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  1. Re:Will The Movie Be A Trilogy Too? on Telegraph Reviews Hitchhiker Movie, Approves · · Score: 1

    It'll probably be a 42 movies trilogy if everyone remembers to bring along a towel...

  2. Re:2D icons and design is critical for comprehensi on Preview of X Windows Eye Candy · · Score: 1
    Otherwise much more of the brain is needed to digest the images.

    and you have your two neurons otherwise engaged in turning things to sh*t?

    3d is idiotic clutter.

    riiiight!, it'st the reason we don't have holographic TV's!... is that why you walk around with an eyepatch?

    you are a foor to noty understand "clean design"

    Oh the Irony!

    It would be nice if the user could select a style of button though via a theme. ...even the crap you might desire.

    you mean, like, not Redmond approved stuff???

    You are corrrect that they are wasting time coding useless GUI and not focusing on critical parts, but GTK and others can impart a gui over X Window System.

    yeah! they should be focusing on the critical stuff!!!, like all those security holes in IE!!!, and...

  3. Re:Insert Another Quarter on Wearable PC with an Artificial-Reality Helmet · · Score: 1

    hey!, it's not 'virtual' training, now it's 'artificial' training... the 'virtual reality' thingie bombed out a few years ago, this is the new and improved 'artificial reality'

  4. Re:Encryption on MPAA Developing Digital Fingerprinting Technology · · Score: 1
    And ISPs are going to search for fingerprints in encrypted downloads how exactly?

    Easy! with a beowulf cluster!

    I suppose they wouldn't do it in real-time as network latency would just skyrocket, and probably not do it on 100% of the packets, they would probably just keep and analyze the packets from user X for a day and then move to the next users down the list, they know your IP... but it would take such amount of computing power to analyze all the data coming and going within a single ISP that I can see a use for the unpredictability factor in new processors...

    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/12/233824 3&tid=137&tid=126&tid=1

  5. Re:of course it is! on Inside Windows XP Reduced Media Edition · · Score: 1

    that article is from 2002! And has nothing to do with the European court ruling... maybe if you RTFA you linked to you would have noticed?

  6. Put 'em all in one place... on University Of Calgary To Offer Course On Spam · · Score: 1

    ... and keep the door open for all the sysadmins gone postal... enjoy the show...

  7. Re:The One Ring! on 2.4GHz Wi-Fi Detector Ring Project · · Score: 1

    we all know there is only one lord M$auron! and from the highest point in redmond his eye scours the land...

  8. Re:The One Ring! on 2.4GHz Wi-Fi Detector Ring Project · · Score: 1

    ... and in the airwaves bind them...

  9. Re:handwriting analysis? on Bill Gates Handwriting Analyzed · · Score: 1

    why a goat? I'd sacrifice a longhorn, but I guess reading it's entrails might be in breach of license.

  10. Re:I always thought the reason was... Tech Support on Why Apple Makes a One-Button Mouse · · Score: 1

    The only reason for it is the man-hours saved in tech-support... On a MAC: TS:'now click the mouse button' Client:'why, yes it works!, thank you!' On a PC: TS:'now click on it with the mouse' Client:'eeerp, that does nothing' TS:'put the mouse cursor on top of the button and now press the left mouse button sir' Client:'hmmm... which button?' TS:'Left one LEFT!' Client:'now i get a menu, is that normal?' TS:'that's your Left mouse button sir, not the computer's left!' Client:'Ahhhh!!! how do you know which side I'm sitting on then?'