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  1. Re:What about Java 1.5? on Working With Tiger Technologies · · Score: 1

    Thanks. I was just about to jump in and demand credit, but I didn't want to sound catty.

  2. Re:New Apple User on Working With Tiger Technologies · · Score: 1
    the .app packaging format. The icon is the entire app. Just drag it to the trash to uninstall it. No registry fragments left behind.

    No, but the app may well put things in /Library/Application Support or /Library/Frameworks or preferences folders, etc. Still, it's not hard to find those things, since they're usually just files in folders named after the apps or parent company.

  3. Speak English, please on Brian Hook on the ActiveX Experience · · Score: 1

    He found some problems with the API and as a result he has some grievances against Microsoft.

  4. Paging Daniel Clowes on Wireless Bluetooth Sunglasses · · Score: 1

    Mr. Clowes, your hi-fi pizza is ready. Mr. Clowes, dial 432 for pickup.

  5. Lobster magnet? on Tiny Robots Powered by Living Muscle Cells · · Score: 1
    Reminds me of an oldie but goodie:
    Magnet's made of iron,
    Lobster made of meat!
    ...
    Left claw north,
    Right claw south!
    Listen!
  6. Same shit, different continent on Plant a Seed, Get Sued? · · Score: 1
    Here's a great article by an Indian activist and scientist trying to prevent this sort of thing from happening in India, and giving more details about what's so wrong with it all.

    Poverty and Globalization by Vandana Shiva.

  7. Re:What is Vendetta? on V for Vendetta Going to Hollywood · · Score: 1

    I never knew that. And here I thought I was so cool for having bought the individual issues.

  8. Re:You KNOW Hollywood Will Screw It Up on V for Vendetta Going to Hollywood · · Score: 1
    this or the movie version of Watchman

    Nice troll, Jackie Harvey, but neither will be worse than Elektron with Janice Garner.

  9. It'll behoove ya to MOD PARENT UP!!! on simPC - Your Grandparents' New Computer? · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up for reminding us of a decade during which Saturday Night Live was occasionally very funny: the 70s.

  10. Old Lady, Biker, Gay Guy, Japanese Man: ... on MacWorld Expo Traffic Analysis · · Score: 1
    The Four Voices Within

    Oh crap, GNU makes it 4!

    ... all under the sway of the fifth, dominant voice, the false doctor voice. This voice will be at the Holiday Inn Spot in Nashua, New Hampshire in Room 39 all weekend. Do not visit him.

  11. Re:Security Category in Gmail Bugs List? on Gmail Messages Are Vulnerable To Interception · · Score: 1

    Sounds to me like a lot of dialogue on the Sci-Fi channel.

  12. Re:Daycares with cams on Google Exposes Web Surveillance Cams · · Score: 5, Funny
    FerretFrottage (714136)

    Funny how people with one deviant obsession are so annoyed by people with another. ;-)

  13. Re:Civil != Criminal on Apple Defendants Interviewed · · Score: 1

    As for intent, he has already admitted that he willfully and with full consciousness of his actions (or some such thing) made the build available to others. Posting the torrent didn't happen by itself.

  14. Re:Go figure... on Apple Defendants Interviewed · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Paraphrase: "I posted a torrent of Tiger, sure, but I had no idea this meant that people other than the anonymous chatroom participants I invited to download it would ever get access to it."

    Sorry, not very convincing.

  15. Re:bet i could write a 15 line on World's Shortest P2P App: 15 Lines · · Score: 4, Funny
    fails to take into account the level of abstraction the language itself provides

    Exactly. To wit:

    import java.net.p2p.*;
    class Dukester {
    ..public static void main (String[] args) throws IOException {
    ....new java.net.p2p.Client();
    ..}
    }
    Piece of cake!
  16. Re:Unacceptable! on Sneak Peek At Microsoft Anti-Spyware · · Score: 1
    That was about a generation or so before the Trojan War, making it about 3,000 at most.

    Just so I've got my history straight, that was the generation whose strongest men were able to lift boulders twice the size of the Argives of the day (according to Nestor), and whose aristocratic sons (like Achilles) would sometimes have centaurs as tutors, right?

  17. Re:Amazed? on Introducing Children to Computers? · · Score: 1
    Dropping kids on a bash prompt wouldn't be a bad idea, IMHO

    Unless they have an admin account and haven't heard that old joke about rm -Rf /.

  18. Re:Amazed? on Introducing Children to Computers? · · Score: 2

    Sure, having different typefaces in the same document must have been cool, but the real question is whether it could produce superscript "th". ;-)

  19. Re:appleworks on Apple's Rumored Office Suite · · Score: 1
    Try pasting some Unicode text into Lyx, especially if it's got combining diacriticals. Always good for laughs.

    But seriously, if you know of a way to do this, I would be interested.

  20. Re:What about TextEdit.app? on Apple's Rumored Office Suite · · Score: 1

    The reason I don't use it is that it has no footnotes, even though some flavors of RTF allow them.

  21. Re:Too deterministic on The Care and Feeding of Open Source Software · · Score: 2, Funny
    Let me see if I've got this right. Since he argues that proprietary software ownership is not in itself unethical ...

    ... he is a Marxist?!?

  22. Re:Be honest on The Care and Feeding of Open Source Software · · Score: 5, Funny
    And only on Slashdot would the old saw "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" be described as a "Star Trek ideal."

    Just sayin'.

  23. Re:New Jeporady Category on The King William's College 2004 Quiz · · Score: 1

    For something very much like that, you'd probably do just as well with the Totally Official Alt.usage.english Summer Doldrums Competition. (Also, there are no $1500 clues on Jeopardy.) :0

  24. Re:Progress? on PostgreSQL Gets New Website, 8.0 Release Candidate · · Score: 1
    Yes, the PostgreSQL name is a horrible accretion of hacker word puns that few can pronounce correctly.

    Not to mention that to an untrained eye such as mine, the name reads as though it should be a very strange-sounding variety of SQL, namely, "Postgre". Pffffffft! It leaves a bad taste in my mouth just to think of saying it.

    I'm glad this software has a new website. When will it get a new name?

  25. Re:It is much easier to attack than defend. on Astronaut: 'Single-Planet Species Don't Last' · · Score: 1
    A planet ending event just has to find one way to succeed.

    Now that Kerik is out of the running, maybe you should apply for the job. "We've got to be right every time."