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  1. All you need is a bit of creativity! on Identity Theft Prevention Tips? · · Score: 1

    Just but the bank statements in your sink or fireplace, burn them, crumple up the ashes and rinse them down the drain (or toilet).

  2. Hmm . . . on Crackdown on BT Users in Hong Kong · · Score: 1

    Does the MPIA bribe the police, too?

  3. Hmm . . . on Forgent and Microsoft Sue Each Other Over JPEG · · Score: 1

    I guess two wrongs do make a right.

  4. Re:A CmdrTaco first! on **No Title** · · Score: 5, Funny
    Well, actually an ending quotation mark should never be by itself on a line. There should have been at least one character before it, or some characters from the preceding line pulled down.
    What, isn't \n a character?
  5. Re:How Fitting: on Mozilla Foundation's Future: No Mozilla Suite 1.8 · · Score: 1

    "SeaMonkey" is Moziila 1.8.

  6. How Fitting: on Mozilla Foundation's Future: No Mozilla Suite 1.8 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In Douglas Coupland's book "Microserfs", "Seamonkeys" is a term used to describe a project that is never going to be completed.

  7. Re:no counter-strike for you on Fragging on Linux and TransGaming · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Offhand, I know that 1, 2, 3, and 5 work. I'd have to look up WoW.

  8. Re:2^25,964,951 - 1 on 42nd Mersenne Prime Confirmed · · Score: 1

    Correction: just replace 7816230 with the number of binary digits.

  9. Re:2^25,964,951 - 1 on 42nd Mersenne Prime Confirmed · · Score: 1
    Wouldn't it just be easier to say, in something client-side (like Javascript), print out a bunch of digits 1? In C it would be:
    for(i = 0, i < 7816230, i++) printf("1");
  10. Re:Is a .0.1 dot release really newsworthy on Firefox 1.0.1 Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    As I mentioned in the story, 1.0.1 contains fixes for 9 security holes, some of which allowed spoofing.

  11. Re:And they only spent $30 million making the game on Half Life 2 Retail Sales Hit 1.7 Million · · Score: 1

    $50 (US) buys the Half-Life 2 Bronze package. Are you saying that about 4 and a quater gigs of data take $50 to transfer? That's rediculous. Bandwitdth is cheap . . . except in Nebraska.

  12. Not again . . . on DOOM: The Boardgame · · Score: 1

    Do you have to turn out the lights to play it?

  13. Not again on Sega Done with Sports, Take-Two Launches Label · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The site is already slashdotted . . . except in Nebraska.

  14. Re:German Wins on Make Something Unreal Winners Announced · · Score: 1
    SS German Elite Wins every time...
    . . . except in Nebraska.
  15. Re:Frankly ... on Through The Steve Ballmer Looking Glass · · Score: 1

    Hell, I remember how excited everyone was when Ethernet was invented. I think it was back in '78 or so. Man, nothing has changed. Wait for it . . . waaaait fooor itttt . . . . . . Except in Nebraska.

  16. Re:Frankly ... on Through The Steve Ballmer Looking Glass · · Score: 2, Funny
    maybe they can find a way to wedge some security into Windows.
    ...except in Nebraska.
  17. Re:!Windows Emulator, Wine Is Not an Emulator. on Does Linux Have Game? · · Score: 1

    Who do you trust: the project documentation writer, or a non-technical dictionary?

  18. !Windows Emulator, Wine Is Not an Emulator. on Does Linux Have Game? · · Score: 1
    Myth 1: "Wine is slow because it is an emulator"

    Some people mean by that that Wine must emulate each processor instruction of the Windows application. This is plain wrong. As Wine's name says: "Wine Is Not an Emulator": Wine does not emulate the Intel x86 processor.
    Copied directly from http://winehq.org/site/myths#slow. Changes only to formatting.
  19. Re:LaTeX on Vendor Neutral File Formats? · · Score: 1

    It's possible, but most people who use MS Word don't form real headers/sections/numbering, they just increase the font size and centre things and do things manually. Because of that, it would be hard to turn style information into logical information.

  20. Does this sound like it's happened before? on nVidia and Infinium to Partner at CES · · Score: 5, Funny

    News on the Phantom? I guess its killer game will be Duke Nukem Forever.

  21. Re:Security/Privacy issues on Firefox vs. SP2's IE? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Not very much of an option. Because there aren't clear standards on Windows, individual program options are often saved to the program directory, not a user's home directory. This makes it so that, as an unprivelged user, settings won't be saved. Also, some normal apps (like Doom 3) can only be run as adminstrator.

  22. Inner Problems? on Washington Post Buys Slate From Microsoft · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess Microsoft is tired of their magazine supporting Firefox.

  23. I, for one, welcome our new Microsoft overlords... on Microsoft May Charge for Security Tools · · Score: 1

    and I remind them that, as a trusted geek, I will be useful in recruiting others to toil in their underground spyware mines.

  24. Re:Simple Solution on PC Setup for Small House with Child? · · Score: 1

    Then you're not a geek. If you were a geek, you'd be 1.92 metres high (+ or - 0.005 metres).

  25. Re:Dangerous on Electronics Projects for 12-Year-Olds? · · Score: 1

    Well, Tesla coils are - by definition - extremely high voltage. If you make the current (amps) small enough, then touching one of those should only result in mild convulsions, with no permanent damage. As an aside, Tesla once built one of his coils several stories tall. I am not an electrition, physician, or electrophysician. Don't try this at home, kids.