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  1. Re:Easy upgrade on Perl 5.8.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Some people are saying that putting in the full distribution path isn't working for them. I'm running 5.6.1 right now and "perl -MCPAN -e 'install perl-5.8.0.tar.gz'" doesn't work for me. Try both, if one doesn't work, I guess.

  2. Easy upgrade on Perl 5.8.0 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    For those with Perl already, the following is an easy way to download and upgrade:

    perl -MCPAN -e 'install J/JH/JHI/perl-5.8.0.tar.gz'

  3. Re:A search engine by any other name... on Search Engines Take Their Time Disclosing Paid Links · · Score: 2

    > Is it fair to call yourself a search engine if you're really just an Ad database?

    Technically, searching an ad database is still searching.

  4. Re:We could all do this on Beyond Dvorak via Genetic Algorithm · · Score: 2

    I can see smartcard-enabled keyboards. You walk up to a strange computer, put in your smartcard and it authenticates you, not only giving you access to your files, but also changing the keyboard layout to your personally optimized layout.

    Then again, the 'strange' computers would have to record all keystrokes in order to keep the keyboard layout optimal.. I see some privacy complaints though.

  5. Re:Relevant Simpsons quote... on Isn't it Time for Metric Time? · · Score: 3, Funny

    According to Go Metric, that's equal to 0.001984131 miles per gallon. I wonder what kind of car Abraham Simpson drives.

  6. Re:Grrrr on Craig Silverstein answers your Google questions · · Score: 3, Informative

    Check her out here.

  7. OT: Pledge of allegiance on Moon Rock Winds Up In Court · · Score: 2

    I find it surprising the number of people who act like the words "under God" belong in the pledge. If the words were "under Allah" or "under Zeus", how would you feel about saying them every morning? Just because you believe in God -- and therefore are inspired (or at worst unmoved) by these two words -- doesn't mean that everyone else who does not should be forced to recite them.

    'DuranDuran' is implying that the suit (and even more so, the finding) was frivolous. It was not, and I find the prospect of Senate making the current 45-year-old pledge phrasology into a constitutional amendment enough to make me consider emigration.

  8. Re:It's not steganography on Music Meets Steganography · · Score: 2

    Sorry, you're not quite correct. Steganography is only the process of hiding data. A good example from Simon Singh's The Code Book is stone tablets encased in wax. The data (whatever is written on the stone tablets) is there, merely hidden by the thick layer of wax. Both digital watermarking and Aphex Twin's method are valid steganography. The term is generally used nowadas in reference to the former, but that does not make that its meaning.

  9. APOD Quark Star picture on Slashback: Membership, Quarkiness, Audioggogy · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    That last link should be here, and it was yesterday's picture.

  10. Re:Interesting, but. on Beer Stein Goes Hi Tech · · Score: 2

    Are they going to assign individual addresses to every glass made? Where there is one bar, there are more bars. Talk about miscommunication.

    This is what IPv6 is designed to facilitate. We'd have enough IPs to give each beer glass on Earth its own address.

  11. Re:So... on One DVD To Rule Them All · · Score: 2

    ..the other of which provides for something resembling a happy ending for hobbits.

    Don't hold your breath. For the sake of those who haven't read the books, I won't go into details, but the section of the book of which you speak supposedly will NOT be in the RotK movie. Jackson felt the story should be about the War of the Ring, and left out Bombadil for the same reason.

    I'm angry, too, but after deliberation, I say it's understandable.

  12. Re:Four hours. on One DVD To Rule Them All · · Score: 5, Informative

    Heck like half a year passes in the first book.

    In fact, a little less than 18 years pass during the first book. For seventeen of them, Gandalf is researching the ring and Frodo sits on his ass in Bag End.

    Five months pass between Frodo leaving Bag End until the breaking of the fellowship at Amon Hen. Two of these are spent lounging around Rivendell, and they spend almost an entire month at Lorien. I don't think we'd want to see all of these periods represented accurately in the movie. A sense of urgency in the movie is appopriate and appreciated.

  13. Re:640 kb ought to be enough for everybody on Most Outrageous Vendor Lie Ever Told? · · Score: 1

    Stop spreading LIES.

  14. Re:no no no on Usenet Encoding: yEnc · · Score: 2

    It's this kind of thinking that has made MSIE's broken HTML and Outlook's poor security the industry standards. Just because people can stand shitty software doesn't mean we need to give it to them.

  15. Heisenwhack on Google Juice · · Score: 4, Funny

    This phenomenon is known as a "heisenwhack", after famed theorist Werner Heisenberg. A heisenwhack compensator has been developed, however. Adding the term "-googlewhack" to your search will fairly reliably eliminate these kind of hits.

  16. Re:Huh? on Columbine Video-Games Suit Dismissed · · Score: 2

    In 1927, Andrew Kehoe bombed the 'consolidated school' in Bath, Michigan, killing 38 students (mostly between the ages of 4 and 8) and 3 teachers, and injuring 58 other people.

    Although I agree that violent games are not at fault for school violence, IMHO this specific act cannot be compared with the Columbine attack. In Columbine, it was students attacking students, in this case it was a man attacking a school because he was doing badly financially, and taxes had been raised to help pay for it.

    Coincidentally, video games killed no one in either case.

  17. Gross on Disney Aquires Sen to Chihiro, Lasseter to Dub · · Score: 2, Informative

    Although this movie has made more than Titanic In Japan, Titanic has grossed 1.8 trillion dollars worldwide. That's a lot. Cartoons do not have the same wide appeal in the United States (or the rest of the world) as they do in Japan. The highest grossing cartoon ever, The Lion King, made less than half of Titanic worldwide.

  18. Re:Opt-Out is there, but hidden on 'No Thanks' Not Good Enough For AOL Promos · · Score: 1

    How is this 'Informative'? The author just says "You can opt out but I don't remember how!"

    Sheesh

  19. Web Pages that Suck on What Makes a Good Web Design? · · Score: 2

    I have found that one of the best ways to have good web design is to simply review crappy web designs. Web Pages that Suck put me well on my way to making web pages that are slightly more than mediocre.

  20. Re:not surprising... on Factoring Breakthrough? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Read the book The Code Book by Simon Singh. It's a fantastic mix of technical cryptography and historical perspectives.

  21. Re:An Excellent Resource on Great points in Usenet history · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nice troll, that's not the link to the first Slashdot mention of Google. If the moderators would pay attention and do their job, they'd notice its something completely different.

    This is the link you're looking for.

  22. Spoilers on Sci Fi Gives Green Light To "Children of Dune" · · Score: 2

    It's good to see that Slashdot's efficiency of ruining endings has not fallen. Granted, many people may have read the books, but some have not. Anyone want to ruin the end of Cryptonomicon before I'm done?

  23. Re:Why not just monitor clickthroughs? on Google Letting Users Rank Search Results · · Score: 3, Informative

    Because more likely than not, this would simply reinforce many pages' positions. When I search, I (almost every time) visit at least the first couple hits, unless they're obviously inapplicable.

    My only problem with the current implementation is that it's only supported in MSIE. It uses the google toolbar app. If only there were a google toolbar for Mozilla.

  24. Re:I've got a solution! on The Problem of Search Engines and "Sekrit" Data · · Score: 2

    That's a fantastic idea! Altho it should be a text file, and we should call it robots.txt or something like that.

    (Note: this kind of thing already exists, and its already called robots.txt)

  25. Re:Intended audience != /. on Business @ the Speed of Stupid · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Implying that no one who reads Slashdot is an MBA, or even has any intentions to run or control a company is rather narrow-minded of you. I'm sure a large portion of the /. audience may find this sort ofthing interesting, even if the "typical (read: stereotypical) /.-er" may not.

    Even smart people can benefit from reading about mistakes that stupid people (or even other smart people) have made.