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  1. Minefield? on US Supreme Court Allows Sonar Use · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Is there any way they can discourage the whales from coming around? Like maybe ring off the testing area for a couple hundred miles with buoys that make enough noise to be irritating to them?

  2. Re:Navy's response. on US Supreme Court Allows Sonar Use · · Score: 3, Funny

    You know what I would do if F22s got in the habit of breaking the sound barrier over my house? I would move. There is a couple thousand miles worth of coastline they can go to.

  3. Re:Navy's response. on US Supreme Court Allows Sonar Use · · Score: 2, Funny

    ONE. Ping. Only.

    <insert Hunt For Red October quote here>

  4. Re:Plasma? on 3 Firms Confess To Fixing LCD Prices, Agree To Pay $585M Fine · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's hard to find a 5:4 plasma screen?

  5. Re:Does anyone use this OS any more? on Microsoft's "Dead Cow" Patch Was 7 Years In the Making · · Score: 3, Informative

    One thing is for sure, though. I don't want to make an 'Impress' presentation and send it to a client unless I'm sure they are going to be able to open it in Powerpoint.

    It may give you peace of mind to know that MS released the specs on their binary formats in late June, so the OOo team had about 2.5 months to fix their implementations in version 3. If they didn't manage that, they should have them in the next release.

  6. Re:Not Just Spam on Washington Post Blog Shuts Down 75% of Online Spam · · Score: 1

    This is the government we are talking about here...

  7. Re:Options on Mars Rover "Spirit" In Danger · · Score: 1

    4. Spend the remaining energy teaching the rover to do the Hammer Dance with it's eight independently swiveling wheels. If you got to go down, go down doing the Hammer Dance that's what I always say which is maybe why nobody sits with me in the cafeteria.

    Or we could teach it Daisy Bell

  8. Levitating Globe on Gadgets For a Budding Geek? · · Score: 1

    On the same theme as the Levitron is the Levitating Globes. Small ones are $40.

  9. Cheap magnets on Gadgets For a Budding Geek? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you have a ton of old hard drives laying around, break out the torx drivers and extract the magnets. The mirror-like surface of the platter is interesting, too.

  10. Re:REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP on Microsoft Denies Paying Nigerians $400K To Ditch Linux · · Score: 1

    Even the math is right.

  11. Re:hmmm. on Colombia Signs Up For OLPC Laptops With Windows · · Score: 1

    I would hold their motives suspect, too.

  12. Re:Second? Try third. on How 10 Iconic Tech Products Got Their Names · · Score: 1

    Ubuntu also has a non-firefox-branded fork in the repos. Name? "Web Browser".
    (abrowser in the repos)

  13. Re:the new way: on How 10 Iconic Tech Products Got Their Names · · Score: 1

    Use different languages. "skami", Lojban for "computer", seems open.

  14. Re:hmmm. on Colombia Signs Up For OLPC Laptops With Windows · · Score: 1

    The posters here seem to be advocating legitimate reasons (mostly) for using FOSS. It isn't being pushed as being superior because of deception, it is being pushed as superior because it the poster feels that it really is superior. Contrast with MS, which has a reason to be biased in saying it's product is better.

  15. Re:hmmm. on Colombia Signs Up For OLPC Laptops With Windows · · Score: 2, Insightful

    OSS advocates don't have financial motivation for their suggestion. And I don't see any "under the guise of..."-type posts.

  16. Re:Tragedy on Colombia Signs Up For OLPC Laptops With Windows · · Score: 1

    - Audio Output

    Uhhh... Why?

  17. Bleh on PCGA To "Take Up the Challenge of Piracy" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Members include Microsoft and WildTangent.
    I think I'm gonna be sick.

    I'd prefer to have Penny-Arcade as the "Guardians of PC Gaming"

  18. Re:I Know!! on EU Council Refuses To Release ACTA Documents · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why does everybody seem to see politics as binary red/blue issues? Why can't we dislike both canidates?

  19. Re:I Know!! on EU Council Refuses To Release ACTA Documents · · Score: 1

    ACTA is an American/EU trade agreement. He'll have access to it.

  20. Re:Just tell us already! on EU Council Refuses To Release ACTA Documents · · Score: 1

    Is that the corrected version from the Ministry of Truth?

  21. Just tell us already! on EU Council Refuses To Release ACTA Documents · · Score: 5, Insightful

    weaken the position of the EU in these negotiations

    For the sake of government transparency, I say it's worth it.

    might affect relations with the third parties concerned

    For the worst, I hope.

  22. Re:trade ins on Vital Parts of Games As DLC? · · Score: 1

    "Scorched earth" is a common policy for corporates these days.

    Scorched Earth... good game.

  23. Re:Well... on AVG Virus Scanner Removes Critical Windows File · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Recently, McAfee started preventing these various freeware packages from being installed - it simply detects them as viruses themselves!

    This is probably why antiviruses warn you not to have a second antivrus installed simultaneously.

  24. Re:Sun shoots, and... well, you already know. on Sun Unveils RAID-Less Storage Appliance · · Score: 1

    HP

  25. Re:Is this Dilbert or Slashdot? on Former IBM Exec Ordered To Stop Working For Apple · · Score: 1

    Apple decided they wanted to start up a line of printers.