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  1. Re:No tethering... on Google's Nexus One Phone Launches · · Score: 1

    It's actually better to use third party (one time fee) apps to tether. Using the carrier's tethering is a monthly additional cost. Check June Fabrics PDA tech group: http://www.junefabrics.com/android/index.php

  2. Link to the Matsumoto Paper (fake finger) on Kroger Testing Fingerprint Payment System · · Score: 1

    This is a link to the Matsumoto example (.pdf) of creating a fake thumb from gelatin.

  3. Cowards! on Chemotherapy Patients Set Off Subway Alarms · · Score: 2, Insightful

    To paraphrase the GREAT Ben Franklin:

    "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

    Get your heads out the sand people! If you don't care enough about your freedom to put a stop to this kind of thing then go ahead and email your data to the Information Awareness Office!

    American! Knows what that means! And PROUD!

  4. As if anything could be worse than Andromeda! on Stargate SG-1 Gets A Seventh Season · · Score: 1

    I didn't think it possible but yes, Firefly is worse than Andromeda. It seems when you here a show being hawked as, "...from the creators of..." something good, the show will suck.

  5. Re:Umm... on Next Generation Fans · · Score: 1

    I agree %100. I'm glad someone said it. Everytime I point out something like that I get labelled.

  6. This already exists in AvantGo on Opera Software Brings Its Browser to Mobile Phones · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    AvantGo has been doing this for at least the past three years. Hopefully this will create some healthy competition in the handheld market.

  7. Include your Gender, Race, and Ethnicity ! on Resume Tips For Jobs · · Score: 1

    Include your Gender, Race, and Ethnicity on any electronic resume.

    I know it doesn't sound right but the fact is employers are required to keep records of these figures for prospective 'job applicants'. When the law was enacted, the employer would simply write this info on a resume as the person came in to apply. Now they get so many electronic resumes they either have to hire someone to call the applicants who did not include the info or round-file it.

    I just recently learned this from a Seattle Times article this weekend; Online résumés are taxing employers.

    Now I'm just trying to figure out a tasteful way of including this info in my own resume; as a footnote? in the header?

  8. What Tech Jobs???? on What Types of Jobs are Best Suited for Telecommuters? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What Tech Jobs????

  9. Join the EFF, they'll then buy the politicians... on Declan McCullagh On Geek Activism · · Score: 1

    JOIN THE EFF, the Electronic Frontier Foundation!

  10. Like It Or Not, the Only Way to Enforce W3C on M$ on Web Designers Ignoring Standards and Support IE Only · · Score: 1

    Like it or not, the only way to enforce W3C on M$/IE is going to be when AOL (another evil giant company) includes the new NS browser (aka Mozilla) in their evil software. They have nearly 50% of the Internet eye balls.

    Unfortunately, AOL has removed the great turn off "open unrequested windows" feature in their NS version.

  11. This most certainly will be held up... on Pledge of Allegiance Ruled Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    I'll donate my own money, which after this case is sealed, will be taken to court as unconstitutional for having that fictional character on it too!

    Here's some history on "God" and money.

  12. Re:why is this on slashdot? on Pledge of Allegiance Ruled Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    Because nerds tend to be intelligent enough to realize there is no santa or at the very least, including a pledge to santa within a pledge to Country is contrary to the reason one would pledge to this Country.

    Duh!

  13. Let's Review Those Who Support This... on Where Are You Publishing? · · Score: 1

    A gentle look back at the Skylarov case and those in the slashdot community who supported applying US law to an action outside it's borders.Sklyarov Arrest Follow-up

  14. Re:I hate Farscape(but you prolly lapped up ATOTC) on Farscape & Stargate SG-1 New Seasons Tonight · · Score: 1

    Lexx had some fair episodes. Like the chess match one. That was creative. But I agree with hallow. Overall it's sophmoric crap with satire so dull it would smack you on top of the head and then limp away into the corner.

    Farscape is QUITE GOOD. Certainly a far better production using less budget but the same type muppets as the Lucas drivel.

    Rejoice that it continues. Dread that it will, like all good things, stop being so good. Let's hope that day is far off.

  15. One Man's Terrorist is.... on Using Your Privacy Against You · · Score: 1

    One Man's Terrorist Is Another Man's Freedom Fighter. I find a few night vision scopes pale to the importance of continuing to seek effective Internet privacy.

    Mine that FBI !!

  16. Makes NO difference. Off-shore Servers. on EU to Require Opt-In for Commercial Email · · Score: 1

    Makes NO difference. Off-shore email servers or email servers in countries which will not extradite or enforce this law for Europe make it moot.

    Face it folks. The only way to beat spam is to create an "invited" list of people which you accept email from, and send the rest to a "read at your own risk" folder.

  17. The "Abused" analogy is accurate... on George Lucas May Be Completely Evil · · Score: 1

    Possibly the most insightful analysis of Star Wars fans I've ever seen.

    And for those of you labelling the poster insensative to battered partners, the fact is that a majority of abused partners (men and women) do return to their abusers many times. This poster is simply using this fact in an affective observation. So chill.

  18. PULEEZ! Don't try to over analyze this! on The Empire Stumbles · · Score: 1

    What an amazing attempt to figure out why a quality movie is doing better than a boring one. Star Wars has always had weak writing and weak acting. Movie going audiences are no longer willing to accept a crap movie just because of gee-whiz effects.

    As to trying to make a generational gap premise. Sorry, half of the audience going to see Spider-Man knows him from their childhood.

    I'm not saying the geek-movie-torch has been passed to a new story-universe, but it's definitely been taken away from the Star Wars crap.

  19. I think you just began the compter equivalent of.. on Tracking Mafiaboy · · Score: 1

    Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. This is his theory of human growth based on needs being met. If you keep on with your theory, you may have your own triangle one day.

  20. Re:Mark Your Calendars on The Truth Revealed · · Score: 1

    You nailed it! Completely useless episode, but really, how else could you wrap up that tangential plotline?

  21. What a Whiner! on RealNames CEO Talks Back · · Score: 1

    The whole RealNames business strategy was an attempt to create, market, and profit from an additional and artificial layer in the whole DNS system. There was no need for it and since RealNames couldn't make a flawed business model work this guy starts crying M$ monopolist foul?!?!

    PULEEZ!

    Come on Keith Teare (founder of RealNames). Grow up! You climbed into bed with M$ because their majority ownership of the browser market was the only possible way to make your rotten egg fly. Now that they're turning their back on you, the crying starts. Just accept the fact that it was a flawed idea, born out of greed during the domain name gold rush and move on.

    And good luck to you.

  22. Re:Flash Blows! Choose SVG! on Will Flash Be Taken Off The Shelf? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    SVG is W3C standard. Flash is Macromedia owning your ass. Nuff Said.

  23. Flash Blows! Choose SVG! on Will Flash Be Taken Off The Shelf? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    nuff said

  24. I'm Sorry, but Star Wars Suks, Has and Does. on Attack of the Clones to Cost Economy $300m · · Score: 1

    This is not Flame Bait.

    I have NEVER understood any sci-fi fan's infatuation with Star Wars. I mean it's really crappy. YES, it was a special effects treat when it started and the masses luved it. But let's FACE IT. The following movies have done nothing with that popular sci-fi genre acceptance and at worse, played to the fuzzy-wuzzy film going public.

    If anything, the continued Star Wars series has only reduced the sci-fi genre down to the CRAP the masses ingest with their McDonalds hamburgers.

    Now, on a positive note to avoid the Troll label, I point to the final season of Space Above and Beyond, the Matrix(yes, we said it) Gattaca, ect. Good quality uses of the genre. NOT stupid muppets, bad acting, and a plot derivative of a high school drama club!

  25. Re:Great - crooks will cut peoples fingers off on Your Fingerprint Buys Groceries in Seattle · · Score: 1

    No I won't silly! I'll just cut off the fleshy print piece, scotch tape it to my thumb and Voila! Free caffeniated beverages to feed my hefty habit FOREVER!!!!