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  1. Re:Still too many loopholes on Do Not Call Registry Gets Glowing Reviews · · Score: 1

    Can you do *57, "customer originated trace"? After they call, you hang up, do *57, and then follow up with the phone company, or something--I've never used it.

  2. Re:what are the last 10 languages? on 11th Annual ICFP Contest Begins · · Score: 1

    The proclamation is given once. It isn't valid over an interval.

    Languages for discriminating hackers: C++ (2007), 2D, Haskell, Haskell, C++, OCaml, Haskell, OCaml.
    Languages that are fine tools for many applications: Perl (2007), D, Dylan, Haskell and C++, C++, C, Dylan, OCaml.

  3. Re:$75 for an ethics book on Expensive Books Inspire P2P Textbook Downloads · · Score: 1

    Because reusing your own papers is only sometimes considered academic misconduct, the safe strategy is to ask both professors if they'll accept reused papers, and if one does then submit it first to the one who doesn't.

  4. Re:no mac viruses on Foundations of Mac OS X Leopard Security · · Score: 1

    The proof-of-concept MachoMan by roy g biv. Google: machoman "roy g biv". It may be the only one.

  5. Re:pretty thin science... on Trees' Leaves Grow At a Cool 70° All Over the World · · Score: 1

    If that isn't a quote gotten by Richard Harris of the NPR piece directly, then it may be from "Leaves resist temperature extremes regardless of the weather" by Heidi Ledford who is probably summarizing "Subtropical to boreal convergence of tree-leaf temperatures" by Brent R. Helliker and Suzanna L. Richter, in addition to adding something about the authors' motivations.

  6. Re:8 million, all set to exploit on A Few Firefox 3 Followups · · Score: 5, Insightful

    (yes you can destroy the home directory and perhaps add in a keylogger but that is about it).
    Personally, those are about the two worst things that could happen to my computer.
  7. Re:This is why ... on Bacteria Make Major Evolutionary Shift In the Lab · · Score: 1

    I could never prove this, but I always thought that applying an antibacterial to a population of bacteria wouldn't cause a resistance to develop, but rather gives the resistant bacterium a chance to overtake the rest of the population. If so, bacteria should be evolving these traits constantly, but they never stick around. It doesn't make sense to me that a living bacterium should acquire a trait when exposed to something that normally tears it apart.

    However, this doesn't really explain why someone should finish their course of antibiotics. If a resistant bacterium already exists, then continuing the antibiotic will continue killing its competition. It only makes sense if the immune system finishes off the resistant bacteria.

  8. Re:Does Wine work... on Wine 1.0-rc2 Released · · Score: 1

    Well, I got Photoshop CS3 to work pretty well on Vista running in a VirtualBox virtual machine. It was easy: I cut Vista down with vLite and it installed to 2.3GB (8GB normally). For 1600x1200 res files it worked snappily, but when I resized a picture to an approx 12000x10000 (100MB+) file it started having scratch space problems so I'm making a bigger drive.

    I don't know your requirements but this method might work.

  9. Re:Logical fallacy of investment on Eric Lerner's Focus Fusion Device Gets Funded · · Score: 1

    There's also the investment cost, the chance of failure, and the opportunity cost.

  10. Re:Highly questionable study on Video Games Can Make Us More Creative · · Score: 1

    Not to mention how they measure creativity...it's basically a self assessment. How did they measure creativity? The article only says "standard creativity test" but I don't know what that is.
  11. Re:Does Wine work... on Wine 1.0-rc2 Released · · Score: 1

    Running Windows in a virtual machine and Photoshop CS3 on top of it might work. I have a dual-core Pentium D 2.8 Ghz and 4 GB of fast memory and am optimistic that I can get it running, well even, based on the anecdotes I've read. However I'm still comparing VMware, VirtualBox, Xen and QEMU and haven't tried anything yet.

  12. Re:i'm a little concerned about the licensing. on An Advance In Image Recognition Software · · Score: 1

    It's not for sale, but rather "publically available". Anyhow, I'd bet it isn't a copyright infringement. Images are reduced to under 1 KB, making them less like an image and more like a statistic.

  13. Re:BBS? on How Japan's Biggest BBS Keeps Things Simple · · Score: 1

    Chinese exchange students in highschool used "BBS" to mean "web forum".

  14. Re:I'm torn about this subject on French Judge Orders Refund For Pre-Installed XP · · Score: 1

    If you know about software EULAs and software refund policies then you ought to find the EULA beforehand online to ensure you will agree with it.

  15. Re:Broken extensions on Firefox 3 RC1 Out Now · · Score: 1

    Tab Mix Plus does what TabsOpenRelative does, among other things. The version compatible with rc1 is at http://tmp.garyr.net/dev-builds/ at the bottom of the list.

  16. Re:Limited impact on XP SP3 Crashes Some AMD Machines · · Score: 3, Informative

    There are VIA processors that do x86.

  17. Re:What about the 4GB limit in Vista 32? on DDR3 RAM Explained · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm running 32-bit Ubuntu Linux and it has the same problem that Vista has regarding memory. Ubuntu reports 3.2 GB and Vista reports 3.3 GB of my 4 GB. I might use 64-bit Ubuntu but I heard 64-bit Flash is buggy.

  18. Re:Rights and Demands on Author Faces Canadian Tribunal For Hate Speech · · Score: 1

    It's about causing violence and trying to cause violence, not offending. Read the Criminal Code on Hate Propanganda: Section 318 is about advocating genocide. Section 319 subsection 1 is about inciting hatred, in a public place, that would likely lead to violence. Subsection 2 is about inciting hatred, which I find very vague; it's addressed in R. v. Keegstra but I haven't read the entire thing yet. To me these do not communicate that nobody should be offended. "Jews have big noses" is protected.

    I'm not a laywer, obviously, but I'm willing to muddle through the law in the Slashdot tradition.

  19. Re:Clones needed, references checked on OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta Released · · Score: 1, Informative

    I'm DMing a D&D game right now, and most people are trying to use HeroForge spreadsheets to build their characters and show them to me. Without MS Office, I can't read them. If you're using Windows, have you tried Excel Viewer? Or alternately try Excel Viewer 2003 and the MS Office 2007 Compatibility Pack.
  20. Re:It's the people, stupid. on The REAL Reason We Use Linux · · Score: 1

    but I enjoy using FreeBSD and other Free software for another important reason: the people.

    [*snip*]

    I've NEVER got that from commercial software vendors.

    You didn't consider that there are knowledgeable people genuinely interested in helping you in the Windows world. I don't know much about the forums that exist on Windows-related sites, but people are there voluntarily and they're probably helpful. I do know that there are good IRC channels. And, since most people use Windows, you can get help from pretty much any software/theme forum too. Lots of software developers also like to help.
  21. Re:Reverse Psychology on Neither Intellectual Nor Property · · Score: 1

    Because the other ones get modded down where you can't see them. (Maybe.)

  22. Re:Fark on Diebold Leaks 2008 Election Results · · Score: 1

    It looks like the flash player is only 6% of the page. A JavaScript script makes up most of the bulk.

  23. Re:Torrent sites should be able to defend themselv on Prince, Village People to Sue The Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    The Top 100 list at tpb is perhaps telling--and the Top pages for the subsections too (because the Top 100 is dominated by video and audio). It looks like even the Top Unix section is more pirated things than not, though it is much more heterogeneous there.

  24. Re:Clarification on "Anonymous" Takes Scientology Protest to the Streets · · Score: 1

    It defines "protest" it terms of "protest" because one is a verb and the other is a noun; afiact it is typical for definitions to refer to the noun. If you look at the noun's entry there is "a gesture of disapproval". .

  25. Re:One thing I'll never understand ... on States Seek More Oversight of Microsoft · · Score: 1

    If you use Windows, get Microsoft Word Viewer 2003 and the Compatibility Pack for Word 2007, which are both free. Print to PDF.