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  1. Re:Um, hello, Sirius is already online for FREE. on XM Radio Plans Online Music Service · · Score: 1

    there's a 3-day trial available on sirius' website.. that currently you can sign up for as often as you want.. although with the slashdotting they are probably gonna get from this, they'll probably nix that really good.

  2. Re:Nice attempt... but competitor's already there! on XM Radio Plans Online Music Service · · Score: 1

    Unfortunatly, there's one bad condition to that:

    That is for the lifetime of your Sirius RECEIVER, not the Sirius COMPANY or the Sirius CUSTOMER.

    If you're gonna get that, make sure you get some kind of insurance on your RECEIVER.

    Now, I'm pretty sure if you actually did have that and had receiver problems outside the warranty period, they'd probably be willing to hook you up with a deal to get your new receiver hooked up.. but it's not as good a deal as ya think.

  3. oh my lord on Firefox Browser On An Upward Trend · · Score: 1

    duh. one web site's statistics, used to speak for the web?

    very amusing, people.

  4. Re:Speed: defense of 9600 baud on One-Watt Wireless Radio Modem Reaches 40 Miles · · Score: 1

    ...and is also 4 times faster than what was common when I started using dialup Internet access. Yes, I regularly used 2400, and then shortly after 9600, 19200 and 28800 then finally 33000 or so.. to hook up my Linux 0.99 system to teh Intarweb

  5. 1xEVDO on Verizon PCMCIA Card Just Works · · Score: 1

    1XEVDO rocks. That's about it.

    Any idea who makes the card?

  6. Re:Groundbreaking? on Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    I don't think it's that Tool plays in a lot of non-4/4 time signatures.. it's that they outright change time signatures regularly. Also, Tool has a rather unique sound - can you tell virtually any Tool song within the first three or four notes, even if you've never heard it? Most people can, after listening to just a few Tool songs. Very unique sound.

    Not groundbreaking, but very unique.

  7. Re:Groundbreaking? on Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    League had so many different famous literary characters in it, that I have watched it like 6 times now, just trying to get my mind around who everyone actually is. Of course, I'm doing this while I'm at work, so I'm frequently interrupted. I usually need to play a movie 10-15 times before I've seen all of it.

    I haven't even grasped the plot of the movie so far, so I know i'm not too far along in it.

    But, I do rather enjoy that movie. Of course, I think that movie is OK (not great), and I think Minority Report sucks. I guess that means the wrath of Slashdot will come down upon me :(

  8. Re:Groundbreaking! on Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    Because Minority Report was a relative bomb at the box office, and was an all around crappy movie, that's only real bright spot was the main actor. And I don't even LIKE most of Tom Cruise's stuff.

    The movie sucked. So, then I read the story it was based on. And that was just as bad.

  9. Re:Management wanted OT... to cut their losses on New Overtime Rules Have Short Shelf Life · · Score: 1

    This is even better: This law guarantees salaried employees OT as well, excluding the standard high level management and computer industry exemptions.

  10. Re:It's All A Mystery... on New Overtime Rules Have Short Shelf Life · · Score: 1

    it's retail. And I don't really care all that much, because I make a rather good income (enough to support myself, and those i am responsible for, and live relatively comfortably), and I don't really have anything else that I'd rather be doing between the hours of 9 and 8.

  11. Re:Management wanted OT... to cut their losses on New Overtime Rules Have Short Shelf Life · · Score: 1

    no, i'm in retail management.

    The new OT laws are basically worth a 10-50% income increase for anyone who REGULARLY works OT.. and they really don't fuck anyone who does the occasional OT either.

  12. Re:It's All A Mystery... on New Overtime Rules Have Short Shelf Life · · Score: 1

    I am REQUIRED in a management position to work at minimum 48 hours, and expected to work 50 to 52. (this is down from 54 previously)

    The new OT laws guaranteed me a base wage increase of almost 35% of what I was previously making, base salary.

    I am going to be PISSED if I have to undo that.

  13. Re:Management wanted OT... to cut their losses on New Overtime Rules Have Short Shelf Life · · Score: 1

    Due to these new laws, I just received a 35% increase in my base income.

    I do NOT want it repealed. NO NO NO NO NO.

    *emailing all Senators*

  14. Re:firmware updates on Can DVDs Kill DVD Players? · · Score: 1

    that is possible too.. although i'd hope that things that cannot be reset to factory so easily would have better security than what could be defeated by a simple bad bit or two.. :(

  15. story incorrect on Nader Off Virginia Ballot · · Score: 1

    The MI supreme court has forced the ballot people to include Nader. This was on CNN yesterday, though I'm not about to waste my time going looking for it.

  16. Re:Confused on Russian May Have Solved Poincare Conjecture · · Score: 1

    Mods:

    You suck, this is not Flamebait. Someone mod me as flamebait, and mod this something Positive.. beacause I guarantee 95+% of slashdot does not understand the description.. As someone else earlier said, the page linked makes a HUGE leap, and doesn't take anyone with it, in the explanation of the conjecture.

  17. Re:$1 million USD? on Russian May Have Solved Poincare Conjecture · · Score: 1

    what's really funny, is that bullitB is technically correct, and he's scored 5 Funny here ... doh.

    Bad moderators, no donut.

  18. Re:Is this really a good idea? on A GMail-based blog With 1000 MB of entries · · Score: 1

    w00t my first EVAR negative post score! yay!

  19. Re:jesus christ on A GMail-based blog With 1000 MB of entries · · Score: 1

    Now why would you bother to come on and troll about me being a moron? Hmm? Walk like a man, and identify yourself.

  20. Re:jesus christ on A GMail-based blog With 1000 MB of entries · · Score: 1

    Apparently I'm an Insightful moron, then.

  21. Re:Sick of gmail on A GMail-based blog With 1000 MB of entries · · Score: 1

    If you click on "Top Comments" over at Fark, the three G-Mail account request threads over the last 3 days have become some of the highest-number-of-comment threads in the history of Fark.. and that's saying quite a bit..

  22. Re:Is this really a good idea? on A GMail-based blog With 1000 MB of entries · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Temporal,

    You forget.. myself, you, and Rob are the only males on all of slashdot who've ever had a blowjob from a female, that wasn't paid for directly.

    And I highly doubt that most of slashdot's users could make a girl choke/vomit on their dicks, due to not being near large enough to cause such a problem.

  23. jesus christ on A GMail-based blog With 1000 MB of entries · · Score: 3, Insightful

    JESUS people, it's a goddamn EMAIL SERVICE.

    What are you all DOING?! You're out of your Minds!

    *ala William Shatner*
    HAVE ANY OF YOU EVER EVEN KISSED A GIRL?!

  24. Re:If someone is smart enough to hack the phone... on Motorola Hacker Rewards Program · · Score: 1

    EDGE is already basically scrapped by Cingular, and moving onto the next technologies...

  25. oh boy on X.org Making Fast Progress · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    OH BOY! Now I can have shadows under my windows, and I can have see-through windows that give way to further see-through windows that give way to further-see through windows, meaning I really can't see a damn thing at all through all the crap overlaying on top of each other.

    Yay!

    Thank you, people.
    Can we get something that is useful now?

    It seems like the only thing anyone gives a shit about in the OSS desktop area is what it looks like.. and there's a lot of room to go.. on other more important fronts.