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  1. Re:This was on freshmeat since last week!! on Making Linux Booting Pretty · · Score: 2

    So Judge Jackson has a monopoly on Microsoft cases? I think they should split him up.

  2. Troll problems on Buffer Overflow In All Shockwave Players · · Score: 1

    Just as how trolls exploit goatse.cx and such on here, the trolls on Newgrounds will most likely be submitting buffer-overflow Flash presentations in the Portal.

  3. Re:This was on freshmeat since last week!! on Making Linux Booting Pretty · · Score: 2

    There was also news on Yahoo about some discrimination suit against MS, but that's not as important as the Boogie Bass or this. Go linux! wa hooo! With the linux boot up screen, we are one step closer to taking over the desktop!

  4. the term "hacker" on Boogie Bass Hacked · · Score: 3

    We have a story of Indian "Hackers" and now there's news of this fish being "hacked".

    So with the word "hacker" being used here, did the Indian "hackers" "Hack" the Boogie Fish? Or was the fish "cracked" or "defaced"?

  5. Re:Freetype necessary on Apple Sues Freetype - NOT (updated) · · Score: 2

    If stock prices change because of this story, could Slashdot get in hot water?

  6. Re:Computer networks? Try cars! on EMP Artillery Shells · · Score: 2

    Reminds me of "Atomic Train". A nuke goes off, and Rob Lowe is stuck driving a Triumph TR-6 around since all the other cars were dead in the water. Ironic how a car with Lucas electrics survied an EMP.

  7. Re:Use against civilians on EMP Artillery Shells · · Score: 2

    That sounds like the device used in Runaway.

    So all those restored low-riders and such wouldn't be effected, yet souped-up Hondas would? Hmmmm.

  8. Re:humans on EMP Artillery Shells · · Score: 2

    So you really could make the blame thrower like in Mystery Men?

  9. prior art on E-Bay Patents Thumbnail Galleries · · Score: 3

    Paint Shop Pro has had the thumbnail gallery(called the "browser") for years.

  10. Re:Please don't use Flash -- EVER! on Flash For The Rest Of Us · · Score: 2

    It sounds like you want to say to hell with the new web multimedia formats and for everyone to be surfing in Lynx.

  11. Re:SVG!!!! on Flash For The Rest Of Us · · Score: 2

    SVG is the shit. If you look at the spec, there's MANY differet ways of minimizing code, and yes, there is sound support(I haven't goofed off with it though).

    I just wish there was more documentation on SMIL animation. I don't think that part of the spec is complete, but right now the canidate recommendation for SVG as it stands is very usable(november spec).

    I'm just waiting for someone to take the SVG spec to the limit by making a first person shooter using the filter effects and such to its max. Of course, that might overwhelm the Adobe SVG viewer.

  12. how about on How Should Companies Grant Recognition To Developers? · · Score: 2

    How about it show your initials after the user destroys all his cities without firing a shot?

  13. Re:Advertising 101 on Cool Wireless Video Camera For $75 · · Score: 2

    There's been several articles about the raciness of the ads in the X-10 cams. In fact, one guy sent me pics of all the ads. They featured rather scantily clad women in interesting posts. Nothing too risque, your typial Benny Hill stuff.

    The guy in charge of X-10 had nothing to hide in an interview. He said it was effective, and it worked.

  14. Free isp idea on More Silliness Over Patents: NetZero Sues Juno · · Score: 2

    How about instead of polluting screen real estate for a free ISP, how about customers donate spare CPU cycles instead? Do a SETI-like project for coroprations on/offline and have big corps buy lots of cpu cycles which makes everyone happy.

  15. Re:Sick of it on More Silliness Over Patents: NetZero Sues Juno · · Score: 2

    I've noticed within the last month pretty much EVERY website is doing pop-up ads now. Whether it's porn sites or non-porn sites, don't be surprised if your favorite big corporate website such as CNN(yahoo's probably next) are popping up not one but TWO windows.

    Ugh. http://www.comp-u-geek.net is the worst.

  16. Atari on Linux 2.4 Wins 4th Place ... in Vaporware · · Score: 2

    I think the reigning king of vaporware is still Atari. I remember Battlesphere being talked about, but never released for YEARS.

    Looking at atarihq.com, they seem to have more stuff that never made it out of their building than what was sold on shelves.

  17. Re:Great Movies about AI on 2001: A Space Prophecy · · Score: 2

    I think the ONLY movie that Brion James didn't play some bad-guy thug was as a movie exec in The Player. He wasn't convincing at all. Heh

  18. Re:What are you listening to? on Ask An Ordinary Teenage Slashdot User · · Score: 2

    A LOT of the early beatles stuff was bubblegum 2-minute melodies that became mega-popular, like Britney Spears today.

    BUT, the Beatles shed that image, and that's when things got REAL good(Abbey Road, etc). Probably their strangest song was "run for your life" where it sounded like a typical Beatles song, until you realize they are singing about killing a woman. Pure brilliance.

  19. Re:inventor of email? on The Good Old Days..... · · Score: 2

    They also had TEXNET for TI-994/A computers, and seemed to be just as pricey.

    http://british.nerp.net/texnet.html

  20. Re:An interesting trend on The Good Old Days..... · · Score: 2

    Maybe that Ohio scientific computer flopped since it was so damned ugly. It looks like a seriously bloated Triumph TR-7

  21. Re:Whoa... Am I that old already? on The Good Old Days..... · · Score: 2

    Did you notice the abundance of an outer space background with a blue streak coming from the center(comin right atcha!) of the company's logo? Priceless 80s nostalgia.

  22. great minds think alike on The Good Old Days..... · · Score: 2

    I just made my own version about a week ago..(only 5 ads)..

    http://british.nerp.net/experimental/80s/oldmags /i ndex.html

    enjoy

  23. Re:lazy question on W3C Announces XHTML As Its Recommendation · · Score: 2

    Being a Frontpage 2000 whore, I am a bit hesitant to use CSS "THemes"(as frontpage puts it). For some reason when I apply a background image to one of my themed pages, the background never takes.

  24. lazy question on W3C Announces XHTML As Its Recommendation · · Score: 2

    For table cells, can it inherit font specs? Or do I stil have to specify the font you want to use for each table cell?

  25. Re:reminds me on Free Cable Modem From The Shack · · Score: 2

    I remember reading a few stories of people hooking up DSL equipment to their lines without subscribing for it(borrowed/ebayed a DSL modem, and what not), and suddenly finding other people in Network Neighborhood.

    Anyone got more detail on it? This was like 3 years ago.

    I wonder if the same thing will happen with these freebie modems.