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  1. If they get audited.... on MS Pressuring NW Schools: Pay Up, Or Face Audit · · Score: 1

    will they have to write "I will have a license for every Windows installation" one hundred times?

  2. Blatant lie in NYT article on War Driving Version 2.0 · · Score: 3, Funny

    In the nearby town of Madison, from the parking lot of a Staples store, workers could be observed behind the cash register.

    Anyone whos been to a Staples knows that there are NEVER any employees at the registers!

  3. Hot Damn! on Everquest Coming To the PS2 · · Score: 3, Funny

    EQ PS2 features:
    * Crazed loner mode cuts off upcoming broadband connectivity so you can be alone with the voices in your head

    * New soundtrack by Ozzy Osbourne and Judas Priest

    * Free Paxil to first 100 buyers

    Suicide-blaming entertainment is now coming to a console near you!

  4. The warrant on Tattered Cover v. Thornton Reversed · · Score: 1

    IIRC from my high school CJ class, wouldn't the proprietor still be criminally liable for obstruction of justice by refusing the warrant, regardless of its merit?

    Another example: if the friendly fuzz want to arrest you because they don't like the color of your hat and you fight them off, it would still be resisting arrest, regardless of the circumstances, right?

    Any US-ians with better knowledge of the law care to comment?

  5. What? on Your Own Luxury Submarine! · · Score: 1

    The site has no One-Click-Checkout&#169 ? I'd better put my Mastercard away...

  6. Re:You aren't making sense on Sony Intentionally Crashes Customers' Computers · · Score: 1

    This is not an audio CD. It cannot bear the logo that all standard, red-book-following CDs do. You may call it anything but an audio CD.

    IIRC, the red book standard also stated that the 2 second pause between audio tracks is the mark of a compliant disc. If this is the case, then many cds technically aren't up to standard.

  7. Fine! on Linus Retiring from Kernel Dev · · Score: 1

    Here is a post from Linus

    I hope he got rid of that god damn blanket once and for all.

  8. Too true on Games People Shouldn't Play · · Score: 3, Funny

    who knows what kind of disease your children might get from overexposure to these games

    You're not kidding, I'm still in therapy over Daikatana.

  9. Uh oh on Talk ... Without Speaking · · Score: 1

    Somehow I suspect that we'd lose a lot of the subtleties of communication, but it sure would be nice every time hemos calls me from the discotheque

    Regardless of the technology that this phone would include, Hemos is still fscked if he calls Taco for dating tips.

  10. A perfectly good waste of funding... on Lab-Grown Meat Chunks - It's What's For Dinner · · Score: 1

    When NASA could be bringing one of these to life!

  11. Re:Here's why it's so nefarious... on Pay Dirt in Scanned Driver's Licenses · · Score: 1


    I can certainly see the subtlety of this growing trend.

    Even though bars don't haul out a Xerox machine to copy every license that comes though the door, many I go to have camera boxes that IDs are inserted into to keep a photographic record of each entry. Its done so quickly, one can hardly notice.

  12. Coincidentally.... on Happy 30th Birthday, Pioneer 10 · · Score: 1

    it'll take 22 hours for the server to recover from being Slashdotted.

  13. Re:Are regionless dvd players still possible on Philips vs Unlicensed DVD Players · · Score: 1
    Absolutely, and they're as close as your DVD drive.


    As far as your average dvd on a windows box is concerned, a little lurking in the registry will turn up the region code the drive is set for. Change this to whichever region you need.
    I can't say for sure on linux, since I haven't any out-region-discs anymore to play on by my linux box.

    Lets see Philips touch that.

  14. Re:Do any distribution use ALSA as default? on Mandrake Releases 8.2 Beta · · Score: 1

    Yep, SuSE 7.2 does. Not sure about 7.3 though. While Lilo is also the default bootloader, I think Grub is an option.

  15. What about all the other Wireless Devices? on California's "Wireless-Free" Zone · · Score: 1

    No mention here made of all of the remote controlled devices that have become a part of daily living.
    I wonder if these people crap themselves every time they change the TV channel or open the garage door.....

  16. Prediction time! on Philips Improves Electronic Paper · · Score: 1

    I can see where this is leading to: Toilet paper that talks back.

  17. Unplug? on Excite Could Go Dark On Friday · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    According to this CNET article, excite @home could be pulling the plug on cable modem subscribers.

    After going to the first ten thousand houses to unplug the modems, they'll probably just opt to throw some big switch.

  18. It might... on Can BeOs Live On As Open Source? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    as long as the alleged source tree leak [begroovy.com] doesn't derail the project first.

    As a precaution against legal liability, one of the more popular Beshare servers that hosted the tree, for however briefly, was voluntarily shut down.

  19. The Best Revenge on Michael Jackson Releases Uncopyable CD · · Score: 1

    Since Mr. Jackson presents us with a CD that cannot be copied, its only fair that we present him with a boy that cannot be molested.

  20. Hmmmm. on Learning Java Through Violence · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now if we could only have Quake III teach reading, we'd be good to go.