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  1. Paper Computer on HP Wants Manufacturers To Bear PC Disposal Costs · · Score: 1

    I'm still waiting for the recyclable paper pc. I've yet to even see one of those paper cell phones, though...

    I guess we'd have quite a few cooling hurdles to overcome before the paper pc roles around, though :)

  2. Re:DUNE on What Makes Great Science Fiction? · · Score: 1

    Next book... Siona was Moneo's daughter. Moneo being Leto II's majordomo in the 4th book.

    I forget the name of the girl your talking about, though. She's the one that controls the worms and is taken in by the BG. In the last book as Duncan and company are escaping in a no-ship with a captured worm, it alludes to her accepting the same transformation as Leto. If Brian and Kevin write Dune 7, maybe that will be confirmed.

  3. Re:Because it does not work. on Using PDAs for Dictation? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Unfortunately, the keyboard is the most accurate way to input data.

    According to my boss, it's actually something called an office administrator.

  4. Re:Microsoft is dying. on Microsoft Just Says No to .Doc Replacement Panel · · Score: 1

    So, is Microsoft dying?

  5. Re:It's like porn sites.... there are enough alrea on Which Desktop Distro Will Die First? · · Score: 1

    making a new one is a losing proposition

    A new distro may be a losing proposition, but I bet a new porn site has a fairly good chance :)

  6. Re:Where's Voltron?? on Stopping Killer Asteroids · · Score: 5, Funny

    Damn straight. Just Form Blazing Sword and the day is saved! Screw the lions... go straight to the sword.

  7. Re:Privacy and the COPA on Senate Approves Censored .kids.us Domain · · Score: 1

    oh, that would be funny, wouldn't it?

    no

  8. Re:.kids.US ? on Senate Approves Censored .kids.us Domain · · Score: 1

    Well, this isn't a world-wide inititiative. It's a US initiative. Seems like the US tld is one of the few places the US congress could create something like this. At least, that's how it looks to me.

  9. Re:Keep the computer in the living room on Senate Approves Censored .kids.us Domain · · Score: 2, Funny

    one of them's gotten the family AOL account shut down

    So the kid's not all bad... is that what you're saying? :)

  10. Re:No way, no how. Never gonna happen. on Taiwan Asks Microsoft To Open Windows Source · · Score: 1

    Why take the risk of leaks to the general public

    Now, I'm sure Microsoft could trust the Chinese government to keep the source strictly to themselves. I don't see the problem, here ;)

  11. Re:times two! on Mplayer Adds Sorenson v3 To the Linux Roster · · Score: 1

    I'll bet [most hated boy band goes here] would benefit from something that guesses and fills in notes.

  12. Re:logitech is blue... on "Red is Dead" Optical Mice LED Change · · Score: 2, Informative

    Red + Blue = ....Purple? :) Hmm... don't know about that.

  13. Cheap mouse to experiment on... on "Red is Dead" Optical Mice LED Change · · Score: 1
  14. Re:logitech is blue... on "Red is Dead" Optical Mice LED Change · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm looking at my Microsoft optical now... it looks like it also has a seperate cosmetic led for the logo on the back... I may just try swithcing that out instead of risking the one used for tracking (there may just be one... I haven't taken it apart to check).

    An optical mouse is still a little expensive for me to experiment with. As in, my wife won't let me :)

  15. Re:Warning! Bad Joke. on Earth's Little Brother Found · · Score: 0

    Better to drop your kids off at the pool than with the klingons hanging around around uranus. :)

    (yuck, yuck)

  16. Massa on Google Sued over Page Ranking · · Score: 0, Troll

    Massa is asking that the court grant preliminary and permanent injunctions against Google.

    And what Massa wants, Massa gets :) Troll? Very.

  17. Re:Good idea, but... on Floor Vacuum Robot for $200 · · Score: 1

    To be fair, I usually only get the floor mostly clean when I manually run the vacuum. Part of it is laziness, part is... well... okay, it's all laziness.

    Maybe I could use some more work. I know my wife thinks so :)

  18. Corrected Link on Constructing Accessible Web Sites · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Perkins site, IS interesting. Here is a working link :)

  19. Re:"Buried in ... credit card debt" on Generation Wrecked · · Score: 1

    Certaintly, I can relate to this. I learned the hard way about credit cards while I was in college and still paying for it. I'm post-genX (barely)... if anyone in college wants my advice, stay away from the credit card apps... I know you get a t-shirt and other free shit, but the temptation is great and most kids in college don't need credit cards. Donate blood instead. The t-shirts are cooler, and you improve on your real-life karma.

  20. Re:Gravitational Wobble on New Frozen World Found Beyond Pluto · · Score: 1

    but I have always thought if I wanted the *correct* answer to something I should post something obviously wrong on Slashdot

    Now that's true enough! Sorry I can't help with your astronomy, but that last line got a chuckle.

    More on topic, however, I noticed that CNN isn't reporting this as a planet, just a big icy rock, half the size of Pluto. To me this further dulls the line between an asteroid and a planet. Given what's been said about this new object, the line is draw somewhere between pluto-sized and half-pluto-sized. Go figure.

    Also interesting to note... Google News has a /. link to this discussion.

  21. Re:Yet another thing to think about on Blind User Sues Southwest Over Web Site, Cites ADA · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but this is nothing new... It's always been considered good form to make your site as accessible as possible. It was just a matter of courtesy, not the law.

    I used to be good about it, but I've been pretty lazy lately. It really doesn't take much extra effort, though... Relatively, that is.

  22. Re:Similar Efforst on The Days of SysAdmin Numbered? · · Score: 1

    Even if I can plug in a printer, and the network knows its there, or add disks, or whatever, who is going to add users? Who is going to design the security policies/system? This is mostly what a sys admin does

    Sure 'nough. That's why I think real sys admins (you know who you are) shouldn't feel threatened. It's the sys admins that can't do these things - the guys that exist soley to crimp cat 5, run cable, assemble racks, and run around with the super-cool helpdesk pager - that should feel threatened.

    We use our junior "sys admins" as documentation bitches.

  23. Re:Open Ports on How The DMCA Is Enforced · · Score: 1

    I dont know if you noticed or not but we have no rights in America anymore

    I did notice, however, that you have the right to say what you just said. The pertinant question here is, what rights do we have and what rights don't we have compared to 10 years ago? Now, of the later, what rights shouldn't we have lost? I think you could write a book on the subject, and I'm not advocating any particular stance here.

    I do advocate taking a step back and making a rational evaluation or our condition before blindly whining about "we don't have rights anymore and our government sucks ass and only rich people are treated fairly". That may or may not be true, but God knows I've heard enough of that on /. to know that a lot of people aren't putting a great deal of thought behind that sentiment.

  24. Re:The Economics Of Warez on Talk To a Convicted Warez Guy · · Score: 1

    it sounds like you hate your job, and it's this great struggle everyday

    I don't know how you get that from my previous statement. I actually like my job very much. If not, I wouldn't work so hard at it.

    Hard Work != Bad Job. At least, not where I grew up.

  25. Re:The ultimate product placement... on Drink Pepsi, Go to Space? · · Score: 1

    I'm not riding in any rocket-propelled vehicle with "Twist" in the same. I have a hard enough time on rides with relatively low g's.