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  1. Re:Nature-loving geeks? on Wooden Computer Accessories · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Building something, anything, out of wood is a very natural way of doing it. There are a number of species on this planet that cut down trees to build structures, humans are not the only ones.

    Wood feels nice, sounds nice, and looks nice. It is renewable. And you're forgetting WHERE this tree is cut down, is it in an ancient forest with 300-year old trees, or in a homegrown backyard lot?

    "I'm nature-loving."

    Then why not do it the natural way?

  2. Re:Voluntary vs. Forced on New RFC Considers .sex TLD Dangerous · · Score: 1

    Looking at the IE page, I see some instructions on setting the content control up. There is an image showing the dialog for changing passwords. In the dialog, there is an editbox for 'password hint'. The hint that the "responsible" parent is changing to is "Milo's word for sticky stuff". Now, if "Milo" is the kid to be protected, this is probably the worst possible password that could be chosen, since the kid will guess it rather quickly.

    So it's still up to parents to know what they are doing, and know it well, because kids have a tendency to explore the forbidden.

    In other words, restricting it more and more will cause interest to grow more and more, and will probably give kids an even more twisted view of sex than if parents had willingly shown some pictures and explained what they mean.

  3. Re:I live in the precinct mentioned... on San Diego Diebold Poll Worker's Report Posted · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure what "national" ID would mean, but any identification is ok, as in driver's license, passport, ID card, or whatever.

    Of course, all of those have your (national) social security number printed on them, if that's what you mean?

  4. Re:Tape reels for that high-tech feeling on Modernizing the Save Icon? · · Score: 1

    used to get a faint buzzing sound on my computer whenever something was writing to the display

    Once, I was watching some flash movie, and it had these wave-motions going across the browser window. But surprisingly, the waves went wobbling across the entire screen! I finally realised it was because of a sound playing in sync with the waves, and the speaker connector not being fully plugged in, causing RF interference in the monitor connector.

    Although it's OT, those were some of the spookiest 5 minutes of my life.

  5. Re:The new save symbol is on Modernizing the Save Icon? · · Score: 1

    No, rather a small plastic container. "Save for later"..

  6. Re:Jesus on Modernizing the Save Icon? · · Score: 1

    Almost the whole chapter of John 10 deals with Jesus and sheep.

    Every sentence can be bent into new meanings when posted on the 'net.

  7. Re:hrmm on Modernizing the Save Icon? · · Score: 1

    Standard keystrokes...

    Which reminds me, why do many programs not use Shift-S for saving to a different file? Is it too dangerous to press by mistake?

  8. Re:FYI: 'ZZ' is the same as ':wq' on Modernizing the Save Icon? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    No no! If you're going to exit, you should use Alt-up-up-enter-enter.

    I still use this in almost every program with a "File"-menu, and when it doesn't work, it really irritating, forcing me to find the F4 button instead or grabbing the mouse. Interface designers, take note!

  9. Re:I live in the precinct mentioned... on San Diego Diebold Poll Worker's Report Posted · · Score: 1

    Now to be fair, steps (1) and (2) have always been that way. No ID required (for good reason)

    And what is the reason? Here in Finland you ALWAYS have to show ID, before getting a card that you write a number on. It works wonderfully for me.

  10. Re:Propagation delays on BIC-TCP 6,000 Times Quicker Than DSL · · Score: 1
    Now this is really OT, but following that link, and then further: related articles -> north pole, brings me to a crazy quote..
    "Since the earth's rotation takes place once every 24 hours,"
    Wow! Imagine that.. That's some kickass rotation!
  11. Re:Big Difference With Real Firearms on Do Videogame Skills Transfer To Real Life? · · Score: 1
    If you're not careful, your shot will easily go wild and the kick might smack you right in the face.

    Would anybody else pay to see that?
    You can download movie clips of this. Some of them have been circulating the net for, like, 10 years already.
  12. Re:Laser Tag on Do Videogame Skills Transfer To Real Life? · · Score: 1

    If you're playing in January (with subsequently frozen balls and paintballs), it's more like an impending week of pain.

  13. Re:Fast Reactions... on Do Videogame Skills Transfer To Real Life? · · Score: 1

    Well, babies fall and hit their heads all the time. What can you do but laugh?

  14. Re:The Real Tragedy on Balloon Helps Doctor Reach Brain Tumor · · Score: 2, Funny

    such a lackluster response on this forum

    Doctors tend to be quite busy, I'm not surprised that there aren't many neurosurgeons reading Slashdot. Thankfully.

  15. Re:Tri-corder.... on What's in Your Gadget Bag, Cory? · · Score: 1
    why would you send a spreadsheet when a photo of a spreadsheet is so much more useful?

    And why would you have and work on a spreadsheet in your phone?
  16. Re:Bilingual Nitpickery on Tokyo Narita Airport Gets PDA Voice Translators · · Score: 1
    "Nihongo ha hanashimasen" is perfectly fine from a grammatical standpoint and does not translate to "Japanese language doesn't speak." It differs from the sentence with "wo" in that it places emphasis on the specific language. So, you could say "Engrish wo umaku hanashimasu ga, nihongo ha hanashimasen."


    Yes, in other words, it can translate to both "Japanese (language) doesn't speak" and "(I) don't speak Japanese (but do speak other languages)". Context and common sense says which is correct. Interestingly, a machine translator will usually cough up its intestines on constructions like these, how does Papero compare?
  17. Re:Pervasiveness of English on Tokyo Narita Airport Gets PDA Voice Translators · · Score: 1

    It makes a lot more sense to remove the problem by standardizing on a single language than it does to try to come up with technology that almost-but-not-quite translates languages.

    Now tell me, how would you go about standardising all of humanity on a single language, and more importantly: how do you KEEP people in villages on opposite sides of the world speaking the same?

    If you have cultural differences, you will get language differences.

  18. Re:Quick Question... on Judge Orders SCO, IBM To Produce Disputed Code · · Score: 1

    For a while, rather than using "www", I called it "six you". Never caught on.

    I've thought about that too in English. In Swedish I usually say "vee-vee-vee" as if it were a single 'v', not 'w', but how do English-speaking people pronounce "www"? "Six-you" has a very high geek factor I think...

  19. DON'T use the fish! on Two-Legged Home Robot, Coming Soon To Japan · · Score: 5, Informative

    The fish sucks for japanese, use excite.co.jp instead:

    excite translation

  20. Re:Nintendo games? bah.. on Emulate Nintendo on Your MessagePad · · Score: 1

    Huh? NES games are color too, you may be mixing up with old GB games. In any case, there's lots of good games for the NES, and they're pretty small, so you can fit a lot on, say, a 256mb flash cartridge.

  21. Re:This ruling is worth a read on DeCSS Trade Secret Case Comes to an End - Again · · Score: 1

    I see, but should it then be "he loses" or "she loses"?
    Oh no, they'd probably just do some other mistakes, like:

    "innocent party, the Plaintiff loses his ability to enjoy [sic] the use of his trade secret."

    Sounds like porn star news.

  22. Re:Nintendo games? bah.. on Emulate Nintendo on Your MessagePad · · Score: 1

    ...and get a flash card for the GBA, upload an NES emulator plus tons of games, if you still want to play them.

  23. Re:This ruling is worth a read on DeCSS Trade Secret Case Comes to an End - Again · · Score: 1

    "misappropriaters" is obvious, but.. why is "their" incorrect? Am I missing some intricate grammar rule here?

  24. Re:Women only? on Jet-powered Nausicaa Glider Project · · Score: 1

    "WTFF!!!"

    What The Fscking Fsck?

  25. Re:I think the Segway would win on Jet-powered Nausicaa Glider Project · · Score: 1


    Actually, I know many women who are naturally small and/or fairly in shape. Some men too. And they all know what this is about.