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  1. Re:Harmony is a good name.... on ECMAScript 4.0 Is Dead · · Score: 1

    RegExp & eval == WIN

  2. Re:Dear slashdot: on Slashdot's Disagree Mail · · Score: 2, Informative

    Come on, you're not seriously going to make a function to not do something?
    How about:

    if ( category == "idle" ) {
        post_in_front_page = false;
    }

    Or how about going to Help & Preferences > Sections > Idle > Never?

  3. Re:And Doubleclick doesn't need DPI either... on Google Using DoubleClick Tracking Cookies · · Score: 1

    That breaks some sites -- no I don't particularly want to debate how retarded relying on any user supplied info is.
    Just use Firefox with RefControl set to "forge" (send the root of the site as the referrer).

    See my other comment for more privacy/security add-ons.

  4. ESSENTIAL ADD-ONS on Google Using DoubleClick Tracking Cookies · · Score: 2, Informative

    Like others have said, CookieSafe and CS Lite are like NoScript for cookies with the option to allow cookies for a specific site: permanently, for each session or once-off.

    I currently use the above extensions as well as Adblock, Filterset.G and RefControl. The latter set to "forge" (send the root of the site as the referrer).

    I consider these the essential privacy/security add-ons for Firefox. I'm interested if anyone has any others to add to the list.

  5. Re:I'll judge them in 3 days. on YouTube Yanks Free Tibet Video After IOC Pressure · · Score: 1

    I believe that's ipsomobile.

  6. Re:I am so behind the times on First-Ever Photo Tour of Defcon's Network Center · · Score: 1

    You mean http://df.cn/?

  7. Re:Where they asked? on The Flat Earthers Are Still With Us · · Score: 1

    Terry Pratchett itself

    Itself?

  8. Re:Dont apologise for the downtime yet. on The Flat Earthers Are Still With Us · · Score: 1

    That was probably the best opportunity to use the four corners cliche and you messed it up.

  9. Re:Scientific community? on The Flat Earthers Are Still With Us · · Score: 1

    Fail troll is fail.

  10. Re:Scientific community? on The Flat Earthers Are Still With Us · · Score: 1

    Oh god. Look at their "web search" function:

    Excite, Lycos, InfoSeek, AltaVista, HotBot, Yahoo, WebCrawler, OpenText & Magellan

    What a blast from the past. Are any of these other than Yahoo still around?

  11. Re:Same here. on Google's Streetview Seen As Culturally Insensitive In Japan · · Score: 1

    Not that I'm against Street View, I think it rocks, but it could be better if there were an automated way of removing the non-permanent features such as people and cars since they are not necessary for mapping anyhow.

    They could probably do a double-pass and subtract the difference but it'd be a lot more stitchy than it currently is.

  12. Re:Not all cultures are the same on Google's Streetview Seen As Culturally Insensitive In Japan · · Score: 1

    in Finland you're supposed to stand with your back against the wall

    I'm not sure I want to know what led to that rule.

  13. Re:I've got an idea that you all can have . on How To Sell a Video Game Idea? · · Score: 1

    I have had ideas which later have been implemented by someone else [...] I have come to the conclusion that the best ideas are the ones which you don't actually mind if someone else creates, because it means you get to use the creation.

    I have had the same experience and come to the same conclusion. I mean it doesn't matter who does it right, as long as it gets done?

    [the pay version] would have the ability to playback the crash in slow motion and to create youtube-like vids

    How do you propose to plug the analogue hole?

  14. Re:hmm... on IT Repair Installs Webcam Spying Software · · Score: 1

    I was going to say I resent GP's joke, but it's just as funny as the /.er stereotype. (married, 2 kids, regular hot sex =) Never stop exploring.

  15. Re:Lawsuit! on IT Repair Installs Webcam Spying Software · · Score: 1

    Looks like Joe's is a KDE shop... where would I go for Gnome support?

    Gordon Gnome's Ghoulish Graphics Gawking Gallery?

  16. Well it's definitely not an excuse on ISS Gets New Recycling Gear, Ready For Larger Crew · · Score: 1

    The site does work in IE but not Firefox -- piss-poor webmastership either way.

  17. Re:PDF on A Hidden Loop In the Carbon Cycle Discovered · · Score: 1

    You can set Firefox to prompt you to save a PDF instead of opening it with a plugin.
    Flash I will sometimes tolerate, but I won't let Acrobat Reader any where near my browser.

    Tools > Options > Applications > Adobe Acrobat Document > Always ask

  18. What ever happened to on Craigslist Prankster Sued, Argues DMCA Abuse · · Score: 1

    don't feed the trolls?

    Look at the media attention this guy is getting.
    This is possibly the most successful troll ever.

  19. Re:3rd photo on Awesome Pics of CERN's Large Hadron Collider · · Score: 1

    His noodliness does not wear clothes, unless you count sauce as clothes.

  20. Re:2008 just called... on White House Briefed On "Potential For Life" On Mars · · Score: 1

    +1 Internets for you

  21. Re:No warrant == not legitimate. on FBI Seizes Library Computers Without Warrant · · Score: 1

    ...I can say that as a libraian-in-training

    #o

  22. Re:This is slashdot on Are We Searching Google, Or Is Google Searching Us? · · Score: 1

    That's the slashdot paradox. Somehow linked websites' servers crash from 1 million+ geeks simultaneously failing to RTFA.

    Gentlemen, I dare say that web servers are so frightened of a good old Slashdotting that they keel over obsequiously at the mere posting of a link to them on the Main Page.

  23. Re:Martial arts on How Do Geeks Exercise? · · Score: 1

    They're cool enough to do in front of other people, no matter how bad you are, and you have something to show off to your friends.

    You've never been beatten up by a twelve year old girl, have you? Say, while testing for my yellow belt. Err, your yellow belt.

    Even despite situations like that, all the students at the Kwoon I go to are lovely and there is no judgement. It's really nice to work out somewhere where people don't form an opinion of you based on your physical abilities.

  24. Re:grenade in mouth on Video Surveillance Tech Detects Abnormal Activity · · Score: 1
  25. Re:grenade in mouth on Video Surveillance Tech Detects Abnormal Activity · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I just don't think this is that big of a deal. I do think it will be extremely easy to game, e.g. flood it with FPs like the congestion charge cameras in the UK. It will be interesting to see what games people come up with.