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  1. Re:Respect and Freedom? on Thailand Bans YouTube · · Score: 1

    Which country is that, then?

  2. Re:You suppose? on Thailand Bans YouTube · · Score: 1

    Oh, g'wan. The chicks with naturally-nice boobs generally have Chinese ancestry, and there are many there. So I've heard.

  3. Slashdot on The Top 21 Tech Flops · · Score: 1

    Tag story slashdot.

  4. Re:Some random guy doesn't like Vista on HardOCP Spends 30 Days With Vista · · Score: 1

    Technically it's NT 4.0, since they started NT's versioning with 3.1 to match with contemporary consumer Windows.

    Thus: 3.1==1.0; 3.5==1.5; 4.0==2.0; 2K==3.0; XP==3.1; Vista==4.0

    But your point still stands.

  5. Re:Beware latest XP updates on HardOCP Spends 30 Days With Vista · · Score: 2, Informative

    Do you have a Realtek sound chip? They don't like the .ani patch.

  6. Re:Correction: on Apple Ships 8-Core MacPro · · Score: 4, Informative

    Requiring admin privs for their software to run. Dmitri Sklyarov. Making Acrobat Reader bloated and slow.

  7. Re:US? on Annual H-1B Visa Cap Met In One Day · · Score: 1

    Some parts of Glasgow are pretty rough


    I have it on authority from a Glaswegian that Glasgow has the best stab-wound doctors in the world. ;-)
  8. Re:Are you high? on Daylight Saving Change Saved No Power · · Score: 1

    He could have declared Daylight Saving Time an enemy combatant and banished it to an undisclosed location.

  9. Re:Vista vs XP on Microsoft Sued Over Vista Marketing · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's all the shit that Toshiba puts on their laptops' default installs. Especially the power-management stuff, since they're evidently too cool to use ACPI like everyone else.

  10. Re:I have to go with Microsoft on this one on Microsoft Sued Over Vista Marketing · · Score: 1

    Don't we hate car analogies here?


    Yes, we do. Kindly die in a fire.
  11. Re:Are you high? on Daylight Saving Change Saved No Power · · Score: 1

    How is the parent a troll? He's absolutely right that Bush had to sign the steaming pile, though he wasn't likely to veto the entire bill over just one provision.

  12. Re:50 Best Tech Products of All Time on PC World's 50 Best Tech Products of All Time · · Score: 1

    What's that?

  13. Re:Simple! on Despite Aging Design, x86 Still in Charge · · Score: 4, Funny

    Slashdot needs a mod tag (-1, Car analogy).

  14. Re:Come on on Serenity Trounces Star Wars · · Score: 3, Informative

    I thought the second worst sin committed was killing off certain people needlessly.


    No. There were Real Life reasons for killing Book and Wash. Book's actor wanted out of acting to do political activism full-time, and Wash's actor had other acting commitments.
  15. Re:It was really late for me.. on Vista Failing "Blackboard" College Courses · · Score: 1

    Last I checked, you could still get AcroRead 7.0.9 from Adobe's website.

    Failing that, Oldversion.com has 7.0.8; however, that's vulnerable to the website security bug discovered last month.

  16. Re:What's Microsoft got to do with it? on Vista Failing "Blackboard" College Courses · · Score: 1

    Tell that to the twinks who wrote one of our apps against MS's Java runtime. Works great in IE6 with MS Java (it's a frontend to mshtml.dll). Fscks up if IE7 and/or Sun Java are installed.

    There's a fallback browser interface that works fine with Firefox or Safari plus the Sun Java runtime, at least, but it doesn't have some reporting features the users need.

  17. Re:What's Microsoft got to do with it? on Vista Failing "Blackboard" College Courses · · Score: 1

    My uni /doesn't/ allow Vista. On faculty and staff machines[1]. What are we supposed to do about new student-owned PCs, though?

    We have Blackboard for the time being but are switching to something called ANGEL for the fall semester.

    [1] Modulo unofficial installs on tech PCs so we can learn about the poxy thing.

  18. Good thing it wasn't Boston on GTA IV Trailer Inflames Big Apple Politicians · · Score: 2, Funny

    If Rockstar had set IV in a virtual Boston, there's no telling /what/ the city government might have done. Detonate game boxes because they might be bombs, probably.

  19. Re:Excrable spelling on Why Powered USB Is Going to Fail · · Score: 1

    Damnation. That Usenet law about speling flames holds on fora as well.

    In my defense, I've never seen the correct spelling used. Thanks for the fix.

  20. Excrable spelling on Why Powered USB Is Going to Fail · · Score: 1

    I might take this guy more seriously if his post wasn't full of spelling and grammar errors.

  21. Re:KDE's Achilles' heel on Is KDE 4.0 the Holy Grail of Desktops? · · Score: 1

    It's /. Nobody reads the articles, why should I start reading posts?

  22. Re:Why? on Is KDE 4.0 the Holy Grail of Desktops? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Have a look at bbLean, a Windows version of Blackbox. I think it does what you want.

  23. Re:And you're not a woman on Death Threats In the Blogosphere · · Score: 1

    Further: I'm not advocating aggression. I'm advocating being well-prepared for self-defense. If someone wants to break into my house or mug me, I don't have any trouble with rendering them incapable of harming me or mine, up to and including lethal force.

    Despite the pithiness of the quote, I don't actually own a 1911 (expensive!). Right now my weapon-of-choice is a Mosin-Nagant M44 carbine, mixed load of surplus Czech FMJ and S&B softnose for home defense.

  24. Re:And you're not a woman on Death Threats In the Blogosphere · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm not getting into another pointless flamewar about gnu control, thanks. Go jerk off somewhere else.

  25. Re:And you're not a woman on Death Threats In the Blogosphere · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The pistol is called the great equalizer for a reason.


    "I don't dial 911, I dial 1911."