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  1. Re:Jobs on TiVo Buys Super Secret Strangeberry · · Score: 4, Funny

    You forgot

    Berry Picker
    Berry picker with significant experience with berry picking. Must be able to pick wide variety of berry (including non-standard berry formats; goose, huckle, smart, wise, hack). Experience with mushrooms and shines also considered.

  2. Re:From Retro to Porno? on The Guy Game - Adult Console Trivia Nirvana? · · Score: 3, Funny

    But THIS game has a 1.5 from IGN.
    I was pretty amused by that review. A select quote...
    Bikini Karate Babes was left open to be picked apart by its competition: Dead or Alive 3, NASCAR Racing 2002, Predator on the NES, and the peanut butter cookie from the vending machine.
    See thats useful, cause now I know that I would be happier with the cookie. Thank IGN.

  3. Re:rated M? on The Guy Game - Adult Console Trivia Nirvana? · · Score: 1

    ...oops, im a stereotypical asshole

    I think you ment ...oops, im a stereotypical a**hole

    Oh and by the way.. You're Welcome!

  4. Re:Dissatsfied... on Dell Moves Call Center Back to US · · Score: 1

    You also missed the part of the language issue (accents).

    Because they like scripted responses better in english?

    Yeah, I sure missed that... thanks AC.

  5. Dissatsfied... on Dell Moves Call Center Back to US · · Score: 1

    ...Dell is moving its call center operations ...back to the US from Bangalore, India after an onslaught of complaints from dissatisfied customers who couldn't cope with the differing accents and scripted responses.

    Because they like scripted responses better in english? How is that going to change?

  6. Follow the money on RIAA Calls Settlements Proof that Education is Working · · Score: 4, Insightful

    CowboyNeal wrote "It warms my heart to know that artists will be getting all the money that's due to them. Musicians always look so poor when I see them on television. Finally, they can afford the lifestyle they deserve."

    I would have a lot less problem paying for music and even paying in these settlements, but you know damn well that the artists aren't even going to see 1 cent on the dollar... This is just going to pay record companies.
    More likely right into Cary Sherman's pocket...

  7. Minor correction... on A Gator By Any Other Name · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The CEO said "We feel that the Claria Corporation name will allow us to better communicate the expanding breadth of offerings that we provide to consumers and advertisers"...
    Instead of communicate he ment to say obfuscate. Its an understandable mistake...

    Crap by and another name still sticks to the bottom of your shoe and smells bad...


  8. Re:bleh on MPAA Ruins Own Films As Anti-Piracy Measure · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Maybe you should see one of these films. I just saw Underworld and was very annoyed by the dots I kept seeing. (Small dots in paterns of 4-6 usually)... And the usually occur right in the center of the screen...


    VERY ANNOYING!

  9. Re:I'm a skeptic. on Investigating Infinium Labs · · Score: 1

    Sir, I am interested in this company you speak of.
    I enjoy massage oils and dislike cancer.

    Do you have some money I could invest or just jam into your pockets...


    -Investors of Infinium Labs


  10. Cleveland on Power Outages Strike East Coast · · Score: 1

    All of greater cleveland is without power..

  11. Re:It's a myth on Getting Back Into Shape While At The Office? · · Score: 3, Funny

    "caffeine free"

    YOU MONSTER!
    Oh the humanity!

  12. Re:Question for Taco or others on Design Slashdot's New T-Shirt and Win Cool Stuff! · · Score: 1

    A fat sarcastic Star Trek fan? You must be a devil with the ladies!

  13. Re:How about the damn name? on Difficulties of the Nuclear Powered Prometheus Project · · Score: 1

    Oh whats the big deal?

    So the probe gets locked into an orbit arround some space rock ^H^H^H^H asteriod and the space eagle pecks out it liver.... oh hum.

  14. Re:Sucks... on Print Yourself a Femur · · Score: 2, Informative

    Without reading the article I can tell you that this "printed bone" can't be used to replace joints.

    The technology is producing a bone matrix replacement, which is nauturally transformed into bone by the body. (due to the nature of the way bone is contsantly being broken down and rebuilt.) The problem is that joint tissue is a whole other ball game. You need cartilage, and a nice joint sinovioum, and neither of these will just form being using a matrix.
    This mostly for better union of broken bones.

  15. Re:Good idea on Distributed Computing Attacking SARS · · Score: 1

    I think the reason for smallpox is the bio-terror angle...
    The Soviets maded a lot of weapons grade bugs (smallpox, and anthrax), not all of which is accounted for...

    Not that I think that someone will use it, but thats the reason for the smallpx thing. (they did anthrax earlier)

  16. Oh great, just great.... on TiVo Home Media Rollout · · Score: 4, Interesting
    So this option lets you listen to MP3s? Not that bad, but unless you do creative wiring I imagine that means that your TV has to be on. And there are other ways of doing that.

    You can share between two TiVo Series2 DVRs? Well that would be nice, except...
    Multi-Room Viewing is available exclusively on TiVo Series2 DVRs. To transfer recordings between two DVRs, each must have active TiVo service under the same account name, and must be on the same home network. Home Media Option must be purchased seperately for each DVR.

    So to do this you need:

    -2 Series2 TiVos

    -2 active accounts (for 2 that 25/month or 598 lifetime)

    -and 2 Home media options (99 each!)

    I can't believe that they require both Tivos to have both the active accounts and the media options. Does SonicBlue's ReplayTV require that double charging??
  17. SARS on Slashback: Security, Telephony, Solicitude · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Good news is this virus seems to be close contact only (family memebers, health care workers) and does not seem highly infectious...

    Now if they could actually confirm which bug it is and get a good test then we would be good shape...

  18. What next? on Flowing Water Discovered on Mars · · Score: 0

    Blue skys on Mars?

    Better get your ass to Mars.

  19. Go about your business on Should you Fear Google? · · Score: 1, Funny

    "The concerns seem like paranoid hand waving to me, but maybe I'm not paranoid enough."
    *man in suit/sunglasses waves hand in front of your face*
    "You are paranoid enough"
    "You can go about your business"


    I am paranoid enough, I'll go about my business.

  20. Clarification on Italians Perform Groundbreaking Full Jaw Transplant · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is a bone transplant. (the article isn't clear, but you can't store living tissue at -196C, 77K you would kill the cells...)
    So issues regarding nerves and sensation are not a factor...

    It must be a pain to get a jawbone that matches size, it has to meet the tempomandibular joints on either side....

  21. In future news: on War(ship) Driving For 802.11b Controlled Destroyers · · Score: 2, Funny

    CNN reports American destroyers fired on RIAA, again. This marks the fourth such attack in 2 months. The shell pattern spelled out the following "3133t rulez! p2p theze!"

    our next story: the smoldering ruins of Microsoft remain...

  22. Re:Here's a question: on Data Mining Used Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    Simple, read
    Cryptonomicon
    and do what they did...

    It is actually a really cool idea, main doorway had local magnetic field generator...

    Anyone know why this wouldn't work??

  23. Re:not good on For Those Long Coding Sessions: The Food Patch · · Score: 2

    They already have many food alternatives in medical fields. (It is how they can operate on people's colons, you can't eat for quite some time after that).

    Its is called (in its most complete form) TPN, total parenteral nutrition. That is to say "non oral food". It can be injected into a vein.

    Biggest problem is the fat, eventually someone on this long enough needs long fatty chains. You can give them but getting fat interveinously screws with both the vein and worse the liver...

    If you aren't giving fat there are not a lot of problems assocaited with this form of supplimentation.

  24. Its been Said before, but on Dow vs. Parody · · Score: 1, Redundant
    The website was an affront to our right to Free Speech, and we immediately contacted the upstream provider for this false website, gently requesting that our rights be protected.

    The provider, Verio, graciously complied with our letter citing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Not only did they shut down Dow-Chemical.com, but as a good corporate citizen, they agreed to shut down an entire network (Thing.net) of websites many of which, while unrelated to dow-chemical.com,


    The web site was an "affront to our right to Free Speech".

    So something someone else said was an affront to their right to free speech? How the hell is that possible? You can talk about slander and liable, but saying something on a web site is affecting their right to free speech?

    "Not only did they shut down Dow-Chemical.com, but as a good corporate citizen", I don't have much to say here but good corporate citizen? God that just sends chills down my spine. Thank god for those corporate citizens who kowtow to their corporate betters.

    "appear to serve no commercial purpose, being dedicated to the unproductive analysis and critique of society and corporate behaviour. "

    How dare they! Serve no commercial purpose!

    But the worst is the statement of what they do instead of serving a commercial purpose. Analysis and critique of society and corporate behavior?

    All I can say is Thank God people do that! What the hell is wrong with Dow for saying any of that?

    I used to think that freedom of speech was one of those protections for the little guy (individual), to keep the big guy(corps, and gov) from squelching his point of view.

    America is truely becoming a corporate state, and this is just sad.

    Sorry if its a tad over the top, up at 4 am will do that.
  25. Almost seems unneeded on Disney to Create Walking Animatronic Dinosaur · · Score: 5, Funny
    As the simpsons say (prof frink)
    "You've got to listen to me. Elementary chaos theory tells us that all robots will eventually turn against their masters and run amok in an orgy of blood and the kicking and the biting with the metal teeth and the hurting and shoving."
    'How much time do we have professor?'
    "Well according to my calculations, the robots won't go berserk for at least 24 hours."
    (The robots go berserk.)
    "Oh, I forgot to er, carry the one."
    Please don't moddd me down, Niiiice Laaadyy!