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  1. Re:A halfway decent source? How? on Wikipedia Approaches Its Limits · · Score: 1

    Isn't "running the software" a valid way for verifying the information?

  2. Re:What's the angle? on Microsoft and Apache - What's the Angle? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Tip: He was referring to Bruce.

  3. Re:AfD: nn on Algorithm Rates Trustworthiness of Wikipedia Pages · · Score: 1

    Reliable sources are not necessarily online. They can be veriable via a trip to the library. Books and government documents are completely acceptable sources for Wikipedia.

  4. Re:Bring Down A Website In Six Words on Bring Down Internet Explorer In Six Words · · Score: 1

    Any xml file (like this: ), if referencing a loopy xsl file (no further instructions, but I assure you it's small and simple) automatically crashes Firefox.

  5. Re:Assumptions on Prof. Johan Pouwelse To Take On RIAA Expert · · Score: 1

    The above is not a troll. The summary is confusing in fact.

  6. Re:So... on Wikipedia Releases Offline CD · · Score: 1

    Also, remember that being freely licensed, Wikipedia's content may be copied at will. One CD copy may be enough to a whole internet-less educational institution.

    Wikipedia, as an encyclopedia, would be much more "''sorta pointless''" if it's contents were only reachable through wikipedia.org.

  7. Re:Minnesota also on California Joins Open Document Bandwagon · · Score: 1

    Vendors like Microsoft are welcome to develop file formats that are "interoperable among diverse internal and external platforms and applications", and if they Fully publish it and make it available royalty-free, we should be nothing against adopting it as a standard if it's "implemented by multiple vendors". The law is supposed to be against vendor lock in, not against Microsoft itself.

  8. Re:Her parents should be proud... on Astrologer Sues NASA Over Comet Probe · · Score: 1

    Astrology is not really supposed to make predictions. Charlatans are.

  9. Re:IE only sites on 10 Percent of UK Sites Incompatible with Firefox · · Score: 1
    That was by no means Standarts Compliant. It's just a solution for 4 different browsers at the same time:
    // IE/Win
    obj.style.filter = "alpha(opacity:"+opacity+")";
    // Safari<1.2 Konqueror
    obj.style.KHTMLOpacity = opacity/100;
    // Older Mozilla and Firefox
    obj.style.MozOpacity = opacity/100;
    // Safari 1.2, newer Firefox and Mozilla, CSS3
    obj.style.opacity = opacity/100;
  10. So, GPL is Tit for Tat on 'Tit for Tat' Defeated In Prisoner's Dilemma Challenge · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And GPL is more or less 'Tit for Tat' in which it will only cooperate with those also cooperating.

  11. Re:MozillaFirebird is the best on Three New Releases (And Other News) From Mozilla · · Score: 1

    The new version of Adblock, when finished, will indeed prevent Mozilla from ever downloading the ads.

    It will also be able to block anything that has an URL (from iframes to plugins) instead of just blocking images. It will so fulfill the needs of Bug 78104.

  12. Re:NiMH on Rechargeable Batteries - Yes or No? · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can if you keep them in the charger.

    Not every charger, actually. Check yours to learn wether it has this 'keep alive' feature.

  13. Re:I read the newsgroup postings... one suggestion on Old Hard Drives = Free Electricity · · Score: 1
    Why watch that movie when I can see all the left wing trolling I want for free on Slashdot?
    Because it's always a good idea to know diferent points of view.

    And after watching the movie (if you will), make a little mental exercise with your hability to form opinions: Read these opinions from some folks who, just like you, seem to have disagreed with the movie but, unlike you, seem to have watched it first.

    Good Luck.

  14. Re:I read the newsgroup postings... one suggestion on Old Hard Drives = Free Electricity · · Score: 1

    I sincerely sugest you, timothy and the guys at the newsgroup watch this funny and entertaining documentary.

    Regards.

  15. Re:I hate cheaters! on Cheating Online Gamers · · Score: 2, Informative

    or read from other sources.

  16. Re:3D Visualization of Slashdot Duplicate Posts on 3D Visualization of Linux Kernel Development · · Score: 2, Funny
    That would look something like a caffeine molecule I suspect.

    Mind it: caffeine molecule.

    (Or Google it ).

  17. Re:not gnu on RMS Turns 50 · · Score: 2, Informative

    The book can be found online here.

    It's really worth reading. RMS's biography. Give it a try.

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

    I dont belive you're being fair. FSF was there a long time before Linux (and I mean the kernel) come out. I wouldn't call their work "contributions to the Linux movement".

    And about "renaming Linux" (to GNU/Linux)... you should distinguish the kernel, that is Linux, from the whole OS, which is usually called Linux but some feel that it would be better called GNU/Linux.

    Remember that Linus started Linux because he wanted to run GNU software in a x86 without having to pay for a non-free OS/kernel. As Linus himself said in the famous Tanenbaum-Torvalds debate:

    If the GNU kernel had been ready last spring, I'd not have bothered to even start my project: the fact is that it wasn't and still isn't. Linux wins heavily on points of being available now.
  19. Re:Inovate on Why Browser Innovation Matters · · Score: 1

    Not really. You may use the Radio Context just for gestures.

    Set the radialcontext.dragonly preference to true in your prefs.js (or browse to about:config in Mozilla 1.3b to change it there) and your old school context menus will be there. The radial context will be called only for drag movements.

  20. Re:Inovate on Why Browser Innovation Matters · · Score: 1

    Radial Context also accepts these same gestures and a lot more. Give it a try.

  21. where the blogs come from? on Blogger Hacked · · Score: 1

    Where did all this blog fever came from? I used to read stileproject back in some 3 ot 4 years ago and that is one of the oldest blog-like sites I'm awared of.

  22. Re:Time Traveler on High Score · · Score: 1

    Basically all you had to do was either jump, duck, or shoot at a specific time.

    You mean, just like Dragon's Lair? One of the most innovative and inspirational games of all time?


    no, just like counter strike. :)