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  1. Some of the bars I've been in on Beer Stein Goes Hi Tech · · Score: 2

    really needed that.

  2. Hmmmmm on Beer Stein Goes Hi Tech · · Score: 2
    A device that'll let you know when you need to get off?

    Some sort of auto-eroticiser... I'll have to think about that. Might be a business plan in there somewhere.

  3. Satan's Lawyer's Billing Rate: on PetsWarehouse vs. Mailing List · · Score: 3, Funny

    $666.66/hour.

  4. recording on PC , from VCR on ATi's All In Wonder Radeon 7500 · · Score: 3, Informative
    Yeah, the AIW sucks at that. Massive frame droppage. I bought a Dazzle DV-Bridge. It's a device that converts NTSC video in to DV out on a 1394 link. Works beautifully. The only problem is that DV takes up HUGE amounts of space. The plus is that there are tons of video editing software that work with it.

    Another advantage is that it's a stand-alone device. You can plug a VCR in one side, a DV camera into another, and do the conversion automatically. Works with ANY platform that has 1394 inputs and drivers.

  5. The Fenton Silencer on Making Your Room Quiet · · Score: 2

    by Arthur C Clarke, in the collection "Tales From The White Hart" is exactly this scenario. Poor Fenton, blows up the concert hall. With him in it...

  6. KDE For Workgroups! on KDE 3.0 is Out · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can't wait...

  7. Damn on Sci-Fiction Channel To Do Myst Miniseries · · Score: 2

    Forgot the tags again...

  8. But... on Sci-Fiction Channel To Do Myst Miniseries · · Score: 2

    Will it have the same quality of acting as the Dune series?

  9. exposes native functionality to JavaScript on Linux 'Weblications' with SashXB · · Score: 2, Informative

    Am I the only one who gets hives thinking of the security implications of that?

  10. running away from the world on Globalism Post 9/11 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    We seem to be running away from the world, and much of the world hates us for it.

    Much of the world hated us when we weren't running away from it.

    For example


    Syrian Radio blared before the 1967 war, "The Arab seas and the fish in them will feed on the Americans' rotting imperialist bodies." Thirty-five years before Mr. Atta's work on 9/11, Radio Cairo trumped Syrian calumny with the macabre but now prescient warning, "Millions of Arabs are preparing to blow up all of America's interests, all of America's installations, and your entire existence, America." The same big lies that we see today on al Jazeera were the everyday stuff of the latter 1960s -- when official government radio stations blared out daily untruths that Americans had bombed Arab countries during the Six Day War and so prevented a "sure" Muslim victory.
  11. No! I like stalking you! on Wil Wheaton to get new role on 'Enterprise' · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    You're cute.

    Well, that's what the goat says, anyway.

  12. Yeah,but on Wil Wheaton to get new role on 'Enterprise' · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    You call for blanking the blank. And, as we all know, that's illegal, immoral, and fattening. Plus, it makes you spell badly.

  13. Don't Forget on Wil Wheaton to get new role on 'Enterprise' · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wil Wheaton hangs out around here. Search for comments by CleverNickName.

  14. There is one place that's trying on Mac OS X Secrets of the Elite · · Score: 2

    Look at cybercrime.gov.

  15. Taco's fiancee on Mac OS X Secrets of the Elite · · Score: 3, Informative

    Has been redecorating...

  16. Now this comment on Updated Slashdot Advertising Policy · · Score: 2

    is redundant!

  17. The sad thing is... on Updated Slashdot Advertising Policy · · Score: 5, Insightful
    It's believeable. If this had been posted tomorrow, or yesterday, rather than today, would anyone have been surprised?

    If you get DDJ, read the Swaine's Flames column on Slashdot's New Business Model.

  18. In related news... on AOL Buying Up Blogs · · Score: 4, Informative
    MetaFilter was said to be signing a merger agreement with Kuro5hin to pool content between the two sites. We'll bring you more news as soon as we hear it.

    The story.

  19. Torvalds is Finnish!?!?!? on Mozilla Tree Closes for 1.0 · · Score: 2

    Geeeze. Next thing, people are gonna be telling me that Bill Gates went to Harvard for a while.

  20. Opera is un-american! on Mozilla Tree Closes for 1.0 · · Score: 2

    Well, it is. I mean, it's from Norway. Right?

  21. From API NEWS: on Mozilla Tree Closes for 1.0 · · Score: 1, Redundant
    Dateline: Hell

    "A freak snowstorm has swept across the fiery lava lakes of the Nether Regions today, many minor demons have been hospitalized with frostbite and Beelzebub is reported to be somewhat irate."

  22. Possibility greater than 0 on Twin Robots Scope Out Titanic, Europa Next? · · Score: 2

    So it behooves (love that word..) us to be careful. Better too caution, than not cautios enough. The same applies for any samples returned. What if it turns out that some Europan life form loves vinyl?

  23. Re:1 Ethical Question, 1 Assumption on Twin Robots Scope Out Titanic, Europa Next? · · Score: 2
    There are apparently leads, or openings in the ice, on Europa. So the sea there does get exposed to vacuum sometimes.

    The sub, if sent, would probably melt it's way through a thin spot, rather than searching for a lead. Ballard and Pellegrino have written about this sort of stuff.

  24. Well... on Kazaa Is Legal, Dutch Appeals Court Rules · · Score: 2

    Admiralty law (law of the sea) cases are international. Courts in different countries cite each other's rulings frequently. But I think that is because of various treaties. Is there a treaty that both the US and the Netherlands have signed that would allow a US lawyer to cite the Dutch ruling?

  25. Actually on Kazaa Is Legal, Dutch Appeals Court Rules · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's a victory for efforts to halt copyright abuse.