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  1. Re:Ergonomics on Intel Prototypes World's Thinnest Laptop · · Score: 1

    Powerbooks / Macbook Pros. They have a keyboard so nice I prefer to type on it over a desktop keyboard. Very low impact, low travel, and the perfect feedback / resistance.

  2. Re:Why binaries? on Performance Tuning Subversion · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I just went up the tree to your original post (which i did answer) and with the current setup for the mod system, it DOES look like my post was saying you were trolling. Guess it'll be a bug report now... *clicky*

  3. Re:Why binaries? on Performance Tuning Subversion · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Oh, I shouldn't feed trolling... but he does have an account... The target audience and main users of Subversion are not "high level network techs." Software developers / coders is where you want to look. That said, I'm disappointed in the article... I was hoping for tweaks rather than "use a tarball." The information / stats provided was interesting, though.

  4. Re:Why binaries? on Performance Tuning Subversion · · Score: 3, Informative

    First answer: Images. Many other possible answers... :)

  5. Re:drones on Spy Drones Take to the Sky in the UK · · Score: 1

    No, they're your typical city administrator's office drones with wings attached. They keep bee drones as reserves.

  6. Re:To quote a recent movie... on Spy Drones Take to the Sky in the UK · · Score: 1

    Brevity ... is wit.

  7. Re:Storm in the tubes on Data Storm Caused Nuclear Plant To Shut Down · · Score: 1

    Yes, actually... yes you can... neologism.

  8. Re:so, what this article is saying is... on Modern Medicine Might Have Saved Lincoln · · Score: 1
  9. Re:so, what this article is saying is... on Modern Medicine Might Have Saved Lincoln · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it crashed on the front lawn of the Whitehouse, to the left side. I don't believe it actually impacted the building, but was rather very close to it.

  10. Re:Scale back your expectations on Quickly Switching Your Servers to Backups? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A million dollars in revenue isn't what he meant, I think. A bank's revenue, for example, is much less than its transaction amount. Stock Exchance as well.

    Also, consider 2x60x40x52 comes out to 249,600,000,000. I bet Bank of America sees a billion dollars a day move. Peak transaction volume is often used when calculating potential loss, so it may only be $2 million / minute during the highest hour -- but that's always the hour you'll fail during ;)

  11. Re:Privacy is already dead on Massachusetts Joins the Real ID Fight · · Score: 1

    The "Ayuh" makes me think you must be a Mainah, eh?

    Portland here.

  12. Re:Bittorrent on Censoring a Number · · Score: 4, Funny

    02

  13. The State of Maine fails: on Big HMO Jolted By Email, System Failures · · Score: 1
    Maine does a system cutover over 2 years ago, and its still broken. Doctors go out of business because they can't get paid, and everything's a mess. I think this one wins :-/

    http://www.cio.com/article/20133/Maine_s_Medicaid_ Mistakes

  14. Re:Doesn't seem like that much on Washington Bans Chemicals; Industry Freaks · · Score: 1

    How much could you possibly spend on it to convince a body of 147 about the issue? When's the last time somebody spend $1,500 just to try and convince you alone of something?

  15. Re:What happens if you catch the guy breaking in? on National Intelligence Director Seeks Expansion of Spy Powers · · Score: 1
    My favorite case: http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article ?AID=/20070314/NEWS/703140547 "John Coffin won't spend any more time in jail for beating up two sheriff's deputies inside his house, striking one in the head with a Taser gun he took from the other.

    ...Coffin, 56, had a right to defend his family and property because the deputies had no right to be in Coffin's house in the first place, De Furia said."

  16. Re:8 Bit-Tie on WiiHelms Go on Sale · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah, this would totally sell if they actually made it. I like the "1982" availability date.

  17. Re:Easily ported to Windows, huh? on Is KDE 4.0 the Holy Grail of Desktops? · · Score: 1

    Let me know when you got that working, k? Relatively speaking, it's still easy considering the enormity of the KDE project. Just... try to word your point "friendly," k? :)

  18. Re:Easily ported to Windows, huh? on Is KDE 4.0 the Holy Grail of Desktops? · · Score: 1

    Search Google for "kde windows"

    It's not that hard to check before being condescending, k?

  19. Re:Link? on Voters Vote Yes, County Says No · · Score: 1

    posting to undo an accidental mod

  20. Re:Check out the 07 MINI - it has this stuff alrea on A New Lease On Internal Combustion · · Score: 1

    http://auto.howstuffworks.com/cooling-system8.htm I strongly suspect that the cardboard factor has to do with raw airflow over the engine since the opening on large trucks is so big. I'm strongly considering cardboarding mine next year as well, since it suffers a similar problem of taking a very long time to warm in winter (almost the whole facia, axle to hood between the headlights is exposed for ventilation).

  21. Re:laptop? backpacking? on Gadgets You Backpack Around the World With? · · Score: 1

    My pack capacity allows me to take on up to 5 litres of water -- 3 in the camel pack and 2 between the two nalgenes I carry (water filter pumps into nalgenes, then water has to sit for a while for iodine). You start really paying attention to those rivers and learning to "camel up" drinking at the water source rather than carrying on.

    Getting a proper fitting boot is the worst damn thing. Learning how to get your pack packed right so you can get to everything without making a mess ranks second.

  22. Re:Check out the 07 MINI - it has this stuff alrea on A New Lease On Internal Combustion · · Score: 1

    Well, for the record, completely mechanical thermostats have been a part of engine cooling systems since... well, probably nearly as long as enginges have been around. The radiator in a car is designed in about the worst-case scenario. The thermostat valve is definitely much wider while driving in Texas in the summer than Maine in the winter, but the engine temp would remain the same. If the thermostat wasn't there, my engine might never get warm in the winter (esp. consider the size of the radiator exposure on my car).

  23. Re:Embrace, on Gates Says Microsoft Will Support OpenID · · Score: 2, Informative

    You trust the OpenID site to supply and identity. By principal of it, whatever you get from a certain site is considered to be true. If the site is a spammer's site, the identity of spammer3@spam.example.com is still valid. Trust is placed in the site you're viewing. You trust Slashdot to have checked for that identity. If you trust the site you're reading from, the goal is accomplished.

  24. Re:Better now than later.. on Parking Attendant 2.0 · · Score: 1

    "A USB devise is currently drawing too much power and the port will be deactivated." Yeah, totally. Trolling down the river.

  25. Re:I RTFA.... the first page at least.... on I Was a Cybercrook for the FBI · · Score: 2, Informative

    Please note the difference between the names Thomas and Taylor.