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  1. "Adults" on Neopets Gambling Controversy · · Score: 1

    Jacqui Adams, 22, and Anita Esposito, 19, are just two of the thousands of adults hooked on the Neopet games.

    That's a good stretch to call those two 'Adults', even though yes they're over 18 and considered adults in the legal sense in most places.

  2. Re:Dreidel on Neopets Gambling Controversy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Monopoly teaches good money management otherwise you go bankrupt. Neopets is just teaching kids to "PLAY OUR GAMES NOW OR YOUR PET WILL DIE" to help along the addiction.

  3. From LKML on Linus Pooh-Pooh's Real-Time Patch · · Score: 3, Informative

    Dunno if this is even slightly relavent at all but this is from one of the other people doing Prempt things with the kernel.

    finally, i went for correctness primarily, not latencies. I checked
    out the MontaVista patches and they categorize roughly 30 spinlocks
    as the ones that are necessary to be 'raw'. Unfortunately this is
    inadequate, my patch excludes 90 such locks and it's still probably
    not a 100% correct conversion. The core kernel needs changes in the
    locking infrastructure to get rid of most of the these 90 non-mutex
    locks.

  4. Re:RTFA on FEC May Regulate Online Political Activity · · Score: 1

    Erm . . no they're not.

    The Internet is exempt from a ban on the use of corporate money for radio and TV ads targeting federal candidates close to elections, part of the new campaign finance law that took effect this election cycle.

    Unless you're getting paid by some corporation to put up banner ads then no, you're just jim dandy fine.

  5. Re:Wow I feel sad for the future on Bush, Kerry, and Nader Respond to Youth Voter Questions · · Score: 1

    Actually, if you're not Catholic but you are Christian, you're still 'defective' say soeth the pope

  6. Re:Wow I feel sad for the future on Bush, Kerry, and Nader Respond to Youth Voter Questions · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I'm saying surely these kids can differientate. They're complaining about 'not being represented' and one of Kerry's points on the abortion issue is
    "Oh well I'm Catholic so blah blah blah, but since I'm a Democrat blah blah blah" I'm not arguing that one is not a subset of the other, but I felt that surely they could recognize that he is Catholic. Further more here's a nice quote from the Vatican itself:
    "Churches such as the Church of England, where the apostolic succession of bishops from the time of St. Peter is disputed by Rome, and churches without bishops, are not considered 'proper' churches. They suffer from 'defects.'"

    So (according to the pope since this was published with his permission) if you're Christian but not Catholic, you're defective.

    linkeh

  7. Wow I feel sad for the future on Bush, Kerry, and Nader Respond to Youth Voter Questions · · Score: -1, Troll

    The Bush administration has made a big deal of President Bush's Christian faith. Democratic candidate John Kerry is also a Christian.

    Erm, no for some reason I have the feeling he's Catholic. *please* dont tell me this was the best question from that age-group other wise it's not *this* election to worry about, it's the one a few years down the road.

  8. RTFA on FEC May Regulate Online Political Activity · · Score: 4, Informative
    U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in Washington ordered the FEC to rewrite 15 rules, including regulations exempting Internet ads from the 2002 campaign finance law. The law bars outside groups from coordinating television and radio advertisements with candidates.


    The court ruled that political advertisements on the Internet weren't exempt from a 2002 law that required them to be financed with federally regulated funds.


    They're talking about regulating the ads used by the different campaigns and them working with groups like 509's.

    Hardly a "OMG MY RIGHTS" issue.
  9. Coral cache of Mirror on Robots Do The Darndest Things · · Score: 3, Informative

    Oops fixed link.

  10. Re:Rollerbot Mirror on Robots Do The Darndest Things · · Score: 0

    Well let's slashdot Coral Cache too!

  11. Re:TV License in the UK on New Fee For Internet-Capable PCs In Germany · · Score: 1

    Official website for the UK: http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/ [tvlicensing.co.uk]

    Read up at the beginning. Jesus.

  12. Re:Misleading Summary on 32-bit Processors, Cheap · · Score: 1

    I was meaning misleading to the majority of slashdot readers who think they'll be able to pickup like 10-20 for $3 and make a cluster of something.

  13. Misleading Summary on 32-bit Processors, Cheap · · Score: 0, Troll

    Priced as low as $3 apiece in quantities of 10,000

    That's a bit different then a flat $3 rate.

  14. For those with tinfoil hats on Breaking Google's DRM · · Score: 4, Informative
    Last comment on Bug 226572 - Google branded Mozilla browser was:
    This is a duplicate of a private bug about working with Google. So closing this one.

    *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 213362 ***


    Now they're both mysteriously restricted to general viewing.
  15. Re:Nothing known, but political motivation possibl on Indymedia Server Raided by FBI · · Score: 1, Informative

    Well consider the following, Immeadiately following the Protest Warrior Hack somebody posted that list to an IndyMedia server. That list stayed up for Three Unmolested Days. Whereas any other controverial (to the Left) information was deleted in Five Minutes. 3 Days versus 5 Minutes. That doesn't look very good in my eyes as for the partiality of IMC.

  16. Re:I've always had this idea: on Browsing Reality With Sensor Networks · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually there is such a thing, it goes by the code name T.P.V, thats Total Perspective Vortex.

    For it's starting molecules it uses a piece of fairy cake.

  17. Boycott Slashdot! on Browsing Reality With Sensor Networks · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I say boycott slashdot until one of the following are met:

    1) We get a Roland Piquepaille section.
    2) Slashdot stops taking kickbacls
    3) Slashdot distributes kickbacks to readers.

    JOIN TODAY!

    (Of course I'm being sarcastic with the boycotting, but this is getting ridiculous)

  18. regulated protein degredation on 'Kiss of Death' Discoverers Get Nobel Prize · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hey . . didn't they try that on Jurrasic Park . . look where *that* got them.

  19. So, we know the pilot on SpaceShipOne Captures the X Prize · · Score: 1

    but who were the three lucky pasengers that were required?

  20. Re:I hate to say it on Gates on Spyware and OS Competition · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    BTW, [myg0t]steelcap is my bitch.

  21. I hate to say it on Gates on Spyware and OS Competition · · Score: 3, Funny

    but if Bill Gates says it too, it must be true:

    *BSD is Dying! (And will have died in 10 years)

    Just had to get that out of the way.

  22. Re:Well, we wanted a ruling on EULA's on Blizzard Stomps Bnetd in DMCA Case · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What do you mean nothing? YOu mean you're agreeing to a EULA for nothing? I mean don't EULA's usually come with *something* like say software?

  23. Wait . . on An Analysis of Various Election Methods · · Score: 1

    If people can't punch 1 hold in a ballot, how the hell do you expect them to punch multiple holes . . . .

  24. Re:you mean... on Iceland and USA Feel the Copyright Industry's Wrath · · Score: 4, Funny

    Of course! Paying $8 to see a movie once but paying $20 for something you can listen to for a long time is just wrong and overpriced. I mean come on! Isn't that obvious.

    </sarcasm>

  25. 'Best' Quote on Iceland and USA Feel the Copyright Industry's Wrath · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What's so shameful about this is: file sharing is not going away

    And people buying CD from artists under RIAA isn't either.