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  1. Re:It's not the software. on "Very Severe Hole" In Vista UAC Design · · Score: 1

    Exactly what I would say.

    Actually, the IE7 copying thing is almost true. "View Source" will inform you that notepad is trying to open web content. It then gives you the option to trust notepad.exe. Problem solved.

    UAC has been getting better over time for me. In the first few days, I was getting UAC prompts all the time. Now I just gave myself proper permissions on my K: drive, instead of just relying on my administrator privileges to let me access it. I haven't received a UAC dialog for copying a file since then. I receive UAC dialogs every now and then, but usually when I'm performing an administrative action, where I would have to sudo anyway.

  2. Re:It's not the software. on "Very Severe Hole" In Vista UAC Design · · Score: 1

    It seems that the GP must be using a non-RTM Windows Vista, because Windows Vista does this too. No apply button, no UAC, just clicking the thumbnail changes your background.

    You can turn off the delete confirmation dialog in vista too. If you don't normally have permission to delete the file, you'll get a UAC dialog.

  3. Re:It's not the software. on "Very Severe Hole" In Vista UAC Design · · Score: 1

    Sorry, who's the troll again? :|

  4. Geforce 8800 GTS on Vista Not Playing Nice With FPS Games · · Score: 1

    It gets me 1000fps on counter-strike source (mine's the XFX version), so I'm happy. I'll never go back to a mere 100fps! :-)

  5. No "google shill" trolls? on Google Sought To Hide Political Dealmaking · · Score: 1

    Disappointing.

  6. Re:Thank you, brave gamma testers... on Windows Vista Launches To Mixed Reactions · · Score: 1

    Yeah. The new Resource Monitor shows that the total CPU usage is about 4%, and almost all of that is Windows Media Player 11... Maybe these complainers are using Pentium IIs? RAM usage is at about 700MB though, which I'm fine with. XP used to use about 500...

  7. Re:Solution to SPAM is much simpler. on Fight Spam With Nolisting · · Score: 1

    Oh wait, actually, I suck, I did give it out. Haha. I administrate a phpBB forum. Apparently it shows emails in plain text and the current skin ignores the "Always show my e-mail address: Yes/No" option. Well, that sucks.

  8. Re:Solution to SPAM is much simpler. on Fight Spam With Nolisting · · Score: 1

    Dude... https://gmail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?ans wer=12096

    Also, random information: I have never given out my true address, just aliases, yet today, I received an unsolicited message about ViXXAGra and CiXXalis addressed to my true address! Well, I lie, it isn't really my true address, it's my address on the domain which I give out to websites (I use a different domain entirely for personal messages) -- but all the same, I might have to actually start receiving spam :(

  9. Save yourself some time in the future on Mac OS X Versus Windows Vista, The Rematch · · Score: 2, Informative
    1. http://apple.slashdot.org/users.pl?op=edithome
    2. Find 'Customize Stories on the Homepage'
    3. Untick 'Zonk'
    4. Save
  10. Re:Blue Pill on Six Rootkit Detectors To Protect Your PC · · Score: 1

    Even so, blue pill alters the fake clock value when it exits its own, slower, subroutines. You need an external time source. (As far as I know, this is the only weakness). So yes, it's not totally undetectable. Here's where I read about it.

  11. Blue Pill on Six Rootkit Detectors To Protect Your PC · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Can any of them detect blue pill?

  12. Re:I think I'm safe on Bilingualism Delays Onset of Dementia · · Score: 1
    (Sorry, Slashdot doesn't support Unicode).
    It's okay, just encode in UTF-16 and base64 encode it. As for the minority who aren't fluent in base64-encoded utf-16, well, we don't want any of their types in here.
  13. Re:Simple mis-understanding on Looking Beyond Vista To Fiji and Vienna · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, it's his five-year plan. And he's going to get a sheep and a cow, and breed horses.

  14. Re:IMAP on A look at Thunderbird 2.0 Beta · · Score: 1

    I don't get it... You can set the default SMTP server for each account, can't you? I have multiple SMTP servers working fine with no SmtpSelect installed. When I choose which identity I am send an e-mail from, it chooses the SMTP server based on the account's preferences.

  15. Re:Web sites may have deleterious effects? on Bad Web Sites Can Cause "Mouse Rage" · · Score: 2, Funny

    You know something's wrong when you open the site in a background tab and you can hear your usually-silent hard drives grinding away trying to get away from the page via suicide...

  16. Re:The most retarded story ever? on Vista Hackers Get Busy · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm sure someone has managed not only to circumvent WGA, but r00t Microsoft's WGA servers and set the Administrator account's screensaver to a marquee: "Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all."

  17. Re:How did they get the book out so fast on CSS Cookbook · · Score: 4, Informative

    There's little point. There haven't been many changes in the layout engine from Firefox 1.5 to Firefox 2.0, in fact, these were avoided. Most of the rendering engine changes are going into/have gone into Gecko 1.9, which will become the base for Firefox 3 (There will be an "official" alpha of Gecko 1.9 some time next week, if you're interested). In comparison, IE6 to IE7 is very large difference in capabilities and compliance.

    Not to mention, IE7 came out before Firefox 2.0... :)

  18. Re:"experimental threading One Two Three Four" on MPAA Sues Company For Selling Pre-Loaded iPods · · Score: 3, Informative

    Since I haven't found an explanation elsewhere...

    One and four either shows the parent and its replies or the collapsed parent and a message stating "4 hidden comments" or whatever.
    Two toggles the collapsed state of the comment you click and any of its children that don't meet your threshold or something.
    Three basically just toggles the collapsed state of the comment you click, but doesn't modify its children, except from when you're going from four to three, in which case it collapses ones that don't meet the threshold.

    The difference between one and four is that in One, upon expanding a comment, if one of the children was collapsed before, it will stay collapsed, while number Four expands all the children too.

    I vote for One or Two... :)

  19. Re:chicken or egg on PGP Is 15 Years Old · · Score: 1

    I suppose we could just keep sending them garbage that looks like encrypted email until they give in and get enigmail or whatever. ;-)

  20. ray=out on Exclusive Interview With Greg Bear · · Score: 1

    More theories on the scab coral, I'll warrant. I'm waiting for it in this month's ray=out.

  21. Re:or just use spaces... on Best Method For Foiling Email Harvesters? · · Score: 1

    Bah. Screw you preview button.

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  22. Re:or just use spaces... on Best Method For Foiling Email Harvesters? · · Score: 1

    Mine's
    leeshotonkey

    well, I don't actually use that email address, and I still get spam to the address, so it's debatable whether this works. But it certainly beats the e-mail harvesters I've tried out.

  23. Think outside the box on Java To Be Opened For Christmas? · · Score: 5, Funny

    We need slower slugs.

  24. Re:Simple Child Care on School Bans 'Tag' · · Score: 4, Interesting
  25. Re:I don't think this is such a good idea... on Researchers Debut DNA-Powered Computer · · Score: 1

    That doesn't sound good. I can imagine it now: in an cruel and slightly ironic twist of fate, hackers actually did steal someone's children, after their computer mutated into a humanoid figure and kidnapped them...