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  1. Re:What? on Use Your iPhone To Get Out of a Ticket · · Score: 1

    Newark's are $35 if I'm not mistaken. Not sure why -- they could be making a killing. Maybe they realized that if the prices go higher, no one pays them.

  2. Re:Will it fly? on Dell Selling Dual-Boot Laptops · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yup. Just recently got some. Told them to get lost.

  3. Re:Just reset your clock on Average User Only Runs 2 Apps, So Microsoft Will Charge For More · · Score: 1

    I remember Netscape 1.22 and not believing that the web had ACTUAL pictures on it, not just textual representations like I'd been used to.

    I'm not sure why my Slashdot ID isn't lower. Guess news traveled slower in this days.

  4. Re:Thanks comcast on Comcast Apologizes For Super Bowl Porn Glitch · · Score: 1

    I couldn't see them either. I don't know when that happened. Could it be the Slashdotter extension?

  5. Re:This is what the civilised world finds bizarre. on Web Rescues Un-Aired Super Bowl Ads · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But, in his defense, they don't seem to realize it either.

  6. Re:One small hitch... on Fusion-Fission System Burns Hot Radioactive Waste · · Score: 1

    You're telling me that neither Three Mile Island or Chernobyl was a problem, and that coal plants are worse? There is virtually nothing that can be done about a leak except kick everyone out of the area. That us unacceptable.

  7. Re:One small hitch... on Fusion-Fission System Burns Hot Radioactive Waste · · Score: 1

    I can think of enough written about situations that have actually happened -- no theory necessary. The fact that what has happened so far can happen is reason enough.

  8. Re:One small hitch... on Fusion-Fission System Burns Hot Radioactive Waste · · Score: 1

    Have you not read anything about failed reactors? I have, and let me tell you -- it scares the shit out of me.

  9. Re:MOD PARENT UP on OLPC 2.0 — One Laptop Foundation Reboots · · Score: 4, Funny

    They have clean water in Ohio now?

  10. Re:Ok, let's get this thread straightened out. on LED Lighting As Cheap As CFLs Invented · · Score: 1

    I have a neighbor who did this, and ditto... though the tree does look really neat with varying brightness lighting on it (directional LED's).

    Some Cadillacs have annoying flicker in their LED taillights too.

  11. Re:My first experience with LED lighting... on LED Lighting As Cheap As CFLs Invented · · Score: 1

    And for folks actually speaking "English" I'd go with "fewer" electrons.

  12. Re:Kind of a side note... on Obama Staffers Followed Palin's Email Lead On Inauguration Day · · Score: 1

    And there's some really important need to send e-mail for this one hour when everyone's already busy?

  13. Re:Am I missing something? on Obama Staffers Followed Palin's Email Lead On Inauguration Day · · Score: 1

    Luckily whether or not I get a picture of him that was prepared or one where he's picking his nose is not really a major issue, eh?

  14. Re:Am I missing something? on Obama Staffers Followed Palin's Email Lead On Inauguration Day · · Score: 1

    Why, yes, it does.

  15. Re:Am I missing something? on Obama Staffers Followed Palin's Email Lead On Inauguration Day · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You do know that the Washington Times is a Moonie newspaper, right?

  16. Re:Expected on Woman Claims Ubuntu Kept Her From Online Classes · · Score: 1

    It's actually a lot harder to do under Windows, as well. I think you need drivers or some such.

  17. Re:Your Goal: One Second or Less on Ubuntu 9.04 Daily Build Boots In 21.4 Seconds · · Score: 1

    I don't think I've ever owned a laptop where suspend in Windows was reliable. Hibernate worked pretty regularly though.

  18. Re:Your Goal: One Second or Less on Ubuntu 9.04 Daily Build Boots In 21.4 Seconds · · Score: 1

    Kubuntu 8.10 is the first one that has worked well enough for me to rely on suspend. I can qualify that a bit by saying that the others worked out of the box too, but subsequent hacks to get parts of my machine to work undid that apparently.

  19. Re:Your Goal: One Second or Less on Ubuntu 9.04 Daily Build Boots In 21.4 Seconds · · Score: 1

    And it even occasionally works!

  20. Re:I worked 9/80 for 4 summers on How Does a 9/80 Work Schedule Work Out? · · Score: 1

    Regardless of this idea that "there are 10 people in line," it's in reality a big pain in the ass to replace someone if they're doing the job well but refuse to take unreasonable shit from the boss.

  21. Re:Getting Customers to leave you alone Fridays on How Does a 9/80 Work Schedule Work Out? · · Score: 1

    I'm allowed to carry over one year of vacation time (which is either 3, 4, or 5 weeks depending on your years of service). I'm union, however...

  22. Re:Battery Display on Palm Announces Killer New Phone · · Score: 1

    I think the screen area is larger than it looks, but when the screen is not illuminated, it is invisible. The area with the battery, etc., is part of the screen but does not look it as there are dark pixels surrounding it... sort of the way that old MacOS made the screen look like it had rounded corners when it didn't.

  23. Re:would you buy a cell phone with NO support? on Palm Announces Killer New Phone · · Score: 1

    As someone else wrote above, there is more than one free solution to the same problem. No coughing required.

  24. Re:Which PalmOS? on Palm Announces Killer New Phone · · Score: 1

    I don't know if you're being extremely specific (original codebase vs. original UI) or what... but Palm still sells at least two original PalmOS phones, and really the only thing they've done is run Windows Mobile on some of their newer devices. They almost released Palm OS 6 (Cobalt), but never did. How is that anything like what you've described?

  25. Re:Meh. on Palm Announces Killer New Phone · · Score: 1

    Two seconds of actual reading and comprehension would have answered those questions.