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  1. Let the market decide on A College Without Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    Choice is good. If it were generally known that the college were Microsoft-free, prospective students could vote with their dollars about whether or not it is a good idea.

    If there are no Microsoft-free campuses, then there is no market for the decision.

    I say go for it.

  2. Push here, it comes out there on The Myth of Radio Spectrum Interference · · Score: 1

    If he is right, then cheap radios are a myth.

  3. Re:Unbelievable. on AOL Cans 1 billion Spams In One Day · · Score: 1

    One encouraging factoid: The rate of spam volume growth, at least for my little cesspool, seems to be slowing, at least as compared to what I saw during the last half of 2002. I don't know whether this is a real slowing, or just more filtering going on upstream from me, however....

    Don't get too excited. I've been tracking since mid-2001. Traffic grows faster in the second half of the year. Must be the Christmas effect.

  4. Let's see if I remember on What High End Unix Features are Missing from Linux? · · Score: 1

    Easy install, multiple processor support, and a journaling file system.

  5. It's already happened on Router Holes in BGP Threaten Net · · Score: 1

    though I can't find a reference anywhere (It happened pre-web). Didn't someone in Japan advertise a global route to the entire Internet, bringing the whole net down?

  6. Courney love also did the math on A Music Industry Case Study · · Score: 5, Informative

    In a 2000 speech to the Digital Hollywood online entertainment conference. It shows how a million dollar advance and a million copies sold can equal zero dollars.

  7. Fabricated news on Unreal History of the Atari 2600 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Slashdot's the place!

  8. I did this on Slashdot on Web Log 'Word Bursts' Could Identify New Crazes · · Score: 1

    It came up with the words "dup" and "speling".

  9. Didn't you see all of those cubicles? on Realistic Portrayals of Software Programmers? · · Score: 1

    I thought the TRON representation was pretty accurate.

  10. How would that change things? on Toms Hardware Reviews 65 CPU's, Past & Present · · Score: 1

    Funny that not a single reader emailed me in almost 2 hours to tell me.

    What would be the point of that? He's shown that he doesn't read the site, and doesn't care about the ramifications.

  11. Nothing new here on Optimizing Linux Advocacy Efforts · · Score: 1

    "We invited Eben Moglen from the Free Software Foundation to our annual BSA convention in Washington a few months ago to talk about the GPL, and everyone welcomed him with open arms when he spoke."

    Well, yeah. That's the embrace part. Extend comes later.

  12. Re:So the real question is why pay $40 for 10 page on Managing RAID on Linux · · Score: 1

    That's 10 pages about "booting" to software RAID. Not the same thing.

  13. So what? Programmers are obsolete. on Giant Sucking Noise · · Score: 1

    Let the jobs go overseas. Didn't we learn about 5 years ago that there would be no more use for programmers anyhow?

    It's funny. Laugh.

  14. Want some Via&lt!--hghieehgi&gtgra? on Plan for Spam, Version 2 · · Score: 1

    I've started seeing html mail with naughty words split with html comments. The filter tags the spam from header fields, and learns that "gra" is spammish.

    The spammers are starting to jump through hoops to get around this. It must be working on a large scale.

    Pardon me for the munged subject. I can't see how to get a "greater than" symbol into Slashdot.

  15. My favorite Baysean token on Plan for Spam, Version 2 · · Score: 1

    ... is "0D". Some HTML editor out there, apparently only used by spammers, encodes it's output with an ASCII "0D" at the end of each line. These spams get the highest scores I've seen.

  16. Re:Potential finger damage... on Review Of Upcoming Projection Keyboards · · Score: 1

    Also don't forget that you won't have to raise your hands at the wrist quite so much as you do for a keyboard.

    Unless you have to in order for the "keypress detection" algorithm to work well. The proof of these devices is going to be in the pudding. Unless the detection is flawless, they are going to be of limited use.

  17. Remember that it is free (beer) on Hiding Your Choices And Saying You Made Them · · Score: 1

    Someone should point out that we are talking about a free product here. It's annoying, but they can afford to offer a double-your-money-back guarantee.

  18. Re:Similar Posting? on Proposed Set-Top MAME Emulation Console · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    That would make four dups today.

    Looks like Taco is shooting for the record books?

    Or is this all that exceptional?

  19. Hat Trick! on MMORPGs, Are You There Yet? · · Score: 1

    Come on CmdrTaco, that's two dupes you've posted on today's front page... go for the hat-trick!

    He has a third one for today!

  20. dup... on Recycling Pay Phones into Terminals · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ...from a month ago.

  21. Max Headroom anyone? on Typewriter Keyboard Conversion · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I continue to be amazed at how prescient that show was.

    Too bad that now he can't survive an entire miniseries now.

  22. Re:Tha HURD on GNU/Hurd Delayed To Fix Disk Size, Serial I/O Limitations · · Score: 1

    Jeez... there is a point you reach when you just GIVE UP.

    They did. It probably hurt to drop HURD altogether.

  23. Why a timer? on USB Key-Sized MP3 Player With LCD Display · · Score: 2, Funny

    Same reason my blender has a clock.

  24. Too bad they bombed the Bundestag on Buggy Bugging Backfires On German Police · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ... it could have made for a better headline.

  25. sp -10 on Taiwanese Capacitors Leaking, Exploding · · Score: 1

    electrolytic
    electrolyte