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  1. Re:News for nerds? on US Military Creates Indestructible Sandwich · · Score: 1

    Considering that this might be one of the last things for a soldier to eat, it certainly is "Stuff that matters."

  2. Re:I mistakenly thought... on No-click Mouse? · · Score: 1

    The mouse could be controlled by triggers instead of buttons (actually, that would do a good job at removing the click).

  3. Re:Oh great. on Your Own Luxury Submarine! · · Score: 1

    On the topic of bumper stickers, I'd like to say that I've gotten very annoyed by the ones bragging about the driver's kids. It's gotten worse in recent years. I used to see "My child is an honors student at Russell Elementary School." Now some of them say "My child is a VERY GOOD STUDENT at Russell Elementary School." Wtf is up with that? They might as well get a bumper sticker that says, "My child ISN'T an honors student at Russell Elementary School." Of course, I'm being a bit cruel towards the "very good students." However, if a kid is "Citizen of the Month," at least that's an accomplishment to be proud of. I think.

    On a more serious matter, it might be a good idea for schools to also give out bumper stickers for parents of the gangsta-wanna-bee and crackhead students in high schools. There would be bumper stickers that say, "My child is a DEGENERATE at Sometown High School." Mailing these out might just splash some reality into the adoring parents' eyes.

  4. Zygotes on Gene Therapy Cures "Bubble Boy" · · Score: 1

    Zygotes are also the balls of cells that form shortly after that one cell starts to divide numerous times.

  5. Re:The really interesting thing about this on Spectacular 5 Planet Lineup Visible This Month · · Score: 2, Funny

    However, the OP was giving an example of planets that were out of order.

    (out of order planets are _really_ planets that don't work when you put in the quarter and don't give your change back.

    Get it? Like a soda machine!

    Get it? Huh? Huh?

    Oh. No. :-(

    )

  6. Re:Why *I* am not buying a Mac on Why I Ain't Buying A Mac · · Score: 1

    But prior to OSX, every mac I worked on under Final Cut Pro 1 and 2 would croak daily at least2 times. That is not what I would call productive.

    What, are you ranting that OSs are not as good as new OSs? You might as well say, "Your latest version is better than your previous version, so I'm not going to buy your product at all."

  7. Re:Congratulations...BUT... on Mozilla Tree Closes for 1.0 · · Score: 1

    Yes, there are a lot of problems with that gestures package. You would benefit from being able to use the right-mouse-button for your gestures. To do so, go find your profile's preferences. (if you have Windows, that's in the Windows/Application Data/Mozilla/Profiles directory I think) Find your folder for your mozilla username (it might be inside a directory that has a gibberish-looking name). Look for a file named "prefs.js". Create a new file in a text editor called "user.js" and save that file in the same directory as prefs.js. In that file, put user_pref("mozgest.mousebutton", 2); on its own line and save the file.

    Now your mouse gestures work with the right mouse button, or at least they did for me. No, it's not convenient, and the prefs really should work GUI-ly for it to be good, but you have a decent workaround for now.

  8. Re:finnally i can ditch explorer on Mozilla Tree Closes for 1.0 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Um... no. Mozilla 0.9.9 has the best standards support of them all. That scrollbar-ism is _not_ CSS; it is an IE thing that has nothing to do with the standards.

    Mozilla's CSS support is simply superior to all other browsers', as shown in Ian Hickson's Evil Test Suite Results (there might be a space in the URL put in by Slashdot):

    http://www.bath.ac.uk/%7Epy8ieh/cgi/listresults. pl ?ID=ETS&mainMinTests=4

  9. Re:finnally i can ditch explorer on Mozilla Tree Closes for 1.0 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Gee, did it ever occur to you that it is becuase that's not in the CSS Standard? Scrollbar colors are an IE "extension" to CSS, and web authors who use it are rather ignorant of their readers. Users have their scrollbar colors the way they want them; and there is no reason for authors to consider messing with their UI. It can only decrease the usability of a web site. For information about how to prevent web deezyners' screwing with your scrollbar's default settings, go to this page and scroll down a bit.

  10. Re:Good ol' Slashdot Feel on Beginning Project Documentation? · · Score: 1

    Before that, my username was Anonymous Coward.

  11. Re:fair use doesn't mean verbatim copying on Thumbs Are the New Fingers for GameBoy Youth · · Score: 1

    Considering that the story, if anything, gives Reuters more hits so that more people seeing their banners so that they Reuters gets more revenue, then I don't think anybody is complaining.

  12. Re:This questions the old ideas about evolution on Thumbs Are the New Fingers for GameBoy Youth · · Score: 1

    In theory, ID could imply that aliens did the work.

    Then where did the aliens come from?

  13. Re:http://twiki.org/ on Beginning Project Documentation? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Or, if you want to use PHP, try PHPwiki, at http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/

    I'd give a working example of a wiki, but I'm worried about the Slashdot effect on it -- the guy might run up bandwidth costs (and he's not my enemy), and it might become too popular (which means too expensive to run, and it means that it would be edited too quickly and by too many people so that it would lose its small-community feel that Slashdot has also lost).

  14. Re:ACLU's position? on Pennsylvania Law Requires ISPs to Block Child Porn · · Score: 1

    I guess I didn't make myself clear. It's not like minors have the capacity to make these decisions by themselves. Especially anybody posing nude under 16; they are getting exploited by the porn dealers.

  15. Re:ACLU's position? on Pennsylvania Law Requires ISPs to Block Child Porn · · Score: 1

    What about the civil liberties of the children whose pictures are being taken?

  16. Re:What a ridiculous notion on Gravity Hard-Coded Into The Brain · · Score: 1

    Day length change is approximately 2 milliseconds per century [tudelft.nl], meaning that even 100 MYA, the day could not have been more than 2000 seconds (considerably less than 6 hours) shorter than it is currently.

    Considerably less than _one_ hour, in fact. 34 minutes, to be almost exact.

  17. Re:Learning with and without gravity on Gravity Hard-Coded Into The Brain · · Score: 1
    Hacky sack involves hand-to-FOOT coordination


    Are you sure that's not "foot-eye" coordination?
  18. Re:Useless article, lack of credibility and rigor on Gravity Hard-Coded Into The Brain · · Score: 1

    Perhaps humans spent millions of years becoming hard-coded to adapt.

    :-)

  19. Re:Why not? on Email, a Legally Binding Contract? · · Score: 1

    There does not even have to be a verbal contract. Contracts can be implied. If you are at a cafeteria, you'll see food out and ready for you to take. This food is an _offer_. If you _accept_ the offer, by taking the food, you have accepted a contract without saying a word. And then you have to pay for the food (unless you are a minor, whose contracts are voidable (in PA and most if not all states) except in a few cases). And they have to let you pay for the food (they can't force you to put it back).

    That doesn't mean they won't let you put it back, though, because if they didn't, then that would be bad customer service and the cafeteria would lose customers.

    So my point is, contracts can be implied. And you make contracts every day.

  20. Re:Reliability to two nines? on Mozilla 0.9.9 Released · · Score: 1

    No, if you run it for 100 millenia, it only crashes once :-P Or is that 100 nanoseconds?

    Well, something like that.

  21. Re:So close, so very close on Mozilla 0.9.9 Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Define "correctly." MSNBC does not use valid HTML at all, so Mozilla can display it however it wants to.

  22. Re:MathML. on Mozilla 0.9.9 Released · · Score: 1

    What color of fruit is this?

  23. Re:Can't wait for 1.0 on Mozilla 0.9.9 Released · · Score: 1

    I've seen Ctrl + W in numerous tabbed and other multi-document apps for Windows. For example, MS Works 4.0 and Opera both use Ctrl + W. It is basically a standard (and it probably is a real one somewhere in the MS UI guidelines.)

  24. Re:Let's have a nasa rider on Hubble Upgraded; NASA's Future Not So Bright · · Score: 1

    It's a tax form in the U.S.

  25. Re:What's the betting... on Netscape 6 is Spyware? · · Score: 1

    Furthermore, N6 requires you to establish an @netscape.com -- [snip]

    Actually, it's @netscape.net