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  1. If only... on Best Device For Gesture Based Input? · · Score: 3

    I wish the Windoze PC at work would understand the simple gesture I keep making at it. A single extended finger, highlighted against a background of deep blue. I'm going to end up with a repetitive stress injury that's going to be tough to explain to the claims adjustor.

  2. Re:Database Leaders on IBM To Purchase Informix Database · · Score: 1
    They are making sqlserver a require part of all thier applications and .NET. While you can do some stuff with other databases, microsoft had demostrated features with office and other products that will not work without sqlserver

    If Microsoft binds the operation of their desktop this intimately to their servers, IBM and Oracle will be pounding on the Attorney General's door the very next morning. This is an anti-competetive, exclusionary tying tactic similar to what got their collective corporate ass in hot water in the first place. Not that I don't think they'd try to do something like this....

  3. Public schools have wimped out on Sean In The Middle · · Score: 1
    On my first day of high school, our principal, a big hairy brutish neanderthal mountain of flesh, pulled out a New York city phone book and ripped it in half and then delivered a foghorn-voiced lecture about not putting up with any shit from the students - on or off the grounds. A few deft supersonic demo swings of the largest white oak paddle we'd ever seen, and we were all scared completely shitless for the next nine months.

    She didn't have many disciplinary problems after that.

  4. Re: The only reason for time.. on The Quickly Descending Unix Timestamp · · Score: 1

    Actually, everything DOES happen all at once. Your brain only simulates for you the passage of time so that it is not completely overwhelmed. You will already be dead before you finish reading this, of course, and yet unborn as well. Requiescat in peace and happy birthday.

  5. Off topic, I know. on The Myriad Ways of Wiring Your Home? · · Score: 1

    A sizeable segment of the world's population isn't even wired for electricity yet. Maybe humankind should solve that little problem first.

  6. Re:A request: on FBI Turns To Private Sector for Data · · Score: 1
    Would Slashdot refrain from posting stories that are widespread in the popular media? The story was also in today's Wall Street Journal.

    So who reads the original article anyway? Certainly not most of the people who post here.

  7. Re:most peoples posts are going to be about.. on Software Problem Linked to Osprey Crash · · Score: 2

    You forgot one other... F) People who post source to "Hello World" that they claim is correct, except it's not. There's already been one of them.

  8. Re:There goes the neighborhood on Paul Allen Buys Old MITS Building · · Score: 1

    It's only a block off of Central, right behind a string of low budget motels. They filmed a few episodes of "Cops" in the area. There's already hookers.

  9. Re:The Real Story on Ask Robert Young · · Score: 3

    A pimp. How appropriate. In other words, a guy who makes a profit by selling something that most people could get for free with a little effort.

  10. Your check's in the mail from Microsoft on DARPA to Fund Open Source Security Research · · Score: 1
    Maybe someone should just tell them about OpenBSD, save some time and money.

    Yeah, that way Microsoft can steal all the work, compromise it in their usual way, and call it their own. This is yet another project that needs the "innovation killing" attributes of GPL in order to protect the consumers from the chokehold of Microsoft.

  11. Libraries on The End Of Books As We Know Them? · · Score: 1

    Publishing companies view public libraries as their worst enemy. Publishers want to be able to collect fees for every time their product is read, and want the "free" libraries to start passing this cost on to their patrons. This would have the effect of denying knowledge to the segment of our society most in need of it.

    E-books will become a deadly weapon that can be wielded by publishers in their war on libraries.

  12. Obviously a product of Redmond origin on License to Sit · · Score: 1

    I am wondering if it is being written using the new "C-*Sharp*" language then? Ouch!

  13. ALS in Oakland? Brilliant... on Slashback: Palace, Perl, Coastalism · · Score: 1

    [...] one of the coolest things about the city of Atlanta will shortly be appearing in Oakland, CA. A notice sent out by Usenix announces that November 6-10th of this year will be the next manifestation of ALS.

    And don't forget to bring along a flashlight and extra batteries.