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  1. Re:one on Microsoft Unveils Xbox One · · Score: 1

    the high functioning human market

    That's too small a market for Microsoft to care about. They're more likely aiming for the barely functioning humans...

  2. Re:Yeah... on 97% of Climate Science Papers Agree Global Warming Is Man-made · · Score: 1

    So you are a Black Panther Neo-nazi, self-hating homeopath and unenlightened Buddhist? You're also in the KKK but you wish they'd stick to bake sales. I think you must be one of the most interesting humans in the world!

  3. Re:screw it on Backdoor Targeting Apache Servers Spreads To Nginx, Lighttpd · · Score: 1

    I don't think you're familiar with the stereotypes. You'd only need to secure your ass if you were going to OS X.

  4. Re:Finnish name correction on Draft IETF Standard for SSH Key Management Released · · Score: 2

    Sorry, Slashdot ate the umlaut and turned it into a dash for some reason, so the link is broken. Type your own o-umlaut (alt-u, o on OS X, alt-0214 on Windows with the numeric keypad, *wave hands* on other systems).

  5. Re:Finnish name correction on Draft IETF Standard for SSH Key Management Released · · Score: 2

    That's acceptable in some languages, but not Finnish.

    This page on Wikipedia explains.

  6. Re:iOS Office? No! on SkyDrive 3.0: Microsoft Gave Up Fighting Apple's 30% Cut · · Score: 1

    Just like the photos sent between elderly iOS users?

  7. Re:since you asked... on Ask Slashdot: Mac To Linux Return Flow? · · Score: 1

    If you absolutely need a keyboard sequence, alt-space, e, p will paste. Also (assuming quick edit mode) you don't need to select paste from a menu, just right-click.

    Quickedit mode off by default is one of Microsoft's dumber defaults, in a sea of dumb defaults.

  8. Re:Cant compete... litigate on Apple Bringing Second Lawsuit To Samsung, Won't Wait For Appeal · · Score: 1

    It's the RDF. People gave that name to the positive (for Apple) effect on some people that made them buy Apple products, but it has an equal-and-opposite effect that makes people switch off their goddamn minds before speaking or writing. Just look at any article written about them in the last 25 or so years.

  9. Re:Philosophy is nice and all... on Gnome Founder Miguel de Icaza Moves To Mac · · Score: 1

    So this project doesn't work at all? I cant speak to its effectiveness, as I find Android as distasteful as iOS, but a protocol is still just a protocol - if you can read and write bytes on the wire, you can implement it.

    That's what I mean when I say the designers didn't necessarily make something as simple as you'd like, but that doesn't mean they made it impossible.

  10. Re:Philosophy is nice and all... on Gnome Founder Miguel de Icaza Moves To Mac · · Score: 1

    On the Mac, things are very easy when you do what the OS designers planned you to do, but then they can become impossible when you want to do something else.

    People always say this, but they never give any reasonable examples. You are aware that a Mac is still a general purpose computing device, right? It has a CPU, RAM, storage. It executes instructions upon your request, it doesn't check with the OS designers whether it's within their vision.

    The designers picked certain tasks and optimised for them, that doesn't suddenly make other tasks impossible. Perhaps you have to fight with the security model at times, but that's true in Linux too.

  11. Re:No the complaining will start... on Firefox Will Soon Block Third-Party Cookies · · Score: 1

    If I visit blort.com, and they include a reference to ads.blort.com (an alias for ads.mfers.com), will the browser still happily include that cookie in requests to ads.blurble.com (another alias for ads.mfers.com)? If it does, that seems a blatant and obvious hole to plug in the browser.

    If not, then the difference between third and first party cookies in this case means nothing. The data that mfers.com aggregates via that cookie is entirely from blort.com, and they have no idea that I even visit blurble.com.

  12. Re:No, It Doesn't on Typing These 8 Characters Will Crash Almost Any App On Your Mountain Lion Mac · · Score: 1

    I had the same problem, but apparently it relies on spell check being enabled (and case sensitivity, as so many keep pointing out). Turn off the spellchecker and there's no problem.

    Also, learn to spell, in case it's not fixed quickly :)

  13. Re:Still widely used for good reasons (and some ba on Perl's Glory Days Are Behind It, But It Isn't Going Anywhere · · Score: 1

    can write structured, OO code in Perl (while having non-OO code where it makes more sense)

    ... just like Python.

    Perl allows you to think

    ... just like any language.

  14. Re:Brilliant idea on Google Declares War On the Password · · Score: 1

    Thanks!

  15. Re:Brilliant idea on Google Declares War On the Password · · Score: 1

    What is the name of this alternative method? I looked at the features on the Keepass website, and the only thing that sounds close is AutoType.

    Luckily the source is available, and checking the source for 2.20.1 shows that the Linux version of AutoType uses xdotool, and the Windows version uses the SendInput functions. I'll be surprised if these are somehow invulnerable to keyloggers.

  16. Re:I call bullshit on Apple Kills a Kickstarter Project - Updated · · Score: 1

    I'm glad I'm not the only one who experiences this. Why won't they ever plug in correctly the first time?

  17. Re:It can count... on Spider Discovered That Builds Its Own Spider Decoys · · Score: 5, Funny

    Of course the spider can't count. It's just that the spiders who made 6 and 7 legged decoys got eaten by the birds that could count.

  18. Re:Why not just make microwavable devices . . . ? on Apple Patents Wireless Charging · · Score: 1

    Not if you keep buying new pets :)

  19. Re:Why? on A Gentle Rant About Software Development and Installers · · Score: 1

    Did I miss a joke, or are there really people this deluded? Sadly, I suspect the answer is 'yes' to both questions.

  20. Getting old. on Apple Hides Samsung Apology So It Can't Be Seen Without Scrolling · · Score: 1

    Does anyone else find it funny that people who hate Apple continue to call it an "apology" when a statement of facts is all that was required, or expected?

  21. Re:Skeuomorphic design is useless and stupid on Shake-up at Apple: Forstall Out; iOS Executive Fired For Maps Debacle? · · Score: 1

    When you have people who don't speak English?

    For example, the German word for save is KommittenBitzUndMachItSchnappy*

    One well-chosen icon can be used everywhere.

    * not real German

  22. Re:Isn't the game long enough already? on 5000 fps Camera Reveals the Physics of Baseball · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it's no wonder they have caddies to carry their equipment around.

    If my experience with certain sites is any guide, "18 holes" might not be a count anyway ;)

  23. Re:Shut up Notch on Notch Won't Certify Minecraft For Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    I also said install. I read what you said. You're wrong (or lying, though I don't see what you'd have to gain by it).

  24. Re:Shut up Notch on Notch Won't Certify Minecraft For Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Did you read your post, where you claimed you couldn't run anything that didn't come from the app store? Just in case you forgot:

    by default you are not allowed to install programs that don't come from the app store

    You don't need to change any behaviour to run/install signed apps that DON'T come from the app store. If you download something from the app store, it is signed. The reverse is not necessarily true. This is what the previous poster was trying to point out.

  25. Re:Insulting on The UK's New Minister For Magic · · Score: 2

    "I haven't been insulted as much since I learned about confirmation bias, therefore..."