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  1. EVERYONE report! on People Hate Canada's New 'Amber Alert' System (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    If EVERYONE receiving an alert would report (call back) either a positive or negative sighting, the authorities would soon have ample data with which to refine their algorithm and area of coverage.

  2. Title is misleading clickbait on Aging Process May Be Reversable, Scientists Claim (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Try this practical experiment in your car while driving on a highway. Slow down a little (decelerate and/or downshift). Now throw the gearbox into reverse. Do you detect a difference?

  3. Re:Ellen Wood Speed Reading Course.... on Slashdot Asks: What's Your View On Speed Reading? · · Score: 2
  4. You cannot vote "against" . . . on 'YouCut' Targets National Science Foundation Budget · · Score: 1

    . . . any topic!, only "for" That's the Republican version of democracy.

  5. Re:About 80% to 85% of all users worldwide... on Nasty Data-Stealing Bug Haunts Internet Explorer 8 · · Score: 1

    a modern standards complaint browser.

    You got THAT right! ;-)>

  6. Re:You know its slashdot when it's.. on Source Claims 240K Kindles Sold · · Score: 1

    This audience uses K for thousand

    No, we use K for 2**10, which is 1024, not 1000.

    Yet, we are exhorted to use Ki for 2**10 and K for 10**3.

  7. This makes no sense . . . on Sourceforge.net Blocked In Mainland China · · Score: 1

    "Some days before, a very popular free source code editor in SourceForge named Notepad++ start to boycott Beijing 2008."

      . . . editor . . . start . . . ?

  8. Re:Seriously? on What to Seek in an Older Subnotebook? · · Score: 1

    "Most sites now rely on DHTML/AJAX/CSS/whatever to render properly, are significantly larger (in terms of amount of rendering code, number and size of images, etc.)."

    . . . instead of relying on compelling content!



    I can surf all the important sites with my Treo 755p and Opera Mini. If I can't see a site on my Treo, the creators have operationally defined it as insignificant.


  9. STANDING ORDER to blessed martyr-saint: . . . on Bush Causes Cell Phone Ban · · Score: 0, Troll
    . . . push the button when the helicopter is directly over the device.

    The president's motorcade will be shadowed by a helicopter equipped with signal-jamming equipment.
  10. Throttle payments? on Broadband Providers' Hidden Bandwidth Limits · · Score: 1

    Let's tell Comcast that, in the spirit of their advertising, and by the example it sets, our binding "shrinkwrap" understanding of the terms of service are

    • we will pay up to $49.95/month for service
    • prorated, and
    • limited to a maximum of $1.00 in any single month.
  11. Opera M2 = GMail with privacy on Speculating About Gmail · · Score: 3, Informative

    M2 offers features similar to GMail: it keeps all mail in one big glom, but offers "access points" (automagically indexed views) by all messages, unread, sent, drafts, contacts, active contacts, active threads, attachments, custom views and more. All searches are saved as views.

    When I abandoned my old MUA and imported my old mail, all old folders were converted to custom views, but I find that I seldom refer to them and I haven't needed to make any more, because M2's automatic built-in views cover my needs.

    And all this happens in the (relative) privacy of your own machine. I have no fiduciary interest in Opera Software, and I don't play one who has on television. I just think M2 is a good (not perfect) commercial product, and probably safer (more private) than GMail.

    See "Opera Software - M2 E-mail Client"

  12. Re:implicitly denying things on SCO Madness Reigns Supreme · · Score: 1

    Whew! I thought I was the only one to notice. SCO: "We categorically deny this on the grounds of our own stupidity and ignorance!" A variation of the Twinkie defense?

  13. Re:rpn = racist on Recommendations for RPN Calculators? · · Score: 1
    Reverse Polish Notation?!?!? Why exactly is it "Polish"?

    Because a Polish man came up with the idea?

    Prefix and Postfix notation were developed in the 1920's by Jan Lukasiewicz (who was, in fact, Polish). Prefix notation was often called Polish Notation in honor of Lukasiewicz.

    Actually, rpn = contra-racist.

    So named because those presenting the method believed that no one but Poles their audience would know how to spell Lukasiewicz (pronounced "Wu kaz u vitch"), but they had a fighting chance at spelling Polish.

    So RLN lost out to RPN