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  1. Re:Esoteric Naming System on NASA Discovers Giant Ring Around Saturn · · Score: 2, Informative

    IIRC, they're named in the order of discovery.

  2. Gonna have to buy another copy of on GE Developing 1TB Hologram Disc Readable By a Modified Blu-ray Drive · · Score: 2, Funny

    the White Album.

  3. I'm Singing in the OW! OW! on Exoplanet Has Showers of Pebbles · · Score: 5, Funny

    ow!

  4. There was glory in IT? on Has the Glory Gone Out of Working In IT? · · Score: 1

    When? I've been in IT, as a programmer, since 93. Never saw any Glory. Except down to the truck stop south of town, where she was working.

  5. The thing about WinMobile is on Ballmer Admits "We Screwed Up Windows Mobile" · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's really easy to write apps for. You use all the same tools, APIs, and libraries you use for regular Windows development. Many times porting from desktop to mobile is a matter of redoing the UI and recompiling. All the backend stuff stays the same.

    It was easier to write software fro WM 5 years ago than it is to write for iPhone today. There should be thousands of apps out there. But there aren't. Because WM after version 3 began to suck more and more.

  6. FTA on Soviets Built a Doomsday Machine; It's Still Alive · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Given the paranoia of the era, it is not unimaginable that a malfunctioning radar, a flock of geese that looked like an incoming warhead, or a misinterpreted American war exercise could have triggered a catastrophe. Indeed, all these events actually occurred at some point. If they had happened at the same time, Armageddon might have ensued.

    I wonder if the Israelis and Iranians have contemplated this possible chain of events?

  7. ATT is gonna scream bloody murder on FCC Backs Net Neutrality, Chairman's Full Speech Posted · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So is Verizon. And all the other wireless providers.

    Cable companies too.

    In fact, I can't think of any provider that won't object.

  8. It didn't stop them from smoking on RIAA's Elementary School Copyright Curriculum · · Score: 1

    You checked out smoking rates in the US lately? Way down from it's peak.

  9. I always liked Dave Barry's take on DHS Ponders "Improving" Terrorism Alert System · · Score: 3, Funny

    Here

    Color Code Fuchsia Security Status ("Relatively High").

    Color Code Magenta Security Status ("A Tad Higher Than Relatively High, but Not Totally High.")

    Color Code Security Status Mauve ("Calm, but Tense").

    Color Code Security Status Key Lime ("Partly Cloudy").

    Color Code Security Status Maroon ("Dark Brownish Red").

    Color Code Security Status Peach ("Viewer Discretion Advised").

    Color Code Security Status Burnt Umber ("Medium Rare").

    Color Code Security Status Tangerine ("Uh-Oh").

    Color Code Security Status Jalapeno ("Everyone Down!").

    Color Code Security Status Traffic Cone Orange ("Yipes!").

  10. A couple points on Amazon Delaying Public Domain Submissions On Kindle · · Score: 4, Insightful

    1. Why don't you sell the books yourself?

    2.One key point is that Amazon has applied this ban completely non-selectively.

    This seems to me like a good thing. They've identified a problem, too many public domain titles that are dupes (Slashdot had a dupe problem too). They are apparently working on a solution.

    Now if, in a few months, they are still blocking all public domain book, then there's a problem.

  11. So the Beer and Hookers crowd on How GNOME and KDE Spend Their Money · · Score: 1

    Uses what?

  12. So is copyright good or bad on Developer Exposes Copyright Infringers On Twitter · · Score: 1

    in this case?

  13. Public Health on Swine Flu Outbreak At PAX · · Score: -1

    If you do test positive for swine flu then proper public health measures can be taken.

  14. Video on the Nano? on Apple Announces iTunes 9, "LPs," Video Camera For the iPod Nano · · Score: 1

    I wonder how many Nano's spend most of their time velcroed to the dash of the car? That's what I bought mine for, a cd player replacement. Won't use the video, or the FM radio. Or the voice notes.

  15. Probably sell more Nanos on Apple Announces iTunes 9, "LPs," Video Camera For the iPod Nano · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    than Touches.

  16. Same thing we do every night Pinky on Apple Pulls C64 Emulator From the App Store · · Score: 4, Funny

    Try to take over the world.

  17. Damn. You've found my Secret Identity on What the DHS Knows About You · · Score: 1

    Typo-Man, arch-nemesis of Preview-Boy.

  18. Every time I do that I wonder... on What the DHS Knows About You · · Score: 4, Funny

    What if Richard Reid had been the Underwear Bomber instead of the show Bomber?

  19. If it's DRM free, like iTunes on Will You Stream Or Download Your Mobile Music? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'll continue to download. Which doesn't mean I won't also stream. I listen to an iPod, and to XM/Sirius. One doesn't preclude the other.

  20. An actual story? Why ruin it with that? on Cameron's Avatar Trailer Posted · · Score: 5, Insightful

    GI Joe did just fine without any actual story.

  21. Most of that was still ture in the early 80's on The Mindset of the Incoming College Freshmen · · Score: 1

    When I first went to college. I learned how to use a slide rule in high school in the early 80's.

  22. In college, in the early 90's... on The Mindset of the Incoming College Freshmen · · Score: 1

    I was 10 years older than most of my fellow students. Talking after class I mentioned going to the local drugstore to use the tube tester. Pretty female classmate from Linear Algebra asks "What's a vacuum tube?"

  23. A couple thoughts on that., from a 44 year old. on The Mindset of the Incoming College Freshmen · · Score: 1

    Christopher Columbus has always been getting a bad rap. When I was in grade school in the 70's, and high school in the early 80's, Columbus was still considered a heroic figure in mainstream middle class society. Still is if you're Italian.

    That only became blase in the late 90s Which was 10 years ago. When these freshmen were 8 years old.

  24. Generally we arrest the creators on US Tests System To Evade Foreign Web Censorship · · Score: 1

    if they ever enter the US. Otherwise the US Gov just complains.

  25. Slashdot is /part/ of the system. on US Tests System To Evade Foreign Web Censorship · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Muahahhaha!