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  1. Re:Longest... summary... ever... on Password Memorability and Securability · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's to distinguish the fact that the post is quoted from the submitter rather than editor-written (as sometimes happens)

  2. Re:The point isn't the practicality of flying cars on Flying Car More Economical Than SUV · · Score: 1

    bravo!

  3. IANAL on Apple Files Patent for Translucent Windows · · Score: 1

    But isn't all that matters how early Apple had translucent windows? Rather than digging up every app under the sun from the last two/three years could someone find the first Apple produced piece of software capable of handling this.

  4. Re:Hmm. on How To Get Googled, By Hook Or By Crook · · Score: 0, Redundant

    nigritude ultramarine should do the trick

  5. Re:Yes they have CD on Microsoft Allows Pirates to Install XP SP2 · · Score: 1

    no shipping. deal with it.

  6. Re:Hack the contest! on How To Get Googled, By Hook Or By Crook · · Score: 1
    I've added a silent link to a pagerank 3 and a pagerank 4 site:
    <div style="display:none;"><a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/09/ 1840217">nigritude ultramarine</a></div>
    slashdot has added a space in the topic SID so you will have to remove that yourself
  7. Re:250 MB service pack? Eeek on Microsoft Allows Pirates to Install XP SP2 · · Score: 4, Informative

    they offer security updates on a cd for free

  8. Re:Hit the mirrors? on Knoppix v3.4 Hits The Mirrors · · Score: 1

    Bittorrent in theory is very good. I've seen it good, and when it's good it's good. In reality the symmetrical up/down ratios needed to make the thing work don't come about not least because it needs ports opened.

  9. Re:May bring me back to linux on Knoppix v3.4 Hits The Mirrors · · Score: 1

    The same recriting offices who don't know anything but .doc won't even remotely know how to edit a PDF.

  10. Re:BBC = british government on Dirac: BBC Open Source Video Codec · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Since the BBC is the media-organ branch of the British government, this means government-owned codecs. Is this a good thing?

    Unlike some of the stateside media organisations the BBC is actually one of the world's most impartial media organisations. I'm not saying they are perfect but some US news bulletins I cann't watch without laughing.

  11. Re:The future of blocking? on Spanish Internet Provider's SMTP traffic Blocked · · Score: 1

    The spam may originate from spammers in the USA the actual junk is relayed through chinese trojanned machines all around the world. Mind you, if you look at the list of top relay domains roadrunner and comcast are right up there.

    Anyway, if you want to block whols isps or countries check out blackholes.us who offer blanket cull-all blacklists for any mail coming from the sources you choose.

  12. Re:Atari/Epic are a notable exception on Want To Play The Multiplayer FPS Games You Bought? · · Score: 1

    The game by default comes with a "standard servers only" tickbox in the very competent server browser. This filters all mutators from the game.

  13. Re:Slashdotted already? on HDD Assault Cannon · · Score: 1

    It wouldn't be valid if it were hidden.

  14. Re:Phantom Indeed... on Infinium Finds Itself In, Out Of Court Again · · Score: 1

    could you snap a photo for us? see if you can get up to their reception desk and ask to talk to someone :)

  15. the survey says... on Hubble Photo of Sedna Suprises Astronomers · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It's a big orbiting rock that has a crap name. I wonder how many other 'planets' that size are there in that area of space?

  16. Re:Who cares? on VIA Releases Source To Custom WASTE Client · · Score: 3, Informative

    BitTorrent, FTP, HTTP and KaZaa all are used for very different applications. WASTE is used for creating a private, enclosed and secure P2P network. Which of the above apps does that?

  17. Re:AMD and Intel have a cross-licencing agreement. on Intel Potentially Reverse-Engineered AMD64 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The problem is that all windows apps which people take for granted as working since 1994 would break unless software (slow) or hardware (bloat) emulation were integrated into the new systems. Windows could be recompiled by MS, but what about Jim the Tech's miricle tool made in '96 and unsupported ever since?

  18. this story is null and void on Intel Potentially Reverse-Engineered AMD64 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    because Intel and AMD have, and recently renewed, a share and share-alike licence for each others technologies. They do this because it would hurt them both were their chips incompatable

  19. Re:Stay on-grid while generating power on Off Grid Via Slow Moving River? · · Score: 1

    An energy efficient home in the uk that generates it's own power through wind (people high up on hills) can pull a tidy side income to help pay for that next holid^H^H^H overclocked uber pc.

  20. prior art! on A Movie From Before Movies Were Invented · · Score: 4, Funny

    Looks like the USPTO need to look at any patents on quicktime again!

  21. Re:Why on The Blues for LEDs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Single-person boycotts don't work. Also, sometimes with the abundance of these things it's hard to avoid them.

  22. Re:Cool, Spammers now have rolling hide outs :) on UK Trains Take WiFi Route To Connectivity · · Score: 1

    their fancy new trains suck. i was on one yesterday. too few seats with too little luggage space (they assume that almost everyone uses handbags)

  23. Re:Ironic on ICANN Cracks Down on Invalid WHOIS Data · · Score: 1

    Its probably legit. Through godaddy I use domains by proxy, which rather handily replaces my legitimate details with their legitimate details and a fowarding email address.

  24. Re:Someone should tell Apple on Zero Install: The Future of Linux on the Desktop? · · Score: 1, Redundant

    last time i checked a .app is just a renamed folder

  25. Re:The worst job you can have on The Worst Development Job You've Ever Had? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Unless you were in the manager's office I don't know anyone who would like working on a production line.