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  1. Re:RFC? Standard? on New Facebook Messaging System Announced · · Score: 1

    To be fair though I don't think Facebook is bound legally to internet principles. Besides, Google opened up the federation protocol of Wave and a bunch of other technologies, and look where that got 'em!

  2. Re:Recursion on A 3D Lego Fabricator Made of Lego · · Score: 1

    No, but it can print the individual parts that make up itself.

  3. It's typical on Texting On the Rise In the US · · Score: 1

    Most average slashdot summaries (even including summaries that don't include statistics) are less confusing and ambiguous than this summary. But that's only if we are talking about _average_ summaries, not _typical_ summaries.

  4. What are its dimensions? on Samsung's Galaxy Tab Android Tablet Now Official · · Score: 4, Funny

    7" LCD is convenient - but I'd have to know how many sheets-of-glass thick it is before I'd consider buying one.

  5. Re:I hope that Firefox isn't playing Microsoft's g on Mozilla Unleashes the Kraken · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure it's really a case of Mozilla trying to trick anyone... after all, they happily (well, probably not _happily_) admit that they aren'tfastyet

  6. Re:So then what's with the wait? on Many Hackers Accidentally Send Their Code To Microsoft · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm guessing it's because the real "hackers" don't accidentally click the send button.

  7. It's the flashy "store" people want on Firefox Mobile Threatens Mobile App Stores, Says Mozilla · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "Over time, the web will win because it always does." Yeah, over time... "over time" linux will win too. It's true most of the apps from the app store could have been made identically as web apps. But then they wouldn't have been on the app store - and no one would have ever seen them. I'm continually shocked at the amount of money the non-nerds (bosses, project managers, those other people who I'm not sure what they do except go to corporate lunches) at my work spend on the app store. MONEY! that's crazy - I've never seen people voluntarily spend MONEY on apps before! But Apple made a great system for "the normals". They don't want to trawl the web for nifty web apps (like this JavaSript platform game I may or may not be shamelessly plugging). The just want a happy little environment where they can buy stuff while pretending to be typing important emails during meetings.

  8. Re:Pseudonyms, encryption and Identity theft on Academics To Predict Next Twitter and Its Pitfalls · · Score: 1

    I was going to say that pseudonyms are no help anymore, because other people will tag REAL stuff and point it at your pseudonyms. For example, I have NEVER put my real name on my blog. But search for my name on google and my blog is the first result. And it sure doesn't take much work to find my name from my pseudonyms either. (This may have been addressed in the article, but I couldn't read it because it started with the word "Boffins")

  9. Weird... this one too.... on Whither the 19th IOCCC? · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've also noticed that this fortune city personal hom page from 1999 is still under construction... Any one know when it might be done?

  10. so "go bust" means... on Nintendo Brain Games Effectiveness Questioned · · Score: 5, Interesting

    a professor of cognitive psychology dissed your product?

  11. Re:This is actually pretty cool on Bill Gates' Plan To Destroy Music, Note By Note · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It is a damn interesting piece of shit software - i had a go: it would take any of my inane wailings and put some decently picked chords to it. Sure they they were played through some horrible GM sounds: but they tell you the chords (and the file format is just a renamed zip file with a .wma file and and xml file which contains all the chord info)

    I don't know how good you are at listening to a monophonic sound source and deriving the key and related chords - but I suck at it. This software is a toy, but it doesn't mean you wont get something useful out of it!

  12. Re:Unethical on Technical Specs Released For Aussie Net Filtering · · Score: 3, Informative

    Except even the people who ask us to please think of the children don't want this one!

  13. Depressing BUT brief... on The Inside Story on Norway's Yes to OOXML · · Score: 1

    Its brevity actually cheered me up a bit.

  14. Re:My Tin foil hat part of my brain says... on 'Friendly' Worms Could Spread Software Fixes · · Score: 1

    Take your tin foil hat off mate - Microsoft researchers are working out the perfect strategies, so there is no need to worry.

  15. Reaaallly? on Nokia Claims Ogg Format is "Proprietary" · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This document was written by Stephan Wanger who, according to his bio "serves on the Board of Directors of UB Video Inc., a leading supplier of video compression software".

    I wonder if this has anything to do with him not particularly liking ogg?

  16. Re:Perfect timing on Japan to Start Fingerprinting Foreign Travelers · · Score: 1

    I'm sure this measure really has very little to do with terrorism, buuuut... haven't most of Japan's recent(ish) terrorist attacks been instigated by citizens - Like the saran gas guys?

  17. The technical paper is the article on Security Flaw Found That Allows Control of iPhone · · Score: 4, Informative

    Have a read of the technical paper from the article - Quite interesting. They used fuzzing to find a heap overflow vulnerability. They go on to talk of "Blackbox Exploitation", which I later realise has nothing to do with the cinematic genre.

  18. Spirit of the GPL? on Microsoft Gets Novell Docs Before OSS Community · · Score: 2, Funny

    It goes against the "spirit of the GPL" like the TestDriven.NET guy went against the "Ethos of Microsoft's EULA". The software development world sure likes it's intangibles!

  19. Re:Huh? on Google Gears is Launched · · Score: 2, Informative

    This release does have its own web server in it. It's creatively called "LocalServer".

  20. Re:Smelly foreigners on Unicode Encoding Flaw Widespread · · Score: 1

    Yeah. Actually, 7 or 8 bits per character really seems excessive to me, and opens the door to additional attack vectors. Surely if people can't take the time to learn to communicate in 1 bit they should not be allowed to use the internet.

  21. Only 5.5MPH behind! on Penguin Car Earns Indy500 Spot · · Score: 5, Funny

    That sounds pretty good! Unless the race goes for, like, an hour.

  22. Heading in the right direction on Windows Media Center Restricts Cable TV · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's a good start by Microsoft. But I found that you can implement a more efficient DRM system by snapping off the rabbit-ear antennae on top of your TV. I did it eight months ago and I found that when I go to bed now my brain doesn't feel like it's been mushed to pulp by ads and boring drivel. Good luck you noble DRM!

  23. Re:Environmentally irresponsibility on Digital Waste Worth More Than Gold, Copper Ore · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh cut and paste. My good friend and bitterly enemy.

  24. Environmentally irresponsibility on Digital Waste Worth More Than Gold, Copper Ore · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you say that it's environmentally irresponsibility to throw away computer equipment, your girlfriend can't get mad that you've got a cluster of Amiga2000s making your house look like a digital dump.

  25. Imagine a digital dump on Digital Waste Worth More Than Gold, Copper Ore · · Score: 4, Funny

    1s and 0s as far as the eye can see!