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  1. fiber? on When Your Backhoe Cuts "Black" Fiber · · Score: 0

    Where in TFA does it mention fiber? It says line over and over again. For all we know it could have been Cat 3

  2. Re:Fear of the computer on Mozilla and Google's "Don't-Be-Evil" Bulldozer · · Score: 1

    How the hell does a quote about trademarks remind you that everyone should be confused about vague updates? It already downloads transparently in the background, prompting the user with a version number update makes more sense for everyone but the Luddites.

  3. headline? on What To Do With 78 USB Drives Next Christmas? · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't Next Christmas be 2010? I think the submitter is more interested about this Christmas, in 2009.

  4. Re:Unusual Christmas Cards on What To Do With 78 USB Drives Next Christmas? · · Score: 1

    Why not volunteer somewhere with all this extra time you have?

  5. Re:Altered for the Slashdot audience on What To Do With 78 USB Drives Next Christmas? · · Score: 1

    I still say "Frigidaire" and "RadarRange"

    What the hell is wrong with you? Panasonic me while I go Phillips my Pioneer.

  6. Re:Two things. on What To Do With 78 USB Drives Next Christmas? · · Score: 0

    and a good piss-up.

    I always piss downwards, don't want to hit someone in the eye.

  7. Re:DOOM is already available for jailbroken iPhone on Classic Doom Coming To the iPhone Next Month · · Score: 1

    Doom has been on Cydia for quite awhile as shareware and will unlock as retail if you transfer the .wad files from your PC.

    It currently requires firmware 2.x so maybe it's different from what you are mentioning.

  8. Re:Sue Those Monopolistic Apple Bastards! on Palm Pre To Sync Seamlessly With iTunes · · Score: 1

    I am sick and tired of explaining to my friends and family how to burn a DRM'd song from their computer to a CD and then rip that CD to an MP3 and then put that MP3 on their player of choice.

    Then why don't you explain to them a single time about not supporting the broken marketplace and instead buying DRM-free music to begin with?

  9. Re:What? on The Sims 3 Racks Up Over 180,000 Downloads Prior To Release · · Score: 2, Informative

    The post has disappeared from EA's site, but

    The game will have disc-based copy protection - there is a Serial Code just like The Sims 2. To play the game there will not be any online authentication needed.

    Google's cache

  10. Re:Which backup program on Burglar Nabbed By Backup Program · · Score: 1

    Both your GF and your wife use Macs? No wonder you switched...

  11. Re:Just say no, to SalesforceCRM on Customer Resource Management For Non-Profits? · · Score: 1

    SugarCRM is nice and all but when are they gonna fix the damned calendar? You can't even set an event to repeat. My 10 year old GoldMine can do that...

  12. Re:Bottoms Up. on Cocaine Test Prompts Red Bull Removal In Germany · · Score: 1
    If you would have read the wiki link in that post...

    The active ingredient is sold to Mallinckrodt, a pharmaceutical firm, for medicinal purposes.

  13. Re:Windows Only on Google Releases Chrome V2.0 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    All the webcasts I have participated in have them using Google products pretty much exclusively, with what appears to be their personal desktops. Some could be using a customized Ubuntu, but many of the outward facing employees know to pimp Google properties, even if they aren't overt about it.

    I just don't understand why they use WebEx instead of some Google version

  14. Re:Just keep competition alive on Cory Doctorow Draws the Line On Net Neutrality · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Of course, things may turn out very different if we allow dominant market positions to be built in the ISP market.

    That totally hasn't happened.

  15. Re:Windows 7 still better than OS X 10.2 on Dell Indicates Windows 7 Pricing Will Be Higher · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Okay, let me know when you find the C64 version of Flash and can watch YouTube. I was gonna help you, but like previously identified, I fell for your bait. Fuck off and die.

  16. Re:1100 students is small? on A System For Handling 'Impostor' Complaints · · Score: 2, Funny

    A school with poor achievement?

  17. Re:By Neruos on A System For Handling 'Impostor' Complaints · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You're funny. The poster's PGP key. Like escorts, let alone anyone but Slashdot-level readers are going to know what that is.

  18. Re:XP longevity on Dell Indicates Windows 7 Pricing Will Be Higher · · Score: 1

    I meant in small business environment, which does require something more invasive than ClamWin, thus my user comment that dropped off your quote.

  19. Re:Windows 7 still better than OS X 10.2 on Dell Indicates Windows 7 Pricing Will Be Higher · · Score: 1

    10.2 can watch them and I have machines that do. The problem is that you are trying to install the latest versions of everything, something that also won't work on 98.

  20. Re:Windows 7 still better than OS X 10.2 on Dell Indicates Windows 7 Pricing Will Be Higher · · Score: 1

    I was the one that fell for it. I just wasn't clear enough in my post. Doh again...

  21. Re:Windows 7 still better than OS X 10.2 on Dell Indicates Windows 7 Pricing Will Be Higher · · Score: 1

    Oh no man, that comment to yours was referring to this post by me. Sorry for not being clear.

  22. Re:Aha! on Why Programming Rituals Work · · Score: 1

    Decent Java code? Sounds mythical to me...

  23. Re:Windows 7 still better than OS X 10.2 on Dell Indicates Windows 7 Pricing Will Be Higher · · Score: 1

    errr... hook, line and sinker. doh.

  24. Re:Windows 7 still better than OS X 10.2 on Dell Indicates Windows 7 Pricing Will Be Higher · · Score: 1

    A box running 10.2 is fairly useless for what you are trying. IE stopped being supported years ago. Safari and FF won't run the latest versions, you have to try and find earlier ones (so, yes your best bet is what you have... FF2).

    10.2 came out in 2002, so I would compare it more to running into problems with XP SP1, you're gonna find a lot of software that doesn't run on that OS version too.

    Oh and good luck running XP SP3, anti-virus and current versions of software satisfactorily on a Windows box that is 7 years old (I have experience doing this at work, makes for unhappy users).

  25. higher pricing? on Dell Indicates Windows 7 Pricing Will Be Higher · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I already pay a higher price for XP compared to Vista. Now I'm gonna have to pay a higher price for 7 compared to Vista?