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  1. Re:Consider it a pay cut... on Does Your Company Pay For Broadband? · · Score: 1

    I prefer to be proud of my accomplishments, not something as entirely inconsequential as what piece of land I happened to be born on.

  2. Re:44.99 != $ on Ten-disc 'Matrix' DVD Box Set Planned · · Score: 1

    I think the Farrelly Brothers would have put more consistency and thought into this wretched trilogy than the Wachowski Brothers did.

    Personally, I'd like to see it remade by the Coen brothers.

  3. Re:Cognitive Dissonance? on Beastie Boys Respond to DRM Claims · · Score: 5, Funny

    "I did not have sex with that woman."

    I think that goes without saying if you're posting to Slashdot.

  4. Re:This Sounds Suspiciously... on Arctic Ocean Survey May Reveal Lost World · · Score: 1

    And you just had to bring Admiral Akbar into it, didn't you?

  5. Re:The Mirror Ocean from "Megalodon" on Arctic Ocean Survey May Reveal Lost World · · Score: 1

    Try it without the Slashcode-inserted space in the URL.

    Awesome picture, and more than a bit creepy. Anyone want to translate the text on the page?

  6. Re:The worst part.. on RIAA Dumps Unsold Inventory to Settle Anti-Trust Case · · Score: 1

    Yes, that's it. You may also see it as round hole (from a hole punch) in the cover, usually in the middle of the UPC label.

  7. Re: Appropriate Music for Callers 'On Hold'? on Appropriate Music for Callers 'On Hold'? · · Score: 1

    Better still, a single Merzbow track, looped. Who needs variety?

  8. Re:Earthlink != Best Practices on Major ISPs Publish Anti-Spam Best Practices · · Score: 1

    You can log into webmail to make changes, but this doesn't restrict you to using webmail to read mail. Look for "Spamblocker" on the left. This will let you toggle between off, medium, and high (which is actually their challenge-response/whitelist system).

  9. Re:Earthlink != Best Practices on Major ISPs Publish Anti-Spam Best Practices · · Score: 1

    But they recently stopped their server-side spam filtering (Spaminator(tm)) and replaced it with client-side plugins.

    Umm, great except that the above is 100% untrue.

    The only thing that's changed about Earthlink's server-side spam filtering is the name, which was changed from "Spaminator" to "Spam Blocker" for some reason probably known only by their marketing department. Spam Blocker on its 'medium' setting is exactly the same service as the old Spaminator. Further, when they changed this, my Spam Blocker was switched to the medium level by default and I saw no difference in service.

  10. Re:Have you ever hired anyone before? on Interviewing Your Future Boss? · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Open source project contributions, for example, wouldn't be considered relevant by these standards. Sure, the applicant's minor contribution to yet-another-php-based-web-site-thingy might not be the most impressive experience, but what about the person contributing code in his free time to larger, more complex projects?

    The point is, judge non-professional work on its own merits, don't disregard it completely because your applican't didn't collect a paycheck for it.

  11. Re:RAID 1 on Which RAID for a Personal Fileserver? · · Score: 1

    Damn. I was reading RAID 1 but was thinking RAID 0. Mea culpa.

    Also, a correction would have been sufficient, no need for insults. Thanks.

  12. Re:Libertarian Party Has Gone Off Its Rocker on Sen. Hatch to Introduce Wide-ranging Copyright Bill · · Score: 2, Insightful
  13. Re:That's not a great acronym on Sen. Hatch to Introduce Wide-ranging Copyright Bill · · Score: 1

    Just s/English/American/ then. It's more accurate anyway.

  14. Re:RAID 1 on Which RAID for a Personal Fileserver? · · Score: 1

    > At a different site.

    In a galaxy far, far away..


    That might make data resoration kind of tricky.

  15. Re:RAID 1 on Which RAID for a Personal Fileserver? · · Score: 1

    You don't lose "a full drive worth" of capacity- you lose half capacity.

    If you have two drives, you get one.


    Exactly. You lose the full capacity of one of the drives.

  16. Re:Noedigs Athiest Literature for Humanity :-) on Hotel Tycoon Pushes Inflatable Space Stations · · Score: 1

    The rooms at the New Orleans Marriot have the Book of Mormon as well as a Bible.

  17. Re:Backups on Hosting Service Closes 3000 Blogs Without Notice · · Score: 1

    That may be useful for someone who wants to look up old content on one of the weblogs in question (provided they know about the Wayback Machine), but it doesn't help the web site authors let people know what their new URLs are. A simple redirection would completely eliminate this problem, as would have a little advance warning so the authors could post their new URLs before the change.

  18. Re:Information poisoning on Turning Up The Heat On On-Line Registration · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but then you have to remember how to spell She^H^H^HSchan^H^H^H^H^HSchenectady.

  19. Re:Cats on Dog Trained on 200-Word Vocabulary · · Score: 1

    It's not that cats don't understand you, it's just that they choose to ignore you.

  20. Re:Neat... on Bluetooth Gets Faster & Requires Less Power · · Score: 1

    But you've been able to do that all along with USB or, god forbid, serial connections.

    I don't mean to say that Bluetooth isn't a hundred times better than either of those -- it is, and my next phone will definitely be Bluetooth-enabled -- but Bluetooth is hardly responsible for this capability.

  21. Re:sendmail shows this to be true on BIND Is Most Popular DNS Server · · Score: 1

    Just to add to the list, Debian installs Exim by default, not sendmail.

  22. Re:Gloomy on Your Data and Cyber Business After You're Gone · · Score: 1

    s/left/wrong/

    kthx

  23. Re:This is probably a stupid question, but... on A Former Microsoftie Forecasts Microsoft Doom · · Score: 1

    Because they would like to survive as a hardware company?

    Just a guess.

  24. Re:Two points on California Senate Passes Preemptive Strike Against Gmail · · Score: 1

    Some of the things people are whining about may also affect anyone who so much as sends a message to a Gmail user.

    I have yet to hear a good explanation of how exactly this affects the sender of the e-mail. Because their mail is scanned by some software? That already happens on any mail server running spam or virus filters. The fact that it's for the purpose of targeting ads is irrelevant here, as the sender doesn't see them.

  25. Re:What, do lawmakers get paid per law now? on California Senate Passes Preemptive Strike Against Gmail · · Score: 1

    The drawbacks that I have come up with, however, would be attaching "riders" to bills

    Another practice that needs to be banned. So many bullshit laws and pork spending gets passed exactly this way, it's ridiculous.