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  1. Re:Alternative on Why Redhat Choose ext3 For 7.2 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    First File!
    /dev/goatse.cx

  2. Re:Who's the author? on Sklyarov, Bunner (DVD CCA) Hearings Thursday · · Score: 1

    The editorial stories are decided on by committee and are deliberately unsigned.
    See http://washpost.com/news_ed/editorial/ for their description.

  3. Re:I can't even get cable TV. on Stopping The 56K Hate · · Score: 1

    There's Satellite

  4. Re:Houston to Give Itself Legal Headaches;Mediocre on City Of Houston To Offer Free Email To Residents · · Score: 1

    No, let's not do anything that might have the slightest potential for problems. We can go back to living in caves where the worst that can happen is being ripped to bits by a tiger.

  5. Re:If you ask me on Excite@Home May Have To Call It Quits · · Score: 1

    Yes, competition is dreadful for business. There should be a single, government regulated broadband provider charging exhorbitant fees for poor bandwidth and no choice.
    IHBT.

  6. Re:Take That, You Tricksters! on Welcome to Slashdot 2.2 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, thank god it is foolproof

  7. Re:So? on New IE Disables Netscape-style Plug-ins · · Score: 3, Informative

    Obviously site specific, but only 18% of people use a browser that admits to being non-IE for google

  8. Re:I don't know if this is exactly on subject, but on Help Stress Test The New Slashdot · · Score: 1

    "Whoo - first real post"
    or
    "Whoo - first reply to first post"

  9. Re:Sure on Help Stress Test The New Slashdot · · Score: 1
    How many first posts do you want?

    By definition : one.

  10. Re:24 fps computer != 24 fps film (Re:Lets see...) on Final Fantasy At 2.5FPS · · Score: 2

    And modern cards can't do blur, depth of field, etc. etc.???

  11. Re:Lets see... on Final Fantasy At 2.5FPS · · Score: 3, Informative

    You only need 24fps for the cinema. Knocks a year or so off your estimate.

  12. Re:phrase matching on Searching For Google's Successor · · Score: 2

    put quotes around the phrase.

  13. Re:Catch22 on ATi Radeon 8500 · · Score: 1

    That is not a catch-22. There's no inherent paradox because there's no incentive to give a bad review (unless journalistic integrity counts, but these game web sites aren't run by journalists anyway.)

  14. Personalised spam on Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse vs Spam · · Score: 1
    Most of the spam I get now starts off

    Dear jedwards, Look at this amazing

    which renders checksumming the whole message a bit useless.

  15. Re:A bit of difference here on Publishers vs. Libraries, round 2 · · Score: 1

    Look up "public lending right". The payment is typically made statistically; not on a literal per-book-borrowed basis
    E.g. an explanation of Britain's PLR is at http://www.plr.uk.com/aboutus/aboutus.htm

  16. Re:Kodak-specific? on Embracing Digital Photography · · Score: 2

    If they wait then it is too late. The whole point of beta programs is to identify problems.

  17. Re:Peekaboo Fridge on IBM's Advanced PvC Technology Laboratory · · Score: 3

    They don't need to come over. http://fridge.kitchen.sparcv9.home

  18. Two, surely. on Scientists Discover Another 'Extinct' Tree · · Score: 4

    Now I just wish someone would find a thylacine.
    We need to find two; you see, when a mummy thylacine and a daddy thylacine love each other very much .....

  19. Re:Wow! on Holy Grail Action Figures · · Score: 3

    No it isn't.

  20. Re:Copyright Law, anyone? on No XP-Smarttags in Europe · · Score: 1

    They change the way the information is displayed (by adding a squiggle under words with a smart tag); they don't modify the information.
    The creator of an HTML page can't have a reasonable expectation about how the page is displayed - the enduser could be using Lynx or a cellphone or a braille device.

  21. Think of the energy generating uses though on CD-Eating Fungus Among Us · · Score: 1

    "It completely destroys the aluminium"
    2 E=MC and all that.

  22. Re:Random Cheat Testing on Cheaters Sometimes Prosper · · Score: 1

    Probably : http://www.ozforces.com/showthread.php?s=b50e0ee85 7c1967c4232f31f03f60b4a&threadid=11766&highlight=m aniac+and+demo+and+cheat

  23. Re:What has happened to the cast? on Return of The Holy Grail to the Silver Screen · · Score: 1

    Graham Chapman got a permanent position pushing up the daisies :-(

  24. Re:Proxies and web servers could kill this feature on "Smart Tags," Round Two · · Score: 2

    It is altering the data stream between the server and client by adding or removing metatags.
    If my ISP had a web proxy, for example, which did this then I would switch ISPs; I want to receive the data that the server sent me and decide for myself whether to use smarttags if the page supports it (the author hasn't disabled them).

  25. Re:Proxies and web servers could kill this feature on "Smart Tags," Round Two · · Score: 1
    That's worse.

    With smarttags at least it is the user of the data that is altering it (although MS has the control over the changes made). Having a third party (proxy) alter the data enroute will upset both the content providers and the end users.