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  1. Re:Paranoid Seattle Buses on 911 Call Tracking Site Stirs Concern · · Score: 1

    I took my camera down into the bus tunnel shortly after some got busted for "terrorism". Then I did it again right before it closed for retrofitting. I had one driver comment on it the first time, but he didn't threaten me.

    http://flickr.com/photos/sarekofvulcan/tags/bustun nel/

  2. It's the support costs. on Why is OSS Commercial Software So Expensive? · · Score: 5, Informative

    How much support do you get from Red Hat for your $299?

    How much from Microsoft for your $140?

  3. The Kobayashi Alternative on Abandoned Games · · Score: 1

    Diane Duane wrote this game for the Mac back before they changed from MFS to HFS, which did a decent job of making it unplayable. I'd love to see it un-abandoned.

  4. Re:Wow on Slashdot Bookmarks · · Score: 1

    Not even close to first. :-)

  5. Redundancy on Slashdot Bookmarks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ok, and we should use this instead of del.icio.us why, exactly? Might be good to put on the FAQ list.

  6. Adobe e-books on Libraries Use DRM to Expire Audiobooks · · Score: 1

    My local library lends Adobe e-books, with a similar scheme. I was able to read Wicked this way long before the physical copy showed up.

  7. Re:Give him 50K USD on 50K Linux Man Bites At Merkey.net · · Score: 1

    Argh. That was the scene in The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover that came closest to making me lose it...

  8. Re:Sorry, but this is stupid on Australian Voting Software Goes Closed Source · · Score: 1
    Votes can be "bought" if there's any sort of verifiable paper trail linking a voter to their vote


    Not necessarily.
  9. Re:Smells bad.... on Patriot Act Used to Enforce Copyright Law? · · Score: 1

    If "fraud" were a verb, I'd take this note more seriously.

  10. Re:he's right on Microsoft Responds to IE Criticism · · Score: 1
    Yep, I once found a bug in Access and dialled the support line to check. Turned out that yes, it was a genuine bug, and yes, that was one of my alloted support calls used up.


    Umm... if it was a genuine bug, you should have had it closed as a bug, so that it didn't decrement your call count. Are you sure that you lost your alloted call?
  11. Re:Oh my... on Microsoft Responds to IE Criticism · · Score: 1
    "IE is a super powerful Web browser that hundreds of millions of people choose to use," Hachamovitch replied."

    Let me be the first to say... HAHAHAHAHAHA.. choose to use? No, we choose to use Mozilla, Opera, Firefox, and the like... but we didn't choose IE.


    Speak for yourself. I choose not to use the alternative browsers because IE works well for me. Every time I've tried Mozilla or Opera, I've ended up going back to IE before very long. Maybe it's because the sites I go to are designed for IE: I don't know.

    What I do know is that my home page and my kid's preschool home page are designed not to have IE-specific markup, so that the next person to come along with Viola doesn't have to suffer. :-)
  12. Re:What a waste on Moon Rocket Scrubbed and Blown Dry · · Score: 1
    If it were the only one left in existance I might be able to see spending the cash.


    Uhh... you mean you _want_ to wait until there's only one left?

    I'll bet you don't do backups on your production server, either.
  13. Re:Invalid stupid patent. on McAfee Granted Far-Reaching Spam-Control Patent · · Score: 1

    Agreed that I slightly misread it, but still, they found prior art on 50% of his submissions.

  14. I've seen this in the USA... on One-Time Pads To Protect Electronic Bank Access · · Score: 1

    One of my former bosses was sent a couple of little boxes to generate numbers to access the business accounts over the web. I didn't really get it until reading this discussion...

  15. Re:Invalid stupid patent. on McAfee Granted Far-Reaching Spam-Control Patent · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up, please. It's an excellent debunking of the prevailing "USPTO grants everything" myth.

  16. Re:ancestor... on Shatner May Return to Star Trek (Briefly?) · · Score: 1

    Great Bird of the Galaxy, NO! It was dumb enough when Dorn played Worf's grandfather Worf...

  17. Re:Spoiler alert - Leia? on Star Wars Episode III : Birth Of The Empire · · Score: 1
    As to it not making sense for Luke going to Tatooine, I thought it actually did - wasn't Luke given to "Uncle Owen" (whom I presume is Anakin's half brother) to be raised?

    Yeah, real clever, let's raise Darth Vader's son using HIS OWN LAST NAME OF SKYWALKER ON HIS HOME PLANET.


    Yes, but as long as he's living in his mother's relative's house, Lord V. can't do anything to harm him.
  18. Re:Seems low. on Nearly Half of U.S. 'Net Users Post Content · · Score: 1
    Depends... does a blog they don't ever post to anymore count as a web page?
    Ask Eric Rudder.
  19. In Soviet Russia... on CodeCon, Placebos, Fear, Yoyo-hacking, Dune, etc. · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...yo-yos hack you!

  20. Re:Watch out (re: link in parent post) on Electronic Arts Shuts Down Origin Systems? · · Score: 1
    This site tries to install some very weird shit under IE6.


    Not if you've wrapped IE6 in the Avant Browser shell. :-)
  21. Vonage 911 on FCC: VoIP Providers Must Provide 911 Services · · Score: 2, Informative

    I have successfully dialed 911 from my Vonage phone. Granted, it wasn't a life-threatening emergency, but it seemed to go smoothly enough.

  22. Re:The problem is the stomach.... on Shuttle Fleet Upgraded · · Score: 1
    Look at the recent Mars flop, where they can't get contact with the probe. Anything similar with a crew onboard would be fatal.

    ObSF: Danny Goes to Mars
  23. Re:2D Computer generated? on Disney Does Digital, Ditches Drawings · · Score: 1
    On a side note, I'd give almost anything to have the footage of DeGeneres in the studio during her recording of the "whale song" sequence of Nemo...


    Oh, you mean, like in the Special Features of the DVD? :-)

    Granted, it's not the whole sequence, but there's a funny bit at the end where she remembers she's got a camera on her...
  24. Re:Thoughtful... on The Design Of The Google File System · · Score: 1

    He was probably trying to look it up at http://www.googol.com/.

  25. Re:The USA PATRIOT ACT has a Scary Similarity... on FBI Investigating Lamo Via Patriot Act Provision · · Score: 1

    Yes, the burning of the Reichtag. They blamed it on the communists, according to a quick Googling.