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  1. Error: on Linux Kernel 2.6.14 Released · · Score: 3, Funny

    missing ) in parenthetical

    (currently a RFC draft, PPTP, full 4 page-table support for ppc64, numa-aware slab allocator, lock-free descriptor lookup' and many other things. The changelog is also available."

    Welcome to Slashdot.

  2. Re:besides that on How Darwin Managed His Inbox · · Score: 3, Funny

    Do reckon people ever had 'cyber' back then, via snail-mail?

    AE: "Hey baby, wanna cyber? I'm here till Thursday."
    Ladee: "a/s/l?"
    AE: "A reply! That's consent, right? Ahem."

    AE: "I put on my robe and wizzard hat."

  3. Re:Spam? on How Darwin Managed His Inbox · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's win-win really, because some lucky /.er can come along, point it out, and then get modded Informative! Then I can come along, point it out and get modded Redundant. Oops...

  4. Weird... on How Darwin Managed His Inbox · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Study suggests modern e-mail habits similar to older, letter-writing ones

    It's almost as if modern e-mail was created as an electronic replacement to mail!

  5. Re:who's fault is that? on Does Visual Studio Rot the Brain? · · Score: 1

    I got it from Monty Python, hence the MP signature. It's on "The Final Rip-off" album, titled "Four Yorkshiremen".

  6. Re:who's fault is that? on Does Visual Studio Rot the Brain? · · Score: 5, Funny

    I had to get up in morning at ten o'clock at night, 'alf-hour before I went to bed. Eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down 't mill, and pay 't mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing "Hallelujah."

    --
    MP

  7. Re:Current LEDs are not there yet on The End Of The Light Bulb? · · Score: 1

    Is the idea of a light not to enable us to see rather than replicate the light from the Sun?

  8. Re:Schroedinger's Bulb on The End Of The Light Bulb? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Stick with the cat analogy. Slashdotters won't know what 'having a hot girl over' means.

  9. Re:Current LEDs are not there yet on The End Of The Light Bulb? · · Score: 1

    >eerie blue-white light

    Is that not just because we're used to yellow-white light?

  10. Hawkeye on Replacing Sports Referees With Technology? · · Score: 1

    Hawkeye technology is already being used in the UK for tennis and cricket. In tennis it is used to show where serves have been played, where shots have landed and for measuring the velocity of each shot.

    In cricket it shows the path of each ball from the bowler's hand to the ground and from the ground to the bat. It can measures the velocity at any point too. It's used quite often in tests by the 3rd umpire for LBW decisions. It works really well.

  11. Could happen... on Office + OpenDocument, Never Say Never · · Score: 2, Funny

    USA could go metric.

  12. Tack Jhompson... on Jack Thompson Calls Cops on Penny-Arcade · · Score: 1

    "An Open Letter to Jack Thompson"

    CAD had a fairly amusing strip about Tack Jhompson

  13. Re:Another sign of the apocolypse? on Duke Nukem Forever to Arrive December? · · Score: 1

    8. ???
    9. Profit!

  14. Re:ls -d without the subcontents on What's Your Command Line Judo? · · Score: 1

    Or you could do this to be safe:

    ls --classify | grep --regexp='/$';

  15. Re:Radnom thought that just popped in... on Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 Released · · Score: 1

    What about using GMail with Thunderbird? It's possible. Would that increase or decrease your mail usage?

  16. Re:Don't get too enthusiastic now... on Toshiba to Demo New Fuel Cell MP3 Players · · Score: 1

    The mods these days have a strange sense of humour...

  17. Microsoft have the answer... on Ultimate Software Developer Setup? · · Score: 1

    Well it seems there's only one version of Windows Vista for you. Vista Ultimate for the Ultimate Software Developer Setup!* *Doesn't include certain Vista Starter Basic Baby Home Original Special Edition features such as network support and keyboard support.

  18. Re:Isn't this like the ultimate troll question? on Ultimate Software Developer Setup? · · Score: 1

    MachineCodeFanBoy: 01000010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 00100000 00110000 01110111 01101110 01110011 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01100001 01101100 01101100 00101110 00100000 01000010 01100101 00100000 00110001 00100000 01110111 01101001 01110100 01101000 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01101101 01100001 01100011 01101000 01101001 01101110 01100101 00101110 00001101 00001010

  19. Re:Here's a question... on Patch & Workaround for Firefox Flaw Available · · Score: 2, Informative

    Pay attention. This is a temporary workaround. Just like the previous vulnerability, the workaround was "disable JavaScript". That was until the real fix was landed.

  20. Re:Uh.. okay? on Firefox Moving On From SSL 2.0 · · Score: 1

    If you start a request with SSL3 HELLO, and the server has SSL2 only, the connection apparently hangs. However, vice versa doesn't, and means that a follow-up SSL3 HELLO can be sent if the first one fails (at least, that's how I see it.)

  21. Re:Disable It on Firefox Moving On From SSL 2.0 · · Score: 4, Informative

    I can confirm that there are at least 100 sites out there that use SSL 2.0 only.

    A few examples follow (turn off SSL 2 to see the problems):

    https://secure.muttluks.com./
    https://www.wilmerhalealumni.com./
    https://www.burinka.cz./

  22. If I Have Known Earlier... on LGP Announces New Competition · · Score: 0, Troll

    If we were at the start we could have saved the first image, then image-diff it every half an hour (or less, depending how much time you have. OK, less it is.) That way you might see what it is. Now, I can roughly make out the outline of a head and shoulders type shape (I think). There looks to be about 3 of these shapes.

  23. Re:It Won't Be Even Close... on Plugin Lets Users Turn IE into Firefox · · Score: 1

    You've misunderstood (partly due to my poor wording.) "Runs on Microsoft" meant the browser runs on a Microsoft engine (I forget what it's called) and not Gecko, or the other good engines. This makes it bad whatever the front-end looks like. The underlying engine is holding back the web to it's numerous rendering problems and lack of support for many parts of many specs.

  24. It Won't Be Even Close... on Plugin Lets Users Turn IE into Firefox · · Score: 1

    Maxthon does a similar thing. Is a browser even close to equalling Firefox just because it looks the same? If it doesn't run on Gecko, how is it even close? It won't render anything as well as Firefox does. I remember when Maxthon first came out and people shouted for the Firefox users to switch, after all, it was 'exactly the same', just 'better'.

    If it runs on Microsoft stuff, it ain't no good!

  25. Re:Surrey Satellite Technology Limited.. on Mini Satellites Could Revolutionize Space Industry · · Score: 1

    Indeed, SNAP was the first satellite to be called a nano-satellite I believe. Surrey Satellite Technologies Limited will also launch the first pico-satellite named PALMSAT. They have been commissioned to build many of Galileo's satellites, Europe's arriving GPS system.