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  1. Re:BULLSHIT ALERT on A Strange Streak Imaged in Australia · · Score: 1

    The pictures were taken automatically by the digital camera 15 seconds apart.

  2. Re:FireFox on Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    Works fine in FireFox here.

  3. Not this week, anyway on What is this Strange Gadget in My Car? · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, your venerable Thunderbird will come under lawsuit from the Native American Trademark Association and it'll have to get changed to Lightningchicken or Firesomethingelse. ;)

  4. Re:10 bucks to the first company.... on Transparent Aluminum Is Here · · Score: 1

    sure, i'll make you a case out of this. but for a case of solid sapphire, it'll cost you more than $10.

  5. Vodka on Reverse Graffiti · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Does it disturb anyone else that Smirnoff is doing this to reach the "teenage market"?

  6. Re:Does this finally solve the *other* major probl on IEEE Approves 802.11i · · Score: 2, Interesting

    so, how exactly do you propose we do a separate physical wire over radio? and don't give me a set-frequency-per-endpoint response, because that doesn't address the scan-all-frequencies-and-listen approach.

    i'm not trolling here, i'm really wondering.

  7. ID String on Linux Scores An Ace At Wimbledon · · Score: 1

    my ID string, if anyone cares to figure out what's getting gacked, here:

    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20040312 Debian/1.4.1-0jds1

  8. Re:O2's Site on Linux Scores An Ace At Wimbledon · · Score: 1

    Well, then, that's stupid. :) Once FF0.9 makes its way into the debian backports, i'll consider it. but why go through the trouble of upgrading all the time? i consider moz 1.4.1 to be very reasonably current, and the response of "you should use X instead!" to miss the point.

    if you think your site will look funny in my browser, fine, warn me about it. but let me in and see for myself. ugh. i get the same thing all the time with sites telling me that i don't have flash installed. i *DO*, and even through CXPlugin, so it's a pretty recent (Windows) version.

  9. O2's Site on Linux Scores An Ace At Wimbledon · · Score: 5, Informative

    I can't get into O2's website at all. I get bounced saying that my browser is out of date. I'm using Mozilla 1.4.1, and I don't really want to "upgrade" to Netscape 7, as they suggest. Warning users with an odd browser, that's fine. Forcing them out of your webpage is just plain stupid. It's sites like this that make me squicky about browser detection code in general.

  10. Re:Sorry, what counts as... on What's Your Terrorism Quotient? · · Score: 2, Funny

    nah, MATIE is what the RIAA and MPAA are using to track down all those darned pirates. ARR!

  11. [OT] Re:Not exactly Tech Support, but... on Worst Explanation From Tech Support? · · Score: 1

    There's no I in team. There's no U in it, either.

    Yes, but there is an M and an E. ME ME ME!

  12. Re:Why not use an RFID tag in the licence plate on Road Marker Marks You · · Score: 1

    so please explain to me what the difference is between a big metal plate with lettering designed to be easily read some distance from the vehicle and a big metal plate with a chip designed to be easily read some distance from the vehicle?

  13. Re:Novell's next plan on KDE And Gnome Together At Last? · · Score: 1
    M-x vi-mode
    perhaps?
  14. Re:Is that the same initiative as... on Massachusetts Builds Open-Source Public Repository · · Score: 1

    i actually brought this up with them this past week at the conference for OpenSource in Government, where they initially announced the GOCC thing. the developer's been talking with tim, it seems, and they're trying to figure out of GF is really a good fit for them, especially with the security restrictions they want to have in there. maybe this will be a good push for that old RBAC patch i submitted to get dusted off and fixed? :)

  15. Re:Windows 2003? on What Differentiates Linux from Windows? · · Score: 1

    yes, you apparently did. Win2k3 is MS's new uber-expensive server platform, to replace the Win2k server series.

  16. Re:A reminder for our military in chat rooms... on Navy Unveils Polyglot Chat For Iraq · · Score: 1

    In most official military communication I'm aware of, you can assume that it's being logged someplace. Superior officers tend to like having logs of everything. Researchers (like me) like to have logs of things so that we can make the technology suck less for the users.

  17. Re:AOL translator?! on Navy Unveils Polyglot Chat For Iraq · · Score: 1

    Have you ever seen anyone type "lolololol" or "rolf" before? People who use the acronyms today don't even know what they mean in their own language!

    But Australia's still like "WTF, mate?"

  18. Re:Microsoft patent??? on Navy Unveils Polyglot Chat For Iraq · · Score: 1

    Hah. TrIM started at MITRE in late 2000. I've got the code tarballs right here to prove it, too.

  19. DUDE, I WROTE THAT! on Navy Unveils Polyglot Chat For Iraq · · Score: 1

    Specifically, back when I was a co-op in late 2000, I wrote the proof-of-concept demo versions of TrIM, the software that Coalition Chat is based off of. Over the years, I've gone back to TrIM and its related projects a few times to work on various updates. Now that I'm a full-time employee at MITRE, in the same department, people keep passing me along news of TrIM's exploits. I read the title of this article today and thought, "Wow, that sounds familiar". *grin*

  20. Re:Japan is a major importer of culture on Japan's Empire of Cool · · Score: 1

    what do you mean, "other than anime"? take a look at some old manga, the influence of disney-style artwork is glaringly obvious. i think it falls in the same category as what else you've described in your comment.

  21. Re:I don't think we should prosecute these people on Scamming Spammer Hooks the Wrong Person · · Score: 1

    i still think that Curry is amonth the greatest of our spicies.

  22. Re:Would an AI be a permanent Juvenile? on AI Sues for Its Life in Mock Trial · · Score: 1

    so your suggestion is to make a giant robotic cow as the first real test of AI?

    oh dear, i can see the movies coming already ...

  23. Re:Xfree86 and more than 1 monitor on Multiple Monitors Increase Productivity · · Score: 1

    At work, it's an ATI Radeon 7500 (with built-in dual-head). At home, it's an NVidia GeForce2GTS (primary) and a Voodoo 3 3000 (secondary).

  24. Re:Xfree86 and more than 1 monitor on Multiple Monitors Increase Productivity · · Score: 1

    considering that i'm posting this on a two-monitor XFree86 system, i'd say that it was fixed quite some time ago :)

    look for information on the 'Xinerama' extension, which allows one X display to span multiple screens.

  25. In Soviet Russia on Recommendations for RPN Calculators? · · Score: -1, Troll

    In Soviet Russia, *you* use RPN!

    hm, waitaminute ...