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  1. A new generation.... on 'Sticky Mittens' Give Babies A Head Start · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...of kids too lazy to even close their hands :-)

  2. Re:After 17yrs of Windwoes and 3 yrs of Linux. on Flirting With Mac OS X · · Score: 2

    I stand corrected, noob that I am :-)

    To repay my debt to slashdot society here is a page that you might find interesting on the subject.

  3. Re:After 17yrs of Windwoes and 3 yrs of Linux. on Flirting With Mac OS X · · Score: 2

    How have you had 17 years of windows? Or at least thats what I assume you are trying to make a new amusing name for.

    Or did you leave a stray "1" in there by accident :-)

    More on topic: Demonstration Macs at PC World (pc superstore) have put me off OS X because they were sluggish, grey areas lurked where the OS hadnt quite managed to redraw the screen after a window had been moved, sluggish response etc.. I suppose they could have been badly configured but I thought the whole point of macs is that they "just work".
    On the less serious side though they do look good.

  4. Re:Do NOT get involved with this on US Geeks Recycle GNU/Linux Boxes for Ecuador · · Score: 2

    Indymedia is an independent site that anyone can submit articles to (hmm.. sounds familiar?) and it has local editions for all over the world. It is not anti semitic - check out the israel edition and see jewish people posting articles at both ends of the spectrum.

  5. Tiscali? Arggh on Kazaa Continues to Evolve · · Score: 2

    Spam I report often originates from Tiscali accounts. I wouldnt give them any of my money for that reason.

  6. Re:Amazing! on Build Your Own Subwoofer · · Score: 2

    I wasnt aware of that, I prounounce both as root-er and I thought most people in the country did, perhaps it varies by region or something.

  7. Re:big deal, nothing new here on Vanishing Mobile Phone Masts · · Score: 2

    Sounds like you are just pretending to be an expert - they are just images you googled for.

    The "clock tower" for example is from the "Back-to-the-future" film set. The last one is from a landscape site.
    The "tree" is the main page image for http://danr.ucop.edu/devserv/ .

  8. Re:Rules in the UK on Vanishing Mobile Phone Masts · · Score: 2

    We get fox news on satellite here in the UK and I wouldnt trust anything they said about mobile phone masts.
    I always wonder though if the people who complain about masts have mobiles themselves, or their kids they are trying to protect.

  9. Re:Obviously havn't read the artical on Crypto with Epoxy Tokens, Glass Balls and Lasers · · Score: 2

    Thats what i'm wondering. The reader would have to have a complicated internal model of the fob.

    Of course the other problem is what another poster mentioned, duplicating the key via stereolithograpy or some other method - these tokens are made in the first place, they arent beyond being produced with more care (e.g a tiny layer at a time and placing the glass spheres where required).
    In short this is a cool and clever glorified front door key, but with more combinations.

  10. Re:I watched it as the lead-in to SU2. on Enterprise Season Premiere Tonight · · Score: 2

    Well we all find something boring dont we :-)

    I found Enterprise boring because it felt like Bonanza meets Quantum leap.
    Anyone know why?

  11. Re:No offense... on A First Look At The Xandros Desktop · · Score: 2

    yeah... like XFCE :-)

    http://www.xfce.org/snapshots.html#TOP

    Seriously though I agree, this just looks like a bad attempt at copying windows and looks worse than normal KDE into the bargain.

  12. Re:A guy in Arizona bought the London bridge.... on Speed Of Light Broken With Off Shelf Components · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not quite.. the thing is not that it was falling down but that the guy thought he was buying Tower Bridge.

  13. Re:I'd rather... on Peer-to-Peer Cell Phones · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Peer to peer calls wouldnt be liked by the mobile operators would it would be free.
    Imagine you want to call someone and it hops from (idle)phone to phone until it reaches its target.
    This is what (I think) cybikos do with text messages.

  14. Re:no thanks... on Peer-to-Peer Cell Phones · · Score: 2

    cell phones are full of sensitive data, and enabling file sharing is simply a bad idea.
    ...you mean... like computers?
  15. Re:Umm.. Just a question... on Mozilla 1.2 Betas Start Flowing · · Score: 2

    2) dont care.. I prefer keyboard shortcuts, and hardly touch my mouse.

    Must be hardwork tabbing to all the links :-)
    The beauty of having mouse gestures/pie menus is you dont need to alternate between mouse and keyboard. I wish mozilla would have the rmb+lmb =forward/back buttons that Opera uses, that is really easy to use.
  16. Re:93% of your audience use 4.x or better browser on Are 99.9% of Websites Obsolete? · · Score: 2

    That depends on what you and they mean by "work". I dont really give a shit if a site I visit doesnt look 100% like the designer intended in my browser.
    I do however care if its so moronically broken that its not even navigable. As long as I can read the information I went there for all is not lost.

    P.S why do I sometimes get slashdot telling me "you cant post to this page"?

  17. Re:TV coverage feels wrong on One Year After September 11 · · Score: 2

    11th september 2001 - the day a nation forgot how to format dates.
    /me observes a minutes silence.

  18. Re:Don't get yourselves overheated here on Europe Net Users Now Outnumber US/Canada · · Score: 2

    Someone in our village showed us a java applet and we had to burn them as a witch.

  19. Re:More 'Net users in Europe than North America on Europe Net Users Now Outnumber US/Canada · · Score: 2

    It was certainly meant as a joke. I suppose the obligatory smile-face was needed for anyone to see the humor.

    No... it just wasnt funny.
  20. Ok, i'm not a massive farscape fan on Farscape Frelling Cancelled · · Score: 3

    But what is "frelling"?
    There is no good sci-fi on at the moment. I see Enterprise and its just more "wild west cowboys in space" crap.

  21. Re:quality television ? on 75th Anniversary of Television · · Score: 2

    The United States of America has more than 2,000, and that's just over-the-air stations. We also have over 9,000 local cable TV systems.
    And I bet they are all showing the same syndicated crap arent they :-)
  22. Contaminated Coffee. on Wireless Camouflage? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Am I the only one who saw this and thought of Starbucks?
    :-)

  23. Tucows on Pepper Author Calls It Quits · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The most interesting thing about the article for me is that Tucows let you buy a higher rating!

  24. Re:yay! on Xbox Runs X, KDE, Gnome, StarOffice and Tuxracer · · Score: 2

    That's just rediculous!

  25. Re:Where have you been? on Images and Screen Shots of Zaurus SL-A300 · · Score: 2

    Its not a matter of untarring/compiling everything yourself, there are IPK files that contain software in a packaged format. Think RPM but easier :-)
    Of course if you find something you have the source for and its not allready packaged then you can manually install it if you want.