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  1. Re:Not likely. on Microsoft Wants You To Trade Your MacBook Air In For a Surface Pro 3 · · Score: 1

    I find the OSX GUI to not be particularly intuitive either, coming from a Windows/Linux background.

    But after reading through the "missing manual" book for OSX, I started to understand the Apple GUI paradigm. After that, it made more sense.

    The combo of a useful GUI, along with bash & a unix tool chain, makes OSX quite useful.

  2. Re:Removing gluten in the mash? on Ben Starr Answers Your Questions About Sustainability and Kitchen Tech · · Score: 1

    I've heard of this before. For example, Two Brothers brewery, located outside of Chicago, has a barley beer that is also gluten free. They have a FAQ which explains more about it:

    http://www.twobrothersbrewing.com/prairie-path-faqs/

  3. Re:Comcast used to be close on Thumb On the Scale? Study Finds 5 of 7 Broadband Meters Inaccurate · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I recall that Comcast does not count some streaming video services against the data caps. There were some (like Netflix) who complained this was not in the spirit of net neutrality. So maybe they are still not counting some of the video you stream, depending on where you are streaming it from? Just a guess.

    Here's some more info on this: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/03/net-neutrality-concerns-raised-about-comcasts-xbox-on-demand-service/.

  4. Link to photos on Inside an Amazon Warehouse · · Score: 4, Informative

    The article slideshow isn[t working for me. Some photos from an Amazon warehouse were posted on reddit the other day. Here are those photos: http://imgur.com/a/q1WIO.

  5. Re:So that's how we make American beer! on US Military Tested the Effects of a Nuclear Holocaust On Beer · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The Reinheitsgebot isn't necessarily a good thing to follow. Many great British, Belgian, and American craft beers do not meet the sometimes odd rules of the Reinheitsgebot.

    The list of "11 Reasons why the Reinheitsgebot is bollocks" explains it pretty well: http://patto1ro.home.xs4all.nl/reinheit.htm

  6. Re:Figured this out in 2003 on Are Open-Source Desktops Losing Competitiveness? · · Score: 1

    I would like those tools and the rest of the GNU UNIX toolkit like the findutils and less and the rest of the lot.

    On my Macbook, running the latest OSX (10.7.4), along with XCode 4.1, everything is in it's right place.

    $ type less
    less is /usr/bin/less

    $ type find
    find is /usr/bin/find

    I can't recall any standard GNU tools that are missing.

  7. Re:Because 32bits of addressing... on Apple Under Fire For Backing Off IPv6 Support · · Score: 1

    Uh, no. The minimum size of an IPv6 header is 40 bytes. The minimum size of an IPv4 header is 20 bytes.

    (Not that the header size is that important. Decisions about how individual packets are handled are done pretty much at wire speed using the ASICs. These chips are designed to handle IPv4 and IPv6 natively.)

  8. Re:but but but... Apple on CarrierIQ: Most Phones Ship With "Rootkit" · · Score: 1, Insightful

    [citation needed]

  9. Re:Mr Scott will be pleased on Apple's Siri As Revolutionary As the Mac? · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Just in Time for iPhone 5 on Sprint Details Shift To LTE · · Score: 1

    Ya think Sprint's decision to adopt LTE had something to do with it being the only one using WiMAX? And that the WiMAX roadmap is a dead end? It doesn't take a genius for to see that it's time to get on the LTE bandwagon.

    No, that couldn't be it. It must have been bad old Apple forcing Sprint to ditch WiMAX. Just when it was about to take off! Those evil bastards!

  11. Re:uhh... on Sprint Details Shift To LTE · · Score: 2

    WiMax is not CDMA.

  12. Re:One good thing about NY on Big Brother Calls 'Shotgun' In Illinois · · Score: 1

    Actually I-Pass & EZ-Pass are pretty much the same thing. The HW looks the same, probably the same company makes them. And you can use the I-Pass in NY, and the EZ-Pass in IL.

    Only the really old I-Pass systems beeped. I think these over 10 years old.

    And I have to say, this is one of the dumbest slashdot discussions I've seen in a long time. There are no plans to put cameras in I-Pass transponders. This would be all over the local media if it was even proposed.

  13. Windows is "torturing users" on Sergey Brin: Windows Is "Torturing Users" · · Score: 1

    Makes sense.

    I believe windows is the favorite OS of masochists.

  14. Missing one thing on Slashdot Launches Re-Design · · Score: 5, Funny

    Overall I like it. But it wouldn't hurt to throw in a few ponies around the page. And maybe a little bit of pink wouldn't hurt.

  15. Re:5 nines? on The London Stock Exchange Goes Down For Whole Day · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe they should shoot for 9 fives instead. When the problem is too hard, just lower the goal posts.

  16. Re:i mis-read title... on New Evidence Debunks "Stupid" Neanderthal · · Score: 1

    as netherlands...

    Looks like a case for the "Dutch Anti-Defamation League"

    http://www.theonion.com/content/radio_news/dutch_anti_defamation_league

  17. Re:splicing together different takes ?? on Don't Believe What You See at the Movies · · Score: 1

    From now on I will only view movies shot in one take.

    Here 'ya go:

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318034/

  18. Ogre makes beer now on 'Revenge of the Nerds' Remake in the Works · · Score: 1

    This guy sells his own brand of beer available around Chicago. I'm too much of a nerd to try it though.

    http://www.toddsbeer.com/home.htm

  19. Spellchecker strangeness on Thunderbird 1.5 Arrives · · Score: 1

    I installed it under Win2K, and then sent an email to a friend letting him know 1.5 is out. Ironically, the inline spellchecker thinks both "Mozilla" and "Thunderbird" are misspelled.

    I never had that problem with Word...

  20. Phase 2? on Competing to Work for Microsoft · · Score: 1

    So I guess this is phase 2 of Bill's previously mentioned program?

    http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/ 27/2232244&tid=103&tid=219&tid=218

    Phase 3. Profit?

  21. Re:The inventions of noodles was in question? on Four Millennia Old Noodles Found In China · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's not a concrete fact. There is a commonly told story that Marco Polo brought pasta back to Italy, but there is quite a bit of evidence that pasta existed in Italy before MP. There is also evidence of pasta in Roman and Greek times. Further evidence shows pasta existed in the middle east. And we know that pasta existed in China (from TFA).

    One theory is that pasta was invented in several different regions independently. Considering the ingredients it seems plausible. Ground grain, water, maybe some eggs. Not exactly rocket science.

  22. Midas Touch on First Cocktail 5,000 Years Old · · Score: 5, Informative

    Midas Touch is made by Dogfish Head brewery in Delaware. It's an interesting drink, hard to catagorize.

    More info can be found on their web site:

    http://www.dogfish.com/beer/midastouch.cfm

  23. Re:A clue as to why... on VoIP Security · · Score: 2

    00353 is Ireland.

    So then we should be talking about the dumbing down of Ireland then, not America.

    I blame Guinness.

  24. Same thing happened to me with 'Time' on Wired Strongarms Subscribers? · · Score: 1

    Several years ago I decided to let my Time Magazine subscription run out. I thought I'd not renew, and they would just drop me. Instead, just like with Wired, they started sending me this shit about contacting a collection agency, etc. I ignored it at first, but they kept sending them. Finally, I wrote them a letter saying I didn't want their magazine, and all the bullshit stopped.

    I actualy liked the magazine, but was too busy to read it every week. I might have resubscribed eventually, but after how I was treated, I don't plan to in this lifetime.

  25. Re:99% of people would be peasants on What Ancient Tech Do You Do? · · Score: 1

    Also, consider that peasants wouldn't have had an opportunity for an education, couldn't read or write. Most modern geeks would miss out on the mental stimulation that would lead their mind down the geek road.

    Myself, I'd be toiling away in a field somewhere in central Europe.

    On the plus side, I might have better luck with the wenches than I do today.