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  1. Re:Can I buy a banner ad? on Political Pop-ups, and Follow the Money · · Score: 1

    See page 11 of this publication.

    It says that if your advertisements are truly independent, then you can spend as much as you want.

  2. Re:Can I buy a banner ad? on Political Pop-ups, and Follow the Money · · Score: 1

    I think it counts as supporting that candidate.

    After all, what if Mr. Joe^H^H^HBill Gates wanted to run a few billion dollars worth of ads for his candidate?

    I'm not sure on the rules, though. See the F.E.C for more info.

  3. Re:limits? on Political Pop-ups, and Follow the Money · · Score: 1

    $2000 per person. Is your neighbor married?

    His wife may very well come under his name by accident, as in Mr. & Mrs. James P Jones.

  4. Re:Can I buy a banner ad? on Political Pop-ups, and Follow the Money · · Score: 1

    If you are a PAC you can take any amount in contributions.

    But you cannot endorse a single candidate, instead you have to campain for a party or for issues.

    Or something like that. :)

  5. Re:This will do nothing on Congress To Force Cable a la Carte Plans · · Score: 1
    I don't really need 6 different news channels (CNN, CNN Headline News, Fox News, MNSBC, CNBC , Bloomberg)


    WHAT!!!! You don't want the CowboyNeal Broadcast Corporation's news?

    Begone. Now. And never return, or we shall taunt you a second time.
  6. Re:Meanwhile... on Google Updates Its Face · · Score: 1

    I think it does it because Mozilla doesn't understand the non-standard HTML Slashdot sends every once in a while.

    But ah, well. We want standards, but we don't want to have to work with them! :)

    (Moz 1.7 on Linux)

  7. Re:Just spin it a bit... on Nuclear Fusion Real Soon Now · · Score: 0

    Case 3:

    But will the lasers mount on the sharks? What good are 500 trillion watt lasers if you can't mount them on the sharks!?!!?

  8. Re:YES on Nuclear Fusion Real Soon Now · · Score: 1

    Fools!

    My fusion reactor has been running quite a long time now.

    I've even licensed it under the GPL*!

    *General Power License

  9. Re:the point to be made here on Your Privacy and Offshore Outsourcing · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can we bash Pakistan instead?

    Go a little bit farther north and we can say that the terrorists did it in their Afghan training camps.

    No doubt Katz (were he still with us) would tell us about Abdul Komodor who uploads full length movies of patients' records to the internet from his Commodore 64. :)

  10. Re:Yeah, on Verizon's NYC 911 System Shutdown · · Score: 1

    I don't think that would work so well nowadays, with fiber interlinks and service disconnects.

    But you could probably fry a neighborhood.

  11. Re:interesting name... on Verizon's NYC 911 System Shutdown · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nope, but I heard that someone was moderately dead due to the matter.

    And someone else was partially pregnant.

  12. Re:Consequences of Home Owners Associations? on 25th Anniversary Of Three Mile Island · · Score: 1

    Yeah, those laws are why every once in a while the state declares the association a town. Towns have to follow all the rules (elections, etc), and if the covenants get out of hand, they do get reigned in.

    And things like forbidding "undesirables" like blacks and Mexicans are not allowed.

    But, you find out that who they really want to exclude are not racial groups, but the poor. And that is very easy to do, just raise the cost of the house. And it works, too. Remember that the epithet for white people began as "poor white trash."

    But, yes, they are prisons for the rich. Even called "gated communities."

    Sick, I tell you. My personal opinion is that these "house spores" are directly contributing to the death of America. Mile after mile of houses where no one knows their neighbor, all identical, nothing interesting at all. Kinda like an insane asylum.

    In fact, one could argue that it's a pretty good fortaste of hell.

  13. Re:nt domains upgrade is easy. on IBM's Linux Upgrade Roadmap · · Score: 1

    net rpc vampire

  14. Re:Consequences of Home Owners Associations? on 25th Anniversary Of Three Mile Island · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Since you have a low UUID, I bow before you.

    The reason for the "voluntary" homeowners associations is basically because you go i debt for your house.

    So the only way to be safe with you $500,000 house is to make sure it doesn't go down in value, because then if you had to sell you'd lose money. Couple that with the fact that the average American moves every 7 years or so, and you see what the issue is. Fear. Fear of someone moving next door and using a clothesline, which drops your property value $50,000.

    This is actually ridiculous, because the HOA will actually cost $100 a month or so, for "improvements" to the neighborhood.

    I've avoided that; I'll never buy a house with a "covenant" as they're called, because they are insane. You can google for "racial covenants," which were declared illegal, which basically said you couldn't let the "evil black people" into the neighborhood.

    If a HOA gets too uppity, however, the state usually forces them to become a town, which reduces the number of things they can make you do.

    Some examples of covenant required things:

    1. No colors of flowers different from neighbors.

    2. No painting your house a different color.

    3. No vehicles older than 10 years or non running anywhere on the property.

    4. No parties involving more than 15 people.

    Etc, etc. Who needs slavery in the USA when most people will give up their freedoms for "security"?

  15. Re:A day for the history books on Say Goodbye to BuyMusic.com · · Score: 1

    Why does slashdot deride Thing?

    Thing one and Thing two are great fun!

    P.S. You forgot:

    4) ?????
    5) Profit!!!!!

  16. Re:Viability of LSLT nuclear energy? on 25th Anniversary Of Three Mile Island · · Score: 1

    Read my back of the envelope calculations here.

    Basically, there is something like 1000-3000 cubic miles of Uranium avaiable, but much of it would probably be hard to get. Follow the links in the original post for more information.

    Much of it is not economical to get now, like the uranium in seawater, but that could change with more modern procedures.

    Hope this helps!

  17. Re:Regarding the issue of control... on PIRATE Act Introduced in Congress · · Score: 1

    You do know that those overdraft fees are often much higher on the "free" accounts?

    If you ask around, I'm pretty darn sure you could find a bank with a $3 a month checking account that has only a $5 or so overdraft fee.

    The banks know that someone who is worried about $3 a month will often overdraft. This is called "false economy," and they make big bucks over this.

    Also, try to find a credit union, as they are basically non-profit and very reasonable.

  18. Re:Piracy on Microsoft FUD Machine Aims at OpenOffice.org · · Score: 1

    And that's why there is some who think that Microsoft actually encourages Office and Windows piracy, because all the adult, middle class, and capitalist had to come from somewhere.

    If the new IT guy used a pirated version of Windows, then he'll be familiar with it, and go with it, most likely.

    But more importantly, if he had not used it, and had used Linux instead, he would probably be quite open to investigating introducing Linux to the workspace.

    Remember, the boy is father to the man. Why do you think Microsoft spends so much money getting their products into schools and universities?

  19. Re:Who are these slashdot people? on Latest Chernobyl Motorcycle Photos · · Score: 1

    See here for the whois information on her new domain.

  20. Re:Watch the hit counter spin on Latest Chernobyl Motorcycle Photos · · Score: 0

    I just love being right.......

    Note the Admin contact. :)

  21. Re:Watch the hit counter spin on Latest Chernobyl Motorcycle Photos · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Note that if you look at some of the Images, it seems pretty obvious that she's in the process of registering and moving her site to another location

  22. Re:salsa on Rare South Atlantic Hurricane Heads Toward Brazil · · Score: 1

    An here I though samba was Australian.......

  23. Re:why can't i just use a second mouse? on Two-Fisted Computing · · Score: 1

    That's a very good question, and I've never seen an answer. I would also like the idea of multiple pointers, but my guess is that Windows or X couldn't deal with it.

  24. Re:you gotta walk the walk and talk the talk on Six Barriers to Open Source Adoption · · Score: 1

    If Visio is important, and Novell is large, and needs to document network infrastructure, then no doubt there will be an open source (or at least Linux) equivalent avaiable soon.

    And as more large companies make the jump, more and more of the smaller software packages will move.

  25. Re:Soviet calendar? on Latest Chernobyl Motorcycle Photos · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You are right. Notice that under 18 in the first month there is a circle around a date that has faded away.

    If someone wants to run that through the Gimp, I think you'll find that there is a "1986" at the bottom of the Calendar, which was in red and has faded.