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  1. Re:I wonder... on RIAA Sues Nearly 500 New Swappers · · Score: 1

    A civil suit? Problems getting a mortgage, maybe, but I don't think an employer could get to this.

  2. Re:Hmmm on North American Corporate Privacy Comparison · · Score: 1

    That's assuming "perfect information", which is the first big gigantic glaring hole in free market theory.

  3. Re:Hmmm on North American Corporate Privacy Comparison · · Score: 1
    make sure you make loud and obnoxious comments everytime they ask for your card.

    Yeah, that cashier is bound to call up the CEO right away and let him know. Seriously, don't shoot the messenger.

  4. Re:Hmmm on North American Corporate Privacy Comparison · · Score: 1
    Actually, whenever I see an ad from some company pushing their social awareness regarding some issue, I generally assume they've been doing the opposite and are just trying to head off some bad publicity that hasn't hit the wire yet.

    That, or they're doing it as the terms of some settlement.

  5. Re:My ISP is retarted on Worst Explanation From Tech Support? · · Score: 1
    I know, because I had the option of becoming a manager for the company I worked for after a short stint of 3 months. I chose to return to college instead.

    BEST DECISION EVER.

  6. Re:Stupid on Indiana First With Computerized Grading · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They're just converting "n/6" directly into a percentage grade?! That's ridiculous. So there's no such thing as a C (going straight from 83 to 67)?

  7. Re:I smell lawsuits, how about you? on Indiana First With Computerized Grading · · Score: 1

    Then what's the point of education, if not improving one's own abilities?

  8. Re:Slashdot Uses PayPal on Paypal Deals Blow To Freenet · · Score: 1

    No, someone got the items for more than your stated maximum. If you had set your maximum higher, you would have gotten the items.

  9. Re:Slashdot Uses PayPal on Paypal Deals Blow To Freenet · · Score: 1

    So in other words, someone else got your items for more than you were willing to pay. It's an AUCTION.

  10. Re:Your civil rights called... on Justice Department Censors ACLU Web Site · · Score: 1

    No, it's not. The laws don't go away, they just change more slowly.

  11. Re:Give Me a Break on The Face Detector · · Score: 1
    but it wasn't until I was within five feet of her that I was sure it was her.

    I assume you've ruled out nearsightedness?

  12. Re:Here it comes ... on Math And The Computer Science Major · · Score: 1

    Do you realize your post can be basically summed up as "i d0 N0 m47H & i 4m 7eH 1337!"?

  13. Re:Critical Services Should Use Hardened Systems on Sasser Worm Takes Down UK's Coastguard · · Score: 1

    Says a little something about how much of the government's capabilities are talk vs. action.

  14. Re:Research on Growing Teeth on Growing Teeth with Stem Cell Technology · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd go to whichever one provides nitrous oxide.

  15. Re:what browser? on Coming Soon to a Wireless Hotspot Near You: Ads · · Score: 1

    Until now. Thank you for bringing back painful memories.

  16. Re:Ads... so what? on Coming Soon to a Wireless Hotspot Near You: Ads · · Score: 1
    [Ads] have become increasingly creative/entertaining in search of the viewer's willing interest.

    On the one hand, that's true. On the other hand, they're also becoming more intrusive . . . for example running at the bottom of the screen DURING shows, or showing up at the beginning of new DVD's with the forward skip disabled.

  17. Re:why is this surprising? on Microsoft's Strategy Memos · · Score: 2, Funny

    The workload of the 8 Linux servers was previously handled by 500 Windows servers.

  18. Re:Mac mice on Microsoft Patents Timed Button Presses · · Score: 1
    The system knows what a right click is . . . The default mouse is one button.

    Why? WHY???!!

  19. Re:keyboard repeat prior art on Microsoft Patents Timed Button Presses · · Score: 1

    I believe I recall something about some sort of "code" where a short key press represents one thing, and a longer key press represents another. Created by Samuel [something], if memory serves.

  20. Re:How could you Albert K. Wong?? on Microsoft Patents Timed Button Presses · · Score: 1

    Albert a dollar he was having a bad day.

  21. Re:As an aside... on Microsoft Patents Timed Button Presses · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm reading Slashdot on a 1981 IBM PC, and I'd like to scoll down through the comments quickly. If only there was a way to make the down arrow key "repeat" . . .

  22. Re:Well, it is too good to be true on Russian Music Site Offering Legal Songs By The MB · · Score: 1

    So, if this company simply burned all of your songs to a DVD and mailed it to you, that would be legal?

  23. Re:So I guess that means that in America... on Russian Music Site Offering Legal Songs By The MB · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, the songs just MegaByte.

  24. Re:Yes, rip-on-the-fly as well - hard disk is a ca on Russian Music Site Offering Legal Songs By The MB · · Score: 3, Funny
    And even this group of people probably forms a cache which feeds its misses as requests to the poor sods who have to run out into the Russian weather to chase down obscure CDs in the shops. :-)

    They prob'ly just hit Kazaa for those.

  25. Re:You know you're a nerd when.. on Overclocking your Gameboy Advance · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That, or the massive game library.