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  1. Re:Good app recommendations? on Playbook OS 2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    The whole problem is that there *are* no apps. The ability to run android apps was the mitigation strategy, but isn't going too well as noted in TFAs. You're best bet is to sideload android apps. Try http://www.playbookbars.com/ for a whole bunch of unofficially packaged android apps.

  2. Re:What 30%? on Scott Adams Says Plenty Would Choose Life In Noprivacyville · · Score: 1

    Not if I have discount cards for every store imaginable. I know people who do.

  3. Re:Wow. Great. on Google Goggles Solves Sudoku · · Score: 1

    Getting a computer to solve a mental exercise is often times a greater and more fulfilling mental exercise.

  4. Robotic? on 15-Year-Old Boy Fitted With Robotic Heart · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why is this "robotic" and not just "mechanical" ?

  5. Re:And 1/2... on Toyota Accelerator Data Skewed Toward Elderly · · Score: 1

    1 usd per liter is 3.785 usd per gallon. How is that cheaper (or cheap) by anyone's standards?

  6. Re:there's a small town in the mountains on Scalpers Earned $25M Gaming Online Ticket Sellers · · Score: 1

    The townspeople can only refuse to buy as long as there are alternative sellers for flour. If the asshole starts buying from several sources, over time, he becomes a popular seller and if there isn't competition, the only known seller. All producers will be forced to sell to him, because he's the only access to the market now.

    How does free market correct for these parasitic middlemen?

    How does free market kill **AA?

  7. replying to cancel accidental mod on First Look At Windows 7 Beta 1 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    replying to cancel accidental mod

  8. How is this new? on Cell Chip Coming To the PC Via a PCI Express Card · · Score: 4, Informative

    Mercury had a PCI-e cell expansion card for over a year now.

    Unlike the leadtek one, the mercury version has the full version of the cell processor, with 8SPEs. Dont think it comes with any prebuilt codecs though.

  9. Re:What the hell are they talking about? on Firm Sues Sony Over Cell Processor · · Score: 1
    The Cell on the PS3 is split into 10 cores

    Nine cores not ten. 8 SPEs and just one PPE. The PPE is two-way hardware multi-threaded, but is just one physical core.

  10. It had better sink.. on Robot Aims To Walk On Water · · Score: 1

    .. when it stops running. Otherwise it is a Duck, not a basilisk

  11. Re:This is so amazing on RIAA Wins Worst Company In America 2007 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Why does saying "I know I will get modded down" get you modded up? Some kind of reverse psychology?

    yes now you can mod me down :)

  12. What I need more.. on Novell Releases OO–OOXML Translator · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ..is an evolution plugin that connects to Microsoft Exchange server Outlook Web Access through a proxy.

    My job requires me to program on Linux, and I also prefer using Linux full time as ITservices here has draconian policies here for Windows users (Everyone is a restricted user and they cannot even change their own wallpaper). On my linux box, I have root access, my own wallpaper and mp3 player. There are so few linux boxen here that ITS let me have root access. They aren't well versed enough, and they don't want the extra hassles.

    I don't get to choose what Mail server my employer uses. I can choose my client though. IT services refuses to support POP or SMTP as they have had to deal with Viruses before.I work on a Dual Boot FC6/WinXp box, and am forced to forced to boot into WinXp just to manage my email. Outlook Web Access does not work that great with Firefox, and does not provide for a way to pull email off the server and store them locally. Our web access is through an authenticated Proxy and the evolution plugin cannot deal with that (yet). What do the other folks out there with linux boxen and M$ mail servers deal with this?

  13. Penguins sighted in Andhra Pradesh on Tamil Nadu (India) Shutting the Door On Microsoft · · Score: 1

    I took a driving license test in Andhra Pradesh (a state just north of Tamil Nadu). I was required to take a computer based multiple choice questionnaire that was hosted on a RH box. And that was two years ago.

  14. Dont copy my method on How to Prevent Form Spam Without Captchas · · Score: 1

    Bot operators are not stupid, they learn too. Just like they finally broke through Captchas, they will break through any method that becomes sufficiently popular or pervasive. The way to keep them at bay would be to use as many diverse methods as possible. Many readers described their own simple ideas that (they claim) work. They will only work as long as they dont become popular.

    "What is the nth word of this sentence" is an idea that seems to catch everybody's fancy here. I'm sure somebody is already working on breaking that in their basement.

    R
  15. Re:One OR two batteries? on The Mighty Mouse Has Lost Its Tail · · Score: 1

    Ummm.. My laptop.

  16. Re:Kafkaesque on Cockroaches Make Group Decisions? · · Score: 1

    umm.. Gregor wasn't really a cockroach . Just that english speakers thought he was.

  17. *nix and Mac are safe :: You wish !!! on Meet the Botnet Hunters · · Score: 1

    " Either that or switch from XP to a better OS platform that has fewer known vulnerabilities (Mac, *nix)."

    From TFA:

    A few months ago, Taylor became obsessed with tracking a rather unusual botnet consisting of computers running Mac OS X and Linux operating systems. Working a week straight, Taylor located nearly all of the infected machines and had some success..

  18. Re:Smoke isn't safe. on Safe Cigarettes? · · Score: 1

    "This quote from the article says it best:"

    Not quite, the safer cigarette is more like the 20th floor, you get to live a little longer before you hit the ground for good!

  19. Re:Trick on seeing it... on LGP Announces New Competition · · Score: 1

    Stereograms

    umm how does one beat the lameness filter again?

  20. Re:Company Issues Press Release on Symantec Launches Anti-Spyware Beta · · Score: 1

    Umm... Did u use firefox to type out that post? It refused to spell Slashdot correctly.. For heavens sake at least spell your links correct!

  21. Re:Picture Passwords on Password Security Not Easy · · Score: 1

    u make the life of over-the-shoulder-lookers extremly easy. i have one such guy in the office who look-guesses peoples passwords just for kicks !

  22. Re:1GB = 1024MB so... on Kevin Rose Load Tests Gmail · · Score: 1

    wots the difference between a slashdotter and a non? a non thinks a kilobyte is 1000 bytes, a slashdotter thinks a kilometer is 1024 meters