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  1. Re:Following Google to Stupidity on Mozilla Labs: the URL Bar Has To Go · · Score: 1

    Opera 11 has a partially-hidden URL bar, and it's very annoying. It shows me what site I'm visiting (example: youtube.com) but leaves off other relevant information like the Serial ID of the video.

    ctr + F12 --> Browsing then select "show full web address in address field"

  2. Re:why GRUB? on GRUB 1.99 Released With Support For ZFS and BtrFS · · Score: 2

    Unless it's from the hookers!

  3. Re:Simplify on Invent the Medical Tricorder, Win $10,000,000 · · Score: 2

    I think the bleeding from all of your orifices might rule out allergies.

    Yes, but it still leaves open the possibility you're listening to a Justin Beiber album.

  4. Re:Sensors? on Engineers Find Nuclear Meltdown At Fukushima Plant · · Score: 1

    The sensors were fucked up - as I read this, they just now managed to recalibrate them.

    Ah, a shame Scotty isn't Japanese; he would have had those sensors back online way before now.

  5. Don't Believe It! on Idle: Fairytale Character Map Raises Ire In Russia and Ukraine · · Score: 4, Funny

    Kolobok ("a cheerful talking cake who flees animals eager to eat him").

    The cake is a liar.

  6. Re:Fly Sex on Amazon Automatic Pricing Lists Book At $23M · · Score: 1

    Did you ever stop for a moment and think that maybe people are willing to pay a huge amount of money for some info and pictures of hot, hot fly on fly action?

    Hello, McFly!!

  7. Re:Those bastards! on FPS Gaming and the 'Just-World Hypothesis' · · Score: 1

    Guess I should have used the word 'rob' in there to help make the joke between robbing people in the game and robbing the game itself of its narrative depth.

  8. Re:Those bastards! on FPS Gaming and the 'Just-World Hypothesis' · · Score: 1

    Why would you rob a game of narrative depth?

    The real world is much like GTA4. You steal stuff just because you can.

  9. Allow Me on Robots Enter Fukushima Reactor Building · · Score: 5, Funny

    Allow me to be the first to say, "domo arigato, Mr. Roboto!"

  10. Re:Leave Flash behind on Adobe To Patch Flash 0-Day Friday · · Score: 1

    According to the FSFE announcement, the technical manager and vice editorial director will be presented with cakes at separate events in Hamburg and Berlin."

    It's a trap! The cake is a lie!

  11. Re:Those who haven't read TFA... on Temporary Brain Changes Lead to Accelerated Learning · · Score: 1

    ... seem to be missing the parts where it says that the (yes, electrical) stimulation is stimulating neurotransmitters; and that any actual pain-effect is being countered by anaesthesia.

    And I'm amazed that, all these comments in, we get "I for one welcome our super-intelligent rat overlords" but haven't yet got a "where do I sign up?". Man, when we were back in undergrad before USB was invented(*), we all wanted RS232 sockets near the bases of our skulls.

    Oh, I fully agree. I get all excited too, until I realize that there's no way in bloody hell I will be able to afford these things like the accelerated learning zappage stuff.

  12. Re:Nobody needs a GUI or CLI on The Case Against GUIs, Revisited · · Score: 1

    I expect you'd find it quite unusual if someone tried to get you to do something just by pointing and clicking.

    You've never been married, have you?

  13. Re:Ugh on NASA Green-lights $16.5M To Advance Future Jets · · Score: 1

    You can drive to exactly where you're going. You can change your mind. You can carry several hundred pounds of cargo.

    Yeah, that's exactly how I refer to my mother-in-law too!

  14. Re:So, on Posting AC - a Thing of the Past? · · Score: 1

    All of the charges were dropped the second we went to court. In the end, we have arrests on our records...

    I'm a little confused...if the charges were dropped, why do you still have a record? Why wasn't all that tossed out too if you were either found not guilty or especially if charges were dropped?

    All arrests are permanently part of your "record", regardless of whether or not you were ultimately convicted, pled, or even charged with a crime in the first place.

    AND it's all public information.

  15. Re:I am ironically.... on Posting AC - a Thing of the Past? · · Score: 1

    Not for much longer.

  16. Whoa on Russian Payment Processor Runs Massive Scareware Operation · · Score: 1

    The ... evidence indicates that ChronoPay executives created scareware companies from the ground up, paying for everything from their domain name registration to virtual hosting, to setting up the front companies and associated bank accounts and the 1-800 support lines for entire scareware operations that typically netted the company millions in revenue for each scam.

    Never heard of ChronoPay before. I had to read this part three times because at first I really thought they were talking about Norton.

  17. Re:Careful what you wish for on Contents of Leaked HBGary Emails Reveal Wrongdoing · · Score: 1

    Sure, [em]this[/em] evidence, not further evidence that the inquiry might turn up.

  18. Re:Careful what you wish for on Contents of Leaked HBGary Emails Reveal Wrongdoing · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How better to hide incriminating evidence if you're the one in charge of the investigation in the first place?

  19. Re:Well... on SSDs Cause Crisis For Digital Forensics · · Score: 1

    Relcome! I wasn't sure anyone at all would get it; glad you did!

    (Insightful post, though. I just spent my last mod point, otherwise +1 to you.)

  20. Re:Well... on SSDs Cause Crisis For Digital Forensics · · Score: 4, Funny

    What wear levelling gives with one hand (performance and life) at the expense of the OS never knowing in which memory cell the data has -actually- been stored; making targeted deletion runreliable..

    Ruh-roh, Raggy! It's runreliable!

  21. Re:See your shrink, your meds need adjusting on Ask Slashdot: Is the Recycle Bin a Good GUI Metaphor? · · Score: 1

    to be fair its a huge amount of screen space ... if your using CGA

    I'm using simCGA with a Hercules graphics card, you insensitive clod!

  22. Re:Useless on Frictionless Superfluid Found In Neutron Star Core · · Score: 1

    Yea except a gram of it will weigh a few million pounds.

    At first I thought this was a "yo mama" joke, as in "Yo mama so fat, one of her grams weighs a few million pounds."

    Sadly, I'm mistaken.

  23. Re:Won't get fixed in this release... on Stuxnet's Legacy: Get Back to Basics or Get Owned · · Score: 1

    As a customer I want cost minimized too though. If regulation increases overall cost the cure is worse than the disease.

    I'll just whip those Chinese children a little harder to increase production a few more percent so that you're happy.

    Oh, please. It's not like you don't enjoy whipping those Chinese children anyways.

  24. Re:Security is hard on Stuxnet's Legacy: Get Back to Basics or Get Owned · · Score: 1

    I forget who to attribute it to, but the quote "There is no patch for human stupidity" remains as appropriate as it ever did.

    So if I decide not to patch stupid but regress to an earlier version, is that a good thing or bad?

  25. Re:fixed it for him on Secrets of a Memory Champion · · Score: 1

    Interesting you mention this. I haven't traveled to any Asian countries, but I did study Mandarin for a short while and I used that exact concept to help me memorize them. I broke down each character, root, stem, whatever I could and assigned some kind of a picture association with it and then I could remember "broken window next to leaning tree" and then make the associations with the pronunciation and meaning of the character.

    Trudeau's "tree list" also has helped me memorize phone numbers and more importantly, IP addys and port numbers and line commands. Stuff really does work with very little effort.