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  1. Re:cry me a river on DoubleClick Warns Against Ad-Blocking Browsers · · Score: 1

    You can block googleAds in firefox as well! (see the cyan bit at the bottom).

  2. Re:From TFA: on Inventor of Proxy Firewall Blames Hackers · · Score: 1

    Errr... that was meant to be a rhetorical question...

  3. From TFA: on Inventor of Proxy Firewall Blames Hackers · · Score: 1

    "Blame Microsoft for producing an operating system that is bloated and has an ineffective permissions model and poor default configurations."

    Can something still be considered slander if it's true??

  4. Re:Picture of the actual 3D images? on More Info on Google's 3D Maps · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yup - have a look at this. Although the image doesn't show the facades of the buildings.

    Oh - on that note, take a look at the images here, especially this one... if google are using trucks, how are they going to get the texture maps for the top of the buildings as shown in that image??

  5. Re:Good Thing(TM) on OpenUsability and KDE: Cooperating on KPDF · · Score: 1

    Have you ever used 3d Studio Max and Other 3D applications?? You need a degree in half of them to figure out how to save a file! Ok - slight exageration but the UI is usualy pretty poor.

  6. Treo 600/650 on Linux-to-Palm Integration? · · Score: 1

    I've been using my Treo 600 for almost a year with J-Pilot as my synching software. It couldn't be easier - download an app, in J-Pilot say install and sync. I also have a SD card reader which I use to install stuff, simply pop the SD card in to the reader, mount it and cp the apps across.

    The 650's out now as well which is an improvement - I'll be upgrading around September.

    Haydn.

  7. I rented HHGTTG... on House Limits Patriot Act Rules on Library Records · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...So my plans on becoming galactic president, stealing an awesome space ship and finding the ultimate machine to run Linux on are still safe then?

    Oh wait... I just let the cat out of the bag!

  8. Is that a joke? on Case Study of Bungie.Net · · Score: 0, Troll

    which was voted "Most Innovative Design" by IGN Entertainment in 2004.

    Most Innovative Design??? You have to be joking! A it doesn't render properly in firefox and that freaky scrolling (try the mouse wheel)... what on earth were they thinking? Oh - the web designers were probably thinking profit!

  9. Re:Depicto already does this on First Shareable Interactive Display · · Score: 1

    Also, depicto isn't the only software to do this, Sun have had a similar application for years...

  10. Re:If you need an installation guide.... on Fedora Core 4 Installation Guide · · Score: 1

    I use FC3 - if you need NTFS support just download a custom kernel and tick the NTFS support option before compiling it... if you haven't installed a custom kernel before I suggest you read up on it first though - google will yield plenty of results.

  11. Not Again! on Microsoft's Music Subscription Service · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "seeking rights from copyright holders to give subscribers a new, Microsoft-formatted version"

    MS Lawyer: "We have to remove media player from Windows - the courts are demanding it"
    Bill Gates: "OK, well lets delay it until we can find a way to turn media player in to a monopoly"
    MS Lawyer: "What do you suggest?"
    Bill Gates: "Why don't we make an audio format that will only run in media player, give away loads of music until we have a large market share and then refuse to give any details of the file format to anybody so that we have no competition"
    MS Lawyer: "You mean like we did with Office and all our other products? I like you thinking Batman!"
    Bill Gates: "Stop sucking up and get back in that court room, theres still 700 law suits against us."

    I hate the MS 'drug dealer' mentality:

    - Give away products free
    - Wait until they're hooked
    - Charge loads for future products
    - Profit!!

  12. Re:Warning... on Google to Map San Francisco in 3D · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they're all standing up for gay rights online... perhaps /. needs a new section ;P

  13. Warning... on Google to Map San Francisco in 3D · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... to anyone living in San Francisco: Make sure your curtains are drawn while doing things you shouldn't be doing.

    "Hey mom, check out this 3D Google version of our home, hey what are you and dad up to in your bedroom??? Ewwww!"

  14. Angry Aliens... on Rail Guns Closer to Reality · · Score: 1

    That's 50 times faster than a rifle bullet, and three times the velocity needed to escape Earth's gravitational field.

    I can see the knock-on effect of this already: a group of Talibans fire their guns in the air celebrating, which accidentally kills 5000 aliens on a different planet, who then come and wipe out us nasty earthlings...

    ok perhaps not - it could wreak havoc on our satellite systems though!

  15. Re:Errrr - my firefox is safe... on Spoofing Flaw Resurfaces in Mozilla Browsers · · Score: 1

    OK! I've tested this, the vulnerability doesn't exist if you use the Tab Mix extension!

    Enjoy secure browsing,

    Haydn Haines.

  16. Errrr - my firefox is safe... on Spoofing Flaw Resurfaces in Mozilla Browsers · · Score: 1

    Did anybody else try the test from TFA? I tried it in my firefox and the 'flaw' doesn't exist! If the vulnerability exists in other users firefoxes perhaps it's something to do with the TabMix plugin (opens new windows in tabs instead) which breaks the vulnerability??

  17. Re:Dear Ask Slashdot on Hand-made Web Server, Built From 200 TTL Chips · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you were a real geek you'd know that the web server is far cooler! ;P

  18. Re:Share Prices on Sun Buying StorageTek for $4.1B · · Score: 1

    The E250's are newer than the E450's - I guess Sun had learnt their lesson by the time they released the 250...

  19. Re:It's a BS experiment. on Trust in a Bottle · · Score: 1

    I remember when I used to do pre-sales at Sun, it was so easy to sell boxes for web servers. Somebody would phone up asking about the iPlanet web server, you'd tell them it's crap and just use Apache like the rest of the 'informed'... after that selling boxes was a piece of cake - "He's honest about bad products, he must be selling us the right box and not one thats 10 times more powerful than we need!"

  20. Re:Share Prices on Sun Buying StorageTek for $4.1B · · Score: 1

    I'm smoking Marlboro lights thanks, although bad for my health they're not very mind altering!

    Anyway, I was thinking that the A1000 and D1000 had only 1 power cable, which would of course include the A3000 as it was just a rack of A/D1000's. However, they did have 2 power cables so I stand corrected. On the server side the E250 & E450's definately only had 1 power cable though.

  21. Share Prices on Sun Buying StorageTek for $4.1B · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Wish I'd baught some StorageTek shares before this happened... a nice 17% increase could've baught me a few gadgets...

    It's about time Sun got some good storage though, I wonder if they have redundant power supplies with 2 power cables these days, it was rather annoying when you had redundant power supplies but an intern tripping over a power cable could (and did!) bring down a box.

  22. Wow nice /.ing on Microsoft Ends Era Of Closed File Formats · · Score: 1

    Nice /.ing there... all I see is:

    Server Error in '/' Application.
    Runtime Error


    They should move over to apache ;P

  23. Bumber Cars on Electric Cars as Fast as Ferraris · · Score: 1

    Who says batteries will limit this motor? I have images of a bumper car/dodgem style setup... could look a little ugly though.

  24. Re:Take it racing on Electric Cars as Fast as Ferraris · · Score: 1

    Tht wouldn't be too hard atm...

  25. Re:Proportions of Zombies on Europe Home to Majority of Zombies · · Score: 1

    You shouldn't base your assumption on population, for example China has a huge population but isn't even in the top 30 for the number of broadband subscribers per 100 inhabitants. It would be better to base the assumption on the number of internet/broadband subscribers per country. Lets compare the US & South Korea as suggested:

    From zombieMeter, we see that the US has 19.08% of the 'zombie market' with 964,020 new zombie machines found in May. By comparison South Korea has 9.61% of the market with 485,492 new zombies.

    In 2004 OECD reported that South Korea had the highest number of broadband subscribers per 100 inhabitants with 24.9% or 11,921,439 subscribers. By comparison America came in 12th with 12.8% or 37,258,608 subscribers.

    So, combining the 2 sets of figures we can calculate the ratio/percentage of broadband subscribers that were new zombies in each country during May:

    Korea: 485,492 / 11,921,439 = 4.0%
    US: 964,020 / 37,258,608 = 2.6%

    Conclusion: Your assumption is correct based on broadband figures only. However, as South Korea has a higher percentage of broadband users the figures may change if we included dial-up internet users - although dialup is not 'always-on' so this may not effect the results too greatly.

    You can determine whether the above is lies, damn lies or statistics though...