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  1. Re:Really? on Tunneling Under the Great Firewall? · · Score: 1

    So.... not a search engine like http://www.google.com/ then?

  2. Re:IBM can't navigate a vendors website? on IBM Makes Firefox Its Corporate Browser · · Score: 1

    search?="site:lotusnotes.ibm.com,query=?something"

    KTHXBAI.

  3. Because we can't see Venus at night.... on First Direct Photo of Exoplanet Confirmed · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Wait a second.

    I can see venus at night - I can take a photo my with my camera.

    Is there some weird definition of "Alien" that I dont know of?

  4. Re:Occums razor! on The Tuesday Birthday Problem · · Score: 1

    A "mathmatics" article with stuff like "(approximately) " and "This analysis ignores minor differences like the..." is rather amusing I think.

  5. Occums razor! on The Tuesday Birthday Problem · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Occums razor.

    You want to know the likelyness that something is male - as long as its a "normal" reproduction -> we presume it is as its not mentioned to any more likely one way or the other.

    So, 50%.

  6. Re:That explains the pay difference... on Women Dropping Out of IT · · Score: 3, Insightful

    1. Start at 18
    2. Quit at 28
    3. Have kids
    4. Sue for discrimination in wages due to "experience".
    5. PROFIT!

  7. But aim it at mums, dads, and other non-techies.. on Chrome OS To Support "Legacy" PC Apps Through Remote Access · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "which is hardly a technological leap given that numerous applications today offer users an analogous screen-sharing / remote access functionality."

    This would be true, if Apple couldn't sell a new version of phone even with the fact it can't play mp3s as ringtones.

    Why remote access seems to every techie the most normal thing in the world, its a whole different ball game getting it to a level in which my mum can understand it. If they can get this right then she wont care that she could of done it 10 years ago with some other software.

  8. Why is this news? on HP Gives Printers Email Addresses · · Score: 4, Informative

    At work we have printers and scanners you can email to, from Ricoh.

    Not sure what this is getting on slashdot for exactly?

  9. "Don't fight back - they'll get bored" on Study Shows Standing Up To Bullies Is Good For You · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well the subject makes it clear what I was told....

    However it was until I decided to smash one guys head with a huge book, and kick another where it hurt while wearing steel toe caps that I got the reputation for being a "bit crazy and mad" that they stopped.

    Yes, hit them back. It works and they don't expect it. Just make sure your ready and know how to defend yourself else you'll end up getting hurt even more.

  10. Use them to wake up instead! on Your Computer Or iPad Could Be Disrupting Sleep · · Score: 1

    I jump on my computer in the morning to help me wake up - it especially works well during the winter months when infact its still dark outside...

    As for evenings, I just turn my computer off and walk away - The only electronic device of that type is my phone, which is face down on the side of my bed, and its on silent anyway.

  11. Yes. on ISP Is Bypassing Firefox's Location Bar Search · · Score: 1

    Yes.

    But then again customers can stop using them. (Of course theres legal ins and outs depending on the contract you signed... but you read that of course didn't you?)

  12. Re:the more attention you give morons... on Man Sues Neighbor Claiming Wi-Fi Made Him Sick · · Score: 4, Funny

    Erm....

    If their eyes are "lighting up" then I think they have a perfectly valid reason to sue ;)

  13. Re:HAARP@Home - rocking the trojan horse boat on Laptop Computers Detect and Monitor Earthquakes · · Score: 1

    love the haarp but this is already "part" of seti at home... as in it runs under boinc, which is from the creators of seti...

  14. Re:Sitemaps? on Google Indexing In Near-Realtime · · Score: 1

    that involves the googlebot hitting the site map, or you submitting it manually...

    this is all automatic.

    However, How is this any different from RSS? (except this is designed to be viewed by a machine rather than a human?)

  15. Re:Conductive films, cloths, or plastics... on Killer Apartment Vs. Persistent Microwave Exposure? · · Score: 1

    And hope they never want to have a BBQ? (I'm guessing there is some sort of outside facitity, i couldn't imagine living without that...

  16. o_O on What Has Your Phone Survived? · · Score: 1

    My brother had some old phone which was annoyingly rubbish, so much so that he once scored a try (converted rugby shot - think american football, except we dont need to hold the ball up!) using his phone as a ball....

    that thing flew, landed about 3 inches into the ground.... and still worked without a scratch - I think after that he may of glued it to the wall or something as some kind of weird relic type worship...

  17. Re:Mmm on Fallout: New Vegas Coming This Fall, Trailer Released · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Its modded down due to the form it was put accross in, not the content of the comment.

    Simply put, if you can complain about something without having to resort to swearing, your point is more likely to be heard, and concidered as valid. Start swearing and your just another 12 year old who managed to get on the net before growing a pair.

    Maybe it was buggy on the PC, I dont know, I played it on the 360 and it was/is amazing. It has lots of bugs in the DLC, even on the 360 version. I got annoyed at times at the random freezes but my enjoyment of the game itself has over come these short fallings.

  18. Re:That is fast! on Fallout: New Vegas Coming This Fall, Trailer Released · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Stand alone...

    What worries me now is the word "simulation" in the middle of that statement. I loved fallout 3; played through 3 times (twice for both karma routes + once for all dlc). The only DLC I didn't really enjoy was anchoridge simply because it was a "simulation" and a game for me is a simulation, so you get one inside the other, which then only limits more of what you can do/what is acceptable.

    In anchoridge I didn't really care about the person I was controlling as it wasn't "now". Sounds stupid I know as its still a game but I didn't have the connect with the chara. I'd built up over 30 or so hours...

  19. Re:Article Comments on AT&T Glitch Connects Users To Wrong Accounts · · Score: 1

    It uses more bandwidth due to encrypted data being larger than unencrypted.... think about it (For the transmitter).

    It uses more CPU (at the encrypter and decrypter ends).

    However for the transmitter, the data is merely larger, its no harder to handle encrypted data than it is to handle unencrypted data.

  20. Re:There is a huge difference. on Should Gaming Worlds Join the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    Not to mention you can't just /kick or /ignore generally in work situations.

    I was trying to figure out in my head just now why this never works and suddenly it hit me. If you work involved this type of thing, and you do this type of thing for fun, at home, most employeers eventually realise they can say

    "If you do this for fun, why are we paying you so much?"

  21. Randomly I noticed that key today... on Does Your PC Really Need a SysRq Button Anymore? · · Score: 2, Informative

    randomly I noticed that key earlier today, because some people have been given new usb keyboards instead of PS2 and they dont have that key (hp keyboards).... and now it appears here...

    Weird.

  22. Re:1 word. on Why Everyone Has High Hopes For Apple Tablet · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I remember when I studied graphic design at college... the main point the tutor made was "never do anything in front of the client, this devalues your work".

    Basically if you could do something that "would do" for the client in front of them, then they wouldn't see the value in paying you 10x the amount to do the same thing but in "higher quality."

    I never went into the industry but I still understand what he meant, but I guess it could be used for mock ups, and for quick changes (as you said); just not done in front of paying clients :)

    Of course my tutor could of been talking crap, he seemed to do that alot as well (And hated me for understanding computers better than him, as he had a mac loving complex.)

  23. Re:I don't beleive it on Hotmailers Hawking Hoax Hunan Half-Offs · · Score: 1

    Hmm, I have a hotmail custom domain (which I lose at the end of Feb. because they are no longer free) that I have had for several years and it doesn't get any spam at all. I wonder what the difference is? I just logged onto it again and except for service notices about the domain going away if I don't choose to pay $14.95 a year for the service (which I won't), there aren't any emails there [b]at all[/b]. No spam.

    ---

    Your not getting any emails ;)

  24. Re:I don't quite understand... on PlayStation Network Expanding To Involve Other Devices · · Score: 1

    Different tv to the one the ps3 is connected to maybe?

    Unless you've already blown all your cash on a ps3 and a sony tv of course ;D

  25. Re:universal preferences on Gnome Switches Nautilus Back To Browser Mode · · Score: 1

    But that would involve working with those crazy KDE devs and stuff!?! ;)

    Plus it'd only end up like html where each DE handles a setting differently anyway, even if they agree to handle them the same.

    Nice idea, but I found once I got used to gnome I've just stuck with it (I tried kde awhile ago and had lots of trouble and never really bothered changing again) - Plus I haven't yet had gnome drop all my settings upgrading from one version to another, so its not really something I care about...