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  1. Re:Opting out. on Gates on Digital Restrictions Technologies · · Score: 1

    Well, we've already got the beards and excessive amount of black clothing, how hard can the rest be?

  2. Re:Anti-Stupidity League Claims Responsibility on SCO DOS'ed · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sadly, nothing further will be heard from the Anti-Stupidity league, as their next action at this point will evidently be to DDoS themselves.

  3. Re:In the year 2015... on O'Reilly Commits to Short Copyright Durations · · Score: 1

    Sadly, it may; that'll be what we use to connect our home-brew hand-built systems, while our XboX5s are the only clients able to access the new, secure Internet(TM).

  4. oh, Brain Privacy on Brain Privacy · · Score: 1

    When I first scanned the blurb, I read it as concern about Brian Piracy, and that some terrible new form of IP law was about to be born.

    Imagine my relief...

  5. Re:Bah, I developed this myself.... on High Density CDs · · Score: 3, Funny

    You'll save even more space if you replace the "1"s with the letter "l", which is slightly smaller. Also, consider decreasing font size, and possibly going to italic to pack them more tightly.

  6. Re:The problem is overpopulation. on On The Collapse of Complex Societies · · Score: 1

    You can grow much more food in a small area if you can afford it. (At an extreme case, greenhouses in skyscrapers).

    Poverty and pollution are issues, but talk of a fixed 'resource footprint' is nonsense.

  7. Re:What?! on Hilary Rosen from RIAA will write Iraq's Copyrights? · · Score: 1

    Actually, that 'Enron lackey' just got pushed out of his post by Rumsfield.

  8. Re:The problem is overpopulation. on On The Collapse of Complex Societies · · Score: 1

    'resource footprint' is a crock. With a sufficiently developed economy you make make it quite small if you like.

  9. Re:He has a funny idea of "Innovation." on Ballmer on Windows Server 2003, Linux · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've been wearing pants for more than 20 years, but I don't think my customers would appreciate if I decided to innovate in that area.

    A chess master once told me: "Never neglect the obvious. Usually it's obvious because it's right."

  10. uh oh on Could E-Voting Cure Voter Apathy? · · Score: 2, Funny

    And the new Prime Minister of Britian is...

    Cowboy Neal!

  11. Re:it only bothers the unknowing honest. on More on Cisco Building Surveillance into Routers · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    But most evildoers are very stupid.

  12. controversy? on SCO Releases Linux OS for Itanium 2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't think there's any controversy at all on slashdot about SCO; there appears to be a strong consensus that they suck.

  13. that's easy... on 802.11n: High Throughput, Not Just Fast Wireless · · Score: 1

    This increase in efficiency will be achieved by having slashdot duplicate stories filtered out at the transport layer.

  14. Re:CO2 sinks on Still More on Global Warming · · Score: 1

    that's still nonsense; forests are carbon buffers, not sinks.

    Unless, of course, you chop the trees down and then don't let them decompose. Those National Geographics in your basement are the defense against globabl warming!

  15. well, that explains on Ender's Game Influences US Army Training · · Score: 2, Funny

    The rush to Baghdad. The enemy's goal is down!

  16. a real question... on SCO Group Lawsuit Q&A · · Score: 1

    Many statements of fact (eg, UNIX history) and technical opinion (eg, relative capabilities of SCO UNIX and Linux) found in the brief are, to put it charitably, dubious, and several are absurd. Were technical staff closely invoved in this, or was it purely the work of 'well-informed' lawyers?

  17. Re:The only thing war has ever done is... on Strike on Iraq · · Score: 1

    Actually, the original Terrorists were the Assassins. Nowadays, of course, we use that term to refer to their favored form of terrorism, rather than to the original Assassins.

    Why?

    Because the Mongols eventually got pissed off about it, rolled into the middle east, and slaughtered them.

  18. Re:the Hurd on SCO Sues IBM for Sharing Secrets with Unix and Linux · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nah, the coprights to UNIX will have expired by the time HURD 1.0 ships.

  19. easy... on Using Visible Light for Data Transfer · · Score: 1

    all you need is a really big HDTV, and a Beowulf Cluster of digital camcorders with telescopic lenses.

    Right?

  20. Re:Move to Europe ! on Are Coders Exempt From California's Overtime Laws? · · Score: 1

    Who the heck in Europe has lower taxes than the US?

    Maybe Norway (oil production taxes) or some tiny countries, but anyone real?

  21. Re:If they want it over with... on Castle Denies GPL Breach · · Score: 1

    And we would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for those meddling kids!

  22. Re:single-system-image blades on Sun Releases New Servers, Blades & More · · Score: 2, Insightful

    SGI kind of went that direction with their Origin series (2000 and 3000, and now Altix), but they're overbuilt. It costs a fortune to buy an empty system, and a fortune to put processors and slots in it.

    This is a hard problem. As you say, it would be really nice, but what you end up with in practice is having to put high-end parts in low-end models and get killed on cost.

  23. Re:Squeak and Rattle on Gloss Plastic Could Eliminate Auto Painting · · Score: 1

    When I say, "loud during acceleration", I don't mean, "rattles at 60 mph", I mean, "when I stomp hard on the gas the screeching of the engine drowns out the radio that was too loud 5 seconds before."

    Anyhow, I imagine the exterior panels are bolted on, and the interior glued, and what does plastic vs metal have to do with how it's fastened anyway?

  24. Re:Noise? Collision protection? on Gloss Plastic Could Eliminate Auto Painting · · Score: 1

    I don't think the Saturn S-series noise issue (and you're right, they're loud during acceleration) has anything to do with body panels - they just have a loud engine and limited acoustical damping for it.

    My wife's '96 started purple and still is, other than some white scuff marks on the bumpers.

  25. computer cases! on Gloss Plastic Could Eliminate Auto Painting · · Score: 2, Funny

    The real question, of course, is when this will be available for PC cases.