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  1. Method for interactive menu option selection on Enter The 'Stupid Patent Tricks' Contest · · Score: 2

    The user is presented via the network with a menu of available options, represented via graphical icons or images. Each image is unique and presents a distinct user-selected option for preceding to further areas or operations of a web site.

    The user manipulates a pointing device of the client computer to move the mouse pointer to their choice of menu option. Upon the mouse pointer entering the pixelspace of a particular graphical image, the image changes to an altered image yet similar image, indicating the image option under the cursor is the option presently under user consideration and also indicating that the image is a viable user choice, distinguishing it from other non-interactive images which do not comprise of valid menu options. If the user has decided that the specific menu option represented by the below-mouse image is their desired choice, he or she depresses and releases the primary mouse button quickly and the choice is registered, via the network, with the server.

  2. RedHat's defense on GCC's Response To Red Hat · · Score: 5

    It's not really fair to leave out Richard Henderson's explaination on linux-kernel...

    Basically he says 2.95 isn't that great on non-x86 platforms and their version is much better, and that 2.95 already has incompatibilities between egcs 1.1 and the future gcc 3.0 so it doesn't make a big difference.

  3. Re:*blink* on New TLDs Proposed To ICANN · · Score: 2

    (by the way if there are any major world leaders reading that would be willing to help me out, please email me)

  4. Re:*blink* on New TLDs Proposed To ICANN · · Score: 2

    Yes, but the entry requirements are rather high. You have to be an organization founded/recognized by international treaty.

    My dream is to have 31337.int.

    Would require a little more pull than I have right now though...

  5. Re:.dot and .god? on New TLDs Proposed To ICANN · · Score: 2

    There's already a .at (Austria), go to town...

  6. Re:Desenex saves MIR on Mir Likely To Be Deorbited [Updated] · · Score: 2

    Great, now the whole mir will be bombarded by mirs of mir...

  7. faceless masses on The Satori Effect · · Score: 2

    Reader 11131719 contributed this review ...

    Good lord, they don't even refer to us by name anymore...

  8. Slick like Neo, cool like Morpheus on Your Holiday Present Wish List · · Score: 2

    Probably the most dramatic form of geek fashion - Matrix replica trenchcoats.

    Neo or Morpheus style, Trinity PVC top for the females, and for the more conservative geeks, there's the Deckard Bladerunner trenchcoast as well. All the trenches in the 300-1500 range (varies on fabrics) and the PVC is 120.

  9. Deja deja deja _deja_ vu on Colossus II Information Declassified · · Score: 2

    My god, it's happening again... http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/10/01/004225 3&mode=flat What's going on around here? :P

  10. Re:One click too many on Apple Advertises "1-Click" Licensing · · Score: 3

    They have these. They're called CD music clubs...

  11. Stacked team on Stacked Carnivore Review Team · · Score: 2

    Alright! Anyone got pictures?

  12. Re:They're also "quietly" planning to charge for A on AOL Trying To Unify AIM And ICQ Services · · Score: 2

    Ah. That makes it clearer. Safe to assume my previous suggestion is wrong. (I don't use AIM on any regular basis on any OS let alone Mac)

    OT:
    3.5% isn't that great if it's going to be used for relatively 'major' transactions ($100+), might as well get a money order... unless it supports overseas payments or something.

  13. Re:No shit! on Sun's UltraSPARC III Processor Shipping · · Score: 2

    BUZZ
    I'm sorry, it's a queue, not a stack, but thanks for playing.

  14. Re:They're also "quietly" planning to charge for A on AOL Trying To Unify AIM And ICQ Services · · Score: 2

    AIM Pay could also be some sort of PayPal thing for AIM users. They're adding all sorts of other stuff to AIM, it would make as much sense as anything else.

  15. Re:ICQ is losing its appeal on AOL Trying To Unify AIM And ICQ Services · · Score: 2

    I'm still using ICQ 98a. Why upgrade when there's no compelling reason? I've got my original 200000 range number as well, ICQ adoption was pretty early in the Quake community.

  16. The Future is Here! on ZapStation CD/MP3/DVD Player/Server · · Score: 4

    Web Audio/Video Player -- View and listen to streaming events such as concerts, news and television broadcasts right through your television and stereo

    Need anything more be said?

  17. Re:case sensitivity - why is this a good thing? on Developer Tools For MacOS X · · Score: 1

    For consistensy.

    Say this is our directory:
    Foo
    bAR
    Bar


    and the user wants to open 'foo'. No problem, give them 'Foo'. Now he wants to open 'bar'. Now which one do you open? Do you pick the one matches the most ('Bar')? Do you pick the one that's sorted first ('bAR')? Do you not match either one since it's ambigous?

    Now suppose we chose a behavior for 'bar' in this base. Now say I want to open 'bAR'. Now what - should we use the same algorithm as we did for 'bar' or just use 'bAR'?

    So in the end you end up with a whole system to go through - if it's an exact match, do one thing, if it's not but there's only one case insensitive match use that, if there is more than one case insensitive map figure some what to chose it.

    As opposed to case sensitivity -
    If the file name matches a file exactly, access it. If not, don't.

    It's also more consistant with creating filenames - if you save the file as "MyLameFile" shouldn't it be referred to as "MyLameFile"? Being case-sensitive is simple and straight forward and the user can know with absolute certainty what the result will be.

  18. Internet Troll Hole Pinpointed at Slashdot.org on Astronomers Find Black Hole At Milky Way's Center · · Score: 5

    A joint team of network specialists, consisting of employees from Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard, 3Com and others have located an immensive Troll Hole on the Internet, centered directly on the popular weblog Slashdot. While the presences of the hole has long been suspected, today's announcement has confirmed its status as the largest Troll Hole on the Internet.

    Experts say the Slashdot Troll Hole has been continually drawing hundreds of trolls to the site for over three years. "It seems to present an incredible attractive force to individuals with an abundance of spare time," explained Michael Czekjum of the Internet Engineering Task Force. "Once drawn, they find themselves compelled to inundate comments with disguised obscene hyperlinks, single-minded knee-jerk insulting replies and vacuous first post attempts."

    While today's pinpointing of the hole represents a great triumph, officials stress there is still much to learn. Early analysis seems to suggest it is expanding. Datapoints from Slashdot's founding in late 1997 show an almost complete lack of trolls. Since then, their numbers have expanded at a geometric rate. The types of individuals being attracted is also being studied. "While traditional text-based trolls are still in the majority, the past six months have seen a great increase in graphical trolls, using primitive ASCII representations," wrote Ari T'teyel of Sun Microsystems in a paper published last week. "In addition, the hole's effect on other individuals, such as karma whores, is as yet unknown."
    The Troll Hole draws in

  19. You mean 3.14159 (nt) on Next Batman to be Directed By Pi's Darren Aronofsky · · Score: 2

    nt

  20. Re:Method of creating a proxy or bridge? on 3dfx Voodoo 5 Review · · Score: 2

    There are also 1 or 2 companies that have announced they will be making PCI versions of their GeForce MX cards. (Don't know the ones off hand)

  21. To save you all some time reading... on 2001: A Space Laptop · · Score: 2

    ... they run Windows 95...

  22. Netscape cache on Other Uses For The Linux RAM Disk? · · Score: 2

    There's no reason to put the netscape cache in swap. There's already a setting for memory cache as well as disk cache. Personally, Netscape takes up enough memory already. Besides, do you really want 20-30M of RAM wasted when Netscape isn't even running?

  23. Re:Leet 101 (OT) on JumpTV Hopes to Succeed where ICraveTV failed. · · Score: 2

    Don't forget the classic form, 31337.

    - Moebius (2krad4u)

  24. Re:Compiler/dev tool availability on How Good Of A Unix Is Mac OS X ? · · Score: 2

    Um... not as far as I see.

    You said it's not really necessary as binaries are the normal way of distributing software, and that development tools of some sort will be available.

    So what are the cons?

  25. Depends on the problem on Oh, No! I've Broken My Visor! How Can I Fix It? · · Score: 3

    If it's a problem with the neurotransmitters that recieve the video information from the visor's electrical transfer relays, I would advise making an appointment with Dr. Crusher.

    If, however, the on-unit diagnostics indicate the problem instead lies within the visor itself, say in the wide sprectrum optical sensors or the high resolution binocular multipler circuits, you'll need someone with hardware expertise. Lt. Commander Data would be the best one to ask.