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  1. Re:Kudos for the improvements, but... on Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 Adds Private Browsing · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ctrl + Page Up/Page Down navigates through tabs.

  2. Re:Current reading? on Saving Energy Via Webcam-Based Meter Reading? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't you mean to arm bears?

  3. Re:Aspirin? on Googling Security · · Score: 1

    Which actually did happen in the "Hold your wee of Wii" contest.

  4. Re:At last! on Creative GPLs X-Fi Sound Card Driver Code · · Score: 2, Informative

    Every once in a while after updating Ubuntu X won't load, and I need to remove and reinstall nvidia-kernel-common and nvidia-glx.
    One more than one computer it wouldn't detect the monitor resolutions correctly, so I had to edit xorg.conf to make the correct resolution available.

    Although an irritation, I don't have any problems dealing with it, and I doubt that any normal person I know could do that(/. users are exceptions, not the norm).

  5. Re:What it should be. on How Vampire Bats Evolved To Live On Blood Alone · · Score: 2, Funny

    As if you go out in the sun much anyways.

  6. Re:Can't say I ever used Twitter on After Domain Squatting, Twitter Squatting · · Score: 0

    Ignore the post above. Note to self: Read TFA before trying to sound like a pretentious asshole and being completely off.

  7. Re:Can't say I ever used Twitter on After Domain Squatting, Twitter Squatting · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't think this is about the website Twitter but the /. user twitter.

  8. Re:Yeah right. on Economic Crisis Will Eliminate Open Source · · Score: 1

    And how are you going to update Microsoft Office without electricity?

  9. Re:Already slashdotted! on How Mobile Phones Work Behind the Scenes · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not at all.
    Normally, you pay for a voice plan, and if you go over you get charged a ridiculous amount per minute.
    There is typically either no text messages included in that plan, or something like 200.
    I use Sprint, and here is their prices:
    Unlimited everything (the only way to get unlimited voice) - $100 per month.
    Adding unlimited text messages to a normal plan - $20 per month.
    If you don't have an unlimited voice plan, you get charged around $.40-$.45 per minute over, twice as much as the $.20 for a text message.

  10. Re:You're committing a logical fallacy. on Ford To Introduce Restrictive Car Keys For Parents · · Score: 1

    Buying a car that gives them control over your actions is ... well, naive at best, fucking stupid at worst.

    How is a parent deciding to give their child a key that limits a car's full potential giving the government control?
    TFS says nothing about the government forcing parents to give minors these keys.

  11. Re:Competition on Revamped WebKit JavaScript Engine Doubles In Speed · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Just because NoScript users are loud doesn't make them a majority.

  12. Re:Big deal. on Best Buy + Windows Guru = Apple Store Experience? · · Score: 1

    So, you mean I can go to PETCO and talk to a normal saleman, or I can talk to a "Purina Guru"?

  13. Re:Cameras at every toll booth on California's Wireless Road Tolls Easily Hackable · · Score: 1

    I don't know if I can't see the tags in your message, but while a license plate cannot identify a person, they can be used to look up who the vehicle is registered too, and there is a reasonable chance that it would be registered to the one driving it.

  14. Re:Difficult? on Linux Foundation Promises LSB4 · · Score: 1

    I think that was his point, that at least in linux it is consistent.

  15. Re:iTunes under Linux? on $250 Freescale-Based "Green" "Cloud" Computer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Not only that, but Open Office as well!
    And no virii! With only 20 per cent of the innards!

  16. Re:Because too many end users still use IE on Vector Graphics Lead Wish List For Future Browsers · · Score: 1

    That is supposed to read "1 < 3"

  17. Re:Because too many end users still use IE on Vector Graphics Lead Wish List For Future Browsers · · Score: 1

    Internet Explorer is one modern browser.
    Firefox, Safari, and Opera together are three modern browsers.
    I honestly don't know about the Safari and Opera's SVG implementations, but assuming they support SVG, 1 3.

  18. Re:There is no answer, it depends on what you want on Should the Linux Desktop Be "Pure?" · · Score: 1

    Even then, how are going to tell if the compiled version you get is made from the exact same source?

  19. Re:Good work on Most CF Cards Fail DMA Transfers · · Score: 1

    I have a Canon PowerShot A630 and a S1000(I think, something like that), and I wish that was the case.
    No, I'm stuck with it identifying itself as a camera which won't let me cut & paste.
    HP cameras at least give you the choice between showing as a camera or mass storage.

  20. Re:Slashdot Justice on AVG Fakes User Agent, Floods the Internet · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Except that it's not good.
    That is, of course, unless you consider it deleting legitimate programs for being "Generic Trojans" a good thing.

  21. I use ICQ for inline images on ICQ Starts Blocking Alternative Clients · · Score: 1

    The only reason I use ICQ is because you can send inline images.
    If anybody can point me to any other protocol that also supports it would be most appreciated.

  22. Re:Is that so? on Some Developers Leaving Google For Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Gmail: no folders? WTF is with that? Labels are not like folders, and they're not better.


    Give an email only one label and archive it, it will work exactly like folders.

  23. Re:Feeping creaturitis on What Do You Want On Future Browsers? · · Score: 1

    Wait, what parental controls? I just checked again, and I don't see any.

  24. Re:How about on "Bilski" Case May End Business Method Patents · · Score: 1

    "visually stimulating" is considered (take children in bikinis/skirts/etc. for example).
  25. Re:!free on Microsoft Singularity Now "Open" Source · · Score: 1

    free software = source code is not only made available, but you are free to use that source however you wish, assuming you abide by the guidelines presented in the free software license, assuming there are any No, free software means it doesn't cost you anything.
    Just because it is free software doesn't mean they have the source available.