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  1. Re:Wait a minute on Golden Gate Bridge To Eliminate Tollbooths · · Score: 1

    actually, most of the golden gate booth attendants are pretty friendly, for the 5 or so seconds it takes for them to give you change.

  2. Re:Just get rid of tolls completely. on Golden Gate Bridge To Eliminate Tollbooths · · Score: 1

    yay, roads for the rich!

  3. Re:Is it just me? on Court Rules Dungeons and Dragons Threatens Prison Security · · Score: 1

    install Chrome/Stylish and add this css to a rule for slashdot. it gets rid of most of the extra whitespace.

  4. Re:Horrible. on Slashdot Launches Re-Design · · Score: 1

    here's here's the stylesheet i use in Chrome Stylist. It halves the whitespace in most places.

  5. Re:Horrible. on Slashdot Launches Re-Design · · Score: 1

    here's the stylesheet I use in ChromeStylist. It halves the whitespace in most places.

  6. VHS? on Japanese Supreme Court Rules TV Forwarding Illegal · · Score: 1

    so does this also mean that VHS is now illegal in japan?

  7. Re:it just seems appropriate on No More Version Numbers For HTML · · Score: 1

    oh, just imagine the OPTIONS!

  8. Re:What is Lustre File System on Lustre File System Getting New Community Distro · · Score: 1

    i wonder how they spell illustrate in the US?

  9. Re:Bye-bye! on Are 10-11 Hour Programming Days Feasible? · · Score: 1

    better yet. get together with your like-minded colleagues. write a letter to the chairman of the board telling them your position and threatening that you'll all quit if this kind of shit continues...

  10. Re:More work deserves more compensation on Are 10-11 Hour Programming Days Feasible? · · Score: 1

    two more:
    - hire more people
    - change his productivity goals

  11. Re:Putting the snideness of the summary aside... on Ars Thinks Google Takes a Step Backwards For Openness · · Score: 2

    The biggest issue we have now with the abandonment of H.264 is with mobile devices. All iOS and [for what i know] all Android devices currently have hardware H.264 decoding but not WebM.

    so, which is better?
    1) we switch now and inconvenience some users who don't have hardware support, or
    2) we wait until 2016 when everyone will have H.264 support, and then have to switch everyone because license fees are going up?

  12. Re:Yay on Major Sites To Join ‘World IPv6 Day’ · · Score: 1

    misconfigured NAT: NO traffic gets through
    misconfigured ACLs: ALL traffic gets through

    which is a better solution for grandma?

  13. Re:Here come the "its not better than XP" posts on Windows 7 Trumps Vista By Reaching 20% Share · · Score: 2

    I want my quick launch back

    right-click, toolbars, new toolbar, %userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch

  14. Re:Oh, who cares about quality? on Microsoft Research Takes On Go · · Score: 1

    there's so much cool stuff from MSR it's not funny.

    however, one the best things IMHO is the Z3 theorem proover and related projects such as Pex and http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/specsharp/.

    Check out their online game Pex4Fun.

  15. Re:Oh, who cares about quality? on Microsoft Research Takes On Go · · Score: 1

    Yeah, i can just imagine all those PhDs sitting around all day thinking "well, I got my doctorate and all I'm doing with it is sitting here at Microsoft all day twiddling my thumbs not working for their competitors. i guess it's ok, at least i'm putting food on the table..." LOL

  16. crap reporting on German Kindergartens Ordered To Pay Copyright For Songs · · Score: 1

    this is just crap reporting.

    from the article (in case you didn't read it):

    they have to pay for a license if they want children to perform certain songs

    completely contradicts this:

    It doesn't cost anything to sing

  17. Re:Dual stack failed? on After IPv4, How Will the Internet Function? · · Score: 1

    I think you're confused. A bridge is a layer 2 device and a gateway is layer 4 and above. A router (or mis-named 'default gateway') switches between different layer 3 topologies (subnets, for IP). My wrt54g is doing precisely that for me right now...

  18. Re:Dual stack failed? on After IPv4, How Will the Internet Function? · · Score: 1

    and a $50 "router" doesn't do that

    wait... what's it called when you forward packets between different subnets?

  19. Re:possible cause of failure on Amazon Says Hardware, Not Hackers, Caused Outage · · Score: 1

    yeah, we broke the hardware. fried, blue smoke, nasty smell.

  20. Re:possible cause of failure on Amazon Says Hardware, Not Hackers, Caused Outage · · Score: 1

    i'm not saying it wasn't a DDoS. i'm saying that it could have been defective hardware, and that the fault could have been caused by a DDoS.

  21. Re:possible cause of failure on Amazon Says Hardware, Not Hackers, Caused Outage · · Score: 1

    nothing's going to catch fire but it only takes one bad transistor to take down a machine during abnormal load. i had a sup720 go belly-up on me a while back as soon as we started load testing. it happens.

  22. Re:Programming is skilled labor and should unioniz on 'I Just Need a Programmer' · · Score: 1

    why would i want to join a union? i get paid wads (plus equity) doing exactly what i love doing. what's a union going to do for me?

  23. Oh my GOD! on The Starry Sky Just Got Starrier · · Score: 2

    it's more full of stars!

  24. Re:How about on Thought-Provoking Gifts For Young Kids? · · Score: 1

    my 4-yr old loves listening to Henry Huggins & Ribsy in the car.

  25. Re:Stupid Article on Hard-Coded Bias In Google Search Results? · · Score: 1

    yeah, that would be fine as long as your lawnmower store didn't already service over 65% of the global lawnmower recommendation requests.