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  1. Joy of Cooking on Alton Brown Answers, At Last · · Score: 2

    Use the 2nd edition. It has the recipie for real pound cake, plus howto cook squirrel. Invaluable resource.

  2. But THOSE chemicals on Alton Brown Answers, At Last · · Score: 2

    Don't have websites pointing out the dangers of using them!

  3. Re:There are SO bad foods! on Alton Brown Answers, At Last · · Score: 4, Funny
    Sure, a sip a cream or a pat of butter or a piece of bacon once a month wouldn't do anybody any harm.

    Amounts that small will do no harm if taken daily. (Assuming you get a decent amount of exercise.) Alcohol is an industrial solvent and attacks almost every system in the body if overindulged in. Does that mean it should be completely avoided? (Well, yes if you're alcoholic.)

    I bet you cook with dihydrogen monoxide, which has been found to be used by everyone who has ever developed cancer.

  4. Well, yeah on KDE Adopting Mono · · Score: 3, Funny

    but what's the alternative? Windows XP?

  5. KDE-Gnome desktop integration on KDE Adopting Mono · · Score: 3, Offtopic

    I run Gnome desktop, but use kmail and other kde apps. I can even cut and paste between them. Seems to me the integration is already, to a large extent, there.

  6. That depends on Discarded AT&T Microwave Bunkers For Sale · · Score: 2

    on where you're delivering it. Iran and Libya (and Israel) already have missiles that can reach most of the mid-east (and in the case of Libya, Europe). They also have aircraft that can carry the weapons. They may not have intercontinental capability, but then they don't particularly need it.

  7. Iran, Libya... on Discarded AT&T Microwave Bunkers For Sale · · Score: 2
    no arab nation has or is likely to have in the near future nuclear capabilities

    Read "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" by Rhodes. The hard part is getting ahold of weapons grade uranium or plutonium. I wouldn't be at all surprised if Iran or Libya had atomic bombs.

  8. Hah! on Discarded AT&T Microwave Bunkers For Sale · · Score: 2
    Wouldn't most people read the article before replying?

    Remember, you're at Slashdot.

  9. Not forgetting on One Year After September 11 · · Score: 2
    I live near DC. I know people who work at the Pentagon, and a firefighter who spent that night crawling over burnt bodies there while fighting the fire.

    A co-worker had a friend who worked at Cantor-Fitzgerald.

    Another friend knew someone who was killed at the Pentagon.

    Seeing a CAP over my hometown was surreal.

  10. They're not making money today on One Year After September 11 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Since they're not running any commercials.

    For that matter, they didn't run commercials for two or three days after the attacks.

  11. artistic expression on Larry Wall On Perl, Religion, and... · · Score: 2
    I dunno, some (well, actually, most) of the women I know are, imho, proof that God is an artist.

    Sunsets too.

  12. Would you feel differently on Online Auctions Patented, eBay Sued · · Score: 2

    if eBay had bought the patent, and then filed lawsuits?

  13. Edison patented everything on Online Auctions Patented, eBay Sued · · Score: 3, Interesting

    and defended those patents ferociously. AT&T even more so. This is nothing new.

  14. I think Hemos holds the patent for that (N/T) on Online Auctions Patented, eBay Sued · · Score: 1

    Please try to keep posts on topic.
    Try to reply to other people comments instead of starting new threads.
    Read other people's messages before posting your own to avoid simply duplicating what has already been said.
    Use a clear subject that describes what your message is about.

  15. Ouch on Online Auctions Patented, eBay Sued · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The company [eBay] first contacted Woolston in 2000 with an interest in buying the patents. E-mail to that effect is expected to figure prominently in the case because it indicates that eBay knew about Woolston's patents but continued to infringe them, he said.


    The patent was filed in 1995, and other companies are already licensing it. Looks valid (under the current rules) too. The only way I see for eBay to keep from getting raped in the courts is for business method patents to be tossed entirely.

    Adobe getting hit with DMCA problems, Verizon and the RIAA going at it over DMCA, eBay with patent problems. If enough large and publicly traded companies get hurt by this sort of stuff it could be a good thing. In the long run.

  16. Do not meddle in the affairs of cyborgs ... on 0wnz0red · · Score: 3, Funny

    for you are conductive and can support 110 volts.

  17. Fireball on Meteorite Hits Girl · · Score: 2

    I've seen a couple of those. From what I've read a meteorite large enough to appear that size is actually about the size of a soccer ball.

  18. try kuro5hin.org on Satirewire Calls It Quits · · Score: 2

    Heck, we've had ascii art of cows on the front page.

  19. The Government Lied? on Secret Court: Government Lied to Get Wiretaps Approved · · Score: 3, Funny

    No? Really? I am so surprised.

  20. That's what the case is about on Fax-Spammers fax.com Sued For 2.2 Trillion · · Score: 2

    The courts will decide if it's free speech or theft of services. Could be interesting from an anti-spam issue.

  21. Past year? on Fax-Spammers fax.com Sued For 2.2 Trillion · · Score: 2

    They've been doing that for several years.

  22. Oops on Atlas V's Maiden Launch a Success · · Score: 2
    Got my boosters (or programs) confused. Mercury used Redstone, and then Atlas. Ah well, at least I know that Apollo used the Delta 1 booster.

    Err, I mean it used the Saturn 6.

  23. Atlas on Atlas V's Maiden Launch a Success · · Score: 2

    That's a system with a long lineage. John Glenn went into orbit strapped onto the front of an Atlas 1. All the Gemini flights were on Atlas rockets.

  24. That also points a way to stopping spam on Restrictive Linking Policies & The Net · · Score: 2

    don't use e-mail.

  25. Which is odd on Farthest Human-Made Object: First Quarter Century · · Score: 2

    considering it was going nowhere near Mars.