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  1. attn: hemos on Has The "Technology Bounceback" Begun? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Go to http://www.getfirefox.com and download the broswer you find there. Then go to http://adblock.mozdev.org/ and install adblock. Then go to http://www.geocities.com/pierceive/adblock/ and download the .txt file with the latest date as its filename. Import this into adblock.

    Then quit pot-kettle-blacking about wading through ads. Ha ha, just kidding.

    OR AM I?

  2. Re:Twice as much on MS AntiSpyware vs Ad-Aware vs. SpyBot · · Score: 2, Funny

    With that much crap cloggin up your resources, spyware doesn't have a chance! It'll never find processor time! Clever ruse.

  3. Re:Lots of info left out of the summary... on Microsoft Releases AntiSpyware Program · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The probably saw this:

    2. TIME-SENSITIVE SOFTWARE. The software will stop running on July 31, 2005. You may not receive any other notice. You will not receive any further updates when the software stops running.

    and figured OMG SUBSCRIPTION!

    Another interesting EULA box is the actual definition of the software's function:

    4. POTENTIALLY UNWANTED SOFTWARE. The software will search your computer for "spyware," "adware" and other potentially unwanted software ("Potentially Unwanted Software"). If it finds Potentially Unwanted Software, the software will ask you if you want to ignore, disable (quarantine) or remove it. The software will only remove or disable Potentially Unwanted Software as you instruct it. Removing or disabling the Potentially Unwanted Software may cause other software on your computer to stop working, and it may cause you to breach a license to use other software on your computer, if the other software installed the Potentially Unwanted Software on your computer as a condition of your use of the other software. You should read the license agreements for other software before authorizing the removal of any Potentially Unwanted Software. By using this software, it is possible that you will also remove or disable software that is not Potentially Unwanted Software. You are solely responsible for selecting which Potentially Unwanted Software the software removes or disables.

    When I worked at Dell, they wouldn't let us dick with spyware stuff because of potential legal problems -- that is, the law might side with the malware.

  4. Security through Obscurity on A Pizza Box for Your Laptop · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What, nobody points out what a bad idea this is? Besides, I can't see the point. In the first place, lugging that thing around can't be comfortable. Also, if by some deviant twist in reality these stupid things become popular, it no longer does anything but describe the owner as someone who pays thirteen pounds for some cardboard and eggshell foam.

    Go buy a backpack.

    Slashdot: News occasionally. Stuff for sale.

  5. Problem solved. on Cell Phones In The Air? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Get your problem solvers right here.

    I've got one mounted in my trunk. Works like a champ. Someone once told me I had no right to cancel out other people's radio communication. It's my airspace too.

    Besides, I've always liked the vigilante thing.

  6. My Christmas wish... on Daring to Dream: Apple & IBM · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...is an iBook with a trackpoint.

  7. Here are some websites to refer to: on Building/Testing of a High Traffic Infrastructure? · · Score: -1, Troll

    http://www.ite.org/ -- this is the Institute of Transportation Engineers. Here you can find resources and contact information for traffic engineers.

    http://www.iht.org/ -- this is the Institution of Highways and Transportation. More traffic information.

    Oh wait. Did you not mean that kind of high-traffic infrastructure?
    MAYBE IT WOULD HELP IF YOU'D SPECIFY.

  8. I hope they speak C better than English on Ekush: A CherryOS For the Windows World? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Microsoft Windows is the most acknowledged operating system throughout the world. But it is highly dominated artifact to the people and MS have a monopoly to our desktop. Due to the fact, EKUSH is a lineup effort to the Win32 platform, an alternative OS to run your existing windows applications. Our focus is to build the alternative platform; a brilliant Operating System for our community.

    Now THAT is a professional blurb -- wait here while I get my credit card!

  9. That's a widely disparate range of speeds... or on Verizon Taking FTTP Installation Orders · · Score: 2, Funny

    14,679 kbps download and 1,794 kbps download speeds.

    Since the editors don't edit, I hereby declare 1,794kbps download speed and 14,679 upstream!

  10. Because that would be hypocrisy on IBM Tells SCO Court It Can't Find AIX-on-Power Code · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If IBM wants to align itself with linux, it can't afford to play dirty licensing games with UNIX code. It's that simple. Either the company embraces open-source or else it's just another FUD factory -- even though it's currently a pro-linux FUD factory, it's still unacceptable.

    I'm not saying IBM is guilty or innocent, but I am hoping to God it really can't find the code, because they make some good fuckin hardware, and I'd hate to have to hate 'em.

  11. Re:Not gonna work if encumbered on Replacing TCP? · · Score: 1

    MySQL works quite nicely under a dual license. The basic problem is that there's actually not too much call to replace TCP -- it works.

  12. Re:My father lost his life at Kane Hall. on Neal Stephenson Responds With Wit and Humor · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm afraid you misunderstand the current state of my policy. The group "people who suck all the joy out of a simple joke" is a tangible group. It is desireable to round up people who suck all the joy out of a simple joke and shoot them.

  13. Re:Hang on... on Neal Stephenson Responds With Wit and Humor · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, I was there. My father lost his life at Kane Hall. It was a wireless mic in that there was a tiny bud attached to his lapel. A wire ran from that to a box clipped to his belt behind him.

    He killed eight civilians with that damn monofilament microphone.

  14. My father lost his life at Kane Hall. on Neal Stephenson Responds With Wit and Humor · · Score: 5, Funny

    5/14 NEVER FORGET America has declared war on science fiction writers!

  15. oooh, xhtml on The State of the Demon Address · · Score: 1
    support for Java 1.5, XHTML 2.0 and CSS 3.0

    I bet the Darwin developers worked for years for that one! Tell me again how the kernel implements web standards, George.

  16. This is partly Dell's fault. on Every 5th Call At Dell Is Spyware-Related · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When I was a Dell tech, we had to refer to spyware as "third-party software" and we were not authorized to recommend tools for removal. Of course, I would just tell them to run spybot and pray for rain, but if a supervisor would have caught me doing that I'd've likely been fired.

    What the hell do they expect to happen, when they won't let the techs solve the problem?

  17. John Stewart has had a talk show. on Jon Stewart on CNN's Crossfire · · Score: 1, Troll

    I'm not surprised you don't remember it. It came out in 1993 and lasted just long enough for everyone to realize Stewart's lack of talent or insight.

  18. When the hell did Jon Stewart attain credibility? on Jon Stewart on CNN's Crossfire · · Score: -1, Troll

    He's a fill-in for Craig Kilborn, for christ's sake. He doesn't even do a very good job. How is this man -- who has never worked outside of comedy -- going to critique actual journalists, and get taken seriously?

  19. OS-agnostic? on Rio Karma User Review · · Score: 5, Funny

    The belief that, at our present level of knowledge, we cannot know whether or not an OS exists. Fair enough.

  20. Why one or the other, again? on eWeek Reviews Gnome 2.8 And KDE 3.3 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I run fluxbox. I use KDevelop and I launch it from a gnome-panel. Then I write a letter in KWord, and bring up gnome-terminal to edit something in /etc with SciTE. This ability to choose is why I like the OS. There's nothing about KDE that precludes Gnome or vice-versa.

  21. Fuck! on Biggest Console System Collection on eBay · · Score: 1

    Still no Dreamcast broadband adapter.

  22. Re:Historical, People Like Upgrades on Windows XP To Get Longhorn Technologies · · Score: 1

    It's the little stuff that makes XP so much better than 2000. Typical slashdot crap like "LOL FISHER PRICE UI" aside, Windows Picture and Fax Viewer is fucking rad, the shell-integrated unzipping is handy, cleartype is a reason to upgrade all by itself, and let's not forget the bliss wallpaper! Seriously, Windows XP is so much more suited to home use that it's ridiculous.

  23. MSNBC? on HP Linux Laptop Is A Winner · · Score: 1

    Oh man, I have no idea what to believe any more.

  24. Re:ACPI on The Linux Incompatibility List · · Score: 1

    It is worthless to support a standard that nobody implements. The linux ACPI project needs to figure out how Windows manages to work reliably and emulate that functionality.

  25. Another milestone for the INTERNET on Duke University Students Receive iPods · · Score: 5, Funny

    August 21st, 2004: Some kid gets an iPod. He makes a blog entry about it. Slashdot is first on the scene with the scoop! Lack of interest of the rest of the planet seemingly escapes notice.

    He got an iPod, guys. I got one too. So does my friend Chris. Enough about the damn iPods.