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  1. Re:Where I am... on Software Monoculture in Schools? · · Score: 1

    http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/... doesn't look like an address I'd really want to visit.

  2. Re:Pasting urls on Dealing with the Unix Copy and Paste Paradigm? · · Score: 1
    Personally I love highlight copying, it's much faster, middle click pasting is NOT faster than what I can achieve with my pinky already on ctrl and my forefinger already on the v before my mouse gets where it's going. (pretty much everytime, keystrokes are faster than mouse movements or clicks).
    Some apps use Shift+Insert to paste the highlight-copy buffer. Quite braindead (requires moving hands from alphanumeric keyboard) but still better than reaching the mouse.
  3. Re:MORE INTERESTING on 13 Energy Drinks In 3 Sessions · · Score: 1
    Obituary: J Bloggs croaked on Friday due to liver failure as a result of Fluoride overdose. The Coroner did note however that the deceased had a lovely set of teeth.
    While we are at it, where are MY RIGHTS? I didn't demand fluoride in the water. If you brush your teeth with toothpaste containing fluoride AND drink copious quantities of water containing Fluoride (BECAUSE SOME MF SOB DECIDED IT WAS IN YOUR BEST INTERESTS WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT!) they can get stained black. Whoopee! Might as well issue black crayons. Why are polititians and tooth fairy campaigners so IGNORANT of long term health issues. They wouldn't have shares in fluoride mines perhaps now would they???!!!
    Y'see, it's all communist plot. We should fight against those damn commies in the name of purity of essence, of our precious bodily fluids!
  4. Re:Or vice versa on Man Accused of Attempting to Extort Google · · Score: 1

    You forgot the obligatory `5. Profit' step.

  5. Re:2 Pie or not /=\2 on Tracking Social Networking In Shakespeare Plays · · Score: 1

    How do you double boolean values? I'd rather say that (2*b)|(~(2*b)) equals -1.

  6. Re:Useless on a quickly varying load. on Linux Duracell CPU Load Monitor · · Score: 1
    There you have it : the most imprecise, slow, power-hungry, finicky and unreliable CPU load monitor in the world. Aren't you happy ? :-)

    Not really. There could be 200W lightbulb instead of plain battery level meter. *Then* it would be *really* imprecise, slow, power-hungry, finicky and unreliable.

  7. Re:NOT mozilla-lite on Mozilla Firebird gets .8 Release, and New Name · · Score: 1
    > You really think they would be able to pronounce the L?

    Well, in Lost in Translation Japanese were able to pronounce both L and R, but mistook them all the time (`Lip my stockings, prease...'). IANAJ, but as far as I know these two western letters map to the same Japanese one (sort of like H and G are both G in cyrillic).

  8. Re:Bug your ISP on BIND Strikes Back Against VeriSign's Site Finder · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There is a patch for djbdns, but they're not official so I wouldn't reccomend blindly using them.

    What would you call `official patch for djbdns', one released by DJB? Forget it. ;) There are no `official' patches for any djbware.

    The ignoreip2-patch with ignoreip-update posted on dns@list.cr.py.to seem to be the Right Way for now.

  9. Re:the reason for most train crashes on Using GPS To Prevent Train Crashes In India · · Score: 1

    I was also surprised by the reference to "If the driver fails to do anything, then the brakes come on automatically within the next 30 seconds." as a novel contributor to safety.- I was under the impression that this device, a 'Dead Man's Handle' had been invented in the nineteenth century.

    I'm not sure when it was invented, but this kind of device is present in all locomotives that are currently in use in Poland, some of which were designed in the 50's if not earlier, and it's not considered hi-tech here, but something obvious.

    I think such reference means that article author didn't know about existense of such device, not that it's something novel.