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  1. Why? on BT's Hyperlinking Patent Refuted · · Score: 2

    Why would a patent like this help anyone? How would anyone make money off of a hyperlink patent? are they going to start charging people to make hyperlinks? Are they going to get paid-per-click?

    If that is the case...Amazon's patented one click technology will actually be worth something...


  2. Re:I like the moon on Lunar Landing Historical Site? · · Score: 1

    i would love to join...i think...what does the membership require? If i have to drool over natalie portman or something i don't want it...


  3. What does it take? on Lunar Landing Historical Site? · · Score: 1

    To make a site a historical site? Are they gonna put some plaques up there? (I know I spelled plaques wrong)

    I would like to know where they got all that crack.


  4. Re:The site of the first lunar landing on Lunar Landing Historical Site? · · Score: 1

    Right...if they had actually gone to the moon, they would have brought back all sorts of cheese and stuff...it would sell like crazy and everyone would want some..but all they brought back was rocks.

    Where the heck did they get the rocks?


  5. What would it cost? on Lunar Landing Historical Site? · · Score: 1

    To take a nice vacation there? Sorta chilly I would think...Wear a nice warm sweater.


  6. No better place on Lunar Landing Historical Site? · · Score: 1

    Than New Mexico for this sort of thing...

    /me thinks of Roswell


  7. thought I'd mention this... on Sony's Wireless Webpad · · Score: 1

    cnet news has an article about Sony announcing the Airboard, a wireless web pad with a 10-inch touch screen that also doubles as a television and a remote control for other appliances. The Airboard will be introduced in Japan on December 1. Interesting, but judging by the picture, it's not entirely flat, so it will be more of a counter-top appliance, rather than a knee-top."

    I just wanted to make sure everyone knew about this.


  8. Great! on Inside the CueCat Hardware · · Score: 1

    Now I'll be able to turn off that useless red light thing....


  9. attn: moderators on Yup, Somebody Cracked Slashdot · · Score: 1

    I dunno if it is appropriate to do this...but there were a coupla comments replying to the first post that got modded down to a -1...I think it was somewhat unfairly......so..here is the UF link that might put these two in perspective so it makes sense and people realize that the reply was not "flamebait" but it sorta made sense.... comic about ******* passwords

    thanks.


  10. Password on Yup, Somebody Cracked Slashdot · · Score: 5

    I always thought my password was ***** anyways....


  11. I've been doing this for years! on Foil-The-Filters Contest · · Score: 1

    Foiling filters at school is one of my favorite pasttimes! My friends and I do this all the time...the contest was to see if you could do it, and the prize was getting to toc.oscar.aol.com and other banned websites.


  12. Pennsylvania College of Technology on 3D Printers · · Score: 1

    I went to a PennTech openhouse last year, and they had a similar thing. It used plastics, and all the CAD people could "print" out their 3-d objects. You could watch the thing at work, and it was really neat...it took a coupla hours per piece, but when it came out, it was an exact plastic replica of what was on the computer screen. It was pretty cool.


  13. email? on Slashback: Universities, Piecemiel, Yakkin' · · Score: 1

    my email address is fjordboy@iceball.net trout run is a great place.


  14. stacked? on Stacked Carnivore Review Team · · Score: 1

    the decks are stacked? And here I thought they weren't playing with a full deck....

    Maybe they just pulled the aces out and hid them in their sleeve.


  15. visor phone on Slashback: Universities, Piecemiel, Yakkin' · · Score: 2

    And meanwhile I have been here in Trout Run PA using my old handcrank phone....I guess I should upgrade to a rotary soon...the visor phone is gonna have to wait.


  16. mithral on Distribute Stuff: Cosm Project's CS-SDK · · Score: 1

    As i recall, Mithral was a metal (to make mithral chain mail) in the Hobbit....As i recall, it was also the strongest and the best of all the chain mails....Is this in some way symbolic of the program itself? Or do we have some bored geeks that were running out of names and had just read LOTR recently?


  17. Re:Yeah, but... on In-Flight Web Access Coming Soon? · · Score: 1

    I think...if my memory serves me correct..that I read an article about this earlier and their "cached" internet will be composed of most of the large portals and websites so people can read the news and look at stock quotes...I think aol, yahoo, cnn, and the other major sites will be on there...the big question it...will they include slashdot? they better, or i will throw my peanuts back at the stewardess.


  18. Maybe their focus on In-Flight Web Access Coming Soon? · · Score: 1

    should be on food quality before they offer internet access......geez...you have to eat to keep up the energy to surf the web anyways.


  19. can i sue /.? on A Metric Ton of Quickies · · Score: 1

    I accidently dropped them on my toe and am illeterate so i couldn't see the warning and now i have carpal tunnel in my spleen....can i sue?


  20. Re:More ideas on DeCSS Source Mass-Posted to Usenet · · Score: 2

    There was a /. article moderators will moderate this up a while back about subliminal msges in DVD movies...here is the link subliminal stuff it is basically about how moviemakers added moderators will moderate this up some extra one picture scenes to some DVD movies...appearently moderators will moderate this up trying to manipulate people's minds by flashing words by during a movie...i dunno..sounds moderators will moderate this up a little hooky to me.


  21. just a thought on DeCSS Source Mass-Posted to Usenet · · Score: 1

    The whole decss issue has me wondering...if we are not allowed to rip dvds and store them on our computer, can bookmakers tell the buyers what shelf to store their books on?


  22. Re:More ideas on DeCSS Source Mass-Posted to Usenet · · Score: 2

    For all we know, they already did...remember those subliminal messages that were found in DVDs? Maybe some fun-loving moviemaker decided to add one in....of course...we would have to use the code itself to find the code so....i guess you'll just have to do what i did and order one of the DVD shirts off of copyleft and get a full printout of the code with your order...i wear the shirt to school and everyone looks at me funny. :)


  23. Re:broadband? in trout run? Maybe... on Are We Ready For Broadband Internet Access? · · Score: 1

    nope...nothing...i checked it all out...the nearest thing to cable here is suscom, but that is located in williamsport, about 15 miles or so from me, and they don't extend their cable this far...and the local cable company (retel) has no intention of ever upgrading in my area or offer internet access....i checked every possibility...I called a nearby isp..and they offer a partial T1 but the installation is nearly 8000 and the price tag would be more than 500 a month..and i can't afford that...and chances are..they wouldn't run cable all the way to my house.................Is there ANY hope for us hicks? i have a dedicated phoneline that i max out around 39 or so...and that is the closest thing i have to broadband. :)

    check out awmlive.com and see my own in house network. :)


  24. Re:How absurd! on Are We Ready For Broadband Internet Access? · · Score: 1

    but think of all the users that think they know how to....and think of all the script kiddies out there....this could be dangerous...i forsee a large increase in DoS attacks...and a large increase in kiddies going to jail because they think they can do things they can't....i still agree...it can't suck too much bandwidth...but still...tis a scary thought...


  25. broadband? in trout run? on Are We Ready For Broadband Internet Access? · · Score: 1

    First of all, some of us are still on dialup and have NO hope of anything faster than around 40k (and that is if i am lucky) in our houses. I live in Trout Run Pennsylvania, and there is NOTHING here...analog phonelines, sucky cable...and pretty much nothing...I don't think we should be worrying about superfast access until we can at least get dsl or some sort of 24/7 connection to those of us who live in the sticks....some people don't even have the internet yet...I continually hear about all these nice fast connections...but then i realize that only ppl in dallas or san fran or some such place are going to get it. I think we should concentrate on getting the average hick a decent connection before worrying about getting these super fast connections...

    If anyone is interested in Trout Run as a place to run a T1 or something...i can gurantee at least 10 customers. :) just my 3.14 cents.