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  1. I'm reading this, and I'm about halfway through. on Red Hat CEO Publishes Open Source Management Memoir · · Score: 1

    I haven't come across anything that seems like bad advice, yet. The two biggest points seem to be:

    - good ideas come from anywhere, and you should build your organization in a way that allows those ideas to surface
    - Similarly, "leaders" and "leadership" should be emergent phenomena, and not handed down from on high by some predefined organization structure.

  2. Not too surprising on Google Aids Scientology-Linked Group CCHR With Pay-Per-Click Ads · · Score: 1

    This is almost certainly because they applied to Google's Adwords grants program:

    http://www.google.com/grants/e...

    There seem to be no ideological criteria (imagine the shitshow if there were?)

  3. Re:Linus management technique works on Kernel Dev Tells Linus Torvalds To Stop Using Abusive Language · · Score: 1

    I think the point was the ultimate futility of all that "screaming and abusiveness"-- though it could almost be extended to be about the ultimate futility of... everything?

  4. Re:Sorry, but.. on Google Gadgets Come to You · · Score: 1

    It's just a wire story, Reuters should be credited, not Yahoo.

  5. Boo-hoo! on Firefox vs. SP2's IE? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You're unsettled that your favorite solution isn't the best fit for everyone?

  6. Re:Apple's rock and hard place on FairPlay v2 Reversed, Playfair Back Online · · Score: 1

    Your .mac name and password will continue to work in iTunes music store (and any apple.com services that uses an "Apple ID")

  7. Re:Let's face it... on Update on Playfair · · Score: 1

    This is only "cracking" for users in countries with DMCA-like anti-circumvention laws.

  8. Re:The 5 Linux platforms on Rapid Application Development with Mozilla · · Score: 1

    Good point, But I was thinking of (and should have really said) LAMP.

  9. Re:The 5 Linux platforms on Rapid Application Development with Mozilla · · Score: 1

    #6 Apache (Don't underestimate web applications..)
    #7 Wine
    #8 GnuStep

    More?

  10. I read Wonkette on Wonkette and the Ethics of Online Journalism · · Score: 2, Funny

    Because it's pretty funny--

    Of course, it probably should have a more explicit and obvious disclaimer. I've always been a big fan of the one at the bottom of appleturns.com:

    """
    DISCLAIMER: AtAT is not a news site any more than "Inside Edition" is a "real" news show. We make "Dawson's Creek" look like "60 Minutes." We engage in rampant guesswork, wild speculation, and pure fabrication for the entertainment of our viewers. Sure, everything here is "inspired by actual events," but so was "Amityville II: The Possession." So lighten up.
    """

  11. the link on Life Extending Chemical Is Found In Certain Red Wine · · Score: 5, Informative

    why didn't the writeup link to the actual story?

  12. The book in full on Text Processing in Python · · Score: 5, Informative

    is here, as a series of text files. This is official.

  13. Re:cam chalking? on Public Warnings For Public Video Surveillance · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I put together a few glyphs here.

  14. Re:These warnings appear to only apply to Germany on Public Warnings For Public Video Surveillance · · Score: 3, Insightful

    exactly. I put together a few glyphs here.

  15. cam chalking? on Public Warnings For Public Video Surveillance · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I propose that we don't leave a task this important to the powers that be- we need to put together a set of simple symbols that can be marked with chalk or spray paint, in the spirit of (but a bit more subversive than) War chalking.

    It'd be best not to let the cam-chalking and warchalking symbols overlap, otherwise you would have confusion. The government would have hours of video tape of people walking around with laptops trying to find a WiFi signal.

    http://www.karchner.com/update/archives/000192.h tm l

  16. Re:Obligatory Simpsons Reference on Christian Videogame Alternatives Explored · · Score: 2, Funny

    Bart: When I'm feeling low, you know what always cheers me up?
    Todd: Is it love?
    Rod: Kindness?
    Bart: Ooh, tough room. Videogames! Whaddya got? [grabs a
    videogame off the shelf, and reads the title] "Billy
    Graham's Bible Blaster?"
    Rod: Keep firing; convert the heathens!
    [cut to a pixilated video screen. Heathens cross the
    street, as a Bible gun shoots the Holy Book at them. When
    a heathen gets hit, he turns into a conservatively dressed
    man with a halo]
    [cut back to the boys]
    Bart: Got him!
    Rod: No, you just winged him and made him a Unitarian.
    Todd: Look out, Bart! A gentle Baha'i!
    [cut back to the video screen. A Baha'i, sitting cross-
    legged and wearing a turban, floats past. Bart zaps him,
    and turns him into another suit-wearing conservative]
    [cut back to the boys]
    Bart: All right! Full conversion! [puts his arms around Rod
    and Todd] Thanks guys, this really cheered me up.
    Video: Second Coming! Reload, reload!
    Todd: Can we play now?
    Bart: We are playing. We're a team.
    Rod +
    Todd: [pause] Yay!

  17. Ebert sez on Remember The Wizard? · · Score: 1

    http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/ebert_reviews/1989/1 2/387649.html

  18. And I shall shout thy name from the hilltops: on What XML Tools Do You Use? · · Score: 1

    BBEdit BBEdit BBEdit!

    Always friend and often savior.

    Amen.

    Although, the BBEdit Anthology is a bit crazy.

  19. But. on Rabies Antibodies From Tobacco Plants · · Score: 1

    can you smoke it?

  20. Vs. Zeroconf? on Intel Whitepaper On UPnP · · Score: 2, Informative

    Has anyone posted a detailed comparison of UPnP and Zeroconf/Rendevous? They seem to accomplish similar things.

    Please reply to this comment with any links.

  21. D Rules! on Rad Brad - Gaming's New Movie Hero · · Score: 1

    Who the fuck cares about video games? JB and KG need to get off thier asses and make a new album.

    The D is the only band that matters.

    Ever.

  22. Hey! on Metallica Videogame Planned · · Score: 1

    I thought the aerosmith game was pretty fun... Well, at least I remember shooting CD's, some partial nudity, giant robots and stuff.

  23. Maybe this is what the show needs... on Duchovny to Quit X-Files · · Score: 1

    The show has gotten quite stale lately... Maybe the loss of a major charachter is what was needed to make it interesting again.

    Just a thought,

    -Ross

  24. Let the stoning begin! on Wacky port of BSD to Dreamcast set top box · · Score: 1

    (1)OK... is there a port of bleem or a similar Playstation emulator to BSD? Could one be written? Hell! Could one be written for CE? Imagine how cool the Dreamcast would be if it could be made to play Playstation CD's and its own native games.

    (2), this is what I expect to have rocks thrown at me for... how tough would it be to boot Darwin/ MacOS X on this? :-)

  25. Re:yee gads, a Mac reply... on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best MP3 Encoder? · · Score: 1

    I can't say I have played with Soundjam... But I have used Mpecker And AudioCatalyst from Xing. AC gets my nod... Encoding is simple and CDDB/ ID3 creation is all automated. Mpecker is free and has a funny name, but is in pre-release. And the latest beta expired as of August 8.