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  1. Re:Google will give the answer on Google's Math Puzzle · · Score: 1

    Do you think if I told them I Googled for the answer they would give me the job?

    No.

  2. Re:I wonder on Google's Math Puzzle · · Score: 1

    In addition, the billboards were up around July (this article is ridiculously delayed) so Google have probably stopped listening to responses now. They would have only paid attention the first few, who didn't have the ability to search the web for the answer ;)

  3. Re:Google's joke on Google's Math Puzzle · · Score: 1

    So perhaps they actually told linux.org they were going to set up an account that would be 'logged into' about 100 times? And asked them not to lock it or something. For Google, I expect linux.org would do that.

  4. Re:Sounds awesome. on Ubuntu Linux Preview Released · · Score: 4, Informative

    Unfortunately the server was slashdotted with 0 comments. Try the Coral link but that is also very slow.

  5. Re:The beauty of a non-integrated browser........ on Critical Mozilla, Thunderbird Vulnerabilities · · Score: 2, Funny

    On the bright side, his doubleclick cookies were preserved through the installation, as well as his History (complete with over 500 pr0n links, I hope you password that XP account)

  6. Re:So will it be Mozilla's fault... on Critical Mozilla, Thunderbird Vulnerabilities · · Score: 4, Funny

    To my knowledge, Mozilla has never done that.

    Fucking complainers. Mozilla is still beta. Vase-throwing will be in the next version, and dog-kicking can already be done with a third-party extension. If you really want brakeline-cutting, why don't you go code it yourself?

  7. Re:Change the name on MS-Sun Agreement Leaves Opening For OO.org Suits · · Score: 5, Funny

    IANAL

    With reasoning like that, you should be! I think you could really help SCO's case.

  8. Re:In other news... on Early Warning For Microsoft Premium Customers · · Score: 1

    To be slightly more accurate...

    In an attempt to save its population from the upcoming meteor strike, the Government is deploying bunkers around the country. The locations are currently unknown and there is only a limited time for civilians to reach them before the meteor hits. Subscribers of the "Stay Alive Platinum" service will recieve the bunker locations early so they can get in first.

  9. Re:Slashdot rendering warrants "MAJOR BUG" status( on Batch-o-Moz: Firefox, Thunderbird, Suite Released · · Score: 1

    It's a major bug because Mozilla can't handle large amounts of nested tables. Slashdot is just the best example for it. I would agree that its priority is probably influenced by public image - most geeks switching are going to use Slashdot, and Firefox not rendering that is a lot worse than not rendering MSN. As the browser's market changes such priority adjustments might phase out.

  10. Re:New features on Batch-o-Moz: Firefox, Thunderbird, Suite Released · · Score: 1

    I'm looking forward to all of these features (although the first PR I tried didn't save any of my passwords of 'don't show this dialog again' settings, so I reverted to 0.9.3) - however, this is especially cool:

    Numerous improvements to bookmarks including more reliable presentation of Site icons...

    I'm sure I'm not the only one to have built up a nice links bar full of icons and suddenly have them all get replaced with the generic one every so often.

  11. Re:Spread Firefox on Batch-o-Moz: Firefox, Thunderbird, Suite Released · · Score: 1

    Wow, unreable light mode where you get bold headings and plain posts with virtually no spacing inbetween. And you lose the (fairly good) main page styles and (variably good) subpage styles completely.

    Some of us want an IT section that looks like it wasn't picked by a florist, but don't want to lose ALL of the styles across the entire site.

    Would be sure neat if Slashdot editors either actually listened to these comments, or made a poll to settle it once and for all.

  12. Re:your mission, should you choose to accept it .. on Batch-o-Moz: Firefox, Thunderbird, Suite Released · · Score: 1

    Use a different word such as "start" or "commence."

    Oh, and if Outlook doesn't like the colour yellow I should use lilac or something? These idiots have no respect for the English language!!

  13. Re:your mission, should you choose to accept it .. on Batch-o-Moz: Firefox, Thunderbird, Suite Released · · Score: 1

    This is awesome. If IE is still unusable when it hits version 7, we'll have a covert group of techies and admins installing Firefox on computers around the globe. If IE is usable, customers won't complain, and we still don't get viruses and spyware. It's win-win!

    (Except for CSS support and proprietary extensions, that is.)

  14. Re:MMORPG? on Obsessively Detailed Map Of Springfield · · Score: 2, Informative

    Hardly. Each 'level', of which there about three main ones, is just a loop of road with some side roads/shortcuts and houses around them. Unless Springfield is a collection of three loops of road unconnected in any way, the Springfield in that game was not accurate.

  15. Re:AMD == outsourcing hardware. on AMD Desktops Outsell Intel · · Score: 1

    You object to having your job shipped to India ... The job you save will, ultimately, be your own.

    I'm not American, I don't care if my job gets outsourced (because it's simple business, and I understand business) and finally IT isn't my field. So you are making gross assumptions to appeal to the general case.

    I see no reason for companies to pay more and pass those costs to me if they use American labour. I only see problems if the outsourced labour does not perform its job adequately, or there is a breakdown in communication.

  16. Re:Intel secret plan on AMD Desktops Outsell Intel · · Score: 3, Funny

    Intel is planning to release a 10.000 MHZ cpu and kick AMD poor lame ass.

    Watch it, in several European countries (and a bunch of non-European ones) that truly does mean 10,000 MHz :)

  17. Re:Including businesses? on AMD Desktops Outsell Intel · · Score: 4, Informative

    Maybe for enthusiast and home gaming PCs, but if you include business desktops I'd venture to say that Intel still carries somewhere around 75%.

    The blurb itself says that despite AMD's share of new CPUs, Intel have 82.7% of the US market. Which is close enough to 72%.

    The article itself admits that AMD's market is 'constrained' such that these results are very impressive. Intel indeed makes AMD a clear underdog for businesses and (at least up until very recently) notebooks.

  18. Re:This is nonsense on Linux Standard Base 2.0 released · · Score: 1

    Why the hell is RPM the standard format? Oh wait, I remember. Red Hat has commercial backing. Mandrake has commercial backing. Gentoo and Debian don't.

    Despite this commercial reasoning though, I'd still wager that these guys have their heads up their arses.

  19. Re:then again... on Linux Standard Base 2.0 released · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ever had ASCII dreams? Or nightmares. I once dreamt I was getting chased by a gigantic ampersand. Too much NetHack...

  20. Re:A few points on New Worm Installs Sniffer · · Score: 5, Funny

    As soon as your comment was posted, a dozen hackers got to work on a virus that does exactly what you describe. Thanks for helping fuck up my reports, asshole.

  21. Re:Don't injure trespassers... on Home Defense, Geek Style? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Looks like that kid from Home Alone is liable quite heavil. Is there a rule against a gigantic paint shelf trap?

  22. Re:Why? on .Net On Lego Mindstorm · · Score: 1

    I think this is another case of the infamous 'We did it because it could be done'; from the website, I see no 'About' page or examples of how 'Lego.NET' is useful.

  23. Re:Slashdotted all right and Google doesn't cache on Xbox 2 Concept Designs Leaked? · · Score: 4, Informative

    RTF (cached) A. The images are on another server. Thanks to the Google cache we can see them through the site.

  24. Re:Port the IE rendering engine on KDE Gets Gecko/Mozilla Support · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Read the parent post again. He is proposing a modification to the Gecko engine to make it emulate IE5/6's quirks (as well as the IE4 and below quirks that it already emulates in the aptly-named 'quirks mode') so that you can view the page how it would look in IE without using IE. This would be incredibly useful. It's not a new idea by any means, but it would solve your problem.

  25. Re:I always wanted to do this... ;) on Star Wars TV Show, And An Unmade Trilogy · · Score: 1

    The server handles it, although connection takes a bit of time and I'm getting 4.0 KB/sec on a 768 Kbps connection. I think slow speed for all users is much better than connection timeouts for 90% of them, so kudos to nexcess.net ;)