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  1. Re:Violation of the Fork Fairness Act on Facebook is Being Sued Over Housing Discrimination (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    So who would you sue? The mall that grants the ability of who the landlord gives the flyers to? Or the person actually handing out the flyers to the select group?

  2. Re:Uh... on Microsoft Paint To Be Killed Off After 32 Years (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    FYI, The snipping tool has a delay feature which will freeze the screen after a short delay. I use this to capture menus.

  3. Re:TURNS 25!?!?! on Hubble Turns 25 · · Score: 1

    The cake is a lie.

  4. Re:Another terrible article courtesy of samzenpus on Seattle Passes Laws To Keep Residents From Wasting Food · · Score: 1

    Please people, before you mod damn_registrars up, take a look at his comments. He's just harassing samzenpus.

    This article certainly is about wasting food.

    Landfill - a place to dispose of refuse and other waste material by burying it and covering it over with soil, especially as a method of filling in or extending usable land.

    If you put extra food in a landfill it becomes waste. If you put extra food into a compost bin, it becomes fertilizer. If you are putting extra food into the landfill you get a ticket. Therefor you are getting ticketed for "Wasting" food. It's not hard.

    Don't forget the ever important... If you put extra food into your mouth you get waist

  5. Re:Already There on 3-D Printed Gun Ban Fails In Senate · · Score: 2

    Do you "live in fear" because you buckle a seatbelt in a car? No, you do so just as a precaution. 99% of the time it does nothing. But that 1% it's a useful tool indeed

    If my seat belt came into use 1% of the time I drive, I certainly would be "living in fear" every time I drove.

  6. Dialing Wand on Carnegie Mellon Offers Wee QWERTY Texting Tech For Impossibly Tiny Devices · · Score: 1

    To obtain a special dialing wand, please mash the keypad with your palm now

  7. Re:Cables on Best Buy Founder Makes $8.5 Billion Bid To Take Company Private · · Score: 1

    I've never actually seen a USB printer come with a cable...

  8. Re:This is crazy, but not surprising. on iPad Bait and Switch — No More Unlimited Data Plan · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's not untenable, we're just in a transition phase. At some point wireless networks will have capacity that far exceeds demand, and the carriers will collapse into a price war (Bertrand Competition) which will result in what we would now probably consider a good data-plan becoming virtually free at some point. This is the same thing that happened to phone companies with local and then long distance service, as well as a host of other industries over time. Sucks for AT&T, and Verizon though (Sprint probably wont make it). Sure, they're making stupid amounts of cash (billions and billions of profit per quarter) but they know where this road goes and they are trying really hard to change course to keep from getting right back to where they all started -- in the POTS business of the future.

    Just like how texting is virtually free now right?

  9. Re:Slashdot achievements on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 1

    Slashdot uses will not post just for achievements..... Yeah, I am just posting this for the April fool's achievement.

  10. Re:Depends on Last.fm To Start Charging International Users · · Score: 1

    I do exactly the same thing. I have been on the site for 4 years now, so It is great to look at the stats over time and see how things have changed.

  11. Re:I actually just tried the Kindle II... on Reading the New York Times On a Kindle 2 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You're forced to create an account and then send pdfs and text files to an email associated with the account for a fee ($0.20 per file or something like that). It's difficult, and Amazon has everything locked down.

    .

    You obviously never even looked at the website, let alone read a review of the thing.

    I think they're kind of lame(no removeable storage, non-removable battery), but my wife recently got one, so I know that:

    A)You can(not must) send PDFs to an account for translation. It costs $.10 if you send it via the cell network(duh, that costs money). If you transfer them by computer, it costs $0.00 My wife, being an artsy type, has the Adobe suite, so she just converts them herself if they aren't just used as an image container.

    B)You can just plug it in a USB port and copy plain text to it like a thumb drive, albeit with no meaningful folder managment. She has loaded it up with a bunch of ebooks she already had in plain text, plus the aforementioned converted PDFs.

    Something seems very wrong with the fact that a whole novel can be sent over a cell network for $0.10, but a text message of under 200 characters cost double that.

  12. Re:Stealth Technology is Too Dangerous on Nuclear Subs 'Collide In Ocean' · · Score: 1

    Maybe if they weren't in super stealth mode they would have seen each other and the accident could have been avoided. This technology is too dangerous and needs to be outlawed through international treaty. The up side is that we know that stealth works!!

    When you outlaw stealth technology, only criminals with have stealth technology.

  13. Re:Free (as in beer) music on Paul McCartney Releases Album As DRM-Free Download · · Score: 1

    Harvey Danger (Flagpole Sitta) released their album for a free download back in 2005. http://www.harveydanger.com/downloads/