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Comment Re:Good choice (Score 1) 1813

by Liselle on Friday August 29, 2008 @05:32PM (#24801785) Attached to: McCain Picks Gov. Palin As Running Mate

Glad you're excited. Bad news for the Republicans, that they can count among their number such a person that thinks a VP pick is going to seal an election that's two months in the future (forever, in politics). I'm curious what your excuse/justification will be in November, should your favored candidate lose. My money is on you forgetting that you even made this rant.

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Slashdot's Disagree Mail 264

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 20, 2008 @01:02PM from the keep-your-cool dept.

In this week's Disagree Mail, I try to show the range of messages I get. It's not all angry or insane, sometimes it's sent to us for no apparent reason. We start off a little mad, slip into a whole bunch of crazy and finish with someone who has a complaint about racism at his favorite restaurant. Read below to get started.

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Pidgin Controversy Triggers Fork 1104

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday April 30, 2008 @02:55PM from the you-gotta-bit-kidding-me dept.

paleshadows writes "Pidgin, the premier multi-protocol instant messaging client, has been forked. This is the result of a heated, emotional, and very interesting debate over a controversial new feature: As of version 2.4, the ability to manually resize the text input area has been removed; instead, it automatically resizes depending on how much is typed. It turns out that this feature, along with the uncompromising unwillingness of the developers to provide an option to turn it off, annoys the bejesus of very many users. One comment made by a Professor that teaches "Collaboration in an Open Source World" argued that 'It's easy to see why open source developers could develop dogmas. [...] The most dangerous dogma is the one exhibited here: the God feature. "One technological solution can meet every possible user-desired variation of a feature." [...] You [the developers] are ignoring the fan base with a dedication to your convictions that is alarmingly evident to even the most unobservant of followers, and as such, you are demonstrating that you no longer deserve to be in the position of servicing the needs of your user base.'" Does anyone besides me find this utterly ridiculous?

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WWII Colossus Codecracker Outdone by a German 182

Posted by Zonk on Friday November 16, 2007 @01:03PM from the oh-irony-you-are-so-sweet dept.

superglaze writes "The Colossus codecracker contest was a short-lived ordeal. Not only has it been outdone in a cipher-breaking challenge, but — irony of ironies — it was beaten by a German! From the story: 'The winner was Joachim Schüth, from Bonn, who completed the task using software he wrote himself. "[Schüth] cracked the most difficult code yesterday," said the museum's spokesperson on Friday. "We're absolutely delighted. He used specially written software for the challenge. Colossus is still chugging away, as we got the signals late. Yesterday the atmospheric conditions were such that we couldn't get good signals.'"

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Windows CE 6 Arrives Complete with Kernel Source 169

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday November 01, 2006 @03:34PM from the pay-no-attention-to-the-man-behind-the-curtain dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft has launched the sixth edition of their embedded OS Windows CE and this time has included the full source. From the article: 'Developers can now access shared source code for the Windows CE kernel -- as well as certain device drivers and application-level components -- directly from within the Windows Embedded CE 6.0 distribution package. To do this, they click on a function in the IDE that installs the shared source, and indicate their acceptance of the associated shared source license.'"

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Journal Journal: Moderation System 4

Journal by Liselle on Sunday May 30, 2004 @10:35AM

Anyone who likes to moderate, but never has points, might want to read on. I accidentally gamed the moderation system.

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Journal Journal: First Journal Entry 5

Journal by Liselle on Monday April 12, 2004 @04:43PM

I've avoided my journal up until now (I don't have much to say, and the Internet doesn't need another weblog), but I have something that's too hilarious to keep to myself. In keeping with the Slashdot tradition of grousing about moderation, I give you a comment I posted earlier today:

Exhibit A

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