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IANAAFB (I am not an Apple fanboy), but the 160 GB iPod Classic is sweet, even if the Archos 605 was the first to that memory density. Time to upgrade! I looked at the gallery at Apple.com and there were no pics of the op or bottom of the Classic - is the headphone jack on bottom as the rumors claim?
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I thought it was FentonOpenRyanKabuke, as in F.O.R.K. lollers
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I am curious how this would affect the MMOG I play, Guild Wars. they give out random gifts for each year of character existence, as well as rewards for completing tasks in-game. Would these be taxable items, if they ever exceeded the $25,000 threshold? What is the limit for personal transactions between individuals before the income becomes taxable? $500? $800?
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Anyone who has been following this issue for the past six weeks knows good and well that the audacity of the elected officials to ignore, debase, and belittle their constituents created the massive ground swell of dissenting voters. To claim that the Nation ID idea caused the defeat of this bill is ludicrous. But if the blurb had commented on talk radio and conservatives, this wouldn't be Slashdot, now would it?

Conservative, liberal, and moderate voters all thought this was a poor idea - not some minor amendment to this stinking legislation.
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When will we be allowed to build a sufficient number of nuclear reactors to power these vehicles? I enjoy the feel of my internal combustion engine, but for the efficiency of nuclear power for electricity, I'm ready to switch.

Free the atoms! Free the atoms!!
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Has anyone done a recent true apples to apples comparison with Vmware, Virtual Server, and maybe Sen on the same exact hardware running the same guest VMs? Obviously it would have to have Windows as the host OS due to Virtual Server being Windows only but I would like to see how the various solutions stack up in different scenarios. Such as IO heavy, CPU heavy, sheer number of VMs that can be hosted, etc.
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After reading through approximately 60 posts out of 150 posted, it is obvious that since the program being criticized was of the conservative view, Spork/Sprock/Whatever was justified in his presentations to Visa and other sponsors. If someone wants to complaint to a corporation about the content of a show that company sponsors, more power to them. I will be hard-pressed to contain my humor, however, when some conservative goes to a company for advertising on a show like "Will and Grace", for example, and Slashdot readers will be sure to criticize that corporation for withdrawing ad dollars. Content is content. Some people will like it; some will be upset by it. However, one must be consistent in their stance on this issue. Is it acceptable for a corporation to withdraw advertising revenue after political heat is applied, or is it not? As for the commentators, anonymous and otherwise, people are not sheeple. Using that word only makes you appear elitist and condescending. I give the flamebait/troll tag ten minutes on the over/under.
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Could you cite this number for Iraqi deaths since the war began? I recall a rather quick repudiation of these numbers after the researcher/theorist proposed them. Amazing how this false number gets a +4, Insightful mod ... wait - it's really not. It's just Slashdot ...
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Yeah, I must have missed all the National Security Leaks by the NY Times during Clinton's presidency. Funny how you cite the lame PlameGate, but mention nothing about the banking investigations, the approved and legal wiretapping for foreign nationals, ect. ect.
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I also applaud the mitigation of purjury; 'it was only a blowjob'.
And you get the +4 insightful tag.
+4 inciteful is more like it.
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That sucks.

Years ago, I took English Lit II as part of a 18+ credit load. It was at 7:30am, I was habitually late or absent, but I made a point of stopping in during office hours. The prof knew me, knew I knew what I was talking about, knew I read up, and did well on the tests. I'm sure I got at least a B. Maybe an A. And with the six-and-fail rule, I'd have an F.

Years later but years ago, I took a DB class. The prof, outside of class, was pretty OK. I've dealt with some of the organizations he's worked with before getting his Ph.D. and they still think highly of him. But that class was worthless. I knew less about databases at the end of it than at the beginning. I learned more about databases in a short course on Oracle set up for staff. Literally, he gave the same lecture (about how he wrote databases for a hospital in Indianapolis) at least four times during the semester. Perhaps more. Required class, though, so there was a group of people I took classes with, and they were all in it with me, and they all started skipping with me. We passed. We went on to the next classes. And with a six-and-fail rule, we'd all have Fs.
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Thank you!
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I find the entire attitude of the poster's blurb a perfect summary of the prevailing attitude here at /. "I'm inconvenienced" "I have to buy toilettries everytime I take a trip" "Another anal probe" "My rights of Do-What-I-Please are being trampled on" Amazing that when something is done about a possible attack, people find a way to complain. Suck it up, or find another means of travel. Why do you need /. to ask this question? Can you not take any personal responsibility to determine the best course of action after analyzing the options? What next? "Dear /. - should I wear the black Hope 2006 t-shirt today or the Lara Croft: Revelations E3 limited collector's shirt? Take control of your life and your reactions to misfortunes or other occurences. Tocome on /. and complain with a thinly-veiled question that masks your discomfort becasue some people's lives may have been saved is sad and pathetic.
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I love how fruity the left land of silliness is! How about this for the importance of the Electoral college? Make the State Senates vote for the US Senators; that would put a bee in their bonnet!
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The only way to make the cellophane move is to envelop it with gold foil? Gold-plated wings? Makes no sense ...
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If you do a SEARCH on google news, the logo still says Beta. The front page does not. Maybe the search function is still in Beta?
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We are going to be givern one extra permanent slot. That was in the newest Computer Gaming issue I received today ...
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DONE! http://www.cafepress.com/backhoe
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The holiday season sure lived up to my expectations.

DS! Woo!
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please.
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I rent a lot of cars, 'cause I go on the road, and when I drive a rental car, I don't know what's going on with them, right. So a lot of times I'll drive for like ten miles with the emergency brake on. That doesn't say a lot for me, but it really doesn't say a lot for the emergency brake. It's really not an emergency brake, it's an emergency 'make the car smell funny' lever.
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...the value they get from OSS is far more than anything they contribute.

It seems to me that you've forgotten what OSS is about. It is free, and written to be useful to everyone, not as a means to make other people write code for you. Google is taking advantage of this the way it's expected to.

Think of how normal people use OSS. I myself have a full operating system with an awesome desktop environment, and I use software that's the best of the best. But have I written a full window manager with a widget system, a web browser, an instant messaging client, a first-person shooter, and countless other apps to contribute back? No, I've made a small bugfix to the Greasemonkey script I use for my signatures and a small hack to better integrate a plugin in a content management system. Once I wrote a breakout clone in Java that nobody wanted. That's about it, and it's okay, because that little bit still adds to the whole. I think Google's contributions are more than equivilant.

In this article, it says that the original Orion design was large enough for 150 people but would have used less than 2,000 bombs to reach escape velocity. If they used fusion bombs instead of fission bombs, there would be much less radioactive waste and much higher yield per explosion. It also mentions that the testing proccess for the entire project, despite using thousands of bombs, would increase the total atmospheric contamination by less than 1%.
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Johnny 5 IS ALIVE!!!!!!!!!! Legos are certainly much cooler than when I was a kid...
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No it's Microsoft, not anyone else

A simple media campaign would be far more effective.

Most IM clients require the user to manually accept an image or file embedded into the message, or enter a special mode that the other user has to confirm. Avatars are loaded automatically, though - but it might not be possible to set this image as an avatar (dimensions/length/format constraints, or something)

RSS and similar feeds do not use HTML by their very nature (they are a language of their own), though it is entirely possible to send HTML code as the content. It probably will not be parsed, though. Also, some feed formats support an avatar for users mentioned in the feed, so that could be another mode of transmission.

That's about as helpful as advising tsunami victims that they move.

Yes. But it couldn't roundhouse kick her like Chuck Norris could.
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Come on, man. This is Slashdot.
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The question "why" is always satisfied by "Because it's [day of week]!"
So, in this case:
Because it's Wednesday! Duh!
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Wikipedia's policy on autobiography

This page is considered a guideline on Wikipedia. It illustrates standards of conduct, which many editors agree with in principle. However, it is not policy.

"It is a social faux pas to write about yourself," according to Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia's founder.

His website layout is nice, but he should write it in valid HTML before he considers himself a UI guru. http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3 A//www.billbuxton.com/
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Whether "nothingness" is Void, Null, Cipher, Zero, Nothing, or Jersey is still under debate.

1. Emacs is a command-line application, you normally don't use the mouse
2. Have you seen Emacs' feature list? Comparing Emacs to Windows98 is like comparing a Ferarri to a Go-Kart.

Strategy in Counter-Strike consists entirely of "rush left".

For real strategy, try something like Tribes 2, or even Red Orchestra. You actually have to work with your teammates, and there is a distinct difference between offense and defense instead of just "shoot the other guys".
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Of course, the sister will be the one that gets in trouble.
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This is your brain on Slashdot: ><));>
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This is your brain on Slashdot: >
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Snaaaake! SNAAAAKE! AAAHHH IT'S A SNAAAAAKE!!!!!!!
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One word, but okay.

Teh 1337 boxen was hax0r3d und
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Sounds interesting.
 
Who are "we"?
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You don't need the $400 backup system until you've got the $400 worth of music, and by then you've already spent your money :)
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No, we Americans have zero billionaires.

When you break the sound barrier, you don't hear anything except the vibrations of your container (usually engine noise). You leave all of the other sound behind.
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The house-burning-down situation is how one of my friends lost a 3,000 CD collection.

Of course, his computer was destroyed, too.
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Slashdot needs a "+1, Haiku" mod.
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Too bad I don't have mod points today.
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"Man, when the day comes, count me in with the robot smashers." - Anonymous Coward
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...and he is crazy good. When people say "he's not human", they're not kidding.
 
Most people that went against him couldn't stay alive for more than five seconds.
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If I needed a calendar app, I could just fire up KOrganizer, it came with KDE as part of the Kontact suite.
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"I've noticed lately that the paranoid fear of computers becoming intelligent and taking over the world has almost entirely disappeared from the common culture. Near as I can tell, this coincides with the release of MS-DOS." -- Larry DeLuca
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Hurrah!
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