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  1. Re:Alleged... on Bizarre Droid Auto-Focus Bug Revealed · · Score: 1

    Or Dan Morrill the local druggist.

  2. Re:Wait a second... on We Really Don't Know Jack About Maintenance · · Score: 1

    I once designed a website for a PHB. When he gave me a hard time I told him that he can pay me $175 an hour indefinitely for maintenance or he can have a website that other people can maintain. Guess which one he picked. Guess how long I would have lasted if I wasn't fire proof for the period I was working there.

  3. Re:Forget eBay, Craigslist - Freecycle :-) on Making Old Games Look Good On Modern LCDs? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but some of us prefer to get something out of it. I repair computers and salvage old machines from people who upgrade so I have a lot of hardware in the basement. I give it to people who need it for a few bucks and waive the few bucks for those who can't afford it.

  4. Re:Buy a cheap CRT on Making Old Games Look Good On Modern LCDs? · · Score: 1

    35 if you live in my neighborhood. That's what I'm selling mine for. They aren't on craigslist, WOM only.

  5. Re:Alternative materials? on CERN Physicist Warns About Uranium Shortage · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I thought I was first but as I typed three people got in before me. BAH foiled.

  6. Iran on CERN Physicist Warns About Uranium Shortage · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This adds another dimension to the whole Nuclear Iran foreign policy issue.

  7. Re:Can we stop posting links to cio.com.au? on What's Coming In KDE 4.4 · · Score: 1

    Second that. Sloooooooooooww.

  8. Re:What do you expect? on Software Piracy At the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    If you create something, than you can put it to work for you as long as you live and that's great. That's why you did it. For life + is just saying that some people are free to put the deceased's creativity to work for them while others can't even use it without paying this handful of people. Now which one respects the property owner more?

  9. Re:Customer Service : My Screen is Broken on Apple Patents "Enforceable" Ad Viewing On Devices · · Score: 1

    If that response were to catch on I predict a downturn in Apple's overhyped customer service.

  10. Re:Install Ubuntu, problem solved. on Easing the Job of Family Tech Support? · · Score: 1

    They should probably stick to 9.04 until the new one is more stable. Fewer tech support calls for our poster.

  11. I've actually got something on Easing the Job of Family Tech Support? · · Score: 1

    I am tech support for the 5 users in my house plus a friend's family of 8. In my house we use either Macs or one of my ubuntu boxes but for the friend I wrote up a three page document on safe surfing and anti virus/malware software. How to scan, update etc. I can send it to slashdot if you want, but some of it isn't in English.

  12. Re:is the cost from portability/integration? on Intel's New E-Reader For the Visually Impaired · · Score: 1

    What's the extra $1100 for?

    Because they can, of course.

  13. Re:Don't hang onto visitor stats on Justice Dept. Asked For Broad Swath of IndyMedia's Visitor Records · · Score: 1

    Perfect! I love it. Especially since Siberian ice dildos have deep cultural/historical significance in my extended family. Hey! can I sue you for using the term?

  14. This is actually a good thing on Origin of Species To Be Given For Free, With FUD · · Score: 1

    If anyone who receives a free copy can't separate the science from the pseudo-science they deserve to look like idiots when they say "God created the world in six days because Darwin said so."

  15. Re:There would BE no supply problem... on 10% of US Energy Derived From Old Soviet Nukes · · Score: 1

    Heh. Never thought of it that way. They put it in aftershave too. I wonder ...

  16. Re:closed up on SFLC Finds One New GPL Violation Per Day · · Score: 1

    This is besides the fact that using the courts as a way to settle intellectual property issues simply creates incentive for more and stricter patent laws as well as being just plain wrong. It's always better to come to an agreement civilly.

  17. Re:There would BE no supply problem... on 10% of US Energy Derived From Old Soviet Nukes · · Score: 1

    Better yet bring radium back to popular use. When Curie first discovered it they made makeup out of the stuff.

  18. Re:Most professors guilty? on Attack of the PowerPoint-Wielding Professors · · Score: 3, Interesting

    True. In high school I had teachers who would either use the same overhead slides for years or worse, write the same notes on the board and never explain anything. Currently I'm in college and I'm taking a programming course where the prof reads each slide quickly and goes to the next within seconds. Worse, while she fortunately takes questions, she unfortunately neither knows nor cares about the material. Luckily I already know C

  19. Re:i ran a junky data center on How Do You Evaluate a Data Center? · · Score: 1

    Carpet?! Ouch. My sympathies. Were there also space heaters?

  20. Re:Just off the top of my head on How Do You Evaluate a Data Center? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Maintenance records Maintenance records Maintenance records are Moses and all the prophets

  21. Re:*sigh* on MIT Grad To Make Digital "SixthSense" Open Source · · Score: 1, Informative

    True. I showed my mother the video on the TED website and she (a physical therapist) immediately spotted it. She said it should be called the eigth sense. after accelleration, proprioception, and orientation. That last one is the wrong word because I forgot what it was called but I meant the sense of where you are relative to yourself (upside down, horizontal, etc)

  22. I'm sure everyone thought of this ... on MIT Grad To Make Digital "SixthSense" Open Source · · Score: 0

    but this pretty much the embodiment of fears about privacy in the information age.

  23. Re:A cake is in order on Happy 5th Birthday To Firefox · · Score: 0

    Yeah. That one is better. Another one: "We are number one. In... In ..."

  24. Re:A cake is in order on Happy 5th Birthday To Firefox · · Score: 0

    Better: a "Sure you overtook IE6 but we're still better" cake. Sure it'll be a big cake but Mozilla deserves it.

  25. Yay. Another one. on Japan Eyes Solar Station In Space · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Reminds me of the space station in Asimov's story Reason. All we need is a robot prophet.