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  1. Previous slashdot coverage on First Mac OS X Virus? · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Probably pertinent:
    Bill Thompson of the BBC claims that Mac users take their security for granted

  2. Re:Scenerio where Verizon doesn't get a penny on Verizon Threatens Google's 'Free Lunch' · · Score: 1

    Through peering agreements with ISP X and ISP Y. That's Verizon's incentive to carry ISP X and ISP Y's traffic.
    Verizon's new foaming at the mouth makes absolutely no sense.

  3. Nothing to reconcile on Google Delists BMW-Germany · · Score: 1

    They're still not doing anything non-automated. Each page in their index has a page rank. They changed the page rank of one particular page. The algorithm still does what it is supposed to do. No "one hand" involved. No joke, no message.

  4. "Rise" of the casual gamer? on Off With Their HUDS! · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I find it interesting that they refer to the rise of the casual gamer as a reason to go hud-less. From what I've seen, game companies try very very hard to create immersive games that don't have much to offer the casual gamer.

  5. Re:Water cores on Putting Star Wars to the MythBusters Test · · Score: 1
    ...canopy force field would have shut down ...drowning the occupants
    I think they would have been crushed first.. But then again, they weren't actually in the core, were they?
  6. Re:So? Live and learn on Loss of Applied IQ Among UK Youth? · · Score: 0

    Just for comparison, the tasers that law enforcement sometimes use blast you with fifty thousand volts. Yes, that's fifty grand. Not to say that no one has ever died from a taser blast, but a few hundred volts aren't going to slow anybody down. It's highly unlikely that you'd die or suffer much harm from 220 volts.

  7. Re:Only /slightly/ off-topic on Hopes Rise for RIM · · Score: 1
    cell phones they use to reach us 24x7
    I sure hope you work in some capacity that requires that sort of commitment. If someone called me in the middle of the night to complain that their "email is not working" because they were expecting an "important" email and it hasn't arrived yet, I'd probably rip their tongue out of their head.
  8. Re:This applies across the board... on Genius Requires Just the Right Mix · · Score: 0

    The mods are smoking something again. How the hell does a comment like yours get modded "informative" while your parent is neglected?
    It's times like these that meta-moderation is actually useful.
    Back on topic, while I think fancy gyms and money may be part of the reason, a more significant factor may just be that there are more former winners and top-level competitors that are willing and able to make a difference to a younger athlete's life. Again, it's back to the type of people you associate with.

  9. Re:Try ndiswrapper on State of WLAN Support on Linux? · · Score: 1
    Freedom.
    Really? Freedom to do what, exactly? It's a driver. It makes hardware go.
    Consider that most companies that don't bother with writing linux drivers are also probably not into open source. The most you can expect from them would be a closed, proprietary binary driver. How is ndiswrapper+windows (closed, proprietary, binary) driver any different from that?
  10. Re:Try ndiswrapper on State of WLAN Support on Linux? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So what's your point? If drivers work fine under linux, whether with ndiswrapper or not, where's the cause to complain?
    The ndiswrapper guys go on fine tuning their software, the device manufacturers can go make a single binary, everybody's happy.
    What am I missing?

  11. Cross-platform too on IBM Brings IM Together · · Score: 1

    I like how this is going to be available on all platforms. Yahoo's own linux client, by comparison, is still stuck in the stone ages.

  12. Mod Article Troll? on Is Obsolescence Good Computer Security? · · Score: 1

    Anybody else think the article writer is simply trolling? What kind of question is that to ask here?

  13. Three times lower? on Penguin Not Taking Flight Down Under · · Score: 2, Insightful

    North America's adoption rate is three times higher than 11-18%?
    33-54%??
    Really?
    If that's true, that's pretty good!
    Can somebody confirm?

  14. Article summary on If DVD Is Dead, What's Next? · · Score: 3, Insightful
    DVD is dead because device manufacturers say so.
    Your options are
    1. Blu-Ray
    2. HD-DVD
    Nobody wants a format war.
  15. Re:I'd want an IM Speak translator on Yahoo IM Translator · · Score: 1

    It doesn't seem to work for me. They never quit the IM language-mauling.
    Maybe they're just stupid... I need some new friends.

  16. Re:Luminocity on XGL Development Opens Up · · Score: 3, Interesting

    http://live.gnome.org/Luminocity
    There. Fixed that link for you.

  17. I propose a new term! on Kong Mirrors Real Evolutionary Paths · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Content free article (or has that already been proposed?)
    Being the cool dudes we are, let's shorten that to CFA. There's nothing even mildly interesting in the linked article. It reads like an advertisement for King Kong.

  18. Leave Jackson out of this! on Kong Mirrors Real Evolutionary Paths · · Score: 2, Funny
    Jackson's fertile imagination

    HAH! Let's see now... The Lord of the Rings and King Kong. Yeah, real original.

    While I loved LOTR (haven't seen Kong), let's call a spade a spade, shall we?

  19. Re:Heh on Dell Pre-Installing Firefox in UK · · Score: 1

    Calling it "uninstallation" is pretty disingenuous. All it does is go back to the previous version of IE. Completely pointless, if you ask me...

  20. Re:compassionate Filipina? on Japanese Find Robots Less Intimidating Than People · · Score: 1
    ...in a sensitive, kind, faithful, strong, stable, caring way

    And yet your nick is "misanthrope"101. Interesting...
  21. Re:uh oh... on More Delays for Ender Movie · · Score: 5, Informative
    Does Card even have any experience writing screenplays
    From his biography at http://www.hatrack.com/osc/about-more.shtml
    ..dozens of plays and musical comedies produced in the 1960s and 70s
    ..supported his family primarily by writing scripts for audiotapes..
    ..he wrote the screenplays for animated children's videos..
    So yes, he knows how to write screenplays..
  22. More adaptations/sequels? on More Delays for Ender Movie · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Are adaptations of books, old movies and sequels all that Hollywood can produce now? Sad state for a supposedly "creative" industry. That said, I'm actually looking forward to this one - I think it's a good thing that the script is being held to some standards.

  23. Re:BitTorrent, indeed! on P2P Population Growing Again · · Score: 1
    so why they didn't even try to include it is beyond me.
    It probably has to do with the fact that it's much harder to collect that data. There's no single BT network similar to the FastTrack network for example. Every tracker runs essentially their own private little network.

    Mind you, I'm not saying it's impossible, just harder.
  24. Re:Who doesn't? on NASA Seeks Geniuses and Visionaries · · Score: 1
    It seems to me that the interview process is designed to filter out geniuses and visionaries.
    Sounds fine to me! They'll just use the interviewed rejects..
  25. Re:Stop the presses! on NASA Probes Shuttle Oxygen Leak · · Score: 1

    So we shouldn't even try to make their jobs safer? What kind of screwed up mind did that come from?