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  1. Re:Scary, yet cool. on Mount St. Helens Alert Status Increased · · Score: 1

    Pretty bad teaching system, don't you think? One would believe that an all-knowing, infinitely powerful, and infinitely good Being would have some nicer means to inform us of the facts.

    He did inform us. Didn't you get the memo?

  2. Re:Oh great, now we have to deal with new terminol on Adobe Releasing New Photo Format · · Score: 1

    So they're gonna be pronounced as "Ding" I'm assuming, consider the possibilities:

    Yeah, they continue the tradition started with PNG aka ping.

  3. Re:Does it matter!? on Gates Explains Longhorn Delay, Diet · · Score: 1

    I would entertain someone coming up with really functional reasoning explaining the need for all this.

    Quick example: think of purchases you get reimbursed. When I organize any info related to these purchases, I want it categorized under the specific project it is related to (or generally under "work") and under financial data.

    So if I look for data about my bank account, I would find this info.

    And if I look for data about the project/work, I would find this reimbursable purchase as well.

    This is just a simple example when a tree hierarchy is not enough.

  4. Re:WinFS bad? on Gates Explains Longhorn Delay, Diet · · Score: 1

    Hmmm, most high-end databases have features to bypass the filesystem and store/manage data directly to (raw) disk. They combine these features with standard DBMS code and they still work.

  5. Re:Quick! Send in your prior art! on Microsoft Patents sudo · · Score: 1

    This might be patentable as a new business method. Are the monkeys connected to the Internet?

  6. Re:Article text in case of slashdotting on Canadian Music Industry Drills Dentists · · Score: 1

    I believe the correct acronym for "Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada" is SCAM Publishers of Canada.

  7. Re:great on Ten-disc 'Matrix' DVD Box Set Planned · · Score: 0, Troll

    Here you go: Matrix sucks!

  8. Re:xml what? on Reducing Electricity Bills For Buildings With XML · · Score: 1

    I'd hate to see the retransmition/synchronization protocol when the e-XML (electricity XML) document fails a checksum.

  9. Re:Why? on The Latest And Greatest Console Applications? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Look up xmove.

  10. Re:And the RIAA's site... on The RIAA Sues 482 More People · · Score: 3, Funny

    They are planning to sue a whole lot more people next time, since the RIAA set their eyes on the pirates with IPs in the sets 127.x.x.x and 10.x.x.x.

  11. Re:Wow, now the aliens will be impressed on Rio Rancho, New Mexico: 103 Square Miles of WiFi · · Score: 1

    Now they renamed Area 51 to Area 802.11 .

  12. Re:ANSI/ISO on Sun will Open Java's Source · · Score: 4, Funny

    On the other hand, I prefer that my programming languages be managed by a garbage collector.

  13. Re:Integration is getting ridiculous... on Windows Media Player 10 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    But Windows is not the only culprit. Almost all of the editors available on Linux have a built-in, integrated, impossible-to-turn-off search feature. Why make bloated editors, when anyone can quickly open a terminal and do a grep?

  14. Hell comes in many flavors on Inferno 4 Available for Download · · Score: 5, Funny
    Slashdot says:
    [...] all of its major components are named after things related to hell.
    I see on the Inferno website the following components:
    The Inferno operating system [...] includes the Dis virtual machine, integral support for the Styx network protocol, and an implementation of the Tk user interface toolkit.

    I am not sure which part of hell the Tk UI toolkit represents, but I feel their pain.
  15. Re:obvious solution on Student Uncovers US Military Secrets · · Score: 1

    A better solution would be to require the blanked out parts to be of a fixed size (for example, all blanked out parts could be resized, after blanking, to occupy exactly 1 line of text).

  16. Re:Damn, damn and triple damn! on NRF Calls SCO's Claims 'Meritless' · · Score: 1

    There is always tomorrow! But hurry, you cannot short the stock once it reaches $0.0000.

  17. Innovation on Mono Project Releases Beta 1 · · Score: 1

    It is great to see that the Open Source community "innovates"!

  18. Re:You're a winner! on Instant Live Concert Recordings · · Score: 1

    if the intended purpose is "fair".

    I believe the actual court cases extend fair use to the purposes to time- and space-shifting (i.e. recording something off the air for later viewing or copying something you legally own to a new format, e.g. from CD to tape, for your own use).

    Time-shifting does not really apply for concerts, and it can be argued that buying a concert ticket does not get you the right to copy a concert performance.

  19. Re:This is too easy on New Online Ad Technology To Bypass Popup Blockers · · Score: 1

    There is no topic on the internet that can be served by only one site.

    I am not so sure about that, Microsoft has the only website that delivers easy-to-use, easy-to-attack software products.

  20. Re:"Consciousness is finite?" on Calculating A Theoretical Boundary To Computation · · Score: 1

    Once every six seconds is less than 90%. Good job going the extra mile!

  21. Re:But does it pay off? on Making Science and Math Kid Friendly? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but foreign students have this strange affinity for their home countries. Can't they see that not living in US is unamerican?

  22. Re:TTS is no substitute for audiobooks. on Creative Commons Audiobooks · · Score: 1

    Would you take the script of a play or a movie, run it through tts and then say it was even a passable substitute for the original?

    If it was "Matrix Revolutions", yeah, no doubt it would improve on the quality of the original.

  23. Re:Stupid M$ "Innovation" on NEC Develops Linux Tablet/PDA Hybrid · · Score: 1

    Compaq-son-of-HP (used to?) make the TC1000 with a Transmeta processor.

  24. Re:Meanwhile, back in Redmond on DOJ Calls EU Microsoft Decision "Unfortunate" · · Score: 1

    this_ruling = NULL

    Shouldn't it be in C++?

    this->ruling = NULL;

    Then, in standard Microsoft fashion, you need to dereference it...

  25. Re:.xxx is backwards on New RFC Considers .sex TLD Dangerous · · Score: 1

    xxx backwards is still xxx! (dot not withstanding)