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  1. Re:Don't call it Gnome 3... on Havoc Pennington on GNOME 3's Future · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe they could call it Gnom3?

  2. Re:Paranoid here we go.. on Google Adds Search History Feature · · Score: 1

    Also, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus thank you for believing in them. Delete. Pffff.

    Delete so that anyone on the same computer can't see those searches in the history. I know google knows, but then again, out of millions of searches per day, I doubt they'd do much with any single user.

    It looks like this program has so amount of learning ability, so as one searches more it begins to figure out what the person tends to look for. I'd rather when it's learning my profile for it to ignore the searches I know won't be part of my profile, so it has a better idea of how to rate sites for me.

  3. Re:Paranoid here we go.. on Google Adds Search History Feature · · Score: 1

    Also, they let you delete stuff from your history, so if you use it for say, porn, you can delete those searches.

  4. Re:Gays in the sciences today? on Turing's Original Test Played First Time Ever · · Score: 1

    You mean like slashdotters?

  5. Re:Satellite on Google Maps, Local Expand To UK · · Score: 1

    But the apparently have subway stations included on their streetmaps, which the US maps don't have. As a non-driver, I would rather have the subways on there than the satalite images. The images are cool, but subway stations would be more useful.

  6. Re:Some mentioned Beagle, I'll mention Tenor on Apple and MS Battle For Desktop Search Supremacy · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you confuse Contextual Linkage engine with "Trappist Westvleteren 12 (Yellow Cap)", which is a type of beer, you're either way too drunk or very extremely not drunk, so much so you've gone through the other side and have emerged into drunkeness.

    I think you were trying to point here.

  7. Re:Some hurdles on Quantum Wires · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Which is in TFA. Then again, this is slashdot, so no one else read the article either.

  8. Re:US Capitol on Google Adds Satellite Imagery to Maps · · Score: 1
  9. Re:NASA Business Plan ? on NASA's Deep Impact Moved Into Cruise Phase · · Score: 1

    3) Learn more about the early universe and what comets are made of, including if they might be good sources of potable water for trips to the outer solar system. Also, the cool factor of shooting comet.

  10. Re:how ? on Fun With Transparent Screen Backgrounds · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Or possibly a webcam/digital camera right in the back of the monitor that's hooked up to provide the backround updated realtime? I think they probably sell lenses that zoom out far enough to get that same effect. Someone will probably correct me if I'm wrong.

  11. Re:Fully off topic, but... on Microsoft Partially Opens Proprietary XML Format · · Score: 1

    Click parent on my post, I was refering to the fact /.'s editors deleted a dupe. Interesting tidbit to know though.

  12. Re:Fully off topic, but... on Microsoft Partially Opens Proprietary XML Format · · Score: 1

    Dude, we're not complaining, we're suprised. This is the first time they've done this in my memory, and personally I don't see it as a bad thing at all. Be nice if they caught it before it got posted, but something is better than nothing.

  13. Fully off topic, but... on Microsoft Partially Opens Proprietary XML Format · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Mod me off topic if you need to, but was it just me or did they just delete a dupe of the knoppix for secure banking article?

  14. Re:We'll wish for netspeak when we're old... on "English" Not Threatened By Webspeak · · Score: 1

    The problem with the subculture is when one is in High School and people actually attempt to pronounce the acronyms like they're words. I'm dead serious, there is one girl in my english class that literally says "lol". Sadly, this is the AP english class.

  15. Re:how dry is dry? on Autonomous Robot Finds Life in Atacama Desert · · Score: 3, Informative

    Huh? Even the site you linked says it does rain from time to time, just rarely.

    "The annual rainfall (or lack of it) defines a desert, but that doesn't mean that it never rains in Atacama. "

  16. Re:is it More than... on Wikipedia Reaches Half a Million Articles · · Score: 1

    Um... Questions. Have you complained? Have you told the tech admin what the site is and what it's for? What's it being blocked under(most filters give some sort of few word explination)?

    My guess is that some stupid word filter saw that there were articles on sex and nudity and blocked it.

    Complain to the tech admin or one of the administration, the fact they're blocking an encyclopedia should probably shock them into action.

  17. Re:Being a slashdotter... on An Engineer's View of Carly Fiorina's Leadership · · Score: 1, Funny

    You mean Farker.

  18. Re:21st century existancialism on Was the Lokitorrent Suit a Hoax? · · Score: 2, Informative

    You must mean Existentialism

  19. Re:What does MandrakeSoft gain? on Mandrakesoft Acquires Conectiva · · Score: 1

    Brazil is also pro-open source, so having their product helped by the government will help.

  20. Re:The Speed of Dark on Astronomers Find Star-Less Galaxy · · Score: 1

    Um... I think you're taking a bit of a leap in that A. have we found dark photons? and B. Are there dark aliens?

  21. Re:What does this mean for the future of televisio on Court Says FCC Out-of-Bounds With Digital TV · · Score: 1

    Um... Have you seen/talked to the average (to below average) American? If you havn't that's why you don't know the answer to your question.

  22. Re:Woz is too much of an idealist on Woz, Others Ask Apple To Go Easy On Tiger Leak · · Score: 1

    Partially because he gave a lot of what he made to charity.

  23. Re:In other news... on Student RFID Tracking Suspended from School · · Score: 2, Funny

    Screw Luke (and the laws of physics); I want to know when the first X-Wing is going to be on the market.

  24. Re:Are phishers going to bother with this, though? on Shmoo Group Finds Exploit For non-IE Browsers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The fix is simple for this(for firefox at least), just have a little bar appear at top(like the popup one) and have a message saying that there are international characters in the address. Have a button with a link to the non-international charactered page. There's no reason to kill international character support, just make it so that the user is warned.

  25. Re:Another IDN bug on Firefox on Shmoo Group Finds Exploit For non-IE Browsers · · Score: 4, Informative

    And when this was presented at Shmoocon they mentioned that, IIRC they said that it was first thought up in 2001. Safari's fooled too, with the source code thing not apparently working. However if you try to save the page the international characters will disappear from the filename.