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  1. It's time to Involve God... on Copy That Floppy? Go To Jahannum (Hell) · · Score: 1

    It's time to Involve God in supporting Corporate interests. I can imagine that bending His word in certain directions would be an expensive endeavor but imagine the power...

    It is a sin to lend your music to others. It is unholy to ask for a raise. Which ESPN is the Pope watching?

  2. Re:I would not hire you on Building a Wireless Network for an Apartment Complex? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There's _always_ a better way. And slashdot is one of the best places to learn about it.

    If I was given a choice between a professional who never asks for help and another one who is smart enough to tap in the potential of Slashdot guess who'd get the project!

  3. The next step on Building a Wireless Network for an Apartment Complex? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The next step is to gather everybody's CD collections in one huge pile in the middle of the yard and burn it.

    It should be allowed for tenants to paint their bodies with the ashes and dance.

  4. How about patenting the XCam pop-ups! on Pop-Under Ads Patented · · Score: 1

    Someone might argue these should fall in the regular pop-ups category, but I insist in creating a new one: "XCam, The Most Annoying Pop-UpsTM". Humor aside, it's obvious that the patent/copyright system is being used not to aid innovation but to cripple competition, or worse, racket the larget than ever before technology using community. A side effect is the overwhelming /. traffic every time Joe Schmoe patents something. -- Andre The no sig sig.

  5. Once they find out on USB Remote Control · · Score: 1

    Once they found out you flip the channels or mute the tv (or go to pee, yes they have ways to know that!!!), you will spend the rest of your days in jail, watching daytime television with no pee brakes.

  6. Re:In CA you need an ID to use your credit card on Fun with Fingerprint Readers · · Score: 1

    LA, CA. I was surprised when I moved here to find out that I need to show my driver's license along with my CC almost everywhere.
    I lived in Boston prior to moving here and only needed ID when paying by check.

  7. MS XML! Argh on StarOffice 6.0 · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you have seen XML documents created by MS applications you'd be be as scared as I am.

  8. In CA you need an ID to use your credit card on Fun with Fingerprint Readers · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    In most cases cashiers request an ID whenever you are using your CC. Very few exceptions (gas stations, very small purchases at small stores etc.)

  9. It's good he's Japanese on Fun with Fingerprint Readers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In the US he might be sued for reverse engineering practices by the security companies.

  10. Textbooks or Teaching Methodology on Linux Textbooks? · · Score: 1

    I beleve behind the question of textbooks lies another, bigger question: what is the best method of teaching Linux? A textbook is a container of important data structured by the method of conveying it to the user.

    So, what is the best way to learn Linux? How did you learn it? What was interesting?

  11. You need an offshore manger! on Managing a Global Programming Team? · · Score: 1

    I worked for an offshore company's US office for an year. All PR and client management was in the US while all the work was being done in Eastern Europe.
    The best way is to have a local manager for the offshore team, i.e., send a person from your company to work with the team.
    This must person have unedrstanding for the project on all levels and be competent enough to make quick decisions while your office is sleeping. He should also be able to speak the local language.
    My experience of managing project overseas was extremely painful, despite the fact that I speak languages fluently -- it is extremely difficult to communicate via email AND avoid all possible misunderstandings...

    There are so many good coders in this country who are looking for work. Why not hire someone to work from home at a lower wage etc. $2/hour genius programmers who never get your spec are too expensive.

  12. Victims of monsters we created ourselves. on Kazaa, Verizon Propose Compulsory Music Licensing · · Score: 1

    I have been thinking how society resembles a self-regulating game of "life", in which groups of cells can sometimes change the rules.
    Well, corporations have (co-)created laws which support them but obviously do not support our society.
    If I am willing to pay 1c per downloaded song and this 1c will go directly to the song author AND the song author is OK with this, then why am I agreeing to a law system which makes me a criminal if I do so?

    Corporations are not interested in a thriving society. Their priorities (wealth, expansion, extinguishing competition -- at any cost) make them behave as predatory organisms. They only look at me as a product or consumer.

    Shouldn't laws which are found to not support the public be changed? Why is it so easy to create such laws and so hard to undo them?

    I know it's a dead horse but enjoy kicking it once in a while... Can someone recommend an effective course of actions which a voter can take to influence existing laws?

  13. Isn't this like banning 900 numbers? on Cingular Filtering Porn From Wireless Web? · · Score: 1

    Phone companies get paid by a customer's monthly fee, then by the minute and then by the byte, *for the quantity of service used*.
    It's none of their business what the content is.

    Or is the time when I won't be able to speak my *beep* mind on my *beep* *beep* phone?

    Explicit content on your phone's screen?! Pleeze!
    I wonder what's behind all this? Are they trying to push sales to parents?

  14. How about interference? on Spintronics May Lead to Quantum Microchips · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How sensitive to electro/magnetic interference would such a chip be?

    In times when my neighbor can fry all my PCs with a home-made impulse gun I'd be more interested in a light-based chip.

  15. Host your store and forms somewhere else! on Under Attack by PanIP's Patent Lawyers? · · Score: 1

    How much would it cost you to move your store to stores.yahoo.com? And host your forms at homestead.com or geocities?

    Have them try and sue bigger companies with armies of lawyers.

    Of course the fact that your pages are hosted somewhere else might not exempt you from the responsibility of using the technlolgy. But it might be worth a try.