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  1. Re:Wake me up when it runs... on Halo 3 Multiplayer Demo Coming In Spring · · Score: 1

    seconded.

    anyone know if the fps games in these next-gen consoles support keyboard + mouse by default? i know you can hook them to the console, but can you use them instead of the controller?

  2. Re:Oh criminy on FCC Meets To Investigate Cookie Abuse · · Score: 1
    Um In NY there is a law on what positions you can have sex in.
    i think that was struck down nationally a few years ago. it has something to do with it being prejudiced based on sexual-orientation. IIRC.
  3. Re:What's the point? on How To Build a Web Spider On Linux · · Score: 1
    Why would anyone have a need to write a simple spider nowadays?
    simple. to add a search engine to your site without having to rely on someone else's code.

    in fact, i'm going to have to do this fairly soon. i've already written a search for articles, but now customers are complaining that they cant search for "customer service." bah!

    unfortunately, IBM's spider example is pretty pathetic.
  4. another article on Physicists Promise Wireless Power · · Score: 1

    MIT Technology Review has another article</plug>

  5. Re:32x didnt work on The 10 Lamest Game Consoles Ever · · Score: 1

    i was about 10 or 12 at the time. i dont remember much about it. my dad did everything.

    if the cables were the problem, then why would the HUD and menu display properly but nothing else?

  6. 32x didnt work on The 10 Lamest Game Consoles Ever · · Score: 1

    i had the 32x, but never got it to work. i tried it with one game, doom. it didnt display anything but the HUD. i quickly returned it after that.

    anyone ever get that thing to work?

  7. Re:Blog's interesting;submission gave me a WTF mom on The Importance of OS Backwards Compatibility · · Score: 2, Funny
    #!/bin/sh
    echo "Hello, World"
    what do i win?
  8. show of hands on Scientists Find New Painkiller From Saliva · · Score: 2, Funny

    how many people thought that said salvia?

  9. hopefully, it'll be... on Bungie Promises "Big News" Next Week · · Score: 1

    "Halo 2 available for windows XP"

    i've heard it's going to be available for vista, but i'm not paying for that OS.

  10. Re: Can't count. on Slashdot Posting Bug Infuriates Haggard Admins · · Score: 1
    comment id 16786329:
    > Last night we crossed over 16,777,216 comments [snip] > .. but on a table that is 16 million rows long

    That's nearer 17 million YTC
    i'd be willing to bet it's much below 16 million actual comments, since the first few were probably tests, and then deleted. he means the comment with a primary key of 16777216; that doesnt necessarily mean there are that many comments in the table.
  11. another article on Blind Mice See Again After Cell Transplants · · Score: 1

    Technology Review had another article on this yesterday.

  12. another review on Nvidia Launches 8800 Series, First of the DirectX 10 Cards · · Score: 4, Informative

    Hot Hardware has another review

  13. Re:Good at war, bad at peace on Rumsfeld Stepping Down · · Score: 1

    actually, i dont think that one had a formal declaration of war either. it seems the last official declaration was WW2. so says the wiki gods.

  14. says who? on Linux and the Coming Consoles · · Score: 2, Interesting

    not to queston LinuxDevices' integrity, but what's their source on this? it didnt mention anyone, it just kinda flat out said it.

  15. Re:What the fuck are you talking about? on 4 Seconds Loading Time Is Maximum For Websurfers · · Score: 1
    i stand corrected. IE does support AJAX

    it looks like i was running into problems because, as i said, there is no XmlHttpRequest in JScript. that's why, if you look at the source code for Sarissa, the class XMLHttpRequest is defined inside an if block that checks if the browser is running IE.

    in addition, feel free to test this code yourself, as i just did:
    <script type="text/javascript">

    function DoStuff()
    {
    try
    {
    alert(((XMLHttpRequest) ? "yes" : "no"));
    }
    catch (e)
    {
    alert("not even close.");
    }
    }

    </script>
  16. Re:AJAX completely lacks performance. on 4 Seconds Loading Time Is Maximum For Websurfers · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Firefox was terrible on Windows and Linux. Internet Explorer was slightly better
    are you serious? correct me if i'm wrong, but i'm pretty sure IE doesnt support ajax, period. there's no XmlHttpRequest in JScript. i experimented with a little AJAX, and to get it working on IE, i had to include sarissa
  17. Re:Virtualization on Vista to Allow "One Significant" Hardware Upgrade · · Score: 2, Informative

    yeah, they thought of that too...

    as it says in the EULA, you cant use the Home or Premium versions with virtualization. only the $400 Ultimate version. but, apparently, there's no technical restrictions keeping you from doing it, just legal.

  18. Re:Wow on Seagate To Encrypt Data On Hard Drives · · Score: 1
    if you've got valuable enough data to be encrypting it, you'd be nuts to not have it properly backed up as well.
    it doesnt have to be valuable to be encryption-worthy. it could just be illegal, or sensitive.
  19. is it a filesystem? on Seagate To Encrypt Data On Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    so, is DriveTrust a new type of filesystem, or is it something separate? the article didnt specify.

  20. V-Chip rating signal present during commercials? on How MythTV Detects and Flags Commercials · · Score: 2, Interesting

    does anyone know if that v-chip signal is present during the commerical? if not, that would make it very easy to detect commericals.

  21. Re:I wonder how many people will point this one ou on How MythTV Detects and Flags Commercials · · Score: 1

    bingo. it works very well too. i've been using it for about a month, and it's spot-on at least 90% of the time.

    they dance around the issue by using the word "chapter" rather than "commercial", so by reading a list of features you might not realize that it has commercial detection.

  22. Re:Firefox zealots beware... on Microsoft's IE Team Leader Answers Slashdot Questions · · Score: 1
    if I remember correctly, more people STILL use IE browsing Slashdot than Firefox
    bzzzt wrong:
    But since 2/3rds of you use Firefox, fixing IE is just not at the top of my priority list... I'd rather make it work better for the majority
    from CmdrTaco himself: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/14/152421 6
  23. Re:Filtering not decision making on Smart Cameras Detect Crime, Erode Privacy · · Score: 1

    that's the impression i was getting from the article. it sounded like they were going to install this software into already-existing surveillance cameras and merely use it to reduce the work-load of the guy who has to monitor the screens. or use it to more quickly find the video of a crime after the crime was committed.

  24. Re:They are having trouble... on Nintendo Profits Up 72%, Sony's Down 94% · · Score: 1

    this is a type of ad i first started noticing about 10-15 years ago.

    basically, it makes no sense, so you spend time trying to figure out what it means. and the more you think about it, the more you're going to remember it and the brand name.

  25. i've seen this before on Decoy Files on P2P Sites Become Ad Vehicles · · Score: 1

    i've seen many, MANY of these on gnutella. you download a short video file, and it's just a still image of an iPod, for a few seconds. not sure who was behind it, but they were all over the place.