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  1. Re:Serious Hardware in 1997... on DreamPlug ARM Box Brings Power To Plug Computing · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not that many Pentium 2 PCs were small and light enough you could hang it from the wall socket.
    And good luck getting Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GigE, eSATA, and DDR2 working in it.

  2. Re:Edition required on DreamPlug ARM Box Brings Power To Plug Computing · · Score: 4, Funny

    Naturally I misspelled "Editing" in my Subject line.

  3. Edition required on DreamPlug ARM Box Brings Power To Plug Computing · · Score: 4, Funny

    DreamPlug — and it's a major improvement over its predecessors, packing some serious hardware into a tiny case. The DreamPlug packs some serious power in its tiny case.

    Slashdot, brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Department!

  4. Re:Cheating? on Bing Is Cheating, Copying Google Search Results · · Score: 1, Interesting

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    The purpose of a search engine is to provide search results that match the user's desire for information. What Bing are doing is compatible with this purpose.

    That doesn't mean its right, I'm just pointing out a couple of false analogies.

    It does change the question of "what's the best search engine?" from Google vs Bing to Google (today) vs Google (last month)

  5. Re:MOD PARENTS UP! on Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook Page Hacked · · Score: 1

    There's no indication that they accept bug reports, even.

    The announcement I linked to said "Please direct your bug reports and feedback (good and bad!) to Garrett Woodworth who is currently in charge of such things.". I think it's a pretty good indication, but that's just me.

    I haven't received a response, either, although on of the issues I reported has been partially fixed.

  6. Re:MOD PARENTS UP! on Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook Page Hacked · · Score: 1

    Well, bug reports. Assuming they do accept patches, that'd be a logical place to send 'em.

  7. Re:MOD PARENTS UP! on Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook Page Hacked · · Score: 1

    The anouncement says you email Garrett Woodworth at feedback@slashdot.org

  8. Re:Horrible. on Slashdot Launches Re-Design · · Score: 1

    And the hotkeys don't seem to work quite right.

  9. Re:What idealistic state? on LibreOffice 3.3 Released Today · · Score: 1

    Although, I kinda wish we could just "fork" Oracle (in the a**) and move on. If you know what I mean ;)

    Why the quotation marks? I imagine an actual fork would be worse than what you mean.

  10. Re:Don't worry big media, the fix is in on Obama Nominates RIAA Lawyer For Solicitor General · · Score: 1, Troll

    No such thing as a "good" lawyer. Just effective ones.

  11. Re:Rogue servers on Espionage In Icelandic Parliament · · Score: 1

    Ape.

  12. Re:Buy Only What You Want on Italian Consumer Watchdog Sues Microsoft Over 'Windows Tax' · · Score: 1

    As far as Laptops are concerned, non-Windows basically means the XO.

    Or Apple.

  13. Re:Buy Only What You Want on Italian Consumer Watchdog Sues Microsoft Over 'Windows Tax' · · Score: 2

    Not many prebuilt computers have the price, specs, and OS we want.

    Some computers, like laptops, can't usually be assembled at home.

  14. Re:Pshaw on Google Fires Back About Search Engine Spam · · Score: 1

    You can add it to your search bar's URL.

  15. Re:Regarding IE on Australian Government Denies Microsoft Bias In OOXML Choice · · Score: 1

    And how do you tell several hundred machines to download it? Have a custom metapackage on a private repo?

  16. Re:Riding coattails! on FSF Announces Support For WebM · · Score: 2

    One more stamp of approval you can ad to the list when presenting to your superiors.

  17. Re:Choice on Australian Government Denies Microsoft Bias In OOXML Choice · · Score: 1

    So you can read docx files in Open Office? Interesting how everyone here is carrying on that no other office suites support these formats.

    It'll read it, for the most part, and may even write it now, but there are formatting issues. It doesn't have certifiable support for the format, so using it would technically be breaking the rules.

  18. Re:Why should they change? on Australian Government Denies Microsoft Bias In OOXML Choice · · Score: 2

    Microsoft 2007+ supports ODF (or so they say). Departments could continue pouring money down that particular hole if they wanted to, but the ones with tighter budgets could decide for themselves whether LibreOffice/OpenOffice or Calligra were good enough for their needs.

  19. Re:No bias at all. on Australian Government Denies Microsoft Bias In OOXML Choice · · Score: 1

    It's defined by a single entity, but it is being supported by by Google, Mozilla, ffmpeg, Opera, and more.

  20. Re:Rogue servers on Espionage In Icelandic Parliament · · Score: 3, Funny

    Reminds me of this.

  21. Re:How many people will this actually affect? on Soundminder Android Trojan Hears Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    They asked me for the full card number, but no social.

  22. Re:How many people will this actually affect? on Soundminder Android Trojan Hears Credit Cards · · Score: 3, Interesting

    When my cards expire my bank mails me a new card, with a phone number to call in order to activate it. The process involves telling the machine what card is being activated.

  23. Re:Thank God.... on Cybercriminals Shifting Focus To Non-Windows OSes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Apache holds 50% of the webserver market, often on Linux. Much more valuable targets than a generic PC.

  24. Re:What about Venus on Cosmological Constant Not Fine Tuned For Life · · Score: 1

    Yes, it marks the absolute inner boundary. But Wikipedia claims the habitable zone is from 0.725 to 3.0 AU, so we're comfortably closer to the inner boundary than the middle.

  25. Habitable Zone on Cosmological Constant Not Fine Tuned For Life · · Score: 1

    And Earth is on the inner edge of the habitable zone, instead of the middle. If they can reconcile that with the fine-tuning theory, they can reconcile this news.