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  1. Re:What's the point? on Lenovo's New ThinkPad Has 2 LCD Screens, Weighs 11 Pounds · · Score: 1

    Why not carry a mp3 player with a separate work partition?

  2. Re:An interesting attitude on With Olympics Over, China Re-Censors Internet · · Score: 1

    Not sure it works so great, but that shouldn't keep Slashdotters from keeping trying.

    It would in Soviet China.

  3. Re:Does this include ext3? on Plethora of New User Space Filesystems For Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    Latest release:

    ext2fuse v 0.8.1 (June 26, 2008) - Preliminary Mac OS X support, may not work.

    Wonderful!

    Seriously. Is ext2/3 support that much more difficult than all the other filesystems that fuse supports. It's not as if the filesystem is not well documented. There are probably at least a couple open source implementations of the filesystem as well that they can reference...

  4. Does this include ext3? on Plethora of New User Space Filesystems For Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    As probably the most commonly used filesystem on linux, is ext3 supported by Mac OS X FUSE?

    If not, why not?

  5. Re:Sounds great. on Plethora of New User Space Filesystems For Mac OS X · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So why can't you use the native NTFS read-only driver for reads and the NTFS-3G driver for writes?

  6. And the Matel lawsuit is still on? on Hasbro Finally Drops Scrabulous Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Awesome!

    Makes me want to go on facebook (for the first time ever) and play Wordscraper.

  7. Re:Old, dying turgid software ... on iPhone Tops Windows Mobile Share; MS Releases iPhone App · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure my iPhone can open MSWord .doc files without any added application installed.

  8. Re:No compatibility problems? on The Economist Suggests Linux For Netbooks · · Score: 1

    Likely the settings (like most others in most linux distributions) are stored in a hidden file in ~/. The advantage of this is that if you restore your home folder on another system and login, you get to keep all your preferences from your previous system.

    Another advantage is that applications don't need root access to write preference data to another area (like the folder that the application is located in, or a system-wide registry, etc.).

  9. Re:I love 3D on Apple's 3D Desktop Patent Filing Examined · · Score: 1

    The problem is the keyboards.

    When I was using a sparcstation in the late 80s, the keyboards had "front" and "back" buttons, to move windows front and back. It was great, because you could focus on a window that wasn't in the forefront or could cycle through a subset of windows based on mouse position.

    Any keyboards have front and back buttons? Do current window managers know what to do with them?

  10. Linksys routers? on FSF Files Suit Against Cisco For GPL Violations · · Score: 2, Informative

    I love my Linksys router.

    I was under the impression that other than the wrt54gl (the one I bought, naturally), none of them run linux anymore.

  11. Ice...for now. on A Telescope In a Cubic Kilometer of Ice · · Score: 3, Funny

    By the time it is finished, it will be in a cubic kilometer of water.

  12. Re:Fair Share on Net Neutrality Opponent Calls Google a "Bandwidth Hog" · · Score: 1

    Or perhaps the ISP getting money from Google should share that money with all the other ISPs.

  13. Re:No one can really know for sure on What Happens To Code From Failed Projects? · · Score: 1

    Bad code, say like MS BOB, will spend eternity in some embedded device like a clapper or firmware that controls a japanese toilet.

    So, a clapper or... a crapper?

  14. Re:Unknown? on Against Unknown Viruses, Avira AntiVir the Winner For Now · · Score: 1

    A good test would be to take the AV package, update it to the latest version, disconnect it from the internet for 6 months, and then reconnect to the internet and run the test without letting it update again.

  15. Re:[Citation Needed] on Political and Technical Implications of GitTorrent · · Score: 2, Informative

    Is sourceforge firewalled anywhere?

    Also, I didn't know that the backbone was strained by a debian release. Did I miss the /. article, or was that not considered "news for nerds"?

  16. Re:butterfs on Real-World Benchmarks of Ext4 · · Score: 3, Informative

    I like the fact that they are naming filesystems after characters in South Park. It's old-school programing, where you don't care what the end user thinks.

  17. Re:no on PC Grand Theft Auto IV Features SecuROM DRM · · Score: 1

    If you are not buying it, why worry about what crap they are pushing? (Well, maybe you are interested in the "better for all society" sort of way, but that's not what drives most of human society.)

  18. Re:Somewhat fitting. on Lori Drew Trial Results In 3 Misdemeanor Convictions · · Score: 1

    No. Of course not.

    The fine in a case like this should be enough to hurt the person accused of the crime. If the person was a millionaire, I would hope that the fine would be an order of magnitude (or more) higher.

    I also believe that speeding tickets should be indexed to how much the net worth of the individual is.

  19. Somewhat fitting. on Lori Drew Trial Results In 3 Misdemeanor Convictions · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't think that putting her away for life is appropriate, let alone the death penalty.

    That being said, I also don't like the idea of an adult conspiring to harass an emotionally unstable child (aren't they all).

    This is a good decision, so long as it is upheld. 300K fine and a (relatively) short jail term is enough to ruin a life for anyone not upper class, and will likely act as a deterrent to others that think that conspiring to harass someone online is just fun and games.

    Now mod me to oblivion.

  20. Re:Ha on New iPhone Apps Help Drivers Beat Speed Traps · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Actually, what will happen is that people will drive faster when the phone says they are not near a speed trap.

  21. Re:PDEs now? on Good Physics Books For a Math PhD Student? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    My question is:

    How does a PhD student get that far without any physics courses?

  22. Re:Ignore. on New Search Engine Takes "Dyve" Into the Dark Web · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And I need to login even if I want to search wikipedia???

    Nice way to shoot yourself in the foot, guys.

    At least you should offer a checkbox on the search page so that registered users get the payed content and anonymous users get what's out there for "free".

  23. Re:Mp3 Locking? on Is Windows 7 Faster Or Just Smarter? · · Score: 1

    Yeah. Well, the 64mb ram should have given you a hint that this troll was pretty ancient.

  24. Re:Huh? on MGM First To Post Full-Length Features To YouTube · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the $10 or more that we *paid* to actually see the movie.

  25. Re:Just like movie theater abuse? on MGM First To Post Full-Length Features To YouTube · · Score: 1

    I loved the previews in the 80s and early 90s. They were for movies. They were entertaining to watch, since they were for the same genre as the feature film, and they gave you a couple extra minutes to find your seat or grab a box of popcorn.

    Now adays you can see those on the internet, and the movie theaters show more coke and car commercials.