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  1. Direct Links to Commercials by YoDave · · Score: 1 · on Superbowling

    The lameness filter is lame...
    Apple Computer commercial
    Anheuser-Busch commercial"
    Coke commercial
    Levi's commercial
    McDonalds commercial
    Mountain Dew commercial
    Noxzema commercial
    Pepsi commercial
    Tobasco commercial
    Xerox commercial

  2. Direct Links to Commercials by YoDave · · Score: 1 · on Superbowling

    The lameness filter is lame...
    Apple Computer commercial
    Anheuser-Busch commercial"
    Coke commercial
    Levi's commercial
    McDonalds commercial
    Mountain Dew commercial
    Noxzema commercial
    Pepsi commercial
    Tobasco commercial
    Xerox commercial

  3. Direct Links to Commercials by YoDave · · Score: 1 · on Superbowling

    The lameness filter is lame...
    Apple Computer commercial
    Anheuser-Busch commercial"
    Coke commercial
    Levi's commercial
    McDonalds commercial
    Mountain Dew commercial
    Noxzema commercial
    Pepsi commercial
    Tobasco commercial
    Xerox commercial

  4. Direct Links to Commercials by YoDave · · Score: 1 · on Superbowling

    The lameness filter is lame...
    Apple Computer commercial
    Anheuser-Busch commercial"
    Coke commercial
    Levi's commercial
    McDonalds commercial
    Mountain Dew commercial
    Noxzema commercial
    Pepsi commercial
    Tobasco commercial
    Xerox commercial

  5. Direct Links to Commercials by YoDave · · Score: 1 · on Superbowling

    The lameness filter is lame...
    Apple Computer commercial
    Anheuser-Busch commercial"
    Coke commercial
    Levi's commercial
    McDonalds commercial
    Mountain Dew commercial
    Noxzema commercial
    Pepsi commercial
    Tobasco commercial
    Xerox commercial

  6. Direct Links to Commercials by YoDave · · Score: 1 · on Superbowling

    The lameness filter is lame...
    Apple Computer commercial
    Anheuser-Busch commercial"
    Coke commercial
    Levi's commercial
    McDonalds commercial
    Mountain Dew commercial
    Noxzema commercial
    Pepsi commercial
    Tobasco commercial
    Xerox commercial

  7. Direct Links to Commercials by YoDave · · Score: 1 · on Superbowling

    The lameness filter is lame...
    Apple Computer commercial
    Anheuser-Busch commercial"
    Coke commercial
    Levi's commercial
    McDonalds commercial
    Mountain Dew commercial
    Noxzema commercial
    Pepsi commercial
    Tobasco commercial
    Xerox commercial

  8. Direct Links to Commercials by YoDave · · Score: 1 · on Superbowling

    The lameness filter is lame...
    Apple Computer commercial
    Anheuser-Busch commercial"
    Coke commercial
    Levi's commercial
    McDonalds commercial
    Mountain Dew commercial
    Noxzema commercial
    Pepsi commercial
    Tobasco commercial
    Xerox commercial

  9. direct links and synopses by Teach · · Score: 4, Informative · on Superbowling

    Any of you folks running linux may not have the best RealPlayer integration in your browsers, so here are the direct links to each of the RealMedia files, with a brief synopsis of each commercial (but no "spoilers").

    Slashcode will probably embed spaces in these URLs, so you may have to manually remove them.

    I quit watching television about seven or eight years ago. However, I try to catch the Super Bowl every year, if only for the commercials. In fact, I've always told folks that if there was a channel that just played commercials all day, I'd probably tune in to it.

    I imagine it could be like VH-1 Classic, with an hour for commercials from the 50s, another from the 60s, etc. Maybe a "groundbreaking" commercials hour. Maybe one with ads from various countries.

    I'd tune in, anyway.

  10. direct links and synopses by Teach · · Score: 4, Informative · on Superbowling

    Any of you folks running linux may not have the best RealPlayer integration in your browsers, so here are the direct links to each of the RealMedia files, with a brief synopsis of each commercial (but no "spoilers").

    Slashcode will probably embed spaces in these URLs, so you may have to manually remove them.

    I quit watching television about seven or eight years ago. However, I try to catch the Super Bowl every year, if only for the commercials. In fact, I've always told folks that if there was a channel that just played commercials all day, I'd probably tune in to it.

    I imagine it could be like VH-1 Classic, with an hour for commercials from the 50s, another from the 60s, etc. Maybe a "groundbreaking" commercials hour. Maybe one with ads from various countries.

    I'd tune in, anyway.

  11. direct links and synopses by Teach · · Score: 4, Informative · on Superbowling

    Any of you folks running linux may not have the best RealPlayer integration in your browsers, so here are the direct links to each of the RealMedia files, with a brief synopsis of each commercial (but no "spoilers").

    Slashcode will probably embed spaces in these URLs, so you may have to manually remove them.

    I quit watching television about seven or eight years ago. However, I try to catch the Super Bowl every year, if only for the commercials. In fact, I've always told folks that if there was a channel that just played commercials all day, I'd probably tune in to it.

    I imagine it could be like VH-1 Classic, with an hour for commercials from the 50s, another from the 60s, etc. Maybe a "groundbreaking" commercials hour. Maybe one with ads from various countries.

    I'd tune in, anyway.

  12. direct links and synopses by Teach · · Score: 4, Informative · on Superbowling

    Any of you folks running linux may not have the best RealPlayer integration in your browsers, so here are the direct links to each of the RealMedia files, with a brief synopsis of each commercial (but no "spoilers").

    Slashcode will probably embed spaces in these URLs, so you may have to manually remove them.

    I quit watching television about seven or eight years ago. However, I try to catch the Super Bowl every year, if only for the commercials. In fact, I've always told folks that if there was a channel that just played commercials all day, I'd probably tune in to it.

    I imagine it could be like VH-1 Classic, with an hour for commercials from the 50s, another from the 60s, etc. Maybe a "groundbreaking" commercials hour. Maybe one with ads from various countries.

    I'd tune in, anyway.

  13. direct links and synopses by Teach · · Score: 4, Informative · on Superbowling

    Any of you folks running linux may not have the best RealPlayer integration in your browsers, so here are the direct links to each of the RealMedia files, with a brief synopsis of each commercial (but no "spoilers").

    Slashcode will probably embed spaces in these URLs, so you may have to manually remove them.

    I quit watching television about seven or eight years ago. However, I try to catch the Super Bowl every year, if only for the commercials. In fact, I've always told folks that if there was a channel that just played commercials all day, I'd probably tune in to it.

    I imagine it could be like VH-1 Classic, with an hour for commercials from the 50s, another from the 60s, etc. Maybe a "groundbreaking" commercials hour. Maybe one with ads from various countries.

    I'd tune in, anyway.

  14. direct links and synopses by Teach · · Score: 4, Informative · on Superbowling

    Any of you folks running linux may not have the best RealPlayer integration in your browsers, so here are the direct links to each of the RealMedia files, with a brief synopsis of each commercial (but no "spoilers").

    Slashcode will probably embed spaces in these URLs, so you may have to manually remove them.

    I quit watching television about seven or eight years ago. However, I try to catch the Super Bowl every year, if only for the commercials. In fact, I've always told folks that if there was a channel that just played commercials all day, I'd probably tune in to it.

    I imagine it could be like VH-1 Classic, with an hour for commercials from the 50s, another from the 60s, etc. Maybe a "groundbreaking" commercials hour. Maybe one with ads from various countries.

    I'd tune in, anyway.

  15. direct links and synopses by Teach · · Score: 4, Informative · on Superbowling

    Any of you folks running linux may not have the best RealPlayer integration in your browsers, so here are the direct links to each of the RealMedia files, with a brief synopsis of each commercial (but no "spoilers").

    Slashcode will probably embed spaces in these URLs, so you may have to manually remove them.

    I quit watching television about seven or eight years ago. However, I try to catch the Super Bowl every year, if only for the commercials. In fact, I've always told folks that if there was a channel that just played commercials all day, I'd probably tune in to it.

    I imagine it could be like VH-1 Classic, with an hour for commercials from the 50s, another from the 60s, etc. Maybe a "groundbreaking" commercials hour. Maybe one with ads from various countries.

    I'd tune in, anyway.

  16. direct links and synopses by Teach · · Score: 4, Informative · on Superbowling

    Any of you folks running linux may not have the best RealPlayer integration in your browsers, so here are the direct links to each of the RealMedia files, with a brief synopsis of each commercial (but no "spoilers").

    Slashcode will probably embed spaces in these URLs, so you may have to manually remove them.

    I quit watching television about seven or eight years ago. However, I try to catch the Super Bowl every year, if only for the commercials. In fact, I've always told folks that if there was a channel that just played commercials all day, I'd probably tune in to it.

    I imagine it could be like VH-1 Classic, with an hour for commercials from the 50s, another from the 60s, etc. Maybe a "groundbreaking" commercials hour. Maybe one with ads from various countries.

    I'd tune in, anyway.

  17. direct links and synopses by Teach · · Score: 4, Informative · on Superbowling

    Any of you folks running linux may not have the best RealPlayer integration in your browsers, so here are the direct links to each of the RealMedia files, with a brief synopsis of each commercial (but no "spoilers").

    Slashcode will probably embed spaces in these URLs, so you may have to manually remove them.

    I quit watching television about seven or eight years ago. However, I try to catch the Super Bowl every year, if only for the commercials. In fact, I've always told folks that if there was a channel that just played commercials all day, I'd probably tune in to it.

    I imagine it could be like VH-1 Classic, with an hour for commercials from the 50s, another from the 60s, etc. Maybe a "groundbreaking" commercials hour. Maybe one with ads from various countries.

    I'd tune in, anyway.

  18. direct links and synopses by Teach · · Score: 4, Informative · on Superbowling

    Any of you folks running linux may not have the best RealPlayer integration in your browsers, so here are the direct links to each of the RealMedia files, with a brief synopsis of each commercial (but no "spoilers").

    Slashcode will probably embed spaces in these URLs, so you may have to manually remove them.

    I quit watching television about seven or eight years ago. However, I try to catch the Super Bowl every year, if only for the commercials. In fact, I've always told folks that if there was a channel that just played commercials all day, I'd probably tune in to it.

    I imagine it could be like VH-1 Classic, with an hour for commercials from the 50s, another from the 60s, etc. Maybe a "groundbreaking" commercials hour. Maybe one with ads from various countries.

    I'd tune in, anyway.

  19. Re:I didn't think it was so bad until I read this. by WhiteBandit · · Score: 1 · on Columbia's Final Minutes in Detail

    You will be interested in the following links:
    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3078062/

    http://cbsnews.cbs.com/network/news/space/51Lchap1 2crewfate.html

  20. yeah, I saw it on CBS news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll · on Full X11-Based Distro For PDAs

    I must say it was pretty widely distributed!

  21. Re:slashdotters in the military? by the+pickle · · Score: 1 · on 25,000-Ton Amphibious Spam Relay

    There's another 'antiterror' drama on too, one episode they landed a cargo plane on a carrier (which has been done, once).

    That isn't an anti-terror drama. It's JAG.

    The original landing of a C-130 Hercules, a quad-turboprop transport plane weighing in excess of 85,000 pounds, on a carrier deck, on which that episode of JAG was (very) loosely based, occurred in October of 1963 and was achieved by Lt. James H. Flatley III. He later received the Distinguished Flying Cross for this amazing feat.

    Perhaps the "antiterror drama" you're thinking of is "Threat Matrix" on ABC. It's actually a good show, and doesn't mangle jargon/geek terminology.

    p

  22. Responsibility by Fux+the+Penguin · · Score: 3, Funny · on Encrypted Cell Phone Hits the Market

    Wow, $4,000 per pair? That seems awfully high, but I'd imagine there are many legitimate uses of such technology, that may interest people to shell out that much cash. For instance, credit card authorization, police communication, and drug trafficking come to mind. I work for the second-largest supplier of solid-gold cell phones and pagers, which are often used by celebrities and collectively engaged urban businessmen, and I could certainly see where many of our clients would have use for this kind of device.

    I am a little concerned, though, that this kind of technology might fall into the wrong hands. For instance, have the manufacturers considered the applications for which terrorists might use these? I hardly think that the NAH6 would like to see their products used to slaughter innocent Americans, or even Amsterdaminians. Encryption is certainly a worthwhile tool, but I think it's far more likely to be exploited by the wicked than the virtuous, as it's the bad guys who've got something to hind.

    Perhaps I would be more supportive of NAH6 if they were to provide a backdoor for the NSA, FBI, CBS and the ALF. These organizations, then, could catch evil-doers in the act before they can inflict massive damage to our American way of life. Truly, the only way to secure our liberty is government supervision of the most invasive sort.

  23. Re:This was my favorite quote by TopShelf · · Score: 1 · on 'Matrix Revolutions' Opens Today

    That sounds like last week's CSI, "Fur and Loathing".

  24. Re:The best thing about the strategy by Geckoman · · Score: 1 · on Suing Your Customers: Winning Business Strategy?

    Would that be the mainstream press that's owned by Time-Warner, the mainstream press that's owned by Viacom, the mainstream press that's owned by Disney, or the mainstream press that's now owned by Vivendi-Universal?

  25. C.S.I. product placements by NortWind · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Wants to Project "Cool" Image

    I saw on last week's C.S.I. the new MS side scrolling wheel mouse, and they made reference to the Xbox. I wasn't really paying attention to placements before, but I'll watch more closely next week.

  26. You mean... by Eusebo · · Score: 1 · on Group Asks Gov't to Crack Down on Product Placement

    The real CSI folks don't show up to crime scenes in a Hummer H2, talking on their Nextel i90c?

  27. Re:Not me but a friend.. by Ktulu_03 · · Score: 1 · on Hybrid/Electric Vehicles: Should I Buy?

    I apologize, this should have been the link: Minivan's Vs SUV's

  28. Re:Apollo? Deltas? by breon.halling · · Score: 3, Funny · on The Return of Apollo?

    Oh, wait. For a minute there I was expecting this Richard Hatch. =)

  29. Re:Perhaps it's because fewer care about politics? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Hardly Anyone Cares About Computer Voting Problems

    Correct Link...

  30. Re:Perhaps it's because fewer care about politics? by gantrep · · Score: 1 · on Hardly Anyone Cares About Computer Voting Problems

    You hit the nail on the head. No one cares if there are serious problems with online voting for their politicians, but do you know how many people would be crying foul if there lwere a problem with this?

  31. Uhh... by circusnews · · Score: 1 · on Watching Kids Via Mobile Phone

    Wasn't this last weeks episode of The Guardian?

  32. They cover the wrong subject in the wrong way by internic · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Can Science Journalism Be Entertaining and Responsible?

    I see a lot of science articles from The New York Times, especially linked to on slashdot, but when I read the articles I generally think they are awful. The reason is that reading them gives you no substantive understanding of the science that is going on. They often seem to choose subjects like string theory or loop quantum gravity, which are extremely complex, and then try to explain them at an elementary school science level. This is simply a futile endevor and they end up saying basically nothing. I am working on my Ph.D. in theoretical physics and even I can't often tell from the article what the theory claims, and often I know of several theories they might be talking about and am not even sure which one it is because the coverage is so vague. I can't see how anyone could read these and getting anything of use from them. Frankly I don't know how you could explain string theory to someone at such a basic level, even in an entire book, much less a news paper article. Especially when even many physicists (myself included) don't know that much about it.

    I think they should really focus on science they can explain, and make sure to explain how these things are based in fact and come from experimental evidence. This is the basis of the difference between science and pseudoscience. Bob Park, a frequent crusader against pseudoscience, hypothesises that these insubstantial, vague accounts of outlandish modern physics that are often given to laymen make science sound basically indistinguishable from pseudoscience, and thus help bolster beleif in pseudoscience. I'm not sure I beleive this, but I do think it's a possibility. A good example is an author I heard interviewed who wrote a book about how ESP could be based on quantum entanglement. This is an absurd claim if you know anything about entanglement and quantum decoherence, but does sound sort of reasonable if you just take some very vague notions about quantum mechanics (namely, it's hell-a-weird).

    Does good science make interesting journalism? Well, I think a lot of it can if it's well told, because science is fundementally a mystery story, and most people like mysteries. Just look at the success of CSI. I think we must stick to work that has widely acknoledged validity, though, and to work which is experimentally grounded. We must also get through that when you read "A Breif History of Time" you are not getting the whole picture. Gernally, being ignorant of something is far less hazzardous when you're aware of your ignorance.

  33. Will the real Richard Hatch please stand up? by Teancum · · Score: 1 · on Battlestar Galactica to Return

    Of course, I bet some Hollywood lawyer probabally thought that Richard Hatch was the same guy as that guy on the TV Survivor show, thought to settle some of the problems with him, and smoothing stuff out.

  34. Late Show with David Letterman website by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Slashback: Circumvention, AOLandfill, Scoffing
    Anyone notice how Letterman's website won't play RealVideo clips from Mozilla? Try clicking on "Big Show Highlight" under the DaveTV section (requires JavaScript).

    The interesting thing is that if you use the Preferences Toolbar (download here) to change the user-agent string to, say, NS 6.2 Lin or IE 6.0 WinXP, it works just fine.

    -CF

  35. Preventing finding out who the terrorist ........ by 3seas · · Score: 2 · on Building Anonymous-Friendly Computer Libraries?

    really are....It must be tracked...

    Information and who's accessing it....

    So as many may be trying to rationalize invasion of privacy by thinking only of terrorism excuses, perhaps there is the other side of the coin as to what the feds may be looking for......like those assessing information in order to see the truth:

    take a look at this: World Meters

    Take a good look at the different meters! Then look at this: What the World Wants

    We have the technology and we have the funds to make good things happen.

    So why is it not happening? You want to fight about it?

    Assuming you don't want to fight about it, that fighting is not the goal or main desire of people, then there must be something else, something bigger that is the problem. You know, considering annual world military spending is $780 billion dollars (US) and to solve the major world humanitarian problems only needs 1/3 of that....

    The problem has to be more than something under a trillion dollars.

    A CIA Fact Sheet on Indonesia -- see the religion percentages (88% muslim).

    OK, (given the above muslim population of indonesia): from the pbs trillion dollar bet article:

    "In the summer of 1997, across Thailand, property prices plummeted. This sparked a panic that swept through Asia. As banks went bust from Japan to Indonesia, people took to the streets - events so improbable they had never been included in anyone's models."

    and in Indonesia May 1998:

    "Sources all over Asia tell Uscher that Asians know about local corruption but believe America is taking advantage of the situation to grab Asian markets and Asian wealth."

    and (read the article!!!) another article from CNN:

    "The austerity measures were a condition of the International Monetary Fund's $43 billion aid package to bail out the southeast Asian nation. "

    World Bank wanted to help Indonesia out but charge interest (usery) entrapment???? Funny how China is the only country who did not participate in this stock game and are better off then the rest of us for not doing so.....

    Where the US bailout was only (pbs article):

    "We expect that they're going to explain to the members of this Committee why the Federal Reserve has organized the $3.5 billion bail-out for billionaires, why Americans should be worried about the gambling practices of the Wall Street elite"

    And there is Something Else I have run across for that timeline as well (making the "trillion dollar bet" just icing on this cake?):

    (note: overall I find information from this resource to be integratingly correct enough to be both useful and insightful, though with a touch of blind bias towards capitalism, though it does try not to be blindly biased, it is to subjective to capitalism to completely avoid it.)

    "During the 1993-1999 bubble era of false economic progress, many CEOs, executives, employers, employees, even customers adopted the scams of clintonian-era politicians, lawyers, journalists, academics to become increasingly dishonest, corrupt, even criminal. The bubble-building, stock-market fraud began when Chairman Alan Greenspan clintonized the
    Federal Reserve. He signaled that politicization by blatantly breaking a time-honored apolitical precedent when he sat as a special guest in the president's box during Clinton s first State-of-the-Union address. Greenspan, the former acolyte of capitalism-champion Ayn Rand, then married a socialist/clintonian journalist. His drive to create a Clinton-boosting, economic boom -- a high-tech bubble economy -- escalated from that point. He with Robert Rubin and Bill Clinton artificially increased the value of the dollar, relentlessly increased the M-3 money supply, recklessly created sloshing liquidity, and pied pipered consumers and corporations into bankrupting debt. He engineered those cancerous long-term policies to continually fuel the equity markets for baleful political ends and unearned glory.

    The bubble burst in early 2000 causing losses of four-trillion dollars. After several sharp bear-market rallies, those equity losses launched a long-term economic decline -- the feared L-shaped recession or worse."

    Oh yeah and this 5 year stock market link comparing the DOW with the S&P and most important the NASDAQ. Where you can tell where the money went and also know what the dot coms were all about.

    Given the above

    From theCBS article on the NSA (National Security Agency) total system failure:

    "In January 2000, Gen. Mike Hayden, the director of the NSA, received a call from the agency's watch officer alerting him that all of its computers had crashed."

    In that same article (in fact in the previous paragraph):

    "A phone call intercepted by the NSA is often the first warning that a terrorist such as Osama bin Laden is planning an attack against Americans. To find that threatening phone call, email or radio transmission among the billions made daily, the NSA relies on rooms of supercomputers."

    The date of this CBS article is Aug 29, 2001.

    Do you really think maybe Y2K brought the systems all down? For what is supposed to be the top spy agency in the US? (they don't say what caused the three and a half day crash.)

    Or do you perhaps see a simpler Truth to the matter, such as:

    Stock market gamblers and Gov. screwed up the world economy so bad and especially for muslims that the NSA had damn good reason to KNOW what was going to happen and that they needed an excuse for their total inability to deal with it.

    *And then there is this, how might Afghanistan participate in global* *humanitarian issues:*

    And the Bill of Rights

    How about now? Do you want to fight now? And if you were an Afghan Muslim, instead of a US citizen?

    Targets....White House for it's political control over Pentagon military backed control over World Trade Center ....world economy.

    We taught them how to do it, How to fight smart, how to learn what they need to know and where they can get supplies (anthrax, planes, etc..) from us to use against us....... then we lite a bon fire under their ass to motivate them into action while we turned our backs to intelligence....played ignorant......so they could more easily do it.

    And Ted Turner (CNN) said something about the attack being an act of desparation. Which he later apologized for.....because of why?

  36. FUD Alert by tux42 · · Score: 2, Funny · on HP Backs Off DMCA Threat

    We're all glad HP backed down, but what scares me is that the "Responsible Disclosure" FUD continues. On Bugtraq people write that CERT and SecurtyFocus are "established parties" and everyone who does not give them their so-called "0days" is irresponsible (at least CERT is known to sell 0days). I personally won't give them my 0days early.

    The "Responsible Disclosure" draft continues to get advertised, though it was not approved by the IETF .

    Why do people think about giving away the right of free speech just because of some FUD?

    Even in the unlikely case if this bad RFC passes, does it mean that that people are safer when they disclose problems - I definitely don't think so personally.

    So the facts are: some companies can't write secure code, and it is more expensive to write code securely.

    Just check "Help -> About" on Windows before using the word "responsibility".

    The easiest solution is to shoot the messenger and to outlaw saying the emperor has no clothes. But this won't fix the problem in the real world. Such regulations will only alienate a lot of people and will make things worse.

  37. Re:What an idiot by anthony_dipierro · · Score: 2 · on FCC Allows Bells to Sell Your Telephone Usage Data

    What a moron. I guess I should have a reduced expectation of privacy in the bathroom if it is in regards to the brand of toilet paper I use, or my preferred bar soap.

    You do if you sign a contract agreeing to reduce your privacy.

    I guess we should ban this television show, as well, since it violates the contestants' rights to privacy.

  38. Useless brown water by Scaba · · Score: 3, Funny · on Genetically Modified, Caffeine-Free Coffee

    Decaffeinated coffee:

    "It's useless warm brown water."
    "Say goodbye to your will to live."
    "It's what they're drinking in hell."

    Apologies to David Letterman

  39. Re:much more informative articles by WhiteWolf666 · · Score: 1 · on New Chips Keep Tight Rein on Consumers

    I didn't realize it was that badly misquoted---thats horrendous. I would suggest commenting on this here.

  40. Too many links by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Inside the Joint Strike Fighter Competition

    How the hell can I read an article with so many links?

  41. Re:Is Slashdot becoming The Onion? by Otter · · Score: 2 · on Love Says Caldera's Doing Fine, Despite Losses
    First: Love Says Caldera's Doing Fine then.. Caldera is barely scraping along. Those statements are mutually exclusive.

    Well, I suppose if you work for VA Something, "barely scraping along" and a stock price that's only down 80% sound pretty solid. Compared to "Well, we gave up on the Themes.org guys doing anything useful, so we moved all their stuff to Freshmeat."

    The bad financial report out of Caldera yesterday is actually good news That makes absolutely no sense.

    Well, what he actually said was that the downturns in the financials were the result of reducing and focusing that will lead to long-term profitability. Not that I actually believe that, but it's not out of the realm of logic.

    By the way, what's up with modding down the guy who mentioned Katz's appearance on Letterman tonight? It's the most interesting comment to this story. I see I missed Tony Hawk on the show last night -- ironically because I was busy playing his game instead of checking what was on TV.

  42. WE'RE ALL GOING TO REGRET THIS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic · on German Elections Go Open Source

    Jon Katz is going to be on letterman. Watch the man make bad arguments in real life!

  43. IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT by Jeff+Probst · · Score: 0, Offtopic · on Love Says Caldera's Doing Fine, Despite Losses

    Jon Katz is going to be on letterman. watch the man make bad arguments in real life!

  44. Re:I'd like to think that.... by Anenga · · Score: 1 · on Stealth Asteroid Misses Earth

    ... but then regret it after they first see CSI and Alias only years after.

  45. The show's website.. by toxcspdrmn · · Score: 1 · on The Rise of CSI

    ... here overdoes the Flash, too. Especially if you're on a modem.

  46. Re:US Arrogance by warpeightbot · · Score: 1 · on Bert Is Evil
    It's funny. Laugh. Humor is rarely accurate, much less P.C.

    Yes, the British and Canadian contingient is recognized and appreciated. As is anyone else willing to send their money and their aircraft and their boys (and girls) to open a can of whoop-ass on all those who would destroy freedom in the world.

    A cynic would note that the U.K. would likely not exist in its present form had it not been for its former colonies coming it its rescue about sixty years ago. Me, I'm not so certain, but I'm bloody sure that if it hadn't been for Tojo's insistience that Yamamoto awaken the sleeping giant, France would be speaking Russian these days... (not German; Hitler, like Napoleon before him, made the mistake of starting a land war in Asia after Easter... and the Red Army would not have stopped at the Rhine without Patton (and Monty!) there to keep them from it.)

    So you Tories will excuse us Yanks a little tongue in cheek arrogance, no? After all, the RAF's next fighter aircraft will be built in either Marietta, Georgia, or (hopefully) right here in Seattle....

    I will give the Brits credit, though. They have some of the best news services in the world.... unlike the crap we generate here in the States.... (I think it's funny that perhaps America's best news network is run by an Aussie... )

    --
    And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
    Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
    And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
    That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
    -- Mr. William Shakespeare, Henry V
    (yes, of course we love you, John Bull, now quit being tetchy about it.)

  47. Pre 9/11 events leading up to ... by 3seas · · Score: 1 · on US Starts Attacking Afghanistan

    Roomer Busting site

    I leave it up to the reader to read the following articles and put the pieces together for themselves to see the action/reaction balance going on.

    US Koran site

    CIA report (note religion percentage)

    Muslim culture (outside Afganistan):site 1
    site 2

    Trillion Dollar bet

    Problems caused by trillion dollar bet:

    abcnews may 98

    cnn may 98

    Bigger than the Trillion Dollar BET - x3?

    Current 2 year US stock market link comparing the DOW with the S&P and most important the NASDAQ. You can tell where the money went and also know what the dot coms were all about.
    finance.yahoo.com graph

    National Security Agency total system crash finally reported August 29th 2001

    Losing freedoms:SSSCA

  48. Re:Body parts by Fist+Prost · · Score: 1 · on Human clones priced at $50,000

    It would seem to be the same as the argument that comes up everytime a digital copy-protection scheme is mentioned.

    All it takes is one copy to produce more.

    I'm sure that among all the people in the world you will find some female willing to give birth to a "headless abomination" (that's hyperbole, not personal beliefs) for the right amount of cash. It has been shown time and time again that the human creature will do bizarre things for all sorts of reasons, perhaps there are even folks out there who would think it would be cool to have the worlds first headless child.

    All it takes is one copy to make more. The only difference is the amount of time involved.

    Fist Prost

    "We're talking about a planet of helpdesks."

  49. Re:science is cool.... by 0xdeadbeef · · Score: 1 · on Review: "Properties Of Light"

    Not only that, the "Wizard" was a midget! How cool is that!?

    Anyway, it didn't last very long, and even as a ten-year-old I could tell that it sucked.

    Oh wow, according to IMDB, the actor was in Time Bandits, and committed suicide in 1990!

    The coolest current show in that vein C.S.I., which stands for "crime scene investigator". It's a cop show for people who think. Damn shame it comes on Fridays, though.
    --
    Bush's assertion: there ought to be limits to freedom

  50. Just like Friends and Family by frankie · · Score: 3 · on Microsoft's New Spamming Technique

    I'm surprised that no one mentioned this yet, but it reminds me of the MCI Friends and Family fiasco. Remember that one? People signed up for cheap long distance to certain numbers, but MCI conveniently neglected to mention that they would call each of these people at dinner time and say "well, your friend so-and-so gave us your number and said that you should switch to MCI".

    My extended family has boycotted MCI ever since. Too bad none of us use MSN right now -- we can't get indignant and drop their service.