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  1. Re:I always thought... on Is Today's Web Still 'the Web'? · · Score: 1

    HTTP is the web. FTP isn't. Gopher wasn't. And WC3, in Pauli's words, isn't even wrong. That's gibberish.

  2. Re:I'm being entirely serious. on China's All-Seeing Eye · · Score: 2

    I'd mod the post "informative," and I know it's just a slip of the ear, but:

    "sensored" is way too good a word to have no meaning. I call upon slashdotters to define this new verb so we can use it.

    (And I am being entirely serious. Sort of.)

  3. Find somebody ... on How Do You Find Programming Superstars? · · Score: 1

    ... who doesn't spend half the morning reading 600 posts on how to find a superstar programmer.

  4. Re:The short version... on Executive Order Overturns US Fifth Amendment · · Score: 1

    ...or might be.

  5. Re:Windows 95 = Mac 88 on Vista Worse For User Efficiency Than XP · · Score: 1

    "Seriously, XP sucked brand new out of the box too, and it has matured into a solid OS."

    So did OS X. Has everyone forgotten?

  6. Re:this sort of abuse... on iTunes Uncovers Musical Hoax · · Score: 2, Interesting

    He apparently invented an orchestra, too.

    National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra

    http://www.stereophile.com/news/021907hatto/

  7. Re:Program Naming on First Impressions of Sabayon Linux · · Score: 1

    "Why do so many linux programmers insist on such crazy naming conventions. Sabayon? Changing a perfectly servicable and pragmagic GNOME Meeting to 'Ekiga'?"

    GNOME Meeting may be a perfectly "servicable" and "pragmagic" name to you, but suppose your native tongue were, ah... Finnish?

  8. Re:What an freaking idiotic crime to get him on on Man Arrested for Wireless Piggybacking · · Score: 1

    If they're giving it away, how can he be stealing it?

  9. Re:Mathematics not universal? on The Golden Ratio · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "... But mathematics itself has an existance [sp] of its own, entirely unconnected with the physical universe."

    Really?
    Where?