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  1. Re:Frequencies? on 4G Broadband May Jam GPS · · Score: 1
  2. But... on Wireless Power Consortium Pushes For Standard · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Isn't this "wireless power" stuff just a terrible waste of energy?

  3. Re:Sneakernet on BitTorrent For Enterprise File Distribution? · · Score: 1

    Problem is, both latency and packet loss are quite high...

  4. Nothing new on Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 Adds Private Browsing · · Score: 4, Informative
    Isn't this what Distrust is for? And that one is even better:
    1. Activate it.
    2. Surf.
    3. Deactivate it.

    It then deletes everything that happened between 1. and 3., but keeps what happened before you activated it.

  5. Re:Baby Blues. on History of the LED — the Movie · · Score: 1

    Electrical tape works wonders, though.

    So does the 'off' switch...

  6. Re:Baby Blues. on History of the LED — the Movie · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Blue LEDs have the highest intensity.

    Also, they look cool, and now they are affordable. I mean, you couldn't get them, now you can, therefore you do.

  7. Re:Advertisment on Astronaut Loses Tools While Performing an EVA · · Score: 1

    1. Scissors-On-A-Rope
    2. ??
    3. Scissors      Rope

  8. Next is... on (Useful) Stupid Regex Tricks? · · Score: 1

    (Useful) Stupid Slashdot Tricks?

  9. Re:Does this... on Wayland, a New X Server For Linux · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...year of Linux at last?

    This sentence no verb and no desktop.

  10. Re:How much more ? on Good Open Source, Multi-Platform, Secure IM Client? · · Score: 3, Informative

    You might want to check their homepage and the Wikipedia article.

    OTR works very well for me. I recommend Pidgin as a client and Jabber as a protocol.

  11. Re:But will the wifi work? on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) Released · · Score: 1

    I recommend you try the Live-CD.

  12. They'll call it... on The Second Coming of Virtual Worlds · · Score: 1

    ... Virtual World 2.0

    What's next?

  13. Re:Here you go on Browsing Frugally Without Wasting Bandwidth? · · Score: 1

    Or cURL. Far less bloated.

  14. Re:What? on Web Singletons? · · Score: 1

    archive = lambda: archive()

    <type 'exceptions.RuntimeError'>: maximum recursion depth exceeded

  15. Re:Whatever you do on How Should I Teach a Basic Programming Course? · · Score: 1

    Don't teach BASIC.

    Agreed. But don't teach them C either, because that would be the other extreme.

    I recommend Python as an easy-to-learn yet extremely useful general-purpose (this sorts out PHP) language.

  16. Re:What I would do is this... on Getting Paid To Abandon an Open Source Project? · · Score: 1

    Oh well, it still leaves them stuck with an old and unmaintained version.

    No, they are not stuck.

    1. Company changes license.
    2. Community starts fork.
    3. Profit for everyone but the company.
  17. Re:Wait a minute... on New Approach To Malware Modifies Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    If they modified Linux kernel, they modified then the Linux operating system and not just kernel, because Linux is monolith kernel and not microkernel...

    So is it still Linux?

  18. Re:Linux?? on New Approach To Malware Modifies Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    Correct, but from the article (emph mine):

    "Prof. Wool and Ben-Cohen have built an open-source software solution for servers that run on Linux."

    Would you run anything anyone sent you on your mail server? Probably not.

    In a desktop environment, their software might be more useful.

  19. Linux?? on New Approach To Malware Modifies Linux Kernel · · Score: 2, Informative

    I really don't think Linux has problems with malware. I think there is an other operating system having more trouble.

    As far as I know virus scanners are used on servers mostly to check data that goes through it (example: email server); this data will however not be executed on the server.

  20. Re:Learn by example on What To Do Right As a New Programmer? · · Score: 1

    1. Read The Daily WTF. 2. Don't do that.

    3. Profit. How could you forget that?

  21. Re:Everybody makes mistakes, false positives on Google Goofs On Firefox's Anti-Phishing List · · Score: 2, Informative

    Any maintained blacklist of any reasonable size is going to end up with false positives. It's one of those things you just have to accept. People notice and report it, the entry gets removed, and we move on.

    *If* the entry gets removed.

  22. Re:Vi/Vim! on Best Cross-Platform, GUI Editor/IDE For Python? · · Score: 1

    vim calls it 'omnicompletion', and if set up correctly it will look in modules.
    Add the following to your .vimrc, then use Ctrl-X Ctrl-O in insert mode:
    autocmd FileType python set omnifunc=pythoncomplete#Complete

  23. bloated on Spolsky's Software Q-and-A Site · · Score: 1

    The real question is: nano vs notepad?

  24. Esoteric Languages on Best Reference Site For Each Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    For esoteric languages, see: http://esolangs.org/wiki/Main_Page

  25. BF Instruction Minimalization on Best Reference Site For Each Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    You might want to take a look at this.