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  1. Re:Slashem on 10th Year of the International Nethack Tournament · · Score: 1

    Funny, everyone seems to be playing SporkHack while others have migrated over to Crawl.

  2. DRM free? on DRM-Free Classic Games Store Opens To Public · · Score: 1

    Very interesting. So in 10 years I can get Spore or Bioshock from them and it won't have any DRM?

  3. Re:Intellectual Property? on Feds Target "Mongols" Biker Club's Intellectual Property · · Score: 5, Funny

    Who? The government? The bikers? BOTH!??!!?

  4. easy fix on Feds Target "Mongols" Biker Club's Intellectual Property · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Get tattoos of their logo/insignia. Get it someplace prominent and call out the cops to try and take it from them. I doubt law enforcement is going to start a collection of biker lampshades.

  5. Re:Super Earths??? on Looking For Earth-Like Exoplanets · · Score: 1

    Super Earths last all summer long.

  6. Re:Chrome Eval on Google Chrome, Day 2 · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://tech.slashdot.org/help

    Click "Sections"

    Find "Idle" and tick the radio tab under the 'no' sign.

    ???

    No more idle.slashdot.org on the front page!!!

  7. yeah baby on Has Google Lost Its Mojo? · · Score: 2, Funny

    > At a T.G.I.F. in June, the Google co-founder Sergey Brin
    > said he had no sympathy for the parents, and that he was
    > tired of "Googlers" who felt entitled to perks like
    > "bottled water and M&Ms,"

    > a number of Googlers have left recently to join start-ups,
    > hotter companies like Facebook -- and even Microsoft.

    GET THIS MAN A CHAIR TO THROW, STAT!!!

  8. Why video? on Hardware Hacking Guide — Citizen Engineer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Online video is a waste of time and bandwidth unless it's porn.
    I can easily skim an article and review a diagram much quicker than watching a video. Text also provides an easier point of reference than fast forwarding and rewinding a video to find a pertinent bit of information.
    When it comes to online media the best innovation is no innovation at all.

  9. so what on Referee Recommends Disbarment For Jack Thompson · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He'll probably make more cash being a commentator on Fox News pushing their particular agenda. He's been defanged but no one's cut his vocal cords.

  10. How About No? on Private Donor Saves Fermilab · · Score: 2, Informative

    > If the Democrats in Congress really wanted to end the war in Iraq, they could do
    > it tomorrow by revoking its funding. But why would they end it, when it's their
    > best polling issue?

    Gas and food prices in addition to the current state of the struggling USA economy has superseded the country's current involvment in Iraq.

  11. Re:iIt has done so already. on The Changing Face of World of Warcraft · · Score: 1

    Arthur Conan Doyle had absolutely nothing to do with the Conan saga.

  12. How about no? on Have You Changed Your Opinion On eBook Readers? · · Score: 4, Informative

    If the books were printed on rag or something else that lacked acid then those tomes would certainly outlast their electronic counterparts. Over time books will become brittle and fragile because the acid is deteriorating the paper.

  13. Re:Platypusses on Platypus Genome Decoded · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually platypodes and platypuses are acceptable plurals for onithorhynchus anatinus.

  14. Re:Glorified Cattle Prod on Taser International Wins Lawsuit to Change Cause of Death · · Score: 1

    Actually humans are animals. Has it been discovered that homo sapiens belong to a completely different kingdom than animalia?

  15. Re:Music Sucks on Metallica May Follow In Footsteps of Radiohead, NIN · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sorry, Cliff Burton is dead. Nothing is going to bring him back short of singularity.

  16. Re:Actually... on D&D 4th Edition Details Released · · Score: 1

    Dude, you can buy a positive review from AICN for a nickel, a batch of cupcakes and a randy mare.

  17. old news on The U.S. Patent Backlog · · Score: 2, Informative
  18. You're forgetting something on Cloverfield Discussion · · Score: 1

    Not only did Abrams rip off Blair Witch and riff on Godzilla, the entire relationship plot is reminiscent of Miracle Mile which also ends with a helicopter crash.

  19. Re:The patent system needs reform on Patent Reformers O'Reilly, Bezos Mum on 1-Click · · Score: 2, Informative

    The way the USPTO is run is the cause for so much drama. A few weeks ago Slashdot reported that employees at the patent office are overworked and underpaid with unreasonable quotas. It's an open secret that the patent and trademark office has a high turnover rate from being overworked and underappreciated for the role they fulfill for the government and inventors. Some companies and investors take advantage of this and gamble that prior art among other criteria will be overlooked because an examiner simply wants to get the job done, get to the next application and collect his paycheck.

  20. Re:People still use hotmail? on Admins Accuse Microsoft of Hotmail Cap · · Score: 1

    http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=html

    Gmail's been available as html-only for quite some time and it's not very clunky.

    Yahoo trumps them all by giving unlimited storage space.

  21. People still use hotmail? on Admins Accuse Microsoft of Hotmail Cap · · Score: 3, Informative

    There are hundreds of free alternatives available and a simple Google search brings up numerous email forwarding services that can take the sting out of changing email accounts.

  22. Re:it's not unnecessary. on Getting Gouged by Geeks · · Score: 4, Funny

    B-b-but how do I replace the smoke? Ever since the smoke was released it doesn't work anymore!

  23. Broadcast TV is dead on Broadcasters Oppose Wireless Net Service · · Score: 3, Informative

    Satellite and cable are how people get their TV fix nowadays because of the variety and quality of signal. Plus the fed are going to force everyone to go digital come 2009.

  24. bo-ring on Assyrian, Babylonian, Sumerian Translator Created · · Score: 5, Funny

    wake me when they can do pnakotic

  25. Re:We're right here on The Fermi Paradox is Back · · Score: 1

    1. He's a dead atheist without heirs. Where's he going to spend the residuals?

    2. If anyone doesn't know the source of this quote they oughtn't be at Slashdot.

    3. Never claimed the quote was my own.