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  1. Re:Don't blame me on Video Game Characters to Get Out the Vote · · Score: 1

    I don't think that Mario was born in the United States.

  2. Re:Never attempt to turn off the ignition. on A Car With A Mind Of Its Own · · Score: 1

    Just pop some downloaded music into the player and the RIAA will stop you.

  3. Re:In other news... on S. Korea Claims N. Korea Has Trained 600 Crackers · · Score: 1

    No, they really meant those little crackers that you eat. Since the normal NK diet is cabbage and roots (when they can get them), finding a box of 600 crackers was big news. (And they're shaped like little PCs.)

  4. Re:Development on palmOne Announces Tungsten T5 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Only if their linker is good at striping out unused code. Modern OO languages tend to pull in everything at link time resulting in huge apps--which is still a problem on PDAs. (For the want of a nail, the kingdom was linked.)

  5. Re:USB Drive? on palmOne Announces Tungsten T5 · · Score: 1

    How about as a USB drive controller? It would be kind of nice to be able to shuffle files around between a PDA and those 1GB USB sticks as well as cameras without needing a laptop or desktop to do it.

  6. Re:cell phones on New Clustering Search Engine to battle Google · · Score: 1

    God told you to think that.

  7. Re:Sid Meier on Walk of Game Honors Industry Paragons · · Score: 1

    That's a pretty daft thing to say.

  8. Re:Sid Meier on Walk of Game Honors Industry Paragons · · Score: 1

    I didn't say that he directly copied AH, just that he didn't invent the genre.

  9. Re:It's just like the walk of fame... on Walk of Game Honors Industry Paragons · · Score: 2, Funny

    I remember when you had to roll dice. Two sets of doubles, however, and you went straight to jail.

  10. Re:Sid Meier on Walk of Game Honors Industry Paragons · · Score: 1

    Or games that start with a single low-tech city that gradually expands an empire and advances in a tech-tree. I believe that's straight from an Avalon Hill board game.

  11. Re:What if they run out of space? on Walk of Game Honors Industry Paragons · · Score: 1

    They rip them out, just like the graveyards.

  12. Re:Nothing on New Clustering Search Engine to battle Google · · Score: 1

    You probably want to use Booble for that. (I see they've dropped the Google look and .. feel.)

  13. Re:Well, we wanted a ruling on EULA's on Blizzard Stomps Bnetd in DMCA Case · · Score: 1

    How can they prove that I read the EULA and agreed to it, or just bypassed it? And what if I have a child of five install it for me?

  14. Re:The ultimate in irony on Sun Files For Patent on Software Licensing Method · · Score: 1

    Maybe they could buy more licences from SCO? (SCO isn't quite a charity, but they're certainly non-profit.)

  15. Piranha Brothers Patent Pend on Sun Files For Patent on Software Licensing Method · · Score: 1
    The Operation... select a victim and then threaten to beat him up if he paid the so-called protection money.

    The Other Operation... select another victim and threatened not to beat him up if he didn't pay them.

    The Other Other Operation... the victim is threatened that if he didn't pay them, they would beat him up.

  16. Re:Braile Monitor Relif Maps on Computing for Near-Blind Children? · · Score: 2

    Does anyone currently make a mouse with a finger pin-pad? (The vibrating pins represent the screen under the mouse cursor, allowing the user to feel their way around the screen.)

  17. Re:Theres one in Mexico also. on Mount St. Helens Lets Off Some Steam · · Score: 1
    "The explosions are continuing and a lot of material is coming out, but we do not yet consider it a risk situation," Colima's chief of civil protection, Melchor Urzua, said.
    I wonder what's required to turn it into a "risk situation" and what do they do then, put up some yellow tape?
  18. Re:No axe to grind in this article at all on Missed Opportunities in U.S. v. Microsoft · · Score: 1

    They have a list and it's vague, scary and large.

  19. Re:Details of the invisible gorilla on 2004 Ig Nobel Prizes Announced · · Score: 1

    I wonder if Lord Vetinari ever tried that? (Night Watch ref)

  20. Re:Shurely shome mishtake ? on 2004 Ig Nobel Prizes Announced · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised that Coke hasn't messed this up yet with New Dansai and Dansai Classic.

  21. Re:Diebold may have failed to take the excerpts do on Diebold Rejected in Copyright Takedown Attempt · · Score: 0

    We need a BitTorrent version of Slashdot. That way, after one machine has RTFAed, we can all slashdot each other.

  22. Re:Diebold on the cutting edge on Diebold Rejected in Copyright Takedown Attempt · · Score: 2, Funny

    They might be looking at producing one machine to serve several markets: An ATM voting machine for fast food drive-through. Deposit your money, leave your order, and super-size your vote all in one stop!

  23. Re:Just the fact that.... on Diebold Rejected in Copyright Takedown Attempt · · Score: 2, Insightful
    It's nothing we haven't seen on Slashdot before. (Does Scientology have a patent on their Avagrams?)

    "The purpose of the lawsuit is to harass and discourage, rather than to win." "If possible, of course, ruin him utterly." - L Ron Hubbard

  24. Re:No axe to grind in this article at all on Missed Opportunities in U.S. v. Microsoft · · Score: 5, Funny
    This guy mentioned Explorer security flaws 5 times on that page alone.

    That's because Internet Explorer has a lot of security flaws.

  25. I guess it beats dumpster diving on Red Hat Acquires Netscape Server Products · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    or sending Igor out in the middle of the night.