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  1. Re:January 2010 on No XP Reprieve; Windows 7 Release Set · · Score: 1

    exactly, he should get his information from someone like Dell who is still going to be selling XP long after this cutoff date. i'm sure Dell gets all its ideas from Slashdot too though

  2. Re:cool tour, but no real surprise on Lego Secret Vault Contains All Sets In History · · Score: 1, Funny

    they keep it a secret in order to prevent the sort of nerd stampede that is sure to follow this article. surely i wasn't the only one that was watching the movie with more of an eye toward break-in possibilities (i think halfway through the movie i saw a spot in the ceiling where i could attach a zip-line to rappel into there Mission Impossible-style), that place is nerd heaven.

  3. Re:Really? on Brendan Eich Discusses the Future of JavaScript · · Score: 2, Funny

    since the last version prior to 3.0 was 2.0.0.14, 3.1 might be further off than it sounds

  4. Re:Download on Firefox Download Day To Start At 1 p.m. EST · · Score: 5, Funny

    and if you, for example, want to download firefox 4.0, you should change the link like so: http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-4.0&os=win&lang=en-US in this manner you can avoid the rush of people downloading 3.0 and the rush that will surely come with 4.0 as well.

  5. Re:Sounds interesting... on BMW Introduces GINA Concept Car, Covered In Fabric · · Score: 1

    i still wonder what this would look like on the open road or in a wind tunnel. it seems to me that the fabric would be moving around like Chevy Chase's face in the centrifuge scene of Spies Like Us, or like the jumpsuits worn by skydivers

  6. Re:Cavity search? on Full Body Scanners Installed In 10 US Airports · · Score: 1

    i'd be more concerned about the person behind him if he farted, i'm guessing the blade would not be aimed inward :P

  7. Re:Old News on Search For RMS Titanic Was a Cover Story · · Score: 1

    back in my day we only had word-of-mouth, so i will take your entire story at face value without clicking on any of the high-falootin' links

  8. Re:Printer ignition source on Explosion At ThePlanet Datacenter Drops 9,000 Servers · · Score: 1

    you left out PC LOAD LETTER, whatever that means

  9. Re:Kudo to their support team on Explosion At ThePlanet Datacenter Drops 9,000 Servers · · Score: 1

    i think people would see right through your ploy by the 4th or 5th call...

  10. Re:Server/customer ratio? on Explosion At ThePlanet Datacenter Drops 9,000 Servers · · Score: 1

    maybe they have the other server in their office and not in a dedicated data center at all

  11. Re:To recreate Blade Runner... on Philip K. Dick's 'Ubik' To Be Filmed · · Score: 1

    he was called on to play the part of a confused guy who doesn't understand all the things happening around him, that role is practically made for Keanu Reeves. the only part where he had to stretch himself was in the beginning where he had to act like a shut-in computer hacker, and luckily that part only lasted a few minutes because it didn't really work.

  12. Re:Previous efforts on Philip K. Dick's 'Ubik' To Be Filmed · · Score: 1

    Waking Life was more like a conversation with lots of people that are heavily doped up. the kind of people that have a revelation that "maybe our planets are just elementary particles in a larger scale universe"...imagine hearing 20 or 30 different such theories of life and humanity from people in that state of mind combined with animation that reinforces the airiness of the theories and you've summed up the movie

  13. Re:not a ring on Ghostly Ring Found Circling Dead Star · · Score: 4, Informative

    the ring is the empty looking space to the right of the star. the picture is kind of misleading because it seems like they're talking about a ring around that star, but the ring is instead circling an invisible object that's near it: "The magnetar itself is not visible in this image, as it has not been detected at infrared wavelengths (it has been seen in X-ray light)."

  14. Re:solution in search of a problem on Google To Host Ajax Libraries · · Score: 1

    c) The referrer data is just from the page itself that loaded the JavaScript. If you think about it, if you included prototype.js anyway then we could get that information via the spider... but it isn't of interest. but now you also have the traffic pattern data for any of those sites that didn't use google analytics already, that's definitely valuable.
  15. Re:Who are you arguing with? on Stealing From Banks One Cent at a Time · · Score: 1
    there is someone arguing it wasn't illegal:

    "Largent explained that he had read the terms of service of the sites he was targeting, and believed he was doing nothing wrong, claiming that he needed the money to pay off debts."
  16. Re:Mass Hysteria on Line Forms At Apple's Always-Open Manhattan Cube · · Score: 5, Funny

    nothing to see here. just a bunch of people seeking iGuidance, looking for an iPurpose to live

  17. Re:nerd credentials? on The Secret History of Star Wars · · Score: 2, Funny

    that recipe would only work for someone old enough to have a 10k UID or lower, the rest of us have too short an attention span to follow that many steps

  18. Re:Yes on Do Static Source Code Analysis Tools Really Work? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    These tools take static checking just a step beyond what's offered by a compiler, but in practice that's very useful. that's a good point in that compiler warnings and errors are really just the result of static analysis, and i think everyone has experience in finding bugs due to those
  19. Re:Known for years on Black Holes Don't Trap Information Forever · · Score: 1

    that's great, but Stanley Kubrick saw it 40 years ago. it's clear now that this is the underlying message of the end scene of "2001: A Space Odyssey"

  20. Re:the other 15% on 85% of Chinese Citizens Like Internet Censorship · · Score: 1

    85% of Chinese Likes Censorship

    That's not what they were asked because the Chinese government did not approve of the question.

    and everyone that posted on any of the various municipal wifi stories saying they'd like the same thing done in their area thinks that the government should "control" or "manage" their internet also ;)
  21. Re:$3000 for a laptop?? on US State Dept. Loses Anti-Terrorist Program Laptops · · Score: 1

    apparently they make a beeping noise when they synch up networking to another XO PC in range, 10,000 of them all synching up at once might be deafening

  22. Re:$3000 for a laptop?? on US State Dept. Loses Anti-Terrorist Program Laptops · · Score: 1

    i bet they really spent $300 each on 10,000 OLPCs, can you imagine the noise that'd make when they all mesh together?

  23. Re:It's still trivially crackable. on Next-Generation CAPTCHA Exploits the Semantic Gap · · Score: 1

    Trivia questions. Most internet communities are dedicated to some kind of specific topic. Even someone who is unfamiliar with the trivia can use Google, which the machine cannot. machines can't use Google? isn't that what Google search APIs are for?

    (Also, said trivia questions will be applicable only to one specific site, so it would never pay for the spammers to build a database of them.) the spammer can probably search that specific site for the answer, since CAPTCHAs usually are not used to prevent reading a site just posting to it
  24. mod parent up! on iGoogle Launches Developer Sandbox · · Score: 1

    the "add developer tools" link on this page is currently broken and his link seems to be what they intended

  25. Re:Do not pass Go? on POD Braces Itself Against Amazon · · Score: 1

    if more people are buying books offline than online, then why does it matter that they do the majority of online sales? Linux is probably the dominant operating system among those that are distributed by bittorrent, but that's meaningless because most people don't get their operating system that way. you're making the term monopoly meaningless by letting it apply to specific distribution channels that aren't even used by the majority of people.