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  1. VIVA LA 7-ZIP! on Using Computer Stores to Spread Open Source? · · Score: 1

    I will never go back to shareware zip programs for windows and all that flipping nagging. PDF Creator and CDex are also very, very useful.

  2. Here's what I do on Samsung Announces Flash-Based Disk Drive · · Score: 1

    I print out all the ones and zeros, then put all the pieces of paper side by side in a giant grid and then measure the area. It's about 2 Texas's+3 Rhode Island's in area.

    Hope that helps.

  3. That government still exists. on Using Wikis to Catch Outdated and Bad Laws? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why is it a problem, if the law was made by a government that doesn't exist anymore?

    As far as I can tell, the city of Boston, and its government, still exists. Can't be too sure, though, as I am in Denver. But I did a google search and found some pictures. They pretty much convinced me.

  4. Interesting side note on that bill of rights thing on Using Wikis to Catch Outdated and Bad Laws? · · Score: 1

    Some of the founding fathers didn't want a bill of rights. Not because they were evil tyrrants, but because they felt that if you start listing your rights, then any rights that weren't on the list would be trampled over, because they wouldn't be explicitly stated. It's happened. How many people beleve they have a right to privacy? It's not in the costitution or the bill of rights, so it's been pretty much trampled...to the point that some people say we don't have any privacy and we should just get used to it.

  5. STOP! I can't breathe! on Dvorak on the LinuxWorld Fracas · · Score: 1

    hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaha!
    gasp, gasp
    hahahahaha

  6. V8 on The Worst Foods to Eat Over a Keyboard · · Score: 1

    I spilled a V8 on my keyboard, now it's covered in red V8 crust that won't come off.

    Which reminds me...never shake a V8 after you've opened the can.

  7. Naw! on SpaceX Awarded $100 Million Launch Contract · · Score: 1

    It just means the Air Force'll be getting 10 launches, instead of one.

  8. Re:Finally on Airbus A380 Completes Maiden Test Flight · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What if it's 250 people that want to go from NY, NY to Sacramento, CA, and 250 people that want to to Los Angeles,CA. Do you cram everybody into one plane to Los Angeles and then have half of them file into another plane to Sacremento? You still have 2 planes.

    The more I read about the small planes going point to point vs. large planes and centralized hub, the more I get struck with how much like packet switching the point to point flihts are and how much like circuit switching the central hub model is.

  9. Re:Airbus on Airbus A380 Completes Maiden Test Flight · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That'st just it. They're CONTRACTS. The US government says it needs a bunch of fighter planes and/or sattelites, pays the company for them and gets them. The government is paying for goods and services. You don't hear too much about the US government just giving money to a company because it thinks that company should exist (there are exeptions, like railroads and such).

  10. Even funnier! on Space Station Crew Lands Safely In Kazakhstan · · Score: 1, Funny

    What would be even funnier, is if the people that pop open the craft are all wearing ape masks.

  11. Shenanigans! on Traffic Studied Using Computer-Linked Cars · · Score: 3, Funny

    I call shenanigans! Everyone knows that slashdotters don't have wives.

    What are you doing with your colleague in the back seat? Board games?

  12. WiMax look interesting on Intel to Release WiMax Chip · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Combine WiMax and VoIP in a small handheld device and you've basically re-invented cell phone. But you'd be able to add features way easier. Put in a server and update the "phone" software and now youv'e got email (or text messaging or paging or a teleconference, or streaming audio/movies, or the web) on you cell.

  13. Speaking of that on Running a Website from Your Prison Cell · · Score: 1

    Selling a Hummer to someone

    Why is selling sex illegal anyway? Why can't people sell something that's perfectly legal to give away?

    There's an linux/gnu/open source joke in there somewhere, but I'm too tired to find it.

  14. First one, then the other. (n/t) on Microsoft Releases Eight Security Updates · · Score: 1

    (n/t)

  15. Come fetch me on Gordon Moore: Moore's Law is Dead · · Score: 1

    Come get me when it's time to go through his pockets for loose change.

    I'll be over at Max's place having an MLT. Mmmmm mutton, lettuce and tomato, with the mutton nice and lean....

  16. ooohhh... on Space Elevator Update · · Score: 1

    How long's a piece of string?

    Oh, about, yay long.

  17. What would you call it? on Python Moving into the Enterprise · · Score: 1

    I mean "J2EE" is a good name, but the Python equivilent "PEE", is missing something.

    For some strange reason, I, suddenly, have to use the bathroom...

  18. I don't remember them being all that big on Burn Grass, Get Green Biofuel · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A friend of mine had a wood pellet heater for his house. It looked like a wood stove with a hopper on the side. Not all that big. Of course they had bags and bags of wood pellets in thier garage...right next to the dog food.

  19. Re:PCB on How Motherboards Are Made · · Score: 1, Funny

    This one time my friend did some PCB and he started kicking the crap out of his computer, while screaming something about deamon windows or something...wait...are we talking about the same thing?

  20. but it does equal 5 on OpenOffice.org Team on OO.org (and Upcoming v2.0) · · Score: 1

    It's true! 2+2=5...for sufficiently large values of 2.

  21. I think I found it. on OpenOffice.org 2.0 Preview · · Score: 1

    You CAN do this in OOo...in the new beta, go to Tools -> Options -> Open Office.org (the first one) -> Appearance, Under "General" find "Document Background" and select "blue" or pink or green or whatever...

  22. Re:Help? on Linux Kernel 2.6.11 Released · · Score: 1

    can anyone explain what use the kernel is to the average user?

    It improves your gas mileage.

    http://www.channel955.com/mojo_phonescam_clueles sa utorepair.html

  23. Now cut that out! on Orbital Resort to Launch by 2010 · · Score: 1

    Do you realize how much soda, squirting from my nose, burns?

  24. I like this one better on Pair Arrested After Telling Lawyer Jokes · · Score: 2, Funny

    A rabbi, preist, lawer and some kids are in a lifeboat, after thier ship sank. The lifeboat is overloaded and beginning to sink. The rabbi says, "We've all had full lives; we should jump overboard to save the children."

    The lawer says,"Screw the children!"

    The priest says,"Do you think we have time?"

  25. Re:Screenshots? on Start Your Own Open Source-Based Telecom · · Score: 1

    Here ya go...a pic of gnophone:
    http://www.gnophone.com/images/gnophoneshot.jpg


    From the gnophone page:
    Gnophone is an open source internet telephone that allows you to make calls to other GnoPhone users or to an Asterisk PBX Gateway.