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  1. Re:In other news... on Users Revolt Over Yahoo Groups Update · · Score: 2

    Ah well, at least Slashdot limits its retarded UI crippling and eye-bleed-inducing changes to twice a decade. Hmm, probably due any day now...

    Here it is.

  2. Re:Question.... on NSA Firing 90% of Its Sysadmins · · Score: 1

    Depends. Are you willing to fire 90% of Congress?

    Do we have to stop at 90%?

  3. Re:So firing 90% of their admins on NSA Firing 90% of Its Sysadmins · · Score: 1

    Or, they just set up massive auditing everywhere and aren't really going to fire anybody.

    Yeah, just get the sysadmins to set that up... oh, wait...

  4. Re:How about a new SF series then? on Should the Next 'Doctor Who' Be a Woman? · · Score: 1

    Exactly this. I still don't know why they haven't brought her back yet.

    Well, for one, they'd have to regenerate her (or something), as Georgia Moffett is more or less out of the acting business now. See http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0595634/bio.

  5. Re:uh... downloading isn't illegal... on Comcast Working On 'Helpful' Copyright Violation Pop-ups · · Score: 1

    You know, you saying that does not make it so. Cite the case law or stop spreading misinformation.

    Devil's advocate: An absence of case law does not mean something is not illegal. It just means it is unenforced. There's lots of stuff people do in flagrant disregard for the law because said law is never enforced.

  6. Re:Judgement day is coming! on Apple-Liquidmetal Joint Patent Could Enable Futuristic-Looking Mobile Devices · · Score: 1

    I never thought I'd die this way... But I always really hoped.

  7. Re:tcsh on FreeBSD 8.4 Released · · Score: 1

    I have not checked lately, but it used to be the case that a lot of things broke if you changed the root shell. Maybe they have fixed that.

    I think the "fix" for that is toor. You can change its shell to whatever you like and use it instead of root. Although I've never tried it; I just have an alias that calls sudo -i exec zsh -l, which seems to work great.

  8. Re:re Online Dating is Out! on Marriages Spawned From Online Dating As Satisfying As From Traditional Dating · · Score: 1

    Welcome to the Internet - where men are men, the women are men and the children are FBI agents posing as children...

    ...but some of the men are really women. Enjoy!

  9. Re:The metric system is the tool of the devil! on White House: Use Metric If You Want, We Don't Care · · Score: 1

    But the important thing to remember is he had an onion on his belt, which was the style at the time...

  10. Re:How about cutting Notes? on Goodbye, Lotus 1-2-3 · · Score: 1

    ...and Notes was a database design program disguised as a horrible groupware.

    Was?

  11. Re:What has become of /... on Bloomberg To HS Grads: Be a Plumber · · Score: 1
  12. Re: Citations? They need to be sued heavily on Florida DOT Cuts Yellow Light Delay Ignoring Federal Guidelines, Citations Soar · · Score: 1

    It varies by locality. For example, most of the place I've been in Virginia seem to do that; there's at least a couple seconds of all red before the other side goes green, and it seems to be even a little longer in higher traffic areas where there is more likelihood someone will be out there. On the other hand I've been in towns in West Virginia where one side goes red and the other side instantly goes green. Every time I see it I can't help but think how that would just be an accident waiting to happen where I live.

  13. Re:Why not copy MS and have 2 ver numbers on To Avoid Confusion: Oracle's Confusing New Java Numbering Scheme · · Score: 1

    They do...

    C:\>java -version
    java version "1.6.0_43"
    Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_43-b01)
    Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.14-b01, mixed mode)

  14. Re:UK Driving License on Pearson Vue Now On Day 5 of Massive Outage · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The side that isn't right, clearly.

  15. Re:Some on Ask Slashdot: Do You Move Legal Data With Torrents? · · Score: 1

    I tried to switch to Deluge but it couldn't handle a file with a Japanese character in its name...

    FYI, IIRC, it only has issues adding a .torrent with Japanese in the filename; if you rename the file and add it, it can download the files "within" the torrent just fine even if they have Japanese in them. And yes, this is odd.

  16. Re:Speed and cost on Do Kiosks and IVRs Threaten Human Interaction? · · Score: 1

    The use of the hold time for dispensing information and ads by recorded voice really annoys me - if I'm waiting for a human voice to answer the call, having to listen to another human voice is plain wrong. Give me some moderately inoffensive music as was done in 'the old days'.

    I'm totally with you on this... for one, it is much easier to just throw it on speakerphone at a low volume, then zone out until I hear a voice on the other end. Having the voice-over disrupts that so I have to pay attention. Also, after hearing the same thing for about the fifth time... well, it gets old fast.

  17. Sorry to toot my own horn, but that may be my doing... note that this one was tagged nodice before I got here, so hopefully people are picking up the trend.

    (Wow, I may have started a Slashdot trend... should I be proud or sad...)

  18. Re:We need to nip this in the bud. on What EMC Looks For When It's Hiring · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Concur fully. I think we should choose a standard tag to convey our feeling too... as much as I'm tempted to use "fuckdice" I think I'm going to go tasteful(-ish) and punny with "nodice". I recommend from here on out if we something Dice does we don't like, tag it nodice. Maybe they can pick up on pattern recognition.

  19. Re:upside down keypads? on John E. Karlin, Who Led the Way To All-Digit Dialing, Dies At 94 · · Score: 1

    Interesting... how do blind people use the ATMs there?

  20. Re:scrolling still broken on Experience the New Slashdot Mobile Site · · Score: 2

    Go to the Play Store and get Firefox. You won't look back.

    Yes you will, or at least I did. I have no idea what causes this, but I've had several pages where when you scroll below the currently visible content, the newly displayed stuff turns fuzzy/blurry. If you only scroll half a screen you get a clear top half and messed-up bottom half. I can't imagine what causes this, but it was annoying enough that for now I'm trying other browsers... Dolphin seems to be doing well, but I miss my extensions. :(

  21. Re:Stop screwing with it so much on Wireless Carriers Put On Notice About Providing Regular Android Security Updates · · Score: 1

    In a car no-one is constantly trying to run you off the road or blow you up.

    You don't drive in DC, do you?

  22. Re:CPU Fixes on Oracle Responds To Java Security Critics With Massive 50 Flaw Patch Update · · Score: 2

    I like how they call them CPU fixes.

    Keep in mind that stands for Cumulative Patch Update... although I can't deny they might like that confusion sometimes.

  23. Re:Brogramming??? on Is 'Brogramming' Killing Requirements Engineering? · · Score: 1

    Then why is the "return" statement not returning an int?

    Actually it does. From TFM, the prototype for printf is:

    int printf(const char * restrict format, ...);

  24. Re:Interesting on Researchers Explain Why Flu Comes In the Winter · · Score: 1

    And it could be even lower--I've never even seen it go below 16%, so it's possible that's just the lowest it will read.

    VERY very possible... I have 3 in the house. One bottoms out at 16, the other two switch to ---% when it is below 15. Oh, and the one in this room is reading 16 right now... yay.

  25. Re:I dunno... on Ask Slashdot: Are Timed Coding Tests Valuable? · · Score: 1

    And then he should look at you and say, "You know, I bet I just duplicated a CPAN module."

    Yup.