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  1. Re:Can we have the value? on 47th Mersenne Prime Confirmed · · Score: 1

    Or, amazingly enough, you could click on the image and use the handy little box that pops up with "copyable plaintext".

  2. Bad link on Google Chrome, the Google Browser · · Score: 1

    Why would you link to some mirror hosted by some random blog instead of using the one hosted by Google itself?

  3. Re:I'd hire the Trons on Any Suggestions For a Meaningful Geeky Wedding Band? · · Score: 1

    Okay, enough puns. Isn't the word "wedding" in the title enough to remove ambiguousness?

  4. Re:Is there a problem? on Cost-Effective Server Room Air Conditioning? · · Score: 1

    Fahrenheit/Celsius. Pay attention.

    Wait, that was stupid. Sorry.

    80+F is indeed about 30 C

  5. Re:Is there a problem? on Cost-Effective Server Room Air Conditioning? · · Score: 1

    Fahrenheit/Celsius. Pay attention.

  6. Re:It is most munificent of you, on Slashdot's Disagree Mail · · Score: 1

    My school uses the current ones.

  7. Re:Lies on Did NBC Alter the Olympics' Opening Ceremony? · · Score: 1

    I didn't see the over the air button. Considering the explanation for the list is "to confirm you are a paying subscriber", I doubt there is one.

  8. Harsh? on Student Faces 38 Years In Prison For Hacking Grades · · Score: 1

    Something rather similar happened at my school recently. A group of high achieving though bored students installed a key logger on an administrator's computer and obtained passwords. They raised some of their grades and read private emails, and were finally caught when attempting to break into school to retrieve the device. However, despite a great deal of publicity and multiple felony charges for some (not 69 though), none of them were actually jailed - though all were kicked out of school (including one who had already graduated and been accepted to college).

  9. Re:Sulphur story on Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Released · · Score: 1

    I hear these came from the legal department - names w/out copyright issues are hard to come by these days. I believe this was mentioned in an interview w/ the Fedora art leader on the Linux Action Show a couple episodes back. On the other hand, "mayonnaise"? Huh.

  10. Re:Hoax? on $399 Mac Clone Most Likely a Hoax · · Score: 1

    SCOAX reminds me of SCOX, the old ticker symbol for SCO. Yes, that in fact was the joke.
    Woosh!
  11. Re:About the site on Marketing On a .EDU Domain · · Score: 1

    Ha! The "About Pickering Institute" link on the main page has been Rick Rolled.
    =p

    Most of the site "content" seems to be boilerplate 2nd rate higher education description - clearly just a construct for the advertising purposes.

  12. Whoa on Bionic Contact Lens May Lead to Overlay Displays · · Score: 1

    Strange that I was daydreaming about this exact same thing not so long ago...hmm.

  13. Re:Not accurate. on Microsoft Giving Away Vista Ultimate, With a Catch · · Score: 1

    Then they can monitor your nonuse of Windows.

  14. Thumbs up on Low-Cost Board Runs Linux, Google Apps · · Score: 1

    Hey, it's linux on the desktop at the consumer level, and I like that.

  15. Re:BTX on AMD Ships First DTX Form Factor Prototypes · · Score: 1

    Oh, I don't know about that.
    Aren't many of the OEMs using BTX now for many of their machines? Ex: Dell XPS 700 series...right?
    But anyway, yes, fragmentation of the standards into marginally different flavors hardly helps the situation.

  16. Re:They would have made more on Radiohead May Have Made $6-$10 Million on Name-Your Cost Album · · Score: 1

    Same thing happened to me on my Ubuntu box w/ Firefox.
    I went over to the Vista/Firefox laptop, site design didn't improve much, but at least the links showed up this time. Maybe something to do with Adobe's port of the Flash plugin? Who knows...

  17. Re:Stamps & tea. on Satellite Images Used to Monitor Burmese Junta · · Score: 1

    One should realize that the Tea Act, against which the colonists ultimately protested, actually *lowered* the price of British Tea. The rest of all these supposedly unjust taxes had been completely or nearly repealed by that time. Wikilink: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Act/

  18. Not another one! on HD VMD Shows Up Late For the Format War · · Score: 1

    Sheesh, talk about muddying the waters

  19. Re:You're not doing it right... on Run Mac OS X Apps On Linux? · · Score: 1

    Side effects may include death.

    Ask your doctor.

  20. Re:Stop the press on Kids Say Email is Dead · · Score: 1

    I am a teenager, you insensitive clod!

  21. Re:Still harder to make than corn on America's First Cellulosic Ethanol Plant · · Score: 1

    Informative? Are the mods smoking pot too?

  22. Re:Alternatively on Identify Galaxies Using Spare Wetware Cycles · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They need a button for face on spiral galaxies that are so fuzzy you can't tell the direction of the arms...

  23. Re:So now that the iPhone is out... on Apple Plans Cheaper Nano-Based iPhone · · Score: 1

    No, now we wait for the hackers to hack the one that is already out.

  24. Re:Here's a Hint... on Instrumented GIMP To Identify Usability Flaws · · Score: 1

    And before anybody suggests gimpshop, trust me, it's not even close. With all due respect to its developer, of course.

  25. Re:But For How Long? on Bill Gates Drops To Number 2 · · Score: 1

    Huh. It's annoying, I'll grant you that, but one doesn't usually see spelling corrections get 5, informative.