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  1. Hmm on Inkjet Printer Prints out Human Skin · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Could it lead to a fax machine for complete living organisms?

    No.

  2. Re:Because... on Xbox Modchip Featuring Onboard Operating System · · Score: 1

    It's hard to explain, but believe me...it will still play Xbox games. I've been in the Xbox hacking scene for 2-3 years.

  3. Solderless is not the way to go on Xbox Modchip Featuring Onboard Operating System · · Score: 5, Informative

    You do not want to use a solderless modchip, they suffer from the same problem they did back in the Playstation days: They WILL eventually get bumped out of where they need to be. Then you need to shut everything down, open up your Xbox, realign all of the points, and close it again. It is well worth the price to get an installer to install a soldered modchip. You can find installers at the forums on xbox-scene.com

  4. Re:What a minute? on Xbox Modchip Featuring Onboard Operating System · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes, I have an 80GB drive in mine. Seagate drives are popular due to their compatibility and quietness.

  5. Because... on Xbox Modchip Featuring Onboard Operating System · · Score: 1

    You can play Xbox games on it? Oh, and it's cheaper.

  6. Link to slycknews on Kazaa Loses P2P Crown To Edonkey · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm not sure why the link goes to slyck.com instead of the actual news story, but the direct link is here

  7. I've purchased 10 albums due to file sharing on The File Sharing Report · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I almost never purchased music before file sharing--in a typical year I would buy one album (and that was because I would get a gift certificate to a music store on Christmas.) Because of filesharing, I was up to trying out allofmp3.com when I heard about it--and since then I've purchased 10 albums in the last few months.

  8. Problem in the survey method on Broadband Majority in US · · Score: 5, Funny

    NetRatings, based in New York and Milpitas, Calif., used a panel of 50,000 participants selected through calls to randomly generated phone numbers.

    I recently got broadband a few months ago. Before that I was on dialup and only had one phoneline. Had they tried to call me for this survey, they would have gotten a busy signal.

    I wonder how many dialup users were not interviewed because of this.

  9. I think most of us can on Boolean Logic : George Boole's The Laws of Thought · · Score: 1

    A bit can only contain one base-2 value (either a 0 or a 1). It is short for Binary Digit.

  10. What the hell? on Microsoft: Because Bugs are Cool · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How did this even get posted? It's obviously complete satire. Click here to see all of the websites that link to this...they're all TECH HUMOR. If humor was the intended goal, it'd be responsible to make note of that in the summary. Please correct this in the dupe.

  11. Re:I must be stupid on Ron Rivest Suggests Probability-Based Micropayments · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, it's a lottery on whether the merchant gets PAID or not. However, the assumption is that even if he doesn't get paid on your transaction, he'll get paid enough next time to make up for it.

  12. Re:well no kidding.. on DALnet For Chatting, Not File Sharing · · Score: 5, Informative

    I don't know how you got +1 Insightful: they got DDoS'd before they restricted file trading. The log as to what happened right before the DDoS started is here.

  13. Re:My proposal. on Recycling Pay Phones into Terminals · · Score: 2

    It's a good idea to punish the submitters and not the editors (since we obviously know when something's a dupe within seconds of it posting), but often difficult to find out who actually submitted the article (in this instance:)

    The user you requested does not exist, no matter how much you wish this might be the case.


    Well, in cases like this, we Slashdot the user! ;)

  14. My proposal. on Recycling Pay Phones into Terminals · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Why don't we all band together, and whenever a user submits a dupe we all add them to our 'foes' list? Doesn't directly stop anyone from posting repeats, but if I knew that submitting one could get me hundreds of foes, I'd probably check my submissions for duplicates.

  15. Re:Jolt patches... on For Those Long Coding Sessions: The Food Patch · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, you could use nicotine patches. Nicotine is a stimulant, and when you first start using the patches, you can really tell. When I first started using patches to quit smoking, I was racing around and away much later than usual, but always full of energy. I stopped taking them abruptly one day, and I crashed, just like what happens after any other stimulant binge.

  16. No. on For Those Long Coding Sessions: The Food Patch · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is this what ./'ers need during those long coding sessions.

    This may have been said jokingly, but it definately isn't what we need. Not only do TNDS' not give you a delicious taste in your mouth, they don't tell your body that you are full either. If we want fatter geeks, this is the way to go. Otherwise, I'll just stick to my perishable food.

  17. But can it... on Linux-Based Bar-Monkey · · Score: 2

    Does it know how to mix a Slashdotting, on the rocks?

  18. Re:New standards?? on Windows XP Media Center Edition Review · · Score: 2

    VDR released an update to their first version to fix problems. Which is better: releasing an update the day the product comes out, or releasing the update later? Either way, the first version of both programs had bugs, and they got fixed. I'm not aware of any programs that were perfect on their first release.

  19. The plans are out of order! on Sendmail Performance Tuning · · Score: -1, Troll

    1. Lose profit!
    2. 'Tune' Sendmail
    3. ????

  20. Re:I thought the same thing. on Network Solutions Take 2 · · Score: 2

    I noticed my mistake seconds after posting it, but as there is no "edit" feature (for good reason) in Slashdot, there was nothing I could do.

  21. In case you missed it: on A Viable System for Micropayments? · · Score: 2

    Buried in the middle of the paragraph, HERE is his question:

    I'm curious as to how viable you think this system is and if you have any ideas for improvement.

  22. I thought the same thing. on Network Solutions Take 2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    It seems so eerily familiar.

    I thought the same thing, Hemos, but it actually isn't a dupe.

  23. Re:Apple on Collecting Classic Computers · · Score: 2

    Nooo! I've been looking for one of these for six years. Oh well, I'll hit up eBay again.

  24. Re:Study innaccuracies on Number of Jobs by Programming Language · · Score: 3, Funny

    In this light, how do we interpret the result for Smalltalk?

    The same way we interpret CmdrTaco...very carefully.

  25. Study innaccuracies on Number of Jobs by Programming Language · · Score: 2

    This was a very unscientifically performed study. Job availability for scheme included entries such as:

    Outside Sales Consultant