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  1. Re:3.125% on A Look At the Wolfram Alpha "Search Engine" · · Score: 1

    Luke, I am your uncle's uncle's brother's son!

  2. I live in Stockholm on Why Is Connectivity So Cheap In Stockholm? · · Score: 1

    Where do I turn to get this cheap connection?

  3. Re:Epic Security Problem in My Opinion on New ICANN TLDs May Cause Internet Land Rush · · Score: 5, Funny

    An ICANN get rich quick scam?

    ICANN haz money?

  4. Re:Bah on Beware the Perils of Caffeine Withdrawal · · Score: 1

    I may be the lightest lightweight I know.

    I am so lightweight that I don't even drink coffee, I just smell it when I pass the bean store on my way to the university. Yet, if I don't get my daily dose of scent, my eyes bleed, bones are fractured and I die, usually.

  5. Re:Yes on Could the Internet Be Taken Down In 30 Minutes? · · Score: 1

    root@internet# shutdown -P 25 "There's nothing to see there, just move along."

  6. Re:I'd like a few things cleared up on Ad Block Plus Filter Maintainer "rick752" Dies At 56 · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the answers.

    It will automatically suggest a few lists to subscribe to when you first install it.

    Ah, I now recall this from when I installed it. I also remember that I didn't know which one to choose. How do they differ? Isn't there one great list to rule them all?

  7. Re:Somehow I imagine... on Ad Block Plus Filter Maintainer "rick752" Dies At 56 · · Score: 1

    If I would have to choose between having tabs and having ads blocked, I'd always choose the ad blocker.

    I... well, it surely wouldn't be very usable with only... but then again... no... wait!... NO... I can't work like this! GAAAAH!

    Oh, horrible nightmare, having to choose.

  8. I'd like a few things cleared up on Ad Block Plus Filter Maintainer "rick752" Dies At 56 · · Score: 1

    And I think Slashdotters are the right people to ask.

    In short, if I want advertisement blocking, what should I install? More specific questions:

    • What is the difference between Ad Block and Ad Block Plus?
    • Do I need to get blacklists elsewhere or are they included in the above-mentioned extensions?
  9. First PS on Open Source Shooter Nexuiz 2.5 Released · · Score: 5, Funny

    Many games claim to be the first person shooter. I don't know whom to believe.

  10. Re:How about the followup? on Interview With the Author of "Mastering Cat" · · Score: 1

    'tac' is an actual *nix program, prints files out in reverse.

    And look, wow! There is even the reverse of tac, called cat, which takes the output of tac and prints it backwards. I wonder how many levels this continues. Maybe I should write a script to find out.

    Then there is this command sl. Run it by accident when you are really stressed and it makes your head explode.

  11. Re:The biggest problem with Lynx... on Online Banking Customers Migrating To Lynx · · Score: 1

    ...is getting past the captcha.

    I always failed it even with a graphical browser, so I had to put together a little program that could do it automatically for me.

  12. Hey, I can't get to the Internet! on American Airlines To Offer Wi-Fi In Planes · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, sir, we can only offer local area network at this point.

  13. It seems that if you know your employees, on Data Mining Moves To Human Resources · · Score: 1

    you have no need for this kind of "rigorous" (bah) methods.

  14. Re:Yabbut... on How Office Depot Pushes Service Plans On Customers · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wait till they get a patent on this method!

    Exactly. We have the patent system so that new ideas do not become widely available to society, thereby confining the damage.

  15. Is any material up right now? on Norwegian Broadcasting Sets Up Its Own Tracker · · Score: 1

    Is it available for outsiders as well? Could we get a link?

  16. Re:Incomplete on A History of Storage, From Punch Cards To Blu-ray · · Score: 2, Funny

    The article fails to include the Library of Congress, to which all other storage mediums should be compared...

    You should see how much information there is at the Congress of Libraries!

  17. Re:Nice hyper headline on Lars Ulrich Pirates His Own Album · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Since Lars and the band perform the song(s) and probably have some rights to the song(s), he can't pirate his own work.

    Well, mabye they signed away their rights? In some jurisdictions there are some rights you can't sign away, but there might be others were you can sign away anything. And, as someone mentioned before me, isn't he depriving the other band members of their income even if the band as a whole has every right?

    Of course, I don't see anything wrong in that he downloaded it, I just try to reason about what the law might think.

  18. Re:Sounds like a good idea on LimeWire Brings Darknets To All · · Score: 1

    And by videos i of course mean all those silly videos from when you were drunk that night, definately not those feature length things shown in cinemas.

    Did I ever tell you about the most embarrassing event I have ever experienced - in a cinema?

  19. Re:I want properly configured SELinux on Obama Helicopter Security Breached By File Sharing · · Score: 1

    I'd like every program I run to be in a sandbox. For example, not having access to a single file without my permission.

  20. Japan hates the iPhone on Why Japan Hates the iPhone · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh no, it has become self-aware!

  21. Does it really on MS Publishes Papers For a Modern, Secure Browser · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...have to be this complicated?

  22. Re:Nice effort on Startup Threatened Into Settling Over Hyperlinking · · Score: 1

    The whole Google-Bomb idea was nice, but every link on this page is nofollow'd.

    They are? What's the reasoning behind that?

  23. In case you wondered what is special on 1,234,567,890 Seconds Since Unix Time Began · · Score: 2, Funny

    about the number in question, I might have found an explanation. Consider the sum, as n goes from zero to b-1, for some base b, of n*b^(b-n). For the case of b=10, which seems to have a special meaning to some people, the sum results in the celebrated number.

  24. Re:damn on Twisted Radio Beams Could Untangle the Airwaves · · Score: 1

    These guys are proposing polarizing wireless transmissions. Polarization gets affected by ALL kinds of boundary irregularities, such as nearby cars light poles, traffic signal loops and, in buildings, conducting objects like nails, hinges, pipes, etc.

    Good point, but I'm thinking that if the environment (and its influence on the polarisation) change slowly compared to the speed with which the transmitter modulate the polarisation, it might work anyway. What do you say?

  25. My new favourite, on Mathematics Reading List For High School Students? · · Score: 1

    which i don't really recommend for your purposes, but want to tell everyone about anyway, is Bourbaki. Available in French and English. Have a taste. It's very dry and concise and I love it!