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  1. Re:No pound needed. on Call Someone – Without Having To Talk To Them · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up, this is all this is.

  2. Re:It's not the latest Batman flick on Batman Discussion · · Score: 1

    A lot of his acting ended on the editing room floor so to speak. This film was consciously made after Heath Ledger died to give him a chance to win an Oscar and quite honestly to frame his stunning severe portrait of a modern villain. The DVD will pry add another 30 minutes to the film.

  3. Re:In theory, I'll agree. on Computer Mouse Heading For Extinction · · Score: 1

    It is also not ergonomic to use a touch screen all day. I had a first generation tablet PC and they were great to use for a few hours at a stretch but there is a lot more repetitive motion with using a touchscreen to control a GUI.

  4. Re:Honeytrap? Proof? on UK PM's Aide Loses BlackBerry In Chinese Honeytrap · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Stealing a password is easy on a blackberry because you have to enter it so often all you need is a high def 8+ megapixel camera and a good optical zoom. It is easy to steal any password you have to key in a public space.

  5. Re:Normal People? on Apple Climbs Into Third Place In U.S. PC Market · · Score: 1

    Um, you do slipstream a DVD for each computer you have don't you after the first install? Saves many hours of work.

  6. Re:Ky Jelly and Politicians on McCain Campaign Uses Spider/Diff Against Obama · · Score: 1
    Sorry, dreaded cat attacking the whirlygig on the desk.

    ...that this country has entrusted so long as originating without blemish from some mythical posterity of powdered wigs and powder keg whigs. Sorry for the bad alliteration; I am having fun this morning. It feels more and more as if this government is presented to us as containing the very axioms from which all freedom comes but they in fact come to us whole cloth. Many of our countrymen deceive themselves with the idea that the US is sui genenris amongst its kind in ensuring the continuation of the grand experiment of democracy but many other countries are far more advanced in their rhetoric and resolution. It is time again to ask those questions that may ensure that there exist societies where certain liberties may be thought of as inalienable again.

  7. Ky Jelly and Politicians on McCain Campaign Uses Spider/Diff Against Obama · · Score: 1

    Who cares, the idea that a single federal executive officer can be held to account for his positions changing ignores the many hands he has up his ass. Oboma may squirm more when he feels those fingers probing his anus but his vote for FISA belies any claim he is the felicitous champion of American or any other liberty. I think it is time to consider more executive positions being directly elected by the people. It is audacious to think that a single individual should be given such a wide latitude with enacting policies in the appointment of positions even in such an individual's own cabinet. Our democratic system has become mired by the limits inherent in its design and it may be time again to sit down and listen to those who may have more elegant designs for a democratic society. What must be done is an examination of the mechanisms both politically and economically that this country has

  8. Thank god for title IX on The Push For Quotas For Women In Science · · Score: 1

    I support Title IX it brought down the level of testosterone on campuses. Before that a lot of universities had like 2000+ men on athletic scholarships and maybe 200 women; now on many campuses women are even with men and the disfranchised men with only athletic scholarships go out of state. What title IX did was allow more women in the field of not only athletics but nutrition, physical education and rehabilitation to actually open up to them. It has changed many campuses from unruly abandons of cretins and worse into places where you can take pilates and yoga without fear of some random smelly guy coming from the free weight room pointing and calling you a fag.

  9. Re:no h-j-k-l? on Slashdot Discussion System Updates · · Score: 1

    They really need to get an adaptive UI.

  10. Re:Give us a classic option on Slashdot Discussion System Updates · · Score: 3, Informative

    Doesn't get rid of the reply buttons and still pushes things when nested too deeply smaller and smaller. The "classic option" currently just makes things more ugly, it looks nothing like the site did in 2006 or 2002.

  11. Give us a classic option on Slashdot Discussion System Updates · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Before all these changes this site was much easier to scan. Now it bunches comments up on the right side if they are nested to deep, the lines while clever are not ready for production and I just liked it better before all these CSS changes. If you guys need something to do, start reading more science and engineering sites and less game and sysadmin sites. I mean if you are having a slow newsday you aren't looking hard enough.

  12. Re:"FIRST" 2GB card? Err... on World's First 2GB Graphics Card Is Here · · Score: 1

    This just shows how much Slashdot is geared towards software engineers. Mechanical engineers like me have been playing with 2 gigs of video memory since the Onyx 3000. Honestly though 2 gigs of memory would be pretty sweet I use a Firegl 7300 series sometimes and it still lags with some of the more complex assemblies I've tinkered with.

  13. Re:Not surprised, even if I am amused on B-2 Stealth Bomber Gets Upgrade, Joins the '90s · · Score: 1

    Those people are not armed with nuclear weapons and prisons.

  14. Re:Nice submission (NOT) on Two Powerful Blows Against Air Pollution Controls · · Score: 1

    Should I send that 600 page PDF to the printer or my ebook reader?

  15. Re:Hey Obama! on ACLU Files Lawsuit Challenging FISA · · Score: 1

    If I wanted to argue with tired Libertarian bumper sticker rhetoric I would ram a Volvo.

  16. Re:My experience at Citigroup.. on Nielsen Collects FL Tax Breaks, Then Outsources Jobs · · Score: 1

    Too many unions are reactionary or quickly become so. I would like for unions to be collectivizing agents for change but not permanent institutions upon themselves.

  17. Re:Hey Obama! on ACLU Files Lawsuit Challenging FISA · · Score: 2, Informative

    I would rather vote for someone who wore their ideology on their sleeve than someone who hides it. Everyone has idealogical tendencies even judges and to deny it is to ignore the history of the court itself. Time for change.

  18. Re:Hey Obama! on ACLU Files Lawsuit Challenging FISA · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why can't we elect any of the members of the supreme court? At least give us one seat.

  19. Towards IT and Engineering Unions on Nielsen Collects FL Tax Breaks, Then Outsources Jobs · · Score: 1

    I am a member of the IWW; which might be considered by some to be a radical union mostly geared towards those who work manual labor; however, I joined the wobblies as a sysadmin because it is hard to find IT worker unions and the only serious engineering unions I know of are those afforded all academic folk. Does anyone here on Slashdot belong to any unions dedicated to protecting us engineering and IT folk, or is it time to find one? The AFL-CIO's power derives from the long manifest of its varying industries and we too might be better to unite under a single banner to fight for those rights that we think ought to be universal like affordable medical care, reasonable minimum wage laws and perhaps a maximum wage as well.

  20. Re:My experience at Citigroup.. on Nielsen Collects FL Tax Breaks, Then Outsources Jobs · · Score: 1

    Americans have either been so thoroughly brainwashed that unions are detrimental or merely do not know they exist that it is impossible to have a cogent conversation nowadays with a good portion of the population about labor practices; let alone fair ones. Go talk to a kid at a fast food place the next time you got a hankering for some and see if they even know what a union is, what their rights are as workers and how much the owners of the franchise make. Someone needs to have this conversation with them; they sure ain't going to hear about it on CNNMSNBCFOX or Google News.

  21. Galactic Astronomy on Book Recommendations For Maths To Astrophysics? · · Score: 1

    Learning about the basic theories on how galaxies form is going to be underlying a lot of your work if you would like to more than dabble in cosmology. I found this book rather useful.

  22. Re:bad hardware on Why Do We Have To Restart Routers? · · Score: 1

    Open it up and see if it has a heatsink on the CPU. If it is does not get an old 486 heatsink or something similar and slap it on there. Number 1 problem with most consumer setups after user error is heat. One of my friends would get infuriated at his Tivo because it would do strange things like hanging when recording two shows or rebooting randomly. It was stacked between an 800 watt Receiver and an ancient laser disc player on a shelf in an entertainment center made for a 32" CRT. When he got some open mesh crap from Ikea he never had that problem again.

  23. Re:Man in the Middle on The Pirate Bay's Plans To Encrypt the 'Net · · Score: 1

    The US government would have to have a datacenter with encryption the size of Rhode Island to snoop on everyone.

  24. Re:Next Story: on Dell Colludes With RIAA, Disables Stereo Mix · · Score: 1

    Lol, and I was about to buy a mac. One of the things I love to do is take screenshots of DVDs to write up on blog posts. Is that illegal or something ?

  25. Re:On a side note on Telecom Amnesty Opponents Back New Amendment · · Score: 1

    Vlad Tepes, is that you? Yeah, the whole dollar plastered on the ceiling bit is common in the Pacific NW. Until recently most people were armed in towns like Eureka, Portland and the like and no one would of dared to touch them but nowadays the drunk children frequenting bars will steal charity change.