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  1. Re:Yeah, what he said.... on IT Departments Fear Growing Expertise of Users · · Score: 1

    If the ipod can be plugged in, it means there's other software that can be installed. Once you let general purpose software get installed, all it takes is one ignorant user to install something that comes with even something as trivial as vnc coupled with a self creating outgoing tunnel, and then anyone can get in to the user's machine and do anything he can... including leak any data he can leak.

    That said I won't work at a company that restricts me to the point of not letting me use things that make me more productive, like music. Some companies make their users responsible for their own computer... That said that requires having more of the employees technically minded. Once you make each user responsible though, all you need to spend on is a small staff of company hardware specialists for when things break, or users take things seriously enough to ask to be helped with things they don't know how to do, and the company starts saving money. That same staff is responsible for making lessons on how to do common tasks that people have trouble with, and then you start showing those lessons at employee training and online.

  2. Re:Great, when do we get a Slashdot API? on Social Networking Sites Opening Their APIs · · Score: 1

    I assume you're saying that you're unhappy with the http interface then?

  3. Re:Well duh on Did Gates Fib About H1-B Salaries? · · Score: 1

    I think he wasn't saying much about your degree level, and instead more about the fact that not all schools create equal level graduates.

  4. Re:Google Docs and Spreadsheets on Investigating Online Office Suites · · Score: 1

    Export to pdf, and you get to see what googledocs thinks everything really looks like, even if word reformats

  5. Re:And how many here use myspace? on Who Says Money Can't Buy Friends? · · Score: 2, Informative

    you might benefit from using greasemonkey on firefox with this script:

    http://lifehacker.com/software/myspace/myspace-cus tom-style-remover-greasemonkey-script-201920.php

    It removes custom css, making all myspace tags initially cleaned up of the eye gouging colors, leaving you only with the brain melting text.

  6. Re:Changing a system on ICANN Under Pressure Over Non-Latin Characters · · Score: 1

    don't have that modifier key on my keyboard.

  7. Re:Changing a system on ICANN Under Pressure Over Non-Latin Characters · · Score: 1

    Use ALT+[Number pad code] on windows. ALT+130 is acute-accented-e é é (I use it all the time when I write French, because that's the accent I most run across, and I have a Dvorak layout on a QWERTY keyboard, and I never bothered to learn all of the different program's shortcut keys to print accented characters each OS) you can also use the System tool available on most OSes that lets you mousehunt to pick from a table showing many characters, from the keyboard accessible through the range of unicode formats.

  8. Re:Only if you're new to a keypad on Death of the Cell Phone Keypad As We Know It? · · Score: 1

    it's usually possible to use the dvorak layout with shortcuts on their original key locations. OSX makes it really easy, and you can do anything you want on any *nix. Just make it so that when you press down a modifier key it reverts the layout. I have gotten used to the remapped key shortcuts and for things other than older computer games that aren't properly keyboard aware, it works great.

  9. Re:look at it this way on Is An Uninformed Vote Better Than No Vote? · · Score: 1

    wait, wait, wait!! That sounds like a great plan! Just as long as I get to decide which ones were the "wrong" ones, I think we have a workable plan here.

  10. Re:I vote for no-DST and use GMT on Prepared for Next Year's Time Change? · · Score: 1

    not enough apparently. ;)

  11. Re:The researchers... on Timely Book On Bird Flu · · Score: 1

    tomatoe, tomato...

  12. Re:Computer broken on Wired's Very Short Stories · · Score: 3, Funny
    ti revo evirD nekorb retupmoc swodniW


    No use, Still can't be understood.
  13. Re:The main problem with any interactive fiction.. on A New Stab at Interactive Fiction · · Score: 1

    I think it's called life... [not the boardgame]

  14. Re:not innovation--try some real innovation on Popular Mechanics Awards Technological Innovation · · Score: 1

    Canadian, Eh?

  15. ot-response on Does Ad Blocking Affect Your Business? · · Score: 1

    You should be able to tweak a setting inside the xpi, from what I remember its just a package of files, and in there there is a config file that contains the compatible versions. Usually what happens with a new version of the browser is that the extensions are technically compatible, but don't know it. Now I don't know if that's the case with AdBlock and FF2, but do a quick google search on the topic. For each recent revision of FF there have been tools available that "make extensions compatible for FF**" It doesn't actually do anything other than make the config tweak, and if it works, then the extension is compatible, if FF has changed too much, then it bugs out.

    Good Luck.

    ps. try this at your own risk, it seems to me that ad-block is pretty embedded in FF so the version change might actually be a problem.

  16. Re:That list is clearly missing one on The Man Who Literally Saved the World · · Score: 5, Funny

    No... you have to turn off "Safe-Search" first.

  17. Re:How much would 72 AP tests cost? on University of Virginia Student Graduates in One Year · · Score: 1

    80$ per test, total of 14-16 possible tests? having taken 8, and gotten credit for some of it at my school (getting a 4 often gets you half credit for different classes depending on your major) I came in to my school with 32 credits. Screwed me over though because the prereq progressions were severely unbalanced preventing me from taking a Programming Class until Sophomore year, when I took the AP for it sophomore year in HS (CS AP AB test counts for a whole slew of intro programming classes -- and having tutored the kids in those weeder courses, I understand why) Also unbalanced my humanities to non-humanities class ratios and making it harder for me to truly learn to study. In highschool to Ace the AP's you just had to spend a little more time focused... usually right before the exam came around the corner... not so for the College of Engineering at Umich.edu

  18. Re:The world's funniest joke on Blue Screen of Death for Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    Jokes are supposed to be original.

    Jokes are supposed to be original.

  19. Re:DRM IS GETTING worse on the ipod already! on Handicapping the 6th Generation iPod · · Score: 2, Insightful

    dude that's different than DRM, the actual filename is not what matters to the IPOD, it reads the name of the track from the ID3 tags. Those folders and names of files are a hash of somekind for the track and a unique ID for the track. Look at the Itunes Library.xml file that stores the description of your library on your computer. Each track has a unique ID as well as each playlist and the playlists simply reference the unique ID's of the tracks they contain. Blame the industry that made it such that you couldn't officially remove the files from your IPOD, that made it a possibility for the programmers to optimize the internal workings of tracking specific songs on the Ipod. Instead of manually trying to find the song you somehow lost within the official library, just use one of the 3rd party Ipod explorers to do the looking. They will scan the files and list them by their real name instead of the alpha numeric.

  20. UPMOD on Cleaning Electronics with Sugar · · Score: 0, Redundant

    the comment is appropriate and relevant to the grandparent's statement. The grandparent's statement was asking for therefore this doesn't deserve oblivion modding.

  21. Re:Just an update to the article: on Facebook Changes Provoke Uproar Among Users · · Score: 1
  22. Come back in 3 years! on Hoboken, NJ vs. Giant Parking Robot · · Score: 1

    see topic.

  23. Re:The reviewers are to blame on The 64% Violent Pacman · · Score: 1

    doh. Of course... stupid word-sensitive sentences. Now that makes more sense.

  24. Re:The reviewers are to blame on The 64% Violent Pacman · · Score: 1

    I don't have my snes or an emulator with the rom available right now, (am about to move cross country) but from my memory there were no secret exits from the first island... you had to go to the second island before being able to reach the star road... if there was such a secret then that might explain one of the two exits in the entire game I was not able to find... In any case there's still the killing of bowser in there, without which you don't win.

  25. Re:The reviewers are to blame on The 64% Violent Pacman · · Score: 1

    What about the bosses? You can't get past the first island without killing them.