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  1. Re:Yes on Is Caps Lock Dead? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You guys are forgetting that the caps lock key is older than your silly programming languages. There was and still are uses for all caps sequences in many facets of typing. Caps are more easily readable on envelopes, some database and spreadsheet entries, titles of chapters, and many more writing applications. Sheesh. Newbies.

  2. Re:Set of degrees that would rival most think tank on The Mathematics of Futurama · · Score: 1

    I would if I could see throught the magic smoke that was their server!

  3. Re:$1700 eh? on Robots That Serve Beyond The Vacuum · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well yeah, but my boxing dummy needs a girlfriend, and I have another $1700 to blow so why not?

  4. Re:Simple answer: no on Can Star Wars Episode III Be Saved? · · Score: 1

    That explains why the Ewoks got snubbed in the re-release ROTJ. That still burns me up.

  5. All your base station are belong to us on 802.11 WiFi Denial of Service Exploit Discovered · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Seams like the single most energetic use of all our new technology is figuring out new ways to break it.

  6. Re:What is with the hatred? on RIAA Forgets to Make Royalty Payments · · Score: 1
    You're blind. Even if "most of thoses companies CEO are members of the democrat party," they still don't make up a majority or even a controlling factor of the Democratic Party.

    The same is not true of the RIAA

  7. Re:spirit in the sky? on What Happens To Your Data When You Die? · · Score: 1

    No, it stays here with your brain and internal organs in specially blessed pots. That way you can dry out and still retain all the information that our descendants will need in the next 2-10 thousand years.

  8. Re:Weird Output on Free Optimizing C++ Compiler from Microsoft · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You guys are evil, and I like it. It's perfect justice to hit M$ with a Slashdot trying to download a tool that represents one the greatest advantages of open source and Linux (at least a little): the native compiler.

  9. Re:Um on Is the Universe Shaped Like a Funnel? · · Score: 1

    Your services are unsatisfactory. Please discontinue them.

  10. Re:What shap haven't we had on Is the Universe Shaped Like a Funnel? · · Score: 1

    That's not a half bad assumption, considering the hourglass shaped matter that spews from the centers of some galaxies. Imagine that our whole univers is just the barf of a cosmic galactic center. One thing the universe does really well, is repeat itself on many scales of size. The atom, the solar system, the galaxy, and so forth.

  11. Mod Parent Up on Sapphire: A Liquid That Won't Get Things Wet · · Score: 1

    He has a good point

  12. Re:Motivation. on Five Fundamental Problems with Open Source? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I think the author has good points, but I believe she misses the overarching explanation and, therefore, the logical solution. In a word, it is motivation.

    Exactly. UI design requires either directing force or a seperate person taking an existing project and making it user-friendly.

    The very cream of the crop open source software always has both, and is always funded somehow.

    Who would aspire to write a clean user interface for joe blow's project that might be dead or obsolete before you get done with it?

  13. Re:Control is Good on Auto-Censoring DVD Player · · Score: 1

    Our world views don't have to be equal. They only have to be about equal for this to be satisfactory.

  14. Re: Also In related news on Microsoft Authorized Refurbishers · · Score: 2, Informative

    Microsoft dumps unneeded Win98se licences on third world countries after the product is EOLed . . .

  15. In Other News . . . on PlayFair Pulled Due to DMCA Request · · Score: 1

    Slashdot creates a new web protocol htttp:// and are using it to reference www.osdn.com. Experts assume this is a another prank similar to the name of the site, which a spoof on web naming conventions.

  16. Re:Noise Qualities on MagLev Trains Annoyingly Loud · · Score: 4, Funny

    Speaking of unfamiliar and disturbing phenomena, go back and read some of the reports on the first helicopters. Some of them are quite humorous. "Somebody's WINDMILL just flew by!"

  17. Anything left to kick around? on SCO's Motion to dismiss Red Hat's Complaint Denied · · Score: 5, Funny

    You forget the fun of dancing on the grave of your foe!

  18. Re:precent on Hitachi Shows Off A Fuel-Cell PDA · · Score: 1, Funny
    Well, I, for one, don't want that highly toxic dihydrogen monoxide byproduct polluting my atmosphere.

    Its highly adictive. Once you get some of it, you can never go without it.

    I can kill you if you breath it in high concentrations

    It's the primary ingredient in most CEO's of monopolistic companies and diet sodas

    It causes severe erosion

  19. Re:Soaking up the gamma on Latest Chernobyl Motorcycle Photos · · Score: 1

    [quote] At least she's documenting her journeys.[/quote]I get an eirie reminder of the guy that photo'd Mt St Helens.

  20. Re:Sharing Trojans on Anti-piracy Vigilantes Tracking P2P Users · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The same users that are too lazy to look up free alternative software are going to go through their file sharing archives looking for virii and trojans?

  21. Re:This may sound stupid but.... on Obtaining Legal MP3s Outside of the U.S.? · · Score: 1
    I'm only writing one reply to all my responses.

    When I said, "to the best of your ability", I naturally assumed that your judgement was one such ability. Not all government policies are on the scale of genocide, and copyright infringement is nowhere in the same class of "civil disobediance". Your attempt to escalate the scale and importance of this issue cheapens the tragedies you mentioned. Shame on you.

  22. Re:All he has to do now on Making IE Standards Compliant · · Score: 4, Funny

    Umm . . . Sourceforge?

  23. Re:This may sound stupid but.... on Obtaining Legal MP3s Outside of the U.S.? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    The laws are different, but does that change the morality of the issue?


    One of the very basic parts of morality is following the laws where you live to the best of your ability. So, yes, having different local laws can have a very big affect on morality.
  24. Re:One question: why? on Glenn Urges Direct-to-Mars Trip · · Score: 1

    Because man always has and always will seek to further his horizons. We've run out of horizons on Earth. And I suppose you've personally walked from New York to London? The seaweed is always greener/ in somebody elses lake-Sebastian.

  25. Re:Hopefully studio costs going down on Audacity 1.2.0 Released · · Score: 1, Funny

    $1000 is trivial? You must must be one of those successful nerds.