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  1. Zaurus? on Best Wi-Fi Portable Browsing Device? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've got a Sharp Zaurus 6000 that has all of the features you're looking for: built-in wifi, a physical keyboard, and a sharp and bright touchscreen. The later zauruses might be even better with the clamshell design and better battery life. The only drawback is that they're not as easy to find since Sharp discontinued selling them in the US.

    If you don't mind getting the WiFi from a compactflash wifi adapter instead of being build-in, the older 5500's turn up frequently for a reasonable price.

  2. Re:Cleanliness of a donut shop? Really? on MD Appellate Ct. Sets "New Standard" For Anonymous Posting · · Score: 1

    I fully expect the next one to revolve around whether or not yo momma is so fat, and how fat she is.

    There is legal precedent for this. Refer to No you didn't! Vs Oh Snap!

  3. Re:empowerment 20% of the time. on How To Encourage Workers To Suggest Innovation? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What motivates people is recognition

    Recognition doesn't pay the bills. If an idea that makes or saves the company money is rewarded with a healthy bonus, you're apt to get more suggestions than if you hand out a crappy paperweight and a slap on the back.

  4. Re:Not that hard. on The Tech Behind Preventing Airplane Bird Strikes · · Score: 4, Funny

    Those puns were so fowl.

  5. What is that? on Human-Animal Hybrids Fail · · Score: 1

    Some kind of PigBearMan?

  6. Re:I hope they succeed. on India Will Show Its $10 Laptop Prototype · · Score: 1

    Draw a grid of 10cm squares. Start at the far end and lay a turd on every gridpoint

    Can more than two people play this game?

  7. Re:This is good. on Senate Approves 4-Month Delay In Digital TV Switch · · Score: 1

    After a brief intermission, please join us for Act II on Slashdot Theatre.

  8. Re:Spread the channels on How Best To Deal With WiFi Interference? · · Score: 1

    It might be possible that your WiFi AP has support for Channel 14-- not found usually on US gear, unless you flash the AP with the International Version (hint).

    If you're doing this in the US, you're transmitting out of band and risking an FCC fine. Doesn't this bleed into amateur radio frequency allocations?

  9. Re:This can be improved by removing some text on Class Teaches Nerds Social Skills · · Score: 3, Funny

    Mod this up. Even Rocky had a montage.

    MONTAGE!

  10. Re:That's easy... on How Do You Stay Upbeat Amidst the Idiocy? · · Score: 4, Funny

    You should try Brawndo. It's got what plants crave.

  11. Re:Little known fact on Majel Roddenberry Dies At 76 · · Score: -1, Troll

    They were married by Rabbi Goatse and a reception of punch and hot grits followed.

  12. A fitting epitaph on Majel Roddenberry Dies At 76 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Computer...

    End program.

  13. Re:Summary is wrong. on Meteorite Destroys Warehouse In Auckland, NZ · · Score: 1

    To summarize, a meteorite was seen, and may have even crashed in this area. That is all.

    Hiya slick, would you mind looking at the little red dot?

    POOF!

    What you saw was some swamp gas refracting the light off of Venus. Nothing more to see here.

  14. Re:wrong on Time To Discuss Drug Prohibition? · · Score: 1

    Consider the bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, & Firearms. Even though alcohol is legal, they still use part of their resources going after moonshiners and unlicensed liquor producers. If certain drugs became legal, production would likely be restricted to a few corporations or other such deep-pocketed entities.

    Especially where a drug like marijuana that's relatively easy to produce, I'd predict that grow house raids would continue as to lock in the profits that the drug lobbyists bought for themselves.

  15. Re:Parents ARE to blame on What the Papers Don't Say About Vaccines · · Score: 2, Funny

    This also might lead you to understand why docs get upset with the Jenny McCarthy types.

    This is why I love America. What's a better source of medical information than a doctor? The lady who blows Jim Carrey, thats who.

    SMOKIN!

  16. Re:Remember, kids! on New Hampshire Law Students Take On RIAA · · Score: 1

    I think he really meant Nancy Reagan, who compared a cuisinart to the hamburglar.

  17. Re:Sirius XM is NOT a monopoly on iPhones, FStream and the Death of Satellite Radio · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Our federal government took over a year (far too long btw) to review the case and came to the correct conclusion that there is no monopolistic power here. Customers are free to use any of the numerous alternatives and there is ample customer churn for Sirius XM to back this fact up. There is no compelling argument to be made against the merger and it is reasonably likely Sirius XM will go bankrupt no matter what happens thanks to the downturn in the auto industry.

    Stern made this argument on his show a million times and it still doesn't hold water. Sirius/XM is not a monopoly in the mobile entertainment space, to be sure. You have Ipods, terrestrial radio, etc. However, SiriusXM is a monopoly in the satellite radio space. As competitors, they kept each other on their toes for price and content. Now, they can fiddle with either one at will, knowing that subscribers can't jump ship to a comparable service anymore.

    You don't have to be a mathematician or a business major to know that if you have two companies competing and they merge into one, that is the very definition of a monopoly. Federal regulator lapdogs be damned.

  18. Re:Testosterone on How to Deal With an Aging Brain? · · Score: 5, Funny

    I had an elective castration

    Congratulations on your recent marriage.

  19. Re:disgusting? on Urine Passes NASA Taste Test · · Score: 1

    R Kelly, is that you?

  20. Re:That explains it! on Feds Can Locate Cell Phones Without Telcos · · Score: 2, Funny

    Candygram!

  21. Re:And for this bright idea... on Urine Passes NASA Taste Test · · Score: 4, Funny

    Gee whiz, that was a bad joke.

  22. Re:How about a "Slashdot Poll" of Favorite MST3K E on Mystery Science Theater Turns 20 · · Score: 1

    And let's not leave out some classic short films:
    - Mr B Natural
    - Hired!
    - A Date With Your Family

    Great riffs to be found in all of these!

    Mr B: You can bet I was in the garden with Mr. & Mrs. Adam!
    Crow: You were the snake...
    Mr B: Knew your father, I did!
    Joel: Hey, you leave my father out of this!

    Tom Servo: Hired part II, laid off!

    Tom Servo: A date with your family, the Woody Allen Story!
    Mike: I like my family as a friend!

  23. Re:The "from the..." Department on Nationwide Domain Name/Yard Sign Conspiracy · · Score: 1

    comming from a 24 year old virgin who has more experience writing in assembly than hacking into panties.

    A well-placed roofie is the meatspace equivalent of a root exploit.

  24. Re:A Canadian On Healthcare on Discuss the US Presidential Election & Health Care · · Score: 1

    or call Canadian 911 to send a Canadian ambulance from a Canadian hospital where a Canadian doctor can perform emergency Canadian surgery.

  25. Re:Nothing to see here. on Why Your Clock Radio Is All Abuzz About iPhones · · Score: 1

    If I forget and leave mine on when I fly, I get a very distinctive da-da-daaa da-da-daaa da-da-daaa every few minutes over the radio.

    That's not a problem with the phone. During certain hours, air traffic control is actually staffed by babies.