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  1. Re:IDNC3 on Mozilla Drops Support for International Domains · · Score: 2, Insightful

    An ever better solution would be for fonts to appear in different COLORS.

    Ahem, *cough* colour blind *cough*

  2. Message to Timothy on New Orbitz Terms Prohibit Inbound Deep Linking · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ok, so if you post a dupe of story it could be serious. No dupe postings of this story after March 12th :)

  3. Why was this allowed before? on How VeriSign Could Stop Drive-By Downloads · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How come they only just now start to question companies with names such as "CLICK YES TO CONTINUE"?

    It's so basic that it's sad that they now issue this press release trying to make them look like good guys, even though it's so obvious and should have been looked into much earlier.

  4. Re:Beta as a part of branding, my foot on Google Formula For Adding New Products · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's probably exactly what they mean. I've got no problems with it though. And I think they should have credit for not only saying it, byt also meaning it.

    I'm really glad that such companies do exist. I'm sick and tired with all comapnies that over-promise and under-deliver.

  5. Re:The one true question... on Ask Microsoft's Martin Taylor About Linux vs. Windows · · Score: 1

    I'm more used to Edlin ...still included in Windows XP.

  6. Interesting on Sushi Prepared on a Printer · · Score: 3, Funny

    "We'll be the first restaurant on planet Earth to use a class IV laser to cook food"

    Anyone got a link to the planet that already does this?

  7. Good quote about Microsoft on BBC Bill Gates Interview Part 2: Security · · Score: 4, Funny

    I like the way he sums up the Microsoft corporation and it's company culture:

    "Certainly you can never underestimate the level of malicious people out there who are going to try to take advantage of whatever things there are."

  8. New outsourcing ideas. on Indian Moon Mission to Have Landing Component · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm sure this is just the first step to outsource NASA to India.

  9. Re:No, *I* am Spartacus! on Man Reportedly Jailed for Using Lynx · · Score: 1

    with all the embedded Flash around, some sites will be totally inaccessible... which would maybe teach them a lesson about accessibility.

    How can you using Lynx - not being able to access a website - teach anyone else about accessibility?

    The result is simply going to be that you're not going to see the website.

  10. Re:What is the legal basis for this? on HP Pays Intergraph $141m to Settle Patent Dispute · · Score: 1

    "the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling" the invention in the United States

    So if this is the case, why don't they sue PC World or the local PC dealer for distributing the machines with Intel processors?

    Or while we are at it, why not sue the post office for delivering these machines. Hell, why not sue the oil companies for delivering petrol to the post vans delivering the intel processors.

  11. Re:Small Percentage on Gates Pledges $750M to Vaccinate Children · · Score: 5, Insightful

    First of all, I'm quite sure that 750 million is more than 1.5% of his total assets.

    Second of all, even if it's only 1.5% of his assets, it's a good thing, how many of you have donated 1.5%?

    Why don't we all try to donate 1.5% of our assets instead of whining about the poster's flamebait.

  12. Re:All this google good news on Firefox Lead Now Working For Google · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "This is operational news which happens to enthrall geeks."

    Your not seeing the big picture.

    This is news that potentially could make the Google search engine more attractive, both to geeks and others.

    This would lead to more usage and eventually more advertisments. If the financial market would grasp this the stock price would rise, but it doesn't.

  13. Re:All sequels on Game Industry Bigger Than Hollywood · · Score: 1

    The thing with a movie is that the experience is always the same.

    I take it you've only watched "Hollow-wood" made blockbusters...

    Try some independent, european or oriental movies.

    Maybe the experience won't be the same.

  14. Re:Well, that's what you get on Lycos Anti-Spam Screensaver Inspires Trojan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah. Right. This is manifestly not true, and proven by history to be untrue: see: World War II, American Civil War for starters

    If we were to see an objective graph where the outcome of wars has been good for people and worth the casualties, and when it hasn't, do you think you would come to the same conclusion?

  15. Well, that's what you get on Lycos Anti-Spam Screensaver Inspires Trojan · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Fighting back with the same measure is not always the solution.

    Fighting violence with violence doesn't work. Why should fighting spam with spam work any better?

  16. Re:Don't quote on The Illiteracy of Corporate American E-Mail · · Score: 1

    Think about ehat you want to say and write a self-contained reply

    Like you clearly did? :)

  17. Re:Weight Sensors on Self-Adapting Traffic Lights · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Try lining up your bike tires with one of the edges of the sensor when you pull up

    And don't worry about the looks you will get from the locals. After are, you are a nerd.

  18. Re:They've got it backwards on Using Computers To Weed Out Art Fakes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I mean, if you can't tell the difference between the forgers piece and Picasso's then really, whats the difference?

    Maybe the difference is that Picasso came up with the IDEA of the original.

    It's obviously so much easier to copy something that's already there than to create entirely original art.

  19. Re:Sports games on EA Games: The Human Story · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I like watching sports, but I never understood the draw to sports games. Maybe it's just me.

    These random sentences (that vaguely has something to do with the articles) that are being posted, in attempts to claim "first post" without trolling.

  20. Don't really need more updates on Winamp Down for the Count · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm still using v.1 and it still "Kicks the Llama's Ass".

  21. Re:Withdrawn on Twin Prime Proof Proffered · · Score: 0

    So perhaps the Slashdot post should be withdrawn as well since tere is nothing new here. Move along.

  22. Re:Woo! on The Art of Cable Folding · · Score: 3, Informative

    Hmmm... looks like this mirrordot page is folded to only show adverts....

  23. Link is dead on Replacing TCP? · · Score: 1, Funny

    The link seems to be dead.

    I guess the new protocol still has some time left in development.

    Not ready for slashdotting yet.

  24. Re:Why a 2G phone? on Review Of Linux-based Motorola A768i · · Score: 1

    Yeah well I thought it could be read inbetween the lines of my reply, but what I meant was that if you want to develop a data intensive device, why do this with 2g and not 3g? (Regardless if you are expecting to transfer voice, video or e-mail data)

    The technology, the network, the coverage (to a reasonable extent) is already there. So far I've mostly seen video phones that utilise the 3g capacity.

  25. Re:Why a 2G phone? on Review Of Linux-based Motorola A768i · · Score: 1

    As for why... I assume it's just because not everyone wants to get sucked in by video calls.

    With regards to data transfer for e-mails or whatever you want to send/receive, a 3G phone has got better bandwidth than a 2G phone. This is my point.

    If video calls using 3G are "smooth" or not is a completely different issue.