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  1. Re:See? We told you! on ARM-Powered Laptops To Increase Linux Market Share · · Score: 1

    Well you know you can just use ^W to wipe the whole word, don't you ?

  2. Re:Except Chrome OS is shit. on ARM-Powered Laptops To Increase Linux Market Share · · Score: 1

    I won't say it's shit, but I agree, it looks more like an internet cafe web terminal than an everyday OS.

  3. Re:Groan on Slashdot Turns 100,000 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yeah it would be cool to have some sort of linux kernel swear counts but with /. stories, which matches some patterns like:

    • in soviet russia * you
    • i, for one, welcome our new * overlords
    • but does it run linux
    • imagine a beowulf cluster of those
    • there. fixed that for you
    • goatse
    • [no carrier]
    • you must be new here
    • cowbowneal

    Come on /. devs, bring us a xmas gift ! ;)

  4. Re:A hack? Hardly on Time Warner Cable Modems Expose Users · · Score: 1

    a simple hack putting some 65,000 customers at risk

    Some guy has not learned how to use a proper integer type.

  5. Re:Great on Firefox Disables Microsoft .NET Addon · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's not just a useragent string, but it allows remote code execution. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=522777

  6. Re:OS Change on Revisiting the Original Reviews of Windows Vista · · Score: 2, Funny

    What are you trying to say, that mothers are less technically competent?

    Oblig. xkcd: http://xkcd.com/341/

  7. This OS will self destruct in 5, 4, ... on Microsoft Blocks Pirates From Security Essentials Software · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Knowing that, any user of a counterfeit version of Windows will not be fool enough to install such an application, isn't it ?

  8. Re:Sorry guys, but... on Mac Clone Maker Psystar Files For Bankruptcy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Okay, you get on that pronto. I'll create a GUI interface using Visual Basic ... see if I can track an IP address.

    Actually that made me smile... FYI: source

  9. Re:obviously on Survey Finds Airport Wi-Fi More Important Than Food · · Score: 1

    Except TFA tells about airport convenience, not airplanes.

  10. Re:Stereotypes usually have some kernal of truth on Does Dell Know What Women Want In a Laptop? · · Score: 2, Funny

    OMG PINK LAPTOPS !

  11. Re:First MD5 and now this on Preparing To Migrate Off of SHA-1 In OpenPGP · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is there any hash function that actually is secure?

    Of course the good ol' rot13 !

  12. Write once, reproduce more on Robo-Arm Signatures Are Legal, Gov't Buys One · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How this handle security? If the signature is sent remotely, it is possible to store ones signature to reproduce it several times afterwards.

  13. Re:Doesn't a PIN Require the Physical Card? on Subverting PIN Encryption For Bank Cards · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Obvious things like 1-2-3-4 are not allowed.

    That's the combination to my luggage!

    And that's my computer account password too! That's surprisin #@&%*! NO CARRIER

  14. Perpetual motion on Work Progresses On 10,000 Year Clock · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Running under its own power

    Perpetual motion ?

  15. Re:Screwed? on What Do You Call People Who "Do HTML"? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nope. That would be a system administrator. A webmaster is more the guy who maintain the website, ie. uploading the html/php files updates and so on.

  16. Re:Slashdot achievements on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 1

    Why not ?

  17. Re:It's a beta.. on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope Now In Beta · · Score: 1

    Never heard of OSNews ?

  18. Re:Harmony remotes on Universal Remote's Days Are Numbered · · Score: 1

    I had to setup an Harmony for a client, the bastard had 10+ devices and I spent 1.5 days for having this to work. Not so user friendly.

  19. Re:Pretty impressive? Wait to see what I got... on John Mather On the Building of the James Webb Space Telescope · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Pretty impressive? ...Clearly you haven't seen what I have inside my pants. ;-)

    What? A black hole?

  20. Re:Metallic Chum on Robot Fish To Hunt Down Pollution · · Score: 1

    Or what about fishing nets?

  21. Re:Mere mortals need mroe toy budget on Optimizing Linux Systems For Solid State Disks · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sure. There are *lots* of considerations beyond speed to want SSDs

    And SSD drives are also shock-resistant.