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  1. Re:17.5% tax = outrageous on Dell Customer Gets Windows Refund · · Score: 1

    Howdy from Ontario, Canada where we pay 14% tax on every single transaction unless it is for the "necessities of life"

  2. I switched from Coke to Pepsi!! on Democrats Take House, Senate Undecided · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What's the diff? Republicans and republicans lite. They all share a similar agenda anyway.. they mostly support a christian agenda (you have to in the US) and are opposed to changing the status quo (e.g. bringng in medicare like every other developed nation)

  3. Fast, but how fast? on Fastest Waves Ever Photographed · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you made instant coffee in the microwave, would you go back in time?

  4. For those who run Windows... on How MythTV Detects and Flags Commercials · · Score: 5, Informative

    Videoredo edits mpeg files without re-encoding them a la adobe premiere. ( == lightning fast)

    It also has extremely sophisticated commercial detection (never failed me), based on blackouts, duration of blackouts, duration between blackouts, percentage of screen changed to black, etc.

    http://www.videoredo.com/

  5. TERRIBLE NEWS! on Scientists Make Item Invisible to Microwaves · · Score: 2, Funny

    What!! This is awful!! It means my microwave item-detecting device, which I walk around with to detect objects and random items, will now be obsolete!!

  6. If you want.. on Companies Continue to Get a Second Life · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you want to call this an "MMORPG" then it has much more freedom than any other in existance. You can literally create objects from nothing and make them ANYTHING you want -- we are talking 3dsmax anything.

    But the fact is... this "game" is not fun and straightforward enough for most users (like me!) We don't all know 3dsmax!!

    A game like WOW is sucessful because it has: defined goals, defined structure, and defined limits. People actually like that shit.

    (The download for SL is only like... 30 MB for windows, 60 MB for mac if you want to try it.)

  7. What is the theory... on Dutch Securing E-voting After Being Pwned · · Score: 1

    behind not controlling American elections at the National Level?

    In Canada we still use pencils and paper... call us inefficient and backward, but at least we never had an illigitimate government, b1atches!!

  8. Re:My pref... on smcFanControl — Cool Your MacBook Pro · · Score: 1

    I thought it was not the heat itself, but temperature changes (ie hot -> cold -> hot) that did it in?

  9. My pref... on smcFanControl — Cool Your MacBook Pro · · Score: 1

    Personally, I prefer the fans not to run at all (very quiet). Will this damage the hardware?

    (Unless I am doing something intensive)

  10. How about... on Why Microsoft Can't Compete With iTunes · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The fact that the market is saturated alredy with people who can use iTunes and who own iPods? What is the insentive to switch?

  11. Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. on Web Censorship on the University Campus? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If anything, Universities (and libraries) should at least be the ONE place on earth where the Internet should never be censored under any, any any any circumstances!!

    Although your suggestion that there is a 19-24 age group that is super-responsible is kind of funny :-)

  12. why? on Web Censorship on the University Campus? · · Score: 1

    Do they do this because of costs? Liability issues? Something else?

    I can understand throttling bittorent but this is taking it a bit far.

    Although I just got my degree the other day and they "Confirmed" it on this shoddy carbon copy of a dot matrix printout... and some teaching assistant just "checked" a box and initialed it. After all that work? It was sort of an insult. Universities are not the places they used to be... /rant

  13. HUH?? on Microsoft Piracy Plan Means Concerns for IT · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Protect consumers from pirated software??? What if I don't want to be protected???

  14. Re:Headline Changed on Intel Previews Potential Replacement for Flash Memory · · Score: 1

    I meant what I said, you may have interpreted the headline change in a different way.

  15. Re:Headline Changed on Intel Previews Potential Replacement for Flash Memory · · Score: 1

    What's your point? The headline was changed without any mention of it... therefore it was conducted with secrecy?

  16. Headline Changed on Intel Previews Potential Replacement for Flash Memory · · Score: 2, Informative

    The headline has been changed clandestinely and the word "memory" has been added... in case you are wondering about some of the comments before this one.

    Like many people here, I too saw the headline and thought some replacement for macromedia flash was on its way...

  17. Bush is... on Was the 2004 Election Stolen? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Bush is an illigitimate president who stole the election TWICE and maniulated the eleciton in Mexico so the Christian party would win. The people are catching on, George, and soon you pro-Creationism, anti-Science party will LOSE, and your NINE TRILLION DOLLAR DEFICIT -- which has never before been seen in history -- will be patched up through revocation of your pro-war, pro-Israel policies which led to war and distruction in the middle east.

  18. CHEAPER!! on Professor Sells Lectures Online · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Why has nobody pointed out that the $2.50 is FAR FAR CHEAPER than the tuition money the students are paying for the original lecture in the first place??

  19. Don't worry... on Google to Sell Old News Articles · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't worry about paying for old news on Slashdot, it gets reposted every two weeks!!

  20. Re:WOW! FUN! on Google Image Labeler · · Score: 1

    Is "a guest" a username or is it ... a guest?

  21. Re:Slender Neck Pr0n on Google Image Labeler · · Score: 3, Funny

    I wonder, will they provide an option for only labeling porn images?

    Yeah, I've been playing on their image labelling site for porn, for a couple of hours now. Blowjob, rearend, frombehind, omghot, goatse, childporn, ....

  22. WOW! FUN! on Google Image Labeler · · Score: 1

    Who thought working for google could be so much fun :-)???

    "Charlie", if you are out there, thanks for the amazing 15 rounds we had in a row...

    Also, can I get some props for making the highscore with "SMMM"???

  23. George W Bush says... on Not As Wiki As It Used To Be · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Don't let the (trolls?/terrorists?) win!

  24. O RLY? on AT&T Breached, Exposes 19,000 Identities · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They will pay for credit monitoring services, but will they pay for all the liability from a stolen ID? That can reach into the hundreds of thousands of dollars in real damage.

  25. Scrap my plans! on No Full HD Playback for 32-bit Vista · · Score: 1

    Well I guess I am just going to have to scrap my plans to buy lots of HD-DVDs and Blu-Ray DVDs for $35 each (after I already spent lots of money on DVDs which work fine thank you), buy a player that can play them (do they exist yet?), and play them in Windows while I sit at my desk!!