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  1. Re:The Social Network Scenes on Ask Slashdot: Worst Computer Scene In TV or Movies? · · Score: 1

    It was probably the most realistic portrayal of hackers at work that has come out of Hollywood.

    Well, Trinity can use nmap and ssh exploits:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojFFS_T3UQk

  2. Re:Feature Bloat on Firefox 4 RC1 Released · · Score: 1
  3. Re:Feature Bloat on Firefox 4 RC1 Released · · Score: 1

    I realy don't like the sync feature since they're spying on what you think is interesting and have bookmarked.

    This is Mozilla, not Google.

    Synced data is encrypted and you can use your own server if you want.

  4. Re:TiniUrl has a nice preview feature as well on Microsoft, Google Sue Troll Who Sued 397 Companies · · Score: 1

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/long-url-please-mod/

    According to the description it supports 182 short URL services.

    (Works with Firefox 4 beta it he compatibility checking is disabled.)

  5. Re:Shape on Boxee Scores $16.5M Investment · · Score: 1

    Think of it as a Borg cube trying to assimilate your table.

  6. Re:Where is this "ballot screen", anyway? on Windows Browser Ballot: the Winners and the Losers · · Score: 1

    The OEM you bought the PC from already picked a browser for you. (They totally picked the best browser available, honestly. You can trust them. :P)

    If you do a new windows install, the ballot will appear after it is downloaded by Windows Update.

  7. Re:Ham Sandwich Theorem on Erdos' Combinatorial Geometry Problem Solved · · Score: 1

    A plane is a 2D surface, therefore it is flat.

  8. Re:Ham sandwich??? on Erdos' Combinatorial Geometry Problem Solved · · Score: 2

    Actually it's Erdo"s.
    (Support Unicode already Slashdot!)

    Erdo" is Forest in Hungarian, and Erdo"s would be "Foresty".

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s

  9. Re:just what we need $30+ adapters and powered hub on Apple To Unveil Light Peak, New MacBook Pros This Week? · · Score: 1

    The fact that the first one seems to be a simple cable and you need a nonstandard HDMI port that can output analog signals to use it.
    http://www.bluejeanscable.com/articles/component-to-hdmi-cable.htm

    we have, on rare occasion, seen devices which provide a nonstandard wiring setup where it is possible to route analog component video through an HDMI socket. These devices are extremely rare, and if you have one, your user's manual will clearly state as much. Unfortunately, because there are a few such devices on the market, there are now "HDMI to Component" cables being marketed in various outlets (we've seen them on Amazon and eBay), and the sellers of these products often do not appear to realize that they will work with only a very small, limited class of devices. Don't buy one just to try out; unless your manual says it will work, it WILL NOT.

    The second one actually converts the digital signal lo analog and should work with any device.

  10. Re:Could have been worse. on Designer Tweets Egyptian Riots Due to His New Line Coming Out · · Score: 1

    I'm offended by the amount of stupid on that page.

  11. Re:it's a figure of speech on Egypt's Net Ruled By Phone, Not Kill Switch · · Score: 1
  12. Re:Does anybody else think this sounds ominous? on Sandy Bridge Chipset Shipments Halted Due To Bug · · Score: 1

    They are the AMD users.

    Both of them. :P

  13. Re:That explains European obesity on Kilogram Gets Controversial; Why Not Split the Difference? · · Score: 1

    They already have that covered.

    The United States and countries of the Commonwealth of Nations agreed upon common definitions for the pound and the yard. Since 1 July 1959, the international avoirdupois pound has been defined as exactly 0.45359237 kg.

  14. Re:Nibiru? on Kilogram Gets Controversial; Why Not Split the Difference? · · Score: 1

    No.

  15. Re:High pressure? on How Chrysler's Battery-Less Hybrid Minivan Works · · Score: 1

    hmm short a super cap with some steel or aluminium bar, and let me know how it goes....

    You will need to get a new fuse.

    or simply ground one end to the car body and watch it light up a rescue worker/bystander when it ground through them.

    The moment any HV cable touches the car body the GFCI disconnects power.

    This is how it works in current hybrid cars.

  16. Re:How convenient on The Case of Apple's Mystery Screw · · Score: 2

    Yeah.
    A website that offers how-tos and tools to fix your electronic devices has an article about opening a device and offers the necessary tools for the job.

    Inconceivable!

  17. Re:Robots in the office - not on Office Robots of the Near Future, Gearing Up · · Score: 1
  18. Re:Acid 3 on Firefox 4 Beta 9 Out, Now With IndexedDB and Tabs On Titlebar · · Score: 1

    That is because Mozilla doesn't want to spend resources to implement old stuff that never really gained traction and already has a never and better alternative.

    https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119490#c38

    The current status is that SVG fonts don't seem to be very important for the
    Web. Opentype fonts loaded via CSS @font-face are more useful than SVG fonts in
    almost every way. By far the biggest reason to support SVG fonts is to pass
    Acid3. I don't think it's a good idea to add an otherwise-unnecessary feature
    just to pass a test.

  19. Re:Ain't that qute? on Embedded Linux 1-Second Cold Boot To QT · · Score: 1

    It can offer you updates with Safari and iTunes install preselected.

  20. Re:How do people use Firefox? on Winners of Mozilla Open Data Competition · · Score: 2

    But HOW do they browse the web?

    Do they use bookmarks? Do they write the address of the pages in the location bar? Do they use the search box? What search engines do they add to the search box? Do they change the home page?
    Which buttons do they click the most? Which menu options are the most used? What options do they change?
    How many tabs do they have open in average? How many addons do they install? etc.

    There are LOTS of ways someone can "browse the web".

  21. Re:related? on New Laser Makes Pirates Wish They Wore Eye-Patches · · Score: 1

    Hmm, pirates in polished chrome anti-laser armor.

    There has to exist at least one sci-fi book about this somewhere.

  22. Re:that's progress... on US Revamps NIST's Standard-Setting Efforts · · Score: 2

    Yeah, because everybody knows that the only way to deform steel with heat is to melt it completely.

  23. Re:As a hungarian... on Hungarian Officials Can Now Censor the Media · · Score: 1

    Exactly.

    In short: they won because they were not the party people hated the most.

  24. Re: Crappy standard on Micro-USB Cellphone Charger Becomes EU Standard · · Score: 2

    https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Universal_Serial_Bus#Durability

    "The newer Micro-USB receptacles are designed for up to 10,000 cycles of insertion and removal between the receptacle and plug, compared to 1500 for the standard USB and 5000 for the Mini-USB receptacle. This is accomplished by adding a locking device and by moving the leaf-spring connector from the jack to the plug, so that the most-stressed part is on the cable side of the connection. This change was made so that the connector on the less expensive cable would bear the most wear instead of the more expensive micro-USB device."

  25. Re:Linking != publishing on Crookes, RIAA, MPAA, ICE — 'Linking Is Publishing' · · Score: 1