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  1. I'm a Two-Browser Man... in a Different Way on Will Internet Explorer 7 Have Any Impact? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I use Firefox because it renders things slightly faster than Safari, and Safari for those weird websites that don't like Firefox for some reason. I haven't used IE for quite some time, even on my Windows machines.

  2. Re:./ does it right on On the Subject of Slashdot Article Formatting · · Score: 1

    Abso-fucking-lutely right.

    Hell, I even enjoy the grammar Nazis occasionally.

    Now I will defeat the lameness filter by adding another sentence.

  3. Re:Re people mailing Taco... on On the Subject of Slashdot Article Formatting · · Score: 1

    Sweet. Actually, not just a topic. It could be a little graph under the poll box.

    82% XXXXXXXXXXX Bad Grammar

    15% XXXX ScuttleMonkey

    5% XX Slashvertisement Whinging

    2% X Natalie Portman and Breakfast Options

    1% X Profit!!!!!!!!

  4. Just Post It on On the Matter of Slashdot Story Selection · · Score: 1
    Greetings, Commander--

    Just post it. Let the trolls/whiners kvetch. It's kinda like those people who hate dupes and clog the forum with their bitching. So what? This ain't Newsweek; it's a digest of interesting web content. In the interest of laissez faire, the editors err on a hands-off approach. Just ignore the noise and move on. I could care less about people making money off of their Slashdot submissions. If I follow links and they're lame, I start ignoring the person who posts them. Pretty simple solution to me.

  5. Re:Don't forget the songwriters on President of RIAA Says Sony-BMG Did Nothing Wrong · · Score: 1

    From what I can recall, the original band (Ednaswap) got screwed five ways from Sunday and didn't see a dime from "Torn". And believe me, they did complain.

  6. Re:n-squared? on DVD Truce Between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD? · · Score: 1

    No, you got the marketing brands wrong. That would be Purpl-Ray(R), Gama-Ray(R) and Deth-Ray(R).

  7. Re:Running out of cat names... on Apple Announces Tiger Release Date · · Score: 1

    Does it have upgraded numchuck skills?

  8. Re:"Swords of Fury" was good. on Portrait of The Last Remaining Pinball Wizard · · Score: 1
    "Lion Man! Lion Man!"

    I was never much into pinball but Swords of Fury really did it for me. Me and some friends would pump quarters into that thing late Fridays during high school--in 1989.

  9. Re:well on Return of the Mac · · Score: 1
    Wow. Each point here could have come out of my own keyboard.

    The only thing I have to add to this is "Amen, brother!"

  10. Re:Little relativistic phenomena on Star Flung From Milky Way at High Speed · · Score: 1
    Trouser measurements, eh?

    Wow! It's 0.061 rods long!

  11. What about Johnny Fever? on How a Venus Flytrap Snaps · · Score: 1
    Haha.

    Seriously, though, how many people on /. are gonna get a WKRP reference?

  12. Re:2004 called.. on Monday, January 24th to be Worst Day of the Year · · Score: 1
    "Blue Staters" can find solace in this adorable talisman.

    If you look real closely, the "Blue State" label on this thing looks like Texas switched sides. And Colorado.

  13. Feelings? What? on Farklempt! · · Score: 1
    This looks like a simple "sum-the-vectors" game rather than anything to do with real emotions. Except for my "annoyed" filn--it kept growing with each noise the game made.

    I hope I'm not missing the point, whih is ompletely possible.

  14. Re:Slashdot Deserves One Too on Wired's 2004 Vaporware Awards · · Score: 1
    only a very few like John Carmack's account can even be trusted.

    Or Roland Piquepaille!

  15. Re:Note he said effective multitasking on Life Interrupted · · Score: 1
    Hear, hear!

    If I didn't feel like I was sneaking some "downtime" by browsing slashdot, I'd probably go nucking futs.

  16. Re:The Prius/hybrids actually isn't good at all on High Speed Steam Powered Car · · Score: 3, Informative
    Grrr!!! Rowr!!!

    The "Bad Hybrid" trolls have been loud lately!

    As a present hybrid owner, I'm perfectly happy with my car, thank you very much. As a former Diesel owner, I was very happy with that car, too.

  17. Re:The Prius/hybrids actually isn't good at all on High Speed Steam Powered Car · · Score: 1
    (have you ever driven one of those Diesel Rabbits? It's no fun.)

    I credit my 1981 Diesel Rabbit with making it physically impossible for me to wrap myself around a telephone pole while I was in high school.

    Plus, in a car *that* underpowered, you learn true defensive driving very quickly!

  18. UNfuckingWATCHABLE on Le Guin Peeved About Earthsea Miniseries · · Score: 1

    You said it. I rented it on DVD and stopped, incredulous, after 45 minutes. It made me wonder whether they'd actually read the book. And that mannequin they dressed up like William Hurt and trundled around on a handtruck... I dunno.

  19. Re:Definitely on 1-Click Blooper Playback for Original Trilogy DVD · · Score: 1
    Allegedly? He surely does!

    (this is to confound the short message filter. Please ignore.)

  20. T & A on Humans Born to Run · · Score: 2, Funny

    Another fun Desmond Morris factoid: human females have enlarged breasts to mimic the shape of their well-defined buttocks, so human-style face-to face is as exciting to males as mammal-default doggy-style.

  21. Re:Octarine on Pioneer Ultraviolet Laser Promises 500GB Discs · · Score: 1

    Naah... Hooloovoo, a superintelligent shade of the color blue.

  22. Re:Port from Darwin? on Adobe Forming a Linux Strategy? · · Score: 1

    Crap. That's what I figured.

  23. Port from Darwin? on Adobe Forming a Linux Strategy? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    A company spokesman said they are not currently looking to port any of their flagship products such as Photoshop to Linux yet, as they currently don't see sufficient numbers in the platform to make a good business case for it.

    How hard would it be to port the kinda-sorta BSD code from Photoshop CS (or the entire Creative Suite, for that matter) to Linux?

    (Actually, this is question is not facetious--really, how hard would it be?)

  24. MJ-12 must need help on Help NASA Count Contrails · · Score: 1
    NASA's worried about the recent increase in chemtrail activity by the grays and needs to do a surreptious headcount without alarming the populous.

    Either that or it's gonna be a mass abduction!

    I tell you what, I'm gonna wear two tinfoil hats!

  25. Re:I Saw This One Last Week... on Sunspot Grows to 20 Times Size of Earth · · Score: 1
    I have to reply to my own comment--when someone else posted the exact same thing right above me!!

    Good for joeslugg.