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  1. Well, You Asked... on Rules for Teenage Internet Access? · · Score: 1

    Go somewhere else to ask about your kids, because if you screw up, you screw them up some, too. Talk to friends, family. Sheesh, do you _know_ anybody here?

  2. Re:How is this news? on iTunes for Windows Breaking Older iPods · · Score: 1
    There is something known as journalistic integrity, one piece of which involves not misrepresenting or overstating a single piece of information.

    I'm glad you didn't try to add "slashdot" to that sentence, nasty things would have happened in the cosmos.

  3. Re:Before you rush to blame Apple. on iTunes for Windows Breaking Older iPods · · Score: 1
    What part of "not supported" was not understood?

    Maybe he thought it was marketspeak. In which case, 'not supported' means 'we happily support it fully!'

  4. Re:Perhaps you should have read the manual or the on iTunes for Windows Breaking Older iPods · · Score: 1
    But the bottom line is that nobody should ever have used a Mac iPod on a PC in the first place.

    Kinda like using a 120-volt US toy in a 240-volt Chinese outlet. If the plug fits, eh? Whoops!

  5. Re:Perhaps you should have read the manual or the on iTunes for Windows Breaking Older iPods · · Score: 1
    Perhaps you should have read the manual or the FAQ

    You're kidding, right? I mean, who does _that_?

  6. Re:Not Bashing... on iTunes for Windows Breaking Older iPods · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    They don't stick with older hardware or software.

    Neither does MS. I can't install XP on my old 100MB drive.

  7. Re:Yes on iTunes for Windows Breaking Older iPods · · Score: 1
    Drop it off a 5th story balcony.

    One floor per GB. Got it.

  8. Re:Benefit of the upgrade on Replace Your Music....Again · · Score: 1
    The stupid will flock in droves, as usual.

    Face it: Americans' basic identity is "consumer". You guys here on /. all like new toys, too.

  9. Re:Peter's Choice on Saruman Completely Cut from 'Return of the King' · · Score: 1

    C'mon, I was just joking.

  10. Spoiler Question about the End of ROTK on Saruman Completely Cut from 'Return of the King' · · Score: 1

    They cut out the scouring, do they cut out how Gandalf et al leave for the west? That's the part of the book that almost made me weep (and not for joy that it was finally done).

  11. Re:Peter's Choice on Saruman Completely Cut from 'Return of the King' · · Score: 1
    He also reasoned that most filmgoers already assumed he died after the ent invasion.

    Not this filmgoer, nor anyone who cares about the story. I, for one, plan to stand outside the theatre on opening night, on my soapbox, holding my tattered ROTK paperback, hectoring the ignorant masses about what REALLY happened in the story.

  12. Re:SPOILERS FOR PEOPLE WHO DON'T READ on Saruman Completely Cut from 'Return of the King' · · Score: 1
    Umm, it's been known since practicaly the beginning the The Burning of the Shire would not appear in the movies.

    Dang, I'll just have to go read the books again to get the full story. I really haven't kept up with LOTR film news at all; for some reason, I just don't care about movie news.

  13. Re:Very scary on Singapore Computer Crime Laws OK Preemptive Arrest · · Score: 2, Insightful
    It's already almost as bad as it can get.

    No, it can still get _much_ worse. _And_ it's much worse now than it's been.

  14. No Sharky, eh? on Saruman Completely Cut from 'Return of the King' · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How does the end make sense without Sharky? Only in Hollywood-world.

  15. Re:I like the saying... on SCO Fires back, Subpoenas Stallman, Torvalds et al · · Score: 1
    before some grammar Nazi comes along ...

    come on, cut some slack. Many people here were educated in the government school systems throughout the US. They're doing the best they can do.

  16. Re:Easy Question to Ask on Security FUD On Linux · · Score: 1
    You haven't "worked" in IT, have you? Part of that time is testing the patches to make sure they work and don't break something else worse that what the worm/virus/hole will do. Anyone who lets Windows update run fully automated on production servers is a fool.

    So you Solaris admins, do you just install patches (such as with Patch Pro) without worrying about them breaking any apps?

  17. Re:Easy Answer on Security FUD On Linux · · Score: 1
    Why buy lies when the truth is free?

    Didn't George Carlin suggest that if Americans started telling the truth, the whole system would collapse?

  18. Re:Reward Program? on Security FUD On Linux · · Score: 1
    They're taking the appearance of security seriously: whether or not the security is real is effectively irrelevant to those who can't tell the difference. (It's a matter of who they listen to, and whether that 'who' is Micro$oft.)

    My question is, the people that buy into Microsoft's Propaganda Ministry, how does the market punish them? Because there should be some economic advantage to using a more-secure system. Or is that advantage overshadowed by other economic advantages of using Microsoft?

  19. Re:Well dammit on Ars Technica Posts Panther Review · · Score: 1
    The problem isn't slashdot, but the fact that the entire Mac community shows up to read major OS X articles like this. So when you add in the slashdot crowd, which normally doesn't even cause the server to flinch (we haven't choked due to the /. effect since about early 1999), with almost all of the Mac users and Mac watchers on the 'net, then the server starts to choke.

    What?! You're telling us that compared to the lumbering elephant that is the Mac community, we here at /. are a tiny squeaking mouse? Please say it ain't so.

  20. Re:Well dammit on Ars Technica Posts Panther Review · · Score: 1
    It's kind of crazy, I didn't think people actually read the articles around here...

    We don't we're all just pounding repeatedly on the links hoping to cut through a slashdotting.

  21. Re:They really are far overreacting about this. on Security Affecting Microsoft's Bottom Line · · Score: 1
    Actually, I wasn't thinking of XBox at all. If PS2 and the Gamecube didn't exist, I may have, though.

    Yeah, and don't forget my PC, which is running, uh, er, uh, oh forget it!

  22. AMD, too on Apple Makes no Profit from iTunes · · Score: 1

    AMD makes no profit from CPUs.

  23. Skipper! on 5 Reasons Not to Buy an iPod · · Score: 1

    The author of the article looks like Gilligan (aka Bob Denver).

  24. Re:Most of these objections are invalid on 5 Reasons Not to Buy an iPod · · Score: 1
    There are third-party battery replacements available, and they're under $100.

    Just don't buy a Nokia battery, I hear they might explode in non-Nokia devices...

  25. Re:Thats what we get for tolerating advertisements on FTC Shuts Down Pop-Up Extortion Firm · · Score: 4, Funny
    What exactly is the difference?

    Billboards are not a violation of anyone's property rights. They may be an aesthetic offense, but that is what life in the USA is all about these days, is it not? Looking like a slob is one of our fundamental rights.