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  1. funny how I just read something relating to this on China: the New Advanced Technology Research Hotbed · · Score: 1

    He speaks of China in there somewhere. Do a search but if you want read the whole thing. It's really interesting. http://www.operatingthetan.com/metameme.txt

  2. Re:Firefox: Location filed - Enter does not work on Batch-o-Moz: Firefox, Thunderbird, Suite Released · · Score: 1
    Doh!

    That is because you have to press the Any key first!

  3. Re:Port the IE rendering engine on KDE Gets Gecko/Mozilla Support · · Score: 4, Funny

    help from Wine? I think you mean with some help from Crack?

  4. Re:The ban didn't affect crime on Assault Weapons Ban · · Score: 1

    I'm ready to bet that there will be a public shooting ala columbine soon with an assault rifle. Wanna bet 100$ that it will happen in the US within one year of the lift?

  5. Re:Human DDOS attack on Slashdot by Pruce Berens on UserLinux Releases First Beta · · Score: 4, Funny

    his keyboard? I heard he used 2 keyboards, one with each hand. How else do you think he can keep up?

  6. I don't want to start a flame on UserLinux Releases First Beta · · Score: 1

    but with the myriad of choices, what DE comes by default?

  7. Everytime I hear someone joke about on Employees Rights in an Emergency? · · Score: 3, Funny
    France's low GDP compared to the USA I have stories like these that crop to mind.

    My concern here is that you aren't patriotic enough if you are asking such a question. Stop whinning. It is your patriotic duty to go to work rain or shine. It is important that you work unpaid overtime and even volunteer nights and week ends. Don't complain about your salary either, otherwise we'll outsource your job you unpatriotic-GDP-lowering-French-lover-commie.

  8. this isn't an offence to us but a feature on Longhorn Will Have Ability to Ban External Storage Devices · · Score: 5, Interesting
    and in Linux nothing stops you from doing something even smarter. Make the portable storage read-only so people can listen to their mp3's if they so desire but cannot copy sensitive information to their devices.

    I believe the /etc/fstab entry would be something like this :

    /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb1 auto noauto,user,ro 0 0

  9. in other news on Court Rules Against Unlicensed Sampling · · Score: 1
  10. amateurs on Kite Aerial Photography · · Score: 1

    the real pro takes an helicopter around the world and takes nice pictures of what wonders are eroded, destroyed and disapearing because of man.

  11. this might be the worst comment I have ever given on Daily Electoral Predictions · · Score: 0

    but has anyone got any statistics on average schooling levels in each state? It would be fun to see if the more educated crew votes more for one side than the other.

  12. I have a concern with the flag on Slashdot Goes Political: Announcing politics.slashdot.org · · Score: 3, Insightful
    why is it that American politics always has to do with patriotism? In my observation patriotism shouldn't have anything to do with politics. It's demagogy at best and we see it way too much in American politics.

    Shouldn't slashdot be better than that? If one party decides to use (overuse) the American flag then the slashdot logo will look like it talks only about that party.

    PS: In my observation most parties who use the patriotism argument are the ones which care least about the people. In France for example the one party who claimed the French flag as a symbol for it's own party is the most racist and biggoted party.

  13. Re:Wow! Innovation! on NX - A Revolution In Network Computing? · · Score: 1

    Revolutionary Rev`o*lu"tion*a*ry, a. Cf. F.
    r'evolutionnaire.
    Of or pertaining to a revolution; repackaged product.

  14. Re:Reasons to like the previous iMac design better on Apple Introduces New G5 iMac · · Score: 5, Informative

    I won't comment on the rest of your points but point #1 is factually wrong. If you look on the design page you'll see that the wires will hang out in the back, not on the side. Apple thought about that for you. They most likely thought about other things as well for you! :)

  15. with mono, this will run on Linux right? on ORM Goes Open Source · · Score: 3, Interesting

    right?

  16. For crying out loud on New iMac Pictures Leaked? · · Score: 5, Informative
    There are always pictures like these by Apple fans. If you would have read the comments there is one in particular which should have alerted you :

    "A notre avis, c'est juste un écran habilement retouché.

    [MàJ] Il semble que ces photos aient été posté en premier sur le site AppleInsiders. Nous avons acquis depuis la certitude qu'elles sont fausses."

    Which translates to:

    Our opinion is that is just a picture of a monitor which was touched up.

    It seems they have been posted first on AppleInsiders. We have since found out with certainty that they are false.

  17. one has to wonder what this does to beer on Tempratech Self-Cooling Can · · Score: 1

    Will it taste different because of the high speed cooling? Are bottles slowly cooled in the fridge better tasting? ;)

  18. watch the modders on Tempratech Self-Cooling Can · · Score: 1

    they'll use some of these cans as coolers for their CPU.

  19. for those who wonder about the Nile on Composite Of Earth At Night · · Score: 1

    Egyptian's like to live at night. They usually stay up till 2am and often take a nap/rest in the afternoon because of the heat. Note also that Egypt is booming with tourism. It's a great place to visit and the place to be is close to the Nile so if ever you go to Egypt expect to stay up late smoking chicha! ;)

  20. there should be a process on Microsoft Patents sudo · · Score: 1

    where everyday johns can give prior art example to the USPTO with a list of 20-50 signers attesting that a said patent should be nullified. The USPTO should then look at the patent again and judge wether or not they did a mistake.

  21. what about something for Freedesktops? on Google Releases Gmail Notifier · · Score: 2, Interesting

    KDE/GNOME?

  22. Re:Dear smug self-important Canadian Prick, on Wired on Defeating the Olympics Censorship · · Score: 5, Insightful
    You see anti-Americanism where there isn't any. If I dislike the way your media companies deal with things how does that make me anti-American? What if I hate how my Prime Minister deals with something, would that make me anti-Canadian?

    Stop seeing the world in black and white. It isn't a question of who's anti-American and who isn't. It's about the issues and you are not allowing for a fair discussion if all you care about is letting others know that you are blindly patriotic.

  23. what ought to be done to your media on Wired on Defeating the Olympics Censorship · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Up north of you the Olympics are on public TV, down south of you is the same thing. Wait a second only in the US is this known of. Now isn't it sad to see that people are all up in arms because the Olympics aren't coming through but don't give a damn when it's news you're not getting? I guess what they don't know doesn't hurt them.

  24. sounds like marketing crap to me on Pre-802.11n Offers 4x the Speed · · Score: 1

    prove it.

  25. Re:I was going to have the first post on Gene Therapy Turns Slackers Into Workaholics · · Score: 0

    Maybe you can settle for last post? :)