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  1. Only when it makes sense on When Does Powering Down Servers Make Sense? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Like when someone posts your domain name on slashdot!

    You can't take down a server that's already off-line.

  2. Re:wow on Duplicating Your Housekeys, From a Distance · · Score: 1, Funny

    Not really. The rock was a pet rock and it ran away.

    You are now "key-less". You may go back to Sto-Vo-Kor.

  3. My advice on Alien kid · · Score: 1

    Forget the special, order the soup!

  4. A bit off-topic, but... on Explore the Web From China · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Anyone knows of a simple way to temporarily slow down your internet connection on Mac OS X?

    It would be nice to be able to test various connection speeds for websites. I need to test multiple browsers, so a Firefox plug-in won't do.

  5. Good! Just what the doctor ordered! on Optical Fiber With a Silicon Core · · Score: 3, Funny

    More fiber!

  6. Here's my own report on Sony Claims PS3 Javascript Performance Is Better Than IE7's · · Score: 1

    According to a test I did myself, Safari on my iPod touch is faster than Opera on my Nintendo DS Lite.

    Yeah, that's as pointless as what Sony just did here.

  7. Re:Better? on Sony Claims PS3 Javascript Performance Is Better Than IE7's · · Score: 0

    Most PCs would be running an intel or AMD x86-type processor while the PS3 uses a PowerPC.

    CPU clock doesn't mean much these days unless you're comparing the exact same CPU clocked at different speeds.

  8. Better? on Sony Claims PS3 Javascript Performance Is Better Than IE7's · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The PS3 is a platform with fixed hardware specifications. Unless they got IE7 running on a PS3, well... what's the point of reference?

  9. Re:Moister Mars on NASA Orbiter Reveals Details of a Moister Mars · · Score: 2, Funny

    As soon as Duck Dodgers negotiates the deal with the queen.

  10. Re:slashdot tags on Hands-On With Windows 7's New Features · · Score: 2, Informative

    On the front page, for this article, the tags are actually overlapping with the text. Someone needs to learn how to code CSS properly instead of coding "Web 2.0 hey-look-we-can-move-the-poll-up-and-down" stuff.

  11. Re:What's a gamer to do? on Hands-On With Windows 7's New Features · · Score: 1

    Which is also why my Final Fantasy XI box is still running Windows 98SE. It boots in under 12 seconds, the OS doesn't eat 128-256MB and doesn't run services I don't need or want.

  12. slashdot tags on Hands-On With Windows 7's New Features · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Can someone at slashdot fix the stupid "tags", they're all over the place on the main page. Not everyone uses IE, you know.

  13. Re:Virtual worlds already came, saw, conquered on The Second Coming of Virtual Worlds · · Score: 1

    The problem is that we don't have the rich intersubjectivity, easy transitions between whiteboard, sketchpad, powerpoint, the subtextual awareness of people's available time/attention, the spontaneous conversations that everybody can listen to with half an ear or close their door to, and so on.

    You can do most of these with a webcam-equipped Mac and iChat AFAIK. Welcome to 2005~2006.

  14. Re:They'll call it... on The Second Coming of Virtual Worlds · · Score: 1

    Virtual World 2.1?

  15. Re:Oh goodie!!! on Minefield Shows the (Really) Fast Future of Firefox · · Score: 1

    YouTube link?

  16. Re:is this... on Half of American Doctors Often Prescribe Placebos · · Score: 1

    You don't know Dr. Hibbert?

  17. My Final Fantasy XI box boots in about 12 seconds on PC Makers Try To Pinch Seconds From Their Boot Times · · Score: 2, Informative

    Win98SE FTW!

  18. Re:Not placebo on Half of American Doctors Often Prescribe Placebos · · Score: 1

    If you add four parts H to your O2 then I'll convert it to waste myself.

  19. Re:Not placebo on Half of American Doctors Often Prescribe Placebos · · Score: 1

    We're back at square 1.

    Yeah! We get 200$!

  20. Re:is this... on Half of American Doctors Often Prescribe Placebos · · Score: 1

    Probably. Have you ever seen a doctor not laughing all the way to the bank?

  21. Re:Wait... on Small Bird Astounds Scientists With 11,200km Flight · · Score: 1

    Dude, that makes too much sense. We need a car analogy!

  22. Re:I think the question really is... on Small Bird Astounds Scientists With 11,200km Flight · · Score: 1

    Huh? I-- I don't know that. Auuuuuuuugh!

  23. Re:Let the Confusion Begin on ICANN Releases Draft For New TLDs · · Score: 1

    But my point still remains, IMO. We shouldn't put complicated technology in the hands of Joe Street.

    We shouldn't be moving toward more TLDs, we should be cutting back and removing some of them. I agree with the country-based domains (with the requirement of being located in said country or have offices there, i.e. apple.us, apple.ca, apple.au, etc), anything else doesn't really mean anything anymore (com vs org vs net, i.e. anyone can register any of these, I myself have a .net for my personnal website, it makes no sense but it was still better than .com or .org)

  24. Re:Scaling is wrong on ACLU Creates Map of US "Constitution-Free Zone" · · Score: 1

    That's because north of the border it gets converted to 160.9344 kilometers.

  25. Re:Let the Confusion Begin on ICANN Releases Draft For New TLDs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Actually it IS everyone's problem if technology is too hard to understand. People don't want to know how all this crap works and they're right.

    Also, even if you do understand technology but others don't, it's still your problem (see: SPAM and botnets/Windows PC zombies).

    Here is the mandatory car analogy:
    I'm not a mechanic yet I can still drive my car.