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  1. Nothing went wrong on CAN-SPAM Act Turns 5 Today — What Went Wrong? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Look at the name of the law. Working as designed.

  2. The amount of negative knowledge... on RIAA May Be Violating a Court Order In California · · Score: 1

    ...of copyright law (or any law) in the collective possession of Slashdotters is truly impressive.

  3. Re:The mice will live on The Age of Touch Computing · · Score: 1

    > ...trackballs have a bit of a learning curve...

    What's to learn? I've watched people who had never seen a trackball before learn to use mine. Takes about 15 seconds.

  4. Re:Mice are not dead on The Age of Touch Computing · · Score: 2, Funny

    > Touch computing may be mainstream for handheld devices...

    And that's it, of course. Since handhelds are the current trendy "technology" they are all that matter.

  5. Re:The mice will live on The Age of Touch Computing · · Score: 2, Insightful

    > Indeed, imagine doing 3D CAD/CAM without a mouse.

    I have no difficulty at all imagining doing that with a trackball. Doing it with a mouse, on the other hand, sounds like a PITA. But then, so does using a mouse for much of anything. Yet almost everyone uses a mouse. Mice aren't going away.

  6. Re:Point of Diminishing Returns on Google's Mayer Says Personalization is Key To Future Search · · Score: 1

    How large a subscription fee are you prepared to pay for a search engine?

  7. Re:Who is really being "searched" here? on Google's Mayer Says Personalization is Key To Future Search · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You can use Google Search without having a Google account, you know. You don't even have to allow cookies or Javascript and you can block ads. You don't get all the neat personalized features, of course, but it works fine.

  8. Re:How convenient on Google's Mayer Says Personalization is Key To Future Search · · Score: 1, Troll

    How much are you prepared to pay for the use of a search engine?

  9. Re:Is there anyone who doesn't? on Esther Dyson Grudgingly Defends Internet Anonymity · · Score: 1

    > I'm as pro-abortion...

    So am I. As a surgical procedure it is, of course, to be avoided if possible, but if some woman wants to have that thing in her womb cut out it is none of my concern.

    Of course, I also oppose child support. A father should be at most liable for the cost of an abortion.

  10. Re:Old Lightbulb Joke on Brain Electrodes That Screw On the Skin · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't ever read about all the little critters that live on and in your body. They do nastier things than screwing there.

  11. Re:I was there last year on A Telescope In a Cubic Kilometer of Ice · · Score: 1

    You have to admit that the Firn drill is cooler looking, though.

  12. Re:-40F, that's it? on A Telescope In a Cubic Kilometer of Ice · · Score: 1

    Of course they said it was cold. Every newsie knows that you have to whoop about the cold when writing about Antarctica, no matter how irrelevant the weather is to the story.

  13. Re:quickbooks? on Best Open Source Alternatives To Enterprise Apps · · Score: 1

    Look at LedgerSMB

  14. Yes, not a telescope. on A Telescope In a Cubic Kilometer of Ice · · Score: 1

    A telescope collects light or other radiation passing through a large aperture and forms an image. This neither concentrates the neutrinos nor forms an image.

  15. DRM? on Nintendo To Start Publishing Ebooks On the DS · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dickens and Austen, eh? So what sort of DRM is Nintendo going to use to "protect" this "IP"?

  16. Re:How big? on Black Hole At Center of Milky Way Confirmed · · Score: 1

    They gave you the mass. You can calculate the diameter from that.

  17. Re:Cool, and some questions on Black Hole At Center of Milky Way Confirmed · · Score: 1

    > Yes, hypothetically. However, the black hole is not "feeding" at the moment, meaning
    > there is not much radiation coming from it.

    Which makes it the optimum time to look for Hawking radiation. I don't think you'd be able to detect it, though. A hole that size is rather cold: the noise from even low-level accretion activity seems likely to drown it out.

  18. We're living in an accretion disk on Black Hole At Center of Milky Way Confirmed · · Score: 5, Interesting

    n/t

  19. "Crashes"? on USPS Server Meltdown · · Score: 1

    Seems to me that a program that crashes rather than degrading gracefully when a remote network resource becomes unavailable needs a bit of work.

  20. Re:google x86 on Google Native Client Puts x86 On the Web · · Score: 3, Funny

    It means you can run old DOS games in your neighbor's browser.

  21. A remarkably bad idea. on Google Native Client Puts x86 On the Web · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It will go far.

  22. Re:On your marks (no pun intended) on 21 Million German Bank Accounts For Sale · · Score: 5, Funny

    > In theory, if the banking system were known to be compromised in such a huge way, and
    > there were no way of knowing if your own bank account was compromised or not, shouldn't
    > there be a massive bank run?

    This is Germany. There will be no bank run until it is properly planned, organized, and regulated.

  23. Re:Tomorrow's News on 21 Million German Bank Accounts For Sale · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...Such as Iceland?

  24. Pirate an obsolete version of Dreamweaver... on Freelance Web Developer Best Practices? · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...and you're good to go. Just look around the Web a bit. If they won't pay take down their sites: you'll own the domains.

  25. Re:Wikimedia Bugzilla Commentary on UK ISPs Are Censoring Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    > I'm willing to put up with the odd image being wrongly classified (especially if that
    > classification can be reversed) if it avoids Government mandated censorship.

    What you have described *is* Government mandated censorship.