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  1. A Brief Defense of Meept on Slashdot Moderation Phase 1.1 · · Score: 1

    Yadda yadda yadda. Let me submit to the jury that slashdot isn't a castle. (It's probably closest to a cathedral, if anything.)

    Sometimes people post some really funny here. That guy who was talking about how he used his bathtub as a CPU cooling method comes to mind.

    MEEPT!! is just an uninspired dork, though.

  2. Prequel stuff on Star Wars Retrospective in NY Times · · Score: 1

    Does this page have anything to do with the prequels? Like some other people, I refuse to have anything to do with the prequels until they actually come out. I want my prequel experience to be 100% fresh, new, different, and exciting, so I'm wondering whether this page is safe for me to read.

  3. Hello dimwits? on "Open Source" Apple says "No" to Xanim · · Score: 1

    Of course it's not Free in the FSF sense. It
    isn't Open Source either. What I am pointing out
    is the hypocracy of the slashdot crowd in
    bitching about one non-open source party refusing
    to help another non-open source party.

    See the idiocy now?

  4. Hello dimwits? on "Open Source" Apple says "No" to Xanim · · Score: 1

    xanim isn't open source according to its homepage. It is only free for non-commercial use. It's free beer with a recipe included, but you can't buy it at a packie or at a bar.

    You would think that slashdot is a social experiment, and some social scientists are going to come out with a paper talking about how people who post to it are as cattlelike as any other group of people, despite whinging and whining about how individualistic and independant they are.

  5. Oops. on Open Source Apple (part 2) · · Score: 1

    You really goota wonder if Steve Jobs is on vacation now, and he'll come back from Tahiti in a week and just say "WHAT THE #$%^?!@"

    Hehe.

  6. DOS floppy on Linux Software for Digital Cameras? · · Score: 1

    I recently used a digital camera that would write jpeg (and a digital-camera specific format) files to a DOS floppy disk. That makes it pretty portable.. practically any computer with a floppy drive can read DOS disks. If you go for a solution like this, don't forget to take a look at mtools.

  7. ex distortions on Feature:Distortions · · Score: 1

    M-x replace-string (ret) hack (ret) crack