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  1. Re:Misleading headline on World's First Color Moving Pictures Discovered · · Score: 1
  2. Waah on Google Faces EU Probe Over Doped Search Results · · Score: 1

    I'm all in favor of impartial media, but is there some law in the EU that requires search engines to show impartial rankings?

  3. CSSEdit on 10 Oddly Useful Specialty Web Browsers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I use CSSEdit all the time. Its core is a Webkit browser that shows a live preview of CSS changes you make. It's great for AJAX-y, DHTML-y dynamically driven sites that don't always have HTML "pages" to debug.

    It's a bit like the Web Developer toolbar for Firefox, but a standalone browser / app for OS X focused solely on CSS and, IMHO, a bit easier to use.

    No connection to the company. Just a very satisfied user.

  4. Re:And another disappointment on FBI May Get Easier Access To Internet Activity · · Score: 1

    "Well, at least this President isn't having people tortured."

    He just gave the people who sanctioned the torture a free pass, instead.

    I've said it before, Obama is the New Bush!

  5. Fossil Record on The Chicken May Have Come Before the Egg · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I dunno... dinosaurs laid eggs long before chickens roamed the earth.

  6. Obama is the New Bush on Obama Administration Withholds FoIA Requests More Often Than Bush's · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Every time I read a story about how Obama is continuing a Bush administration policy, or extending and exceding it, I post it to http://obamaisthenewbush.tumblr.com/

    Having kept this up, on and off, for the last 6 months some patterns definitely appear. The Justice Department is seriously entrenched in covering its ass, cracking down hard on individual freedoms and privacy, and almost always falling on the side of big business.

    I'm not disappointed because I believed all the pablum about "Change" and "Hope," but because Obama was a frickin' law professor. He should know better!

  7. Re:Seeing Arrington's rants... on Arrington's CrunchPad Dies · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I was just going to post something to the same effect. A good friend of mine was pushed out of his company by his partner, board, and angel investors when his invention was close to launch. Another friend turned evil on me when our own start-up company was approached about acquisition. Even though we were 50-50 partners, I still feel like I got shafted. And every slashdot reader knows that Windows is dominant not because of its technical merits, but because of legal -- and illegal -- bullying. Screw or be screwed seems to be the name of the game. Sometimes it seems the only way to win is not to play.

  8. Hillary? on Barack Obama Wins the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wait, isn't the Secretary of State responsible for US foreign policy?

    Hillary Clinton screwed again!

  9. Subpoena? on NYC Lawyers Subpoena Code · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's GPLed! Just download the code at http://sourceforge.net/projects/txtmob/

  10. Re:Just another contribution on Movable Type Goes Open Source · · Score: 1

    TypePad uses TypeKey... which is an OpenID server. See https://www.typekey.com/t/openid

  11. Just another contribution on Movable Type Goes Open Source · · Score: 4, Interesting

    FWIW, lots of the powerful bits that make Movable Type great have been GPL'ed for some time: Data::ObjectDriver, XML::Atom, memcached. And of course, OpenID has been an open standard for a while now, too.

  12. Re:Froud is in... but Tartakovsky is too. on Genndy Tartakovsky to Direct Dark Crystal Sequel · · Score: 1

    Sadly, it seems style over substance is what Henson's all about these days. Did you see Mirrormask? I read somewhere that Henson Co. is desperate for another Labyrinth. The movie flopped at the box office, but has been a consistent seller on DVD. It was supposed to be their Labyrinth "for the 21st century." But it was gawdawful. And I write that as a huge fan of Dave McKean's artwork. It was hard to sit through 2 hours of CGI romp with random magical plot and not much character development -- not to mention a soundtrack of smooth jazz. Ugh. Now it's time for the Dark Crystal.

  13. Re:"article"???? on Intel Mac OS X Catches Up With Older Brother · · Score: 1

    Welcome. You must be new around here.

  14. Powered by on Municipal Broadband Projects Spread Across U.S. · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Flash map itself if powered by my DIY Map tool. It's free (as in beer) for personal and non-profit use. You can download it at http://backspace.com/mapapp/.

  15. Pagify on Sanely Moving from Word to the Web? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Pagify is a perl script I wrote to do this for another job. It's basically a series of regular expressions that: 1. purges all the proprietary XML gunk from the HTML file you save from Word. 2. chops the file into smaller files wherever a Heading 1 appears 3. attaches endnotes as footnotes to the appropriate pages. It's GPL'd, so go nuts.

  16. Success! on Apple to Recycle your iPod for Free · · Score: 1

    This is great. It's the Right Thing to do. It's also great to see grassroots pressure from consumers have an impact. Check out this campaign page on iPod recycling from the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition.

  17. Content control? on More on China's IPv6 Network Buildout · · Score: 1

    Has anyone heard about content control and surveillence technology built into all of this? I'd be very surprised if the government designed router and network did not have a mechanism to sniff packets and block or reroute email or Web traffic they find objectionable.

  18. Doh! on Apple VP discusses iMac G5 Hardware Design · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now we have to add *another* Slashdot icon.

    Damn you Apple!

  19. Filaments? on Composite Of Earth At Night · · Score: -1, Redundant

    What are the filmaents of light across Russia and Central Asia? Are they associated with railroads? Or rivers?

  20. Simulations on US Military Builds MMO Earth Simulator · · Score: 1

    According to our simulation, when we arrive in Baghdad after a brief and lossless march from Kuwait, the people will lay down their arms and celebrate our victory. They will sing praises to us and offer us their women, and will show us the way to the hiding places of Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, and Mullah Omar.

    The weapons of mass destruction will be found exactly where we thought they were, along with extensive documentation about Saddam's long history of collaboration with al Qaeda.

    The war will be short and the occupation brief. Our troops will then leave the country in peace, with democracy safely installed and all ethnic tensions resolved in a simple power-sharing agreement enshrined in a secular Constitution.

    Democracy will then spread from country to country, ushering in a new era peace and access to Middle Eastern oil.

  21. Back in the USSR on Robot Sales Are Exploding · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia, those Sale Robots explode you!

  22. What about the Waste? on Toshiba Pushes Safe, Small Nuclear Reactor Design · · Score: 1

    The article says nothing about the nuclear waste or any other byproducts, toxic or not.

  23. Re:early adopters beware on 12" PowerBook Wobble? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Mr. Coward speaks the truth. I had all kinds of trouble with drive corruption on my rev 1 15". It was an utter nightmare. I've been on a rev 2 15" now for a couple of months and have not had any trouble at all. It's a dream.

    (Knock on wood.)

  24. Google Cache on The Science of the Matrix · · Score: 4, Informative

    Three comments and already Slashdotted? Damn.

    Here's the Google cache.

  25. Dupe on Nanotechnology: Nanoscale Particles A Health Hazard? · · Score: 1

    This was already posted.