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  1. Duh on E-mail Is For Old People · · Score: 1
  2. Hall of Fame on Apple Switching to Intel · · Score: 1

    At the very least, this puts Apple in the /. HoF

  3. Slow News Day :( on Using a Cellphone in a Basement? · · Score: 1

    While thousands of offers of repeaters and signal boosters are only as far away as the nearest Google search, what recommendations or experiences would you care to share on the subject?

    Why are you complaining? You posted the story.

    Voice over IP isn't a bad solution, but it still makes for two phone bills, not one.

  4. Re:OT: B ug in /. parser? [was: Re:RedHat RedHat] on Red Hat & Centos On Name Usage · · Score: 1

    no, haha it's called the HTML spec, since like 1.0. Look at the href

  5. Re:How interesting. on Google Launches Mapping Service · · Score: 1

    You're a dumbass..

  6. Re:Centre of the world?! on Google Launches Mapping Service · · Score: 1

    You're a dumbass.

  7. Understanding Google on Google Censors Abu Ghraib Images [updated] · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why Politics Don't Belong on Slashdot, And other useful info . . . :-P

    First off, Google is _very_ different from other search engines. They want to separate out blog content from other websites. They also put national news articles (that usually decay in a month or so) in news.google.com, and they allow users to rate websites and add their input in a magical way to PageRank. Given all of this I do not believe this could be called political as implied by the editor or censorship (since it is impossible for a private company to actually be involved in censorship). Such statements imply that Google News would also not have stories on the events that occurred in the prison, since they don't want you to know about it. I think you might be seeing the results of people looking at the sites (that have the GoogleToolbar) and rating them poorly. Moreoever, the results shown on yahoo are from news services--these things may be searched from news.google.com. Somehow a plethora of results come up there.

    This brings me to my subtitle: Politics don't belong on Slashdot. No one is going to get rid of the section, and even if they did, it doesn't matter now. The entire site is now an acceptable place to insert your political opinions without actually analyzing a situation. This doesn't lead to more coherent discussion, or in this case even restraint on the part of the editor to develop a conspiracy theory in one line (without having to even develop it because so many people are already have the same mindset that they're ready to jump on anything they can). From now on, politics will be acceptable discussion on Slashdot in any topic, and for that reason I think the site's technical discussion over time may be greatly diluted.

    This is neither a death wish, nor a threat to stop reading Slashdot. Slashdot may stay a good news site, but it's community is being threatened.

    -Adam Colclough

  8. [old], and slow on Impress Your Friends With A 3D Desktop Pager · · Score: 1

    [old] and i've since ditched it, gdesklets and gnome for a much lighter experience with Enlightenment as my window manager. In an app like this "feel" is everything, and it always feels a little slow :(.

  9. -1 Flamebait on The Jobs Crunch · · Score: 1

    Sadly, no intelligent discourse has come from this.

  10. diff on Mock World Vote · · Score: 1
    Its amazing the difference between U.S. viewpoint and world viewpoint.

    Yeah, _real_ amazing.

  11. It will never happen on Intel Predicts Death Of WWW · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The entire idea is asinine. To paraphrase who many simply call the inventor:

    The Internet will never be controlled by a single company or a group of companies; Any company that tries to control it will fail.
    -- Sir Tim Berners-Lee
  12. Re:hmm... on Defending The Skies Against Congress And The Elderly · · Score: 1

    He's 14 . . . but all you could do was insult him . . . Not even trying that one . . .

  13. The Old Days on Online Replacements for Desktop Apps? · · Score: 1

    This is what they did back in the old days. You dial in to use a professional application. Interesting how when bandwidth starts to outperform processing power we find ourselves in the same position again.

  14. Necessity on Mass Migration/Bughunt For Thunderbird Tuesday · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In order for Thunderbird to be something it is going to have to do something very well that no other mail client does.

    I suggest full, complete, and amazing integration with GPG/PGP. In such a way that *every* user can make use of it. I'm talking "as a part of the intro wizard"-easy.

  15. Re:This harms Linux more than SCO, MS do on EFL Preview Release: Asparagus · · Score: 1

    The font smoothing in Linux with certain options (same options that the firefox binarie come with ... . can't think of it) and nice fonts installed surpasses this Windows that you speak of. Put a font at size 34 in Windows and it simply will not be attractive. Put it on a gray background and the rough edges look worse. In a tweaked system this is a non-issue.

    Perhaps because I use GTK2 apps with gnome's font smoothing and I select all the fonts in portage I'm missing out on these horrid experiences. If that's the case the problem lies with those who package Linux for average users; not in projects themselves. Either way, your point is mostly moot.

  16. is it going to be dubbed . . . on Acer Plans A 16 lb. Notebook · · Score: 1, Funny

    . . . the notebrick???

  17. Re:The lower Manhattan nightmare scenerio on Automagic No-Fly-Zone Enforcement · · Score: 1

    i'll assume your situation works perfectly as you describe it. . .

    if they can control where the plan IS, don't you think they'd be able to see the same information as the pilot? at least as far as gauges go. I mean come on.

  18. Re:I hope they keep the games on Rumors of Mini iPods · · Score: 1

    Thank you. You have eased my pain.

  19. Re:I hope they keep the games on Rumors of Mini iPods · · Score: 1
    4 crappy games

    Four GAMES?!?!? I don't have four games! I have three!!

    Name that Song

    Name that Song?!?!? I don't have "Name that Song" I have solitaire I have bricks, I have parachute, but I want "Name that Song!" I don't understand where is the fourth game? can I get it? how do you have it? new ipod 4 games? older ipod 3 ? nooooooo

  20. Re:Here in Boston on Boston's Big Dig Finally Open · · Score: 1

    That's what I was trying to get across when the price was allegedly because of "wiring" and "enviromental reason" see the parent of my other post.

  21. Re:Do we really want to engourage this? on Christmas Lighting in Abundance · · Score: 1

    I don't know, are you our collective intelligence now? :)

  22. Re:Drove through this morning. on Boston's Big Dig Finally Open · · Score: 1

    Whoa there. Not quite. How the federal money spent on Big Dig was used was and probably still is being investigated and the state is suing the engineering firms involved. On a more direct note for those that realize that such a large amount of money doesn't just disappear, some outrightly state that it simply went to organized crime. While the States Attorney General's office offers a hotline to call in about it. The extra cash was NOT spent on some technological endeavor or some "save the whales" environmental concern, although that may have been added. The cash, most likely, went into some gangster's pocket. Plain and simple.

  23. You're Wrong on SQL Vs. Access for Learning Database Concepts? · · Score: 1
    The mantra here is: the best tool for the best job.

    No, it is not. The mantra is whether you should half-truths about databases and then later someone will be able to use a real database. Access is not a database it is a "database-program" one is inseparable from the other. SQL is a type of database that holds true to what it is, a database. It does not create forms, process charts, or do anything else that databases DO NOT do.

  24. "This is no way to run a culture." on Web Pages Are Weak Links in the Chain of Knowledge · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    This is no way to run a culture.

    Tell the RIAA that.

    Music is a part of our culture.

  25. Re:160 billion... on South Korea Plans National 100 Mbps Network · · Score: 1
    Do you know what a joke is? Do you realize the slight difference in informational posts and humor posts ? ? ?

    Which is this? I'm confused. It's not funny and it provides no information . . . I don't think I'm the one ruining 'your' community.