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  1. One Suggestion on Map of Web Content By Perspective · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Don't let your site's first impression be a giant popup window that makes them unable to type a search term until they click on "close slideshow".

  2. Re:You need to narrow the scope on How Should I Teach a Basic Programming Course? · · Score: 1

    syntax error on line 120

  3. Re:Stupid scaremongering on EMP-Shielded Power Grids Under Development · · Score: 1

    As a person who has to deal with Kansas drivers every day, I have to say disabling every car in Kansas might not be a bad thing.

  4. Re:Flawless with one user? on Sprint's Xohm WiMax Network Debuts In Baltimore, Works Well · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Do you happen to work for Comcast?

  5. Re:And? on Wikimedia Simplifies By Moving To Ubuntu · · Score: 2, Informative

    A nail clipper works better to remove the "flaps". And applying cocoa butter or shea butter to the area afterwards, as well as the area between the nail and the finger.

  6. Re:Costly Waste of Time on Judge Tosses Telco Suit Over City-Owned Network · · Score: 1

    I've got a friend who lives on a street called "Southbenton". But there's also a street called "Benton" that has north and south ends. It took him weeks to get his HDTV. He said he's actually watched the FedEx guy drive past his house to the next block, and later found that his package has been marked as a failed delivery because no one was home, even though he was at home. And this happened several times with the same package.

  7. Re:Not in upcoming Debian on Linux 2.6.27 Out · · Score: 1

    did you introduce preassembled LEGO to them too?

    No but Lego is easy to put together.

    it looks like you have Slashdot confused with your children, your (inept) friends, YOUR GRANDMA'S BINGO CLUB, etc. congrats for missing the point though.

    It looks like you have Lego confused with the core of an operating system. I know this is Slashdot and I'm fighting a losing battle. You can call my people inept and use all the big letters you want but you know a week or two from now there's going to be somebody on Slashdot complaining about why people are still using Windows even with all its faults. Microsoft's tactics are half of the reason. You're the other half.

  8. Re:Not in upcoming Debian on Linux 2.6.27 Out · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I bet you buy your LEGO preassembled too.

    No, but my house and car came pre-assembled. I knew I would get modded to hell because I suggested Windows over Linux in that situation, but I did it anyway because it had to be said. The point I was trying to make is, it is fairly bad to expect somebody to recompile their operating system just to get their webcam working when other operating systems have gotten this right years ago. The OS version of a "swing voter" would have become a new Windows or Mac user as soon as they heard that. If you read my previous comment and think about it, you may realize it's not a slam on Linux. It's a slam on the overly used phrase, "then go build it yourself". As a person who has recompiled the kernel, introduced Linux to her children and friends, and actually installed Firefox on friends' computers, I have learned over time that telling them to recompile software to make it work just doesn't help the situation.

  9. Re:Not in upcoming Debian on Linux 2.6.27 Out · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    So? Download and build your own kernel..

    Or get Windows or Mac and never have to hear that.

  10. Re:Maybe I'm just weird... on Algorithms Can Make You Pretty · · Score: 1

    In their slideshow, I'd be unable to tell you what changed in pictures 1 (a man) and 2 (a woman). Picture 3, a picture of a man, is noticeably different. I can see slight differences in picture 4 through 7 but they don't look any better to me.

  11. Re:I actually think on Algorithms Can Make You Pretty · · Score: 1

    There was a music video by the Yin Yang Twins. I noticed the girls in this video and asked, "How in the world could they find these people attractive?" But then I thought about where they came from, and the type of girls that would probably give them the time of day. I came to the conclusion, what people find attractive is more about what they're used to getting, rather than those magazine cover girls. So maybe the less mainstream-looking girl would appeal to somebody on a site like Slashdot, just because the girls they interact with are less mainstream.

  12. Re:It's inherantly flawed on Algorithms Can Make You Pretty · · Score: 2, Funny

    And that same someone apparently had mod points.

  13. Re:See what happens when you put Hillary Clinton's on Algorithms Can Make You Pretty · · Score: 1

    I think it would be interesting to see what the algorithm does to somebody like Halle Berry or Jessica Alba. What happens when you try to beautify somebody who might already be considered perfect-looking? What happens if you try the algorithm on somebody who is actually in the algorithm's database?

  14. Re:I'm Already Pretty on Algorithms Can Make You Pretty · · Score: 1

    I'd prefer to look like the after picture rather than the before. I also noticed it did not remove the spot on the side of her face. I wonder why "beautification" software wouldn't include skin smoothing.

  15. Re:Amazing on Boston University Working On LED Wireless Networks · · Score: 1

    Maybe they can put an LED on the TV that tells you when it's not in your line of sight...

  16. Re:Why can't we sue the lawyers? on Yoko Ono/EMI Suit Exposes Fair Use Flaw · · Score: 1

    I think it's dirty to put civil rights activists in the same category as SCO. They may not be everybody's favorites but at least Jesse & Al have done some good things.

  17. Re:I don't think most people care that it's locked on Steve Wozniak Predicts Death of the IPod · · Score: 1

    ...but over time the Android platform will likely build up a more impressive library of apps written by tinkers and hobbyists who did care. Even non-geek users will eventually notice the difference.

    Did that work for Linux?

  18. Re:How convenient! on Geneticist Claims Human Evolution Is Over · · Score: 1

    So maybe older men, who eat trash and never work out, should reproduce with older women who eat trash and never work out, so we can produce people who are able to reproduce well into old age and can survive on any food with little exercise. They'll go great with those DeLoreans that run on empty beer cans.

  19. Re:But what happens when... on Brainwave Controlled Game From Square Enix · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's why I always make backups.

  20. Re:terrorism-whatever on Maryland Police Put Activists' Names On Terror List · · Score: 1

    I'll bet when they actually encounter a terrorist, they'll have to use 'terrorism-other'.

  21. Re:All these lists are insane on Maryland Police Put Activists' Names On Terror List · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It seems the cops, after going down their list of crimes and not finding any that fit, did not even consider the possibility that no crime would fit because nothing these people did was a crime.

  22. Re:Ads in Games on Google Brings Ads To Games, Game Ads To YouTube · · Score: 1

    It has to connect to the internet so they can keep giving you newer ads on top of the ones you already got. I think it's only a matter of time before Google ads are on Blu-Ray. Maybe they'll make an Android Blu-Ray player with which you have to set up a gMail account to watch a movie.

  23. Re:Bummer on Palin E-mail Hacker Indicted · · Score: 1

    Given that logic, I'd love to hear your analysis of OJ's current situation.

  24. Re:Take the opposite approach. on Give Up the Fight For Personal Privacy? · · Score: 1

    I would have modded you Insightful.

  25. Re:Mc Cain + Palin spam emails on Election Dirty Tricks About To Begin · · Score: 1

    He probably outsourced them to India and China.