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  1. Re:Whatever happened to the Newton? on SyncML May Make Handheld-to-PC Links Easier · · Score: 1

    if i remember correctly, the simpsons poked fun at the handwriting recognition in one of their episodes.

  2. Re:Remember Shareware? on Free-PC Bites the Dust · · Score: 1

    Hence why car dealerships let you go for a test drive.

  3. Ya, know what i'd like? on The Ultimate Geek Food · · Score: 1

    A snack food that tastes great, but has absolutely NO nutritional effect good or bad. So you can eat as much as you want, and you won't gain weight (or have other bad health stuff). The perfect hacker snack, at least for me, anyway.

  4. good for them on Atipa Corporation to Receive $30M Investment · · Score: 1

    atipa is a great company, i'm using one of their boxes to write this, in fact. Linux is good.

  5. Re:I already get 1.5 hours of Simpsons a day ... on The Simpsons The Movie? · · Score: 1

    or when marge takes up bowling and almost has an sffair, the moon is a bowling ball...

  6. Re:Serial ATA: The Unnecessary Standard on Serial ATA and USB 2 · · Score: 1

    "you can run a SCSI device over a parallel cable if you like, if you've got a device and a
    controller that know how to do it."

    The original Iomega Zip drives were ALL scsi, even the parallel versions. Iomega wrote a driver to allow it to do scsi over parallel.

  7. Re:Never mind the spoofing. How about some tough q on Prankster Spoofs President Clinton in CNN Online Chat · · Score: 1

    I agree. Prime Minister's questions is the ONLY reason to watch C-SPAN!!! I love it when Blair and the tory leader start going at it!

    But, Clinton wouldn't be interesting...

    Speaker: The House recognizes rep. Joe Blo from texas.

    J. Blo: Mr. Speaker, Will the President please tell us why he cut funding to social security?

    Pres. Clinton: That depends on what the definition of "to" is...

    J. Blo: To means to!!

    Speaker: order! please answer the question mr. blo, what is your definition of to?

    yada yada

  8. geez... on Windows 2000 Has 65,000+ Bugs · · Score: 1

    bill g and stevie b are going to make Larry A. and ESR a whole lot richer! Windows 2000 is being shot at by everyone right now, it seems. Pah! Take that Darth Gates!

  9. Re:the MS college deal on University of Michigan Linux · · Score: 1

    If your church doesn't, then call the Gideons... they're the guys that put those bibles in hotel rooms (they want you to take them.) and in prisons.

  10. At Least Mitnik is ok on More DoS Attacks: CNN, Amazon, eBay, Buy.com... · · Score: 2

    Just saw the news report on this on ABC, and they hav Kevin Mitnik on to comment. So he did find work that doesn't involve him using computers... i guess most slashdotters were off on this. Now everytime a new MS-Virus is released, or some major site/network is cracked, we are gonna hear from him.

  11. Re:Symbol on LinuxOne CTO Interview · · Score: 1

    we sould contact mr. torvalds too, with a petition to revoke their use of Linux in their name...

  12. Re:The Future of Slashdot? on Andover.Net and VA Linux Join Together · · Score: 1

    Slashdot HAS NEVER been a good source of news. Why? It is opinionated, it's stories are usually just a short summary and links to the real story. But that doesn't stop me from coming back, why? Because of the community, the people like you and me, (even karma whores) make this site special. I call yell scream and otherwise tell you all my opinion on whatever, and if you care, you'll read it.

  13. Re:AOL becomes the ONLY internet connection on AOL 5 Gets $8 Billion Class Action Suit · · Score: 2

    you have to tell AOL that you want to connect through a network, then it won't do that. Plus it costs less if you switch to the BYOA plan.

    Knowledge from my AOL Beta testing days. I got kicked out for suggesting a Linux client... funny story really. And I bet the people involved in the suit STILL wouldn't cancel their accounts and switch to a real ISP for a million dollars....

  14. Re:One example on Replacing SAT with LEGOs · · Score: 1

    Regatta - a boat race.

    There is no excuse for not knowing volcabulary. I live nowhere near the shore, have never participated in ANY watersport, boating or otherwise, but i've done something, IT'S CALLED READING A BOOK! There is no bias in vocab. Just because you don't pick something up in everyday life doesn't mean you shouldn't be responsible for knowing it. THAT'S WHAT SCHOOL IS FOR!

    There are actually books designed to help a person increase their vocab! Anyway, rather than continuing this rant, vocab cannot be biased because anyone can learn it.

  15. Re:Can somebody PLEEEEEEAAAASSSE give an example?? on Replacing SAT with LEGOs · · Score: 2

    I hate to offend people, but vocab questions like "Regatta is to boat as..." or one involing buttercup, can be solved by any idiot who HAS A GOOD VOLCABULARY! honestly, in my everyday life, regattas tend not to come up, but I know what it is, because I pay attention in class and I study my vocab.

    Now, a question like "All bears in the north are white. My friend from up north saw a bear, what color was it?" would be unfair to some nomadic asian people, because they DON't think like that. But vocab is vocab. You want to do good, you STUDY THE DAMN VOCAB. And thats that. Meanwhile, I think its more likely the "ghetto" attitude of "I Don't care, because everybody wants me to fail" that leads minorities to do worse than the majority. They don't study and then do bad.

    Or then there is the possibility that the majorities have an advantage due only to their larger sample group.

  16. Re:It's understandable.... on Congress Still Figuring Out E-Mail · · Score: 1

    you'd give them instructions?

  17. Re:Air Force One on Live From The Asteroid Fortress · · Score: 2

    I believe that the VP and First Lady have their own designation too (the Vp Would be Two, or something) For all intents and purposes, the president generally always flies on the same plane so, that one almost is airforce one.

  18. Re:Someone make Bruce a sign to wave! on Slash v0.9 Released · · Score: 1

    'Limo.... you are my hero

  19. ADFU on DoubleClick DoubleCross · · Score: 1

    People, stop using this offensive Double-click! Use Adfu instead, from the people who brought you Slashdot!

  20. Re:I prefer High Impact Plastic on Retro Palm Pilot Case · · Score: 1

    Want to talk about rugged... My nokia cellphone has had just about everything done to it, from being thrown into a wall (i was having a bad day) to being slammed in a car door, (fell out of my pocket while i was closing the door and it got in the way) and its still ticking!, and barely a scratch of damage. (ok, the car door left a mark, but its barely noticeable. Good american design right there!\

    Wait! Nokia isn't American? oops, my bad.

  21. Re:Agggggggg.... on Retro Palm Pilot Case · · Score: 1

    If you want cold and hard, the Palm V is made of metal

    You don't want to lick that on a cold day. Some of us (Roblimo) have been known to do that on salow day...

  22. Re:Cray on Retro Palm Pilot Case · · Score: 1

    i never actually saw one in person, but i saw a picture, and my initial impression was, "Why does it have built in seating?"

    anyway..... havingone in your living room would make a good convrsation piece, huh.

    anyway, on the topic of the pilot, wont this make it kinda big? Maybe i'm just soiled but compared to my palm Vx, the standard case for the III or reletives is practically huge, and this looks like it makes it even bigger. Not a totally bd look though,maybe it they used plastic that looked like wood instead?

  23. Re:What are the Differences? on Free Solaris 8 · · Score: 1

    SunOS versions before Marketing renamed it Solaris, were BSD. They got a hold of AT&T SysV code under an agreement they had, to co-develop Unix. (it fell through) So Sun may act more like SysV than linux, it has code from both.

  24. Re:Communism vs monopolism on Warner Music and EMI Set to Merge · · Score: 2

    If schools were run properly, 65% of people in school should be getting Cs, and only 2.35% should be getting As. Only 2.35% should be getting Fs too...

    That actually tends to happen when tests are graded properly, where instead of getting a grade based on your percent of questions answered correctly, you are graded on what percent of the class you did better than. Kinda like standardized testing.

  25. Re:W--- what? Re:WMAL on FCC: Legal Low-Power FM Broadcasting Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    Callsigns are for US military purposes. A pilot for example always knows where he is if he can access a radio, because the call sign, plus a map listing the locations of the call signs tell him where he is. Which is why the FCC makes stations stop every so often and broadcast their station identification.