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  1. OK, I found the form... on Commerce Dep't to Hold Public Workshop on DRM · · Score: 1

    ...and it was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of The Leopard". (Apologies to DNA).

  2. Get it through the power lines on Preventing Broadband Price-Gouging? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    For New Yorkers, anyway, maybe a little competition from Con Ed will bring prices down.

    And they said it couldn't be done!

  3. Hear some real music by real people... on Homogenized Music · · Score: 1

    If you want to hear some music still untainted by the filthy hands of commerce, we have a few original MP3s on our website. I have to say, though, that if those filthy hands are handing me enough $$$ to allow me to quit my job, well...

    Christ...I hope we don't get /.ed...

  4. Oh, no... on PC/104 Linux Minicluster - miniHowTo · · Score: 1

    ...not another magic box hoax!

  5. Re:ABC AND Slashdot get taken in on Lunar Power · · Score: 1

    It sounds as fanciful as "zooming" across the sky in "flying machines", "flying" to the moon in a "rocketship" or sending live music thousands of miles over the "airwaves" into "radio receivers".

    The point is: you can't tell if something works or not by arriving an uninformed opinion about it (I reads /. - ain't I smart!), an opinion that can basically stated as: "No one has done it until now, so therefore it can't be done, else it would have been done by now." It'll take some real experimentation to see if it works. Plus, projects of this magnitude almost always generate a great deal of unforseen economic and technical benefits.

  6. Re:Anyone know what his 3 character handle was? on Top Asteroids Scorer Gets Posthumous Award · · Score: 1

    I used to see AAA's name a lot on the machines at Space Station Steaks, but he was no match for 'ASS', 'CUM', or the team of 'LED' & 'ZEP'.

  7. Re:Insurance underwriter on Interview with Gary Gygax · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was wondering why my medical insurance form asked me for my constitution, how many hit points I have, and what my saving throws vs. disease are.

  8. The RIAA should follow the FTCs example on FTC Goes After Spammers · · Score: 1
    FTC officials said they will go after spam using existing laws that prohibit false or deceptive trade practices.

    I found this interesting. It's too bad the record companies and movie studios couldn't have taken the same tact as the FTC and used existing copyright laws to go after copyright violators, then we wouldn't be subject to such nonsense as the DMCA and (possibly) the SSSCA.
  9. Re:Why doesn't... on What Makes a Powerful Programming Language? · · Score: 3, Informative

    No multiple inheritance. No operator overloading.

  10. Re:Hypertext was invented in 1945 on BT Pushing Hyperlink Patent · · Score: 1

    "Talking about it" is all the patent is, when it comes right down to it. That's all any patents are.

  11. Hypertext was invented in 1945 on BT Pushing Hyperlink Patent · · Score: 4, Informative

    I thought everybody knew Vannevar Bush invented the concept of hypertext & hyperlinks with the introduction of Memex in 1945. Read the full article here. Maybe someone should mention this to BT before they waste a lot of time with this nonsense?

  12. Re:The BIG question on Billions of Habitable Planets? · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think only telelphone sanitizers, hairdressers and middle management will get to go, if I remember correctly.

  13. Re:If you're going to publish a magazine... on Free Software Magazine · · Score: 1

    So, they have poor editing? If the /. community has never felt the need to burden itself with proper editing, which should FSM do so?

    Free as in "free from editors."

  14. Re:Spam can be amusing... on DMA to Control Spam by DMA Members · · Score: 1

    You must be one strange looking couple...

  15. Download TrueSync... on Cell Phone Syncing w/ Your PC or PDA? · · Score: 1

    Get the TrueSync Installer here. I'm using it to sync a Handspring, Yahoo!, the Palm Desktop, Lotus Notes and Outlook 2000 all at once, and there are modules for about a dozen or more phones you can install.

  16. Re:Rogers@Home and servers ... on Linux-based Convergence Boxes From Rogers Cable · · Score: 1

    I use Fast.net for DSL. They gave me a static IP address and their policy basically said "We don't give a shit what you do with your service, as long as it's not illegal". Of course, this was ~1 year ago, and things may have changed since. I'm not sure they serve the Seattle area.