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  1. The Google Toobar Page on Google Adds Features and Plugin to Desktop Search · · Score: -1

    Wow! Most of that page is about alternative browsers. There isn't even an internet explorer icon there. The Mozilla icon is displayed prominently.

    The last line says
    "To learn about the Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer, click here" which links to this url http://toolbar.google.com/index_2 Hey! There's a number in that url and a freaking underscore.

    Nobody else think it's significant that Google seems to be actually advertising Mozilla-based browsers?

    Good times ahead, I think!

  2. Useless Statistic on Job Market for Developers Evaluated · · Score: -1


    only 24,000 fewer job listings for Unix than for Windows

    And there were 24,100 job listings for Windows?

  3. If you don't want to spend time with your child on Microsoft Research Showcase Explored · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Why the fuck reproduce?

    That was the creepiest slashdot summary of all time. As usual I have no plans of reading TFA

  4. Re:Any interesting projects? on Part 2 of Ruby on Rails Tutorial Online · · Score: 0, Insightful

    And there's Odeo about which there was a New York Times Article

  5. Angels and wings on Part 2 of Ruby on Rails Tutorial Online · · Score: -1

    "It's true that every time you hear a bell, an angel gets its wings. But what they don't tell you is that every time you hear a mouse trap snap, an angel gets set on fire." --Jack Handy

  6. Re:With all due respect to Alan Cox, on Cox on Torvalds and Linux Kernel Development · · Score: -1

    +1 sure, just no Karma.

    Mods should use 'Underrated' for funny comments. That should help prevent the Karma disasters which result from 'Funny/Overrated' combo mods.

  7. Obligatory Family Guy Quote on United Kingdom Leads the World in TV Downloads · · Score: -1

    Meg: You could kill all the girls who are prettier than me.
    Death: Well, that would just leave England.

  8. Re:Evolution is a SCIENTIFIC theory, like Gravity. on Creationist Textbook Stickers Declared Unconstitutional · · Score: -1


    I've heard many times that Religion attempts to answer the 'Why'.
    You seem to be a reasonably intelligent person. Could you please tell me why you assume that there is a why?

  9. You need to have more faith on Creationist Textbook Stickers Declared Unconstitutional · · Score: -1
  10. Re:Bullsh** detector on It's Not About The Technology · · Score: -1

    *SWOOOOOOSH*

  11. Re:There's a problem. Expect a call from CamTim on More on H2G2, Including an Early Review · · Score: 0, Informative

    You'd have found it a lot funnier had you read the book. Best Two-page-chapter ever.

  12. Re:typing is absolutely necessary on Is Typing a Necessary Skill? · · Score: -1

    OMG! YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. LOL!! SOME PEOPLE JUST DON'T MAKE USE OF THE SHIFT KEY AT ALL. SUCH IDIOTS. LOL!!

    (Lameness filter trash here Lameness filter trash here Lameness filter trash here Lameness filter trash here Lameness filter trash hereLameness filter trash hereLameness filter trash hereLameness filter trash hereLameness filter trash here)

  13. Re:Python has primitive types that aren't objects on Paul Graham On 'Great Hackers' · · Score: -1

    In ruby
    >>2.+(1)
    3
    You see, it doesn't look like crap.

    That is the same as

    >>2 + 1
    3

    And this operation can be redefined.

    class Fixnum
    def +(other)
    return (self - other)
    end
    end

    >>2.+(1)
    1

    >>2 + 1
    1

    A simpler and more elegant language. __get__ __it__ ?
    It's the kind of langauge you can just fall in love with.

  14. Re:Did they listen to the original? on Parody or Satire? Threat To Sue JibJab · · Score: -1

    Yeah, but then Bush will be re-elected.

    Which is why the Australian preferential voting system is what America needs.

  15. Re:Full text (because slow servers are annoying) on Are You Annoying? · · Score: -1

    Sure you can.
    1) Post anonymously setting up a '+5 Funny' reply
    2) Make the '+5 Funny' reply
    3) Profit

    Works every freaking time. I see you doing it right now :)

  16. Re:Why Perl is still the Regex king on PHP 5 Released; PHP Compiler, Too · · Score: -1


    "Some may say Ruby is a bad rip-off of Lisp or Smalltalk, and I admit that. But it is nicer to ordinary people." --Matz

    http://www.paulgraham.com/quotes.html

  17. Re:Wait a second... on Profiting From A Vague Patent HOWTO · · Score: -1

    Someone should patent that line and then sue slashdotters like you.

  18. Re:"And no one will be definitely right" on The History of Programming Languages · · Score: -1

    People do not typically "flame" about VB's functionality, but rather the breed of programmers and the vendor,IDE and API lock-in which accompany it.
    Oh....thanks! Mod this up 'informative', people.
    I've been making VB jokes for years now with no idea why VB sucks.
    Now, I can do it with authority.

  19. Damn!! I STILL don't know what step 2 is!! on Sun Says Hardware Will Be Free · · Score: -1

    1) Get free software from GNU and free hardware from Sun
    2) ????
    3) Profit

  20. Asshole!! on Programming For Terrified Adults? · · Score: -1

    I'm at work and i just web-searched MILFhunter cause I didn't know what it meant!!! Gaaah!! And my organisation logs every URL!

    Anyway, guess I'll be visiting a few new sites when I'm back home tonight.

  21. Re:Hysteria on Browser Wars Mark II · · Score: -1

    XHTML is a reformulation of HTML in XML; XUL is an XML-based language that describes a computer application's graphical user interface. Not the same thing.

    With the mozilla platform available on a particular machine, there really is no difference between XHTML and XUL except for the fact that one is a lot more powerful than the other.
    Both of them are used to build web-applications using javascript and CSS. The difference is that XUL can be used only on the mozilla platform while XHTML can be used for both IE and Mozilla. Oh wait.....Most of XHTML won't work on IE, so forget I said that.

    Yeah, XUL can also be used to build desktop applications, but then so can XHTML.

  22. Re:Remove "surprising" from story. on More Blackholes Discovered... · · Score: 0

    For those in the know, I guess this is surprising. Or are you claiming that we should never be surprised by any discovery?

  23. Needs an O'Reilly book on The Single Man's Guide To TV Dinners · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm serious. How tough can cooking be? One definitive resource for the basics is all we need.
    A "Learning Cooking" book from O'Reilly would rock.

  24. I'd be more concerned if it was on HHGTG Screenwriter Interviews Himself · · Score: -1

    "Who am I?" "Douglas Adams"
    Accepting the fact that he isn't is very important

  25. More impressive on More Responses to de Tocqueville Hatchet Job · · Score: -1

    "Midnight's Children" won the 'Booker of Bookers' in 1993 for being the best in a quarter century