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  1. Re:So.... on Why is Microsoft Patching XP? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    a large portion of the world uses XP and it is likely a lot of people on Slashdot have to administrate it.

    Why would it not be on the frontpage?

  2. Re:How do they measure this?? on Only 25% of Firefox Downloaders Are 'Active Users' · · Score: 1

    Provididing these are all on your LAN, Perhaps they use IP addresses to count you once?

  3. How long until it catches on? on Police Data-Mining Done Right · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How long till it catches on with the criminals?

    Some people don't go to places at peak time to avoid queues, if criminals realise the police know the peak times, they can anticipate the strength of guard and where police are?

    Knowledge like this can be used to both party's advantages. Some facts are obviously public knowledge such as weather.

    I don't think it even takes well-organized crime to understand this.

    How about the police force has a counter-itself division? It uses the public knowledge and works independent of the police to outsmart it -- the police can use this knowledge to anticipate counter knowledge usages...

  4. Happens to me on Only 25% of Firefox Downloaders Are 'Active Users' · · Score: 1

    If I purchased your software, I would be in those groups.

    I frequently have tabs open on download pages, forgotten...or installed applications yet to be run. It tends to be forgotten about or when distracted to do something else. Sometimes I find myself installing software I already have, accidentally.

  5. Re:Alright! on Only 25% of Firefox Downloaders Are 'Active Users' · · Score: 1

    The latest version for me is 2.0.0.6, have you tried redownloading it rather than updating from within?

    It might be a longshoot but it couldn't hurt to try...

  6. Re:Animal Rights on OHSU Turns Mouse into Factory for Human Liver Cells · · Score: 1

    If many mice are gonna die to save us, the least we can do is provide mouse health care.

    While I wouldn't deny life saving produce from animals, on another level I know it is wrong. We are certainly more complicated than other animals. Believing we are 'better' is another thing...

    Better at what? There are many things mouse are better us at.

  7. It has nothing to do with how easy it is on The Java Popup you Can't Stop · · Score: 1

    Those saying that it is 'easy to close' are missing the point.

    You're blocking normal popups because they are unacceptable. If it is so easy to close, why don't you turn off your popup blocker?

  8. Re:Your Answer, Stephen on Stephen Hawking Asks The Internet a Question · · Score: 1

    Congratulations, you have been put on reserve for conscription.

  9. Oh Deer on Copying Antler-Structure Means Better Prosthetics · · Score: 2, Funny

    Deer me.

  10. Re:Not to worry on Ambidextrous Linux/Windows Virus · · Score: 1

    So True! Distrobutions are like humans,they are diverse, it is difficult for a disease to wipe everybody out in one strike. They don't like eachother either ;)

  11. Uh... on Viruses Engineered to Construct Batteries · · Score: 0

    We're being parasite to a parasite, how funny!

  12. It has.. on UNICORN T-SHIRTS!!! LOL!!! · · Score: 1

    It has.. It has...something disturbing on its head.. It has..

  13. Re:Cute? on Nabaztag the WiFi Bunny · · Score: 1

    I don't remember saying I was.

    One day you'll break a leg by jumping to conclusions by assuming things.

  14. Cute? on Nabaztag the WiFi Bunny · · Score: 1

    Looks cute, but I would think the novelty effect would wear of after a while.

    Take BonziBuddy for example, I know completely different area, but the novelty of reading emails out and singing or dancing wears of.

    Does it recognise your voice?

  15. Publicity on Firefox Exploit Adds Fuel to Browser Security Feud · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Publicity was the demise, the great browser begged for mainstream attention, got the show but caught the eye of the bad guys.

    No software is universally perfect.

  16. Re:Lemmie get this straight... on Discovery's Dangling Gapfiller Removed by Hand · · Score: 0

    Guess you missed the information in the parent post :-(

  17. Re:Good thing...but far from perfect? on Stealing Data? A Sniffer Shows it's Easy · · Score: 0

    That was all good until you realised they were all the same monitors...?

  18. Re:Please on Microsoft To Begin Checking For Piracy · · Score: 0

    Off topic, but you spelt superior wrong in your sig.
    That must be embarrassing...

  19. CUBE! on World's Smallest MP3 Player · · Score: 0

    That is cool. But isn't it too small and too light that you'll lose it!

  20. Interesting - needs moderation though on Command Line for the Web · · Score: 0

    Interesting, I just made one for GRC port probing: http://www.yubnub.org/kernel/man?args=grcscan

  21. irronic on Colorizing Images and Video by Scribbling · · Score: 0

    ...even the coralized mirror got slashdotted!

  22. Lego on Software Engineering Demo for a K-5 Career Fair? · · Score: 0

    1) Give kids Lego Mindstorms
    2) ???
    3) Profit!

    You could show them how you use code to control things - Like with Lego Mindstorms.

  23. OMG Virus on Symantec Patents Multiple File Area Virus Scanning · · Score: 3, Funny

    I say Symantec should just patent viruses and charge royalty fees on whoever decides to make them.

  24. Re:I know this one, my boss taught me. on Project Management Methodology for IT Operations? · · Score: 1

    I'm busy exploiting your signature!
    See, If I reread it I can get infinite points in reading.

  25. hmm on Business Press Pays Attention To Blog Industry · · Score: 1

    SixPart Blog(s) - "You will be a assimilated -- Resistance is futile!"