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  1. Re:Firefox bashing incoming on Google Returns Chrome To Beta, Touts Speed Boost · · Score: 1
    I'm typing this on Safari 4. After one day I got sick of the title bar tabs and disabled them. After two days, I was sick of the awesome bar-style results and disabled them. Now it's like Safari 3, but without the reload/stop load button. Putting it right next to the rss feed button, far away from the forward/back buttons seems like a bad decision to me.

    The web inspector is much better, though.

  2. Re:Are those overlapping percentages? on Google's Information On DMCA Takedown Abuse · · Score: 4, Funny

    37% of total notices. The same people who go to the emergency room for belly button lint and call 911 when McDonald's is out of "chicken" mcnuggets probably file a DMCA letter at google when their friends draw a penis on their facebook wall.

  3. Re:First Thoughts ... on Sun In Talks To Be Acquired By IBM · · Score: 1

    OS X is also Unix, and probably even less thrilling than hpux.

  4. Re:For $6.5b on Sun In Talks To Be Acquired By IBM · · Score: 1

    In the last 15 months, there's been half a dozen (or more) companies which were "too big to fail" do just that. The question to ask isn't about market cap or market share or competition, it's what would happen if you fucked up and went bankrupt in a big way.

    At the risk of being proven wrong, an IBM (or IBM + SUN) failure would not destroy the economy or cascade into other sectors.

  5. Re:Fate ofSun's products that compete with IBM? on Sun In Talks To Be Acquired By IBM · · Score: 1

    Or a OSS database like MySQL with the vertical scalability of DB2?

    Postgresql much?

  6. Re:obviousness problems on Amazon Sued Over E-Book DRM Patent · · Score: 1

    if it is fairly unique, then amazon's use of known encryption + eBook reader is unlikely to accidentally infringe. I'd love for them to argue against this patent while arguing in favor of one-click. It'll be like Microsoft insisting that "Internet Explorer" is just 2 words whereas "Windows" deserves trademark protection.

  7. I can picture it now... on Dell's Adamo Goes After MacBook Air · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dell Ad Exec #1: We need a foreign spokesman to give our product a refined cosmopolitan vibe. We can save some money by using an employee.

    Exec #2: How about one of mexican janitors?

    Exec #3: How about one of our indian support staff?

    Dell Ad Exec #1: Ok, maybe not. I think my cock-tease secretary mentioned her boyfriend was European. That's close enough.

  8. Re:Like oregon trail but... on Video Game Teaches Kenyan Youth HIV-Safety · · Score: 0, Troll

    Maybe next they could have a game that teaches Kenyans about the economy and how to be President? I know one that needs it.

  9. Re:Well, on iPhone App Causes Google To Shut Down SMS Service · · Score: 1

    It's also kind of necessary when a car is totaled or someone is sent to the hospital or if there's property damage.

  10. Re:BBI Stock drops last week on Blockbuster Total Access Unannounced Policy Change · · Score: 1

    VA Linux, er, SourceForge, Inc, corporate overload of slashdot, is currently at $0.86/share, with a 52-week low of $0.32/share.

  11. Re:Change you can believe in on Federal CIO Kundra Takes Leave of Absence After Woes · · Score: 0, Troll

    I think you mean "Allah bless our dear leader Barak Hussein Obama, peace be upon him."

  12. Re:Uh, no. on How Moore's Law Saved Us From the Gopher Web · · Score: 1
    Back in the day, it was much easier dump all your stuff into gopher, including your multimedia files, than it was to write a whole new bunch of HTML from scratch.

    If only web servers supported directory listings. Oh wait, they did.

  13. Re:national security on FOIA Request For Pending Copyright Treaty Denied · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Medical Marijuana.

  14. expensive? on Traveling With Tom Bihn's Checkpoint Flyer · · Score: 0, Troll

    My first inclination is to consider it expensive, but since I'm "rich" (according to Barack Obama), I can afford to spend a little more for American-made products, and when possible (and reasonable), I do. I don't know anything abount these bags (or brown ropes), but I say: buy American (or some other first-world country)

  15. Re:Linux fork on Mozilla Contemplates a Future Without Google · · Score: 1

    Ice Weasel (now Ice Cat) isn't a serious linux-only fork, it's an out-of-date firefox with different artwork.

  16. Re:Should have included PostgreSQL and DB2 on Refactoring SQL Applications · · Score: 1

    MySQL 5 has triggers, but they're limited compared to pgsql (and everyone else). Maybe it's been fixed, but it used to be that they were only invoked on tables you updated directly, not on tables affected by foreign key constraints or affected by trigger code.

  17. Re:Wow. I learned something useful out of this... on Apps That Rely On Ext3's Commit Interval May Lose Data In Ext4 · · Score: 1

    NFS has an option (on the server side) to be sync or async.

  18. Re:Do people even still use Acrobat Reader? on Adobe Fixes Recent PDF Flaw, But Not Before Auto Exploit · · Score: 3, Insightful

    by definition, bit-for-bit identical to Acrobat is not decent.

  19. Re:Android Platform Problems on Google Straightens Out Its Stance On Paid Apps · · Score: 1

    Every google forum I've seen involves a lot of unanswered questions.

  20. Re:Inevitable.... on Mississippi Bill Would Tax Software Sales · · Score: 1

    On the prettier side of the Connecticut River, they have a system called "current use" to accommodate those situations. If you own a [30+ acre?] parcel of land and agree to keep it undeveloped (farming is ok), you pay a significantly smaller tax rate.

  21. Re:Tax Evasion? on Mississippi Bill Would Tax Software Sales · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Let's say you go on wheel of fortune and win a car. You pay taxes on it, as if it were income. Not only that, but you pay taxes on the MSRP, not the discounted price you would have paid, had you actually bought it.

  22. Re:Vista SP2 on How Vista Mistakes Changed Windows 7 Development · · Score: 1

    SE

  23. Re:ebay maybe? on What To Do With Old USB Keys, Low-Capacity Hard Drives? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Given that most (if not all) flash drives use wear leveling, can flash drives be wiped by software?

  24. Re:Not quite... on A Taste of FreeBSD With VirtualBSD · · Score: 1

    Earlier this year (there's been 1 virtual box update since then) I installed FreeBSD in virtual box, no problems. However, non-trivial disk acivity (such as compiling a port) caused the OS to shit itself with geometry errors.

  25. Re:Best bang for the buck in software development on Can SSDs Be Used For Software Development? · · Score: 1

    my best bang for the buck was 2 chicks at once.