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  1. Navigating? on A Visual Walkthrough of New Features in Vim 7.0 · · Score: 1

    > By default, [on-the-fly spellchecking] is turned off. But by navigating
    > to Tools -> Spelling -> "Spell check on" ...

    Uhh, sorry, you lost me there.

  2. Re:Was there three days before it happened... on Rock Face of Kilauea Volcano Collapses · · Score: 1

    You don't have to risk your life by hiking out onto the lava shelf to see the lava. With some patience (and extra drinking water), you can find areas inland from the shelf where lava has come to the surface. My wife and I visited Volcanos National Park in February, and like you, we thought the only place to see the lava was at the newly formed coast. We were deterred by the warnings and the rope boundaries, so we began exploring areas a few hundred yards up from the boundary. There were still some groups of people scattered about, and we were about a mile past where the marked trail ends. After about a half hour of unsuccessful searching, we would notice that as we looked across the lava field, some areas would seem to radiate with heat, distorting the far-away hillside. We struck out in the general direction of one of these areas, occasionally stooping low and looking across the ground to get a better view of the radiating heat to make sure we were going in the right direction.

    It wasn't too long until we noticed that there was a faint orange glow coming from the cracks in the lava we were walking on. They were easy to see since the afternoon had worn on and the light was starting to dim. We spent a good 20 minutes getting extremely excited about this glow, thinking our quest had ended. But much to our excitement, about 50 yards away from this spot was a true lava breakout. Once we found that, we spent a good hour in awestruck reverence watching the lava slowly pile out on top of old flows. The heat was intense - I could only go to within about seven or eight feet of the fresh lava before the heat became too intense. And the *sound* - like a crackling campfire - the outside of the lava would cool, forming a hard shell, but the inner, hotter lava would keep pushing through, resulting in what is essentially glass constantly cooling, solidifying and breaking. Utterly amazing. We finally headed back as it got dark, noticing that the surface flows on the hillside further inland became strikingly visible in the darkening twilight.

    It was the definite highlight of our most recent trip to the islands, and I can't wait to visit the park again someday.

  3. I can hear it now... on Homer Becomes Omar · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Don't have a camel, man!"

  4. Freudian slip? on Mom, and Now Judge, Stand Up to RIAA · · Score: 5, Funny

    From the transcript (emphasis mine):


    [RIAA]: ... The defendant was served on April 25th, and her time to expire does not --
    [Judge]: Her time to answer.
    [RIAA]: -- time to answer does not expire until May 15th.


    Ahh...so just suing people isn't good enough...now we see what they really want!!

  5. That explains it! on Quantum Information Can be Negative · · Score: 2, Funny

    If I tell you negative information, you'll know less.

    So, American television programming has been giving us negative information
    for decades now....

  6. Re:Christ, stop complaining about the PDF on Why I Hate the Apache Web Server · · Score: 1

    NO SHIT. The number of crybabies bitching about the PDF far outnumbers those actually discussing the content of the presentation. If you are having this much trouble reading such a common document format, then maybe you're not quite ready to handle something as complex as Apache!

  7. Re:sms-speak on Hackers, Spelling, and Grammar? · · Score: 1

    Too true. Here's an example that was recently posted to a job-seeker discussion list I'm on (incriminating nouns removed, and emphasis added):


    Does anyone have a contact within the [department] business unit or the
    [another department] department at [company] in [town]? I'm interested
    in a junior tech writer position there.

    Thx for your help!


    The first thing I thought was, "Good luck with that job hunt, you're gonna need it!"

  8. Flash? on New Open Source Magazine Launches · · Score: 5, Insightful

    An Open-Source magazine with a Flash reader...greeeaaat. Three guesses as to what the majority of the letters to the editor will be about...

  9. Re:One word: on Opera's CEO to Swim From Norway to the USA · · Score: 1

    That's two words, you just mashed them together!

  10. I'm not worried on Lunar Dust: A Major Worry for Moon Visitors · · Score: 1

    "This could cause a lung disease similar to silicosis"

    I'm not worried. It's pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis that really
    scares me.

  11. Re:My authenticate authenticate day, 8am - 6pm on Banks Begin To Use RSA Keys · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Walk to car, authenticate with car door locks.

    I would argue that this is authorization, not authentication. Two very different things. The car doesn't care who you are. From the car's viewpoint, you have the key, you are authorized to access the inside of the car.

  12. Re:the "universal standard" on Dealing with the Unix Copy and Paste Paradigm? · · Score: 1


    Copy: Ctrl-Insert

    Paste: Shift-Insert

    Then, sometime in the Win95 or Win98 era, Microsoft changed it to the less-intuitive and less-standard Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V.


    I'll agree with your assessment of the paste operation. But how is 'Ctrl-Insert' more intuitive than 'Ctrl-C' for copying? If I'm copying something, why would I want to hit a key called 'Insert'? Unless I'm "insert"ing the text into the clipboard, but then 'Shift-Insert' becomes less intuitive.

  13. I've always wondered... on Ask the Egyptian Installfest Organizers · · Score: 1

    Is killing a cat process punishable by death?

  14. Oh, this is wonderful on TV Set Doubles as a Mirror · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now I don't even need to turn on the TV to watch the world's most boring reality series...

  15. I feel left out on Space Elevators Going Up · · Score: 1

    "...we're all still waiting for one of the many Carbon Nanotube research centers to announce they reached the famous 100GPa red line from page 10 of the NIAC Phase 2 Report..."

    Why do I feel like I've missed an invitation to join a very, very exclusive club?

  16. Additionally... on Ford Testing a New 'Traffic Monitoring' Device · · Score: 5, Funny

    For Ford SUVs, it will also report if the vehicle is upside-down.

  17. Re:Man pages are evil... on Man Page Project Can Now Use Official POSIX Docs · · Score: 1

    What is this 'woman'? Hmmm...

    $ man woman
    no manual entry for woman

    That's ok. finger's disabled for security reasons.

  18. Re:Lotus Notes Client? on Memo Confirms IBM Move To Linux Desktop? · · Score: 1

    Hopefully it means the complete and utter demise of Lotus Notes.

  19. Awesome! on 235,000 Fewer Programmers by 2015 · · Score: 0

    I was looking for a Wyoming link...

  20. Re:good on We're Jammin', Hope You Like Jammin' Too · · Score: 1

    Sometimes, though, cell phones are absolutely necessary - my wife is pregnant, right? What happens if I'm at a movie or at school when she goes into labour?

    Wow, it's a miracle anyone was ever born before cell phones were invented!

  21. Re:Zope on How to Set Up a Gift Website? · · Score: 1

    If you've ever actually used Zope, you'd know that it's a pretty inappropriate suggestion for what the OP is looking for. What makes you think "computer illiterate" and "Python scripts" go well together?

  22. Re:Erm, try reading your contract. on Are You On Time To Work? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now for the rant. I'm really pissed off with cunts like you whose answer for everything is: "if you don't like it, leave". That's not a fucking answer. You're exactly like the braindead fucks who pretend that the way to fix a country is to get rid of all the dissenters. Fuck you.

    Hey, if you don't like those types of answers, you're free to quit reading slashdot.

  23. Re:What happen if on RIAA Tracking Songs by MD5 Hashes · · Score: 1

    Just use a tool that updates the id tags in batches..

    A quicker way might be something along the lines of

    for i in *mp3
    do
    echo -n 0 >> $i
    done
    ...which probably won't cause mp3 players to choke. It can be easily reversed as well.

  24. It's not a Bro on Denial of Service via Algorithmic Complexity · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's a Mansierre!

  25. Oh, great... on GoboLinux Rethinks The Linux Filesystems · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just what we need. Linux distributions named after Fraggles.