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  1. Re:I work at Yahoo on Was the Yahoo-Google Deal a Ploy To Weaken Yahoo? · · Score: 1

    And remember: the longer you sit there the harder it will be to get up.

  2. Re:This is microsoft trying to help kill open sour on Microsoft Treating "Windows-Only" As Open Source · · Score: 2, Informative

    But (if I am understanding the comments correctly), the license forbids you from porting to code to another platform. A real open source license wouldn't do that.

  3. Hmm. on Was the Yahoo-Google Deal a Ploy To Weaken Yahoo? · · Score: 1

    I just decided to switch my default search engine to Yahoo for a while, but I don't see any ads on their search page.

  4. Moving account info on Slashdot's Disagree Mail · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, I loathed moving accounts without being able to take my karma with me, but it's really not that bad. If you behave yourself, you should get that +1 bonus back pretty quickly.

  5. Re:Wikileaks? on Judge Suppresses Report On Voting Systems · · Score: 1

    I doubt we want the election date to be movable. Would we want a President that can keep forestalling an election that would get him out of office?

  6. Re:eh on Linux Rescues Battery Life On Vista Notebooks From Dell · · Score: 1

    Or they could try:

    A good built-in mic, if you don't care about private conversation.
    OR
    Bluetooth for a headset.

  7. Re:PCI standards and real life on Credit Card Security Standard Issued · · Score: 1

    Thou shalt apply ROT13 encryption to all credit card data.

    Twice.

  8. Re:Key exchange. on Spammers Targeting Microsoft's Revised CAPTCHA · · Score: 1

    (X) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business

    No, they'd be dead, so their business would be left in tact for their next of kin who would now be less inclined to spam.

    Being dead certainly hurts one's career, though.

  9. Re:So is anyone making a distro around these ideas on How Kernel Hackers Boosted the Speed of Desktop Linux · · Score: 1

    Personally, I've sometimes found XFCE to be slightly slower than Gnome or KDE.

  10. Re:On an old Pentium III laptop... on How Kernel Hackers Boosted the Speed of Desktop Linux · · Score: 1

    Looks like someone needs DSL, DSL-N, or Puppy.

  11. Re:Simple solution. Ask on Sysadmin Steals Almost 20,000 Pieces of Computer Equipment · · Score: 1

    My workplace "donates" old equipment to the local community college. It goes straight IT department head. He puts it in a large pile outside his room. He's also my teacher. Although by the time my workplace gets rid of it, it is mostly useless to even me (a few weeks ago, I pulled a Mac Classic, a Mac SE, a Mac IIc, a Mac IIe, some laptop with labeled "ARM", another laptop labeled "GRiDCase", and 4 mouseballs from Apple Hockey Pucks)

  12. Re:Not unusual on Sysadmin Steals Almost 20,000 Pieces of Computer Equipment · · Score: 1

    Well, with the intercept-computers-headed-for-the-trash method, the parts are genuinely being thrown away. What your co-workers did was outright theft.

  13. Re:Old stuff? on Sysadmin Steals Almost 20,000 Pieces of Computer Equipment · · Score: 1

    Nah, I already got two.

  14. Re:Key exchange. on Spammers Targeting Microsoft's Revised CAPTCHA · · Score: 1

    I googled "spam form letter" and got this

  15. Re:Makes sense on Man Uses Remote Logon To Help Find Laptop Thief · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If not reformat completely.

  16. Re:Key exchange. on Spammers Targeting Microsoft's Revised CAPTCHA · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Form has already accounted for this:

    (X) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
    (X) The police will not put up with it
    (X) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
    (X) Laws expressly prohibiting it
    (X) Jurisdictional problems
    (X) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
    (X) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough

  17. Re:Artifical... Real... on Scientists Closer To Creating Artificial Noses · · Score: 1

    Leave this "nose" and a normal one in plastic bags for a week or two and compare how they smell afterwards.

  18. Re:Five senses? Bah. on Scientists Closer To Creating Artificial Noses · · Score: 1

    That would depend on how vaguely you define "touch"

  19. Re:People should still be careful on Scientists Closer To Creating Artificial Noses · · Score: 1

    According to other people, I am in a similar situation. I think I can smell just fine, but people around me will be floored by odors I don't notice until someone brings attention to it.

  20. Re:Random searches on Google, Circa 2001 · · Score: 1

    goatse: (1,400) 822,000

  21. Re:Foctothorpe FTW on C# In-Depth · · Score: 1

    You forgot the link

  22. Re:You mean like... on Do We Live In a Giant Cosmic Bubble? · · Score: 2

    The Republicans now have a torture advocate and a creationist Nazi-sympathizing theocrat on their ticket for November.

    [citation needed]

  23. Re:vt100 terminal? on Microsoft To Release Cloud-Oriented Windows OS · · Score: 1

    How is cloud computing really any different than using a (dumb) vt100 terminial...

    A vt1000 is a thin client being used as a thin client. This is a fat client being used as a thin client. Maybe we'll see a return of "Internet Appliances"

  24. Re:hohum on Microsoft To Release Cloud-Oriented Windows OS · · Score: 1

    "Vista has not succeed"

    Sounds like something from icanhascheezburger

  25. Re:Microsoft Cloud on Microsoft To Release Cloud-Oriented Windows OS · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, it has one