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  1. Lightweight on Interview With XFce Lead Developer · · Score: 1

    XFce is a lightweight wm. Small size is vital in embedded applications where you may be trying to sqeeze kernel+apps+data into &lt 4Mb.

  2. competitive advantage on Using Lisp to beat your Competition. · · Score: 3
    competitive advantage against the competition

    As opposed to, say, a competitive advantage against...?

  3. Microsoft vs Psychic Friends on Tech Support: Sucking Even More · · Score: 2

    Seriously, it's here

  4. Imagine on Send out the Clones? · · Score: 2

    A beowulf cluster of half-height CmdrTaco clones mowing the lawn!

  5. They point that out in the story. on Clawhammer to be 1/2 size of P4 · · Score: 2

    nuff said

  6. Answer by example on Data Munging with Perl · · Score: 3

    Spreadsheets and database tables are structured data. Word processing files are unstructured.

  7. Re:Anything else? on Loaded, Low Mileage, Very Clean, A/C, Sunroof · · Score: 2

    I don't know about links, but in Mojave California there's an airfield that's used to store old passenger jets.

  8. Dates, too on Scientists Demand Open Access to Research · · Score: 2

    In Europe (and the US military) the date format is dd/mm/yyyy. In the US, for civilians, it's mm/dd/yyyy.

  9. Re:Let's get this straight. on Scientists Demand Open Access to Research · · Score: 2

    10,000 may be bigger than 10, but what if that is your total, possible, worldwide distribution? Sure, if you're publishing Nature, you can count upon tens of thousands of readers. But a journal such as, say, Photogrametric Engineering & Remote Sensing isn't likely to have a wide readership. Regardless of how important its work may be to people in the remote sensing field.

  10. Superman on Is the Payphone Dead? · · Score: 2

    Funny scene in the Superman movie. Clark Kent runs up to a pay phone. But it's freestanding and not in a phone booth! Clark shakes his head annd goes else where...

  11. And on Ximian gets new CEO · · Score: 2

    Is it legal?

  12. You're confused on MPAA Goes After Gnutella · · Score: 2
    I thought the whole idea of copyright, and the right to make your own copies revolved around getting something for free (or a reduced price) that you would have bought otherwise?

    No. What you described above would be a clearly illegal act of theft. Just the same as if you went to a bookstore, bought a book, copied it, and gave the copies to friends. You have copyright violation confused with plagiarism.

    let them read it, copy it, whatever

    That's copyright violation, and was illegal before the DMCA.

    I just cannot claim it as my own work

    Because that would be plagiarism.

  13. Re:Why is /. defending this? on MPAA Goes After Gnutella · · Score: 2
    supposedly reputable website

    Which website is that?

  14. Re:More input via mouse. on Opera Adds Gesture Navigation · · Score: 2

    Yes, and if it has lots of "option" keys, say 3 called "control", "meta" and "shift", we could get hundreds of commands with just 3 or 4 keys held down simultaneously. Commands like "control+meta+shift+!". And we could call the editor "editor macros" or "emacs" for short.

  15. Dust Puppy on Opera Adds Gesture Navigation · · Score: 2

    This must be how Dust Puppy navigates the net.

  16. DirecTV + TIVO on Calling Out TiVo · · Score: 2

    IIRC there is one. May not be out yet, tho. Also, the Ultimate TV box from Our Favorite Proprietary Software House may have that capability.

  17. Cyber kittens! on Testing The First Cyborgs · · Score: 2

    I am fluffy of borg, resistance is futile.

  18. Comparing Apples and Intels on Apple Threatens Open Source Theme Project · · Score: 2

    Is like comparing Apples and Oranges. They're both fruit, but. For the same processor speed the ppc does perform operations significantly faster (though not 2x) than the x86. Different architectures between the same families. Actually, I think that the x86, at the same processor speed, is slower than alphas and sparcs.

  19. Re:Anarchist Cookbook on The Happy, Benign Strivers of 2600 · · Score: 2

    Wrap the threads

  20. Komodo on Ask Guido van Rossum · · Score: 2
  21. Nothing new here on How Corporate Lobbyists Colonized the Net · · Score: 2

    At all. This has been covered many times before. Both in print(Schneier's or Lessig's books, among others) and here at slashdot.

  22. Re:The Weird Have Gone Pro on The Happy, Benign Strivers of 2600 · · Score: 2
    it seems like things created by geeks have really done a number on society

    Yep.

    • Telephones
    • Automobiles
    • Airplanes
    • Satellites

    Like the title of your comment,btw, looks familiar...
  23. Anarchist Cookbook on The Happy, Benign Strivers of 2600 · · Score: 5

    Yeah, lots of people find God following bomb making recipies in that book. You see, there are some important safety steps it leaves out...

  24. Re:A murderer, I see. And proud of it. on Three Russian Space Shot Deaths-- Pre-Gagarin? · · Score: 2
    the ranks of abortionists throng with petty criminals, violent psychopaths, and the like

    So do the ranks of anti-abortionists. And the environmental movement. And most other movements. Any group is 10% composed of idiots.

  25. Uh, wait a minute on Three Russian Space Shot Deaths-- Pre-Gagarin? · · Score: 2
    Christa McAuliffe coming to our school the week after her flight

    After her flight? That must have been extremely freaky. I know that if I had seen her coming into a room I was in a week after the flight I would have run screaming for the door.