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  1. Re:Good on SONICblue Sues TiVo for Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    I believe this is a tactic on the part of Sonic Blue to keep Tivo mired in court until they run out of money, which I've heard may be as early as Q1 2002.

    Disclaimer: It's far too early in the AM, and I may have hallucinated all this.

  2. Interesting! on SONICblue Granted Broad Patent on DVR Technology · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Interesting how Sonicblue were "good guys" to your average Slashdot goer for fighting the evil entertainment industry...

    Then they went and won a patent. Now they're EVIL! How *DARE* they attempt to make money!

  3. Re:LNUX on SourceForge Drifting · · Score: 1

    Yes, let's read the reports.

    http://biz.yahoo.com/fin/l/l/lnux.html

    Period Ending 7/31/01
    Total Revenue: $15,981,000
    Cost of Revenue: $35,864,000

    Seems to me that about $2.24 was spent to make each dollar. That's what concerns me. And as for the "non-recurring" expenses: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011111/bs/financ ial_earnings_tricks_dc_2.html

    Oh yes, and congratulations by the way:
    http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/011030/01033785_1.html

    Your quote was far better than Taco's. =)

  4. Do you have stairs in your house? on A Robot To Follow "Mother" And Another To Block Her · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I am the pusher robot. Please go stand by the stairs so that I can protect you.

  5. Awsome! on Sega To Take X-Box To Arcades · · Score: 0, Troll

    Great, now I can listen to anti-MS bitching when I hit the arcade too! YES!!!

  6. Re:Lobbying Congresspeople on Slashdot in Politics? · · Score: 1

    Yes, agreed. Thank you. I'm certainly going to put this to good use (subsituting your name with mine, of course). =)

  7. There's geeking out, and there's this... on Linux On Your Dreamcast · · Score: 1

    "a fun weekend project"

    I feel very sorry for you. Get out of your "Perl Kodin' /. Postin' Korner" in your parent's basement and experience life.

  8. Interesting Stuff on The Astronaut's New Clothes · · Score: 1

    Maybe this could mean the US and Russians will finally standardize on one space suit, instead of having to spend millions on an airlock because god forbid we cooperate...

  9. Re:gas hits $5/gallon, katz still insane on More Links And Reports On Terrorist Attacks · · Score: 1

    Lifted from Drudge Report:

    "MO atty gen Jay Nixon says that the prices up to $5 a gallon in KC are the result of opportunistic gouging and are illegal and that he will prosecute..."

    Say what you will about Drudge, but his site's been devoid of its typical rumor mongering today... anyways, grain of salt.

  10. Re:I fear this is only the begnning on World Trade Towers and Pentagon Attacked · · Score: 1

    Not that anyone will read this, but I allowed my emotions to take the best of me and I do appologize. Your post is well worth reading and should be reiterated in all the latest threads pretaning to this tragedy.

  11. Re:How could modern building collapse like that? on Attacks On US Continued Reports · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Most buildings arn't developed to withstand aircraft impacts. The WTC was a concrete re-enforced building. The initial impact would have stripped away a good deal of the concrete, and then the fire did the rest.

    As an aside, my brain has ceased functioning on any comprehensible emotional level. How do you cope?

  12. I fear this is only the begnning on World Trade Towers and Pentagon Attacked · · Score: 1

    Ladies and gentlemen, I feel we are witnessing the beginning of World War 3.

  13. Layoffs! on Chief Lizard Wrangler axed · · Score: 1

    That explains why we haven't seen 0.9.4 yet...

  14. Re:windows xp on Mandrake 8.1 Beta1 (Raklet) Released · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Maybe that's not directed at Linux users, but instead at corperate types with purchasing power...

  15. Re:Reevaluation of constants.. on Constants Not Constant? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not true. It did, however, come close to happening..

  16. Re:My dream of floating cars may come true! on Gravitational Repulsion Effect Claimed · · Score: 1

    YES! Now people can cut me off and slam on their brakes in 3 dimensions!!!

  17. Typical on Distastful Advertising Continues: "Gatoring" · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "And its only gonna get worse"

    Is anything *ever* changing for the better on a Slashdot story? Not everything is gloom and doom, folks...

  18. Interesting on Rules-Unknown Artificial Intelligence Competition · · Score: 1

    I don't claim to be an AI guru, but don't programs/computers live and die by rules? (Bad example: HAL in 2001. Rule: Complete Mission. Obstruction: Humans.) The AI could only adapt so much...

  19. Re:Clock speed disparity is the point. on Double-Whammy Look At The Pentium 4 · · Score: 1

    Hertz aren't irrelevant if you don't understand the issues (read: 95% of computer buyers, corperate and personal). It has nothing to do with being rational or not, it has to do with being uninformed.

  20. Size Doesn't Matter on Double-Whammy Look At The Pentium 4 · · Score: 1

    Any woman will tell you; it's not the size of your pipe, it's how you use it.

    (They're also lying..)

  21. News Flash on The Death Of The Open Internet · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "businesses want a profitable internet"

    Businesses exist to make money. It's stunning how few people seem to understand this.

  22. Nice Theory on Update on the Kite-Obelisk Project · · Score: 1

    It's a neat theory, but perhaps they just used massive amounts of slave labor?

  23. And Rightfully So... on Review: Planet of the Apes · · Score: 1

    "He looks stunned from the minute he lands on this strange planet..."

    I'd look stunned too if I had just landed on a planet infested by talking monkeys with murder on their minds..

  24. Re:"Nanny states?!" on The Glories of Red Bull · · Score: 2

    But if the cool kids don't follow trends, how will they know if they're cool or not?

    Originality is not smiled upon in Red Bull's core demographic.

  25. Re:Wait a second! on Lossy Music Formats Compared · · Score: 1

    Turn it up! I think she's NAKED!!!