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  1. Re:Time for a little history lesson... on New Nintendo DS to Include Camera, Music · · Score: 1

    true, it's still pushing the update though, even if it's not from the internet, and the last update stopped me playing homebrew stuff (for about a day)

  2. Re:Or more reasonable policies on Students Are Always Half Right In Pittsburgh · · Score: 1

    by that logic, you're better off acing the first half of the semester, then slacking off.
    so it could end up making the clever kids lazy, knowing you've got a pass before you start the second half of the semester.

  3. Re:NOT: (was Re:Summary is WRONG) on Popup Study Confirms Most Users Are Idiots · · Score: 1

    Summary is under ENTERTAINMENT. Tag says HUMOR. If it had been accurately reporting on the study, it would have been under SCIENCE. Read all the words.

    Read all the words? Next thing you know you'll be telling us to RTFA, and that's just silly.

  4. Re:Absence of real competitors on Compact Disc Turns 26, Has a Bright Future · · Score: 1

    (before you call me old, examine my UID...I'm 17).

    You may well be 17 but your UID does nothing to either confirm or deny this, is it just me or is this a very strange thing to say?

  5. brasso on Effective Optical Disc Repair? · · Score: 1

    I've used brasso and a lint free cloth to repair almost unreadable disks (mostly ps2 games) in the past, works every time, though it can take some work.

  6. Re:Why alarm bells? on Firefox 3 Already Rules the Roost · · Score: 1

    Correlation is not causation, and I think there is some legitimate doubt as to whether advertising, subliminal or otherwise, really does work. I wish I weren't at work and could take the time to google it more thoroughly,

    Surely the fact that you want to google this shows that advertising does work. Google made advertising their business, and are damn good at it, if their advertising didn't work you may well be asking jeeves, checking altavista or using any number of other search engines.

  7. Re:'double' on IP Traffic To 'Double' Every Two Years · · Score: 1

    Ha, that's waaay too low. Here's the international traffic for one project I work on, CMS: http://t2.unl.edu/phedex/xml/quantity_cumulative?link=dest&span=86400&starttime=time.time()-30*86400 Total is 3.7PB over the last month. I doubt that one science experiment accounts for 40% of global IP traffic in Cisco's estimates. 3.7 isn't quite 40% of 10,747
  8. Re:I hope so on XP Deathwatch, T Minus 2 Weeks · · Score: 1

    * I don't think it (XP Home) can be a remote desktop server (but i'm pretty sure it can be a remote desktop client) XP Pro isn'st a good remote desktop server either, without hacking it (which admittedly is quite easy) you can't have more than one user logged in, which means you can't log in remotely if somebody is logged in locally, this all but defeats the point of having a remote desktop server anyway.
  9. Re:Remember: Sexism's Only Alright If It Favors Wo on Do Women Write Better Code? · · Score: 1

    First, Perl is not an acronym, though PERL can be used as a backronym meaning "Practical Extraction and Report Language", not in common use but worth pointing out.
  10. similar to zoomify on Microsoft Demos "Deep Zoom" Technology · · Score: 1

    this seems to do the same thing as zoomify only with a smoother interface, wake me up when they have a version I can put my own photos in, preferably for free (and preferably not using silverlight)

  11. Not just math on Have Mathematics Exams Become Easier? · · Score: 1

    I was in the supermarket today looking at the ad board and saw an ad reading "fore sale, roaller blades" made me wonder exactly what children are being taught these days.

  12. Re:Heh on Google Accidently Revealed As eBay Critic · · Score: 1

    That's pretty brazen since the cat was already out of the bag. So did someone finally figure out whether it was dead or alive? African or European cat? I don't know thaaaaaaa........
  13. Re:hmmmmm Vista... powershell ... winfs..... etc on Windows 7 Won't Have Compact "MinWin" Kernel · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why would a kernel chase a chicken?
    (he says expecting a punch line to follow)
    i'd understand if it was a colonel.

  14. Re:Not exactly accurate on The Smartest Browser and OS · · Score: 1

    Catell. Otherwise about 130-132 for Mensa. And remember, you're talking about a normal curve so the sample becomes progressively smaller with each point above that. That said, I'd say 142 is low. _Really_ smart people don't bother with on-line fun tests perhaps? look further down the page (third section) the minimum cattell score is 148. also, having since taken the test and found i got 110, i know it's wrong because my cattell score is 148 (or atleast it was two years ago)
  15. Not exactly accurate on The Smartest Browser and OS · · Score: 2, Funny

    I didn't bother with the test but looking at the stats, it says the smartest person in the world has an IQ of 142, which in an actual IQ test is just below the minimum requirement for mensa.

  16. Re:Pharphetched naming on New 'Phlashing' Attack Sabotages Hardware · · Score: 1

    how did you resist phirst post?
    The names are getting silly though, and we're blatantly running out of F words.

  17. Custom Builds on 66% Apple Market Share For Sales of High-End PCs · · Score: 1

    This doesn't seem to take in the large high end PC market of custom builds, either self built like my last 3 high end PCs or built by small independant retailers. A market that Mac doesn't really have.

  18. No surprise on 20% of U.S. Population Has Never Used Email · · Score: 2, Insightful

    especially when you consider that about 12% of the population is under 10 years old and 16% of the popluation is over 65. a majority of these people are not going to be sending emails.

  19. Re:Year of the Linux of Desktop on Linux Desktop to Appear On Every Asus Motherboard · · Score: 1

    didn't work last time i tried it, and that was just a problem with a mouse driver.

  20. Re:Year of the Linux of Desktop on Linux Desktop to Appear On Every Asus Motherboard · · Score: 1

    Just out of curiosity how the fuck would anyone who supports windows know what the fuck a repository is in Linux?
    As someone who supports windows, I find that sometimes the easiest way to fix a windows installation is to plug the hard drive into my linux laptop.
  21. ad skipping on Youngsters Skip DVR Ads Less Than Seniors · · Score: 1

    why do we make it sound like ad skipping is new, even beta max and vhs had fast forward buttons.

  22. Re:Math is HARD on SMS 4x More Expensive Than Data From Hubble · · Score: 2, Funny

    acters.

  23. Re:Math is HARD on SMS 4x More Expensive Than Data From Hubble · · Score: 2, Funny

    True, and if I were posting on slashdot via sms I'd have waited until I had more to say. And to correct my typo, I like to get my money's worth. That's 160 char

  24. Re:Math is HARD on SMS 4x More Expensive Than Data From Hubble · · Score: 2, Funny

    It doesn't matter, most textmessages are not 160 characters anyway.
    mine are... I like to get my moneys worth.
  25. Re:serious question on First Release Candidate of Wine 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    the point i was trying to make (though unsuccessfully) was that microsoft offer the direct x download for use in windows, not in linux.