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  1. Re:Summary on How To Get Websites To Ban Sign-ups From Gmail.com Accounts · · Score: 1

    Unless the server is implementing grey-listing, and will tell you the address is unavailable the first time.

  2. Re:Hope they call it 3M on Mathematics Museum To Open In Manhattan · · Score: 2

    3M is Post-It notes.

  3. Re:boinc on Could Wikipedia Become a Supercomputer? · · Score: 2

    That's for JavaScript. The post you're replying to said Flash. I've never seen a browser pop up a message saying that a swf was taking too much CPU time. It is a cunning plan.

  4. Re:Challenge Yourself on Ask Slashdot: CS Degree Without Gen-Ed Requirements? · · Score: 1

    Where did he say he was scared off by challenges? It seems that he's more scared off by having to spend lots of money on pointless courses.

  5. Re:US-only problem? on Ask Slashdot: CS Degree Without Gen-Ed Requirements? · · Score: 1

    I don't have mod points, or this would be a shoo-in. The Open University is certainly worth investigating at the very least.

  6. Re:UK government doesn't have powers over power. on UK Sticks With Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    They shouldn't have turned the old power station into an art gallery. Typical lack of forward planning. ;)

  7. Re:I want it all on Camera Lets You Shift Focus After Shooting · · Score: 5, Informative

    The website about the camera doesn't have enough details, either, but this paper does give a reasonable idea of what's going on.

  8. Re:Not much of a tooth brusher on The Iceman's Last Meal · · Score: 1

    Well, the Egyptians certainly aren't pre-civilisation, but I doubt they had white sugar, at least. When I visited Barcelona's Archaelogical Museum last year they had an exhibit about some mummies, and IIRC a third of them showed signs of serious tooth decay.

  9. Re:Why is this still news? on Bittorrent and uTorrent Sued For Patent Violations · · Score: 1

    Skype is from Estonia. There are a few well-known games from UK-based studios.

  10. Re:Bitcoin to revolutionise economy on Bitcoin Price Crashes · · Score: 1

    And tools, especially knives and axes. Useful respectively for preparing fresh food and for getting more fuel and building shelter.

  11. Vocabulary on NASA's Aquarius Launched To Help Map the Oceans' Salt · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is Slashdot. It's ok to use words like "salinity" in the summary.

  12. Re:You're Laughing Now on English City Council "Not Ready" for Zombie Attack · · Score: 1

    No, I've only ever had brains from English supermarkets.

  13. Re:You Know... on English City Council "Not Ready" for Zombie Attack · · Score: 1

    it is restricted by law pretty much nowhere

    Are we still talking about Leicester? Because I seem to recall that blanks for starting pistols are restricted by law in England.

  14. Re:You're Laughing Now on English City Council "Not Ready" for Zombie Attack · · Score: 1

    Nonsense. Black pepper.

  15. Re:They mean IRC chanops on Three Arrested For Sony/Egypt Hacks · · Score: 1

    Spain is a civilised country. The Inquisition has moved to the USA.

  16. Re:.NET production profiler on Stack Exchange Website Profiler Now Open Source · · Score: 1

    Yeah, right. Except that the bits that aren't - like the point release which anyone who installs updates is running - aren't even available read-only.

  17. Re:The ACM Turing award is the equivalent CS 'Nobe on Why There's No Nobel Prize In Computing · · Score: 1

    Of course TCP/IP isn't the whole of telecom, but telecom is clearly a category which contains TCP/IP, and it should be clear from context that the issue at hand is which categories are covered. (And, to back up my point, the citation for Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn says that "Since then, they have continued to provide leadership in the networking research community and in the emerging industries of internetworking and telecommunications.")

  18. Re:The ACM Turing award is the equivalent CS 'Nobe on Why There's No Nobel Prize In Computing · · Score: 2

    What is TCP/IP if not telecom?

  19. Re:Have a Coffee? on Brain Cancer Worries? Look Up Your Phone's SAR · · Score: 1

    You drink coffee through your nose into your lungs? No wonder you're screwed...

  20. Re:Comments from RSS? on Spain To Clamp Down On File Sharers · · Score: 1

    So it's not just here in Spain that this page wouldn't load earlier? That's good to know...

  21. Re:Inspiring and selfless on Senior Citizens Lining Up to Tackle Fukushima · · Score: 1

    The post-Chernoble cleanup was by soldiers who were told there was no risk, not by nuclear engineers who know the risks and know how to use a dosimeter.

  22. Re:two weeks without KDE... and not missing it on KDE 4.7 – a First Look At Beta 1 · · Score: 1

    It's like trying to live in a single country.

    It saves you from having to hire an expert because you need detailed advice on matters such as double-taxation treaties?

  23. Re:Moon Shoes on NASA Sting Busts Woman Selling Purported Moon Rock · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure there are diamonds for sale at more than 99 pick-your-currency-units.

  24. Re:Moon Shoes on NASA Sting Busts Woman Selling Purported Moon Rock · · Score: 1

    I think the point was that if you're buying a "moon rock" from anyone other than NASA then you're obviously gullible and the seller should throw in the Brooklyn Bridge at half price.

  25. Re:Can somebody explain how this works? on BBC Site Uses Cookies To Inform Visitors of Anti-Cookie Law · · Score: 1

    The UK's Information Commissioner issued some advice which isn't really finished but provides a good starting point. The big problem is that we don't have a good enough definition of what "strictly necessary" for the function of the site means. I've seen it interpreted (I think it was by a spokesman for the European Commission, but I didn't make a note at the time) as meaning cookies needed to perform a function requested by the user. The example given was a shopping cart - the user requests you to put an item in the cart, so you don't need to ask permission to use a cookie to associate that cart with the user.

    Third party analytics software seems to be the target they're really shooting for, so I think we're going to have to move towards asking permission for those.