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  1. Re:Oh well... on Can Ordinary PC Users Ditch Windows for Linux? · · Score: 1

    You have a very optimistic way of saying "It can't".

  2. Re:Novel idea on Examining Tokyo's Media Immersion Pods · · Score: 1

    Except the karaoke boxes also have a huge song library.

  3. Re:Caveman PCs on Ship Logs Suggest Upcoming Polar Reversal · · Score: 1
    Modern tubes can be adjusted, and they degauss themselves on startup, so it won't be a problem.

    The real problem is if we're still using CRT's 2000 years from now.

  4. Re:Commercials on Ship Logs Suggest Upcoming Polar Reversal · · Score: 1

    I guess everyone will walk around in Faraday cages to protect them from the harmful reversed magnetic flux.

  5. Re:Spelling the cause? on Word 2007 to Feature Built-in Blogging · · Score: 1

    I don't think it needs to be automatically implemented in every text box displayed by the GUI, but it should be available for easy use. I know Opera can use Aspell for text box-checking needs, at least, so I'm presuming Firefox will do the same, instead of completely bundling it into the browser.

  6. Re:Not too bad..... on Slashdot CSS Redesign Contest Update · · Score: 1

    That was a pretty fast bugfix, if it was.

  7. Re:Cause and Effect? on Mobile Phone Transmitter Causes Brain Tumours? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Correlation doesn't imply a causal link. For the media, it does imply a casual link, however. Usually far too casual.

  8. Re:Brave New China? on Self-Censoring 'Chinese Wikipedia' Launched · · Score: 1
    prevents the 'promotion of a dispirited or negative view of life'.

    Yeah, they'll give the breakers of this rule a healthy dose of soma.

    Nah, they just don't like emo.
  9. Re:WHOOOOSH! on Self-Censoring 'Chinese Wikipedia' Launched · · Score: 1
    You know what's really funny? Flip to the 4th page of the chinese Tiananmen image search results. Suddenly you can find plenty of images of the tank guy there, but at the bottom you'll see the DMCA notice that Google puts up for certain offending results.

    There is some deep, hidden irony on that page.

  10. Re:IF BPL technology is so good on Electric Companies Get Involved With Broadband · · Score: 1

    Power over ADSL... Brillant!

  11. Re:Not too bad..... on Slashdot CSS Redesign Contest Update · · Score: 4, Funny
    You haven't seen crapping out until you've seen it in the latest Opera 9 beta build: psychedelic!

    Not only that, but the bars multiply every second so you have to close it quickly! And it also starts consuming monster CPU time.

  12. Re:$249 on Microsoft Sides With Nintendo Against Sony · · Score: 1

    Well, if it ends up costing $199, I don't really see any reason not to buy one. Or why not three while at it.

  13. Re:A good start. on "H-Prize" Announced · · Score: 1

    If your local grocery store isn't a short walking distance away, you have a different problem.

  14. Re:Bullshit on SQL Cookbook · · Score: 1

    Only in English. In Swedish I've never heard anything other than S.Q.L.

  15. Re:Nice Try on UK Hacker loses Extradition Case · · Score: 1
    No no, if you follow a friend into his house, you can safely assume you have implicit permission. The same if you connect on port 80 on an obviously public server and retreive documents that don't need a password (usually, at least). If you go into a complete stranger's house without him knowing it, perhaps even bypassing security systems along the way, you can't reasonably assume you have implicit permission to enter his house, unless there's a sign outside that says: "Please enter, everyone!"

    It's all very simple: a person's home or private property is generally off-limits unless you're invited, if it's obvious that it's private. Vast tracts of land can be non-obvious, but a house is not. Your right to walk in stops at the point when someone else has the right not to have strangers strolling about willy-nilly. Someone might come in if you don't have a lock, but it's still not right.

    And hey, if you think that an open door or unlocked door is an invitation, try it out: go around your neighbourhood and walk into strangers' homes uninvited. Do you then feel like you're excercising your imagined right, or violating someone else's?

    And don't come back complaining when you get your head smashed in.

  16. Re:Nice Try on UK Hacker loses Extradition Case · · Score: 1

    A person's home is regarded as a private area in most countries. Sign or no sign, you just can't walk in without permission.

  17. Re:Audience? on Prognosticating E3 · · Score: 1

    Man, this is just like when people told noob-gamers in the chatroom before a starcraft game to press Alt-F4 to reduce the lag. Thus leaving some room for new players.

  18. Re:The Next Generation on Sony's Conference The Day After · · Score: 1

    Now that you say it, the remote controller has a speaker built in for sound effects. I think a locator sound won't be hard to implement.

  19. Re:The Article for the Article on The Public's First Look at Wii · · Score: 1
    "If you can't find your placement on that style button layout then I'm sorry but you fail at console gaming."

    And that's exactly why the Wii will be a very good console for everyone.

  20. Re:waiting on Vim 7 Released · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Since when has ctrl not travelled well over telnet/ssh? Typing e.g. Ctrl-X means you send a control code of the low-ascii kind.

  21. Re:Oooh! on The Fedora Core 5 Install Experience · · Score: 1
    Install porn!
    I don't need to install my porn, it's practically burned into my hard drive by now.
  22. Re:QC doesn't work! on Growing Diamonds for Better Information Security · · Score: 1
    I'll say that again and again, until people listen:

    Quantum criptography doesn't work!

    It doesn't work on the "do something usefull" sense of the word.

    I guess people ask you again and again:

    What the hell are you talking about!

  23. Re:Don't forget to mention foobar2000's Columns UI on Managing a Huge Music Collection? · · Score: 1

    Problem is, I don't want to build a usable interface from scratch. It's also very hard to grok how to do it in the first place. Isn't there some kind of distribution anywhere, with sane defaults?

  24. Re:a permenant mind f*ck on 10 Years of Neon Genesis Evangelion · · Score: 1

    I remember reading that they didn't have the whole story when they started making it. I.e., written sequentially, rather than end-to-end.

  25. Re:Release to Theatres for Every Generation on Classic Star Wars Trilogy Finally on DVD · · Score: 1

    What? I think the third movie is better than the first, it's much more intense and fun to watch. The first one is good and interesting, but is a bit slow sometimes. And I don't mean slow-down-to-build-character, but a this-is-an-older-movie kind of slow.