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  1. Active Directory? on IBM's Answer To Windows 7 Is Ubuntu Linux · · Score: 2, Informative

    Has anyone here been able to find a good guide for joining a Linux client to an AD domain?

  2. Re:MS Response on IBM's Answer To Windows 7 Is Ubuntu Linux · · Score: 5, Funny

    Someone should tell MS that their fiance hasn't been entirely faithful.

  3. Re:Book Selection on The Kindle Killer Arrives · · Score: 1

    As a current Kindle 2 owner, the thing that matters the most (at least to me) is book selection. An e-reader is only as useful as the books you can put on it.

    I've got three letters for you:

    P D F

  4. Let's see... on The Kindle Killer Arrives · · Score: 1

    What's not to like about Barnes and Noble's new e-book reader?

    PDF support? Check.
    WiFi? Check
    eInk? Check
    SD reader? Check
    Battery life? 10 days

    I'm not seeing a downside yet.

  5. Re:Visible moderation on CIA Invests In Firm That Datamines Social Networks · · Score: 1

    If I hadn't already posted in this thread I'd give you a +1 Funny.

  6. Re:Do not want on Nationwide Shortage In Supply of Swine Flu Vaccine · · Score: 1

    B) You will then spread it to others. H1N1 is contagious 3 days before symptoms show up.

    So I risk exposing... lets see... carry the 1... a cat. If I keep the window open.

  7. Re:WIll this be backported? on Sneak Preview of New OpenOffice 3.2 · · Score: 1

    You can ask, but I doubt it. OOo 3.2 isn't even done yet, and Ubuntu 9.10 is going to be released Thursday next week.

  8. Re:Can somebody tell me on CIA Invests In Firm That Datamines Social Networks · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you've got your own little money tree you aren't as tied to budgets set by someone else.

  9. !Anonymous. on CIA Invests In Firm That Datamines Social Networks · · Score: 5, Insightful

    An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt...

    Anonymous to us, maybe...

  10. Re:Just 50? on 50+ Android Phones Expected In Near Future · · Score: 1

    ...or one seriously decked-out Mac Pro.

    That's a bit misleading. Only a few more million and you might be able to buy two Mac Pros.

  11. Re:Typing on 10/GUI — an Interface For Multi-Touch Input · · Score: 1

    My point is that those fairly small laptop touchpads can easily be set off by one's palms/wrists while typing. It's incredibly annoying unless you make preventive adjustments in the settings (like disabling tap-to-click) that make normal touchpad use less convenient (depending on your touchpad habits, I guess... disabling tap-to-click won't be an setback for those that never use it).

    The touch-sensitive area on this thing will be much larger and therefore much more difficult to avoid touching while you type.

  12. Re:wow! on What Desktop Search Engine For a Shared Volume? · · Score: 1

    And yet it looks like you posted an hour before the article.

  13. Re:Article is doomed to failure, but PulseAudio is on PulseAudio Creator Responds To Critics · · Score: 1

    OSSv4 or older flavours simply does not have the API to deal with a modern linux desktop, plain and simple.

    And yet for me it's the only system that will play multiple audio files at one time. ALSA/PA give the entire sound card to that paused youtube video loading in the background.

  14. Re:fuck that on Observing Evolution Over 40,000 Generations · · Score: 1

    I asked the guy, c'mon man, dinosaur fossils, what's the deal? He goes, 'God put those here to test our faith'.

    I hate that argument. I prefer: "They missed the boat"

  15. Re:Evolutive pressure? on Observing Evolution Over 40,000 Generations · · Score: 1

    Did the mutations change the fenotype (the external aspect/behaviour) to something more adapted?

    They can now digest citric acid.

  16. Re:Bad for Firefox in the long run? on Firefox Disables Microsoft .NET Addon · · Score: 1

    The web browsers aren't just being used on the intranet.

  17. Surprised? on The US's Reverse Brain Drain · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Why is this a surprise? Isn't that exactly why they came here in the first place?

  18. Memory? Or an instinct? on Scientists Write Memories Directly Into Fly Brains · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Are we sure it was a new memory they created? Because we can't just interview the flies about what they were thinking, how do we know the smell conjured up a fake memory rather than, say, just a strong feeling of unease?

  19. Re:Nice excuse on HTC Dragging Feet On GPL Source Release For "Hero" Phone · · Score: 1

    Let me put it another way - I own a G1, which came preinstalled with Android. If I wanted to sell it to somebody, would I be bound by the GPL?

    No. You didn't change the code.

    If not, then what is the difference between me doing it once and a phone company doing it a million times?

    If HTC edited the source, they are obligated to provide their changes. If they didn't edit the source, I believe the worst they need to do is point their customers to where the source code came from.

  20. Re:Balance Sheet on Michael Dell Says Windows 7 Will Make You Love PCs · · Score: 1

    No, they're being sold to Slashdot users who'd never be content to endure the limits of a laptop as their "real" computer...

    Funny, most netbooks I've seen have been used as the primary computer.

  21. Re:Balance Sheet on Michael Dell Says Windows 7 Will Make You Love PCs · · Score: 1

    The OS X 10.6 update will also set you back $25.

    Are you assuming that the Mac will be bought second-hand? Because new Macs already have 10.6

  22. Re:(Un)Surprising on China Strangles Tor Ahead of National Day · · Score: 1

    Japanese fought military against military. Only cowards kills civilians (and on hiroshima case, hundreds of thousands of civilians)

    Better hundreds of thousands of civilians (at 220,000, barely qualifying for that extra s) than many times more military casualties and still hundreds of thousands of civilians that a full invasion would have cost.

  23. Re:so? on 12M Digit Prime Number Sets Record, Nets $100,000 · · Score: 1

    Since you're AC, I'll just send you here.

  24. Re:Windows Update on Comparing Performance and Power Use For Vista vs. Windows 7 WIth Clarksfield Chi · · Score: 1

    My workplace's proxy interferes with Windows Update in such a way to make it ridiculously slow.

  25. How is this the hardware's fault? The hardware isn't what changed.