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  1. Re:Don't Change The Prefs to "NO" on Yahoo Knows Best, Resets Users' Marketing Prefs · · Score: 2
    Distant towns in Alaska that can only be reached by dogsled when things are frozen?


    Hey, keep your spam down there buddy... :)

  2. Re:Disgusting... on Yahoo Knows Best, Resets Users' Marketing Prefs · · Score: 2

    If you buy something from a Yahoo store (and there are *lots*), Yahoo keeps your contact information. I never game mail.yahoo.com my mailing address, but they had it becuase I ordered a PSU from a Yahoo! store a month or so ago.

  3. Re:Question... on Yahoo Knows Best, Resets Users' Marketing Prefs · · Score: 2

    I didn't get anything... I just turned everything else off and made sure they had fake contact info.

  4. Re:Doesn't it say something about society? on AdCritic To Return · · Score: 2

    I'd say that the primary purpose of advertising is to make the public aware of whatever product or service they're trying to sell.

  5. Re:finnally i can ditch explorer on Mozilla Tree Closes for 1.0 · · Score: 2

    Good point. As long as I can turn stuff like that off, I'm happy. However, for which web applications would the "features" I mentioned be important?

  6. Re:finnally i can ditch explorer on Mozilla Tree Closes for 1.0 · · Score: 2, Insightful
    my only complaint about that browser is that it doesnt support the ability to change the colour of the scroll bars found on certain webpages.

    I am very glad that Mozilla doesn't support colored scroll bars. The webpage can do anything it wants, as long as it's in my current broswer window (that includes screwing with my status bar, coloring my scroll bars, popup windows, and stupid mouse effects).

  7. Re:I don't need it, but I sure am glad to see it. on Codeweavers Releases Crossover Office · · Score: 2

    If you had read the article, you would have learned that $55 is just for Crossover Office, not for MS Office. You have to purchase MS Office seperately (or use an existing copy).

  8. Re:Half-life on Old Sierra Games Breathe Anew · · Score: 2

    I wonder how well a FPS would play in Virtual PC?

  9. Re:10.2 imminent? on Mac OS X Reaches First Birthday · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well, according to some of the Mac rumor sites, 10.2 will be released at MacWorld New York (July 16).

  10. Re:write your own operating system ... on Most Outrageous Vendor Lie Ever Told? · · Score: 2

    And now you know... the rest of the story.

    Close, but not quite. It's actually

    And now you know... the rrrrrrrest of the story.

  11. Re:What about other cats? on Cat Recognition Algorithms? · · Score: 2

    Yeah, I see that now. However, I'll be really impressed when they can try 100 different cats and it still only lets Flo, Ellipse, and Squirrel in.

    When they get to that stage, I'm sure these things would sell like hot cakes. Just "initialize" the "Flo-Control Cat Door" with pictures of your cats and you're done.

  12. Re:macOSX on a PBG3/G4 (-1 offtopic/troll/flamebai on Multiple Monitors for Linux Laptops? · · Score: 2

    Um, that's not a moderation. It's part of the subject...

  13. What about other cats? on Cat Recognition Algorithms? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Very cool. It seems to be pretty good at blocking other animals (skunks, etc...), but what about another cat?

    If possible, they should combine the image recognition with the magnetic collar. This would allow the door to open *only* for a rodent-less Flo and not just any ol' rodent-less cat.

  14. Re:/. 'd already.. on He Writes Back · · Score: 2
    The time zone is set in your user preferences somewhere. Have a look.

    http://slashdot.org/users.pl?op=edithome

  15. Re:I've run that course on Chase the Rabbits · · Score: 2

    -50 below huh? Wouldn't that be, like, 50 above? :)

    Funny, they have that same thing (the -50 below bit) on a thermometer at The Hitching Post in Glennallen.

  16. Re:Which MacOS? on Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos · · Score: 2

    Classic = running OS 9 apps inside of OS X. If you run OS X, you're better off playing a OS X version of the game instead of OS 9. Classic slows things down a bit.

    It would be kinda like buying the windows version and playing it in Virtual PC on the Mac.

  17. Re:Protest at Google on Google Relists Operation Clambake · · Score: 2

    Huh. Didn't know that. Thanks for the enlightenment.

  18. Re:Protest at Google on Google Relists Operation Clambake · · Score: 2

    Doh! I read shareholder as stockholder. Silly me. I think it's time to go to bed now...

  19. Re:Protest at Google on Google Relists Operation Clambake · · Score: 2
    he has to worry about the shareholders interest etc.

    This is sort of off topic, but Google is privately held.
    http://www.google.com/press/facts.html

  20. Re:Non-freezing bridges? on Conductive Concrete Offers Building Security · · Score: 2
    Well for one thing where on earth is there going to be a road & highway department (in a country that can afford heatable concrete) that's going to let an inch of ICE fully form before they decide to do something about it?
    Fortunatly, where I live in Alaska the DOT is not obsessed with keeping the roads bare. It is quite common to have an inch or two snow/ice pack on the roads in the winter. The snow plows use grooved blades, which in turn grooves the ice in the direction of travel. Your tires grip the ice grooves quite well.

    Salt isn't used because it doesn't work when it gets really cold. I think the magic temperature is 0F, since Mr. Fahrenheit used a salt & ice mixture to define 0F. (I'm not entirely sure about this.)

  21. Re:One more thing... on Apple @ MacWorld Tokyo · · Score: 2
    Offtopic rant: I now officially hate IE for OS X. Apparently the Esc key clears a text boxes, which just happened as I finished typing this the first time around (vi habit). Arrg.

    IE does that in windows too. Did you also notice that :wq doesn't work in MS Word?

  22. Re:Is there a list somewhere... on Apple @ MacWorld Tokyo · · Score: 3, Informative
  23. Re:Effect on topo maps on North Pole is Leaving Canada · · Score: 2

    The difference between true north and magnetic north is refered to as deviation, declination, and variation. I personally prefer declination.

  24. Re:Effect on topo maps on North Pole is Leaving Canada · · Score: 2
    And in response to the grandparent of this post, good luck hitting any LEO satellite with a missle.

    GPS satellites aren't in LEO. They orbit at an altitude of 20,200 km (12,552 miles).

  25. Re:Effect on topo maps on North Pole is Leaving Canada · · Score: 2

    Yes, but the adage of "Don't put all your eggs in one basket" still holds true.