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  1. Re:Holy grail in Russia.. on Monty Python's Holy Grail goes Broadway · · Score: 0, Troll

    Perhaps it was a hit in the Soviet Union because the USSR was an anarcho-syndicalist commune.

  2. I'll take ... on Gentoo Package Accused of Violating DMCA · · Score: -1, Troll

    ... the penis mightier for $500

  3. Re:Wait, what does MS innovate??? on Ballmer on Windows Server 2003, Linux · · Score: 1

    Clippy

  4. Re:A LOGO AT LAST on RotK Delayed Until May 2004 · · Score: 1

    But now its time to start a movement to get an "April Fool's Logo". It would save us to much frustration. And how 'bout a "dup article" logo ... yeah that's the ticket.

  5. In 10 years ... on 10 Years of the World Wide Web · · Score: 5, Funny

    I hope that someone realizes that using "www" with 9 syllables is a silly way to abbreviate "world wide web" with 3.

  6. Re:speech recog works on Why Project Gutenberg Isn't There Yet · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    nor can it wreck a nice beach.

  7. And for the java programmers ... on Using Redundancies to Find Errors · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Try this: pmd

  8. Re:Some thoughts... on Using PDAs for Dictation? · · Score: 2
    There are some very active open source speech projects underway right now:

    For synthesis, there's FreeTTS - a speech synthesis engine written in the Java(tm) programming language.

    For recognition, there's Sphinx .

    For embedded synthesis there's Flite A small fast tts engine suitable for embedding.

  9. Re:King Crimson? on Ideas for a Recording Industry Alternative? · · Score: 2

    Yeah that's right, not Peter Fripp. He must of been thinking of Peter Sinfield... or was it jerry seinfeld?

  10. Re:King Crimson? on Ideas for a Recording Industry Alternative? · · Score: 2

    That's Greg Lake, not Greg Palmer.

  11. It's a movement! on Cringely On Civil Disobedience · · Score: 5, Funny


    And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day, I said fifty people a day walking in with an MP3 of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. And friends they may thinks it's a movement.

    And that's what it is , the Alice's Restaurant Anti-DMCA Movement, and all you got to do to join is rip it the next time it come's around on the guitar.

  12. For $400 ... on Seeking a Simple Programmer's Calculator? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'll sell you this one:

    Picture of my CM-100

    works great.

  13. Re:It'll Be A Couple of Years for Me on Lord of The Rings DVD, Now or Later? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Gaffer's cut? I didn't even see Sam's dad in the movie, and he has his own cut? I gotta get me one of those!

  14. Here are a couple on Dystopic Novels? · · Score: 2



    The Giver by Lois Lowry

    Also ....

    Handmaids Tail by Margaret Atwood

  15. DOJ Take Note on Visual Studio .Net: Now with more Viruses · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is just another example of Microsoft trying to bundle everything with windows. Now that they are bundling Nimda, Melissa is going to go right out of business.

  16. Re:General Cinema Framingham, MA on Star Wars Digital Projection Theaters · · Score: 1

    So why do you always sit in front of me anyway?

  17. google makes money either way ... on Google Publicizes DMCA Takedowns · · Score: 2

    So now when I search at google for "operation clambake scientology" not only do I get www.xenu.net, but I get some paid for "sponsored links" that bring me directly to the media page for the church of scientology.

    Well, good for google I guess.

  18. I keep my manager content ... on Content Management Nightmares · · Score: 5, Funny

    by getting my work done on time (which means I should probably read slashdot less).

  19. Re:Self _cooling_ would rock... on Self-Heating Can · · Score: 2
    There was a "Self-cooling can" scam ...

    From Business 2.0 ...

    Lee Gahr, COO of a Nevada firm, allegedly claimed on Websites and in bogus unsolicited faxes that his company had invented an "environmentally friendly" self-cooling beverage can. Excited investors ran up the company's stock while Gahr allegedly sold it off, pocketing $277,136. Turns out Gahr's Arctic Can contained freon, a banned substance. The SEC's case is pending.

  20. Re:Innappropriate Demands on Sun Files Suit Against Microsoft for Anti-Trust Violations · · Score: 2

    That's not absurd at all... companies, especially monopolies are required by law to do all sorts of things. For instance, my phone company, even though it offers DSL as a product, is required by law to allow other DSL providers to provide service as well.

  21. Guns, Germs, and Steel on Chinese Explorers 'Discovered America'? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    An excellent book that discusses why some civilizations (particulary european) dominate others ... a good summary
    is here

  22. Re:Infinitely many Windows versions? on Allchin Admits MSFT Violated the Law · · Score: 2

    But this is completely different. PT Cruisers are *Hardware* and we are talking *Software*. Its got to be harder to change software*, right?

  23. Re:Operator overloading on What Makes a Powerful Programming Language? · · Score: 2

    Here is a paper that describes a Java Virtual Machine written in Java.

    Implementing a Java Virtual Machine in the Java Programming Language

  24. Now's my chance to help ... on Oxford Dictionary Does Science Fiction · · Score: 1, Redundant

    A golden opportunity to help the OED grok 'grok'.

  25. Re:What are these movies/books about? on The Hype of the Rings · · Score: 2

    Young man raised by his uncle is guided by an old wizard to his destiny of defeating the dark lord.

    No wait, that's not Lord of the Rings ... thats
    Star Wars!.

    No wait, that's not Star Wars that's King Arthur!

    No Wait, that's not King Arthur ... that's Harry Potter.

    Sigh ...