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  1. "Screen Sharing" for the Mac on Free Remote Access Tools For Windows and Mac Compared · · Score: 3, Informative

    For those Mac users connecting to another Mac there is always the "Screen Sharing" app located at /System/Library/CoreServices/. It's already there. It's free.

  2. Re:after reading that review on jQuery Cookbook · · Score: 1

    It seems pretty clear from that sentence that the last clause is about the errata. This is petty harping. It's a fine review.

  3. Re:14k buys a lot of film. on How To Get 39 Megapixels From a 53-Year-Old Camera · · Score: 5, Informative

    Back when I was a photo assistant a roll of medium format film (transparency) cost about $29, including the cost of getting it processed professionally, not down at the drugstore. So, being a bit lazy I'll figure $35 a roll now, which means that $14K can buy you about 400 rolls of film. To a pro photographer that is not a lot of film. The digital will pay for itself fairly quickly.

  4. KSM on Anatomy of Linux Kernel Shared Memory · · Score: 1

    "KSM allows the hypervisor to increase the number of concurrent virtual machines by consolidating identical memory pages."

    But first you have to waterboard it.

  5. Re:Copyright should never be extended. on The Economist Weighs In For Shorter Copyright Terms · · Score: 2, Informative

    You keep insisting that the government is "thinking." If it is, it's not thinking about copyright as related to what is good for our society, it is thinking about it in the way that gets senators and representatives re-elected. It's lobbyists that get copyright extended.

  6. Re:Poor reading comprehension on iPad Jailbroken · · Score: 1

    "No one said fanboi, and it was you yourself that placed you in the category of enthusiastic supporter of apple."

    Incorrect. You need to re-read the thread.

  7. Re:Bad impression then on iPad Jailbroken · · Score: 1

    Your attitude towards me is exactly the sort of thing I was referring to. OK, I like my Apple products, but I am not a "fanbois.". It's all those ad hominem attacks that I get so sick of.

  8. Re:Only Apple on iPad Jailbroken · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "If Microsoft did this everyone would be angry about it, but now that it's Apple its all fine and classy."

    That just goes to show you that without some numbers to back it up life is so ambiguous. In MY impression there is a preponderance of Apple-hating commenters here on Slashdot. Presumable those same Apple haters are not also running Windows, which is just as closed as anything Apple puts out, but consistency of thougt--even among so-called geeks--is not a major human trait.

  9. Re:Ok, ok! I'm Sorry for the typo... on Ed Roberts, Personal Computer Pioneer, 1941-2010 · · Score: 1

    Definitely. Especially when Slashdot claims to employ editors.

  10. Re:This guy rocks on Battlefield Earth Screenwriter Accepts Razzie · · Score: 1

    "I'm trying to figure out a way to bottle it and use it as birth control. I'll make a mint!"

    I'm confused. Is he going to make birth control or mints?

  11. Re:Microsoft is at it again on No More Firefox For Windows Mobile · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Widows Mobil"

    A gas station only for women who have lost their husbands?

  12. Re:YUO FAiL IT on No More Firefox For Windows Mobile · · Score: 1

    Eliza? Is that you?

  13. Pin registration on Russian ASCII Art Animated Cat From 1968 · · Score: 1

    I think this is very fun, but it looks like they could have used some help from basic understanding of pin registration. The animations are awesome. The jumpiness of some of it is not.

  14. Re:If you know enough to change the name... on Auto-Scanning the Names People Choose For Their Wireless APs · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hilarious. But I just ran out of mod points...

  15. Re:If you can find anything on C-Span Posts Full Archives Online · · Score: 1

    Are you using Google China by any chance?

  16. Re:He Can Vote With His Wallet on XML Co-Founder Joins Google, Blasts iPhone · · Score: 1

    "But then again, apple fanboi's will always try to herd a stray iSheep back to the iFlock. There's even an app for that!"

    Insightful? It's ad hominem attacks--which by the way seem to be the bulk of anti-Apple remarks--such as this that make me think your views are based on nothing more than emotion.

  17. Re:After 50 years? on SETI Is 50 Years Old; No Sign of ET · · Score: 1

    But SETI might actually come through with a win for me.

  18. Re:Time for the RFID-enabled hat on How To Make Your Own iPhone RFID Reader · · Score: 1

    It can let me in the door at work when I forget my badge at home?

  19. Re:NASA Bureaucracy gone mad on JPL Background Check Case Reaches Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    "what makes you think Bush was anymore involved?!"

    Because his administration introduced it? Just a guess.

  20. Re:The sad thing is that on Former Astronauts Call Obama NASA Plans "Catastrophic" · · Score: 1

    Not only that, but is my memory faulty that I seem to recall some astronaut(s) saying that going back to the moon in the first place was also a mistake? Buzz Aldrin?

  21. Re:Size on Why Are Digital Hearing Aids So Expensive? · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Neither your 1970's amp nor your netbook will fit in your ear."

    That's a little presumptuous. Have you actually SEEN his ear?

  22. Re:Another interesting statistic on Toyota Acceleration and Embedded System Bugs · · Score: 1

    Funny! Wish I had a mod point for ya.

  23. Re:I'm not clear on what their case is... on JPL Background Check Case Reaches Supreme Court · · Score: 3, Informative

    OK, so you're a little uninformed about the whole issue. Well, a lot uninformed.

    The deal is that people who have been working loyally FOR YEARS could suddenly find themselves unacceptable and out of a job due to a background check that is abusive enough to qualify for a security clearance even though in fact it would not be a security clearance. Not only that, but the abusive snooping extends to everyone you've ever known. That's a wide net. Not to mention having to list every place you've ever lived in the past 7 years along with contact info to prove you were there.

    Also, very little classified work goes on at JPL. Very little. Most everything they do is released to the public sooner or later; usually sooner. They partner with universities all over to provide them with scientific data from instruments on spacecraft and those institutions get their data in minutes, not even days or weeks.

    "There's no constitutional right to work at JPL."

    Yeah, I love that one. There is no constitutional right to privacy either, but it would be a mistake not to fight the government every step of the way when it comes to invasion into the personal lives of its citizens when it is not warranted.

  24. Re:I presume... on Officials Sue Couple Who Removed Their Lawn · · Score: 4, Informative

    I see you've never been to Orange county, home to such places as Irvine where it is illegal to leave your garage door open.

  25. Treo 600 on What Has Your Phone Survived? · · Score: 1

    My previous phone was a Treo 600 that I got a lot of good use out of. One day while getting out of my car I dropped it (in the case) and it landed with a perfectly flat smack on its face. I immediately picked it up and tried to turn it on. Nothing. I swore. I fretted. I pushed the on button some more. Then I got the idea to smack the thing fairly hard on the opposite side that it had fallen on. Bingo. Fixed!