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  1. McAfee Fails It on Unpatched IE Flaw Extremely Critical · · Score: 5, Informative

    On my W2K box, McAfee warns me of a threat, then as soon as I close the window, the code executes anyway.

  2. MOD PARENT FUNNAY on Bionic Hands to Become a Reality Soon? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If only for the reviews.

  3. Re:10 hours and 26 minutes? on Time Saving Linux Desktop Tips? · · Score: 2, Funny

    You're just mad because you aren't reading the cool stuff at TotalSlashdot.org.

  4. Obligatory on Why Slackware Still Matters · · Score: 1

    And we wear an onion on our belts. /SLAX on a 1Gb thumbdrive in my wallet

  5. Needed features on GIMP's 10th Anniversary Splash Contest · · Score: 4, Informative

    1. CMYK support. RGB is for screen, CMYK is for print, and Aldus/Adobe never had trouble with this concept.
    2. Contiguous fill. When pestered about this the answer from GIMP developers was that the paintbucket code was "too optimized" (i.e. obfuscated, undocumented) to modify. If I select a region and pour paint inside it, the paint shouldn't leave the margins of the selection.
    3. Less crappy documentation on creating plugins.
    4. For shits&giggles, an LSS import/export filter for those of us who like to make our own ISOLINUX splash screens (the converter's in Perl, how tough could it be)?

    I know webcomic artists whose refusal to use the GIMP is completely based on #2. In Photoshop, it's a checkable option. In Fireworks, it isn't.

    5. At least one major feature that is missing from Photoshop (like, say, selective region compression in JPEG, which has been part of the spec from the beginning and would allow you to set a different lossy for a region containing text).

  6. Plummeting elevator on Ask The Mythbusters · · Score: 0

    If I were in a plummeting elevator and I jumped the exact moment before the crash, would I escape the kinetic damage unharmed (assuming the elevator remained intact)?

    Also, if you did your show from a van in Miami to test the *actual* sluttiness of random 20something women passing by, would it be called BangBusters?

  7. Re:If Piracy is the problem, is DRM the solution?? on Sticky Tape Defeats Sony DRM Copy Protection · · Score: 0

    I believe the official response from record labels to this report was:

    "LA LA LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU LA LA LA"

  8. What do you have against Grand Theft Auto? on Ask the Author of the Latest MS-Funded Windows vs. Linux Study · · Score: 0

    Oh.

    Herbert Johnson. Never mind.

  9. Re:Eh... so what? on CSI Takes On Grand Theft Auto · · Score: 0

    Even funnier, the plot from that episode was almost identical to an earlier episode of Monk -- where this time the rich actor stars on a forensics crime show where unbelievably implausible "perfect crimes" are explained with cameras doing bullet-eye views of corpses.

    No idea whose show aired first.

  10. Re:not impressed on Prepping For The 360 · · Score: 0

    6 hours spanking it to the 360? I'm amazed you didn't use the word "chafed."

  11. Re:The Road Ahead on Prepping For The 360 · · Score: 0
    Until computers can fetch me another beer, though, they're worthless at the moment.

    Hey, the architects of the future can only do so much.

  12. Re:not really key area for linux on Papers On Real-Time And Embedded Linux · · Score: 0
    Task specific operating systems like TRON and its variations take only few kilobytes, and are extremely efficient and reliable in what they do.

    Well, you have to remember that was before we used real ray tracing on those light cycles.

  13. Re:Veblen effect? on The Real Reason Behind iTMS Tiered Pricing · · Score: 0

    I thought "Harajuku Girl" was a doubleplusungood, myself.

  14. Pretty happy with Airport Express. on Poor Man's Whole House Audio? · · Score: 0

    Sorry, no fp joke here.

  15. Insert EOLAS joke here on Mega Bloks Wins Supreme Court Battle Against Lego · · Score: 0

    Seriously, good for Mega Bloks. LEGO is cool but the notion of preventing someone from manufacturing toys that play with your toys is cruel.

  16. Re:That's Not Cryptic on MA Governor Wants More New Tech · · Score: 0

    I got what Mitt was talking about too, but France isn't exactly marginal in its position within Europe. It also tends to be more friendly to Arab nations, which might explain why many of them are on SECAM when everyone else split between PAL/NTSC.

    Mitt's fearmongering by relying on a shallow public perception rather than trying to draw an informed comparison, and that's reprehensible regardless of party or ideology.

  17. Re:JAWS only works well with IE on Open Source Accessibility · · Score: 0

    O RLY? Tell me which screen readers correctly recognize that stylesheets aimed at device="screen" should be ignored by them? This is a major bone to pick, and all the mealymouthed garbage from JAWS about how conforming to this spec would confuse their user base cuts no mustard.

  18. My nipples explode with delight! on Atari 800 XE Laptop · · Score: 0

    un. belie. vable. It's 53770-tastic (random number seed? we don't need no steenkin' seed!).

  19. Is there a way to REPLACE my default KDE in Sarge on KDE 3.5 RC 1 Released · · Score: 0

    ...rather than just eat another user-specific portion of my drive? If I'm a total retard in how I read teh Konstruct instructions with 3.4.3, plz correct this n00b.

    How much harder would it be to just make a package for Debian Sarge than it was for Ubuntu?

    Halp?

  20. Great, now... on Microsoft Reports OSS Unix Beats Windows XP · · Score: 0

    ...all we need is a system where Slashdot beats OSNews and Fark.com to a scoop. /save your mod points, it's a joke. //OSNews covered this yesterday ///just like the x86 OS X performance story

  21. Correction on Spyware Maker Sues Detection Firm · · Score: 0

    You're using the "Jersey Girl" defense. Genius, really.

  22. I'd think of something witty to say... on Spyware Maker Sues Detection Firm · · Score: 0

    ...but I can't find a suitable rhyme for "douche turd."

  23. Linux II: The Hardening on Hardening Linux · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, come to think of it, that's sending the wrong kind of message.

  24. Re:QC in the Homes on Quantum Computing Regulation Already? · · Score: 0

    This prediction sounds implausible to me. No mention of holographic Jenna Jamesons.

  25. Evidence Apple may be sucking up to Dell... on Mac OS X x86 Put To The Test · · Score: 2, Informative

    One of the less-touted aspects of the 10.4.3 update for both platforms was "enhanced compatibility with FAT16." Who the hell cares, you ask.

    Better question: What still uses FAT16 specifically?

    The Dell Restore partition you get when CTRL-F11-ing at startup.

    Food for thought?