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  1. This seems a good way out on LinuxCare & TurboLinux Finalize Merger · · Score: 1
    As someone already mentioned this seeems the only way to converge the Linux Market which has grown out of proportion. Here is another example.

    " VA Linux Systems missed lowered expectations Tuesday, saying it will cut 25 percent of its staff and warning that profitability will arrive nine months later than planned." Article here.

  2. Why only KT, hang all of them on Dispute Over IP Sharing Escalates · · Score: 1
    But currently, private line operators such as KT, Dreamline, Dacom and Hanaro Telecom ban such line sharing.

    The site's operators plan to open an "anti-KT" site to publicly inform of the injustice of KT's acts of banning IP sharing devices and the shutdown of its site.

    The fight should be "Anti-Ban" against all those guys who think only of monopolising and fleecing customers.

  3. Amazing! on Reading the Ancient Papyri · · Score: 1
    Well, there's surely going to be intreresting material for all kinds of tatses.

    "Among the works scholars hope to read using the new technology are Aristotle's lost 30 dialogues, philosophical work by Epicurus, erotic poems by Philodemus, Virgilius's lost eclogue, scientific work by Archimedes and lesbian poetry by Sappho."

  4. We need this more than ever now on PRZ Announces Depature From NAI · · Score: 1

    PGP was originally designed for human rights applications, and to protect privacy and civil liberties in the information age.

  5. We are all 99.9 percent identical on What Will Human Cloning Mean For Humanity? · · Score: 1
    We are 99.9 percent identical at the DNA level. DNA differences are shared among all ethnicities and races. "There is no scientific basis for precise racial categories.

    Here are the "10 Most Surprising Things About the Human Genome."

  6. Well at least some guys have more sense on Free Internet Movie Archive · · Score: 1

    They are surely futuristic and will surely gain much. Our support is with you.

  7. Yes it does on The Minicomputer Orphanage · · Score: 1

    That is if you make a sensible post and if you don't it still counts in the number of posts and and therefore the traffic. Slashdot should be thankful to you. Keep up the good work. You add spice to our lives.

  8. An interesting read on PicoSats And CanSats And NEAR, Oh My · · Score: 1

    "Imagine trying to talk to a 3-inch satellite that is traveling 17,000 miles per hour! It's an amazing feat!" Cutler says. The Aerospace picosats "may have been the smallest functioning spacecraft ever launched," he adds. That seems rather exciting and we'd surely not think of picosats as waste anymore. Slashdot readers were worried about space garbage when a similar article appeared 2-3 days back. Ofcourse that article talked of sending ashes of the dead etc. to space. But this surely looks like a better use and at $ 50,000 people would definately not think of some silly uses as sending locks of hair of the beloved etc , Valentine festivals apart.

  9. Census bureau blurs data on Did You Do the Long Form? · · Score: 1
    "I think many people feel they could probably obtain information easier from some other source than trying to obtain it from a census file."

    When there are easier ways and more authentic data available, why would the marketeers bother? Imagine the effect they are going to have when they contact the guy who actually earns a $1000 but his data was blurred and so it now shows $5000.

    Lets be aware and alert not paranoid.

  10. How do we trust them? on Choosing A Managed Security Provider? · · Score: 1

    And what are they charging us. Even though the link looks like an add it doesn't mention the approx costs.

  11. Some facts were out of place it seems on Genetic Stone Soup · · Score: 1

    "Two teams of British and American scientists have found that there are no more than 30,000 to 40,000 genes - nearly a quarter less than what was believed at the time of gene mapping last year."

  12. Misplaced concern on Launch Your Own Picosatellite · · Score: 1

    At $50,000, people couldn't be actually sending crap, the neighborhood dustbin will do it. And there can't be many lucky Fido's who's relatives would take the trouble to send his ashes out into space. The pricing insures sanity to some extent and I am sure medium sized reasearch labs or such may take this opportunity to test some scientific principles.

  13. A holier place to immerse the ashes on Launch Your Own Picosatellite · · Score: 1

    Well as it is the Ganges is too dirty for even the ashes of our dead we could could now perhaps immerse the ashes of our beloved in space and ensure eternity --the only catch being the price, but then cleanliness and special privilages are for guys with heavy pockets-- for the rest the Ganges or some filthy nala in the neighbourhood will have to do.

  14. Here's what can happen on Optical Fiber Storage · · Score: 1

    Millions of people across China were unable to access much of the Internet on Friday after an undersea cable was severed, and an official at China Telecom said it could take 10 days to fix the problem.

  15. The corporates might soon learn their lesson on The Extinction Of The Mom & Pop ISP Service? · · Score: 1

    Well we do hope that competition between huge corps might just do the trick, since we as customers prefer the larger ISPs inspite of the personalised service because of the pre-assumption that they offer quality connection due to their power to afford larger bandwith and newer technology.

  16. Maybe Micrsoft got to know on Get Free World Dial-Up -- With a Few Catches · · Score: 2

    That's why it has now decided to limit its free phone from MSN to 5 minutes, considering that free phone is going to be the practice and it will not get much mileage of it. Or is Microsoft and its partner totally unaware of the coming revolution and still hoping to make money off it's customers.

  17. As if life wasn't complicated already on Bacteria Encrypts Sperm, Encourages Speciation · · Score: 1

    Choosing a mate in thes times are already so difficult what with Aids etc. now we have to be sure the partner is not infected by some such parasite/virus. Or maybe by then cloning would help.

  18. the catch is... on UK Insurance Co. Admits Using Genetic Screening · · Score: 1
    "You are using the tests as if they had been proved."

    Yes the companies have some justification in insuring themselves against a closure or bad business, and even people rejected could perhaps have been thankful for telling them early on that they are prone to certain fatal disease, so that they would take preventive measures or even go in for treatment, but the catch is the validity of these tests.

  19. Re:hahah! on Open Source And Spying · · Score: 1

    Visit us and put some life into our readers life by commenting something funny.

  20. What of spaming of wrong info on Open Source And Spying · · Score: 2

    What if Russia or China decided to pay some dummy spies who'd consistently report of some dummy project going on in their land whereas actually basing the real project somewhere else.

  21. Do they think nerds are getting week eyes? on Publishers vs. Libraries · · Score: 1

    Why on earth have they used such large fonts. I thought writers knew the importance of words and not their size or are all their ideas of wrong and right are getting merged?

  22. When is that soon? on Shoemaker-Levy Fragment's Impact Quantified · · Score: 1
    "it's probably just a fluke we made it this far, but we will soon have the capability to survive anything short of a nearby supernova or gamma ray burst."

    Soon.. but when and what about internal disaters like earthquakes and floods and draughts?

  23. Makes interesting reading on Embedded Design Contest Update · · Score: 1

    But the Question is whether they'll be actually able to build and run their projects. If they do so we'd have made many giant leaps forward.

  24. They're balancing off too on Sonicblue Acquires ReplayTV · · Score: 2

    However to reduce expenses, it has slashed its workforce by 400 employees, or 40 percent.

  25. That's how poor Nations tacle problems on $200 Net PC to Close Brazil's Digital Divide · · Score: 1

    By looking the other way. We in India have a similar problem. The govt supplies computers to govt. institutions like offfices, schools etc. without even giving thought to whether there is anyone who knows how to use it. It never finds out whether this costly equipment is being put to use and in most places once the machines is made disfunctional by some computer illeterate, the govt either has no money to repair them or is also not bothered or aware.