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  1. Re:What do you expect .. on Two-Thirds of Lost USB Drives Carry Malware · · Score: 5, Insightful

    most lost USB sticks are being handed into lost property rather than being plugged into computers by users.

    100% of items handed in, have been handed in -- what a surprise! How do they track lost items that were not handed in? This is as accurate as Gracie Allen's telephone poll -- 100% of people she phoned, had a phone.

  2. Intercontinental! on MythBusters Bust House · · Score: 5, Funny

    To shoot a cannon-ball from San Francisco to Dublin is quite a feat. Wait, not that Dublin?

  3. Shrugged... on Opera 11.60 'Tunny' Released With Ragnarök HT · · Score: 1

    But what does the UI overhaul have to do with Ragnar Danneskjöld? Some veiled comment on piracy, perhaps?

  4. Re:Read then purge ... on Ask Slashdot: Handling and Cleaning Up a Large Personal Email Archive? · · Score: 1

    Apparently you never do research that you will need to consult later, nor do you correspond with people who might die. Do you only live in the moment?

  5. Isn't there a way... on Ask Slashdot: Handling and Cleaning Up a Large Personal Email Archive? · · Score: 1

    Surely a tool exists to keep email in a SQL database, so the envelope fields, plain text, and attachments are separately searchable. I have email back to 1996 with the same frustrations.

    One would think that Thunderbird would have done that a decade or more ago, but no. Nor does any of the standard IMAP servers seem to support SQL (MySQL, Postgres) as a backend: This seems like a serious project waiting to happen. Or have I overlooked an obvious solution?

  6. backspace on AOL To Discontinue LISTSERV · · Score: 4, Informative

    Control-H, character 8, is the ASCII code for Backspace, see the ASCII chart.

  7. Itunes is an application on Consumer Tech: an IT Nightmare · · Score: 1

    Itunes is definitely an application, what is your point?

  8. Back a bit on ACTA Signed By 8 of 11 Participating Countries · · Score: 1

    The destruction started with the New Deal, but a few Supreme Court justices and World War II got in the way.

  9. Pull in curation? on Federated Media Lands WordPress.com Deal · · Score: 1
    From the original story:

    Brands will be able to pull in curation from WordPress.com’s 25 million hosted sites...

    What does that even mean? Brands are trademarks. Curation is what museum researchers (curators) do. How can a trademark pull a museum researcher? Is this English? Can someone explain?

  10. Pascal on Dennis Ritchie, Creator of C Programming Language, Passed Away · · Score: 1

    In 1983, Pascal was considered the language used by professionals; C was for geeks. Northeastern University in Boston, the first to have a separate College of Computer Science, taught all its first and second-yea programming courses in Pascal. The only C course offered was a 1-credit "lab" -- likewise for COBOL and VAX Assembly. How times have changed.

  11. obligatory vi/emacs on Dennis Ritchie, Creator of C Programming Language, Passed Away · · Score: 1

    vi users can hit % to skip ahead to the closing. emacs users can't.

  12. Re:It isn't profiling, honest on DHS Goes Ahead With 'Pre-Crime' Detection Project · · Score: 1

    You are not supposed to understand that terrorists do not have the goal of killing people; they have the goal of causing terror, fear, and inability to lead our normal daily lives. In this the DHS itself is succeeding splendidly. Move along, nothing to see here.

  13. Re:about time... on Film Turns Windows Into Solar Panels · · Score: 1

    But will the Windows get infected with malware?

  14. Words counts! on How Windows Gets Infected With Malware · · Score: 1

    Grammars be important, their how we speech proper. Kapeesh?

  15. What's with the profanity? on Borders Books Customers, Watch For Database Opt-Out Email · · Score: 2

    Can't anyone here speak politely without swearing? Please be polite.

  16. PBS has no commercials, cable does on Amazon Disables 3G Web Browsing For New 3G Kindle Touch · · Score: 1

    Say what? PBS has no commercials. Amazingly, despite being a subscription service, cable television channels do. You have it backwards.

  17. "firmwares" is not a word on Teach Your Router New Tricks With DD-WRT · · Score: 1

    Firmware is already a collective plural -- like software, hardware, and clothing. You don't have "two softwares" or "two clothings" -- you have two pieces of software, or two items of clothing. Likewise, you should write: "When there are all these good firmware packages around..." Also, swearing is impolite. Good points, though.

  18. Touch-Tone with three fingers on Ask Slashdot: Calculators With 1-2-3 Number Pads? · · Score: 3, Funny

    For non-fixed telephones, you hold the handset in one hand and touch the keys with the other hand. And of course you use three fingers. Seriously, you dial a telephone with your thumb? Do you type with your toes, too?

  19. Clean it up, perhaps we will listen on How Microsoft Can Lock Linux Off Windows 8 PCs · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why must you resort to swearing? Stop insulting us, please -- you had a useful comment until you spoilt it with profanity.

  20. Re:What an over sensationalist title on How Microsoft Can Lock Linux Off Windows 8 PCs · · Score: 1

    You had a good argument going until you used profanity. Stop swearing and insulting your audience, please.

  21. Now we have to start lying to our doctors? on Medical Billing Codes For Injury Via Turtle Among Thousands Created by New Law · · Score: 1

    So would "Fell off balcony at opera" go under the same code as "Strained vocal chords at the opera"? Good grief. Your government in action.

  22. AutoCAD ran on the Z-100 on Heathkit DIY Kits Are Coming Back · · Score: 1

    I believe you will find that AutoCAD 1 ran on the Z-DOS (MS-DOS) side of the Z-100 series computers, not on the 8-bit H/Z-89 or H/Z-90's which had Zilog Z-80 processors. The Z-100 had 640x225 bitmap graphics in monochrome or 8 colors. The 8-bit systems had only VT-52 / VT-100 character block graphics. There are pictures of each on my website here.

  23. Console on Why the Fax Machine Refuses To Die · · Score: 1

    Were you consoling the computer, or was it consoling you? Really, some people should pay for a decent therapist.

  24. Re:It's convenience and security. on Why the Fax Machine Refuses To Die · · Score: 1

    And a scanned photograph of my signature is legally binding? No, only a physical copy of my signature is legally binding -- not a digitized image of it. Citation please if you are suggesting that a fax of my signature could possibly be a legal document.

  25. Graffiti on Weak Typing — the Lost Art of the Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Didn't the New York mayor campaign against Graffiti?