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  1. Will someone give a good summary on The Haps from LWCE: Samba Wins, RH w/XFS, BOF · · Score: 1

    Especially when slash has to post 3 articles in a row.

  2. IBM has plans of a wider use on IBM, TrollTech Integrate Linux Voice Recognition · · Score: 1
    The following piece of extract from an article would point that IBM has bigger plans.

    At the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo New York 2001 Wednesday, Big Blue committed to spending $300 million on Linux services over the next three years. IBM has already committed to investing $1 billion in Linux over the next 12 months.

    That $300 million will go towards Linux e-business enablement and migration services, open source consulting for the Linux environment, and Web and High Availability Cluster services.

  3. Re:Why legislate? on Strong Online Privacy Bill Introduced · · Score: 1

    Because some guys are too lazy to do their own work.

  4. It's the other way round on Plastic Valley? · · Score: 1
    people start seeing shit after they start believing it.

    People believe in something and strive towards it and only then are they able to build or achieve that shit. If it hadn't been so we wouldn't have reached this advanced state of development.

  5. I know I can be dumb at times. on Italian, U.S. Scientists Unveil Human Cloning Efforts · · Score: 1
    There are certain clarifications that I would like to be done:

    1. The cell would be stimulated to divide and create an embryo equipped with all the specialty cells that make up a copy of the man.
    Now does this means that only the main characteristics can be cloned and there is no 100% cloning as of now.
    If so that would mean the clone would be very similar to the parent and not an exact copy. And therefore very much like a natural child who has great resemblance to the parent.
    That would also imply that the cloned personality will be a different personality even though he may look the same, especially considering his socialization which is said to be the next major influence in formulating a persons personality.

    2.Could cloning therefore render marriage unnecessary to propagate your family line?
    Infact people may try to have pure races and pure familiesand avoid adultration.
    That could also mean women may no longer need men in marriage for children or social security anymore, these being the 2 most accepted reasons for marriage. So feminist activism could rise.

    3.You don't want to create a monster.
    Would we still have black sheep in the family?

    4. Therefore would that mean we still will have the same old society with all its good and bad quailties only now we can blame the docs and not family traditions.

  6. Very true! on Dot-Coms Say 'Unions Not Welcome!' · · Score: 1
    If any company liked Unions, they'd probably be guys who went along with their workers and if that be the case, a union wouldn't be required in the first place.

    At the same time we all know politics is dirty and yet we all love to point out how dirty it is.

  7. Haven't you heard of CodeGuru? on Where Can I Find Beautiful Code? · · Score: 1

    Here's where you'll find codes of all kinds.

  8. Maybe too early to rejoice on DirecTV's Secret War On Hackers · · Score: 1
    This may be the case of sylvester imagining he had gulped down tweety only to realise it was hypnotism at work. (PS:I am watching the show now.)

    This cat and mouse game will continue just as in Tom & Jerry and the Roadrunner, with a worse chance of wining. In the cartoons its a one to one fight but here we have a score or such against hundreds.

  9. Very true, what are the editors doing? on Bush And The Tech Nation · · Score: 1

    Holiday season is gone but the holiday mood seems to continue, because the editors out there were too lazy to edit and make the same info concise. It was too long, maybe someone got carried away with the style. Well if the guy can be lazy we aare are not far behind.

  10. For those interested in Science on Cooling Hardware With Microfans · · Score: 1
    Scientists from the Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory announced that its new particle accelerator, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, had created the highest density of matter ever made in an experiment. The record for creating the densest matter in an experiment, previously set by CERN last year, has been broken just a couple of times in the last 15 years.

    The link.

  11. Well Written on What's Wrong With Content Protection? · · Score: 2

    This is one of those rare well written articles which even laymen can understand. But the responses go to show that slashdot guys are definitely no laymen they just haven't read it. Yes too many things are wrong with copyrights of companies.THey are claiming to protect their rights but are invariably infringing on ours.

  12. So George Orwell was right after all on What Privacy? UK DNA Database Could Grow Fast · · Score: 1

    So now we are now going to be all the time under survellience. Only thing it's going to be 2004 instead of 1984.

  13. But what of the cost? on Wearable Translators · · Score: 1

    The pricing I think could make all the difference.
    If it is too costly a tourist would hardly consider buying it.
    All the same it could prove very helpful to business people who have to do business in foreign lands. Here where the east meets the west in their own language.
    But in countris like India even businessmen may not consider buying this equipment if it turns out cheaper to employ a person who has learnt the language.
    Talking of India, this equipment, if cheap could be a lot of help to the countrymen within their own country where every few hundred KMs brings you face to face with a new language.

  14. Hurry ap please on Researchers Find Off Protein For Immune System · · Score: 1
    "a finding that could one day halt the development of cancer, diabetes, arthritis and heart disease

    ] My freind has a sever case of arthritis and even though this kind of news gives me joy it also brings a certain kind of sadness , because perhaps by the time they are thruogh with their research and offer a remedy it may be too late .

  15. It's simple on What Alternatives Do Companies Have To SPAM? · · Score: 1

    You already got a lot of advice that the traditional proven ways to advertise are best , but if your finaances are limited and spam you must then be polite enough to put a "PS:" at the end of your message and appologise for the inconvienience and promise not to misuse their emails anymore. Courtesy is one of the most important marketing tools. And ofcourse only spam your target audience.

  16. Competition is healthy on AOL IM Rival Pulls The Plug · · Score: 1

    We all know that it is so, but it is healthier when there are just few strong competitors and not scores of small ones. They just mess up the market space without any useful impact.

  17. Taxes are good on France Retracts Computer Tax Proposal · · Score: 1

    As per policy, taxes are good for the people and we would all welcome it but for the fact that we feel the taxes collected are not being put to good use. Either we are right or the govts. have just not taken the effort to show and explain to us why they are right.

  18. Maybe it isn't as bad as we think on The Tightening Net: Part Two · · Score: 1
    In early days a person was known by everyone else in his society and life didn't seem so bad. So what's wrong if that man-made privacy is being eroded back to those open and unprivate days. We will relearn to live as we did earlier.

    And man will live for ever more because of ADJUSTMENTS.

  19. Go ahead buy it on Web Development With JSP · · Score: 1

    I would recommend a buy for the sheer joy of discovering what JSP can do to your web pages. One can always buy the latest book when it arrives. It would be easier to understand and master the second time round.

  20. Slashdot's sig stinks on Digital Doodling · · Score: 1

    Life's too short to dance with ugly women. What about the ugly men? Ya, we know women live longer but I am sure their life isn't long enough to enjoy a dance with ugly men like the owner of this piece of rubbish.

  21. Freedom to be lazy on Foreign Language Education Software For Linux? · · Score: 1

    We are all lazy at times aren't we, Specially with so many good souls on slashdot.

  22. A new plot on Harry Potter Sites vs. Warner Brothers · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the next title in the harry porter series will deal with a story of Harry entraped in cyberspace and how his friends and his own magical powers help him escape.

  23. Re:First!-- Are there no french sites? on Slashback: Sand, Maps, Antiquities · · Score: 1

    Aren't there some french sites (if this be french) to direct our freind who at least knows one word: first, of english and therefore understands there exists a difference between the 2 languages and there a difference in understanding of these languages. Please somebody help him find a similar frech site and if there be none let him create one and become a succesful entrepreneur.

  24. Is slash a virtual community? on Rethinking The Virtual Community: Part One · · Score: 2

    "More recent virtual communities are much more "virtual" than "community." Clusters of people collect around networks devoted to certain issues: workplace, sex, gaming, gender, finances, health, parenting." Is slash not doing the same thing?

  25. What's the difference anyway? on 3D GUI Project · · Score: 1

    Just a couple of days back the idea of Virtual Reality was put up to me and so I got down to doing some research on the topic. I located some sites that gave info on that and visited some sites listed as using VR but to my disappointment I found there were just normal pictures on the screen. I was a little baffled until now when I read comments from the readers, that there seems to be actually very little difference in the apppearance of VR photos. Well I have something to thank Slashdot for.