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  1. Re:Just an idea... on Successful Cold Fusion Experiment? · · Score: 1

    Can't do that. Think of the poor "editors" when it's a slow news day.

    More seriously though, if you're going to post cold fusion articles, how about saying that "x claims" instead of "successful", at least until it gets peer-reviewed and reproduced? Slashdot doesn't /have/ to be as bad as the ignorant mainstream media, y'know.

  2. Re:A world changing experiment... on Successful Cold Fusion Experiment? · · Score: 1

    /Maybe/ a world-changing experiment. It needs to be duplicated by others before it can be verified.

    Given previous failures of "cold fusion" we can't take it at face value.

  3. Re:they should not choose a format on New York and Minnesota Publish Open Document Studies · · Score: 1

    They also need to have language defining what an open standard is. I guaran-damn-tee you that if they don't, or it's even a /little/ ambiguous, someone will try to abuse it.

  4. How do you know that's Twitter? on Line Forms At Apple's Always-Open Manhattan Cube · · Score: 1

    Seriously, I feel like I'm missing something. All these posts saying that $POSTER is really Twitter: how do people know (or think they know) that it is so?

  5. SFTP on How Would You Prefer To Send Sensitive Data? · · Score: 1

    At least as secure as FTP/TLS and it's firewall-friendly. Takes either passwords or keys, or both.

    There's good cross-platform support for the protocol, too, and lots of clients.

  6. Re:Firefox 3 included (RHEL) on Novell, Red Hat Release Updated Distributions · · Score: 1

    That wasn't RHEL back then, dumbass. It was just Red Hat, which wasn't particularly aimed at anyone, certainly not large businesses.

    gcc 2.96 was a stupid, boneheaded thing for them to have done, but it's not like it was included in something that was supposed to be /reliable/.

    And I don't know WTH you're saying about libc2. I assume that's glibc2, which was first in Debian 2.1, which I used and had no especial problem with.

  7. Re:Python? on F/OSS Flat-File Database? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Stupid git.

  8. Re:ANY Enterprise AntiVirus on The Most Annoying Software Out There · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The non-self-important-dipshit course of action would be to talk to your IT person. There's a reason (corporate policy) why your computer is set so.

    Besides, the damned thing isn't your property. It's your employer's, so it's not yours to fuck with.

  9. Re:Norton Products... on The Most Annoying Software Out There · · Score: 3, Informative

    There's a setting in T-bird for this: Tools->Options->Privacy->Anti-Virus->Allow anti-virus clients to quarantine individual incoming messages

  10. Re:My vote: HP on The Most Annoying Software Out There · · Score: 1

    That's HP consumer kit for you. Get a decent laser printer that can grok Postscript and the driver will be only 0.5 to 2 MB.

  11. Re:Honestly, these problems are solveable on The Most Annoying Software Out There · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Piss off, troll. Some of us use Windows for our own reasons, and OS advocacy doesn't add anything to the discussion.

  12. Re:That page was annoying on The Most Annoying Software Out There · · Score: 1

    Yes, and the writeups were asinine, too. Waste of five minutes.

  13. Re:Winamp becoming Damned Irritating on The Most Annoying Software Out There · · Score: 1

    Foobar2000 is what I use now, but if that wasn't available I'd probably use vlc.

  14. Re:Winamp becoming Damned Irritating on The Most Annoying Software Out There · · Score: 1

    Me too. I stuck with 2.95 for a few years but became annoyed at some of its limitations, then switched to Foobar2000.

  15. Re:Norton Products... on The Most Annoying Software Out There · · Score: 1

    NU 8 was the last DOS version & it wasn't bad. I've still got a copy somewhere. I was annoyed because they never updated it to work with Stacker 4.0's compression, which I used at the time with my tiny 106MB hard drive.

  16. Re:16 bit PC cards on What to Seek in an Older Subnotebook? · · Score: 4, Informative

    There's no difference between PCMCIA and PC Card; the standard was officially renamed to the latter because (it was thought) it was an easier & more approachable name.

  17. Re:Why do... on Anti-Keylogging Recommendations? · · Score: 1

    it won't make you gay, and it won't rape your dog Shit. I must have used the wrong distribution, then.

    My dog still hasn't forgiven me.
  18. Re:eh? on Firefox 3 RC1 Out Now · · Score: 1

    I haven't had problems with it on Ubuntu. I'd say you've got buggy extensions.

    I wish Google would hurry up and get their extensions working with FF3 already. I miss Browser Sync and Toolbar.

  19. I don't understand on Removing the Big Kernel Lock · · Score: 1

    Why did they remove the preemptable BKL?

    RTFAing says that temporarily forking the kernel with a branch dedicated to experimenting with the BKL is being considered. Maybe they can call it 2.7...

  20. Re:The one feature common to all now - bloat and s on Moving Toward a Single Linux UI? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You're using the wrong distribution if what you've got is too slow for your hardware.

    Look at something lighter like Puppy or Damn Small Linux.

  21. Would never work for Debian on Shuttleworth Calls For Coordinated Release Cycles · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Debian's organization would have to make a major fundamental change to stick to an actual release schedule. They have /never/ been on time for a release, preferring to wait until enough of the packages don't have release-critical bugs.

    I could maybe see it working for a more commercial organization like SuSE, but not for an all-volunteer effort like Debian.

  22. Re:doubtful on Vatican Says Alien Life Plausible · · Score: 1

    I'm certain there will be some sophistry saying that Eden was somewhere on a planet where ours & the aliens' common ancestors are from. Possibly here, possibly elsewhere.

    Others will admit that Eden was just a metaphor after all.

  23. Re:Quitcherbitchen on Dealing With Dialup · · Score: 2, Funny

    How do you read Slashdot on your 40-column Commodore 64? Pretty impressive for a working-class guy.

  24. Re:Support Our troops on DVD Porn Viruses Ravage US Soldiers' Computers · · Score: 4, Funny

    Send them individual socks, too. Keeps things tidy.

  25. Re:I'm Canadian, you insensitive clod! on Hiding a Rootkit In System Management Mode · · Score: 1

    Nothing there but tractors, eh?!