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  1. Re:And it's free, too! on Firefox Achieves 10% Global Market Share · · Score: 1

    and just keep hitting the space bar to navigate

    What do they call this feature? "Wang Gestures"?

  2. Re:Not much further to go on Firefox Achieves 10% Global Market Share · · Score: 1

    Since you're forced to concede defeat until Yahoo gets their act together, might want to look into one of the Firefox addins for Windows Firefox that will allow you to launch IE in a tab, instead of loading the IE interface.

    At least then you can spare yourself the full experience. :)

  3. Re:Firefox is on the up!! on Firefox Achieves 10% Global Market Share · · Score: 4, Funny

    But then Microsoft would rename IE to AE - Aardvark Explorer.

  4. Re:OT: sig on Telecommuters May Owe Extra State Taxes · · Score: 1

    I kinda read it as a joke. Sort of like saying that pointers and foreign keys are the same; a "friend" is a pointer to another slashdot account, in other words.

    But maybe I missed the point.

  5. Well, duh. on Women's Institute Consulted on Nuclear Waste · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Garbage Men, of course.

    I suspect there may be a number of Garbage Women, too, and their input is more than welcome in the design of the nuclear waste disposal facility restrooms.

  6. Re:Nifty but... on Can Your Mouth Become Multilingual? · · Score: 1

    I wasn't making fun of it, I was passing it through babelfish and back again. English To German To English. :)

  7. Re:Nifty but... on Can Your Mouth Become Multilingual? · · Score: 1

    This still does not solve the problem that automatic translators have still problems to process the logic of certain languages. Fair view of babelfish.

  8. Re:AI on Google's Smart Advertising Leads to More Clicks · · Score: 1

    They don't call it "Advertising Intelligence" for nothing ...

    ... oh, wait, the A doesn't mean advertising? It means Artificial? Well Now! "The Matrix" makes a lot more sense with that tidbit of info.

    ;-)

  9. Re:I prefer to think of it on Pillows Dangerous for Your Health · · Score: 1

    Very well, then. To use your phrasing, then yes, it is theoretically possible to have an allergic reaction to a temperature shift. Also sunlight, and sadly peanuts and seafood.

    Glad I myself don't have those allergies. But maybe I had a sufficiently dirty childhood :)

    (Surprising, since I had asthma and dairy & wheat allergies as a kid)

  10. Re:gentoo... on Blue Gene/L Tops Its Own Supercomputer Record · · Score: 1

    It would take about four days.

    But on the plus side, it would only be, like, three commands.

  11. Re:What? on Looking Back On Looking Forward · · Score: 1

    It's got ... personality! *gag, cough, die*

    Personality!

    Can't you tell, it's got Personality?

  12. Re:Hosted Office? on Microsoft To Enter Hosting Business · · Score: 1

    Pigeons have a better audit trail than email.

  13. Re:Finish the fucking story on Does Visual Studio Rot the Brain? · · Score: 1

    I think I'm going to bookmark this on the off chance that he actually replies to you with the story :D

  14. Re:RIM Is Done on BBC Shuts Down Internal BlackBerry Service · · Score: 1

    NetCraft confirms it! :)

    I think they'll be able to handle it, though. We'll see how it plays out.

  15. Re:Serves them right on BBC Shuts Down Internal BlackBerry Service · · Score: 1

    You sound like you might have read Maximum PC's Editor Will Smith saying that he wouldn't upgrade to Vista until MS fixed XP.

    What a nutjob. :)

  16. Re:I've been wiredog for, oh, 20 years? on Blizzard Made Me Change My Name · · Score: 1

    So is 'Caesar', sadly. I was looking forward to 'Caesar Taco'. :)

  17. Re:I've been wiredog for, oh, 20 years? on Blizzard Made Me Change My Name · · Score: 1

    Bite My Shiny Metal Ass ;-)

  18. Re:I've been wiredog for, oh, 20 years? on Blizzard Made Me Change My Name · · Score: 1

    You, uh, lacked a point to your post. ;-)

    I see what you're saying, though - I've been "Beryllium" for many years now (approaching 6, I think). But certain places already had it registered by the time I got around to creating an account. LiveJournal, Slashdot, etc. And in those instances, I have to l33t it up to get it in. Maybe Taco should do the same? :)

    Commodore Taco, the 64-decade-old Elven BASIC Programmer. Or something. :)

    (Some of the other posters to this article would no doubt prefer "Monsieur Whiney-Pants" or something to that effect)

  19. Re:My karma can stand it on Homer Becomes Omar · · Score: 1

    You are what you eat.

  20. Re:My karma can stand it on Homer Becomes Omar · · Score: 1

    I don't think I've observed that. I've only seen two kinds of Canadian censorship ... before nine o'clock, and after nine o'clock.

    As you might guess, The Sopranos airs after nine o'clock. :)

  21. Re:His Next Suit Will Be... on Jack Thompson Calls Cops on Penny-Arcade · · Score: 1

    such "sweet irony" could, in fact, turn him into a martyr for the anti-gaming crowd, and might even prove his point in the eyes of some senators (if, as he claims, he has spoken to any).

    A much brighter future would include Jack Thompson spending the rest of his life as an orange farmer. He could spend all day picking oranges, and relax and unwind. It might help him forget the horrors of the world. He would be able to earn a living, and he wouldn't be perpetuating needless conflicts.

    And any world with one more orange-picker and one less lawyer is a good one by me.

  22. Re:Bar sanctions needed on Jack Thompson Calls Cops on Penny-Arcade · · Score: 1

    I have a feeling that telling him the sky is green causes him "severe emotional distress".

  23. Re:A simple one on Your Favorite Math/Logic Riddles? · · Score: 1

    That's cute. However, the phrasing of the final portion is slightly inaccurate.

    My mother has ten brothers, four sisters, and zero grandparents living. So, naturally, her answer was "1040". It's accurate within the context of the point being proven (as in, anyone with eyes and exposure to the arabic numbering system can see the answer), but the "first digit" is technically 1, not 10.

    So, I suggest adding on "if your answer is over 994, your family might just be Roman Catholic".

  24. Re:Algebraic proof: 2=1 on Your Favorite Math/Logic Riddles? · · Score: 1

    Sure it can.

    But only if y = 0.

  25. Re:I prefer to think of it on Pillows Dangerous for Your Health · · Score: 1

    Actually, the symptoms of a cold are a result of the body's immune system launching a defensive strike at the virus. Theoretically (as in, assuming what I just said is correct), a sufficiently confused immune system might overreact to external stimulus and launch such a strike for no real reason.

    Think of it as the opposite of hay fever ... snow fever. :)

    (My personal favourites are Cabin Fever and Beaver Fever, though)