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  1. Re:Confused.. on FSFE Supports Microsoft Antitrust Investigation · · Score: 1

    Yes. Only because of oblivious people who don't know about FF or fed FUD about Open Source or who just plain don't care. Go ask an average computer user (by average, a non slash dotter or fairly computer wise person, like perhaps a person in their 40's that just uses a computer to have one for the internet)if they know about Fire Fox or any IE alternative.

  2. Confused.. on FSFE Supports Microsoft Antitrust Investigation · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I never really understood the whole browser inclusion with the antitrust aspect. Of all things Microsoft does, not including a free alternative, or alternative at all, to a internet browser seems petty. I just recently had to format this computer, and recently built another and I promptly downloaded Fire Fox. I think Opera's problem is they just aren't making it like FF and IE are...

    That's not to say that MS is innocent, but they're not blatantly stopping any installation of alternative browsers, or office suites.

  3. Re:This would have been disastrous for me. on Google Reader Begins Sharing Private Data · · Score: 1

    Well, personally I'm trying to always be educated. My friends would just assume I'm doing research. But if you have to be worried about what your friends think of what you're looking at and your beliefs, then you need new friends. At any given time I can look at an article about Oakland Raiders to Free Masons to Hitler to an article on a new protocol. I've frequently done long hour of insane research just to learn and never felt I had to justify it. Now of course it would get shady if you're looking at articles about drug production and such, but not about personal beliefs.

  4. Re:This would have been disastrous for me. on Google Reader Begins Sharing Private Data · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Your spouse and close friends, I would think, would already know where you stand religiously and politically? God, oh sorry, knows my friends do.

  5. Re:So what is it? on Jingle Bells Played With Graphics Card, Santa Wonders Why · · Score: 1

    I think a little of both...

  6. Re:Asimov on Palau May Get Satellite Power In the Next Decade · · Score: 1

    Eh, I'm not sure I'd put that on the space station. I'm not sure I'd put the transmitter on anything that includes human life. It could be serviceable by ISS personnel, but it should be it's own satellite being in case anything happens....like an overload. I'm still interested on exactly how the energy will be beamed down to Earth safely. And of course if someone accidentally looks at it, will they go blind?

  7. Re:SimCity on Palau May Get Satellite Power In the Next Decade · · Score: 1

    I was thinking more like the movie Under Siege 2 where he blows the stealth out of the sky....

  8. Re:but on Email In the 18th Century · · Score: 1

    eh, wireless maybe, but definitely need electricity, you're right.

  9. Re:I was wondering... on Encryption Passphrase Protected by the 5th Amendment · · Score: 1

    From this link:

    1. Congress proposes amendments. As is the case with the flag burning amendment, both houses of Congress approve by two-thirds votes a resolution calling for the amendment. The resolution does not require the president's signature. To become effective, the proposed amendment must then be "ratified" or approved by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states. Congress typically places a time limit of seven years for ratification by the states.

    2. The states propose amendments. The legislatures of two-thirds of the states vote to call for a convention at which constitutional amendments can be proposed. Amendments proposed by the convention would again require ratification by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states.

  10. Re:How about XP? Confusing? on Microsoft Re-Brands PlaysForSure · · Score: 1

    Kinda makes you wonder if the EU doesn't have a problem with this in some was as trying to confuse consumer to buy Vista?

  11. Re:Beta in production environment. on The Setup Behind Microsoft.com · · Score: 1

    I wish I still had mod points. That has the be most unbiased review of a Microsoft product. Way to keep your mind open about different things, as it seems you do.

  12. until this story on Fark Seeks to Trademark NSFW · · Score: 1

    I never knew what NSFW was abbreviation for.

  13. Re:plenty of people come in that way, too on All US Border Crossings Now Require A 'Terrorist Risk Profile' · · Score: 1

    You may also want to check check this out. Guns must be registered. That gun you bought or sold w/out a dealer is still in your/his name respectively. Should it be used in a crime, then that's a felony for possession of an illegal firearm or some sorts.

  14. Re:plenty of people come in that way, too on All US Border Crossings Now Require A 'Terrorist Risk Profile' · · Score: 1

    We do have to go to a notary to get the car transferred over. I thought all states had to go through a background check due to the Brady law. Even though that lapsed last year or something like that. Here is a link to gun laws by state.

  15. Re:plenty of people come in that way, too on All US Border Crossings Now Require A 'Terrorist Risk Profile' · · Score: 1

    In Pennsylvania, that's illegal. Only a person with a FFL can transfer the firearm for you.

  16. Re:plenty of people come in that way, too on All US Border Crossings Now Require A 'Terrorist Risk Profile' · · Score: 1

    Stores still do a background check when you purchase a firearm. Some states require a waiting period when you buy a pistol. And both my Glock and H&K were imported from another country because of the models I wanted.

  17. ...huh on Wal-Mart's Terrible Nintendo Wii Knock-Offs · · Score: 1

    resembles a Wiimote so closely that even Wal-Mart employees can't tell them apart in a picture.


    ....The wiimote doesn't have a screen.....if you can't notice that then, well, u shouldn't be on the sales floor.
  18. Those who hate pdf files on Mom Sues Music Company Over Baby Video Removal · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Who knew? on Stallman Attacked by Ninjas · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't there be more of them with melting ice caps?

  20. Microsoft is a toddler on Ballmer Suggests Linux Distros Will Soon Have to Pay Up · · Score: 4, Informative

    It seems that Microsoft is becoming more and more like a little kid every day. I just don't understand how in any normal world they can stay in business. All they do is spit out the same FUD every chance they get. It's like the boy who called wolf.

  21. Re:(Almost) Useless without pics on Meteorite Causes Illness in Peru · · Score: 1
  22. Re:This isn't a news worthy on Creationists Silence Critics with DMCA · · Score: 1

    You do realize that slashdot just links to proper new articles, right? Slashdot doesn't have reporters that get a "scoop". They simply link to news articles. Well, now a days mostly blogs. But the link in this story linked to nothing but a video. It's not news. It was just a video of some guy bitching really. There was no unbiased reporting. It was a blurb.

  23. This isn't a news worthy on Creationists Silence Critics with DMCA · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The link is to blurb that explains nothing which links to another blurb that explains nothing. All this story accomplished was to start yet another creation/evolution war. Come on now, I know it's Saturday, but it can't be that slow of a news day. I did a quick google news search and the only link that came up for this story is the slashdot one. It's not even a story.

  24. Re:Why is the article tagged Sci-Fi? on Some Moray Eels Have Two Sets of Jaws · · Score: 1

    The true reason is because I couldn't find anything just marked science or biology or whatever in the topics when I submitted the story. /. really needs to revamp the topic selections for submitting stories.

  25. Re:Nature Article on Some Moray Eels Have Two Sets of Jaws · · Score: 1

    This is why I used the wording "what seems to be.."