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  1. Re:The FBI? on Boing Boing Threatened By Software Creator · · Score: 1

    He probably did contact the FBI. And they hung up on him. Again.

  2. Re:Delphi is decent on Simple Windows Development Tools? · · Score: 2, Informative

    There are also a lot of sites with information like about.com. Tutorials for the beginner, tips and hints for the more advanced.

  3. Re:RAD tools on Simple Windows Development Tools? · · Score: 1

    The latest, Delphi 2006 gives you Delphi, C++, C#, .NET and Win32 all in one.

  4. Re:A TV screen for a computer? on Microsoft OS Smart Phone for Developing Nations · · Score: 1

    Isn't that what those people with WebTV do?

  5. Re:M$ charity is like Soviet aid. on Microsoft OS Smart Phone for Developing Nations · · Score: 1

    The AK-47 has two main strengths: Easy to use and maintain by completely untrained people, easy to make cheap knock-off copies in local factories. I doubt either would apply to a MS PChone. Maybe we should just give them crackberries?

  6. Re:the more things change, the more... on Microsoft OS Smart Phone for Developing Nations · · Score: 1

    I was thinking more the Sinclair ZX81. There were people that would expand those things endlessly: RAM expansion, video expansion, modem, new keyboard, printer port, etc, into this horizontal totem-pole that would reset every time you bumped it wrong (usually by typing).

  7. Re:Everybody's doing it! on Wikipedia vs Congressional Staffers [Update] · · Score: 2, Funny

    You know, that scares me and I monitor, like, 40+ scientology pages.

  8. Re:I have no knowledge... on Wikipedia vs Congressional Staffers [Update] · · Score: 1

    Yeah right! And you probably buy the "Lone Horde" explaination for the Mongol invasion.

  9. Re:Story from a first-person perspective on Microsoft Tricks Hacker Into Jail · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, what's his Slashdot username?

  10. Re:electronic monitoring on Microsoft Tricks Hacker Into Jail · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, but he'll sell you some for $200 each.

  11. Re:Metal on Brain Scans to Identify Liars? · · Score: 1

    Hmmm... So if you have a metal plate in your head, you can't take the test? (Makes a note to look up a few shady doctors.)

  12. Re:To quote the genius that is George Constanza on Brain Scans to Identify Liars? · · Score: 1

    It's newsworthy because she actually managed to get a court to give her a restraining order against Letterman. Admittedly the story should be more about the judge who probably didn't read the request...

  13. Re:Legality? on Wikipedia Entries 'Cleaned' By Political Staffers · · Score: 1

    Quite likely your edit would be reverted by a neutral editor for being an opinion: Not NPOV, original research, needs cites, etc.

  14. Kudos to Emily Lawrimore on Wikipedia Entries 'Cleaned' By Political Staffers · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Emily Lawrimore (Communications Director Congressman Joe Wilson, emily.lawrimore@mail.house.gov) posted, on the discussion page for her boss "I work for Congressman Joe Wilson (listed as Addison Graves Wilson). Could you update his bio with information from the following official bio too?"
    Rather than (a) vandalizing the page, or (b) spending all her time making changes, she created the Talk page, posted what she thought should be included, and left it to the people already watching and editing the page to make the changes--which they seem to be doing according to the page history. Smooth, efficient, effective. Nicely done Emily!
  15. Re:"Wikigate" scandal on Wikipedia Entries 'Cleaned' By Political Staffers · · Score: 1

    Wiki isn't stupid and they do match against open abused proxies in the create user sign up. Probably elsewhere too. ...or so I've been told.

  16. Re:Look at about 1/2 of the Reps' pages on Wikipedia Entries 'Cleaned' By Political Staffers · · Score: 1

    So long as they do it within the Wiki rules, not a problem, but they can't just keep slapping the same press release overtop whatever happened to be there.

  17. Re:best line in wikitalk pages for this (House) IP on Wikipedia Entries 'Cleaned' By Political Staffers · · Score: 1
    Regarding the page First Amendment to the United States Constitution: This is your last warning. The next time you vandalize a page, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia.
    Somone was vandalizing the 1st amendment. Well gee, everyone knows that! :)

    I don't see why they don't just block edits from that IP address unless they log in.

  18. Re:not just him.... on Wikipedia Entries 'Cleaned' By Political Staffers · · Score: 1
    using it to their own advantage, and the public has to kick them out.

    Wiki has kicked them out. The public has yet to do so.

  19. Re:More bad naming structure on Mozilla Severs Netscape News Legacy · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Old old news. Not only does that naming convention for organization hierarchy groups predate the Start button, it almost certainly predates Windows too.

    It's done when the organization (companies, universities, etc) needs to be authoritative (or even authoritarian) about the various sub-groups under their hierarchy, and doesn't want to have to go through the Big-8 process for creating a new group every time they suddenly need a mozilla.plug-ins.bustamove or something.

  20. Re:IBM Speech - Needs Superhuman sales to survive? on The Future of Speech Technologies · · Score: 1

    I thought that the .NET stuff was just a wrapper on top of SAPI 5? Free, but MS hasn't really done anything with it since 1998.

  21. Re:IBM Speech - Needs Superhuman sales to survive? on The Future of Speech Technologies · · Score: 1

    I want technology that'll run on a cheap single end-user or SOHO box. Too bad there's no money for companies to develop for that.

  22. Re:You mean now Clippy speaks?! on The Future of Speech Technologies · · Score: 1

    Nah, you'd have to hack the clippit.acs file to get him to talk. And that would be evil. Bwahahaha!

  23. Re:Thank you Roland for the Non-Story on Cooking Dinner From the Road · · Score: 1
    Would you actually trust this thing not to burn down your house?

    No, that's why I have a remote-controlled pressure cooker. Besides, the kitchen needs repainting anyway.

  24. Re:Email from hackers... on Cooking Dinner From the Road · · Score: 1

    And now you won't have to phone someone to ask if their refrigerator is running.

  25. Re:Did anyone else think Road Kill from the title? on Cooking Dinner From the Road · · Score: 1

    Yep, good old Manifold Destiny.