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  1. Re:Seems like a trivial advantage for security on Traveling With Tom Bihn's Checkpoint Flyer · · Score: 1

    While outside the security area, I put all my crap (watch, wallet, phone, etc.) into either my carry on bag or jacket, while keeping only my ticket & passport in my pocket. When it's my turn to go through security, I don't have to spend very much time doing what I need to do to get through. Makes life so much easier.

  2. Do you know what "irony" is? on US Adults Fail Basic Science Literacy · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's like "stony" or "woody" but a lot better to make swords out of?

  3. Re:How about software compatibility? on PCLinuxOS 2009 Goes Gold · · Score: 1

    We're going to turn this Linux distro around 365 degrees!

  4. Re:Go France! on French Police Save Millions Switching To Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    It's not "Canada", it's only Ontario's lottery commission that is getting flak for buying German cars. Hell, they're so clueless at times I'm sure they thought Chrysler & Daimler were still merged.

    Who was doing the most bitching? President of the CAW, of course.

  5. Nice link, not on So Amazing, So Illegal · · Score: 3, Informative

    FFS, people, trim those goddamn YouTube links! This is all you need: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tprMEs-zfQA

  6. Re:Not Surprising on Young People Prefer "Sizzle Sounds" of MP3 Format · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Screw that. I grew up listening to LPs and the scratches, pops and skips were like murder to the music. That's not 'soul' or 'character', it's shit.

    Now, throwing the imperfections of the medium aside, the thing that's been killing music for the last 20 years is over compresssion. Kills the dynamic range, sounds like hell on digital formats, and just plain tires out the ears after a while.

    I'm always amused when modern bands record and entire album on analog tape and mixing gear to get a 'vintage' sounds, and then the final mix is compressed to death; makes the whole exercise pointless!

  7. Re:X-Files on What Has Fox Got Against Its Own Sci-Fi Shows? · · Score: 1

    X-Files started out on Friday nights, only moving to Sundays mid-way though the 4th season.

  8. Re:Organised crime link probably true on Film Piracy, Organized Crime and Terrorism · · Score: 1

    The movie bootlegs are more then likely a feint to divert attention away from the real money making business. Also a way to launder money, although not nearly as efficient as the usual ways (bars, laundromats, other types of business dealing with large amounts of cash regularly), but still useful.

    And, hey, all profit is good, right?

  9. The secret ingredient on US Forgets How To Make Trident Missiles · · Score: 2, Funny

    is tar!

  10. Re:And who cares, anyway? on Audio Watermarks Could Pinpoint Film Pirates By Seat · · Score: 1

    I had no intention of ever seeing either movie

    And yet you just *had* to go get bootleg copies of them, these movies you didn't want to go see, didn't you?

    Gosh, these grapes sure are sour.

  11. Re:Ahem, nonsensical sense much? on Website Does Homework For Kids · · Score: 1

    And where exactly is this mythical "school?"

  12. Re:Firewire and USB on Apple Mac Mini 1TB Upgrade — Not Easy But Possible · · Score: 2, Informative

    MiniStack 3 came out a couple of years back: http://www.newertech.com/products/ministackv3.php
    eSATA, FW800 and FW400, USB 2.0.

  13. Re:Hell must have frozen over on Dan Bernstein Confirms Security Flaw In Djbdns · · Score: 1

    collage professor

    Damn art school know it alls!

  14. Re:A computer? on Scale Models Can "Compute" Casimir Forces · · Score: 1

    You can; the problem lies in the fact that the player is simultaneously dead and alive, so the score counter can never increment.

  15. Re:Why don't we have 100% conformity to standards? on 9 Browsers Compared For Speed and Features · · Score: 1

    Because the standards themselves aren't 100% accurate or unambiguous. Look at the IE/Mozilla box model differences just as an example.

    When the standards don't spell everything out clearly, nothing can possibly match those standards.

  16. Re:Just get Mythtv on ZillionTV Offers On-Demand Streaming TV Box, But Only Via ISPs · · Score: 1

    Mythbuntu took me 6 hours of drinking, and I STILL didn't have a working install at the end of it.

    Maybe next time I'll buy a tuner card...

  17. Re:Slashdot's Super Accurate Information Bandwagon on The Real Reason For Microsoft's TomTom Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    It meant nothing, as the cake was a lie.

  18. Re:Why stop online? on Calif. Politican Thinks Blurred Online Maps Would Deter Terrorists · · Score: 1

    Major Carnagle: "Where's the laser?"
    Professor Hathaway: "It's coming."
    Major Carnagle: "It's coming? Ha! It's not even breathing hard."

  19. Re:Noscript on Collaborative Map-Reduce In the Browser · · Score: 1

    Haha, his complaint that the 1st column's background colour won't stretch to the height of the 2nd column has been solved for quite some time.

    The main problem associated with pure table layouts came from good ol' Netscape 4's inability to render very complex tables quickly; thankfully, those days are long gone. These days it's about usability and searchability, which complex table layouts kill dead.

    No one is stopping you from doing pure tables, but the solutions are there in CSS that make things so much better and flexible. I go 100% CSS for work, using tables only for forms and the like where they're guaranteed to be the best solution.

  20. Re:Welcome to California!!! on Calif. Politican Thinks Blurred Online Maps Would Deter Terrorists · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think Sacramento has something in the water.

    Must have been those damn terrorists!

  21. I agree with Bruce on Calif. Politican Thinks Blurred Online Maps Would Deter Terrorists · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ban bottled water, that stuff's a killer!

  22. Re:Riddick.... on George Riddick — the One-Man RIAA of Clip Art · · Score: 1

    Orge?

  23. Re:The problem are the other two thirds on 1 of 3 Dell Inspiron Mini Netbooks Sold With Linux · · Score: 1

    That's why I bought the Ubuntu 512MB version: a) I could get 2GB RAM stick off eBay for cheaper than Dell wanted for an upgrade, and b) I'm going to install OS X on it as soon as my damn RunCore SSD gets here.

  24. Re:A Memory manufacturor on Supreme Court Sides With Rambus Over FTC · · Score: 1

    What's stopping you from looking up words you don't know? I'd wager that Rambus is well-known amongst a lot of Slashdot's readership, so it's not too much of a surprise that the summary/article doesn't spell it out explicitly.

  25. Re:Last.fm Official Response on Last.fm Shoots Down Rumors Over U2 Album Leak · · Score: 1

    We have seen the moderators, and they is us.