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  1. Re:heh on RIAA Wants $1.5 Million Per CD Copied · · Score: 1

    Relativity: A grook with no reference whatever to the two-party system To wear a shirt that's relatively clean, You needn't ever launder off the dirt If you possess two shirts to choose between and always change into the cleaner shirt. -- Piet Hein

  2. Re:Here's the problem on Circuit City Rewards Execs As Stock Tanks · · Score: 1

    A "stock tank" is a watering hole for livestock. Au contraire, a "stock tank" is an M1 Abrams without the extra fancy stuff. M1 Abrams do not come cheap, which is why the Execs were so well rewarded. Imagine what they'd have been paid if the CC had rewarded them as custom tanks!
  3. Exageration? on Couple Busted For Shining Laser At Helicopter · · Score: 1

    That or the FBI is exaggerating just a bit. You must be wrong. It is a well established fact that the FBI never exaggerates anything.
  4. Re:Play games with taxes and states, too on Intel Considering Portable Data Centers · · Score: 1

    Data centers? If built into containers or container-friendly, you can start packing now However, you have to plug your box into two grids, the electrical and the data grid. Game playing with states most often has to do with labour costs, which aren't on the table here.
  5. Re:Python is part of the answer on Open Source Math · · Score: 1
    In the spirit of correcting

    all manor of subtle mistakes : The should be all

    all manner of subtle mistakes
  6. Re:Why pay for what you can get for free on Paying People to Argue With You · · Score: 1

    Linux is a terrible, insecure operating system with a higher TCO than Windows. This is why it must be banned for everyone under the age of 18.
  7. Re:Slightly funny on Microsoft Denies Sabotaging Mandriva Linux PC Deal · · Score: 3, Funny

    People replying to my sig annoy me. That's why I change it all the time. The question is: Does this strategy work?
  8. Re:How about on US Voting Machines Standards Open To Public · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes, print the voting receipt, but don't let the person take it with them. They can see it in the machine to verify that was who they voted for, but it stays in the polling place in case a manual recount is needed. Also, they can't verify who they voted for to a vote buyer.
  9. Microsoft Office on Name Your Favorite Bloat-Free Software · · Score: 1

    You pay a major hit for the basic (dys)functionality, but the bloat comes free!

  10. Re:They don't have hookers on every corner on The US Rural Broadband Crisis · · Score: 1

    Let them supply their own inter(ra)net content too.

  11. Re:Ok, which is it. on Judge — "Making Available" Is Stealing Music · · Score: 1

    But the ignorant consensus was shown to be wrong. Many years too late, but they know they were wrong nonetheless, and they will be shown to be wrong again this time. Only after sufficient billions of dollars and thousands of Western lives (Arab lives don't count) have been spent. Don't expect justice in this world. "If there's no Final Judgment, I'm going to be a bitterly disappointed man"
  12. Re:And it damn well should be. on Judge — "Making Available" Is Stealing Music · · Score: 1

    Berke Breathed wrote that; I don't think he'll sue me not your problem Slashdot are the ones who put it in a place accessible to the public.
  13. Re:ban laptops from planes!!! on Dell Laptops Still Exploding · · Score: 1

    It is now a felony offense to attempt to carry a Dell laptop onto a plane.

  14. Re:The run time is wrong on Optical Solution For an NP-Complete Problem? · · Score: 1

    Equipment will be the least of your problems. I would have thought that equipment would be the least of your problems in any gedankenexperiment. Metaequipment on the other hand may be more problematic.
  15. Re:Tell that to Sam the Record Man on Putting Canadian Piracy in Perspective · · Score: 1
    Your sig says:

    /. articles have the day of week, month, day of month, and time. But no year. How to find out the year? Thx. It's accurate to within an average of a seven year period. Should be close enough. After all Columbus discovered America on Wednesday, October 12, 1498, didn't he. . . . Just a minute, I forgot the Gregorian-Julian shift. It must have been Monday, October 12, 1498.
  16. Re:I'm Canadian on House To Vote On Paper Trail and OSS Voting Bill · · Score: 1

    Counting votes is not a serial process. It can be highly parallelized. Unfortunately, because of the vagaries of history, the voting process is controlled by the state, and may be devolved to even the county level. So, although it may be parallelized, the parallelization process is not replicable.
  17. Re:great prevention for repetitive stress injuries on Is Speech Recognition Finally 'Good Enough'? · · Score: 1

    I see it doesn't do so well at breaking things into paragraphs