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  1. Re:... On A Stick! on Amazon Subsidiary Alexa Patents Resubmitting Form · · Score: 1

    You're thinking of Jeff Dunham and Peanut.

  2. Re:15min and its down? on The Post-OOP Paradigm · · Score: 1

    Ok, look at how Mozilla's Bugzilla usually handles the /. effect (eg. a separate page for /. referals). Setup a simple static page giving people permission to mirror when refered from a /. page. Maybe even have a static copy of your site available as a .torrent and encourage people to use that and start the mirroring process.

    True it would be nice if the editors gave these sites some warning, but maybe the webmasters should make some preparations ahead of time.

  3. Re:newly redesigned? its blank. on Stories From The Vineyard · · Score: 1

    Ok, just checked. Mozilla 1.3 - WinXP - Site works.

    Debian Testing - Mozilla 1.0 - Site Works.

    Debian Testing - Konq. 2.2 - Site works.

    Looks like the problem's somewhere else.

  4. Keyboard Navigation Between Tabs on Using Mozilla in Testing and Debugging · · Score: 1

    Ctrl+PgUP / Ctrl+PgDown

    Don't feel bad, someone pointed it out to me also.

  5. PARENT IS NOT OFFTOPIC on Anger as a Software Design Philosophy · · Score: 1

    Did *any* of the moderators see "South Park, Bigger, Longer, Uncut"? The whole problem in the movie is that the kids see the Terrance & Phillip movie with a bunch of profanity and start using it daily. This should be moderated +1 Funny, not Offtopic.

    Posting logged in with karma to make the point

  6. Re:A mill is... on Build Your Own PCB Milling Machine · · Score: 1

    Not that your google query is bad, but keep in mind that Bridgeport is going out of business, so good luck finding new good machines. As an alternative, Republic Lagun seem to be good manual knee mills.

  7. Re:Hmmm... on BBC on Website Slow Downs · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I would mod you unfunny but there's no such option.

    I've been on a small campaign to add an equal and opposite moderation to the mod system, eg: for +1 Funny, there would be a -1, Not funny. -1 Troll, +1 Not a troll.

    I know that this is offtopic, but does this sound like a good idea?

  8. NOTE TO FUCKWAD MODERATORS on Bug Reporting Etiquette · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This is the first mention of bugzilla not allowing /. referrals in the comments. How the fuck is that redundant?

    Motion to remove redundant from the moderation system. All in favor...

  9. How hard would it be to spoof an IP on University of Utah Promises DMCA Crackdown · · Score: 2, Funny

    Say of the school admin, Dean's office, etc. and send packets on a port commonly used by P2P?

    Also, is there a reward for turning someone in on this violation? Sounds like a money maker for some poor geek who happens to be able to fake traffic.

  10. Re:Stripping down on Professional Apache Security · · Score: 2, Interesting
    So you're suggesting planning for needing the Apache features in the future? If that's not ridiculous, I don't know what is?

    Not planning for the future?

    Why wouldn't you take a free (speech/beer) server like Apache and deploy it?

    • There's a huge user base to ask questions of if you need help.
    • The source is there so if you have the skills, you can fix things.
    • It didn't cost you anything to acquire.

    So again, what's your beef with Apache? And, what do you suggest insted?

  11. Re:Stripping down on Professional Apache Security · · Score: 2, Informative
    Why bother, when other servers are several times simpler to set up, smaller and faster? Pheh!

    Because, when the time comes that you need a feature that Apache provides, you just setup the module and restart Apache. Otherwise, you have to change your server setup from (insert odd other web server here) to Apache and go through all the setup steps anyway.

  12. Re:"Linus came forth"? on Linus Comments on SCO v IBM · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Disclaimer: This is off topic to the discussion, but on topic to the thread. Mod however you want. I have the karma to burn.

    Overrated and underrated are the dumbest moderations on /. Fortunately, there's an easy way around that.

    1. For the sake of simplicity, insted of each comment having a moderation pull-down, put a moderate link on each comment and link to a moderation page.
    2. For each moderation, include a "not" moderation with the opposite effect. (Examples: Funny +1, Not Funny -1; Troll -1, Not Troll +1)
    3. Get rid of overrated/underrated. Now, when you don't agree with a moderation, you have a way to express that.

    In doing this, you would eliminate the cowardly over/under rated moderation, which isn't subject to meta-moderation.

  13. Re:3 points on New Legit Napster Service Coming · · Score: 1

    I agree, it's not legally supported to download all the music and just send the artist a check. I also don't think that sending a check for $2 is appropriate. However, you say that you continue to buy CDs. Of the purchase price for the CD, how much of that money do you think the artist actually sees?

    If (and this is a BIG if), people would download the tracks, and send the $10-$20 you would have paid for the CD to the artist, maybe artists would drop their worthless labels, start making their own recordings, and make the music available at a reasonable price (insted of production costs + label markup + distributor markup +...

    Then again, Stephen King tried online only, honor system payments with one of his books and look what happened.

  14. Re:IMO on MA Dept. of Revenue consider Linux · · Score: 1
    Imagine being an administrator of an all-Gentoo government department...you could easily update everyone from your own desk via terminal emulation, simultaneously from your office, while maintaining that humming little pentium II (if that high) buzzing in the corner as a portage download mirror for speed...

    Although, consider that these systems running Win95 probably aren't the fastest systems around. Therefore, do you really want to do an emerge some-big-program on a gutless computer and wait 3 days while it builds?

    I could see setting up a beefy server and building packages on that, then distributing the packages to the users. But, if you're going to do that, why not just use Debian as a base, run your own package repository, and have apt-get update cron jobs on the desktops?

  15. Will Perl 6 lead to Slashcode 3? on Perl 6: Apocalypse 6 Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Considering all the features available, it seems like this would be the ideal time to freshen up slashcode. Then, maybe we'd see valid HTML 4, CSS support, layout without n-level deep tables, etc.

  16. 3 points on New Legit Napster Service Coming · · Score: 5, Insightful
    1. The word is "insight". It isn't used at all in the linked article, and is misspelled twice in the original posting.
    2. Roxio, the company that took Easy CD Creator and turned it into an unstable piece of garbage is going to do something with Napster? Good luck.
    3. While occasionally, you'll find someone who says "The artists deserve to get paid for their work," most people say "CDs cost too much, and Kazaa, Gnutella, EDonkey, WinMX, etc. are free." If you really want to support an artist, download what you want from the P2P networks (or FTP or IRC), and send the artists a check in the mail. Cut out the middleman and show the RIAA that they aren't adding any value and don't deserve to get paid
    </rant>
  17. Re:Noooooo! on Matrix Special Edition Cancelled · · Score: 1

    And "Special Edition Longhorn (Build 4008)"

  18. Is this going to be like K5? on Slashdot Subscribers Now See The Future · · Score: 3, Interesting

    By that I mean, will readers be able to make suggestions, corrections, etc. to the stories? Or, once submitted, the story is "set in stone" and won't be updated?

    Also, will someone begin "karma whoring" and mirroring pages and posting links to the mirrors?

  19. Re:Accessories seldom updated on Longhorn M4 Build Review · · Score: 1

    Visit the W3 PNG test page using IE and Mozilla. IE doesn't fully support PNG, why would you expect Paint (IMHO the worst image editor EVER) to fully support the PNG format?

  20. Re:I wonder... on ADC Rates Web Browsers For Javascript Compatibility · · Score: 1, Informative

    Wonder no more. IE6 on Win98 performed every test flawlessly. YMMV, IANAL, etc.

  21. Re:Can Mono help with this? on Poor Netscape/Mozilla Support in .NET · · Score: 2, Interesting
    If Windows .net produces html & javascript that isn't cross-browser compatible developers can either switch over entirely to mono or perhaps just use the equivalent mono dll ( System.Web.dll? ) (which I presume will be made to produce cross-browser html & javascript) in place of the Microsoft one.

    But, doesn't that mean that you are no longer using .net, you're using .mono. Also, if .net specifies that the html + javascript is written in one fashion, and .mono deviates from that, .mono is no longer considered .net compatible.

    If anything, this may be the first real indication that Miguel and the .mono group is wasting their time by trying to implement a "standard" that is created and controlled by MS

  22. Re:It's all Taco... on Second Hand Hard Discs Reveal Secrets · · Score: 0

    There is. See here

  23. Give them some credit on IRIX Multithreading Emulation on NetBSD · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They figured out a way to make a feature work on a platform that doesn't support that feature. That's called innovation, and not in the terms that Microsoft would use it.

    Furthermore, since this has been reverse engineered, they might be able to work this into NetBSD, thus fixing the problem of NetBSD not supporting multi-threading. I say, "congratulations."

  24. How could AOL loose it's sex drive? on Has AOL Lost Its Sex Drive? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Have you seen the number of Penis increasing emails in the average AOL user's mailbox? These people should have the libido of a rabbit on ecstacy.

  25. Re:What's wrong with this man??? on Escape from California? · · Score: 2

    Have you been to any modestly large cities in the Midwest? I'm not talking about Chicago, IL, Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN, or Indianpolis,IN. I'm talking about cities like Madison, WI, Rockford, IL, or Des Moines, IA.

    Most of these cities score reasonably high on quality of living surveys and are hardly "white-trash wastelands". Take a week and visit before going off on a stereotype.