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  1. Re:why dont we just use chinese characters? on Lobster, a New Game Programming Language, Now Available As Open Source · · Score: 1

    You should watch that lightning talk about Perl operators: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ3LEbiH4Nc

  2. Re:Server width is changing Rack Width isn't on Open Compute Developing Wider Rack Standard · · Score: 1

    Yay, so that means that I can still use my lack rack. :)

  3. Could psychohistory be the answer? on Why Economic Models Are Always Wrong · · Score: 2

    I wonder if that could apply.

  4. An open source effort on Ask Slashdot: Network Backup Solution Out of the Box? · · Score: 1

    ... by a company named Singly might be of interest to you. It's called the locker project.

  5. Google maps aerial views on 3D Aerial Photos For the Common Man · · Score: 2

    Would this work with aerial photographs that can be seen on google maps? That would cover a large area already.

  6. Epiphany on Chrome May Drop the URL Bar · · Score: 1

    Epiphany (GNOME browser) already offers to hide address bar.

  7. Not the first open URL shortener on URL Shortener tr.im To Go Community-Owned, Open Source · · Score: 1

    There's already at least another one: ur1.ca It's from the same guys that made the open competitor to twitter called identi.ca / laconi.ca

  8. Job description on Even Dirtier IT Jobs · · Score: 1

    Wanted: Individuals with low self-esteem and high boredom threshold willing to spend long hours poring over server logs and watching blinking lights on a network console.

    Sounds a lot like the job the goth guy in the IT crowd is doing.

  9. Re:Quorum? on Trick Used To Pass French "Three Strikes" · · Score: 1

    Also, from the linked article (dammit, accentuation removed, won't they ever learn UTF-8 ?) :

    You insensitive clod, we just had an horrible law passed and you're hitting us while we're on the ground with our Unicode problems :'(

  10. Achievement suggestions as reference? on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 1

    Some of the achievements proposed in the comments are actually good references about the slashdot folklore. Keeping a list of them available somewhere could be a good way for newcomers to become familiar with the community they're getting into. P.S.: I wonder if replying to this on the 2nd also gets you the April's fool achievement.

  11. Re:Pessulus on Locking Down Linux Desktops In an Enterprise? · · Score: 1

    And you might want to add Sabayon for full effectiveness.

  12. Rail Corporation NSFW on Timetable App Developer Gets Nastygram From Transit Sydney · · Score: 1

    Do they have nudist trains?

  13. Re:Oh come on! on An Early Look At New Features In OpenOffice.org 3.1 · · Score: 1

    ...or Foresight Linux, or Arch Linux.

  14. Re:Brute-force password guessing not a problem on GPUs Used To Crack WiFi Passwords Faster · · Score: 1

    Oh! So you are my neighbour!

  15. I wonder on How To Cut In Line and Not Get Caught · · Score: 1

    On iPhone's launchday in some countries, Apple had paid actors to queue in front of the shops. Would these actors let you cut in the queue without a word or would they actually play their role and become angry?

  16. Registers on (Useful) Stupid Vim Tricks? · · Score: 1

    " and a letter before a command will save the content into a register named by the letter. For instance, "add will cut the line and save it into register a. If you want to paste this, just do "ap. You can even append things in a register by using the capital letter. "Add will append one more line to the one we cut earlier and now "ap will paste these two lines. See :help reg for more info on this topic.

  17. David Copperfield... on How To Cloak Objects At a Distance · · Score: 1

    ... has been doing this for years.

  18. Superpeers on Researchers Decentralize BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    Without delving into the Tribble source I would guess the other reply below is correct that a hosts.txt lists some long-lived peers in the network to bootstrap the search from.

    Yes, there are 8 superpeers that do the bootstraping.