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  1. Re:GIMP interface is bad on Paint.NET: The Anti-GIMP? · · Score: 1

    There are tons of pictures in the GIMP's menus. Perhaps I missed your meaning.

  2. Re:I agree ... on How Can I Trust Firefox? · · Score: 1

    Parent said "signature", not "checksum". The reference is in fact to GPG signatures, which are pretty damn hard to fake.

    Think before you go smug.

  3. Re:Why I still use Mozilla... on Mozilla 1.7.5 Released · · Score: 1

    > For example, I use chatzilla all the time. It's not available except as part of Mozilla.

    Yes, it is.
    http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/cha tzill a

  4. Re:GTK? on GTK 2.6.0 Released · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What are the others? Fltk isn't what I'd call industrial-strength; Qt is in some cases neither open-source nor free-of-cost.

  5. Re:Taking it back on Firefox Reaches 10 Million Downloads · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Apparently ~10 million people disagree.

  6. Re:Does a standalone WP have a use now? on AbiWord 2.2 Unleashed · · Score: 1

    How is XForms nonstandard? Since when is any given toolkit a standard?

    There's a Qt port now anyway.

  7. Re:"Unleashed" on AbiWord 2.2 Unleashed · · Score: 1

    Really? Reading most software ad copy makes it sound like the software is literally going to pop out of the computer and fuck me in the ass. Bleeding with testosterone in every thrust.

  8. Re:Scientists (open) vs Businessmen (closed) on Is Some Software Meant to be Secret? · · Score: 1

    Actually, a patent is not a trade secret. Patents become public domain; trade secrets need not. In fact, patents are never secret; the entire point is that a patent is published in full.

  9. Re:even better solution on Anti-Spyware Products Don't Live Up to Promises · · Score: 1

    I'd wager any sum that the most commonly played game on Windows is Solitaire. By far.

    Not all computer users are 17-year-olds drooling for the next FPS. In fact, they're the minority.

  10. Re:or the easiest solution on Anti-Spyware Products Don't Live Up to Promises · · Score: 1

    You missed the "allowed sites" button, which would make it clear that only sites on a whitelist may install software. If update.mozilla.org is installing spyware, Firefox has a bigger problem than XPI.

  11. Re:GAY PORN ALERT on Anti-Spyware Products Don't Live Up to Promises · · Score: 1

    Um, wouldn't the context make it clear that it's a porn site?

  12. Re:How to tell if it will suck: on 'Bourne' Director to take on Watchmen · · Score: 1

    Why does the movie have to be set in the present day?

    It's already a parallel Earth. There's no reason it can't be set at the proper time. It should be set in the 80s, and the cultural references in the novel should be kept. (And the pirate comic needs to stay, somehow.)

  13. Re:Rorschach's Journal on 'Bourne' Director to take on Watchmen · · Score: 1

    Truman. Rorschach had a fetish for President Truman.

  14. Re:So the MPAA is good now? on 'Bourne' Director to take on Watchmen · · Score: 1

    Point 1: "Slashdot" is not an entity. It often seems there are more posts berating Slashdotters for holding a specific view than there are people who actually seem to hold it.
    Point 2: Most of the posts on this story seem to be pretty critical of the movie plans.

  15. Re:Why is it mixed? on 'Bourne' Director to take on Watchmen · · Score: 1

    Atlas Shrugged would be easy. Just depict someone beating off to pictures of Pinochet for a few hours.

  16. Re:Beginning of FreeLinux, OpenLinux and NetLinux? on Linux Kernel to Fork? · · Score: 1

    I know. Isn't it horrible that people are using BSD-licensed software in a way which the license explicitly allows? It's disgusting.

  17. Re:Winders on Google Keyhole, Google Scholar · · Score: 1

    Some of us don't want to shell out around $190 for an OS we won't use. Especially if we then have to pay ANOTHER $190 to run it without having to repartition and waste space.
    It doesn't do Linux any good to look out the window and think of ice cream and ice cubes.

  18. Re:Satelite imagery on Google Keyhole, Google Scholar · · Score: 1

    Those brick/mortar institutions are a fundamental backbone of the Internet, so I doubt they're going anywhere soon for at least that reason.

  19. Re:What amazes me... on Firefox News Roundup · · Score: 1

    Firefox's default theme fits in fine with Bluecurve.

  20. Re:could linux BE any more secure? on Fedora Core 3: Worth The Upgrade? · · Score: 1

    SELinux was released in 2000.

  21. Re:Probably not the most important cabinet positio on Colin Powell Resigns · · Score: 1

    Actually, Kissinger was Nixon's Sec. of State, too.

  22. Re:Florida on Electoral-vote.com Under Heavy Load; Attack? · · Score: 0, Troll

    He's reporting the polls, dipshit. It's not a by-the-moment prediction. It's an update of the averages of the previous polls.

    And you just called Andrew Tanenbaum a goon. That makes you a fucking idiot.

  23. Re:Legitimate value in being almost bleeding-edge on Gentoo Ricer Comparison · · Score: 1

    Not all people are using Linux to work. Get used to it.

  24. Re:You know the only thing sadder? on Gentoo Ricer Comparison · · Score: 1

    Your ability to replace "Gentoo" with "Gentoy" in your posts is truly the mark of an advanced satirist. You put me in mind of a Swift, perhaps.

  25. Re:I've seen this before... on Gentoo Ricer Comparison · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's an optimization flag for GCC that "unrolls" loops -- expands one or more iterations in place, to prevent the need to use jump instructions.

    The speed advantage of loop unrolling is questionable nowadays, because it results in significantly larger binaries; in the old days, however, people used to unroll their loops by hand.

    With today's incredibly fast clock speeds, loop unrolling is very often a bad thing, because the speed advantage is minimal compared to the large increase in binary size.

    It's one of several foolish compilation flags passed around by word of mouth; as the website claims, it is often part of the CFLAGS of the most fanatic (and naive) Gentoo users, along with silly things like "-O10" and atrocities like "-ffast-math".

    CFLAGS="-O -pipe -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer"

    Some Gentoo users may be ricers, but naivete has never been a reason to insult an entire group.