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  1. Re:Bad summary on Microsoft Documentation Declared Unfit For US Consumption · · Score: 1

    Those linked blogs say nothing about "yet another example of [Microsoft's] crumbling hegemony or indolence as their empire burns."

    Are you sure the summary meant Microsoft in that sentence?

  2. Re:5 simple things on Google To Fund Ideas That Will Change the World · · Score: 1

    3: Automatic pilot for cars so dense highways can be created to allow for the maximum density out there, so one drunk driver wrecking doesn't hamstring thousands of people.

    Don't drink and drive: spill and you might short out your autodriver.

  3. Re:get what you pay for.... on CA Legislature Torpedoes IT Overtime · · Score: 1

    Says someone who has made 19 of his last 24 posts on Slashdot during business hours, including this one.

    Gotta find something to do while waiting for your turn on the compiler.

    You don't know want to know what people do while the NFS file server containing everyone's home directories becomes unresponsive. Not even the browser responds then. You're lucky your mouse moves and the on-screen clock continues updating.

  4. Re:As big as a business card eh? on Web Server On a Business Card · · Score: 1

    Let me know when we can make a computer with a holographic interface the size of an American Express card.

    We already have projectile weapons the size of key-fob garage door remotes.

  5. Re:I just ordered one!! on Run Mac OS X On Non-Apple Hardware, With a Dongle · · Score: 1

    If you check the Apple EULA you can only use MacOSX as a doorstop on an Apple door with the Apple logo on it.

    I know you're being funny, but until I agree to the EULA, it is not binding on me.

  6. Better Off Dead on White Spaces Test "Rigged," Says Google Co-Founder Page · · Score: 1

    Google spokesman explained later that testers had hidden the wireless microphones within the same frequency as local television stations, preventing the test device from detecting them.

    Hey, can I get one of those? That might be fun to play with:

    "Hey there Lane, I know this is a little awkward, me being a cartoon and all, I was just wondering how you'd feel if I took out Beth." -- Bernard "Barney" Rubble

  7. Re:OWASP on Alarm Raised For "Clickjacking" Browser Exploit · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    McCoy: I don't have a solution. But furnishing them with firearms is certainly not the answer!
    Kirk: Bones, do you remember the twentieth-century brush wars on the Asian continent? Two giant powers involved, much like the Klingons and ourselves. Neither side felt that they could pull out?
    McCoy: Yes, I remember -- it went on bloody year after bloody year!
    Kirk: But what would you have suggested? That one side arm its friends with an overpowering weapon? Mankind would never have lived to travel space if they had. No -- the only solution is what happened, back then: a balance of power.
    McCoy: And if the Klingons give their side even more?
    Kirk: Then we arm our side with exactly that much more. A balance of power -- the trickiest, most difficult, dirtiest game of them all -- but the only one that preserves both sides!

  8. The Fine Arcticle on China Announces Launch-Success Details — Before Launch · · Score: 1

    From TFA:

    The arcticle, dated two days from now on Sept. 27, vividly described the rocket in flight, complete with a sharply detailed dialogue between the three astronauts.

    I suggest that henceforth stories written before the events they report shall henceforth be known as "arcticles". The backinition (reverse-derived defintion, a la "backronym") will be it is a merging of archive + article.

    An anarcticle is reserved for an article that actually traveled back in time (anachronism + article).

    But really so chosen to immortalize this typo, just like filk and pron before.

  9. Re:Summary wrong on Alarm Raised For "Clickjacking" Browser Exploit · · Score: 1

    I've wanted to know when an iframe is embedded in my page and where it comes from so I can evaluate whether I can trust it, especially since my credit card company's website decided to embed the login form inside such an iframe. Further, if I attempt to Show Only This Frame on the iframe, the site redirects me to an error page.

    Putting iframe[src]:before { content: attr(src); } in my userContent.css has not worked, though a[name]:before { content: "[#] "; } a[name]:active:before { content: "[#" attr(name) "] "; } does work to advertise named anchors (except where idiot web designers wrap link text in a named anchor causing it to shift away when clicked).

  10. Re:Summary wrong on Alarm Raised For "Clickjacking" Browser Exploit · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Try the CSS pseudoclass :active

    And here is an example.

  11. Re:Summary wrong on Alarm Raised For "Clickjacking" Browser Exploit · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Try the CSS pseudoclass :active to move things around, like make a facade image positioned to cover a real button disappear with display: none;.

  12. Re:I just ordered one!! on Run Mac OS X On Non-Apple Hardware, With a Dongle · · Score: 3, Interesting

    the only use for the dongle is to commit copyright infringement, which is illegal

    You mean license infringement.

    I could buy a copy of Mac OS X now and use it as a doorstop without violating copyright (or its license for that matter).

  13. Re:This will be a day long remembered. on Jack Thompson Disbarred · · Score: 4, Funny

    wait until after the mortgage bail out fails and then even with global petrol reduction the global economy tanks without americans able to borrow money to buy big houses they can't afford to drive

    "One day, when I came home from work, I accidentally put my car key in the door of my apartment building. I turned it and the whole building started up. So I drove it around. A policeman stopped me for going too fast. He said, 'Where do you live?' I said, 'Right here.' Then I drove my building onto the middle of a highway, and I ran outside, and told all of the cars to get the hell out of my driveway." -- Steven Wright

  14. Re:Bad news for GTA on Jack Thompson Disbarred · · Score: 1

    Nonsense. He will simply, make the talk show circuit, get backing and funding by some "think of the children" and christian groups, and bam he is back in business using OTHER lawyers.

    And with nor Bar Association to keep him personally in check anymore.

  15. Re:out of curiousity on State of Kentucky Seizes Control of 141 Domain Names · · Score: 1

    And among them, goldenpalace.com.

  16. "Expert" is now a verb? on SDK Shoot Out, Android Vs. IPhone · · Score: 1

    you can expert third parties

    I think you mean "expect" or "expect expert".

  17. Re:Where exactly? on Russian Town Puts Giant Smiley On Google Maps · · Score: 0

    I believe it was an outdoor concert with sections barricaded off to form the eyes and mouth, likely with the required permits applied for and granted. They block off several streets downtown at least once a year for several days for local talent here.

  18. Re:Where exactly? on Russian Town Puts Giant Smiley On Google Maps · · Score: 1

    Looks fake to me. The screenshots on the article's websites show the cars on the exactly same positions, so it's obviously the same square, photoshopped.

    Yeah, no one would ever park their car in the exact same parking spot day after day of work, or leave a car parked in a single spot for days at a time.~

  19. Re:Huge number of bugs? on GNOME 2.24 Released · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, there's the theory that every program contains at least one bug and can therefore be reduced in size by at least one instruction. Iteratively then, every program can be reduced to a single instruction which doesn't work.

  20. Re:The fuunt thing is on Popup Study Confirms Most Users Are Idiots · · Score: 1

    And no, not switching to linux.. first person to suggest that get's beat.

    By the zeroth person?

    (BTW, "get is beat"?)

  21. Re:That's why! on Scam-Linked ISP Intercage / Atrivo Gets Shut Out · · Score: 1

    Do you know how long it might have taken to rape you all for hundreds of billions of dollars and then stick you with the bill for the rape exam kit if we had to make do with substandard CEOs?

    Uh, about 23 minutes and 5 seconds?

  22. Re:"Told to act suspicious"? on Homeland Security Department Testing "Pre-Crime" Detector · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wouldn't "suspicious" also be highly subjective? Many times that's more reflective on the prejudices of the observer. So let's take a programmer who's been up all night trying to solve a problem. He's disheveled, unshaven, and probably unkempt. He's deep in thought and in his own world. He starts talking to himself about the problem. Is he suspicious?

    Is he sitting on a park bench? Snot running down his nose, greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes?

  23. Re:sensors... on Homeland Security Department Testing "Pre-Crime" Detector · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A better name than 'FAST' would be 'cattle-control'.

    Project Sheepdog.

  24. Re:Designing the ad on Homeland Security Department Testing "Pre-Crime" Detector · · Score: 1

    Hi, I'm a terrorist, and I've been made into a stereotype.

    That would be the start of a very (freedom) chilling ad indeed.

  25. Re:My first thought, too... on Homeland Security Department Testing "Pre-Crime" Detector · · Score: 3, Funny

    All we've got is a device which can spot normal people trying to be visibly "suspicious".

    Doc Brown: Get yourself some fifties clothes.
    Marty McFly: Check, Doc.
    Doc Brown: Something inconspicuous!