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  1. Legionnaires' disease generator on A Device That Can Pull Drinking Water From the Air Just Won the Latest XPrize (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Legionnaires' disease generator

  2. Re:Which one to laugh at more? on Samsung: Don't install Windows 10 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I have the same laptop and upgraded to Windows 10. The only snag was the Intel Graphics driver/Nvidia driver issue.

    A quick google and voila:

    1 – After installing Windows 10, go to the following Dell’s homepage:
    http://www.dell.com/support/ho...
    On the topic View all available updates for Windows , and click on Choose Your OS
    A list of drivers will appear.
    2 – Select BIOS – do the download of the file and excecute it. You have to upgrade the BIOS firmware.
    Your machine will restart (it will take a little time)
    After restart, if you access Device Manager on Control Panel, you’ll see that Windows 10 now recognize your video card.
    3 – On the same link over, download the graphics driver (Intel HD 3000/2000 Graphics Driver) and excecute it.
    Do the same with nVIDIA GeForce GT 525M/GT540M Graphics Driver
    5 – After that, access Device Manager on Control Panel, right click over the nVIDIA GeForce GT 525M/GT540M Graphics Driver and choose Update Driver..

  3. Re:Censors must have been delighted on Filmmaker Forces Censors To Watch 10-Hour Movie of Paint Drying (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It should have been 607 minutes of paint drying on an erect penis.

  4. Blade Walker or Blade Wheelchair? on Harrison Ford To Return In Blade Runner Sequel · · Score: 1

    He can't exactly run without CGI and harnesses now can he.

  5. I read that as fitted to fist patients... on Star Wars-Style "Bionic Hand' Fitted To First Patients · · Score: 0

    I need my eyes checked.

  6. Re:Browser Makers Should Get The Message on Ask Slashdot: Most Useful Browser Extensions? · · Score: 1

    Porn

  7. Re:Good on Why Special Effects No Longer Impress · · Score: 1

    Nope, sorry, "3D" came out.....again.

  8. Re:Poor Phish (the band) on FBI Cracks "Largest Phishing Case Ever" · · Score: 1

    I think they did that for themselves by attempting to play music.

  9. Re:But running windows would help on Shuttleworth Says Ubuntu Can't Just Be Windows · · Score: 1

    You can run Kate under Cygwin-X with KDE Libs for Win 32.

  10. Re:solution to CC breeches .. on Largest Data Breach Disclosed During Inauguration · · Score: 1

    *redirects transaction and inserts own transaction for spare parts at someone else's expense*

    *reports an error to original request so that they make a new request to server for another transaction*

    *builds robot girlfriend*

  11. Re:exatly on Obama Proposes Digital Health Records · · Score: 1

    I am with you there. Even with a "standard," they find ways to add an additional layer of stupid.

  12. Re:Format on Obama Proposes Digital Health Records · · Score: 1

    Microsoft Health Vault
    http://www.healthvault.com/

    Google Health
    https://www.google.com/health

    I am sure they are incompatible with all current systems as well as one another.

  13. Bestiality on The Future of Love and Sex - Robots · · Score: 1

    The same thing could be said about animals. I guess humping a piece of metal covered in latex that talks to you isn't as taboo as humping piece of wool that says "baaaa!." It's the same thing in my mind.

  14. Warning: mysql_connect(): Too many connections ? on 8 Reasons Not To Use MySQL (And 5 To Adopt It) · · Score: 0

    Warning: mysql_connect(): Too many connections ?

  15. So no more White Albacore? :( on White Dolphin Functionally Extict · · Score: 1

    So no more White Albacore? :(

  16. If they charged... on How Craigslist is Keeping up Internet Ideals · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If they charged, what would separate them from every other site out there that does the same thing? They have more of a place on the internet by doing what they are doing right now. If they charged, their niche would go away.

  17. Mod me whatever....but... on A Close(r) Look At OLPC Human Interface Guidelines · · Score: -1, Troll

    If humans would spend as much time, money, and effort with feeding children as they are with giving third world countries hand cranked computers with pretty picture interfaces, the world would be a better place.

    Thank you for the green foot pedal computer with the fishes on the screen! I wish I could eat them...I am so hungry...

  18. Re:so why then use blocks ? on Pyramid Stones Were Poured, Not Quarried · · Score: 1

    It's because the pyramids are very big. Pouring a "wall" is a more daunting task than making a giant cube.

  19. Re:Mac OS X is still more secure, BY FAR. on Apple Releases 31 Security Fixes · · Score: 1

    It has nothing to do with the OS or security. It's all about market share. You can reach more people with a Windows virus/worm/spyware than you can with an OSX virus/worm/spyware. If you want maximum penetration, you hit the one with the most market share.

    If OSX had 90% of the home user market as Windows does, then it'd be hit just as hard. Since OSX is closer to 5% of the market, what is the point in exploiting the vulnerabilities?

    No system is perfect. I am going to laugh at the stupid people that download whatever they want on OSX without fear. Most of the OSX people that I know do not even run antivirus.....

  20. Windows 95 required a floating point processor on Microsoft to Require 64-bit Processors · · Score: 1

    Windows 95 required a floating point processor. Did all of you complain then? ZOMG! I have to buy a co-processor!?!?! I like my 386SX!!!>!!!>!>!>!111

    Here's a simple solution: Don't upgrade your OS. Stick with what works on your hardware. If it works for you now, why switch?

  21. ET? on Real Life Doom With Point-And-Shoot Positioning · · Score: 1

    Didn't Steven Spielberg use this technology in the re-release of ET? *points walkie talky at everyone*

  22. Re:Maybe in the old days... on Creating and Using XML-Based Internal Documents? · · Score: 1

    Mozilla and Opera support XML+CSS but Internet Explorer does not. Microsoft chose to use a proprietary form of XSLT instead. So that makes 5% of the market with this capability.

  23. Re:Maybe in the old days... on Creating and Using XML-Based Internal Documents? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You just proved his point. Displaying XML as HTML is the only way to insure compatibility cross browsers. XSLT, DOM parsing, and SAX parsing use transformations into HTML to display the XML. You notice you are still using HTML? I do!!! It's not the direct use of HTML to style the XML, but it is still HTML. XSLT's template formatting is based on HTML you know. Since, the majority of web browsers only read HTML directly HTML is the easiest and most logical way to style XML. By that definition, XML is a complement to HTML because HTML will still exist regardless. With that said, if we ditch HTML what are we going to use to style the XML? What would the web browser developers have to create to style XML in the browser? They'd have to integrate an XML based schema for styles...hey that's what XHTML/HTML is!!! XHTML is just an XML representation of HTML in insure your style and outputs are valid and well formed. And yes, I know you can use CSS to style XML but that is not totally cross browser. We still have those people running around with Netscape 4 out there that doesn't support any of this stuff. It's silly to say HTML is dead.