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  1. Re:How can we know when it will be ready? on Microsoft Releases New Concurrent Programming Language · · Score: 1

    How can we know when it will be ready?

    Its concurrent. Start using it now, you don't need to wait until its ready. Anything unavailable will simply block until its released.

  2. Re:Bah on Adult Website Use At Work Leads To Hacker Conviction · · Score: 2, Funny

    The guy is DEATH! The moment your hate target answers the phone, and he answers, shouldn't that be a major clue that you got the wrong guy?

    Or even dead

    Anyway I have reliabe information that he is alive and well and currently playing poker with Princess Di and Elvis in a small town somewhere just East of Norwich in England.

  3. Re:No, it's okay. Urban living still rocks on Baby Monitors Killing Urban Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Now get this, is he thinking that babysitter from the urban area are killing WiFi? And that doesn't make any sense either

    captcha : thoughts....

    By the time these Chinese whispers finish we will have someone calling police saying that they discovered a paedophile ring on Slashdot who were conspiring with a baby sitter to kill a baby called Wifi, (or maybe it was Wilfie or Whitney or something like that).

  4. Re:first post! on Is a $72.5m Opening Weekend Enough For Star Trek? · · Score: 1

    Well I thought it was great!

  5. Re:frist psot on Sources Say EU Will Find Intel Anti-Competitive · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Not bad for a dyslexic

  6. Re:Why would that be a showstopper? on Ten Features To Love About Android 1.5 · · Score: 3, Informative

    You could use a c to bytecode compiler

  7. Re:Work Experience on Go For a Masters, Or Not? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    >

    If you want to go into academics, it's PhD or bust. Terminal Degrees = Academia. Masters != Terminal degree in CS/EE/CE fields.

    Good luck.

    Unless you are one of the odd public-spirited people who have highly marketable qualifications but want to teach in high schools. I have a lot of admiration for the few really knowledgeable and intelligent school teachers in technology and science fields - they really do make a difference - but I would not like to be on a teacher's pay scale myself.

  8. Re:Not surprising on Austria To Pull Out of CERN · · Score: 1

    I think neutrino detection could certainly benefit from the cash saved from pulling out of CERN

  9. A blessing in disguise? on When Hacked PCs Self-Destruct · · Score: 2, Interesting

    All it does is mess up the OS - the hardware is fine, hardly a 'nuclear option' or 'self-destruct'.

    In fact it could prompt someone to install Linux afterwards

  10. Re:Not 8 years older on Windows 7 "Not Much Faster" Than Vista · · Score: 1

    Yes, I recently upgraded my laptop memory after XP started swapping folloing a live update. When I brought it, years ago, 256MB seemed reasonable and the original XP ran pretty well. Each update slowed it down until it was unusable. I have now gone for 1GB memory and it works fine again

  11. Re:Legos on What Data Center Designers Can Learn From Legos · · Score: 1

    Also the metaphor of generic bricks to build anything wouldn't work today. The kits are all custom; a lego bat plane, lego race car, lego helicopter, etc. They include custom parts as well as the generic bricks.

    It's a shame really, instead of being an imaginative open process it has become following the instructions to make the model in the right way. Having said that my kids will do this once and then combine bits from the various kits and use them in the good old way to make something entirely different.

  12. That bug report was well worth a read on Debian Switching From Glibc To Eglibc · · Score: 3, Funny

    I,m surprised that this isn't quoted by Microsoft as a "typical" example of cooperative open-source development.

  13. What about something really useful on Wolfram Alpha vs. Google — Results Vary · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does Wolfram do any better than google when you type "hot free porn videos". Will you be able to type "teenage pussy" without being bothered by some old deary who wants to tell you about the longevity of her pet cat?

  14. Re:Easy solution on The Problem With Estimating Linux Desktop Market Share · · Score: 1

    Yes, I think that the usage of the Huh? operating system is seriously underestimated.

  15. Re:Guesstimates? on The Problem With Estimating Linux Desktop Market Share · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Exactly. If I see someone I can estimate their height and weight. If all I know is your name, all I can do is guess based on sex, nationality, averages, etc.

  16. Re:Damn! on IE8 Update Forces IE As Default Browser · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I read all through this waiting for what seems inevitable in this sort of slashdot post and it wasn't there. You know the sort of thing

    As I reached the car I noticed that Andrea, the pretty young graduate developer was waiting. "I am really impressed by the way you told those marketing guys what was right. Maybe we can take a ride and I can show you how impressed I am......"

  17. Re:no way on IE8 Update Forces IE As Default Browser · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    there's no way Microsoft would do this

    Troll!

  18. Re:More secure alternative browser? on IE8 Update Forces IE As Default Browser · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Is it not a bit early to be deciding which browsers are more secure than IE8?

    No it isn't, unless you believe in miracles. This isn't really Microsoft's fault but for every hacker who says "lets target Firefox and try to capture bank details" there are 100 trying to do it for IE.

  19. Re:Don't worry on Forensics Tool Finds Headerless Encrypted Files · · Score: 1

    Though it would not be that hard to get around this because the statistics can be fooled. Actually would not be that hard to do that. Thinking about it, rather interesting problem...

    BTW I do statistical and probabilistic analysis in a hedge fund...

    XOR it with known random files.

  20. Re:Does this really matter? on Firefox Beta Scores 93 On Acid3 Test · · Score: 1

    I didn't know you like ASCII pron.

    No he's into the multi-ethnic stuff; Unicode porn.

  21. Re:Offline Gaming machine on Windows 7 Will Be Free For a Year · · Score: 5, Funny

    Your 4-year-old's account shouldn't have administrator access.

    If you gave his account administrator access, neither should you.

    Funny you should say that. A while ago I took my four year old daughter to a museum, and let her play with a touch-screen information terminal. In a couple of seconds she (somehow) had control panel up! It may take a thousand monkeys a million years to write Shakespeare, but it seems to take ten seconds for a four-year old to find any "backdoor access" or other options that should not be available.

  22. Re:Does this really matter? on Firefox Beta Scores 93 On Acid3 Test · · Score: 2, Funny

    I haven't heard of anyone having to switch a browser because it didn't pass an acid test...

    You don't know any real geeks then.

  23. Re:Meh. on Firefox Beta Scores 93 On Acid3 Test · · Score: 1

    Not Google Chrome anyway

  24. Wow - I never new you could do that on Firefox Beta Scores 93 On Acid3 Test · · Score: 1
    I just tried it!

    Don't it always seem to go
    That you don't know what you've got
    Till it's gone

  25. Re:Sensationalism. on WHO Raises Swine Flu Threat Level · · Score: 1

    Was the flu pandemic of 1918 that killed an estimated 20 to 100 million people worldwide newsworthy?

    It was God showing that he could do better than WWI. This one's for Iraq and Afghanistan, so if he is acting in proportion it shouldn't be to bad.

    (well its as good as any other theory)