Thank ghod someone remembered Spamford Wallace, the original Spam King.

No italics? Oh teh horrors!!! o_0

Heh! I didn't notice the copyright message at the bottom of the page - dang this is an old design!

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Looks slightly better, but then you look a lil closer and you see that it is even more broken than the old layout. Why do I get Edit/Delete JE links for everyone's journal entries? Why are these links coming up as nasty-assed text links instead of a small icon? Why does the topic icon obscure part of the JE? Why do I have to scroll all the way down the page to find the "Write in journal" link?

Bah! It's like putting lipstick on a pig.

I thought it was just another spammy article that made its way onto the Slashdot front page. I'm especially wary of "anonymous" contributions here - I wouldn't be surprised if this wasn't submitted by Connectify just to get traffic and once they got anough traffic, swap out the original article for some more ads. 8^/

You must be new here - the tagline ("News for nerds. Stuff that matters") is just an inside joke - it doesn't actually mean that stories posted on this site would actually qualify as "news".

The idea is to make you believe that someone is registering domains similar to ones you already own, then offer you the "opportunity" to register them yourself at an inflated fee. If you do nothing, no domains get registered. All they want is for you to believe that someone is planning to squat on your names so you will buy them. Ignore them. Tell them to FOAD. But never believe that they are in any way, shape or form genuine about anything they say. No (legitimate) registrar will contact you to let you know that someone is registering a name similar to your own. None. They all operate in a reactive manner - they will only act *if* a rights holder notices and decides to take action. They never act proactively.

Doing better? I may be reading things wrong, but there doesn't appear to have been any changes made in the last 12 months...

You really expect the powers-that-be to actually consider bug reports and feature requests from we lowly users? o_0

It's never too late! ;^)

Multiply has much better privacy tools than Slashdot and I am sure the former-Slashdot crowd over there would welcome you with open arms. ;^)

You do realise that any USB mouse will work just fine on a Mac? If you don't like the mouse, plug your favourite mouse in and problem solved!

If that's true then it's the first thing Windows has got right in a bloody long time. Previous versions of Windows however are just like Mac and *nix - if you yank the drive out prematurely you run the risk of file corruption. Of course, it is dead easy to correctly eject a USB drive on a Mac, so long as you are not a brain-dead luser as Barbie seems to be - you just click Eject from the context menu (right mouse button, or ctrl-click for single button mouses), or click the Eject icon beside the drive in Finder, or press Cmd-E, or if you really want, drag the icon the the trash. The dragging to trash method is from the very early days of Mac OS and was one of the ways you could eject a 3.5" floppy.

Anyone who claims there is only one way to do something on a Mac has no idea how to use a Mac...

I use Pixelmator. It isn't free, but is a danged fine image editor.