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  1. Re:Virii? What Virii? on Klez, The Virus that Keeps on Giving · · Score: 1
    The plural of virus is neither viri nor virii

    I suppose that next you'll tell me that boxen isn't right, either.

  2. Re:ok smartypants on iPhoto Book Tackles Version Issues · · Score: 1
    Why can't I import a folder full of photos? File > import simply doesn't work.

    You can select more than one file by either shift or command-clicking. Or you can just drag and drop the folder on the app.
    I'd answer your other question, but then I'd have written the entire iPhoto book myself.

  3. Re:Niche market of a Niche Market on Apple Releases New PowerBook and the eMac · · Score: 1

    Well, what I really don't understand is why you cling to your 6% or 7%, which you just pulled out of the air. The original poster's thought was that doing this would increase the rate at which these people bought Macs in the future. Yet you just ignore that. You shrugged off his comment by saying it was unimportant to their market share because it was such a small number.

  4. Re:Before the posts get out of hand... on Jordan Hubbard Resigns from FreeBSD Core · · Score: 1

    Damn. Nobody told me there was going to be a quiz. Did you annouce this? I was up late studying for Mr. Burnttoast's Linux test this afternoon. I didn't even think about BSD. This is so unfair.

  5. Re:Education only!? on Apple Releases New PowerBook and the eMac · · Score: 1
    how much of that is tax?

    Good question. I'm not sure. Duty on computers is now fairly low, and a bit lower than that for dealers. Importing my $8,000 motorcycle did cost me $3,000 in duty, however.

  6. Re:Niche market of a Niche Market on Apple Releases New PowerBook and the eMac · · Score: 1
    US High-School age population is around 20M

    Plus the colleges, universities, community colleges, grade schools, teachers and staff, plus the rest of the world's.

  7. Re:Doh on Apple Releases New PowerBook and the eMac · · Score: 1
    Terminal.app is a pain in the ass. For some god-unknown reason, it takes about 2 or 3 minutes to start up.

    Two or three minutes? I'll take the unders. On my 400MHz Mac just now it started in four seconds.

  8. Re:The VGA dongle madness. on Apple Releases New PowerBook and the eMac · · Score: 1
    Why go to the hassle of having to keep up with some stupid dongle when you could buy a computer with VGA built in?

    From the website:

    Want to present your ideas on a flat-panel display, VGA monitor, large-screen TV or projection system? The PowerBook G4 has built-in video output capabilities that let you do just that. The PowerBook features DVI, VGA, S-Video and composite output.
    So actually you can connect it to damn near anything that can display video.
  9. Re:Niche market of a Niche Market on Apple Releases New PowerBook and the eMac · · Score: 1
    In the end, maybe 6-7% of those 15M will end up buying Macs

    The market is much, much bigger than 15 million.

  10. Re:cool on Apple Releases New PowerBook and the eMac · · Score: 1
    better featers...biger screen

    Yes, but clearly you don't qualify for the educational discount.

  11. Re:Education only!? on Apple Releases New PowerBook and the eMac · · Score: 1
    Apple actually charge something like a 5-10% on top outside the US.

    The base iMac is US$2,200 in Costa Rica.

  12. Re:Perfect encryption already exists... on Quantum Cryptography In Action · · Score: 1
    Given secure key exchange, unbreakable encryption is child's play.

    Not if it's my kid. He still has trouble with blocks.

  13. Re:Perfect encryption already exists... on Quantum Cryptography In Action · · Score: 1
    For an uncrackable method, use a caeser shift with a one time pad. All messages are equally likely.

    It's pretty dang good, but I don't think they're quite equally likely, because of patterns in pairs of letters.

  14. Re:Sure, but here's the paradox... on Quantum Cryptography In Action · · Score: 1
    if you have a way to securly send the key, why not just send the data itself?

    You can detect if it's been intercepted, so you don't need a tremendously secure way to send the key. If you send plaintext you still would know if they've interecepted it, but now they've got the actual message.

  15. Re:The value of the 500 millionth result on SETI@Home Close to Half-Billionth Result · · Score: 1
    This isn't like RSA; you haven't hit half the search space when you hit 500,000,000 results.

    Too bad they didn't use smaller units; then we'd be almost to a billion! Oh well. Live and learn.

  16. Re:Cheap 9" monitors on Build a PC Inside of a Mac · · Score: 1
    i think the original poster meant Point Of Sale

    Yeah, I know. It wouldn't be much of a joke otherwise, would it?

  17. Re:Cheap 9" monitors on Build a PC Inside of a Mac · · Score: 3, Funny
    IBM made (makes?) tons of 9" VGA's for POS systems.

    Well then. These would be perfect for this project.

  18. Shrinkage on Segway Getting Real-Life Tests · · Score: 1
    suppose that may be what kept my BB from having like problems

    If you were riding a bike in temperatures 40 below zero I'm not surprised you call it a "BB."

  19. Re:One more reason... on Camera Flashes Kill Nanotubes · · Score: 1
    You forgot Euro Disney.

    Yeah well, who hasn't?

  20. Re:Sickening on Worst Buy · · Score: 1
    Well shit. If the fact that you didn't get modded up 'Funny' doesn't demonstrate that the mods on /. are screwed, I don't know what would prove that.

    :-)

  21. Re:Your life... on Fried Carbohydrates Form Carcinogens · · Score: 1

    Que? That's seems almost entirely orthogonal to my comment.

  22. Re:Sickening on Worst Buy · · Score: 1
    a number of archeological sites showing that the Native Americans did indeed have precursors who lived in the area prior to them.

    Yeah right. Then where are their casinos?

  23. Bunch o' crap on Fried Carbohydrates Form Carcinogens · · Score: 3, Insightful
    This is absurd. Cooked carbohydrates are consumed in massive quantities. If it were as dangerous as this people would be dropping like flies.

    And BTW, why does the headline read "Fried Carbohydrates," when the article itself doesn't single out frying, but rather says that any cooking method does this?

  24. Re:Another piece of non-news... on Fried Carbohydrates Form Carcinogens · · Score: 1
    This may come as a shock, but... I inhale more carcinogens daily just driving to work.

    So as long as something worse is happening to you it doesn't matter that other bad things are also happening?

  25. Re:Your life... on Fried Carbohydrates Form Carcinogens · · Score: 1
    I'd rather enjoy life for thirty years as opposed to living perfectly clean

    It's easy to say that when you're still healthy. If you were in bad health, or actually had cancer, then your greatest and most persistent wish would be that you'd taken better care of yourself when you were younger and healthier.

    I know you don't believe me now, but one day you will.