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  1. Re:rubbish on One Billion Computers Sold Worldwide · · Score: 1

    And how many in the land fill work fine, but were thrown away because windows broke?

  2. Re:When can I buy the Thinkgeek Poster? on Mapping the Spam · · Score: 1

    Um, no, it is a waste of 39 bytes. You forgot to count the opening and closing italics tags.

    I used to have a sig that referenced to how many bytes my sig had but people kept bitching about it so I removed it.

  3. Re:One reason, and one reason only on GNOME 2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    You couldn't be closer to the truth.

  4. In other news... on Philips Blue Laser Itty Bitty Disc Drive · · Score: 0, Redundant

    In other news, i'll continue using my standard 700MB CDs.

  5. Re:Switch to IIS on Apache Vulnerability Announced · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We need a (-1, Dumbass) moderation.

  6. Re:good not to have google monoculture on AllTheWeb Claims Bigger Index Than Google · · Score: 1

    I used to hold 32nd place on google for a search of my first name.

  7. Re:It kinda scares me... on Calculators vs. PDAs in the Classroom · · Score: 1

    You can destroy electronics without lack of power by building yourself an EMP bomb.

  8. Re:TI-86 on Calculators vs. PDAs in the Classroom · · Score: 1

    Your other option is to get Linux on one of these babies and try to get one of the many Simcity clones to run on it.

    What are your Simcity clones for Linux? All I know of is Lincity, but the graphics suck and has difficult game-play because there are no advisors.

  9. Re:Raising the bar on Calculators vs. PDAs in the Classroom · · Score: 1

    If a kid graduates from school and doesn't know how to work a PDA, he's going to quickly learn how to work a deep fryer.

    We aren't even allowed to use PDAs because they can be used as detonators or cause harmful interference which may set off detanators. Computers and wireless networks are fine though.

  10. Re:D'Oh!? on Trouble on the International Space Station · · Score: 1

    I forgot a br tag. Slashdot should allow pre tags, and MSIE should work with pre tags!

    If it allowed pre tags, then page-widening trolls would take over. Duh!

  11. Re:Pretty friggin' cool, but on Build Your Own Cityscape · · Score: 1

    1. What ugly view did it cover up?

    Read the article.

    Previously the view only consisted of the backs of some tall bushes but did allow lots of sunlight to enter in the mornings.

  12. Re:Am I hallucinating or on Review of Linux Gaming Using WineX 2.0 · · Score: 1

    It's been on OSDN for a long time.

  13. NetGeo on Google Programming Contest Winner · · Score: 5, Informative

    There's a public database called NetGeo which will convert IP addresses to latitude and longitude locations. I created a script called IP-Atlas to get a visual location of the lat and lon coords.

  14. begat on Improving Unix Mail Storage? · · Score: 0, Funny

    At first, there was mbox, then there was Maildir, and Bill begat Outlook and .mbx.

    How do you misspell "began"? The "t" key is up above on the first row and the "n" is on the third row.

  15. Re:"she" not "he" on FBI Carnivore Screwup Destroys E-Mail Evidence · · Score: 1

    You will learn that contrary to the /. header, the tech was a "she"

    Women and their PMS problems.

  16. Re:It takes forever on Kartoo Search Engine Presents Results as a Map · · Score: 1

    Umm, google does searches usually in less than 0.5 seconds.

  17. Re:If you like Slackware.... on Slackware 8.1 rc1 Announced · · Score: 1

    It's too bad you won't like Gentoo on a dialup connection.

  18. Re:No popup blocking? on A First Look at Netscape 7 · · Score: 1

    Because everyone knows what Netscape is and mostly everyone hasn't ever heard of Mozilla?

  19. Re:10 Headlines You Thought You'd Never See on /. on Sometimes, Microsoft is Right... · · Score: 1

    Who would write 10. Natalie Portman tops worlds ugliest people list. ?

  20. Re:This what companies should do! on Verizon's Wireless Road Warriors · · Score: 1

    Take a company like Microsoft, with $40-something billion in the stronghold. They should start programs like these to see what their customers want. Just random things like these that make them that little bit better. I say kudos to VeriZon for helping your customers!

    Microsoft has spent billions of dollars in research, and they have helped their customers. It's just that they don't care about all the open source fans. According to MS, we shouldn't know how an OS works or what source code is.

  21. Re:News for nerds? on Review: U-571 · · Score: 1

    If you don't like a story, skip it and don't comment on it. There's no need to bitch about every single article you don't like.

  22. Re:Why I Love Nvidia on The Age of Nvidia · · Score: 3, Interesting
  23. Re:The alternative to flash on Freaky Flash 6 Fishy Features · · Score: 1

    If you actually followed your own link, you would know that Ming is a C library for generating Flash animations.

  24. iDrive on Computers and Cars: A Maddening Experience? · · Score: 1

    iDriveAndCrash

  25. Re:check sane on Digitizing Your Dead Trees? · · Score: 1

    Have you ever actually tried gocr? It segfaults on half of the images.