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  1. Re:More taxes on National PC Recycling Plan Proposed, Again · · Score: 1

    The government has $150 hammers to buy.

    Are you a troll or just naturally retarded? That and the $800 toilet seat were shown to be accounting mistakes relating to how overhead was attributed.

  2. Re:New House? on Multi-Room Wireless Sound System? · · Score: 1

    Crosstalk shouldn't be too bad with just a couple of computers and a phone.

    The other route is to go into the attic and come down into the walls. If I stay in my current house (God forbid), this is what I will have to do, as the house sits on a slab. No crawlspace or basement. Of course, if you find a decent electrician, they can do some pretty sick wire pulls. And, honestly, patching and painting drywall isn't too hard.

  3. Re:New House? on Multi-Room Wireless Sound System? · · Score: 1

    My thoughts exactly. I told my parents (who are in the process of building a new house) that they better get lots of cable runs, and lots of electrical outlets. Smarthome is also where I pointed them:)

    If he has just entered escrow, there is a good chance that the house is already built.

    This is especially important in neighborhoods or non-detached houses. With so many people having wi-fi (and baby monitors and phones and etc.) there is bound to be wireless interference. From my parents' rental house, they can see three networks. (Sadly, the signal strength is better from the neighbor's AP than theirs:)

  4. Re:My Top...err, Bottom Ten List. on Top 10 Apple Flops · · Score: 1

    What, you were expecting one button mouse to be here?

    No, because you obviously drink the Kool-Aid.

    The march from 6.0.0 to 6.0.7 was much, much more painful than dealing with 7.5.

    I had a MacRecorder (back in the days before builtin sound input) that used the ADB interface. I remember seeing some other odds and ends. It helps if you look at ADB more like USB than PS2.

    That said, you, like the original authors missed the Apple ///. Major abomination, and could have pulled the whole mess down, coming right at the same time as Lisa.

  5. Re:Aha on Bill Gates Handwriting Analyzed · · Score: 1

    The 'unstable man, unstable OS' jokes may begin ... now.

    Someone jumped the gun.

  6. Re:only apple could make a one button mouse... on Why Apple Makes a One-Button Mouse · · Score: 1

    You probably also don't understand why name brand toilet paper is more expensive than generic.

  7. Re:The biggest problem with a media PC is ... on BBC Bill Gates Interview · · Score: 1

    Imprecise terminology. Of course nobody worries about the computer in their watch or game console or automobile. These are not general purpose computers. The PC is one form of general purpose computer. You have a basic processor, storage, IO, etc. And you can load programs that do a wide variety of tasks.

    What Gates wants is for his company, which pretty much specializes in software for general purpose computers, to invade the single purpose computer market.

  8. Re:why *I* like the GPL ... on Why I Love The GPL · · Score: 1

    WriteNow kicked ass. And WhiteKnight (RedRyder prior to version 11).

    Just old Mac reminscences.

  9. Re:Ummm... because nobody cares? on The Lost 1984 Mac Video · · Score: 1

    My wife is deaf-blind, but her braille pda has text to speech. It's invaluable for me to do tech support, but it is nearly impossible to understand at times. And yes, the default mode for the voice is "off" in our house, both to keep from annoying me and to provide her with privacy.

    How else can she bitch about me to her online friends?

  10. Re: Why BBC why?! on Monday, January 24th to be Worst Day of the Year · · Score: 1
    You missed (just off the top of my head):

    • How can I get rid of Jon Katz on the front page?
    • AYBABTU
    • Caveman Oog
    • Natalie Portman should be petrified
    • the grits should be in my pants. Or Natalie Portman. I can never remember which

    Disclaimer: Some of these require a five digit UID to remember. Oh, wait, UID trolling, that should be in the list.
  11. Re:Very True on Has TiVo's Fate Been Sealed? · · Score: 1

    My parents had the Comcast DVR abomination for two months. Then they asked me to help them pick out a TiVo and hook it up.

  12. Re:Where's my irony stick? on LiveJournal Servers Go Down · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Everything in italics is the exact comment from the submitter. Everything else NOT IN italics, is any of the additional comments by the editors. Haven't you ever noticed that????

    Long before you showed up here.

    Michael, as an editor, could easily rewrite the summary (and perhaps he did). Or he could choose the most inflammatorily written piece, and pretend to have presented the article without bias.

    Certainly none of these theories are more tin-foil-hattish than 95% of the stories on YRO.

  13. Where's my irony stick? on LiveJournal Servers Go Down · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because michael needs a beating. The site that rolls beta (alpha?) code onto live servers complaining and making jokes because another site goes down through no fault of its own?

  14. Another one on Linux Looms Large in DVRs, PVRs · · Score: 2, Funny

    I heard there's some hacked together thing called Teevough (sp??) that uses it as well? Anyone heard of this Teavoe?

    Tey Veaux?

  15. Re:Why even bother? on This Call May Be Monitored ... · · Score: 1

    Sorry, Katz and mikey aren't in the same category. JK would respond in a timely, measured manner if you emailed him. I never once saw him directly insult a user. He never mod-bombed anyone. Sure, his content may have left a little to be desired, but whereas he was earnest, mikey is just a troll looking for hits.

  16. Re:The War of the Giants on IBM Opens Their Patent Portfolio to Open Source · · Score: 1

    That's all well and good, but if that new law works the way it is supposed to, the Battleship Microsoft might be sunk by The Crimson Permanent Assurance.

  17. Re:Sweet! on IBM Opens Their Patent Portfolio to Open Source · · Score: 2, Informative

    it was before my time, and probably most others

    Contrary to popular belief, most slashdotters are probably old enough to vote in the US, so this is unlikely.

    The big one I remember was "why 1984 won't be like 1984". Big Brother in the famous Apple ad wasn't Microsoft. In 1984, they were Apple's best bud. The big danger, the evil empire, the one the Justice Dept. had been trying to take down for decades, was IBM.

    Slightly younger dotters (I'm only 32, which seems to be only a couple of years older than the average dotter) may remember the concern when Apple first got in bed with IBM in the early 90's. Older dotters can likely tell all kinds of horror stories that led to the DOJ investigations and lawsuit.

    But, here's the funny thing, what do they actually produce in terms of software? The eclipse project, Websphere, and Lotus Notes? Why do they feel like a has-been?

    Unlike MS, Google, and Yahoo, IBM is a very, VERY diverse company. There are lots of things going on. It takes many miles, lots of planning, and lots of energy to turn around a battleship.

  18. Re:How big IS this thing? on World's First BTX Mini-PC · · Score: 1

    Steel needs shielding as well. Typically in the form of Ar/CO2 (75-25) for GMAW and GTAW process, and flux for SMAW process. That isn't really the issue. Like you say, the issue is that steel is easier to form with presses, brakes, etc.

  19. Re:Affiliate programs on Bob Cringely's Predictions For 2005 · · Score: 1

    It may be a moot point. When I applied for my affiliate ID, the site looked essentially the same way it does now (and, btw, I've made a whopping $0.00 from it). No privacy info, and lots of my pointless rambling.

  20. Re:missing Dick's point about the drug war? on A Scanner Darkly Sneak-Peek · · Score: 1

    Rosebud is sled, and he was on Earth the whole time. Get a clue; if the only point of the book is what happened in the last two pages before "THE END", then the book wasn't worth it in the first place.

  21. Re:A Fools solution. on Business Under Fire · · Score: 1

    I'm sure there are other brands, but last I checked, Red Wing Shoes were made in America. Sadly, now that I check their website, I see no 'Made in America' information, which leads me to suspect the worst.

  22. Re:not just business on Business Under Fire · · Score: 1

    Would you go back to your office after an attack? No. And then they'd raze the building and put up a monument.

    You're absolutely correct. I think this bombed office building is scheduled for demolition next week

  23. Re:Node Coffee Shop offers free electricity!! on Mobile Users Plug-in Anywhere They Can · · Score: 1

    Hard for you to measure, but have you been able to compare electricity costs, so as to offer some hard numbers in rebutal to the article?

  24. Re:What a coincidence on Interview with the Frag Dolls · · Score: 1

    I play games, but:

    it's possible that someday you or I could earn some scratch for fragging.

    The only way I'd earn money fragging is the same way William Hung won money singing.

  25. Re:What a coincidence on Interview with the Frag Dolls · · Score: 1

    Again, reading comprehension skills lacking on slashdot.

    Why are there *only* attractive females in the group? Surely there's some trollish females out there with mad 733+ gaming skillz.

    Then again, you probably think drinking Bud Light will get you all the women as well...