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  1. Re:Right... on Secondlight, Microsoft's New Surface Prototype · · Score: 1

    Microsoft research does a lot of cool research stuff. The rest of the company, not so much.

  2. Re:This spells the death of OpenID on Google Adopts, Forks OpenID 1.0 · · Score: 1

    Nice try, but Microsoft is following the OpenID standard.

  3. Re:Someone Want to Tell Me on Microsoft Joins the OpenID Foundation · · Score: 1

    you could set up a provider that auto authenticates everyone with the same Anonymous Coward account. Or randomly creates a one-time account. Like an automatic bugmenot.

  4. Re:Personal crap. on TWiki.net Kicks Out All TWiki Contributors · · Score: 5, Funny

    so she's available?

  5. Re:Color Me Confused on Microsoft Joins the OpenID Foundation · · Score: 3, Interesting
  6. Re:For my own edification on Tech Giants In Human Rights Deal · · Score: 1

    They'd probably like to have datacenters in the country to reduce latency.

  7. Re:Which videos? on MTV Launches Music Video Site · · Score: 1

    did you just rickroll yourself?

  8. Re:It's a good start... on Researchers Decentralize BitTorrent · · Score: 4, Informative

    Opera has had bt support for a while. If you know what a torrent is, you're probably better off with a dedicated client, but for joe average clicking on a link to download, it's usable.

  9. Re:It's good to see. on US District Court Says Calculating a Hash Value = Search · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or the joys of child porn

  10. Re:at last. its f*ckin 21st century ffs. on $125 Million Settlement In Authors Guild v. Google · · Score: 4, Funny

    The good news: Barack Obama will redistribute copyrights.

    The bad news: You were assigned copyright for "The Joy of Gay Sex Volume 3: Extreme Fisting"

  11. Re:You can never call MS Evil again.. on Minefield Shows the (Really) Fast Future of Firefox · · Score: 1

    javascript is a much better language than vb/vbscript. Who argues it's worse?

  12. Re:Competition and economics on Minefield Shows the (Really) Fast Future of Firefox · · Score: 1

    The firefox business model is to give away the software for free and collect money from google searches, amazon sales, etc. Most of their devopers are paid employees. Not exactly anti-capitalist.

  13. Re:Naming? on Microsoft Announces Windows Azure, Cloud-Based OS · · Score: 3, Insightful

    it's also ugly, bloated, and losing market share.

    Vuzta.

  14. Re:Parallax, touch screens, stupidity, and conspir on WV Voters Say Machines Are Switching Votes · · Score: 1

    Spot on. I caught a CNN segment on this last night. It looked like the touchscreen display angle, sliding your finger, and maybe problems with the touch sensitivity of the device were to blame.

    I think Microsoft (or maybe that russian guy [art lebidiv?] with the optimus keyboard) designed a touch screen device composed of multiple screens, each one of which was a distinct button. (Rather than being touch sensitive, you push an LCD button). That would be much better than one single touchscreen with lots of options packed in together.

  15. Re:Works like a charm on Untangling Web Information · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's the area 'tween your balls and your asshole.

  16. uhuh on Untangling Web Information · · Score: 1

    when will slashdot move to a semantic web model?

  17. Re:Of course, you re-direct attention away... on Gov't Computers Used to Find Info on "Joe the Plumber" · · Score: 1

    MR. GIBSON: And in each instance, when the rate dropped, revenues from the tax increased. The government took in more money. And in the 1980s, when the tax was increased to 28 percent, the revenues went down. So why raise it at all, especially given the fact that *100 million people in this country own stock and would be affected?

  18. Re:Of course, you re-direct attention away... on Gov't Computers Used to Find Info on "Joe the Plumber" · · Score: 1

    SENATOR OBAMA: Well, Charlie, what I've said is that I would look at raising the capital gains tax *for purposes of fairness*. We saw an article today which showed that the top 50 hedge fund managers made $29 billion last year -- $29 billion for 50 individuals. And part of what has happened is that those who are able to work the stock market and amass huge fortunes on capital gains are paying a lower tax rate than their secretaries. That's not fair.

    Wow. Raising capital gains rates, knowing it would reduce revenue, just to be "fair". That's borderline incompetent.

  19. Re:Okay so the info is out there... on Gov't Computers Used to Find Info on "Joe the Plumber" · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Obama has claimed 95% of people will receive tax cuts. However, 40% of people pay no income tax to begin with. If you read the fine print on his tax plan, they'll receive their "tax cut" as more welfare, earned income credits, etc. That's not cutting taxes, it's redistributing wealth.

  20. Re:Sinking feeling on Gov't Computers Used to Find Info on "Joe the Plumber" · · Score: 1

    The article stated there was no reason for the child support office to access his records.

  21. Re:Is anybody seriously surprised? on Gov't Computers Used to Find Info on "Joe the Plumber" · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Maybe that's because if they asked actual questions their access would be cut off.

  22. Re:Is anybody seriously surprised? on Gov't Computers Used to Find Info on "Joe the Plumber" · · Score: 1

    The newspaper filed a freedom of info request to check if his data had been accessed.

  23. Re:Well, That Does It! on PHP Gets Namespace Separators, With a Twist · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This isn't the first (or last) time PHP developers have implemented a stupid workaround rather than fixing problems with the language/runtime/interpreter/parser/scanner.

  24. Re:Going back to DOS style... on PHP Gets Namespace Separators, With a Twist · · Score: 2, Informative

    which was based on CPM and VMS.

  25. yet another wtf on PHP Gets Namespace Separators, With a Twist · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The rfc claims that typing "**" is easier than typing "%%" or "^^".