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  1. ipod touch apps on Apple Announces MacBook Air · · Score: 1

    I, for one, have decided to contact Apple to thank them from the bottom of my heart for attaching a $20 fee for the software update.

    Yes, I'd love a notes app. I can do without the other ones, I mean, it's not that hard to use the web-interface for g-mail on a touch.
    Sorry for the digression...

    It was just sooo thoughtful of them to not have to re-program some apps that were already on the iPhone, and just package them into the iTouch system... That must have cost them a fortune.

    like I said... I'm contacting them right now... my URL is the one you need if you wish to do likewise....

  2. now taking bets... on Duke Nukem Forever Teaser Released · · Score: 1

    Which will be out first:

    Duke Nukem Forever

    Guns and Roses - Chinese Democracy

    ?

  3. this is so cool on Balancing Robot Can Take a Kicking · · Score: 1

    this is so cool

    I cannot say that enough

  4. now if only... on Secret Mailing List Rocks Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    someone would combine wikipedia style information hording with a /. style moderating and meta-moderating system...

  5. Shotgun in hand on U.S. House Says the Internet is Terrorist Threat · · Score: 1

    and ready to fire, all you have to do is ask for mercy and I'll stop your head from hurting ;)

    peace brother

  6. oh so many... on Google Gives Up IP of Anonymous Blogger · · Score: 1

    evil fucking corporations.....

    do we at least get lube this time around?

  7. Re:Parent is right. on How Fast is Your Turnaround Time? · · Score: 1

    3)Profit!

  8. ..this same issue on Seagate Offers Refunds on 6.2 Million Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    frustrated me to no end when I went purchased a DVD±R ... and blank discs.

    I could not seem to fit exact files onto a blank disc when I had done intensive organizing to back up my entire recording database (I fix sounds to medium... sometimes this means I make music)...

    I called up the company that made the discs... which seemed like the faster route between that and getting out a magnifying glass to read some fine print that I hadn't known to look for in the first place. A half-hour later I was told they count how they do, and there was nothing I could do about it.

    DAMN THEM!

    So I sucked it up and did what Renton in Trainspotting does with the suppository....
    so to speak that is.

    Anyways, glad to see someone had some sense

  9. Damn it! on The History of Slashdot Part 4 - Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    I just came online to check my e-mail, then go to bed. That was 1:45... and now it's 3am, and I'm reading /.

    I hope I'm still hitting myself over the head in 10 years!

    thanks

  10. Re:And the answer is... on Can eBay Make You Rich? · · Score: 1

    Dude, chill.
    The parent poster never said anything about stopping people from making said purchase of said space on said famous banner ad.
    S/H/e just said S/H/e wasn't going to link to it after blasting the idea. I'm almost positive that even S/H/e would have liked to profit on some as easy as that, so long as all parties concerned were informed and consented, and it didn't fall outside the bounds of H/e/i/r/S morals or what-have-you.

    -----
    Stay off the slippery slope, unless you like falling on your @ss

  11. Re:USB Touchpad? on Input Solutions for Repetitive Stress Victims? · · Score: 1

    Back in 1996 IBM put out an item called the EZ-Pointe, under the "PC Concepts" company. I have the PS/2 version, and though the back of the box says its not interchangeable with Serial mice, I have an adapter and it works.

    The item number is 66102, and it has an optimum resolution of 800dpi

    There is a touch pad, with both left and right side buttons and bottom buttons, though i don't remember if all 4 are enabled at the same time. It can be used in a "left" or "right" handed config.

    Happy Hunting
    -z-

  12. Whoops on North Korea Admits to Having Nuclear Weapons · · Score: 1

    There goes the neighborhood.

  13. I have this even more crazy idea... on Australian Federal Court Overturns Legal Modchip Sales · · Score: 1

    How about we start to manufacture modchips that can be used as hand grenades. Maybe what you had ment in your example was guns... in which case someone should work out a design for a small handgun.

  14. Re:Some friendly advice... on How Do You Get Work Done? · · Score: 1

    The potency of the weed also has a little to do with things. THC is a hallucinogen; and like other chemicals of this sort, your body becomes chemically aroused, and can actually make you feel as though you have more energy. A lower potency weed will contain less THC, and more other chemicals, which can cause laziness, and also contribute to the hunger effect. I am not a biologist, but I have been reading research books, and papers written by people who seem to know what they're talking about (judged based upon correlation with other unrelated studies, if the person(s) doing the research belong to an accredited organization, such as a university, and also seemingly sound research methods otherwise).
    An afternoon toke could have enough of an effect to allow a person to forget distractions, and just hack away at the task at hand.

  15. Re:Some friendly advice... on How Do You Get Work Done? · · Score: 1

    stratera... I have had a little personal experience with this medication, and I assert that for myself the benefits are outweighed by a number of other things in my personal case. For starters, no matter how many (quantity) fatty foods I eat with/before/after taking stratera I cannot seem to shake the stomachaches even at half dose. Further more, all the little creative voices/thoughts that run around in my head all day long seem to suddenly go radio-silent while the medication is working. Whenever I've taken stimulants (stratera is not a stimulant, I've been told it's a third generation drug... something along the lines of Prozac, and made by the same people as well) I find that I can bring those voices/thoughts into focus, and actually use them, which allows me to further express myself and create things (bad or good). Stratera makes me feel as though I've swallowed the magic "make you normal" pill. Give it a shot, it might work better for you than for myself, but I thought that I would just inform you about what it has been like for me (read: no sudden creative thoughts to solve odd problems, unless I have thought about them ahead of time, and continue fairly directly on the same thought path).

  16. Re:This is going to cause trouble... on Petri Dish Babies, 25 Years Later · · Score: 1

    If I were to respond to this post to the fullest, I am fairly sure that I would be moded as flamebait (which I still may be anyways). Natural selection, in my opinion, extends far further than simple genetic make-up. The way in which an organism interacts with its environment also helps quite a lot with n.s. And although IVF may be a way in which an organism copes with other environmental issues, I'm not sure that humans who require such hindsight into events should be attempting to look into the future, especially when it concerns another human being.

  17. Re:IRC is P2P on IRC Networks Unite in Fight Against Fizzer Worm · · Score: 1

    ie "warez and filez get traded there by people communicating with each other", ergo, it's a sort of P2P as opposed to a static http web
    Um.... by the way in which you define P2P being a way to swap 'warez' websites (hyper-text and other sorts of script-based programs) should qualify as well. I mean, someone had to put the files onto the website server to begin with. Hey, I've got an idea... The Phone Company is a Warez hub... Anyways, the reason that we have various words in any given language is because no two of them say the exact same thing, some are very close, but even in English each word is unique; if you would like to make a point in the future, I suggest that you take the time to think of the best possible, and most efficient, way to communicate it so that a greater number of people would be better able to appreciate what it is that you have to say.

  18. Re:Is Dre a bad-ass on Dr. Dre to pay $1.5 mil for "Illegal Sample" · · Score: 1

    I love your comment, if I had mod. points I'd mod it up.
    For those of you with-out a clue.. watch the movie Pulp Fiction, then apply some language construction skills (slang?), and mix with a dash of humor.

  19. Re:Dear Slashdot,.. on Starting an After-School Computer Club? · · Score: 1

    At the High school I attended the geeks ran everything, my friends and I would teach all the new comers, as we became upper-classpeople; it was a hell of a time. Sadly no club, and eventually the police started to come arrest some of the less socially minded people (intentionally crashing print servers etc.) On the bright side, we ran daily game servers for our whole district (Three regular high schools plus an alternative one for hoodlums... who had access to the mainframe, around a dozen middle schools, and at least two feeder/elementary schools for each of those, whose 6th grade attendants and such made for great lackeys when they were finally allowed to start using our cool apps (such as this obscure IP messaging protocol, and the program Synchroneyes... used for monitoring students current computer activities.)
    The point was.. you might not end up with an ass whooping, it might make you a number of friends or at least allies who will watch for the 'teachers' when you get in to extra activities of whatever nature, if you go public.

  20. Re:Correlation != Causation on Trace Levels of Lead Shown to Lower IQs · · Score: 1

    Let me know when you pass intro to whatever 'hard' science you've taken this semester; then we can talk Correlation and Causation.

  21. "we" on Strike on Iraq · · Score: 1

    What I would really like to know is where all of a sudden the United States government's actions can be qualified as "we" statements. We are not bombing Iraq, the United States government is. Regardless of the fact that "we" might live in the United States, the only individuals that should be allowed to use the word "we" in regards to this whole situation are military personnel.
    If you happen to disagree, good, I think that we would rather have some real, undeniable, open proof that something exists before we decide to go to war without congressional approval.
    Iraq=bad human rights?
    Yeah?
    China=worse human rights.
    Terrorism? Remember Afghanistan?
    Nukes?... I'm not even going to touch this one with a pair of cowboy boots and a "good time in Vegas".
    And least we forget the current largest threat to world peace: The United States of America.

  22. Re:the article is from 1995 on Slashback: Compromise, Bugs, Slag · · Score: 1

    I think you are telling us quite a bit more about yourself than you had intended...

    I envy Freud, he had all the women.

  23. wow.. on Coldest Place in the Universe · · Score: 1

    Jokes about solar gas expultion aside...
    A very beautiful image.
    Interesting about how far back they date it at.
    Now if we can just get those Ausies up to date...

  24. ...the way /. discusses "news"... on Discovering New Music? · · Score: 1

    does anyone really want to see a website that does to music discussion what the dot does to news discussions? Seriously, do we really need 'clusters' of stereo-equipment, or 'In Soviet Ru...an Music'...?
    Oh yeah... ontopic... Try listening to college radio if you can, in general I've seen that later-night shift d.j.s can get away with playing, and often do, new/strange/non-pop/whatever music.

  25. wow on Calling Cell Phones Could Cost More · · Score: 1

    this makes sense, however I'm wondering why, with the expanding wireless networks, why the wireless companies haven't managed to places local centers near all existing landline centers...