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  1. Re:Rewrite history on U.S. to Digitize All Tangible Gov't. Publications · · Score: 1

    Well, you can bet that classfied information isn't even considered by this action.

  2. Re:Outlook 2003 on Where is the Killer Calendar? · · Score: 0

    Like I told a part-time colleague whose full time job is working for Mr. Softy: after a 'significant emotional event' with a .pst file, I don't even have that .exe on my WinXP partition, not that I even boot 'doze much anymore.
    Gentoo Uber Youber!

  3. Re:Which is the bigger irony: on Ajax On Rails · · Score: 1
    How exactly as Google effected Microsofts market?
    While not Ajax-specific, an example is the increase of storage on Hotmail to 250Mb.
  4. Which is the bigger irony: on Ajax On Rails · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Then Microsoft created XMLHttpRequest in Internet Explorer 5, which let browser-side JavaScript communicate with the web server in the background without requiring the browser to display a new web page. That made it possible to develop more fluid and responsive web applications. Mozilla soon implemented XMLHttpRequest in its browsers, as did Apple (in the Safari browser) and Opera.
    XMLHttpRequest must have been one of the Web's best kept secrets. Since its debut in 1998, few sites have used it at all, and most developers, if they even knew about it, never used it. Google started to change that when it released a series of high-profile web applications with sleek new UIs powered by XMLHttpRequest.
    a) Microsoft as a first-mover in a technology, or
    b) Microsoft's own technology being used by Google to loosen Redmond's deathgrip on the market?
  5. Re:Inquiring minds want to know! on New MS Shell Will Not Be In Longhorn · · Score: 1

    2K

  6. Re:Cool! on PC Case Made Completely of Fans · · Score: 2, Funny
    The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.
    Eccl1:6
    I just can't figure out if Solomon was talking about slashdot moderators, or duplicate articles...
  7. Re:I dispute your theorem! on The Formula for a Successful Sitcom · · Score: 1

    I dispute your disputation, on the sandy grounds of that be-atch made of silicon.

  8. Thought they named it after a Haskell feature on Windows to Have Better CLI · · Score: 1

    in an attempt to Curry favor...

  9. Re:End of OSS? on McAfee, Macromedia Flirting With F/OSS Community · · Score: 1

    For a propellerhead treatment of the question, there is this Hah-vahd link: http://hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4 834&t=technology

  10. a lot of pack-rat geeks like me on Class Action Suit Forces Palm to Replace Dead PDAs · · Score: 1

    Yep, Packrat 4.0 was a right stinker.
    Sure am glad I kept that thing all these years.
    Here and the wife says I'm teh st00p3d.

  11. Re:Better, please. Not bigger on Knoppix 3.9 Released · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you don't like the pun, just throw it on the floor and tampon it.

  12. Re:Old books... on Ancient Cave Bear DNA Extracted and Decoded · · Score: 1

    Scanning this story, and no Jean M. Auel Clan of the Cave Bear wisecracks.
    Nope, can't think of any, either...

  13. Re:whoops on BBC News Under The Bonnet · · Score: 3, Funny

    The BBC is staffed with Amish women?

  14. Re:I wonder.... on HHS Signs Major Linux Deal With Novell · · Score: 1

    Gubmint acquisition is increasingly based on proven performance. This established a track record.
    Considering some of the heavy brains Novell has added to its roster lately (R. Love), this should be very interesting, and lead to some sweating in Washinton State...

  15. Re:Well great! on New .XXX Top Level Domain · · Score: 1

    Spelled 'pr0n', perhaps, but porn is pretty much as old as humanity.
    Censorship, I think, is the canonical example of 'cure worse than disease'. If there is really an argument against doing something, then that argument, itself, ought to trigger thought in reasonable people and steer them clear.

  16. Re:Well great! on New .XXX Top Level Domain · · Score: 2, Funny

    There may also be pressure from some who feel "We must prick holes in the stiff fronts erected by the opposition at every turn"[1] to the idea of putting all pornography in one easily filtered location.

    [1] George Carlin, though my quote may not be exact.

  17. Re:Depending on the distro... on Linux Geeks To Take Over World · · Score: 1

    And if it's Gentoo, what are you putting in the violoin case? I guess I'll put my highland bagpipe; dunno what you lesser folk are bringing, but my four-reeded monster 0wnz0rz j00!

  18. Re:Rephrase: on Are CRTs History? · · Score: 1

    Actually, TFQ was concerned with interim solutions for specific applications for which the "Whamperdyne, Shine-adelic Globbotron" solutions aren't packing sufficient resolution yet.

  19. Re:TACO FAILURE: ABORT on Are CRTs History? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hmmm...well, if the goal is to encourage the /. editorial staff in the direction of increased journalistic integrity (or at least spelling/grammar competence), I'm not seeing how your post helps.
    At least someone tipped them off about that mathematical hoaxer from the PI with the Fermat's Last Theorem debunk.

  20. Re:Genetics and Free Will are Mutually Exclusive on Genetic Testing For Geekiness? · · Score: 1

    I think the case can be readily built that Downs Syndrome affects behavior.
    Where you don't want to go with it is saying that there is any sort of distribution of brains, particularly WRT race and gender.

  21. Re:best ever headline on msnbc ! on Genetic Testing For Geekiness? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Furthermore, if free will means anything,
    a) the aforenamed are responsible for their actions
    b) equally mad men could have arisen in their circumstances; their elimination would not guarantee much
    In summary, omniscience would seem to be a requirement prior to making adjustments.

  22. Re:Not new! on Sony's New DRM Technique · · Score: 4, Funny

    Which might help explain the extreme popularity of the format...

  23. Re:Try a VM on Porting Open Source to Minor Platforms is Harmful · · Score: 1

    What about GCJ?

  24. Re:No... on Porting Open Source to Minor Platforms is Harmful · · Score: 1

    This is the closest thing to "Stuff that matters" I've seen on the front page in weeks. UD is nobody's corporate shill, and the question of 'what is a reasonable platform range' is another facet of configuration management that really bears an extended hash-out.
    s/harmful/helpful/

  25. Re:NetBSD? on Porting Open Source to Minor Platforms is Harmful · · Score: 1

    What's with the anti-functional bias? I a platform has emacs, does it really need anything else?