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  1. Re:less dense than DVD on Replace Your Music....Again · · Score: 1

    The hole is only 0.2cm^3. Don't beat yourself up.

  2. in Googlis non est ergo non est on Ritz Disposable Digital Camera Hacked · · Score: 1

    Searched on Google for ritz disposable digital camera 10.99 and found two matches. One is the previous /. story on this subject, and the other is in Danish (http://foto.diip.ee/archives/001285.html).

    http://ritzcamera.com/ appears to have no information on the subject.

    I could go down seven floors and ask at the Ritz store in this building, but what would be the point?

  3. OT: Your sig on OSDL To Start Pushing on Desktop Linux · · Score: 1

    "I like my women like I like my coffee......bitter."

    I was once at a bar with a friend, his girlfriend (R), and *her* friend (J), whom I quite fancied. It was winter, so I had a pint of Greene King Christmas Ale.

    R: Rupert likes his women like he likes his beer.
    J: You mean dark and strong?
    R: No, flat and expensive.

    No more dates :( It must be noted that the first three adjectives did indeed describe J quite well.

  4. Re:All the star wars movies are about R2-D2 on 'Star Wars: Clone Wars' Premieres Tonight · · Score: 1

    Sad but true.

  5. Re:Special editions on LOTR: Two Towers Extended Edition Reviewed · · Score: 1

    If you're not Peter Jackson, you don't have any gripes. You're not the director of the movie, and you're not the author of the parent comment. If you don't like one person's review of another person's work, then don't expose yourself to it. Get over yourself.

  6. Re:Special editions on LOTR: Two Towers Extended Edition Reviewed · · Score: 1

    It's kind of hard to see how Eowyn is going to think "I can't have Aragorn but I can have this troll instead".

  7. Special editions on LOTR: Two Towers Extended Edition Reviewed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Which edition of the DVD do I need to buy to see the scene where Faramir passes the test and lets Frodo and Sam go without taking them to Osgiliath?

  8. All the star wars movies are about R2-D2 on 'Star Wars: Clone Wars' Premieres Tonight · · Score: 4, Funny

    This really became apparent to me after AotC. Now I'm waiting for Episode 3 to show how and why R2 lost his flying rockets, and when his holographic projector was downgraded.

  9. Of course it scales on Touch-Screen Voting Snags Continue · · Score: 1

    It takes a fixed percentage of the population to count votes by hand. It scales 1-1.

    Someone has convinced the people of the USA that democracy can be good, fast and cheap (in violation of at least one well-known law of nature) so they seek solutions that scale better than that. The result of that is Diebold.

    Touchscreen is good in theory because it gives you instant feedback on your vote ("You selected Al Gore and Pat Buchanan for president. Are you insane?") It's also a relatively mature technology, deployed in large numbers into hostile physical environments (e.g. fast food restaurants).

  10. This is stopping me from becoming a US citizen on Supreme Court Will Hear Pledge of Allegiance Case · · Score: 1

    I have lived in the US for eight years. Every now and then I contemplate becoming a citizen. And then I run up against the whole Pledge of Allegiance thing.

    I am told it is customary to remain silent while everyone else says "under god". I have a problem with it being customary for the final step in the process of becoming a citizen involves defying an act of Congress. But that's not my biggest problem.

    My biggest problem is that it's a flag. My allegiance is not to a piece of cloth. My allegiance is (or would be) to the Republic for which it stands. So my Pledge of Allegiance would go like this:

    I pledge allegiance to the
    [pause]
    United States of America
    [pause]
    Republic
    [pause]
    One nation
    [pause]
    indivisible, with liberty and justice for all
    [sotto voce]: who can afford it.

  11. The definitive periodic table ... on Element 110 Now Darmstadtium · · Score: 1

    ... is this one by Michael Swanwick.

    And yes, he has Darmstadtium.

  12. Read your EULA on An Informal Study Of K12 Classroom Software Costs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Who do you call when commercial software breaks? Unless you're paying additional monthly or annual maintenance fees, chances are the vendor isn't going to want to talk to you.

    Someone pointed out the third "free" is free as in market. With commercial software, only the vendor can support you. You pay their price or you get nothing. With free-as-in-speech software you get free-as-in-market software support: you can pay as much or as little as you'd like, for varying levels of support, and presumably varying levels of expertise.

  13. No!!! on Controversy Surrounds Huge IE Hole · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There was already working code posted that exploited the vulnerability but did not format your drive. There was no need to add that payload to the exploit. It's like handing out a vaccine that you have modified to have worse side effects than the original disease.

  14. Register has the numbers, too on Microsoft Loses $177m on Xbox in Three Months · · Score: 2

    Here.

    As El Reg points out: "it's also clear that Microsoft is the dominant force in the PC market, and only the PC market. It can afford to shoulder big losses in the areas where it wishes to be the dominant force for a very long time. Which is fortunate, because in several cases these look suspiciously like ventures normal businesses would be forced to put a bullet into. Now."

  15. Re:Take my wife. Please. on Slashback: ClonesMAX, Animation, Dislaimers · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can't believe I posted that. Good job my wife doesn't read Slashdot.

  16. Re:Counselling on Slashback: ClonesMAX, Animation, Dislaimers · · Score: 2

    Like I said elsewhere, my wife is a wonderful woman, who understands geeks, without being geeky herself.

    OTOH, maybe she's a baking geek. She loves kitchen gadgets, and trying new recipes, modifying the source until the finished product is to her satisfaction.

  17. Take my wife. Please. on Slashback: ClonesMAX, Animation, Dislaimers · · Score: 2

    Yes, I have a wonderful wife. I say this with particular feeling right now as she is basking in afterglow and I'm posting to Slashdot. She understands my needs, see?

  18. Re:Adult IMAX Movie? on Slashback: ClonesMAX, Animation, Dislaimers · · Score: 2

    And after the movie she put on the Princess Leia slave-girl costume and I whipped out my light saber and ...

    Well actually we picked the kids up from the kind folks who were babysitting at short notice, went home, dealt with getting the kids into bed 2.5 hours past their bedtime, then got into bed and went straight to sleep.

    I should have done like John did, and gone at noon. He also got the benefit of an empty theater, whereas the 6:30pm showing was sold out.

    Oh, one more manner in which reality departs from the fantasy that began this post: I look far more like Jabba than any of the leading characters.

  19. Re:I fear for the weak willed on XMPP Gets An IETF Working Group · · Score: 3, Funny

    but some ... readers will eventually be in a real relationshop

    i.e. a relationship that you pay for.

    Sounds about right to me.

  20. Re:Furby on Beautiful Case Modding · · Score: 2

    To make a furby COO, it should first spend some time working in accounting, and the probably as VP of an operating division. Then when the CEO is indicted for stock fraud, the CFO becomes CEO, the COO becomes CFO, and you can promote the furby to COO.

  21. Space.com math on Antimatter Space Drive · · Score: 5, Interesting
    About 40 times about 5 equals about 250.

    Would it kill them to be a little more precise on:
    • the distance from the Sun to the Oort cloud (about 250AU)
    • the distance from the Sun to Pluto (about 40AU)
    • the ratio of those two distances (apparently about 5)
    ?
  22. You know what this means? on Vatican/HP To Put Library Online · · Score: 2

    Pr0n, pr0n and more pr0n.

    The Vatican supposedly has the largest collection of erotica in the world.

    Cecil Adams disagrees, though, so I suppose it must not be true.

  23. Re:Doesnt make sense on Nintendo Fined $143m for Price-Fixing · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Of course they can charge what they want. What they can't do is intimidate people who want to buy it where it's cheaper and sell it where it's more expensive. Now, since their intimidation was limited to reducing the allocation (in some cases to zero) to companies involved in the grey market, I think it's a little bit of a grey area [haha].

    This is interesting because it's not that long ago that exactly the opposite was decided in the case of Tescos selling grey market Levis. But I think that was a UK court, not a EU one.

  24. It seems to be working on Microsoft: You Need Permission to Sell Our Software · · Score: 1

    Symbol Last Trade Change Volume
    TGT 4:01pm $31.53 +0.21 +0.67% 4,080,400

  25. Re:Enough on States To Try Taxation Of The Net Again · · Score: 2

    You have answered your own question. Purchases made in a state where the seller has no business presence are not taxed. Internet, mail order, walking into a department store and having them mail it out of state are all taxed the same.

    The internet is over the head of overexcited lawmakers, and they can't see that nothing has changed here. Never mind that B2C catalogue sales are 10 times the dollar value of all B2C ecommerce. The internet is new, and to be feared, and what they fear they either ban or tax.