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  1. Re:USB is hopeless on Universal Power Adapter Struggling For Support · · Score: 1

    Actually no, I have a PowerBook G4, it has two USB ports, and they are on different sides.

    Actually no, I have a 12" PowerBook G4 with every damned port on the same side. The opposite side has only the disc slot.

  2. Re:Blacklisting registrars on KnujOn Updates Top 10 Spam-Friendly Registrars List · · Score: 1

    a whopping 39% of their domains have been spammed

    I would think that a whopping 100% of domains have been spammed. Did you mean that 39% have sent spam?

  3. Re:fail on The Broken Design of Microsoft's "Fix it" Tool · · Score: 1

    If you can already read 2k3 files, why not just install the compatibility pack?

  4. line of sight on WISPS Mean Cable and DSL Aren't the Only Choices · · Score: 1

    Aren't WISPS line of sight? My metro area has a few offerings, none of which I can get. Yay Comcast and AT&T...

  5. Re:Popups? on Why Your Pop-Up Blocker Doesn't Work Anymore · · Score: 1
    I know you're being a fanboi, but just to help remove the FUD, Opera isn't on their supported browser list, except for the most basic HTML experience.

    http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=6557

  6. Re:Counter-intuitive on Web Rescues Un-Aired Super Bowl Ads · · Score: 1

    It is impossible for poultry to have red meat. Red meat is from mammals...

  7. Re:Is this useful? on FSFE Launches Free PDF Readers Campaign · · Score: 1

    That's less than 2 megs...

  8. Re:IRS tax forms on FSFE Launches Free PDF Readers Campaign · · Score: 1

    The last place I want to be doing my 1040 is on a PDF with Javascript validation...

  9. Re:Is this useful? on FSFE Launches Free PDF Readers Campaign · · Score: 2, Informative

    7 is pretty old in their release timeline...

    I have a 200mb install of 9. There is no reason to have that big of a footprint for something that is meant to view PDFs.

  10. Re:actually, this works fairly well. on Could Fake Phishing Emails Help Fight Spam? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Really? Sounds ridiculous to me. It's difficult enough to convince people that your work e-mail is for work related matters... I don't need management asking me to sent out a phish attempt to the staff as a test.

  11. Re:99% of people really don't need Intel Core i7 on Retailer Planning Laptops With Intel Core i7 Chips · · Score: 1

    You upgraded DOS in 2000? No wonder everyone looked at you funny.

  12. Re:Release Candidate? on Windows 7 To Skip Straight To a Release Candidate · · Score: 0, Troll

    RC is simply a step closer to RTM than beta. Given Vista's tribulations, apparently nobody at MS cares about release quality.

  13. Re:What an idiot! on US Army Files Found On Second-Hand MP3 Player · · Score: 1

    Because this is just the tip of the iceberg. I know IT folks in the armed forces that have been in Iraq and Afghanistan and it's just a mess. Hell, they still bring back physical artifacts, data is nowhere near as secure as it should be. You can't really disable everything because they are so far removed, but the front line takes advantage of that... it's a very fine line to try to walk.

  14. bad headline on Microsoft To Kill Windows 7 Beta Februrary 10th · · Score: 4, Funny

    Headline is a bit sensationalist...

    They are removing the ability to join the beta, not killing the OS. I am pretty sure the programmers did a fine job killing the OS already.

  15. Re:Way too many unknowns on Long-Term PC Preservation Project? · · Score: 1

    I have an inkling that they'll still know what a sine wave is and how to use a solar panel in 50 years.

  16. Re:open sourced govt please on The ASP.NET Code Behind Whitehouse.gov · · Score: 1

    You are truly an idiot, as evidenced by your grammar. Congressional voting stats are easily obtained and why the hell should the gov provide free webspace? They are busy (trying to half-assedly) provide essential services.

  17. Re:Helpful advice?? on The ASP.NET Code Behind Whitehouse.gov · · Score: 1

    This bears repeating. I use it for a few sites, but .gov should have their own system if they need to be so concerned about saving bandwidth by users caching files.

  18. Re:whitehouse.gov Blog? on The ASP.NET Code Behind Whitehouse.gov · · Score: 1

    Except it was the second post. The MLK post was first...

  19. punishing the responsible people on Feds To Offer Cash For Your Clunker · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So those of us who already made a choice to purchase an efficient vehicle aren't getting any incentives.

    I am barely scraping by with my mortgage, but because I am not in arrears, I get no assistance. This is so similar, why are we coddling the idiots of society?

    I thought Idiocracy was a fictional movie, not a crystal ball into the future.

  20. Re:No wonder on Interview With an Adware Author · · Score: 1

    True, I read XP for some reason... doh.

  21. Re:No wonder on Interview With an Adware Author · · Score: 1

    Where does one get post-SP4 hotfixes? Can I borrow your DeLorean?

  22. Re:One of the reasons is dont like to use icons... on New Google Favicon Deja Vu All Over Again? · · Score: 1

    Only CC has it in my Firefox 3.0.5 on XP, and their logo really is round. Google is boxed and the others have nothing, unless you count the Amazon smile as round.

  23. Re:Hardcore Slashdotters won't notice... on New Google Favicon Deja Vu All Over Again? · · Score: 1

    It's called Smart Bookmarks

  24. Re:DUH! on Why Mirroring Is Not a Backup Solution · · Score: 1

    Except they didn't block archive.org, they just didn't specifically grant them an exclusion to their default block all in the robots.txt.

  25. Re:WAT on The Secret Origins of Microsoft Office's Clippy · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Who can afford recent MS products, especially with this economy? Word 2k still works fine for me...