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  1. I had an insightful reply typed up... on U.S. Confiscating Data at the Border · · Score: 3, Funny

    But it was confiscated.

  2. Can't save... on Time for a Vista Do-Over? · · Score: 1

    When copying from a samba share on my local network, Vista restricts the destination folders that are allowed. You can have Full Control on a folder, and Vista will refuse to let you copy from the network directly to it. You have to save to the desktop first and then move it. That is sheer, unmitigated stupidity, and is one of the many reasons I think Vista is a usability nightmare.

  3. Re:New Code? on Time for a Vista Do-Over? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Linux is only cheaper if your time is worthless.

  4. Re:Can it replace Explorer? on KDE Goes Cross-Platform, Supports Windows and OS X · · Score: 1

    Forward-slash works in cmd.exe just fine. You have to be using it where a path is expected, though. Tab-completion won't work with it. Also, both the path separator and the option switch character can be changed.

  5. Re:Mecca and Medina on Pope Cancels Speech After Scientists Protest · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    OK, kill yourself. After killing your family. What was that? You don't want to die? Why not? You just said there's absolutely no point at all to doing anything, since it won't matter in a 100 or a 1000 years.

    That's what I thought.

  6. Re:Assinine complaint on Pope Cancels Speech After Scientists Protest · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Copy and Paste is far easier in Windows, than it is in say, X Window. And that operation is probably done more than any other.

  7. Re:Irony on Pope Cancels Speech After Scientists Protest · · Score: 1

    Thankfully, most of the world subscribes to religion in one way or another, even if it's only an historical artifact of their upbringing.

    Every self-professed athiest on this site appears to be completely amoral and intolerent. If there had never been any religion, there would be no civilization, as groups that large would tear each other apart.

  8. Re:why do screen resolutions keep going down? on Alienware's Curved Monitor · · Score: 1

    My widescreen has a native resolution of 1900x1220. It's great for working with documents because it's big enough to have two windows side by side. Really handy if I need a web reference or a couple PuTTY sessions open.

  9. Re:IDEs too? Oh yes, and what about OO Design? on UK Moves to Outlaw 'Hacker Tools' · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Do you walk around in body armor or with body guards? No? Well, you deserved to be mugged or brutally beaten to death.

    Or maybe your logic just isn't.

  10. Re:The Author is a Fucktard on Long Live Closed-Source Software? · · Score: 1

    What defining features of a micro-kernel has Linux adopted? Every commercial OS allows for loadable modules, and most have done so for years before Linux was viable. Linux has no message passing between parts of the kernel, nor does it segment different tasks into separate processes within kernel space.

  11. Re:What should we make illegal next, breathing? on RIAA Now Filing Suits Against Consumers Who Rip CDs · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is slashdot. What dignity?

  12. Re:what were their intentions? on Couple Busted For Shining Laser At Helicopter · · Score: 1

    Driving drunk is attempted murder. I'd be willing to debate what should be considered drunk, but in no way are the punishments severe enough, much less too severe.

  13. Spanish Inquisition on Copy That Floppy, Lose Your Computer · · Score: 1

    The Inquisition was financed the same way -- from the assets of their victims. It should be axiomatic that it is impossible for such an agency to be impartial or just in their enforcement.

  14. Re:The solution is simple on BSA Software Piracy Fight Smacks of RIAA Crackdown · · Score: 1

    The problem is that only the most careful accounting can prove you have a license for all your software. The BSA does not care if you're legal. They aren't the Law, so they can and do presume guilty until proven innocent.

  15. Re:So... on Maryland To Tax Custom Programming and Computer Services · · Score: 1

    That is illegal. One state cannot tax businesses in another state. That is exactly what the interstate commerce clause in the Constitution is about. MD is free to tax the businesses taking advantage of out-of-state services, however.

  16. Re:Inspiration for new UI on Adobe to Unclutter Photoshop UI · · Score: 1

    It doesn't sound like a different design to me. If it did the same thing, you only changed the implementation.

  17. Re:DRM: It's not just wrong on AntiPiracy Macrovision Bug is Actually Six Years Old · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Apple's DRM has zero affect on non-Apple anything.

  18. Re:New Flash: "No food scarcity in NY supermarkets on Genetic Modification Produces Mighty Mouse · · Score: 1

    Maybe the "we" the GP was referring to is the same "we" that has the luxury to not only read but post to slashdot. There is no problem with food shortages that are not directly and purposefully caused by human beings.

  19. Re:Dejavu on Schneier On the War On the Unexpected · · Score: 1

    The flight from Detroit to NY is 75 minutes. There's absolutely no way I'm going to wait 60%+ of that time after landing just to wait for an overnight bag. I bring my suit bag on as carry-on so I don't have to wait. And I show up 30 minutes before boarding to get through security. Haven't missed a flight yet.

    Who's the genius?

  20. Re:Dejavu on Schneier On the War On the Unexpected · · Score: 1

    As box cutters were not proscribed at the time, it doesn't matter that more thorough searching would have found them. And they aren't proscribed now, either, so again it doesn't matter.

    The very reason box cutters were used was precisely because security wouldn't have looked at them twice.

  21. Re:Many? on Processor Throttling In Windows XP · · Score: 1

    I just bought an Acer laptop from Newegg that has a dual core cpu and 1GB RAM. Vista Home Premium came installed. Best Buy was selling the exact same laptop for less ($500 at BB), but I didn't get a chance to order before they ran out of stock. I got the laptop to learn Vista, and it's fine for that purpose. Personally, I'd put 2GB in any machine I really meant to use (all my others have that much), but the 1GB is fine for learning the OS.

  22. Re:Is that even legal? on Upcoming Firmware Will Brick Unlocked iPhones · · Score: 4, Informative

    You need not ever pay AT&T a dime to own an iPhone.

  23. Re:What's the big deal? on Linux Devicemaker Sued In First US Test of GPL · · Score: 1

    How is shorter automatically equivalent to simpler?

  24. Re:Accuracy on A Trip Down Computer Memory Lane · · Score: 1

    Virtually every laptop produced today has a video out for an external monitor. Does that stop them from being portables too?

  25. Re:Firefox tabs on A Talk With Opera CEO · · Score: 1

    The first I know of was the GNN browser, supplied with AOL's dial-up service, GNN. This was back in the Windows 3.1 days, so early 90's. IE didn't even exist.