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  1. Re:Yes, only a tiny percentage on Japan Demands Probe of iPod Nano Flameouts · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm hoping the /. groupthink is too distracted to notice.

  2. Re:Sweet! on Judge Rules Man Cannot Be Forced To Decrypt HD · · Score: 1

    Of course not. For us at /., it's an extension of our bodies.

  3. Re:Yes, only a tiny percentage on Japan Demands Probe of iPod Nano Flameouts · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm sorry your honor, I only punched fourteen people in the face after taking their money. That's such a tiny percentage of the people I took money from.

    There, fixed it for you.

  4. Just Nanos? on Japan Demands Probe of iPod Nano Flameouts · · Score: 1

    It's only Nanos that are catching fire? Why no other varieties?

  5. Re:Yes, its annoying on Adobe Flash Ads Launching Clipboard Hijack Attacks · · Score: 1

    Don't fix them. Their systems grind to a halt, they go buy new ones, and offload the six-month old boxen on you. You wipe them with a fresh *nix distro and sell it or incorporate it into your local cluster. Use the money from the machines you sell to upgrade your bandwidth. DDOS (along with other slashdotters) botnet servers. /satire

  6. Re:That is great news! But.. on Dell's Subnotebook To Ship With Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    (K)ubuntu can only progress as fast as Debian unstable, and I wouldn't be surprised if testing is close on Ubuntu and unstable's heels.

  7. Re:Developed for the XO? on OLPC Physics Game Jam For an XO · · Score: 1

    Weren't they trying to port it to Windows?

  8. Re:Old fashioned way on Open-Source College Textbooks Gaining Mindshare · · Score: 1

    ...instead of downloading the e-book and printing out the pages!

    This is one reason I want a good ebook reader.

  9. Re:Many a foolish man has crossed Houghton Mifflin on Open-Source College Textbooks Gaining Mindshare · · Score: 1

    ...Terence Parr stated that's one reason the ANTLR v3 documentation was published rather than put up for free on the website.

    I have an oldish book (Debian GNU/Linux: Guide to Installation and Usage,) here that is published under the GPL, and another (What is Lojban? .i la lojban. mo) published under the Open Publication License.* "Published" and "Online for Free" are mot mutually exclusive.

  10. Re:Many a foolish man has crossed Houghton Mifflin on Open-Source College Textbooks Gaining Mindshare · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...the few that are are usually 5 or more years out of date.

    Because Algebra/Geometry/Calculus have changed so much in the past few years...

  11. Re:That would depend on the size of the budget on Can You Build a Fiber Test Kit On a Budget? · · Score: 1

    If he had a million-dollar budget, I don't think he'd be asking.

  12. Re:Many a foolish man has crossed Houghton Mifflin on Open-Source College Textbooks Gaining Mindshare · · Score: 0

    ...if you need them.

    I know nobody that does.

  13. Re:one team will win an XO laptop on OLPC Physics Game Jam For an XO · · Score: 1

    This one is free, where as the ones for children are paid for by governments or the Give1Get1 program.

  14. Developed for the XO? on OLPC Physics Game Jam For an XO · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Is this a Windows or Linux game designed for Sugar's GUI, or can one develop specifically for Sugar and run it wherever the Sugar interface is (regardless of whether it is running on Linux or Windows)?

  15. Re:Thirdly, ... on Vendors Rally While Windows Sleeps · · Score: 1

    That's not necessary. It wakes up Windows.

  16. Re:why "big win" for microsoft ? on Outages Leave Google Apps Admins In the Hotseat · · Score: 1

    You definitely do not have the adming gene.

  17. Re:not too surprising on Stone Age Mass Graves Reveal Green Sahara · · Score: 1

    Ninja Christians? (since the pirates prevent global warming)

  18. Re:Great learning tool. But what else? on Debian On the Openmoko Neo FreeRunner Phone · · Score: 3, Funny

    He installed it on the OpenMoko

  19. Re:FCC on T-Mobile Will Be First To Use Android · · Score: 1

    "A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm."

    Basically, because it is the lowest numbered law (the lower-numbered Laws override the higher numbers), the Three Laws can be broken for the good of humanity.

    See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics#Zeroth_Law_added

  20. Re:OOo and ODF compliance? on ISO Rejects OOXML Protest Appeals · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here. 7,525 validation errors. He's the same guy that reported that MSOffice had about 122,000 OOXML errors.
    Though I admit that I have some doubts about his methodology for the ODF test.

  21. Re:What you can do? on ISO Rejects OOXML Protest Appeals · · Score: 1

    Von Neumann machines?

  22. Re:Cooler heads prevailed on ISO Rejects OOXML Protest Appeals · · Score: 1

    Most of the bureaucrats who prepare these decisions are no more educated than you or I.

    And probably less so.

    My brother wants to go into law, and is considering politics from there. While understanding of the law is great, I'd rather have a politician who could quit politics and immediately get employment in some form of skilled labor.

  23. OOo and ODF compliance? on ISO Rejects OOXML Protest Appeals · · Score: 1

    I understand that OpenOffice does not absolutely conform to the ODF standard. If we can convince a beancounter that the letter of the law must be obeyed and that what MSOffice makes does not meet that requirement, MS will be able to point out that OOo doesn't fit the bill perfectly, either. So is there a plugin or something for OOo that allows creating 100% compliant ODF files?

  24. Re:What you can do? on ISO Rejects OOXML Protest Appeals · · Score: 1

    You are on Slashdot. I don't think seeing them first would be necessary.

  25. Re:John McCain: Warmonger Part 2 +1, Helpful on "War On Terror" Board Game Confiscated In UK · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...it's obvious that not a lot of Americans will vote Republican again.

    I don't know about that. Congress has a lower approval rating than Bush* (scroll down on that page). So if they're not voting Republican, they probably aren't voting Democrat, either.

    *Naturally that depends on the accuracy of the polls. See Dewey Defeats Truman