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  1. Farscape on Acoustic Levitation Works On Small Animals · · Score: 1

    This concept is straight out of the worst episode of Farscape, and that's saying something.

  2. Re:Wrong price! on Casual Games Now Have Serious Budgets · · Score: 1

    RTFA- the $30 is for a new game. Isn't out yet.

  3. Re:To Be Blunt on Slate Pans the Wii, Slate Loves the Wii · · Score: 2, Informative

    The sensitivity option controls how sensitive the remote is to infrared light, not how sensitive it is to motion. I saw several sources get it wrong pre-release.

  4. Re:If they come out with a boxing/karate... on The Mechanics of Motion Sensing · · Score: 1

    The Wii comes with a boxing game, I haven't played it yet though.

  5. Re:camera problems on The Mechanics of Motion Sensing · · Score: 4, Informative

    It has accelerometers AND the sensor thing. Tennis actually just uses the accelerometers, it works quite well no matter where you're facing.

  6. Re:Problems for Namesys? on The Future of ReiserFS · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wow, he sounds like a total nutjob.

  7. I hate slashdot so much on Microsoft Sponsors Antiphishing Bakeoff · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If anything, blocking a site should be worth more than double, since most people I know seem to just ignore warning dialogs.

  8. Re:Depends on your definition on Microsoft License Goes to OSI But Not From Redmond · · Score: 1

    You're trying to purposefully break his analogy, but it didn't work. If you buy Microsoft, then you've become part of the entity that has written the code.

    I guess you could say that you could buy Microsoft and then GPL the Vista code and then sell Microsoft and look at it but that's kind of a silly extreme, wouldn't you agree?

  9. Re:sigh on NH Man Arrested for Videotaping Police · · Score: 1

    Maybe they wanted soda?

  10. The name "Geek Squad" on What Do Geek Squad Technicians Actually Do? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Does the name "Geek Squad" kind of offend anyone besides me, even just a little bit?

  11. Let's take a trip back in time on Human-Dolphin Partnership Reserve · · Score: -1, Troll

    This old troll copy/paste seems eerily on-topic.

  12. Re:This just in on TUAW Recommends Joke App · · Score: 1

    It doesn't? d'oh.

  13. Re:This just in on TUAW Recommends Joke App · · Score: 0, Troll

    two words: outlook express

  14. Re:If only.. on Mafia Boss Using Crook Crypto Captured · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Trivial to break. Wrapping the cloth around a pole is just an easier way of looking at every x letters. It'd take about 2 minutes to brute force the value for x manually, a program with a dictionary could do it in milliseconds.

  15. Re:80 gig web? on Startup Webaroo to put the 'Web on a Hard Drive'? · · Score: 1

    No images and compression on the text would probably change that quite a bit.

  16. Re:RIAA has some learning to do on RIAA Recommends Students Drop out of College · · Score: 1

    The RIAA is not affiliated with the government in any way, they cannot make anything illegal.

  17. Re:Web Standards Compliance? on Google Introduces Page Creator · · Score: 1

    hahahaha yeah I'm sure that Google reads slashdot at +5 for user feedback data.

  18. Re:whatever! on Google Adds Chat To Gmail · · Score: 1

    FUD? on slashdot? I never!

  19. Re:The sail on Archimedes Death Ray in San Francisco · · Score: 1

    You're absolutely right about them trying to get the result they wanted, except that if you've ever seen the show you'd know that the mythbusters were probably doing everything possible to make the ship go up in a spectacular fireball. If they failed to blow something up, it was not for lack of trying. The last time they attempted this myth, they aimed the rig at a bunch of oil-soaked cloth and it STILL didn't do anything.

  20. Re:The reason for this is simple..... on States Planning to Require License to Sell on EBay · · Score: 1

    Of course! After all, government was originally created to tap into this newfangled "Domesticated Agriculture" income stream.

  21. Cell Phone on The Tongue Twisting Tooth Microphone · · Score: 1

    How is this powered? I imagine it would be a good application for RFID. The microphone itself could be powered by an RF transciever worn externally.

    Can't wait for a bluetooth (lol) version of this.

  22. Re:Article misses the point on Computer Jargon Too Difficult for Office Workers · · Score: 2, Funny

    Because they know how to use a question mark!

  23. Re:Its not just computers. on Computer Jargon Too Difficult for Office Workers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'd wager that a fair percentage of drivers don't realize that they have to change the oil, either.

  24. Re:just give up on Update on Standards and CSS in IE7 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Firefox still doesn't pass that test...

  25. Re:Browser notice on Mac mini Built Into Wall · · Score: 1

    And not only that, but it's not even valid HTML... It is valid CSS and "Made With Opera" and a bunch of other stuff that matters about 0.0001% as much as valid html does, so that's just great to know.