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  1. Re:Yes.. well... no.. but no but yes on Ask Slashdot: Would You Take a Pay Cut To Telecommute? · · Score: 1

    Portland, OR is one of the roughest job markets in the country right now. Good luck finding a job as someone out of the area; many of us here can't even find work

  2. Re:Jimmy Wins on The Biggest Hoaxes In Wikipedia's First Decade · · Score: 1

    Except, that's actually a counter-example. It's always "Watson and Crick"

  3. Re:Interesting tool on Charles Darwin's Best-Kept Secret · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you think that the Grand Canyon, or any desert region really, is without any plant or animal life at all, you're not paying attention

  4. Re:Herein follow a few terms to help you get start on Justice Department Seeks Ebonics Experts · · Score: 1

    Boo doesn't denote the name of a friend. It's an SO or lover

  5. Re:IBM is headed that way too on Google Reportedly Ditching Windows · · Score: 1

    IOW, you have no idea what netbook means.

  6. Re:Abuse of Restaurant Workers on The Sopranos Meet H-1B In New Jersey · · Score: 1

    Pho Thanh still treats their workers like shit, but I don't think Mr. Long beats people these days. I know a girl who worked there for a few months; they treated her better than the other women because she's white.
    Mediocre pho, cheap prices, and indeed very convenient.

  7. Re:Constitution? on Supreme Court Rolls Back Corporate Campaign Spending Limits · · Score: 1

    Supreme court appointments are for life. They are not subject to impeachment or involuntary removal.

  8. Re:!begsthequestion on Ten Things Mobile Phones Will Make Obsolete · · Score: 3, Informative

    Quantum doesn't mean small, and quantum leap is not meant to imply anything about the magnitude of the change. Rather, it refers to the discontinuous nature of the change

  9. Re:Think of the towers on Apple Says iPhone Jailbreaking Could Hurt Cell Towers · · Score: 1

    Likewise,
    Do not pervert the word computer to mean freedom
    A computer is simply something that performs maths.

  10. Re:eh? on Advanced Excel for Scientific Data Analysis · · Score: 1

    Except Office Home and Student is just a product title, not a special student-only version.

  11. Re:Please adhere to RFC on Gmail, SPF, and Broken Email Forwarding? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Indeed, as the former abuse/e-mail guy for Dotster, who own mydomain.com, I can't even express how annoying it is to see it used as an example and the deluge of bogus e-mail we had to reject as a result.

  12. Re:Probably teachable... on How To Teach a Healthy Dose of Skepticism? · · Score: 1

    Reproductive advantages doesn't necessarily equate to what we find as a better trait

  13. Re:BSA on Boy Scouts Ask Open Source Community For Help · · Score: 1

    Taking a naturalistic viewpoint is exactly what got me through the last question of my Eagle board of review

  14. Re:Pixel pitch is too small for me on Dell Shows Off Its Eee PC Rival · · Score: 1

    Especially given that most DVI ports still have analog capabilities in addition to digital. On these, you're always just a simple mechanical adapter away from VGA.

  15. Re:500 bucks? are they insane? on Dell Shows Off Its Eee PC Rival · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Webmail on Large Web Host Urges Customers to Use Gmail · · Score: 0, Redundant

    From the Domestic Mail Manual, Section 133

    2.2.1 Inspection of Contents

    First-Class Mail is closed against postal inspection. Federal law and USPS regulations restrict both opening and reviewing the contents of First-Class Mail by anyone other than the addressee.

    So, no. Unless there's white powder coming out of the letter and you happen to be mailing a senator, you can be assured that your mail isn't being read

  17. Re:Nice Theory But... on A Walk Through the Hard Drive Recovery Process · · Score: 1

    there is no oil in the bearings of a Hitachi (formerly IBM) drive. They ride on an air bearing. As do all other hard drives. Fluid dynamic bearings?
  18. Re:Why is KDE still not the mainstream? on A Screenshot Review of KDE 4 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Where are you getting that top 10 list from?
    From http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major

    Ubuntu (Gnome, although you might argue that since kubuntu is official and not really a fork, that this could be either)
    openSUSE (either)
    Fedora (Gnome)
    Debian (Gnome)
    Mandriva (KDE)
    PCLinuxOS (KDE)
    MEPIS (KDE)
    KNOPPIX (KDE)
    Slackware (KDE)
    Gentoo (either, neither. same with sabayon)
    FreeBSD (not a linux distro, I know. anyway, either, neither)

    So, conservatively, I see 3 Gnome, 2 either, and 5 KDE

  19. Re:example.com or invalid or donotreply.mydomain.c on What Happens To Bounced @Donotreply.com E-Mails · · Score: 1

    And yet, you aren't even practicing what you preach.
    I'm sure the folks at mydomain.com are tired of getting bogus traffic from people writing examples with their domain rather than a .example TLD

  20. Re:Gandi.net is not an eNom.com reseller? on Wikileaks Calls For Global Boycott Against eNom · · Score: 1

    Where is this misinformation coming from? You asked this last time there was an eNom story too. Get a clue. http://registrar.verisign-grs.com/cgi-bin/whois?whois_nic=GANDI+SAS&x=19&y=12&type=registrar&whois_tld=Whois+TLD Gandi is not a reseller, they're a legitimate registrar. If you spend 30 seconds on google, you could have found this too. Instead, you choose to beg the question over and over again in an attempt to discredit or at least associate them with eNom. /former Dotster employee. And no, we weren't an eNom reseller either...

  21. Re:Expected answer on White House Must Answer For Missing Emails · · Score: 1

    The reason over and underrated don't get metamoderated is because you would have to store the current score at the time the moderation occurred, which the system apparently does not.

  22. Re:But... on Linux Kernel 2.6 Local Root Exploit · · Score: 1

    Got SSH on there? Again, based on past experiences, this might hose you.
    Are you aware of a remote arbitrary code execution bug in an SSH server that we missed?
  23. Re:This is incorrect on Linux Kernel 2.6 Local Root Exploit · · Score: 3, Informative

    RTFS?
    2.6.14.7 does not fall within the affected range of 2.6.17 to 2.6.24.1

  24. Re:Hmmm. on Yahoo Offers All-You-Can-Eat Storage and Bandwidth · · Score: 2, Funny

    SMTP is port 25
    What kind of bizarro world do you live in where pop2 (109) and ODMR(366) matter at all?

  25. Re:Payment is just the beginning on eBay to Drop Negative Feedback on Buyers · · Score: 1

    Except it's not e-bay's policy to remove feedback like that.
    See http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/feedback-abuse-withdrawal.html