Saturn, of course, at this time, will not be the majestic Lord of the Rings that we know and love due do the recent equinox.

  16. Re:TOO MANY LINKS man! on Mozilla To Ditch Firefox Extensions? · · Score: 1

    Completely off-topic follows. I just want to thank you for indirectly introducing me to the extension.

  17. Inventivity? on Hackers vs. Phishers · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Inventivity? Looks like you've got some of that yourself. ;-) mod self off_topic

  18. A Joint Award is Much Better on Linus Torvalds For Nobel Peace Prize? · · Score: 1

    If anything it should be awarded jointly to FSF/rms and Torvalds. [Note: I'm just playing along, and not seriously hoping that this should happen. ;)]

  19. Internet Woes on Some Early Adopters Stung By Ubuntu's Karmic Koala · · Score: 1

    Just yesterday, I installed Karmic on a brand new computer. Installation went fine, and a cold boot takes 26-27 seconds, but Internet speed is sllllllooooo...w -- virtually non-existent. I was able to find a work-around for Firefox by setting the value of network.dns.disableIPv6 to true in about:config. But I was able to find neither a system-wide fix nor a permanent solution. (Yes, I have tried playing around with the GRUB file, it does not work.)

  20. No Comments on Torvalds's Former Company Transmeta Acquired and Gone · · Score: 1

    Our earliest discussion of Transmeta was the 13th Slashdot story. And without any comments too! This could my very chance to get in a first post! mwahAHAHAHA!

  21. Re:Correct pronunciation? on Chandrayaan-1 Successfully Reaches 100km Lunar Orbit · · Score: 1

    Actually, the video was made in India, and the narrator is also Indian. The pronunciation is correct.

  22. Re:YES! on Ubuntu 8.10 Outperforms Windows Vista · · Score: 1

    Actually, it's the Year of Astronomy. 2010, maybe.

  23. Three Particle Physicists Share Physics Prize on Nobel Prize For Medicine Awarded, Physics Soon To Follow · · Score: 1

    http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2008/ Yoichiro Nambu of the University of Chicago âoefor the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics.â and Makoto Kobayashi of the KEK lab and Toshihide Maskawa of the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, both in Japan, âoefor the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature.â

  24. Re:Scheme on Best Reference Site For Each Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    Thank you very much. That's a wonderful resource.

  25. Which Department? on Ubuntu To Pay for Upgrades To the Free Software User Experience · · Score: 1

    That's the first time I have seen a post on /. not belonging to any department. This must be a serious one then.