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  1. Re:Netflix + Altitude? on American Airlines Expands Streaming In-Flight Movies · · Score: 1

    Forget it. I'm not watching movies when I fly. I'm drinking over-priced booze and groping flight attendants.

    Of course, captain.

  2. Re:again? on Ask Slashdot: How To Monitor Your Own Bandwidth Usage? · · Score: 2

    If you believe that x.24 and x.26 are dd-wrt firmware version numbers, you are doing something wrong.

  3. Re:again? on Ask Slashdot: How To Monitor Your Own Bandwidth Usage? · · Score: 1

    Which version of the DD-WRT firmware are you using? Unfortunately finding the most stable version can be a nightmare. But unless you're running a version suggested in this thread I would consider upgrading. Make sure you read all relevant information before doing so, of course.

  4. Re:I realise this is "News for Nerds"... on Amazon EC2 Failure Post-Mortem · · Score: 4, Informative

    Instead of closing off one lane of highway for construction, they closed off all lanes and forced highway traffic to go through town. The roads in town weren't able to handle all the cars. Massive back-ups ensued.

  5. Re:Anecdotal on iPhone and Location: Don't Panic · · Score: 2

    /. seems to have turned into a sort-of FOX news of tech discussion - without even a pretense of objectivity

    There was a time when Slashdot had a pretense of objectivity?

  6. Re:But think of the accountants! on US Competitiveness Chief Immelt's GE Tax Bill: $0 · · Score: 1

    Go out of business, because your foreign competitors have lower costs (in the form of taxes) which means you can't win in the competition for customers, investors, etc.

    So the only way to compete for customers, investors, etc. is on price? Cheapest product wins? What happened to just making a better product than your customers. Heck, even making a worse product but out-marketing your competitors works.

    Besides, if you sell expensive products, that means you make more money to give to your employees, which means they can buy more expensive products, right? This whole cheap-shit low-income wal-mart death spiral we've got going on isn't helping anyone.

  7. OH MY GOD! on IPhone 4 Survives 1,000 Foot Fall From Plane · · Score: 1

    Is the brush ok?!

  8. Re:How long is the season? on Futurama Renewed For 7th Season · · Score: 1

    Does anyone know how many episodes are in a season?

    That depends. Do you mean an African season, or a European season?

  9. Re:"Unconsciously stress?" on Scientist Records First 5 Years of His Son's Life, Analyzes Language Development · · Score: 1

    As for not being obvious about the short sentences... with my youngest son (4th child, now 20 months old), I made the conscious decision not only "no baby talk", but talk in full sentences just like I do to adults.

    I think that most of the short sentences that GP is talking about are responses. Once a child starts saying "apple", a parent will more frequently say "you want some apple?" in response. As a result the average sentence length will go down. It has nothing to do with baby talk or even with conversation initiated by the parent.

  10. Re:Ah, but... on Panasonic Launches Beautifying Camera · · Score: 1

    God no! He turned it sideways, kill shot, that's a kill shot!

  11. OPEN on What Would You Do With Open.org? · · Score: 1

    OMG Ponies Everywhere Now!

  12. Re:Isn't this illegal? on Lawyers Using Facebook Research For Jury Selection · · Score: 2

    They're not asking you to favor their client in exchange for free wi-fi.
    They're asking to be able to investigate whether you're likely to favor their client in exchange for free wi-fi.

  13. Re:Says the blog was shut down. on Teacher Suspended Over Blog About Students · · Score: 1
  14. Re:goin' for the quote here: on Un-Bricking Linux Plug Computers · · Score: 1

    Or lapidated by way of wet clay with binder fiber that has been cast into a rectangular prism, air-dried, and kiln-fired.

  15. Re:Classic Discussion System (D1)? on Slashdot Launches Re-Design · · Score: 1

    I had D1. I had it working. Then I foolishly tried D2 to see if it didn't suck after the redesign. Now I want D1 back and the setting just gets ignored...

  16. submit a bug report on How To Get Around the Holes In IE9 Beta's Implementation of Canvas · · Score: 1

    You can (and should) submit bug reports for IE9 directly to Microsoft. Complaining on your personal blog and hoping that the magic internet fairies will take care of it is less effective at getting the problem fixed.

  17. driving on Goodbye Bifocals — Electronic Glasses Change Focus · · Score: 1

    Can't wait for it to fail and switch to reading-mode while doing 70mph on the freeway.

  18. Re:Competition again? on Verizon To Offer iPhone Users Unlimited Data · · Score: 1

    anyone who watches streaming video will be consuming a few MB every minute, if not every few seconds.

    And I agree that with an "unlimited" data plan, this should be allowed. I was arguing that it was within their rights to refuse an "unlimited" plan in combination with tethering, since this would be like bringing your own extra-large cup to the restaurant.

  19. Re:Competition again? on Verizon To Offer iPhone Users Unlimited Data · · Score: 1

    They offer "unlimited data" just like restaurants offer "free refills". Restaurants expect you to refill a certain number of times given the size of your cup and the duration of your visit. If you start funneling your beverage into a keg you've brought in with you, someone will probably ask you to leave.

    Both cases seem fair to me.

  20. Re:What's missing from the reports on Facebook's Revenues Leaked · · Score: 0

    Actually, I was just making a joke about how important you are.

  21. Re:What's missing from the reports on Facebook's Revenues Leaked · · Score: 4, Funny

    You can't be that important. You don't even have a Facebook account.

  22. Re:Uh... on Chinese Written Language To Dominate Internet · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, that's true. The internet >> WWW.

    Sorry, but appending The Internet onto the World Wide Web requires root privileges.

    I believe OP was stating that the internet was shifted-right by the World Wide Web, clearly resulting in an internet that is less great than the original.

  23. Re:Do it! Do it now! on Peter Sunde Wants To Create Alternative To ICANN · · Score: 1

    Question: which root do you ask for google.com? All of them? What if they reply with different addresses...which one's right?

    Given the fact that there are thirteen root servers, those are actually very good questions. Do you know the answers?

  24. Re:wow on Best IT-infrastructure For a Small Company? · · Score: 1

    I stand corrected. SME Server looks interesting and is worth investigating. Thank you.

  25. wow on Best IT-infrastructure For a Small Company? · · Score: 1

    New desktops

    Get 20 desktop machines. For those employees who sometimes work remotely buy a laptop with docking station instead.

    We need a server for authentication and user management.

    Buy one server for authentication and user management.

    We also need an internal media server

    Buy one media server with lots of hard disk space.

    and the archive grows bigger every year).

    Make sure you will be able to add hard drives (possibly external) to the media server in the future.

    OS: get what the IT admin (you?) are able to administer. A 20-employee company might not have a dedicated network administrator, so setting up a Linux environment in a MS-centric company could end up badly.

    Seriously. It's 20 people. You can't really screw this up unless make their media server world-writable to the internet.