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  1. Re:Oh yeah? on Nicholas Sze of Yahoo Finds Two-Quadrillionth Digit of Pi · · Score: 2

    I couldn't care more!

    ?

  2. Re:What the hell? on High Fructose Corn Syrup To Get a Makeover · · Score: 1

    God the quality of posts on this story is awful. Yes, obviously the caffeine is addictive, but we're talking about corn syrup. It's not possible to have cravings for Sprite. Why would you think I'm talking about sodas with an obviously addictive additive when we're talking about cravings for corn syrup?

  3. Re:What the hell? on High Fructose Corn Syrup To Get a Makeover · · Score: 1, Troll

    Makes sense from a consumer standpoint, but food producers have interests too. Understand that there is a specific rule that requires them to state that the syrup is high in fructose. If we can't justify why that should be required, then maybe that requirement should be lifted.

  4. Re:What the hell? on High Fructose Corn Syrup To Get a Makeover · · Score: 0

    Maybe that's because the corn syrup soda tastes better? Even if it were possible to have cravings for soda, that doesn't mean cancer is growing in you.

  5. Re:why are the bounties so low? on Google Fixes 10 Bugs In Chrome, Pays $4000 Bounty · · Score: 1

    4K for 10 vulnerabilities is pretty low though. Find a critical vulnerability every 2 workdays and you might have a low-range tech salary.

  6. Re:Urine? on Is DIY Algae Farming the Future? · · Score: 1

    The rest of us would pay that much not to have a marsh of human waste in our backyards.

  7. Re:Looks like people are starting to see the benef on Is DIY Algae Farming the Future? · · Score: 1

    That must be one heck of a balcony.

  8. Re:Misleading. on IE9 Team Says "Our GPU Acceleration Is Better Than Yours" · · Score: 1

    Chance obviously has nothing to do with it. If you want to use SVG fonts then it won't work, period. If you want to use other stuff, it probably will work.

  9. Re:already slashdotted? on Acer Dual-Screen, Multitouch Laptop Leaks Out · · Score: 1

    Coral Cache is what you're looking for, no custom work needed.

  10. Re:touchscreen keyboard? on Acer Dual-Screen, Multitouch Laptop Leaks Out · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How, what? I don't even know how to reply to that. Nobody who is remotely sane would agree with you. Typing 160 character texts is a lot different from typing prose on a full keyboard. On a keyboard I can compose my thoughts and type them out immediately as I think of them. On a tiny touch keyboard it's excruciating to try to express complex thoughts. Since it takes so long to type I constantly try to cut down the amount of text to type instead of thinking of what I'm trying to say.

    A full size touch keyboard might be different, but that doesn't mean that your statement about the iPhone is right.

  11. Re:already slashdotted? on Acer Dual-Screen, Multitouch Laptop Leaks Out · · Score: 1

    What are you even talking about, RapidShare hosts single archive files not entire pages with css/javascript/images. And you can't control HTTP headers, even with a premium direct download link.

  12. Re:Open your wallets on Orchestra To Turn Copyright-Free Classical Scores Into Copyright-Free Music · · Score: 1

    'One hit wonders'

  13. Re:Oh... on GoDaddy Up For Auction · · Score: 1

    Pretty much anywhere, GoDaddy doesn't have particularly great pricing. I use NearlyFreeSpeech.NET but that's a pre-paid service recommended for when you want to leave a little bit of content up for years at a time without much load. No reason to pay $20/mo if you're only hosting 20MB with a GB or so of transfer monthly.

  14. Re:You gotta compete on the global marketplace! on GE Closes Last US Light Bulb Factory · · Score: 1

    *there are no government mandated catalyric converters to ruin

  15. Re:You gotta compete on the global marketplace! on GE Closes Last US Light Bulb Factory · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah! And if the EPA hadn't screwed us in 1970, the free market would still be happily pumping out cars that are a thousand dollars cheaper and run on wonderful TEL-enhanced gasoline because there are government-mandated catalytic converters to ruin.

    Oh, and New York would still be in a choking black cloud of poisonous smog. But who cares about that.

  16. Re:Oh... on GoDaddy Up For Auction · · Score: 4, Informative

    No, it's more like buying a shiny new house, smashing down walls for 13 years, and trying to foist it off onto a naive buyer.

    GoDaddy is infamous. When someone posted MySpace passwords to a mailing list archived by seclists, MySpace complained and GoDaddy immediately shut down seclists.org with less than 1 minute's notice. They weren't even hosting the material, just the DNS record. GoDaddy's counsel said "I think the fact that we gave him notice at all was pretty generous."

    As covered on slashdot they also have a habit of coming up with reasons to suspend customers' accounts and not just terminating service but refusing to release the domain to a different registrar unless you pay exorbitant fees.

    Also GoDaddy shut down some guy's personal website because they sent him an email to update his invalid email address in the whois information and he didn't reply to it. They didn't just shut down the domain, they sold it.

    What kind of joke of a service provider complies with random complaints from non-customers against customers without court order?

  17. Re:The big news we have been waiting for? on Mozilla Unleashes JaegerMonkey Enabled Firefox 4 · · Score: 1

    It's not really news we've been waiting for anyway when all the work has been public all along.

  18. Re:Compatibility on Mozilla Unleashes JaegerMonkey Enabled Firefox 4 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Is that why firefox has been dead last in ACID tests (other than IE of course)? If they had stuck to real standards in the first place instead of offering "do not use this wink wink" nonstandard features.

  19. Re:I Want Advanced Blocking Capabilities on Mozilla Unleashes JaegerMonkey Enabled Firefox 4 · · Score: 1

    Are you joking?

  20. Re:indoctrination on Big Brother In the School Cafeteria? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't even understand this idea that data about your eating habits is yours to keep secret. It's not like going to a doctor. If you ask the lunch lady for mac and cheese, and no chicken thank you, she's not legally bound to respect your privacy.

    People seem to be saying "the human element is fine, but systematic tracking of eating habits is a concern" but that doesn't make sense. Either it's protected or not, there's no sense of security in relying on people's poor memory to ensure your privacy. If someone wants to spy on you and know what you're eating for lunch, then they can ask the lunch lady, there's no expectation of privacy.

  21. Re:indoctrination on Big Brother In the School Cafeteria? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I am intrigued by the sheer possibilities of snobbishness that your declination of a plebian schooling even at a young age implies.

    Or is that an incredibly dodgy way of saying that you dropped out and are currently working a car wash?

  22. Re:I prefer to beat my computers. on They Finally Found Out We Like Our Computers · · Score: 2, Funny
  23. Re:I wish I'd known that CMS's are really hard on Programming Things I Wish I Knew Earlier · · Score: 1

    That stuff is really easy though, and it's a lot better to have to muddle around in PHP and HTML/CSS/Javascript than to have a "platform within a platform" with pluggable modules and highly configurable styles.

  24. Re:2-port programs, Linux, PIL, expensive hardware on Programming Things I Wish I Knew Earlier · · Score: 1

    Funny how in the same post he bashes EC2 for selling brute-force massive scaling and then says it's better to buy more hardware than to fix your application...

  25. Re:Tape reels, and an ergonomics person on Ideas For a Great Control Room? · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's endearing how earnestly you try to help the OP. But let me assure you, when an Ask Slashdot appears starting with "My company is undertaking a multi-million dollar project, wat do I do lol," no comment ever is seriously given the remotest consideration.