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  1. Re:No Metallica.... on Apple Introduces iTunes Music Store, iTunes 4, new iPod · · Score: 1

    Oops, that's Frank Yankovic, they have. Whoever that is. No "Weird Al."

  2. Re:No Metallica.... on Apple Introduces iTunes Music Store, iTunes 4, new iPod · · Score: 1

    Yet, they have "Weird Al" Yankovic. Go figure.

  3. For a change, on Model Train Control Using Your PDA · · Score: 1

    Imagine a beowulf cluster running one of these! Get it? Instead of the other way around?

  4. Re:Don't tell anyone ... on Starting a Home-Based Software Company? · · Score: 1

    Yes, well have you looked in the want ads lately? Asside from the fact that I can work anywhere I want, I'm getting paid to do it. My company rocks.

  5. Re:With apologies to the BareNaked Ladies on If I Had My Own Distro... · · Score: 1

    Actually, that was the best. The best. Even my wife liked it, and she barely knows what Linux is. Great job.

  6. "If I Had My Own Distro" on If I Had My Own Distro... · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Isn't that a Barenaked Ladies song?

    "If I Had My Own Distro"

    If I Had My Own Distro
    If I Had My Own Distro
    I would code my own FS
    I would code my own FS

    and, If I Had My Own Distro
    If I Had My Own Distro
    Design a sensible directory structure
    Keep those symlinks all in order

    If I Had My Own Distro
    If I Had My Own Distro
    Well, I'd select only ONE desktop
    A nice reliant environment

    .
    .
    .

    Something like that.

  7. My Mirror on Darth Vader Sculpture on Washington National Cathedral · · Score: 1

    Here's my mirror. Seems that archive.org and google cache don't resolve because the .css and javascript weren't cached, so they tried to open the original sites, which holds up the whole page. I just removed them, and left the article.

    Mirror

  8. Fun on Intel's Itanium Will Get x86 Emulation · · Score: 4, Informative

    Fun. So now they realize after they create the chip that they want 20 years of backwards compatibility. The PowerPC knew they wanted this, according to this slashdot article.

    Mirrors:
    story 1
    story 2

  9. Re:*blink* *blink* on MP3 Player In An AK-47 Magazine · · Score: 1

    More to the point. What does an MP3 player have to do with an AK-47 ammunition clip? Cleavage just goes with the territory.

    What happens if you load the MP3 player when you need ammo?

  10. No kidding?! on Calling Software Reliability Into Question · · Score: 1

    "It always takes us by surprise when the rocket blows up or the ATM goes down," Guttman says.

    That was Microsoft all this time? Wow. I guess I shouldn't feel so bad when my workstation acts funny. Just one reboot and I'm back to work. But if my workstation blows up, I'll know who to blame.

  11. Re:Great, but... on Jeff Bezos' Shot At Space · · Score: 2, Funny

    A excuse for Uber-latency on IRC. "My IRC host is on the moon."

  12. Re:Traveling to San Fran. on Webby Awards Downsized To Virtual Event · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...many of them are probably afraid they'll be replaced.

    Yes, replaced with a very small shell script.

  13. Cool... on Around The World In 1 Year (On A Website) · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. Beowulf cluster - $900
    2. Airline tickets with bulk baggage - $3000
    3. Spending two nights in customs - just your dignity
    4. Getting it all Slashdotted after all that - priceless

    There are some things money can't buy.
    For everything else, there's Mastercard.

  14. No, no, no. *this* is the cure. on Will Bounties Cure The Spam Problem? · · Score: 1

    Just get rid of email as we know it. This is getting much too complicated for me.

    Just do away with email. I've already done it with my US Mail. Every day, I'd open my mail box and find trash. Honest to God TRASH. So I told them I didn't want mail any more, just like in Seinfeld, only they actually did it.

    I still have email, but I'd be happy to use this protocol instead, if only there was an effective reference implementation.

  15. Re:I still can't figure out on EFF's Cindy Cohn Talks About Patriot Act II · · Score: 1

    I still can't figure out why Slashdot's American Flag Topic Icon has twelve stripes, and starts with a white one. http://www.usflag.org/

  16. Re:My God, the spoilers! on The Return of Chewbacca · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Spoiler from what? The preview? You're were going to find out sooner or later before the movie.

    A spoiler would be something like, oh say, that Chewbacca is bald in this episode or that he's gay or something. That would be a spoiler...not that there's anything wrong with that.

    If you want a spoiler, how's this - I hear Darth Vader won't be in this episode. How's that for spoiler?

  17. Where to buy... on Intel Celeron 2.2GHz Reviewed · · Score: 0

    Go to my site and check out the links.

  18. Imagine on Fully-functional Miniature Notebook Planned · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Imagine a beowulf cluster of those!

  19. Re:Why the fuss over command line? on Ballmer on Windows Server 2003, Linux · · Score: 1

    All the fuss is due to this. Among other things, the GUI of Windows has security flaws acknowledged by Microsoft. This overshadows any of the benefits that could ever be realized. Get rid of it, or replace it with a different, more secure GUI model, and you might have something.

  20. Those things. on The Science of The Moist Towelette · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I hate the moist towelette. It's terrible on a newborn's skin. The hospital recommended just cotton towlettes. The non-moist kind, and even gave us a supply that barely lasted a week.

    See, you wet them from this thing called a faucet. That way, there's nothing added that will adversely effect baby.

    When we ran out, I tried to find some at the store, but all they had were moist towelettes. Rows and rows of them. Eventually we tried them, making sure we picked the water only type.

    No good. Baby's skin was getting red. So we switched to cotton balls (now that's fun, let me tell you).

    Now he's six weeks old, and we've been using the moist towelettes again with no adverse side effects. But why can't I find dry towlettes at the store? Why call them moist when that's the only kind they sell?

  21. Re:Unlikely on Ballmer on Windows Server 2003, Linux · · Score: 1

    Great. The GUI is still there, tangled and all, you just can't see it. The point is to get rid of it all together, not hide it.

  22. Re:All this talk... on Hydrogen Fuel Station in Iceland · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    /me bows, "Thank you all. Maybe I'll get an iPod now."

  23. All this talk... on Hydrogen Fuel Station in Iceland · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't understand why creating water instead of carbon-monoxide is better for the environment. If we suddenly replaced all fossil fuel engines with hydrogen engines, we'd have the same problem: excess waste.

    How many tons of waste do we humans send into the air every year? Do we think that equivalent amount of water is better? Instead of air pollution and all of the problems associated with it, we'd have to worry about the oceans being diluted, excess humidity, or some damn thing we can't think of.

    I actually am not of the opinion that it's as bad as people think it is anyway. So talking about changing from one form of waste to another is just an unnecessary expense.

  24. Well, it come with two pair of pants. on Another Private Space Startup · · Score: 5, Interesting

    By his own admission, Musk is making some grandiose claims -- among them that he will cut the cost of launching up to 1,000 pounds of payload into near-Earth orbit by up to two-thirds, and that he can buck the dismal success rate of space-launch startups.

    Wait a second. Grandiose or not, which market is he talking about? The European Space Agency can already lift more for less. So is he talking about taking two-thirds off the American price or the European price?

    Heck, for all we know, he's going to take two-thirds off the price Afghanistan would charge you if they had launch capability.

    Mirror to the article.

  25. Yikes on Ballmer on Windows Server 2003, Linux · · Score: 1

    Could you imagine waking up to this or even that every morning?