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  1. Mothers and computers on Family Tech Support · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    When I was small I remember sitting on my mother's lap writing GW Basic code with her. She got me a book out of the university library on programming because I wanted to make an Indiana Jones game, like the Last Crusade that we had for our 286.

    I've been programming ever since...

  2. Re:GNU/Linux, fah! on RMS Turns 50 · · Score: 1

    That is a very good analogy. I shall be remembering it...

  3. Re:Cool :) on Fooling NMAP for Whatever Reason · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Thanks for that mate. Didn't bother to read the article, did ya?

  4. Re:Semen works too! on Male Sweat Makes Women Happy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    New Scientist had an article about the effect of semen on women. The gist of it was that "ingestion" reduces the unwanted immune system reaction to the stuff when you need it for impregnation.

    As I recall, the front cover was a milk style carton with "Semen" written on the side.

    I am *not* kidding.

  5. Re:am I the only person on /. on Farscape Fans Reinventing Television · · Score: 2, Funny

    Group approval? By flaming against farscape? They'll probably get together to put a price on my head.

  6. Re:am I the only person on /. on Farscape Fans Reinventing Television · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If you need fulfillment from television shows, you know it's time to stop watching.

  7. Re:Why a Haiku? on Chemical Haiku: Elements' Qualities in a Few Syllables · · Score: 1

    Exactly.

  8. Why a Haiku? on Chemical Haiku: Elements' Qualities in a Few Syllables · · Score: 1

    I've never really liked the Haiku format. So the what fuck if it has so many syllabus, it just doesn't sound interesting.

    Theyr'e not even easy to remember because their blank.

  9. Spam and the /. effect on Caching Content and the Shrinking Web? · · Score: 1

    I've always wondered how the /. effect is different to spam.

    Both claim to be beneficical to the, shall we say, victim. "Information about special offers is useful", "They get more people looking at their banners".

    Both use up bandwidth and cause charges to the victim.

    Spam is often redundant - "I've seen this bloody spam a hundred times" - and we all know how redundant slashdot can be...

    Both can be defended by saying that if you publish your address (site or email) then people can use it.

    Nobody opts into the /. effect but still recieve it, so why are people up in arms about nobody opting into spam but still receiving it?

  10. Re:It can't be that hard! on Making a House That Will Last for Centuries? · · Score: 1

    My school's buildings date from 1586 - 417 years.

  11. It can't be that hard! on Making a House That Will Last for Centuries? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Most of the houses around me now have been here at least a hundred years. They just built them and they stayed up. Victorians were good at that.

  12. Re:diamond core on Hubble Discovers an Evaporating Planet · · Score: 2, Informative

    "They couldn't give those damn diamonds away for free."

    Diamonds are very useful in industry. Just think - we could all have diamond tipped power tools, so they would be useful, and worth buying whatever. People buy less valuable rocks, don't they.

  13. Examples? on Office 2003 and XML · · Score: 1

    Can't someone with the beta (I'm sure at least one slashdotter does) does some examples of this XML file format? I thought it would be an obvious thing to do with the article...

  14. Re:NMSU on A College Without Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    I'm currently at "college", but you would call it "secondary school". When I go to "University" (you would call it "college") I might go to "University College, Durham University".

    How's that for confusing?

  15. Re:NMSU on A College Without Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    Anyway, the title "A College Without Microsoft?" would suggest this is a college, not a university.

  16. Re:NMSU on A College Without Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    Eh? What do you mean? A college is part of a university - "Oriel College, Oxford", for example.

  17. Re:Observations on The Universe May Be Shaped Like a Doughnut · · Score: 1

    Greenshift? What the fuck is that?

    I think you mean Blueshift.

  18. Re:Big Difference on Peer Pressure Porn Filter · · Score: 1

    The correct quote is:

    "That word you keep using... I do not think it means what you think it means."

  19. Re:PHP 5? on PHP4 Web Development Solutions · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually when they removed automatic setting of get and post variables they broke a ton of PHP 3 example code, and I think it stumped a lot of people with PHP 3 books working with PHP 4.

  20. Re:SASCSI on Serial SCSI Standard Coming Soon · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've always wondered, why are they ribbions? Why not simply roll the ribbons up into cables? Can anyone enlighten me?

  21. Re:Its already freely available on Grand Theft Auto Released For Free · · Score: 1

    I think it's subscription as in the NYT sense (or it was .5 years ago when I downloaded GTA)

  22. Its already freely available on Grand Theft Auto Released For Free · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here, along with GTA London and GTA 2.

  23. Re:How about versions in the file name on Microsoft to End DLL Confusion · · Score: 1

    mfc42.dll - there you go, MFC 4.2

    Another example is MSVBVM60.DLL, Microsoft Visual Basic Virtual Machine 6.0

    If it works sometimes, why don't they always do it?

  24. How about versions in the file name on Microsoft to End DLL Confusion · · Score: 0

    When you recompile a new version, why not call it shell32_444.dll, for example, instead of shell32.dll. That way you could refer to the version you wanted by file name.

  25. The customer always pays on Bad Behavior on the 'Net - Who Pays the Bandwidth Bill? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You could let them think that you were "eating the cost", but everyone ones it would simply be passed to the customers in the end.