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  1. You're all making a bigger deal about this than yo on UK PM's Aide Loses BlackBerry In Chinese Honeytrap · · Score: 1

    Honestly, this is normal in asia. A guy meets a girl, they have some fun, and in the morning, something extra is lost. A phone like that can be sold and feed her family for months. Do you really think there's any consideration about the content? It's just business for there girls in poor parts of asia, not political. And if the chinese really wanted to copy content from a phone like that, the situation would be more like theft, or an accident or an arrest. Not just a night out with a girl

  2. Re:Why shoud I have to sign... on We're Open enough, Says Microsoft · · Score: 1

    100% off-topic, but what is the site that you run? I had a look at http://insidewoodland.com/ but it doesn't seem to be the "combination calendaring/weight and exercise tracking/reminder/organizer/bulletin board" you described. It's something I've been wanting for a while, and I hope I can be part of the 95% that don't complain ;-)

  3. Re:These two articles convinced me, a long time ag on Plone 2.0: eWEEK Reviews, Raves About OS Software · · Score: 1

    Slashdot comments put spaces into long 'words' to prevent page widening. Copy the URL again, and remove the space, and it will load.

    (I can't be bothered educating people about how to format URLs properly in HTML -- wasted effort most of the time)

  4. Re:In case you wonder on New Zealand Looks at Internet Censorship · · Score: 2, Informative
    It's a pity you read those statistics wrong. They were comparing 'Internet Users' and 'Active Users' (two different definitions).

    End of second paragraph: The number of active users is an estimate of the number of people that actually go online in a given month, rather than the number of people with access.
  5. Re:Where did the accusation come from.. on Castle Denies GPL Breach · · Score: 1

    That's the BSD license.

  6. Re:Radioactivity in my lap? on Run Your Laptop On Nuclear Energy · · Score: 1

    hate to break the news to you, but you gotta do a lot more than that.

  7. Re:Poindexter is no Poindexter on The Pentagon Wants Your Secrets · · Score: 1

    You must have seen this too

  8. Re:OK, so we've got some extra scenes... on LOTR Director's Cut Reviewed · · Score: 4, Insightful
    but what about those scenes that are in the movie that aren't true to the book?
    It's nice to see *any* movie that is true to its book. I've recently been disappointed with The Sum Of All Fears, and The Bourne Identity for being only mildly close to the plot of the book. LoTR on the other hand, is a much better rendition
  9. Re:A good thing, but it will bring new problems on Helping Computers Help Themselves · · Score: 1
    Just remember to never write a daemon that prevents you from pulling the plug.
    Heh. This reminds me of English classes at high school where we had to read heaps of short stories.

    One of them was about an intelligent computer created by a whole bunch of scientists. They booted it up, and typed in the question "Is there a God?". At that moment, a lightning bolt came from the sky, fusing the power source into the on position, and then the computer replied: "Now there is".
  10. Cheap Austin Powers reference on Dan Looks at Office Toys · · Score: 1
    a frickin' CROSSBOW that shoots sucker darts
    I'll get excited once they have 'sharks with frickin LASER BEAMS attached to their heads' (link to wav file)
  11. Re:Arnold... on Wanted: Home for Adventurous Robots · · Score: 1

    hmm.. 600 acres... how about

    <voice style="Arnie">I'll be out back</voice>

  12. Re:A Rudebot? on GRACE Exceeds Expectations! · · Score: 3, Funny
    She was rude and cut in line?
    Not rude, just programmed with american aesthetics rather than canadian
  13. Re:She runs linux eh? on Social Robot? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    man bash

  14. Re:IBM Linux Presentation on Microsoft Says IBM/Linux Their Biggest Threat · · Score: 1

    Even more competitive... you can save yourself that $40, and just get the ISOs and burn them :-)
    The price of the support contract won't change

  15. Random NYT ID generator on NYT Discovers the Panopticon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Looks like that random id generator isn't working any more. Or is it just me not able to get it working?

  16. Terminator 3 on Slashback: Apache, DRM, Limbo · · Score: 1
    The company is currently using these machines on ... "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines."
    From the CNet article

    About time. I can still remember the news about how advanced the Terminator 2 movie was in terms of Computer Graphics, breakthrough bla bla blah.

    More info about the movie here, here, and here.
  17. Re:Venkman, XUL... ? on Mozilla 1.1 Beta Out And About · · Score: 1

    On Linux, it's as simple as removing the file or symlink to libflashplayer.so
    The Sun JRE has consistently worked for me. After installing it, I made a symlink in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins to the jre plugin. Didn't even need to restart Mozilla.

  18. Re:Excellent on Mozilla 1.1 Beta Out And About · · Score: 1

    I think the reverse should be applied. Mozilla strives for (and mostly achieves) standards compliance. So are you asking that it should breach those standards in the same way that IE (and Opera?) do to achieve the compatibility?

  19. Re:It's lot worse in Austraria... on Internet Giants Prepare for WorldCom 'Storm' · · Score: 1

    Any clue on where Austraria is? Even google suggested that I should look up Australia instead

  20. Re:WINE on China to Develop Windows Clone · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Something like the debate back in '99?

    Some links about the alleged backdoor in Windows allowing the NSA access to your computer are here, here and here.

  21. Re:Read Microsoft's page ... on Ballmer Admits 'Linux Changed Our Game' · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The way I read that page was that they are trying to compare a homogenized Windows network with a Linux server connecting Windows clients together. Maybe I should read it some more times to see if they are also comparing a homogenized Linux network (or even a Unix-Linux heterogenous network).

    They are really comparing whether Linux will run Microsoft applications / frameworks (eg ASP), not comparing similar or equivalent functionality.

    No, I didn't expect them to be without bias, but all I really see is the same FUD presented in a different way.

  22. Re:You won't be able to sell it on Microsoft in Peru, Living Room · · Score: 1

    I thought the whole point of Newspeak and doublethink was so we wouldn't have so many words, and everything would make more sense.

  23. Oh dear gosh on New Palm Pictures? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Even if they are legit, who would want one looking like the one bottom-right out of those thumbnails. Looks like somebody got steamrolled, then pixellated with a 400x zoom.

    And can anyone make out picture #5? (bottom row, middle pic).

  24. Terrorist threat from cameras on Harvesting Capacitors for Backyard Munitions · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does this mean we won't be able to take disposable cameras on to planes any more?

    Imagine the memo to baggage scanning technicians:
    "WARNING: Any passengers attempting to take large numbers of disposable cameras on board any flight is a terrorist. These cameras can be used as a weapon by assembling a gauss gun from their parts. Call your appropriate superviser IMMEDIATELY if you have any suspicions"

  25. Re:nope on Software Engineering at Microsoft · · Score: 1

    If they do, I guess someone forgot to mention the -O2 flag to them