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  1. Re:age on MGM to Produce "The Hobbit" · · Score: 4, Informative

    Presumably, this is a joke, but what they hey.

    Gandalf (TTT): "Three hundred lives of men I have walked this earth and now I have no time. "

  2. Re:vaporware on The Hybrid Scooter · · Score: 1

    No. You fill them with fuel. Like at a gas station.

    Right, but the fuel must be created somehow-- like electrolysis. What I'm saying is that-- as far as I know-- you can't simply generate it from the energy recovered from braking. (Well, presumably you can, but you wouldn't want to.) This is a good reason to have a battery.

  3. Re:Windows...still... booting... on IE7 to be Pushed to Users Via Windows Update · · Score: 1

    Come back when you understand the difference between disk caching and memory caching. So what if you've gone to more pages in FF? The files are cached to disk not memory.

    http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=6 567

  4. Re:vaporware on The Hybrid Scooter · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In plain english, battery backup for a fuel cell would be redundant.

    Okay, I know next to nothing about fuel cells, but charging them involves electrolysis or some other non-trivial process, yes? So you need a battery if you're going to take advantage of the energy to be gained back from stopping and such.

  5. Re:Cincinnati on Extensive Coverage of Ottawa Linux Symposium 2006 · · Score: 1

    Then support better gun control. (sorry it just slipped out)

    You misspelled "support less gun control."

  6. Re:no honor amongst theives on Freedb.org Ending · · Score: 1

    By what weird kind of logic does ripping a CD I own to my computer so that I can put the songs in a playlist, for example, have to do with "theft?" I have bought the music, and freedb was very convenient for me.

  7. Re:Cancer? on Cancer Resistant Mouse Provides Possible Cure · · Score: 1

    Me: "....Ah, then what is Death? Why do we say die?"

    I know we're veering off topic here, so I'll stick to a link: Genesis 3.

  8. Re:Figures on Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? · · Score: 1

    "China's system of statist capitalism is neatly breaking new ground in erasing the dividing line between what it means to rule a country and what it means to own a country."

    I can't speak as to whether this is correct or not, but that doesn't look like new ground. It sounds like feudalism to me.

  9. Re:What about movies? on A Decrease in M-Rated Sales to Kids · · Score: 1

    Ushers, especially on new release rated R films, would take tickets at the door and check IDs of everyone who looked under 30..... Working in the box office, I checked the ID of everyone under 30 - unless they were getting a student discount with a college ID.



    And people under 30 still patronized this theater? I'm surprised.

  10. Re:Dibs on bl on .eu Domains to Go on Sale in a Month · · Score: 1

    I read that it was kind of old-fashioned; it's a way of avoiding "sacre Dieu" or "holy God."

    The French, having a rather different approach to God than they once did, probably don't mind saying the latter so much any more, if they even use *that* expression. (I don't speak French, so the previous sentance is just a wild guess-- but a pretty reasonable one.)

  11. Re:MOD PARENT UP on Internet Suicide Pacts Surge in Japan · · Score: 1

    "Purpose" is a human invention. If you want one, invent one, but be aware that it's your own creation and not a property of the universe. There's no "coefficient of meaning" in any theory of physics.

    Physics is a partial description of the universe -- it is not a definition. Simply because physics does not describe something does not preclude its being a property of the universe. :-)

  12. Re:Peter Singer on Possible Breakthrough for AIDS Cure · · Score: 1

    "[T]he concept of negligence is well-established in law."

    I disagree strongly with the grandparent, but he did clearly say "law != ethics."

  13. Re:Sheesh! on The ESRB Gets An 'F' · · Score: 1

    Many modern video games cost a great deal to make; if an AO game is "edited" to M, the chances of making that back (with profit) are much, much higher than if you try to sell the video game without the big brick-and-mortar retailers.

  14. Re:Shockwave? on Linux For Supervillains · · Score: 1

    As people have said before, Shockwave Flash != Shockwave, though this is really Flash and not Shockwave.

  15. Re:Regarding Portable HDs on Using Technology to Protect Anonymous Sources? · · Score: 1

    Flash memory does have a bit of "memory" so to speak....

    I think Palms by default use RAM for that sort of thing.

  16. Re:Can't tell the difference on Atom 1.0 vs RSS 2.0 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Most users cant tell the difference, even if they cared to. So, as a conclusion: Noone cares.

    Most users != Slashdotters

  17. Re:We need standards. Driver writers are flippin o on Time for a Linux Consolidation? · · Score: 1

    And there is already a nice standard there: a vanilla kernel from kernal.org

    Which version? I think the comment about standards is related to the fact that there is no guaranteed stability in Linux's device driver interface, and this causes problems for binary drivers.

    There are of course, arguments why this is a good thing and a bad thing.

  18. Re:In other news.... on Australian Man Found Guilty for Hyperlinking · · Score: 1

    "That means that if anyone is to point to someone and say "that person should be killed" and later he dies, the person who did the pointing is guilty of murder."

    I'm not a lawyer, but I thought that U.S. law made a distinction between saying, "That person should be killed," and, "Kill that person."

    Of course, I have no idea about Australia.

  19. Re:Wrong Claim on Britain's First Jedi Member of Parliament · · Score: 1

    Then I'll call myself Bob and you'll have as much information on me as you do on any author of the New Testament.

    Or Julius Ceasar, right?

  20. Re:From TFA: on Macrovision Applies for P2P Interdiction Patents · · Score: 1

    "If it was filed on June 7, 1995 or earlier, but did not issue until June 8, 1978 or later..."

    I hope you mean the reverse. Otherwise you ought to patent time travel, yesterday.

  21. Re:*Please* RTFA on U.S. National Identity Cards All But Law · · Score: 1

    "If, again, the argument is 'ease,' thanks to a technological change or technology itself, then why do slashdotters always argue in favor of technology elsewhere, but against it here?"

    Technology is great because, among other things, it tends to be used to make lots of stuff easier, cheaper, or more powerful. If it involves the federal government and personal data, I would rather most anything be difficult, expensive and weak.

  22. Re:The article says "accepts"... on Microsoft Accepts Most EU Demands, But Not Over Source · · Score: 1

    "1:) MS could pull out of europe , but if they did EU companys who decide to use MS products would have support from the now independent MSEU and would be paying them for the software"

    I really wonder if the E.U. would find it worth the diplomatic row this would create with the U.S.

  23. Re:Meet The Forkers on Microsoft Remains Firm On Ending VB6 Support · · Score: 2, Informative

    "What's a non-geographic area?"

    A joke.

  24. Re:Neither are correct. on Optimizations - Programmer vs. Compiler? · · Score: 1

    In ANSI C, the compiler is guaranteed to figure out what a zero means when used as a pointer, even if the system's value for a null pointer is different.

  25. Re:But... on Google Still Ahead In Search Competition · · Score: 1

    There's a difference between prefering money over some minor etchics issues - and being a monopoly thru illegal bundling and all this stuff we know about. Google just can't be this evil.

    Are there such things as minor ethics issues? Even if there are, how do we tell what is minor? To most Slashdotters, as to most people, the standard would be understood -- only in practice, mind you, not in theory -- to be "anything that doesn't hurt me."