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  1. Re:$20k , ridiculous. on Tech Billionaire Boot Camp · · Score: 1

    Complaining about women with expensive tastes isn't really the mark of someone has really climbed the financial walls of success.
    He is not complaining. He mentioned them among the pros of Bay area, not cons.
  2. Re:Abbreviated Quotes on Memory Tools for Password Management? · · Score: 1
  3. Re:Ich Bin German on 25th Anniversary of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum · · Score: 1

    Wow... For all these years I thought I am the only one who adored the VAL function of Spectrum BASIC.

    That and the ability to "GO TO" a variable line number, some kind of primitive dynamic method invocation:

    10 LET A = 10
    20 GO TO A

  4. Re:And, as we all know... on 25th Anniversary of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum · · Score: 1

    You could do only 2 colors in one block (8x8 pixel) but the whole screen could contain all 8 colors with 2 brightness levels (kind of 15 colors - black had no brightness level).

  5. Re:Hardness, stiffness, and toughness on Easy-to-Make Material Scratches Diamond · · Score: 1

    Mmmh. I dunno, but usually a book is built upon a good story, not a flashy gadget.
    Yeah, just like "The Lord of the Rings". Right...
  6. Re:D'OH! on Google buys DoubleClick for $3.1 Billion · · Score: 1

    What about the technology? Not that doubleclick's non-existing ad technology is worth that much, but maybe their patents are...

  7. Re:OT: A good C++ RPC library without code generat on Facebook's Cross-Language Network Library · · Score: 1

    I believe Hessian has a C++ port. I'm not sure if this is what you want, though.

  8. Re:Is Roland Piquepaille paid for Slashdot stories on A Single-Photon Server · · Score: 1

    The link is under his name, the name is posted on the slashdot front page which has a high google page rank, the page rank of whatever the link is to goes up.
    It is a "nofollow" link, Google won't take it into account when calculating PageRank.
  9. Re:Tucows on Registerfly's Accreditation Terminated by ICANN · · Score: 2, Informative

    What is the exact problem? You can try logging into your control panel directly at the OpenSRS (Tucows) site, skipping the reseller:

    https://manage.opensrs.net/

    The same username & password that you use with the reseller should work.

  10. Re:Someone stop me...Can't help myself... on The Score is IBM - 700,000 / SCO - 326 · · Score: 2, Funny

    For great justice at the court.

  11. Re:Reentrant? on Auto-Parallelizing Compiler From Codeplay · · Score: 1
  12. Re:Vulnerability doesn't work on Vista (Sort of) on IE and Firefox Share a Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    Often when somebody prints out a document to distribute at a meeting they print the full path to the document
    If the document is already distributed, what is the point of an exploit to download it?
  13. Re:Dell's laptops cost MORE w/ no OS than w/ Windo on Pre-Installed Linux On Dells Coming · · Score: 1

    The links are not showing the exact same configuration. Change the Windowsless notebook's HD to 60 GB and optical media to 8x DVD-ROM.

  14. Re:Dell's laptops cost MORE w/ no OS than w/ Windo on Pre-Installed Linux On Dells Coming · · Score: 1

    They're probably figuring 0.05% of people will choose the Linux option, so they have to recoup their entire costs of development with those few sales.
    The parent article links to a notebook with no operating system installed. There must be no extra development cost.
  15. Re:Which distribution does not matter. on Pre-Installed Linux On Dells Coming · · Score: 1

    With Windows, you have a small number of distributions to test: Windows 98, Windows XP, Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista etc. You can code workarounds for each in your device drivers. With Linux, there are countless distros with countless bugs. That's why hardware manufacturers have to limit their support within a few distros.

  16. Re:OS X Intel? on Visual Basic on GNU/Linux · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I believe you meant VB.NET when you say "C# is essentially VB with C++ formatting". VB and VB.NET share very little.

  17. Re: Why would we want OpenID? on AOL Now Supports OpenID · · Score: 1

    But an OpenID URL is unique, whereas a username is not. There might be millions of different people using the nickname "john" but there can be only one with "www.example.com/openid/john".

  18. Re:My Rights Online? on IBM Sued for Firing Alleged Internet Addict · · Score: 1

    buying Internet books != buying books from Internet

  19. Re:Microsoft DRM "doesn't work half the time"... on Yahoo Music Chief Comes Out Against DRM · · Score: 1

    Did you expect it to work 40% of the time?

  20. Re:Winners on How To Tell Open-Source Winners From Losers · · Score: 1

    I'm not exactly sure what you mean. Which software is easier to find when you forget the name? I tried the first search phrase that came into my mind:

    "open source" pdf printer

    and it popped up first in Google:

    http://www.google.com/search?q=%22open+source%22+p df+printer

  21. Re:Misleading Summary on An Origami Lens for Your Camera Phone? · · Score: 1

    Not supposed to make sense
    Is it supposed to make sens instead?
  22. Re:How to really sterilise a sponge on Microwave Experiments Cause Sponge Disasters · · Score: 1

    There are many germs that live happily at temperatures above the boiling point of water.

    I don't know if microwave has an additional effect on germs other than boiling the water, though.

  23. Re:ironic for slashdot on Microwave Experiments Cause Sponge Disasters · · Score: 3, Funny

    Then there should be another safety note on microwaves: RTFA

  24. Re:One can only hope. on The Death of Domain Parking? · · Score: 1

    You can disable content ads through AdWords control panel and only allow search engine result page ads.

    You can even set different prices for content ads.

  25. Re:One can only hope. on The Death of Domain Parking? · · Score: 1

    Firefox automatically searches when it sees illegal characters (like spaces in your example) which can't be in a hostname. The problem only occurs in one word searches.