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  1. Re:not so simple on Adobe Acrobat Toolbar Worse than Malware? · · Score: 1

    That's a huge nuisance on Mac OS X. Every application lets one save as a PDF (through Print to PDF) but there is no application that is part of the OS that lets one actually edit a PDF. I'm really shocked you can't do it with TextEdit.

    Sure you can edit it with vi if you wanted to. I just hope you're handy with its postscript-like tags.

  2. Re:That's not news on Irish Movie Theatres Go Digital · · Score: 1

    That's about 40k/yr.

    That's $40K/year assuming it's full-time which I think it a bit of a stretch. Perhaps I don't know the full scope of what editors do -- maybe a lot of it is invisible background work to keep the cogs turning -- but it doesn't seem like this site would take a dozen editors working full-time to maintain.

    I would imagine OSTG handles things like negotiating ad contracts, accepting paid story submissions, etc. so that editors don't have to deal with those details.

  3. Re:Oh, wait. on IBM Unveils Anti-Spam Services to Stop Spammers · · Score: 1

    Lol... you caught My First Ever (TM) typo on slashdot. You should get:

    [ ] an award
    [ ] laid
    [x] modded up
    [ ] multiple communicable diseases

    because:

    [ ] you're a pansy
    [ ] you look funny
    [ ] I'm a dork
    [ ] j00 so cl3v3r
    [x] all of the above

  4. Re:To save bandwidth, how about being pro-active? on IBM Unveils Anti-Spam Services to Stop Spammers · · Score: 1

    True, it's worth a shot. I doubt you'd find many current Windows boxes vulnerable to this. Didn't XP ship with this already fixed?

  5. Re:Oh, wait. on IBM Unveils Anti-Spam Services to Stop Spammers · · Score: 1

    Can someone post the appropriately filled in standard form so we don't have to RTFA?

    "You have proposed a:

    [x] technical
    [ ] legal
    [ ] ...

    solution to reducing spam. This is innefective because: ..."

  6. Re:To save bandwidth, how about being pro-active? on IBM Unveils Anti-Spam Services to Stop Spammers · · Score: 1

    So, rather than suck up valuable bandwidth - why not ping of death the zombie machine?

    Ping of death hasn't been a viable DOS technique for many years. Perhaps you could still catch old unpatched Windows 95/98 machines, but anything else has already been fixed.

  7. Re:here's a question on mc chris Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    How do you fight piracy?

    For starters, it helps to have a larger ship, more guns, and better trained seamen than the pirates.

  8. Re:An Interesting Phenomenon on mc chris Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    Not quite fully simulated. The paint is still far more exciting.

  9. Re:This is soon to fall. on Firefox and Open Standards the Way Forward · · Score: 1

    Thanks, those instructions were in the thread mentioned but not what the individual values are. I assume that for the value 2, the popup blocking will follow your "allowed sites" rules?

  10. Re:This is soon to fall. on Firefox and Open Standards the Way Forward · · Score: 2, Informative

    See this thread for more information.

  11. Re:This is a public service announcement on Firefox and Open Standards the Way Forward · · Score: 1

    To save everyone the pain of having to read this cliche five times under every article, I am pre-emptively posting the formula here.

    1995 called, it wants its formula back!

  12. Re:For those who don't know.... on Firefox and Open Standards the Way Forward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    exactly, smh even managed to put the firefox logo on their frontpage (albeit slightly rotated for some bizzare reason).

    Take another look at *how* it's rotated. It is, of course, the Firefox down under.

  13. Re:Office 2004 on Forbes Predicts 5% Desktop Share for Apple in 2005 · · Score: 1

    Keep in mind that Entourage is a bit hobbled from what the full Outlook for Windows can do. I don't remember offhand what the features were that aren't fully supported, but if you're using a lot of Outlook features you may run into something that they (IMHO) purposely left out just because it's Mac.

  14. Re:Redundant? on E3 Expo Space Sells Out · · Score: 3, Funny

    E3 Expo...E3 stands for Electronic Entertainment Expo...doesn't the 2nd "Expo" seem a little redundant?

    Ah, but here's something that'll bake your noodle. Is the G in GNU redundant?

  15. Re:How Long? on From Archive.org, Free Multimedia Hosting for Life · · Score: 1

    I won't tell you who their funders are, but I'll give you a hint. Their initials are F, B, and I, and C, I, and A. : p

    Fibica? Sounds like a drug company. ;-)

  16. Re:Can you contest? on Credit card signatures: Useless? · · Score: 1

    Couldn't you buy a big screen TV, sign it "Ima Theif", and argue the charge when it shows up on you're bill.

    If it's a large enough purchase, the credit card company and/or the merchant will care. They'll pull security tapes, get the police involved, etc. and then you'll end up with a fraud charge and a criminal record. So I guess you *could* try it out, but the end result may not be what you expected.

  17. Re:Plogging on Amazon Pursues Plogging Patent · · Score: 1

    What a tongue twister... say "The gloggle gang glugged grog and glogged" five times in a row really fast.

  18. Re:My undocumented research... on Contrabandwidth · · Score: 1

    I remember reading a while back about the Mac commune. I guess it was fun while it lasted.

  19. Re:before you react on Contrabandwidth · · Score: 1

    You obviously haven't traveled enough to know what you're talking about.

    Perhaps you should re-read the grandparent post to yours since you obviously missed the point. It was talking about countries restricting travel of their own citizens. Sure, a country may deny a foreigner entrance, but that's not what's being discussed here. The issue is whether or not your own government prevents you from traveling somewhere. Want to visit Cuba? Sorry, Uncle Sam says you're grounded, mister!

  20. Re:Plogging on Amazon Pursues Plogging Patent · · Score: 1, Funny

    Forget this whole plog thing. Who wants a personal log? I'm going to patent the group logging feature, aka glogging. My next step is to integrate a full search engine so people can look for relevant glogs. This search service will be called gloggle. So after gloggling your friends and posting in your glog, you can all head down to the pub for some grog.

  21. Re:podcasts - what they are... on Sources of Intelligent Audio for Commute? · · Score: 1

    could someone please explain to me how this is a troll?

    Well, a prostitute's customers are called "Johns", so when the grandparent says "I will indeed be your John and go check out the site", to me that sounds very trollish implying that its parent post is simply whoring.

  22. Re:Got it all wrong on State-Sponsored Solitaire? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Perhaps Solitaire is a blessing. Imagine if instead the IRS had nothing to do. They might get bored and start doing an audit on YOU!

    Wait a sec... isn't that supposed to be: "In Soviet Russia, the IRS audits YOU"? Or do you audit them over there? I'm confused!

  23. Re:I don't know what's sadder... on Imax Theaters Demur On Controversial Science Films · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    And when you consider that faith is the total absence of facts, the depravity of some people becomes even clearer.

  24. Re:offensive? on Imax Theaters Demur On Controversial Science Films · · Score: 1

    Well you have to stitch together different verses, it's not literally worded like that. Check out this page here for an amusing, though accurate, description with actual bible quotes. Oh, and search around some online bible sites for "quake" and "angry" and see that God must be thumping around real hard when he shakes the pillars the earth rests on.

  25. Re:Science on Imax Theaters Demur On Controversial Science Films · · Score: 1

    You are known by your actions and I would encourage those potential patrons of these theaters who are refusing to show these films to boycott those IMAX theaters who are too scared to show a film that documents scientific discovery.

    But that would have the opposite effect to what is desired. Think about it. All the people who enjoy science stop going to those theatres. So now the only people who go are the fundies, and they don't see the science movies. Guess what happens to those science movies? Rather, you should *encourage* all your science-oriented friends to go frequently to those theatres, and then see only the science movies and complain about any wishy-washy dumbed down ones. Make it so that the really good science movies are the ones that sell out all the time, and you'll then have a theatre which shows the kind of films you want to see.