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  1. Twitter on Flying Robot Bird Unveiled · · Score: 1

    Does it twitter what it sees?

  2. BC is dead on The Death of BCC · · Score: 1

    BC has been dead for thousands of years. We have been using AD for 2010 years now. Try to catch up, people!

  3. And iTex will be followed... on Stop the Math Press's Presses — Knuth Announces iTex · · Score: 1

    ...by a new version, called Hitex.

  4. Re:Text adventures on Amazon Kindle To Get Apps and EA Games · · Score: 1

    I'd say it's a game interpreter. Contrary to a generic reader, it's not in competition with amazons own business.

  5. Text adventures on Amazon Kindle To Get Apps and EA Games · · Score: 1

    I haven't got a Kindle, but if I will be able to play my Infocom text adventures on it, then I might consider getting one.

  6. Re:Hands-on on Skin-Based Display Screens From Nanotech Tattoos · · Score: 1

    Or is it On-hands experience???

  7. Hands-on on Skin-Based Display Screens From Nanotech Tattoos · · Score: 3, Funny

    Where can I get some hands-on experience with this technology?

  8. Re:Now I think I've seen it all... on Denon's $499 Ethernet Cable · · Score: 1

    Yes, you get rid of crosstalk this way.

  9. Re:By Hand on How Would You Prefer To Send Sensitive Data? · · Score: 1

    And if you are really, really unlucky, it will be inside the case.

  10. Re:What pisses me off on The "Loudness War" and the Future of Music · · Score: 1

    here here! Where?
  11. Re:Question on Enigma Machine for Sale on eBay · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes. All VI commands are Enigma encrypted.

  12. Re:Horrible idea, but thats par for the course for on Vista Startup Sound to be Mandatory? · · Score: 1

    Why don't you just plug in a set of headphones? On all laptops i've come across, the internal speakers are muted, when something is plugged into the headphones plug.

  13. Re:Oh, great... on Microsoft to 'Support and Usurp' Unix · · Score: 1

    I bet they'll call it POSIX# or POSIX.NET...

  14. Re:wtf on Science 'Not for Normal People' · · Score: 1

    CmdrTaco has been hinting that he will be making some major changes to Slashdot over the coming weeks/months

    Like avoiding duplicate stories in the future?

  15. Re:who cares? on High-tech Cars Replacing Driver Skill? · · Score: 1

    Power steering? Luxury! My first car was a 1975 Volvo 244 with NO ABS No Power steering, manual choke, manual gears a low km/litre rate. And I liked it!

  16. Re:Where are the links? on Windows, Linux 25 Year Old "Clunkers"? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Take it easy, hopefully the /. editors will include a link, next time they post the story.

  17. Re:My Windows XP has heap protection! on Heap Protection Mechanism · · Score: 1

    ...that says that this page is only code and not data and you shouldn't try to run anything in here

    The "only code, not data. DO NOT RUN THIS" flag could be the reason why my Windows box stops working sometimes... Hope the BSD implementation is a bit better.

  18. Re:The essentials! on What's On Your Tech Bench? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...and a coffee machine. Where would you be without good old Mr. Coffee?

  19. Re:Yeah, but... on A Serious Contender for the Couch Throne · · Score: 1

    Wait... I got it... Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these, each playing one instrument. We could call it a Symphony orchestra

  20. They forgot... on Keeping a Data Center Cool on the Cheap · · Score: 1

    ...to cut a hole in the plastic for the network cables, cause the server is not responding.

  21. So? on New York Computerizes its Subway System · · Score: 1

    Copenhagen has had driverless trains for some years:
    See http://www.m.dk/en/train and http://www.m.dk/en/qa

  22. Re:Yeah, you need that with a Windows laptop on Canon's new 16.7MP Digital SLR, with WiFi · · Score: 1

    So what are you doing with the laptop exactly when you shut the lid?

    Lots of things... At the office when it's placed in its docking station, the lid is closed and an external monitor, keyboard and mouse is connected. Do it every day.

  23. This server should have enough power... on SGI & NASA Plan 10240-Processor Altix Cluster · · Score: 1

    ...to withstand a good slashdot'ing. Now, what should they put on the webpages? Images from Mars? A "behind the secenes - How we faked the Mars landing"?

  24. Re:There's a trilogy? on Ten-disc 'Matrix' DVD Box Set Planned · · Score: 1

    Highlander - There can be only one. Unless, of course, it's a success, in wich case we reserve the rights to make a number two, three, four...

  25. Re:No Kidding! on HTML Frames Considered Harmful · · Score: 1

    Here's why: In the description it says that You should open a trusted website and opens MSDN as an example. If you don't trust Microsoft, then the site isn't trusted and the bug doesn't apply to you. Try with some Linux site instead.