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  1. Re:Four Key on Duplicating Your Housekeys, From a Distance · · Score: 1

    Actually each of the four keys is different and you have to put in its proper direction (they have a nice arrow so it can be inserted in the proper position.)

  2. Re:Not really useful or scary, but interesting on Duplicating Your Housekeys, From a Distance · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Do you think this is fucking my real name?
    I hate this bastard!!!

  3. Re:Not really useful or scary, but interesting on Duplicating Your Housekeys, From a Distance · · Score: 1

    Security is about detouring or slowing down thieves. It's not about stopping them.
    There's no digital function that a person is honest or dishonest. Life is analog, if I'm unemployed and Bill Gates' house in unlocked, then I'll be glad to help myself.

  4. Four Key on Duplicating Your Housekeys, From a Distance · · Score: 1

    I really like the keys that they use in Brazil: Key-four(Chave-Quatro)
    I'd like to see them take a picture of this and reproduce it.

  5. Re:Whoa! on Halloween Pumpkin Carving With CNC Robotics · · Score: 1

    You insensitive clod, Jesus created everything. Halloween, Buddha, Mohammedan, etc...

  6. Re:Massively misleading article summary and photo on Halloween Pumpkin Carving With CNC Robotics · · Score: 1

    Just in case it isn't obvious, the photo is NOT related to the article summary and the pumpkin was NOT carved on a CNC machine!

    OMG Slashdot uses misleading intro to increase their viewership, news at 11.

  7. Re:Intellectual Property? on Feds Target "Mongols" Biker Club's Intellectual Property · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's just fine, intellectual property is seldom intellectual nor property.

  8. Re:I spy with my little eye... on Linux On Brazilian Voting Machines, the Video · · Score: 1

    It's amazing when a country like Brazil has balls and demands that a company comply... unlike the United Corporations of America.

  9. Re:how? on Apple Admits iPod Is From 1970s UK · · Score: 1

    A Patent is a government sanctioned monopoly to reward research and development.

    If there's no development, what does society receive from issuing a monopoly?

    I'm arguing for changing the system, so that a patent is a license and not "property." If you don't have a product, you're patent isn't enforceable. This would circumvent Megatrolls, etc. I've been in meetings where people were brainstorming "inventions" only to create patents without any intention of creating something beneficial for society.

  10. Re:how? on Apple Admits iPod Is From 1970s UK · · Score: 1

    Requirement to build a prototype would favor large corporations and put individual inventor in a huge disadvantage. A lot of modern inventions, especially in electronics industry, would take a very large amount of money to prototype.

    Then what is the point of granting patents?
    If individual inventors can't create it, what they've "invented."
    I wouldn't mind if they could obtain a pending patent until they produce a prototype, but no produce no patent (or unless you can license it to 20% of the products in your market segment.)

  11. Re:This is completely typical for the UK on Apple Admits iPod Is From 1970s UK · · Score: 1

    yeah they use ,'s instead of .'s in some parts of the world... not sure why,,,

  12. Re:This is completely typical for the UK on Apple Admits iPod Is From 1970s UK · · Score: 1

    It's a 3,048 meter pole you insensitive clod!!!

  13. Re:So what is EC2? on Amazon's EC2 Having Problems With Spam and Malware · · Score: 1

    Yeah but high school physics would have told me MC4.

    ~~~
    Write in Cowboy Neal for President and Alex Birch for Vice-President.

  14. Re:Irony? on New Opt-Out Clause Makes CAN-SPAM Worse · · Score: 1

    They need the PATRIOT-SPAM act.
    If you spam, you go to Gitmo!!!

  15. Re:*sigh* on Hans Reiser To Reveal Location of Wife's Body · · Score: 1

    The summary is bad for this article if you want to be fair and balanced.

    The summary is amazing if you want to have your site slashdotted

  16. Re:Well, for one thing.. on Why Buy a PC Preloaded With Linux? · · Score: 1

    You may want to let them know how much you used to buy and why you're not currently purchasing. Otherwise they could attribute the loss in CD sales to Piracy.

  17. Re:Well, for one thing.. on Why Buy a PC Preloaded With Linux? · · Score: 1

    Buying stuff to send signal is ridiculous.
    Actually that's how capitalism works. People vote with their money.
    I once quit using Janus because they didn't support any of my Linux browsers. I let them know that and went with Scottrade because they did.
  18. Re:Or you could just breed your dog on Get the Family Dog Cloned · · Score: 1

    What about diet, etc?
    Diet is a major part of the metabolic pathway that goes into the smell of urine. Your dogs metabolism will change throughout its life so if it were alive it wouldn't thing the clone was it.

  19. Re:Fail on Total Phone and Email Database Proposed In UK · · Score: 1

    British Report
    #1: Anonymous Coward posted yet another link to goatse.cx to slashdot.
    ...
    #5: Eric Raymond is posting that _no_ really, this is the year of Linux.
    ...
    #100: most people are just downloading porn.

  20. Re:Just wondering on A Virtualized Linux System For Windows · · Score: 5, Funny

    You're right, so your post is like fex, and when you post a second time you have feces.

  21. Re:I'm Unimpressed on "Understanding" Search Engine Enters Public Beta · · Score: 2, Funny

    You need to use the Canadian method. Ask "who won the election in 2004, eh?" and this comes to the top: http://www.powerset.com/explore/semhtml/2004_United_States_presidential_election_controversy,_voting_machines?query=who+won+the+election+in+2004%2C+eh%3F

  22. Re:Jargon pisses me off... on "Understanding" Search Engine Enters Public Beta · · Score: 1

    I don't understand what you mean, please explain in Preschool/Powerset Level.

  23. Re:MS, you lucked out on Microsoft Withdraws Yahoo Takeover Offer · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm probably wrong, but I see the desktops of today like the mainframes of the 70's. I think they're going to be dead soon enough and people will be able to dock their iPhones or gPhones into docking stations.

    How many CPU cycles do you need to post on Slashdot? To focus on a desktop monopoly would be suicide. The future is smart phones and the internet. To ignore this would be to become the next IBM.

  24. Re:Step 1) Get used camera 2) download this softwa on Is Cheap Video Surveillance Possible? · · Score: 1

    5) Wonder if your camera was stolen and sold on eBay. Perhaps you'll have better odds than the previous owner.

  25. Re:Save your money on Is Cheap Video Surveillance Possible? · · Score: 1

    That solution won't save money. Do you have any idea how much it costs to train a dog to safely and effectively handle a firearm?

    Who needs safety? It'll only be costly if your neighbors video tape you discharging the firearm haphazardly.