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  1. Re:who can stop this? on Congress Expands FBI Powers · · Score: 2, Informative


    Plus New Hampshire is the new home of the libertarian Free State Project.

  2. Re:who can stop this? on Congress Expands FBI Powers · · Score: 1


    Just like how French troops battled British troops before the founding of the USA. Maybe we can sell Louisiana BACK to France. :-)

  3. Re:Hasn't Australia just mandated a paper trail on Can America Trust Electronic Voting? · · Score: 1, Troll


    the knowledge that the current results are very close to each other (think Gore-Bush) might have an influence on who decides to actually go voting later in the day.

    In the 2000 election, Fox News was the first network to call Florida (and thus the presidency) for Bush. All the other networks had been waiting for official word. Is it a coincidence that the person in charge of Fox News' Election Night Decision Desk was John Ellis, cousin to both George W Bush and Jeb Bush?

    "Fox guarding the henhouse"

    .

  4. Re:Hey... on California to Require Paper Voter Receipt · · Score: 1


    How do blind people read the touchscreen ballots? At least a paper ballot could have Braille dots.

  5. Re:slashdot readers? on Superball! · · Score: 1


    YOU can't and HE can't. Only the Slashdot admins can. He is saying Slashdot user statistics are "unveiled" to arbitrary web sites.

  6. Re:Finally! - BAD, BAD, BAD on US House, Senate Agree on Anti-Spam Bill · · Score: 1


    I bet this legislation defines spam as "unsolicited commercial email" instead of "unsolicited bulk email" is because political spam is not commercial email. Political spam is bulk email. They are above their own laws.

  7. Re:Here's what I'm going to do: on US House, Senate Agree on Anti-Spam Bill · · Score: 1


    This is a very interesting project. To protect your experiement from Rumpelstiltskin Attacks, but you should make your email addresses random, non-dictionary words. I think I might try this too. :-)

  8. Re:Exactly... on US House, Senate Agree on Anti-Spam Bill · · Score: 1


    These spam laws will be enforced by the Black Helicopters.

  9. Re:In case of slashdotting, here's the text on Red Sea Urchins Nearly Immortal · · Score: 1


    They start forgetting things?

  10. Re:Commercial? on iPod-Jacked · · Score: 4, Funny


    or Apple should consider airing Steve Ballmer's iPod commercial (warning: Flash movie). :-D

  11. Re:UI Guidelines for Linux? on Bill Joy on Linux and Mac OS X · · Score: 1


    Instead of creating loose guidelines, they should architect their KDE/GNOME application frameworks so they enforce a consistent UI experience. The frameworks should make writing HIG-conforming apps easier than writing a non-HIG-conforming apps.

  12. Re:All high and mighty on Bill Joy on Linux and Mac OS X · · Score: 1


    plus the article says "Introduced by Bill Joy and a team of Sun engineers in 1995, Java was hailed for its ability to run software applications on any platform." This urban myth has got to stop. Bill Joy did not create Java. James Gosling created Java.

  13. Re:Alternate Names on Universities Dispute with Red Hat over 'Fedora' · · Score: 1


    Red Bull Linux
    Blue Balls Linux

  14. Re:Heavens to murgatroid!!! on Universities Dispute with Red Hat over 'Fedora' · · Score: 1


    so the name "Lindows" is a trademark infringement, but the name "Red Hat Windows" would not be?

  15. Re:Heavens to murgatroid!!! on Universities Dispute with Red Hat over 'Fedora' · · Score: 2, Funny


    but is Emacs an application or an operating system?

  16. Re:Press Release of the Future on Roadside Assistance System Used for Eavesdropping · · Score: 1


    and consumers who spell different and Think Different.

  17. explicit user permission is required on Roadside Assistance System Used for Eavesdropping · · Score: 1


    This is true, but these audio/visual features in the Flash Player require explicit user permission. The Flash Player pops up a little warning dialog, asking if you want to allow or disallow camera and/or mic recording.

  18. Re:ATTN: Draft Dodgers on More Than 500,000 High Tech Jobs Lost in 2002 · · Score: 1


    You can also try this password at the Canadian border: "cypherpunks"

  19. Re:Where's the end of this cycle? on More Than 500,000 High Tech Jobs Lost in 2002 · · Score: 1


    You should become an attorney. Then your job can't easily be outsourced.

  20. Re:Military: good jobs, good training on More Than 500,000 High Tech Jobs Lost in 2002 · · Score: 1


    is that you Donny Rumsfeld? Are you trying to boost military enlistment without having to reinstate the draft? Election year is bad timing, so I recommend you wait until AFTER Bush is re-elected by Diebold.

  21. Re:Space mining on Is Space Mining Feasible? · · Score: 1


    plus, if the moon was made from cocaine and you would saturate the cocaine market. Supply would skyrocket and prices would plummet! Double whammy!

  22. Re:new triangle trade on Is Space Mining Feasible? · · Score: 4, Funny


    how are we supposed to create a trade triangle with Mars and the asteroid belt? NOBODY LIVES THERE! With whom are we going to trade? This is not TraderWars.

  23. Re:Good; Shop and Compare on Microsoft Introduces Competition For Google News · · Score: 1


    The meta-news site Memigo.com was doing this story relationship analysis two years ago. Too bad the creator didn't patent the idea. :-)

  24. Re:hmmm on What Might UserLinux Look Like? · · Score: 1


    KDE and GNOME keep trying to "innovate" and reinvent the UI wheel. UNIX has tried to create a desktop GUI. It failed. Mac and Windows won. KDE/GNOME should simply cherry-pick the good features from Mac and Windows.

    Compare every Mac and Windows UI feature, then choose the better. Does Mac have a print dialog? Choose Mac's. Does Windows have a better file explorer? Choose Windows'. You now have a best-of-breed, Frankenstein desktop GUI. Then start increment improvements..

  25. Re:Read this carefully... on Recording Industry's Unexpected Benefit from P2P · · Score: 1


    Knowing who wants a product (in this case, a CD) in no way relates to knowing who is willing to pay for a product.

    in NO way? I bet that the people who do NOT want to buy a Ferrari are SIGNIFICANTLY less likely to buy one than someone who does want to buy one. call me silly.