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  1. Re:My lawn on Slashdot Keybindings, Dynamic Stories · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nothing wrong, except where it adds no value. I want a list of articles, grouped by category, that I can browse, then hit either a link to the article, or the comments.

    I don't need tags, AJAX, redraws w/o page loads, blah blah blah.

    There was nothing wrong with good old 'rn'.

  2. lynx on Slashdot Keybindings, Dynamic Stories · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just don't break Lynx support.

  3. Re:I've been using this for a month with ext4 on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope Now In Beta · · Score: 1

    What can you possibly need swap for on a Netbook?

  4. Re:Here we go again on Going Deep Inside Xserve Apple Drive Modules · · Score: 1

    And to prove your point, you refer to a HD manufacturer website. Why don't you write an article about it too?

    FAIL.

  5. Re:Not underappreciated, just irrelevant on The Underappreciated Risks of Severe Space Weather · · Score: 1

    Did you miss the part about how once the generator fuel tanks dry up, there's no more fuel? Or how "ordinary mail" won't work without an IT and fuel delivery infrastructure? The only thing you can do to prepare for a cataclysmic solar event is stockpile booze, cigarettes, and shotgun shells.

  6. Here we go again on Going Deep Inside Xserve Apple Drive Modules · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Is this like how SCSI drives have special pixie dust on the platters that ATA drives don't, and that makes them more "enterprise-y"?

  7. Not underappreciated, just irrelevant on The Underappreciated Risks of Severe Space Weather · · Score: 1

    How is space weather relevant, given that there's completely nothing you can do about it? It's not like putting tape on your windows will help keep your electrical grid from frying.

  8. Re:downhill since Smash Lab on Mythbusters Accidentally Bust Windows In Nearby Town · · Score: 1

    THIS.

    Scottie was much cooler.

  9. downhill since Smash Lab on Mythbusters Accidentally Bust Windows In Nearby Town · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ever since these other "lets blow stuff up on high speed film" shows came out, MythBusters has had to blow more and more stuff up, kind of getting anti-intellectual nowadays. Plus Kari needs a bigger rack.

  10. Newspaper Revitilization Act of 2009 on Strip-Search Case Tests Limits of 4th Amendment · · Score: 1

    Since Obama is marching us all to socialism anyway, who's to say that the kids ARENT the property of the State, just like Elian Gonzalez ?

  11. Re:Dispite what everyone says... on UI Features That Didn't Make It Into Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    It's like the Oracle/MS-SQL argument... for years MS-SQL has been "getting better" and "more enterprise". Why dick around with a tinkertoy DB when Oracle has done it all for years? Why reward a Johnny-come-lately?

  12. Just throw it away on Dealing With a Copyright Takedown Request? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Was it certified? Can they prove they sent it?

  13. Re:No on Body 2.0 — Continuous Monitoring of the Human Body · · Score: 1

    You have proved the PP's point. Those things are BAD, or have you forgotten your civics?

  14. Omnious Parallels on New Bill Could Shift Federal Cybersecurity Work From DHS To White House · · Score: 1

    You know what other society went down in flames after concentrating all the governmental activities under the Executive?

  15. auto-hack or brute force? on Microsoft Unveils Open Source Exploit Finder · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Does this bombard all exposed functions with garbage data and look for overflows, or does it actually comb source code, look for off-by-one bugs and try to outwit the code by using boundary conditions? It's nice for Kaminsky to praise his pimps, but how does this tool really differ from any of the other leak-detectors and bug-finding tools that already exist?

  16. Disposable Income on 17 Million People Stopped Buying CDs In 2008 · · Score: 1

    Paying $20 for a CD you can download for free or $.99 per track is the first thing to go when money gets tight. Why do you think Starbucks tanked last year?

  17. "features" on Look Out, Firefox 3 — IE8 Is Back On Top For Now · · Score: 1

    First off, tabs suck.
    Second, I like hitting wikipedia directly in FF.
    Third, FF's awesome bar is, well, awesome.
    Fourth, IE sucks.

  18. Could always try NOT using those services on EPIC Urges FTC To Investigate Google Services · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You know, if you're not comfortable about Google (possibly) sharing your stuff, then DONT USE THEM.

  19. Contempt on Internet-Caused Mistrials Are On the Rise · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Liberal application of 30 or 90 day contempt charges would fix this pretty quickly.

  20. BMC sucks on Cisco Barges Into the Server Market · · Score: 1

    And sucks hard. They ship mutually incompatible binaries on the same CD. The installer itself will bomb. They suck. Did I mention, they suck?

  21. You still trust Obama? on FOIA Request For Pending Copyright Treaty Denied · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You still think that the new administration, and new congress, have the country's best interests in mind? Wake up and smell the 21st century.

  22. Call me a Luddite on So Amazing, So Illegal · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But the future of entertainment is not a 320x240 flash video with a "mashup" of random songs.

  23. All marketing - why just 25 sites? on Microsoft Says IE Faster Than Chrome and Firefox · · Score: 1

    Because MS knows that Joe the Plumber probably only ever GOES to 25 sites, so they could conceivably hardcode or partner with those sites SPECIFICALLY for IE. We're going back to a Compuserve mentality here. Since most computer users out on the Internet are retards who don't know the difference between Word, Windows, and the Web, its a clever marketing/design hack, but hardly indicative of better/cooler code.

  24. I don't want Windows on my netbook on How Vista Mistakes Changed Windows 7 Development · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I have a Dell Mini 9, and it does just fine with Dellbuntu 8.04. Even the 512MB RAM is fine - the screen size and form factor does not lend to massive multi-app multi-desktop kind of work. It's an über PDA, that I can put Postgres on if I need it.

  25. Don't give out root on Locking Down Linux Desktops In an Enterprise? · · Score: 1

    Ever. Period. Done.