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  1. Gaudi loved this kind of thing on Contour Crafting - Extrude-a-House · · Score: 1

    Antonio Gaudi loved using curves in unusual places. Have a look at some of these: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

  2. Hey, Slashdot higher-ups... on Do Your $20 Bills Explode In the Microwave? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Weren't you looking to hire another news editor?

  3. Oh, that's a shame on Star Trek: Enterprise in Danger of Being Cancelled · · Score: 1

    They're still making Enterprise?

  4. For every e-mail they sent out... on Spammer Sentencing Guidelines · · Score: 1

    ...make them write on a chalkboard, "I will never send a spam message to anyone ever again, for as long as I live."

    For some of them this will be a life sentence.

  5. But it's not the only Saturn V on Saturn V Fallen on Hard Times · · Score: 1

    and yes, there ought to be much better uses for the money. Let's keep the other Saturn V's around and let this one go.

  6. This is assanine nonetheless on URLs Patented, Domain Registrars Sued · · Score: 1

    It's time for the USPO to get some cajones and turn some people down. I can't afford to go to court every time I do some obvious thing and find out somebody patended it.

  7. Gaming With An Opponent Who's 'Over There'? on Gaming With An Opponent Who's 'Over There'? · · Score: 0

    Why should it make a difference what someone's sexual preference is?

    Oh, wait...

  8. However on Scientists Create Supersolid From Helium · · Score: 1

    IANAP, but we already have almost frictionless gyroscopes that don't extreme temperatures. I don't see any advantage the fluid offers over these--only added difficulties.

  9. Cool on A Terabyte In A Cigar Box · · Score: 1

    Lacie liked my idea.

  10. But..... on Obtaining Replacement Parts for Your Laptop? · · Score: 1

    What about all those stories about Apple laptops being indestructible?

  11. Run that through the BabelFish once more on Your Own Mecha · · Score: 3, Funny

    and maybe English will come out.

  12. That's due to regulations on Microsoft Soft-Pedals Dialup · · Score: 1

    After all that time, modems run at exactly the same speed.

    Regulations were put into place restricting modems to this speed. I believe it was to limit the phone company's obligation to provide you with a phone line that would carry all that bandwidth.

    Look at DSL modems, though. They pass a whole lot of data around.

  13. unfortunately on Army Looks at Robotic Dogs · · Score: 1

    and have machine accuracy for targeting.

    They also have machine accuracy in judgement.

  14. You forgot the first 20 steps on Real Launches New Player, Music Store · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Click on Free Player.
    View page about the non-free player.
    Find hidden link for Free Player.
    View another page advertising the non-free player.
    Find hidden link for Free Player...

  15. Mod parent as Obvious on FBI Can Inspect Bank Records w/o Court Orders · · Score: 1

    You got the poster's message loud and clear. Pat yourself on the back.

  16. At the end of the day on Xgrid Clustering Software and Demo · · Score: 1

    I think charitable uses of CPU time give the most bang for the, er, buck.

  17. Glass cubes are cool and all on First Ever Nanotube Transistors On A Circuit · · Score: 1

    ...but I'll bet they couldn't justify spending gazillions to do the research when magnetic media keeps progressing so well. Lacie sells a half terrabyte drive now. Stack two of those, encase it in glass, and you've got yourself a terrabyte glass cube.

  18. Wrong - Cows still eat meat on Using RFID To Prevent Mad Cow Disease · · Score: 1

    Only diseased animals and high-risk tissues are restricted.

    Sen. Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat who requested the GAO report, isn't satisfied with the response by the FDA or the Agriculture Department, which monitors safety of meat and animal health. Durbin plans to introduce a bill in January to further restrict the use of diseased meat or high-risk tissues in animal feed.

  19. This is not new news, there have been Mad Cow disc on Using RFID To Prevent Mad Cow Disease · · Score: 1

    Really? Can you elaborate?

  20. Banned in the U.S. on Measuring Pollution In Humans · · Score: 1

    But I've heard (so obviously it must be true) that we make just as much DDT as we used to, but we ship it overseas.

  21. Mod parent up on Satellite Radio Subscriptions Rising · · Score: 1

    It's funny. Laugh.

  22. OK, but on Shuttle Fleet Upgraded · · Score: 1

    Are they ever gonna upgrade those old 8086 processors to something a little faster? They've been having to buy them on eBay in recent times.

  23. The year X-Box and GameCube came out... on Nintendo - Stodgy, Not-So-Super Mario? · · Score: 1

    ...Nintendo started started saying that if GameCube didn't win Best of Show at the annual Vegas Video Game Conference (OK, I forget what it's called), then they would drop GameCube altogether.

    Lo-and-behold, GameCube won.

  24. Gotta love marketing on Japanese Firms Create Home (Appliance) Network · · Score: 1

    Don't forget these bold, savvy offshoots: mLife and tMobile (or however they spell them).

    And I think it was the Wall Street Journal carried an article about X going into things to give them an edgy, exciting aura-- X-Files, X-Box, Windows XP, and many others.

  25. Funny thing is on Japanese Firms Create Home (Appliance) Network · · Score: 1

    What was it, 4 years ago, Slashdot had an article just like this about a company making a home appliance network? IIRC, someone made this same joke.

    It's still funny, though.

    I think I first read about appliance networks being under development maybe 15 years ago. The example mentioned was that your stereo could turn itself down when the phone rang. Something like 7 years ago, Novell hired a CEO out of Sun who decided home appliance networks represented the future of the company. The networking medium was to be the electrical wiring in the home. (Yeah, for a while, they thought WordPerfect was their future too.)

    New year's resolution: Just laugh, and don't comment.