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  1. Actually on Microsoft Study Says Repetitive Strain Injury Costs $600m · · Score: 1

    Microsoft Study Says Ballmer costs $600m.

    The research stuggests that one of the main factory behind the high number of injuries is because Microsoft is replacing their existing office equipment with chairs.

  2. Re:Firefox is starting to give me the shits on Firefox 3 Hits Release Candidate 2 · · Score: 1
    Here is the first line from the link you give:

    UPDATE: The browser.urlbar.richResults preference checking was removed in bug 407836.


    After which it suggests oldbar. And believe me, I have yet to find one single person who suggests oldbar is also using it.

    Right-click, Save Link As...

    What save as? Javascript?

    Enough with the fanboyism, ok?
  3. Re:Firefox is starting to give me the shits on Firefox 3 Hits Release Candidate 2 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Listen, if you don't use oldbar, don't suggest it. Because anyone who has used oldbar even ONCE knows that it is nothing but a UI hogwash - the awesomebar's aweful features still remain - they just don't look fancy.

  4. Re:Retroactively screwed up? on Firefox 3 Hits Release Candidate 2 · · Score: 1

    I understand the joke. I am just commenting that I informed Taco before the story "went public", and he still didn't corre

  5. Re:Retroactively screwed up? on Firefox 3 Hits Release Candidate 2 · · Score: 1

    I am a subscriber, and I can see the stories before they are posted. I mailed "Big daddy" that the story is incomplete. Apparently, they don't even bother with it (anymore?)

  6. Zombies, eh? on Microsoft Denies Call-in 'Save XP' Petition · · Score: 1

    That shouldn't be hard for people running XP ;)

  7. Re:People don't learn from history on Barack Obama Wins Democratic Nomination · · Score: 1

    Jindal is a sellout, like most of republicans. Converting to Christianity should warn any sane person how ambitious he is to do such phony act. So you are claiming he cynically (rather than genuinely) converted to Christianity at age 16 in high school while planning his decades later sellout as Republican Gov of the state of Louisiana?

    How prescient of him!

    Really, you should put down the hate and engage your brain. And how do you he has "genuinely" converted?

    I am not his friend or family, but I think I know a lot of people like him. Sorry to be so prejudiced, but he comes from a place where every walking person on street dreams of going to US, seeking asylum. Jindal may be odd ball, but that would really really be odd. To me it feels perfectly normal if his parents converted to Christianity for future benefits (in case you didn't know, Indian families do make a lot of decision for their kids, (you can watch Bend it like Beckham ;-) )
  8. Apache license 2.0 ftw ;) on Google Releases Desktop Gadgets For Linux · · Score: 2, Informative
  9. Re:People don't learn from history on Barack Obama Wins Democratic Nomination · · Score: 1

    Obama is = (100% black + 0% black)/2

    while

    Jindal is = (50% black + 45% black)/2

    So in reality, Jindal is more white than Obama.

    I keed, I keed :)

  10. Re:People don't learn from history on Barack Obama Wins Democratic Nomination · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I am eagerly waiting for McCain to win. Really. Jindal is a sellout, like most of republicans. Converting to Christianity should warn any sane person how ambitious he is to do such phony act. But well, for the rest of the world it is actually a good thing that USA goes down - too long the big brother has watched and intervened rest of the world.

  11. Re:That's just wrong... on Leaning Tower of Pisa Secure For 300 More Years · · Score: 1

    :^)

    Cat got your tongue? (something important seems to be missing from your comment ... like the body or the subject!)

  12. Re:To the idiot who downmodded above post on RIM In Trouble For Not Violating Privacy · · Score: 1

    Are you somewhere from East UP/Bihar?

    In Lucknow itself if you are not looking like an educated person, and get caught around some questionable areas, be sure to receive a handful. I always carry around my ID card with me :D

  13. Re:can't work even if they wanted it to on RIM In Trouble For Not Violating Privacy · · Score: 1

    I though RIM was short for Reliance India Mobile!

    If Tata is Google, Reliance is Microsoft.

  14. Re:I pledge not to download it on Firefox Goes for World Download Record · · Score: 1

    Some way of reverting to the old functionality would be nice.

    A quick google turns up:

    browser.urlbar.richResults - to switch from the sucky new dropdown list to the old one

    If you were keen enough on the results you would have found this:
    http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.apps.firefox/browse_thread/thread/70b4365114d421ac/eecf1646700933ef

    http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.feedback.firefox/browse_thread/thread/007f48a667be7748

    Or the best: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.urlbar.richResults

    Has an effect in

            * Mozilla Firefox (nightly builds from 2007-11-29 to 2007-12-17)

    They disabled the option long time ago.

    And "oldbar" extension just changes the UI - firefox still searches through everything you ever visited.
  15. Re:I pledge not to download it on Firefox Goes for World Download Record · · Score: 1

    Hold it right there, Mister!

    Anyone who has ever ever gone through NSFW stuff (I once heard a joke: 99% people say they watch porn, the rest lie about it), knows that "awesomebar" sucks.

    I am currently using Firefox 3.0 nightly builds, I upgrade it everyday and I will be upgrading it the day 3.0 is released, simply because they have fixed so many memory leaks and crashes, that when I tried going back to 2.0, it was nigh impossible to do anything.

    But that does not mean Firefox developers don't make decisions for me! It is kind of like Windows. And with every bug report that I file it becomes more and more obvious that they design everything with Windows users in mind.

    I don't blame it for this decision. Before you start yelling let me just say that they are actually not concentrating on "Windows" but "majority users". For this decision I cannot really blame them.

    I just hope I had good C++ skills so that I could fork it myself.

  16. Re:Thank god on KDE 4.1 Beta 1 Released · · Score: 1

    JWM

  17. Re:Doesn't seem so bad... on Would You Rent a Song For a Dime? · · Score: 1

    I was unable to download because of this error:


    Getting: http://cfs-listen-32.lala.com/contentfs/content?t=NjU1MzVVNDM3ODc4NQ%3D%3D-jo0UMQoQnqEtl80cgZYgTw%3D%3D
    Downloading to Genesis-I Can't Dance.mp3
    sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
    sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file

    But one could use wget...

    Don't kill me for this search string ;)

    Fucking slashdot has some but fucking limit on posting anonymously and so I cannot fucking post. Atleast earlier it used to tell how much time I should wait - not it is just a stupid fucking message (press Submit - I AM pressing submit that is why you are showing me this message)

  18. Re:Pictures on The Phoenix Has Landed · · Score: 1

    Open the image in two image viewers side by side and cross your eyes.

    I personally find concentrating "near" far easier than "far".

  19. Re:Won't change the fact IIT is an awful school on Indian Tech Universities Put Lectures Online For Free · · Score: 1
    Wow, I am marked troll while you are the one throwing strawman arguments.

    I have already said that each IIT spends more per student that they take. IITs are formed by central government directives and are heavily subsidized.

    How does it matter how much money he/she makes?
    Here is how it matters: it will tell us if he is a hypocrite, if he is making a shitload of money due to education after spending a very little amount of money on that education, and then is bitching about it.

    Are you implying that its okay for the tech schools to charge as much as they can so long as you make shitload of money today?
    No. You are implying that. I am implying that IITs spend more than they take. And benefits from IITs far surpass anything reasonable. But tell me, are you implying that whatever you are earning today had nothing to do with your educational background?

    IITs are nothing but my-penis-is-larger-than-your schools where all the megalomaniacs come together and participate in a huge orgy.
    I wish I could understand what you are trying to convey. But if I am correct, you are the kind of guy who didn't had to do any hardwork to actually get there. Either you are a DASA (the abolished system: people from abroad used to pay 10-20 times more than average student to bypass extremely tough entrance exam, and used to get butt-kicked in exams), or just someone who didn't pass the entrance exam. Let me just say this: keep your frustration to yourself - IITs are famous for a reason and that's their alumni (here). I don't need to babysit you through the facts, now do I. You know about them, don't you?

    Tell me how much of a contribution IIT (the school, not the alumni) has made in terms of research compared to MIT or any other schools here? That's the best way to judge how good/bad a tech school is.
    And why should I leave alumni? You asking this question just proves that you don't think your education had any role in your success. Tell me, aren't these alumni the one who would say "my-penis-is-larger-than-yours"?
    I have never been to US, and US has definitely the best schools, but in comparison to Germany I can definitely say that IITs do a lot better job in a very small budget.

    Due to this exact attitude of people like you, I have learned how to avoid telling my educational background to anyone. In every conversation everything goes fine just before some one asks me, "from where are you?" - and then everything becomes us vs. them. Well, it is not my fault that alumni from IITs gained a lot of recognition. Of course there are bad eggs in every basket, and I know that people who didn't go through IITs had to work a lot harder to achieve things that were a lot more easier for IITans. Tough luck, but that's life. People with more money buy luxurious stuff, people in west spend more than people earn in India, and good colleges carry a prestige behind them making a lot of things easier for their students.

    Idiots have been given mod points, so fuck karma. But just get your facts corrected. India is a third world country and basic technologies are banned to import, thanks to historic friendliness to USSR. Only a fool will compare IITs to MIT.
  20. Re:Won't change the fact IIT is an awful school on Indian Tech Universities Put Lectures Online For Free · · Score: 1, Troll

    Oh really? How much did you pay? Because when I studied I paid 20,000 INR per semester (~300 € today - that's RIDICULOUSLY high!1!!) and IITs spent more than that on me.

    See, I am no fan of IITs. My userid here is relic that I could have gotten rid of it, but my Karma is "exceeeeeelent". But before you say they were money grubbers, can you tell me how much do you make today?

  21. Re:No LiveCD, but a floppy? on Anti-Keylogging Recommendations? · · Score: 1

    I know that slackware 12.0 and 12.1 are not installable from floppy - that is why I suggested 11.0

    And hey! If it bootable from USB or anything - your choice!

    In any case you can upgrade from 11.0 to 12.0 anyway. (Although I don't see any reason why anyone would want to update kernel and glibc)

  22. No LiveCD, but a floppy? on Anti-Keylogging Recommendations? · · Score: 1

    Really, get some floppies and install Slackware 11.0.

  23. Re:Can they do this? on China to Regulate Internet Map Publishing · · Score: 1

    It is not just about "do no evil". Do you want a map which does not show what your country (and hopefully you) thinks, but instead shows what China wants to show?

    Or is it something you can forgo because of a lot of monetary profit?

    The answer is clear.

  24. Re:Can they do this? on China to Regulate Internet Map Publishing · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Actually, it was possible in US because Google is US based.

    China will be able to pull this off only because Google wants to do business there.

    Let this be a reason for those who talk about "do no evil" and "Google" in same sentence (except me :) ), as if it is some person and not a corporation whose only thing they are looking for is more money for their shareholders.

  25. Re:Home Version on "Back To My Mac" Catches a Thief · · Score: 1

    This 'Guest' account is CharRooted and has Firefox, IM and other Internet clients all on the desktop but that's about it. Under the hood it opens up SSH, VNC, Terminal Server and every other conceivable way of gaining access.

    And thanks to you, your Ubuntu will be used to spam everyone once it gets stolen. :)