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  1. Re:Under God is True on Supreme Court Will Hear Pledge of Allegiance Case · · Score: 1

    This country was founded "under God"

    This country was founded by a group of rich hooligans whos didn't want to pay taxes.
    Tea anyone?

  2. Re:cool! on 9th Circuit Overturns FCC's Cable Modem Decision · · Score: 1

    I was taught it was:
    1st world = capitalism
    2nd world = communism
    3d world = Unaligned countries getting aid from both sides.

    Of course this is straight from my Indiana high school world history teacher. You think there is a lot of misinformation on /. ? - visit Indiana to see what you are missing.

  3. Re:No need to worry... on 9th Circuit Overturns FCC's Cable Modem Decision · · Score: 1

    The Supreme Court or a full panel of Circuit Court judges only take the cases they think they may overturn.

    Why re-hear or review a case that has no controversy or interesting legal situation? In short, a case that has a very low likelyhood be overturned.

  4. Re:9th Circuit on 9th Circuit Overturns FCC's Cable Modem Decision · · Score: 2, Informative

    They covered this in NPR; it's a myth that the 9th circuit gets a higher % overturned. It happens to be one of the busiest circuits (I think *the* busiest),

    ~11,000 cases for the 9th vs. ~8700 for the 5th, next in line. The All Things Considered story was Sept. 17, 2003; "Arguments on Recall Filed with Appeals Court"

  5. Re:No need to worry... on 9th Circuit Overturns FCC's Cable Modem Decision · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The 9th Circuit decisions get overturned more often based on volume, but it is the largest circuit by far. By percentage, The 9th sits average ~75%. I heard this on NPR's All Things Considered; Sept. 17, 2003; "Arguments on Recall Filed with Appeals Court"

  6. Re:Hmmm, is it that complicated on Recommend Apple, Lose Your Job? · · Score: 1

    There are CPU upgrades available for every single other Mac ever made,

    Take a look at ANY of the iMac DVs and say that again.

    SUre it can be done, ~$400 and 4-6 weeks without your mac for another 100mhz or so.
    I'm sure there are quite few more, but I'm not wasting my time to go downstairs to my dead mac graveyard and look into it.

  7. I'd say do it on AppleCare for PowerBooks - Worth it or Wasted? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The company I work for has three of them running about.

    One had a DVD that ate disks, started in the second year *grind* *grind* *gouge*. Apple Extended paid for itself there.

    The second developed an issue with that ridiculous reset button in back, motherboard had to be replaced. I don't even want to know how much Apple Care saved me that time.

    The third has run like a dream, never had a problem.

  8. Re:Cost two million jobs... on Telemarketers Sue Over "Do Not Call" List · · Score: 1

    Fourth Amendment.
    See "The Right to Privacy"by some guys who were judges somewhere. Somewhere rather important IIRC

  9. Re:Why Linux? on Open Source Linux Based POS Systems? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Just to be contrary, my experience runs the other way. The 2 Linux based POS are just unstoppable, Iâ(TM)m surprised when a day goes by without a support call from the windows POS store.

  10. OneSystem on Open Source Linux Based POS Systems? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    We use OneSystem - www.onesystem.com , in our pizza stores. I cannot comment about the cost, as it worked for the company before I did, But the system is simply great.

  11. Re:Reference to a standard on The Changing Definition Of 'Kilogram' · · Score: 1

    Who here didn't read?
    A project is under way to test that with gold atoms. But the sheer number of atoms in a kilogram, a number with roughly 25 digits in it, makes that approach unfeasible for the foreseeable future

  12. Re:No comments and slashdotted already? on Famous Last Words: You can't decompile a C++ program · · Score: 1

    It is not just you.

  13. Re:Right to privacy on Bookseller Purges Records to Avoid PATRIOT Act · · Score: 1

    No, its the one that allows me to spell freely. Or was that the first? :)

  14. Re:Right to privacy on Bookseller Purges Records to Avoid PATRIOT Act · · Score: 1

    Obligitatory IANAL, but as I understand it from my online law class, privacy is an extension the forth amendment.

  15. Re:The guy is forgetting one important thing on Grade Inflation in Higher Education · · Score: 1

    It might be more illuminating if university transcripts for courses also showed a distribution curve and where the student sits on it. Indiana University does just that. http://www.indiana.edu/~registra/Services/contextt ranscript.html

  16. Re:Focus on Linux apps on Crossover Gets Quicken · · Score: 1

    As the IT Dept for a small company I second that. Hell, its half the reason we have PCs instead of straight Macs.

  17. Re:quickbooks on Crossover Gets Quicken · · Score: 1

    I've read on Quickbooks site (don't want to look for it again) that they do not currently plan, or forsee planning on porting Quickbooks to anything else.

  18. Re:Why is this so terrible? on Apple To Prevent Booting Into Mac OS 9? · · Score: 1

    I had the problem with 95 & an AMD K6-2 450. win95 would run, but at 350 till I patched it.

  19. Video also on Bitboys Silicon Sighted · · Score: 1

    Its at ftp://ftp.asmparty.net/pub/seminars/010802_2000_Gr aphics%20hardware%20for%20handheld%20devices.wmv
    Its 108 megs. Not too slow yet

  20. Re:Why the numbers? on Bitboys Silicon Sighted · · Score: 1

    Ah, of course, thank you. And for the proper name of the 2x 7 LEDs

  21. Why the numbers? on Bitboys Silicon Sighted · · Score: 1

    So I'm not much of a hardware guy, but why the LED (?) numbers?http://solidhardware.com/sn/bb/P8010048.JP G
    Even in a clear case they would be parrallel with the floor/desktop?

  22. Re:i want neither... on Web Services Making Software Coexist? · · Score: 1

    I want them all. For my mac, my wintel, my hey-the-video-card-with-this-release Redhat. As a SysAdmin for a small company I don't wan to worry if the 'new thing' will run on the Marketing Depts OS9 macs, the COO's OSX laptop, or the linux that runs the POS in the pizza joints.

  23. Re:Erm... on SSH Secure Services on Windows 2K/XP? · · Score: 1

    I run cygwin's SSH server at home on win2k and connect from schoolt using SSH.com's client that is command line and graphical file transfer.

  24. Re:Sony being sued, don't think so (coffee hot) on Sony Intentionally Crashes Customers' Computers · · Score: 1

    McD's said in court, 'Our customers almost always consume the product after arriving at their destination -home/work/etc' (paraphrase, to lazy to look it up). The Plantiffs suponead (?) McDonalds market research records, which happened to prove the exact opposite. That's why the original settlement was ~$18 mil. Willfull Endangerment or somesuch.

  25. Re:Hate to tell you but the Constitution only on Beware Employment Contracts · · Score: 1

    Well, it depends. In my former incarnation as a tip slave (waiter) the Indiana Dept of Labor was able to apply federal law to the company because the engaged in interstate trade- credit cards. BTW, the company was trying to take a portion of my tips and give them to guy who mopped the floor, in the kitchen.