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  1. Re:People are funny. on Why Dumbphones Still Dominate, For Now · · Score: 1

    I'm British you insensitive clod

  2. What do you think the sausages are made out of? on Agloves Allow For Touchscreen Use On Cold Days · · Score: 1

    Many South Koreans apparently turned to using sausages as a stylus but if you'd prefer not to be hassled by dogs as you type a text there are less meat product-based solutions

    Hassled by dogs? For Koreans it's a virtuous cycle

  3. Re:All HTTP traffic should be encrypted on Google Offers Encrypted Web Search Option · · Score: 1

    Many websites are hosted at a single IP address. For SSL to work I believe you need 1 website=1 IP Address. I suppose IPv6 could solve this but people could then still eavesdrop on what websites you are visiting, albeit not the pages on that website. IPv6 could solve the don't have enough IP addresses problem and IPv6 would also bring IPSEC, which AFAIU will allow all IP traffic to be trivially encrypted.

  4. Re:Gender isn't sex. on How To Prove Someone Is Female? · · Score: 1

    Even if that were true it is not very useful in this situation. Would you argue that infertile people should not be able to compete in IAAF events?

  5. Re:Not that amazing on Behind Menuet, an OS Written Entirely In Assembly · · Score: 1

    Valerie Aurora wrote an interesting article about the paper at lwn: http://lwn.net/Articles/270081/

  6. Re:You Only Rip Me Off Once on The Music Industry's Crisis Writ Large · · Score: 1
  7. Re:What about Python? on Building Linux Applications With JavaScript · · Score: 1

    See Havoc Pennington's blog entry on this

    excerpt:
    <quote>I would define an "embedded" language as one that doesn't come with a platform. It's small and easy to glue together with an app written in C or C++. It uses the same platform as the app. If the platform has an introspection capability like XPCOM or GObject-Introspection, then the platform can be exported to the embedded language in an automated way.</quote>

  8. Re:Open source overkill on Dirac 1.0.0 Released · · Score: 5, Informative

    The GPL makes assurances regarding patents that the MIT license doesn't:

    "Each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free patent license under the contributor's essential patent claims, to make, use, sell, offer for sale, import and otherwise run, modify and propagate the contents of its contributor version."

    So if you use it as a GPL licensed library you can't get sued by the BBC or other contributors to the code.

  9. Re:Why not just... on Afterlife Will Be Costly For Digital Films · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)

            - Torvalds, Linus (1996-07-20)

  10. Re:It works? on Making Your Code OSS-Appealing? · · Score: 1

    Last time I checked the definition of professional work was getting paid for it.

  11. Re:OLPC is a grave threat to intel on Intel Laptop Competes With One Laptop Per Child · · Score: 1

    Thus they could move away from X86 if they wished.

    Intel doesn't care about this. They themselves tried to move away from x86 and failed

  12. Re:199$ is cheap? on Hacking XBox 360 HD-DVD To Play On XP · · Score: 1

    boh!

  13. Enterprise Ready on New Enterprise-Level Ubuntu Due This Week · · Score: 2, Funny

    Reminds me of something Jeff Waugh had to say.

  14. Re:Where to start with Slashcode on Slashdot CSS Redesign Contest · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you use the firefox web developer toolbar you can edit the CSS right there and see it applied instantly. This also gives you the flexability to view other pages with your CSS.

  15. Re:Fools... on Microsoft Says Recovery From Malware Becoming Impossible · · Score: 2, Insightful
    [snip] At least where I work, in the educational sector, that's impossible. The time spent retraining faculty and staff alone would outweigh [snip]

    As you work in the educational sector one would expect that retraining could be done in house and on the cheap. Also one would imagine that the vast majority of your users (i.e students) are to be taught how to use windows, so there is no difference as you would just teach them to learn gnome, etc. instead.

    It sound like a case of you can't be bothered

  16. Re:Wonderful on Driving Away Teens With High Frequency Noise · · Score: 1

    Incase you havn't noticed, saying "I would fucking knock your overweight ass into next week" is a verbal insult as the GP actually said it rather than did it.

    Try that again and I'll fuck you up

  17. Re:Lead chip design? on AMD Lures IBM Veteran to Lead Chip Design · · Score: 1

    boh!

  18. Friendly Fire on 7-Year Old Prequel Fan On ANH · · Score: 1

    It's like being a British soldier in Iraq

  19. Re:Would that be a problem? on New .XXX Top Level Domain · · Score: 2, Insightful

    you mean .org.us ?

  20. Re:IMDB on Time Picks Top 100 Films · · Score: 1

    Well it's nice to know that there is one accurate list

  21. Re:Fixing Daughter's Computer on Intel Head Recommends Apple · · Score: 1
    Take it away from her until she either learns to practice Safe Computing, or learns how to clean it up herself.

    and she will be able to learn safe computing without a computer how?

  22. Re:Ok, so my brain is copied... on Download Your Brain · · Score: 1

    I'll spell it out for you: IT'S A FUCKING JOKE

  23. Re:Ok, so my brain is copied... on Download Your Brain · · Score: 1
    I'd like to think I'm more than just the information patterns in my brain.

    And I'd like to think that the reason that girls don't like me is because they don't know the real me

  24. Re:Linus Trovalds on OpenOffice 2.0 Criticized on Use of Java · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Good to see that someone can save... on UK Schools Told to Dump Microsoft · · Score: 1

    I find it interesting that often on slashdot people say that both OSS and Microsoft have their niche.

    Ignoring installed user base, in what situations should Microsoft software be chosen. As far as I can tell both tend to produce horizontal applications and I can't see any real advantage by choosing Microsoft.