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  1. Re:Damn on Slashdot Charity Buyers Donate Over $10,000 To the EFF · · Score: 1

    Did someone not get enough mod points in their halloween loot bag? Will some please give this guy an insightful? He's clearly dying over here.

  2. Re:Other specs? on Researchers Achieve Amazing Memory Density · · Score: 1

    Really? You have $18,000 just lying around ready to blow on a holographic drive which looks to be about 2x the size of a Shuttle PC. Not very portable and ridiculously expensive, not exactly the best choice in thumb drive if you ask me. Of course you could use it for backup but even then a 1 TB drive costs about $400 so for the cost of that drive I can get 45 TB or more worth of storage and I'd be willing to bet that a disconnected HD placed in a fire safe is going to last a hell of alot longer then the 50 year shelf life InPhase gives their stuff.

  3. Re:Google pagerank != good source on Italian Judge Tells HP To Refund Pre-Installed XP · · Score: 1

    Regardless of the inner workings of the system, 99 time out of 100 Google returns what I am looking for on the first page. If that ever changes then I will go find some other search engine to use. The article you linked there says that Google is the dictator of the internet, the only reason Google is this so called dictator is becuase it gives what they want, if they ever changed this and decided to actually wield this power against the consumer then I gurantee you they would collapse almost immediately.

  4. Re:MS Tax on Italian Judge Tells HP To Refund Pre-Installed XP · · Score: 1

    Come on everyone knows http://www.xe.com/ is the place to go for currency info, it even has top pagerank on Google.

  5. Re:How's this for defamation? on Italy's First Steps in Censoring the Internet · · Score: 1

    I would call it more of an obligatory joke, the jews have been blamed and prosecuted to a rediculous extent (IMNSHO) to the point thats it's almost a joke to "blame it on the jews"

  6. Re:Sure, Will. on Will Wright Opines That Wii Is the Only Next-Gen Console · · Score: 1

    You are not your UID, but in this case I think it's safe to say that CGDR2 is an idiont and can be safely modded to hell. Just remember that alot of us have been reading Slashdot alot longer then we have been members.

  7. Re:Fire Evacuees on A Technology Report From A San Diego Fire Shelter · · Score: 1

    Sorry but if you have a problem with bippies, BC is definetly not the place for you. A huge portion of the culture and I would suspect a significant portion on the economy revolves arounf pot. I used to live there and visit relatives and freinds every summer, it has to be one of the most laid back places in the world.

  8. Re:patents on GIMP 2.4 Released · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Doesn't work quite like that, a rediculously vast majority of the worlds population doesn't give a rats ass about photo editing programs. Of the ones who are left that do car I think you will find a majority of them live in the USA where the US law does matter regardless of how silly you think it is.

  9. Re:Fire Evacuees on A Technology Report From A San Diego Fire Shelter · · Score: 1

    Move to southern Ontario, we only have a minor fault line running under Ottawa that most people have never heard of. The rest of it is basically a giant solid rock. We don't have enough forest to get a proper fire going, Global warming is fixing up our blizzard problem and were too far north and too far inland for any hurricanes to bother us. Quebec is also pretty good, Vancouver island in BC is alright except for the fault line but that hasn't cause any major problems in a long time AFAIK. Or the prairies if you don't mind the really cold winters.

  10. Re:Aperture Science on Games All Downhill Since Pong? · · Score: 3, Funny
    But theres no sense in crying over every mistake,

    you just keep on trying till you run out of cake.

  11. Re:Ob. Bash Quote on New Password Recovery Technique Uses CPU and GPU Together · · Score: 1

    Sorry sir, he must have snuck past the guardd. God only know how though with a brain like that he should be barely able to breathe and type at the same time. Anyways were taking him around back to harvest his organs as we speak.

  12. Re:Don't make them too thin... on Bridgestone Shows Off Ultra-Thin, Full-Color e-Paper · · Score: 1

    E-Paper doesn't have a refresh rate, it only changes what needs to be changed. In fact you can shut it off and take out the batteries and the image will still be there, which is why it's catching alot of attention for use in low power devices.

  13. Re:Next PC a casio? on Palm Before the PalmPilot · · Score: 1

    Even now hardware bugs are pretty rare thing, at least any major ones are, and the ones that do exist are usually require a very specific sequence of steps to recreate. I'd be more impressed if there were no software bugs in the Apples IIs OS and any software that came with it.

  14. Re:ED-209 not available for comment on Robotic Cannon Loses Control, Kills 9 · · Score: 1

    That's what it was, I kept on looping through trying to figure it out what it was. Surprised that beta never occurred to me. And anyways I guess the robot is done and working, perhaps they should just sell it to the enemy and watch the hilarity ensue.

  15. Re:that sounds good but.. on First Details of Windows 7 Emerge · · Score: 1

    Well as long as were splitting hairs "!=" is a conditional operator so that sentence expands "If Linux is not equal to UNIX and UNIX in not equal to OSX" which I'm pretty sure is not what you were going for. Next time you might want to try "Linux ! UNIX ! OS X" but even then since ! is a boolean operator you could interpret it as saying that Linux is equal to OS X but neither are equal to UNIX ( double negative )

  16. Re:ED-209 not available for comment on Robotic Cannon Loses Control, Kills 9 · · Score: 1

    Now these points of data make a beautiful line, and we're out of data were releasing on time. So I'm glad I got burned think of all the things we learned, for the people who are still alive.

  17. Re:Of course... on Infrequent Anonymous Cowards Reliable on Wikipedia · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Care to provide any evidence for this? I have seen hundreds of anonymous edits. ( a few of them my own when I can't be bothered to login. ) But I have yet to see a single edit being wrongly reverted by a bot.

  18. Re:The question is... on Fish Poison Makes Hot Feel Cold and Vice Versa · · Score: 1

    Symptoms last for 10 months and possibly more, I hope for you that its one long rave party because you are going to real unhappy if it's over before then.

  19. Re:hands up on Google Vows to Increase Gmail Limit · · Score: 2, Funny

    3075 MB Bitches!!

  20. Re:You know the drill... on Linux Kernel v2.6.23 Released · · Score: 2, Funny

    I feel a great disturbance in the meme.

  21. Re:I did survive a car accident. on Heart Corset to Reduce Congestive Heart Failure · · Score: 1
    Well clearly we should use your one extremely lucky case as a basis for all our medical health care decisions. In fact since obviously car accidents are apparently completely safe and all other people who are in hospital deserve to die we should just close them down, yes?
    Why the fuck did you even bother to post that? Do you really believe that stating you got lucky makes your claim valid? Asides from the few minutes you went outside to get in an accident to you otherwise spend all your time in the basement so that you don't actually have to meet anyone, thus not knowing anyone who has been hospitalized? Maybe you didn't get away from that accident uninjured, if I were you I would have a doctor check me out for brain damage.

    God damn idiots. Plenty of my family and friends are still here thanks to those hospitals, your goddamn lucky I don't know where you live or I might give you an idea about why we need them.

  22. Re:facebook future on Facebook Gets New Integrated IM Client · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you actually paid attention to what you were typing in during the sign up process you would notice that you provided Facebook the password to your e-mail account and gave them permission to access it and find all your contacts. Since you apparently did not realize that this was going on I would suggest that you both:
    A) Learn to read things before you fill them out/agree to them, and
    B) Resign any position that gives you signing authority at your current job.

  23. Re:5 cent tags on Wal-Mart's Faltering RFID Initiative · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I worked in the warehouse of a furniture store and half our time was spent beating our head against the inventory tracking system and looking for barcodes. RFID chips embedded in the furniture would have made our job easier. Also a system that actually worked wold have been nince, it's the first system that I've ever seen that will tell me it's "probably" done.

  24. Re:Run that by me again.... on Verdict Reached In RIAA Trial · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Works like America, granted though Canada isn't much better but t least we send our shady buisness men to live in the states *cough*Conrad*cough*

  25. Re:More seriously, that's not what HOV lanes are f on D.C. Commuters to be Scanned With Infrared Cameras · · Score: 1
    If you're looking for evidence that your country is a police state I think you can do a bit better then the HOV lanes in D.C.

    On another note even though the HOV lanes were put their to reduce the number of cars on the road practicality is a requirement all to often missed in law making and restricting the law so that only drivers with cars of their own count would be totally unfeasible from an enforcement POV and anyways carpooling kids is a legitimate way to reduce traffic (4 cars with 1 kid each vs 1 car with 4 kids on their merry way to school). Anyways my $0.02CAD worth.