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  1. That's too bad on Boeing Sonic Cruiser Project Shelved · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cool-looking projects should never be canceled.

  2. Re:Inside information... on Is the New Microsoft Office Really Open? · · Score: 2
    Actually, well-formed XML just involves having all tags opened and closed for a perfect hiearchial structure. The
    <?xml version="1.0"?>
    is optional. Refer to XML Prolog Type Declaration before correcting someone. Even if you try to say mine's not "valid", neither is yours.
  3. Inside information... on Is the New Microsoft Office Really Open? · · Score: 2
    Microsoft Word's new XML format is as follows:

    <xml><worddoc>
    klj49ja90235%@#U42LKJDS9@#&@#$%(@# $90u89oj456@#%#@*#()$*$@%(F5f65F6@#%(&@#%&$#(*%*lk jdsflkjsdh
    </worddoc></xml>

    Technically, it is standard XML.

  4. Finally... on British To Release UFO Files · · Score: 2

    We can learn the secret to phoning home.

  5. Re:All Looked good from a live view on Delta 4 Inaugural Launch A Success · · Score: 2
    I'd like to return to the days when America was a nation full of people who had already done a lot of dangerous risky shit, and were sitting around thinking of how they could risk their hides one more time.

    Well, most of America uses Windows; that's risky. Many sysadmins think about the next upgrade (to .NET/XP); that's risking hide one more time. I would argue that Windows is more dangerous than raids by natives any day.

  6. Obligatory Ellen Feiss Reference on The Ethics of Desktop Chips Stuffed Into Laptop PCs · · Score: 2

    Shouldn't it be "...and like, halfa my speed was gone. It devoured my speed. It was some really good speed. And I like, had to plug it in quickly to get it back and it wasn't as good. ..."

  7. Re:Temporary solution on Welcome to the new Cluster · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Do you realize that you can't read this story until you've updated DNS records? It just goes to the old /. homepage.

  8. Re:Wow... on The All-Red Route 100 Years On · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    5500 KM, a km is around 6/10's of a mile, about 3300 miles, still, just a bit more than 1/7th, no small task!

    Just a bit more than 1/7th of...

    • ...an Uzbekistanian furlong?
    • ...e^pi meters?
    • ...my [...]?

    Didn't your teacher tell you to use units?

  9. Re:Magic structure-fixing paint? on Nanotech Paints For Military · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    ...structual week points...

    If it cracks in just the right place, you go back in time seven days.

  10. Re:Protected Content - Make the Switch on Helix DNA Client Source On Oct 29 · · Score: 0, Troll
    Keep trying. You'll get that coveted "+1, funny" moderation some day.

    There's no point in Karma-whoring if you're Karma's already maxed. Mine is. Add the mods, and you'll find that the parent comment to yours started with +2. I also noted that you posted as an anonymous coward. Are you afraid of getting modded down yourself?

  11. Protected Content - Make the Switch on Helix DNA Client Source On Oct 29 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Switch a Success - Convert Thrilled

    [Insert stock photo here]

    I used to use those "open" media players. Now I only use ones that protect my content. That's why I use Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Media(R) Player(R) 9(R) Beta(R). Without good Digital(R) Rights(R) Management(R), there just aren't any digital rights.*

    Now that we've talked about the why, here's the skinny on the how.

    [Pasted instructions from help]

    Now that we've gotten [fake name] to try Windows Media Player, we'll get her to try [other Microsoft product].

    *for the recoding industry.

  12. Re:I have an iBook.... on Multiple Monitors for iBooks · · Score: 2

    It seems that this poster has more dualities (think mental ones) than just two monitors and two mates.

  13. Re:nah on Critical Kerberos Flaw Revealed · · Score: 4, Informative
    The fix is to design the CPU so it refuses to run code in an area designated as stack space...

    Not to say the argument isn't entirely valid, but Microsoft uses this as an argument for Pallidium and "trusted" code. Be cafeful about asking for restrictions on how code can run on a user's computer.

  14. Re:Nastyhunting will get a little easier... on Using MAC Address to Uniquely Identify Computers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's called Windows activation.

  15. Re:Movies Mirror on Go X10 Speed Racer! · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Better check on your .NET worth after posting this web site. Bank account 3846 8109-689 at the Bank of Montreal.

  16. Re:Better for the enviroment? on Jet Turbine Locomotives · · Score: 2
    When hydrocarbons are burned throroughly, the only waste products are hydrogen and carbon.

    Combustion produces CO2 and H2O, according to a UCLA hydrocarbon combustion study and my chemistry textbook, the latest edition of Zumdahl Chemisty. (Zumdahl is a professor at U of I: Urbana Champaigne.)

  17. Re:post paladium on Questions for a Lecture on Microsoft's Palladium? · · Score: 3, Funny

    4) ?
    5) (Inconceivably large amount of) Profit

  18. Slashdot Effect on Microsoft Tries a "Switch" Campaign · · Score: 2

    A lot of people at Microsoft are going to be very confused about the ridiculously large number of hits this page is getting.

  19. Re:Clawhammer for me. on IBM to Release 64-Bit, 1.8GHz Processor in 2003 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Volume won't be a problem at all for IBM. They run more PowerPC chip fabs than Motorola. The only reason IBM isn't making G4s is Apple's contract with Motorola, which seems to be icy at the moment. IBM could create G3s that run faster than G4s and flood the market tomorrow if there weren't legal issues. IBM and Apple seem to have a serious future together.

  20. Re:Sonny Bono on Copyrights/Patents are Public Domain? · · Score: 2

    A few years is what the article supports. Read it before you post.

  21. On the contrary... on Copyrights/Patents are Public Domain? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...lack of copyright protection for authors stifles work and leaves them poor. The same probably holds true for the musicians in a record contract. While the following article is about British authors in America who held no copyright, the result would be the same for any author in any country. (Dickens's 1842 Reading Tour: Launching the Copyright Question in Tempestuous Seas) Greatly limiting the "brief [few years] economic advantage" for authors and inventors would destroy the ability for someone to live off their work, sending brilliant, independant minds back to the doldrums of corporate America.

  22. Re:Wow on AOL Threatens Peng, Demands Domain Handover · · Score: 2
    Whereas for another dial up ISP I could use the super lite built in windows dial up networking. I don't want to have to use up all my RAM just to establish a connection. I always ended up minimizing the AOL software and using netscape or other programs.

    I never thought I'd see Windows and "super lite" in the same sentence. DUN is probably just as bloated, it just loads with Windows and can't be removed (like IE), so it seems fast and light. At least it doesn't put ads on your screen like AOL.

  23. Obligatory Beowulf Post on Dealing with the RIAA? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Imagine a Beowulf cluster of lawyers... http://www.riaa.org/

  24. Re:not the game's fault on GameToo Much...... And Die! · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sounds like too much Mountain Dew to me.

  25. If only life was like UT2003... on Geoprofiling Moves Into The Limelight · · Score: 5, Funny

    we'd have a trail from every shot of the sniper.