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  1. Re:Interference with flight instruments on Qantas Blames Wireless For Aircraft Incidents · · Score: 1

    What about a crate of magnets sitting below the compass? Not the kind you draw circles with, but the kind you use to navigate. Would that be fine as well?

  2. Re:Forget the balaclava! on "War On Terror" Board Game Confiscated In UK · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here's an article with pic of the police displaying the confiscated "War on Terror" boardgame. Here's the BBC version.

  3. Re:Self-incrimination on NJ Bill Would Prohibit Anonymous Posts on Forums · · Score: 1

    Anyone dumb enough to report income acquired through illegal means will get what's coming to them: http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_329b.html

  4. Re:Microsoft on Slashback: Offshore, Oratory, Goals · · Score: 1

    Why would the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, organized by Tim O'Reilly, not allow Tim O'Reilly to be one of the panelists?

  5. Re:Eh? on Longitude · · Score: 1
    I'm a bit confused by this analogy. How are the religious beliefs of an inventor assoiciated to their field of expertise? Is religion a significant theme in the book? It just strikes me as a bit of an odd way to open the review of a book about the father of the chronometer...

    Nit: "Catholic" is capitalized

    Religion has nothing to do with this. Small-c "catholic" means broad-minded.
  6. Re:corporate rules on D&D Trailer · · Score: 1
    become a billionaire, then setup a production company that only makes cool movies!
    Someone already tried that, only the resulting movie wasn't so cool. Can we say midichlorians? Can we say Jar-Jar Binks?
  7. pilot-frotz on What Are Your Ten Best Palm Apps? · · Score: 3

    The Palm is such a great platform for interactive fiction. Why limit yourself to just reading? Go get pilot-frotzfrobnitz and some text adventures.

  8. Re:Prozac??? on Nobel Prizes · · Score: 2
    The inventors of Viagra should have win this prize, it's a lot more efficient against depression.

    They already did, in 1998, to Robert F. Furchgott, Louis J. Ignarro and Ferid Murad "for their discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system". From the press release:

    Impotence: NO can initiate erection of the penis by dilating the blood vessels to the erectile bodies. This knowledge has already led to the development of new drugs against impotence.
  9. Re:Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 on The Joys Of Big Business; or Why AT&T Long Distance Sux · · Score: 2
    Not according to this:

    If you are a service bureau, forward all requests to be removed from a list to the company on whose behalf you are calling. Its is that company that is legally liable under the TCPA, not the service bureau. The "do not call" request must also be honored by any affiliate or subsidiary of the company if there is a reasonable expectation on the part of the consumer that there request would apply also to the affiliate or subsidiary.

    I say, sue em!

  10. Re:But who is he?? on The Hugo Awards: Word From A Winner · · Score: 1

    RTFW - the links are there. The links are there, why don't you click on them?

  11. Re:Can you imagine... on AskJeeves Interview · · Score: 1
    a robotic karma whore

    Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these?

  12. Re:Debian: proprietary OS? No! on Unisys Not Suing (most) Webmasters for Using GIFs · · Score: 1

    Debian is very, very careful to separate out the non-free software from the official distribution. Programs like the GIMP will have both free and non-free packages available. The free package is fully operational, except for GIF and TIFF support, for which you will have to download the non-free add-on (at your own legal risk). Only the free stuff is included in the official CD-ROM images. Read the Debian Social Contract for more information.

  13. Re:Slashdot Cluelessness Revealed. on US to build Y2k Command Center Bunker · · Score: 1

    So why are you still here? Shouldn't you already be hiding out in the hills somewhere?

  14. Re:Anonymous Cowards & Microsoft Employees on ESR on his trip to Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Man, it's gotten so that people can't recognize facetious comments without a smiley.

    Lighten up guys!

  15. Goodbye to the chicken on Debian Chooses Logo · · Score: 1

    I find it interesting that hardly anyone said anything nice about the old logo back when Bruce Perens chose it. Now that ol' blue eyes is on its way out, people are saying how much they liked it and how much better it is than the swirl.