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  1. Re:Typo on Google Voice Fixes Security Flaw, Almost · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Shame on you. Neither the square brackets you reprimanded him for getting wrong, nor italicized.

    And I refer you to how to properly use [sic]...

    FTFY

  2. Re:Streisand effect on Canadian Songwriters' Collective Licensing Bid Goes Voluntary · · Score: 1

    Dear MediaSentry:
    We find your lack of spell-check immensely satisfying.

    Signed,
    The Internet Explorer Dev Team

  3. Re:Chrome only browser ... on All Five Smartphones Survive Pwn2Own Contest · · Score: 1

    Please, I beg you: STOP!
    --Your next-door neighbor

  4. Re:hibernate instead of shutting down... on Fastbooting Linux For Dummies? · · Score: 1

    Toshiba Satellite A205-S4587.
    My observation was made when it had 1GB RAM, though now it has 3.25 or so (something to do with "memory hole mapping" not being on and not having a BIOS entry, it prevents the OS from seeing the full 4GB; or something like that.)

  5. Re:awesome bar on Review of GNOME 2.26 and GTK+ 2.16 · · Score: 1

    Private browsing mode.
    Or you can clear history from the last hour/2 hours/4 hours/day

  6. Re:Bad move to 4 on KDE Project Invites Ideas With Online Brainstorm · · Score: 1

    It is a valid word, though it does seem to break the standard meaning of -logy, doesn't it? Seems like there is at least one exception to every rule in English...

  7. Re:awesome bar on Review of GNOME 2.26 and GTK+ 2.16 · · Score: 1

    Google indexed those?

  8. Re:Said with no wish for partisanship on KDE Project Invites Ideas With Online Brainstorm · · Score: 1

    Windows-centric

    Also, SUSE should drop that Windows-centric Start menu, and Ubuntu needs to drop that Mac-centric panel at the top of the screen. /sarcasm

    Not every UI decision originally implemented by MS* is a bad one.

    *or did MS adopt that from something else?

    "Cancel/Apply/OK" preference dialogues which don't offer any reason not to be done more simply.

    Any suggestions on how it could be done simpler? And will your suggestion allow the same degree of control?
    The only idea I have is to drop the 'Cancel' for being redundant with the 'Close' button in the corner.

  9. Better than Ubuntu's on KDE Project Invites Ideas With Online Brainstorm · · Score: 1

    In principle, KDE's Brainstorm is more ideal for FOSS than Ubuntu's, because KDE is a higher-level project (more FOSS projects draw from KDE than from Ubuntu). An idea implemented by KDE will propagate to all distros that use it, while the only way for an idea at Ubuntu's Brainstorm to reach as far and wide is to send the changes upstream. Something I understand has been an issue with Debian and could be just as contentious with other projects.

  10. *storm on KDE Project Invites Ideas With Online Brainstorm · · Score: 2, Insightful

    First Dell's IdeaStorm*, then Ubuntu's Brainstorm, And now KDE's Brainstorm. I guess the whole "get ideas from your constituents" thing actually works.
    But why do their names all have a *storm pattern?

    *Actually, I think Lego beat them to it.

  11. Re:awesome bar on Review of GNOME 2.26 and GTK+ 2.16 · · Score: 1

    It also sorts said results "smartly" based on usage.

    This feature allows me to circumvent /.'s new system for reaching one's comment history. It's the first on the list for a typed 'c', although occasionally it will forget and I need to go to the page manually again.

  12. Re:awesome bar on Review of GNOME 2.26 and GTK+ 2.16 · · Score: 1

    Good thing there aren't suggestions or search results in it, only browsing history...

    And bookmarks.

  13. Re:tinycore linux on Fastbooting Linux For Dummies? · · Score: 1

    ...anything based on Slackware...

    openSUSE it is, then.

  14. Re:hibernate instead of shutting down... on Fastbooting Linux For Dummies? · · Score: 1

    The reason why it doesn't seem faster is because there really isn't that much more "fast" then it can go for daily tasks.

    Heck, we have timed delays built in to some interface features (menus come to mind).

  15. Re:hibernate instead of shutting down... on Fastbooting Linux For Dummies? · · Score: 4, Informative

    For me, waking from hibernation is no faster than a cold boot.

  16. Re:I don't think it will work... on Toward the Open Company · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ideally, Ben and Jerry would have found a qualified CEO that would have the same love of ice cream that they have.

    Yes. We need more qualified 4-year-olds.

  17. Re:Vista adoption.. on UI Features That Didn't Make It Into Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    XP was released in 2001.

  18. Priorities on UI Features That Didn't Make It Into Windows 7 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Remote cockpunch feature still unimplemented

    First things first. We need to invent a device that remotely stabs people in the face, first.

  19. Re:Your choice on How Do You Deal With Pirated Programs At Work? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why quote the entire post you are replying to?

  20. Re:ext4 no journal mode? on Linux Kernel 2.6.29 Released · · Score: 2, Funny

    while we're on

    I'M SORRY GRAMMAR NAZIS!
    I promise I won't drop apostrophes any more!

  21. Re:ext4 no journal mode? on Linux Kernel 2.6.29 Released · · Score: 1

    Sooo... Any defragmenters out there yet?
    And while were on that topic: Any Linux-based NTFS defragmenters?

  22. Re:Drivers??? on Linux Kernel 2.6.29 Released · · Score: 1

    I just plug in my printer, use the add printer wizard

    People still do this?

  23. Re:Stupid Crazies on 20 Years After Cold Fusion Debut, Another Team Claims Success · · Score: 1

    Could work for sending inorganic materials, but I don't think people can survive that kind of acceleration.

  24. Re:Stupid Crazies on 20 Years After Cold Fusion Debut, Another Team Claims Success · · Score: 1

    If energy was free, then you could put stuff in space for free as well, so launch a space station (with lots of water, currently quite heavy/expensive) and use that area up there to grow things.

    Do we have any means of reaching escape velocity without the use of propellants?

  25. Re:they should not turn it on on Princeton Student Finds Bug In LHC Experiment · · Score: 1

    If I flip a coin, I don't know if it will land on heads or tails.

    They can land on their edges, too. Also, how did you come to that conclusion, without somebody trying it first?