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  1. Re:The ACCC is going to put on a show on eBay Australia Delays PayPal Change Indefinitely · · Score: 1

    Interesting. I wonder if that's illegal (forcing distributors of my product to sell it for a particular price)?

    Also I just realise I replied to timmarhy so I wasted my breath.

  2. Re:The ACCC is going to put on a show on eBay Australia Delays PayPal Change Indefinitely · · Score: 1

    How is it every single petrol station, no matter which company they claim to be, all have identical prices? And all of their prices rise and fall at the exact same days?

    How can anyone hear these facts and still reject the fact that there is price fixing going on.

  3. Re:Not surprised on Surprisingly Few People Collect On GTA Hot Coffee · · Score: 1

    When you put it like that, no. But I am surprised at the level of stupidity one can have and still somehow manage not kill their child.

  4. How long... on Surprisingly Few People Collect On GTA Hot Coffee · · Score: 1

    I'm just wondering how long it will take for Take Two to release an uncut version of the game that has the Hot Coffee minigame available without the mod?

  5. Re:Not surprised on Surprisingly Few People Collect On GTA Hot Coffee · · Score: 1

    I was about to say that they shouldn't have installed the mod if they didn't want to do that sort of thing. UNTIL I realised that all the things you listed are actual features of the game (rather then a hack applied by people playing the game). Good god! I may have to check this shit out.

  6. Re:Not surprised on Surprisingly Few People Collect On GTA Hot Coffee · · Score: 1

    At least you weren't modded Informative or Insightful.

  7. Re:Not surprised on Surprisingly Few People Collect On GTA Hot Coffee · · Score: 4, Funny

    Who the fuck would tell their kids its called a cookie while trying to keep them sheltered from sex? Cookies is something you eat. The child may eventually decide to test out why s/he calls it a cookie.

  8. Re:One does not follow the other... on Japan Imposes "Fine On Fat" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You talking about eating junk food or smoking? Because I certainly don't agree to inhale second-hand smoking just because I happened to be in a public area.

    So no, smoking isn't something someone is doing to their own body.

  9. Re:One does not follow the other... on Japan Imposes "Fine On Fat" · · Score: 1

    I'll agree with you, the second you agree to get rid of cigarettes.

  10. Re:From the United States Declaration of Independe on Blogger Launches 'Google Bomb' At McCain · · Score: 1

    So what militia do you belong to ibane, and when can we expect to hear about your rebels on the news?

    Or are you just yet another anonymous coward?

  11. Re:How Come? on Return of the '70s Microsoft Weirdos · · Score: 1

    Because I don't have Karma I will say +1 Informative.

  12. Re:My IT Dept on Return of the '70s Microsoft Weirdos · · Score: 1

    I thought it meant he's working for shit money because clearly none of his coworkers can afford decent clothing.

  13. Re:Thank you on Return of the '70s Microsoft Weirdos · · Score: 1

    or 5 years ahead.

  14. Re:awesome bar = f u bar on Comparing Firefox 3 With Opera 9.5 On Linux · · Score: 1

    Which version of IE are you using? Because I just tried in 7.0 and it didn't work.

  15. I only read 1 on What RSS Feeds Do You Use? · · Score: 1

    The only one I read is the one for the Wizards website so I know when they've updated it.

  16. Re:Easy. on Comparing Firefox 3 With Opera 9.5 On Linux · · Score: 1

    Can someone explain why blocking javascript with that extension vs an option for disabling it completely (like in Opera) is better or even needed? Many websites add extremely useful functionality by using JavaScript (Slashdot is only one example). However many advertisers include scripts on other pages so they can plant you with a cookie and then use that to spy on the websites you visit. If you're willing to tell everyone every website you go to, how often you go and when you go, that's not a problem. But for many, we prefer to keep our privacy.
  17. Re:Easy. on Comparing Firefox 3 With Opera 9.5 On Linux · · Score: 1

    Opera searches the full text of the page as well as all those (well there aren't tags in opera but the description of the page in the bookmarks is searched as well). I can start typing in the text of a slashdot article I've visited a while back and it will display in the dropdown from the address bar. Huh, that's odd. I tried it again and it worked this time.

    I do like the feature of searching a page quite a bit and I'm disappointed Firefox doesn't have it. However I prefer NoScript over the feature.

  18. Re:Easy. on Comparing Firefox 3 With Opera 9.5 On Linux · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's nowhere near the functionality of NoScript. On this page there are 3 JavaScripts that want to run, but I'm only running 1 of them (the slashdot one).

    Also wasn't the awesome bar suppose to be stolen from Opera as well? If so, where is it?

  19. Re:Easy. on Comparing Firefox 3 With Opera 9.5 On Linux · · Score: 1

    Can you tell me how or link to a page that does? Last time I asked I was recommended I use some proxy software which was anything but as easy as NoScript.

  20. Re:Easy Install on Comparing Firefox 3 With Opera 9.5 On Linux · · Score: 1, Informative

    The easiest thing to do is to use the Ubuntu software repository, but its only as up-to-date as the people who update it, which can be slower then the people who update the actual software.

  21. Re:Opera screen real estate vs Firefox on Comparing Firefox 3 With Opera 9.5 On Linux · · Score: 1

    I have mine almost exactly the same (forward/back, reload and stop are on the left of the location bar with home removed completely while I have kept my bookmarks bar below it). I sometimes forget this isn't the default GUI for Firefox.

  22. Re:Easy. on Comparing Firefox 3 With Opera 9.5 On Linux · · Score: 1

    Most people also don't care about security. I do, so I use Firefox with NoScript.

  23. Re:awesome bar = f u bar on Comparing Firefox 3 With Opera 9.5 On Linux · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here's the best example I can think of for this awesome feature.

    1) Go to this page in a new tab
    2) Now close that tab.
    3) In a new tab start typing "Warlord Tiefling" in the location bar.
    4) Notice how a link is coming up and how it is highlighting the word as you type it. But if you select it and hit enter, you'll see that the words "Tiefling Warlord" do not appear in the URL.

    This is the awesomeness of the awesome bar. It doesn't just search the URL of your history and bookmarks, it searches the page title as well! So while trying to remember the URL for the Warlord Tiefling page would be impossible, the awesome bar means you don't have to.

  24. Re:what about my wife and children? on Internet Pirates In France To Lose Broadband · · Score: 1

    No, but very few people would argue that your wife and kids should join you in jail either.

  25. Re:No unsual at all.. on China Says There's No Antitrust Probe On Microsoft · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    In China-Speak Slashdot's racism shining through again. It isn't China-speak, nor is someone from China a China-man. The correct word in both these cases is Chinese. Sheeesh!