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  1. "think different" on Scientists Grow Decaffeinated Coffee Plants · · Score: 1

    You'd better try something else : I used to drink too much coffee too, then I tried Green Tea (healthy if not abused), but also light milk (calcium = good), pineapple juice (as bitter as coffee, but harmless)...

    Now my point is you'd better drink something else, instead of what's endangering your health.

    Also, by tasting different things, you'll discover new ways to become more open-minded, so this advice is also worth receiving in other concept.

  2. very bad idea on Scientists Grow Decaffeinated Coffee Plants · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Caffeine can trigger palpitations, increase blood pressure and disrupt sleep in sensitive people

    I don't think this is a good idea to get "sensitive people" used to the taste of stuff which is not good for them.

    This is like Coke Light : though it has no sugar inside it still tastes exageratedly sweet and this would be a better idea to get the "users" curious about differently tasted products.

    I am afraid, at the end of the story, everything will taste the same and recipe will consist of posologies. :/

  3. Re:The History of the World. on Europe, Free Speech, And The Internet · · Score: 1

    Thanks for this hilarious post :)

  4. Re:ok, then on Mac OS X NWN Technology Demo Released · · Score: 1

    same problem with me : I guess the osx porter has hacked it to benefit its transfers first. ;)

  5. Re:yet another reason... on More Incompatible DVDs and CDs Coming Your Way · · Score: 1

    before making money on EMI, they were Indie.
    I guess these DRM schemes are not free, hence the lack of these on small label issues.

  6. Re:yet another reason... on More Incompatible DVDs and CDs Coming Your Way · · Score: 1

    Enemy Of the enemy, the latest Asian Dub Foundation Album *is* copy protected, so long for the Indies'altruism...

    (it however rips very quickly on my ibook)

  7. Uh ?! on Plan9 is now Officially Open Source · · Score: 1

    So, Plan 9 got GNUArt'ed ???

  8. question on Europe To Force Right of Reply On Internet Communication · · Score: 1

    suppose, as a good /.er, I post a story in which I tell how much SCO sucks.
    They force me to publish a reply : "no we don't, but linux sucks !"
    Do I also have to publish Linux people's answers to my home page or has it to be published on SCO's site ?
    I'd be happy if this could lead to many famous people barking at each other from my blog :)

  9. good !!! on Europe To Force Right of Reply On Internet Communication · · Score: 1

    Now, I can open a slash forum in which I'll criticize anybody.
    They'll reply publicly, I'll reply publicly...
    At the end people will come to see how well they bite and I'll make money advertising.

    OK, blagues a part, if it's only giving them the right to reply (according to the article, a URL is enough), then I don't mind, this will add tomye-community's animation.

  10. sooooooo 2003 :) on Netscape Pays $100,000 To Settle Privacy Issue · · Score: 1, Funny

    The settlement comes after a two-year probe, begun in 2002
    I didn't know we already were in 2004.
    must've fallen asleep.
    I should take more caffein.

  11. Re:beyond reasonable doubts on Stronger Anti-Spam Law Proposed · · Score: 1
    here's my idea :
    • set a governement service to which the spammer must subscribe to obtain their spam-patent
    • whenever sending junk email, they must provide a link to their account on this site from which you may also unsubscribe.

  12. Re:beyond reasonable doubts on Stronger Anti-Spam Law Proposed · · Score: 1

    How can you prove that you actually unsubscribed and that they actually got your unsubscription mail ?

  13. Re:beyond reasonable doubts on Stronger Anti-Spam Law Proposed · · Score: 1, Funny

    28 days ?
    On which criteria do you base this figure ? Your sister's period ?
    Sorry, we're in 2003 and we're discussing Internet communication, here : 48 hours would just be long enough : we're discussing spam, here : if they can enlarge my penis within one week and lose me 20 pounds within 2, then they can forget me in 2 days...

  14. Re:me too on Los Angeles Gets Own TLD · · Score: 1

    Wait until we've all switched to IPv6, I bet it will soon be possible to register any UTF16 string as a domain name.

  15. Re:So? on Matrix Gets Egyptian Ban For Explicit Religion · · Score: 1

    Nobody would seriously suggest that the Matrix is some sort of basis for new world order.

    Well, some bored people actually suggest this is not the basis, but rather the reason :D

  16. Re:So? on Matrix Gets Egyptian Ban For Explicit Religion · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Please, don't call "The Truth" whatever is discussed in the Matrix : you've got your perception of the reality whereas Egyptians may have theirs.

    They are living not far from Israel who did take some of their territories during the 1967 war they actually started (the E., not the I.).

    For this reason, we can understand that Joe-6-amphorae (the average Egyptian) doesn't want to see a movie which describes the fear Zion people are living in.

    Cocnerning the many religious aspects of the movie, I'd rather describe these as some uninspired mysticism.

    As I am not trolling (I hate these times when one must explicitely say he's not trolling) I now expect anybody who doesn't agree with these points to discuss these with me, instead of modbombing me to oblivion.

  17. Re:Domination on A Shocking Controller For The Xbox · · Score: 1

    and since when should we read the articles slashdot refers to ?

  18. Domination on A Shocking Controller For The Xbox · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Doesn't it remind you of Never Say Never Again, when James Bond plays "Domination" with Largo ?

  19. Re:Vaporware is Critical on Hype Vaporware, Go To Jail? · · Score: 1

    this give people a great place to see what is coming

    Well, if you count on such lies to guess what's coming next, then the system is really fucked up.

    10 years ago, a typical job in R&D was "technological surveyor".
    These guys had to summarize most scientific news and business/technical objectives to assume what could be coming next.

    Of course, the day they come and just tell it *is* coming because of the current trend, then they call themselves gurus while we call themselves vaporizators.

    So, the rule number one is : "stay concrete : touch wood ; do not speculate over concepts"

  20. Re:nTh Post!!! on Apple to Announce the Power Mac G5 at WWDC? · · Score: 1

    There is no need to make a mouse with USB2.0 bandwidth, especially when the chipsets cost twice as much and your mouse already works fine using the current engineering.

    Well, if they want to force you paying for the most expensive part, they'll ask Microsoft and Logitech to make USB2 mice.
    Your argumentation is really relevant, technically speaking, but a marketing guy would just disregard it.

  21. Re:nTh Post!!! on Apple to Announce the Power Mac G5 at WWDC? · · Score: 1

    Unless you find some FW scanner, mouse or speakers, you'll have to cope with both USB and FW.
    Now, Apple will provide USB2 because USB1.1 is reaching its end of life.
    I don't think that's *that* illogical.

  22. food ? on A Night in the Hotel of the Future · · Score: 1

    What did he get for breakfast ?
    Space pills or mutated fruits, milk from transgenic cows and radiation-cleaned coffee seeds ?

  23. Re:Will work for food... on Offshore Outsourcing Threatens Offshore Outsourcing · · Score: -1, Troll

    Well capitalism is a form of slavery in itself :
    you pay your production units enough money to be consummers of goods produced by your others production units.

    Capitalism is turning to "private communism".

    let's see what happen in a few years, when even the company boards will be enslaved by the virtual/artifical entity they've been funding all these years...

  24. Topic icon ? on More 'Application-Specific' Optimizations in NVidia Drivers · · Score: 1

    I just noticed the Topic Icon was not ready for this story, so they put its name instead :-)

  25. Re:I hate the Apple ][... on Celebrating 26 Years of the Apple ][ · · Score: 1

    I'd rather have had the Apple though.
    Well, I bought mine when I saw that iBook had become as functional as NeXT computers...
    It was in December 2002: when Jaguar came.
    So, the unobvious choice has become the right one.