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  1. Re:Quick! on Obama Picks RIAA's Favorite Lawyer For Top DoJ Post · · Score: 5, Funny

    Obama wants to change the system. But in order to do that, he needs insiders, clinton retreads, lobbyists, and big corporate stooges that know how to get shit done. Once he's surrounded by them, he'll be able to change the system.

  2. Re:First post!! on Groklaw Shifts Gears, Now Stressing Preservation · · Score: 1

    Let's hope this first post is preserved, so future generations will have a complete record of who had first post in this story.

  3. Re:So,no more DRM on Apple Intros 17" Unibody MBP, DRM-Free iTunes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah... but those people who claimed $0.99 was too expensive and songs shouldn't cost more than $0.70 will need a new excuse.

  4. Re:Dont forget documentation on FreeBSD 7.1 Released · · Score: 1

    That's a huge advantage for *BSD. All the command-line stuff feels like it belongs together. And if you need to check the source, it's in one place, easy to track down, and browseable online. Linux may be open source, but good luck trying to track down the source code for a random library or utility.

  5. Re:Hmmm... on FreeBSD 7.1 Released · · Score: 1

    VMS much?

  6. here's a better idea: on A TV Show Based On MAKE Magazine · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How about a slashdot based on news for nerds, or stuff that matters?

  7. Re:Why? on Microsoft Rumored To Lay Off Thousands Worldwide · · Score: 1
    • Microsoft has bought up a lot of companies and inherited a lot of employees.
    • Sometimes people don't work out as well as you hoped
    • Sometimes people stop putting any effort into it.
    • Sometimes people are promoted or transfered into something above their level.
  8. Re:Why? on Microsoft Rumored To Lay Off Thousands Worldwide · · Score: 1

    Results 1 - 10 of about 44,700 for "lean and mean" linux.

    Google, Stephen J Gould, and digitig confirm it: Linux is dying!

  9. Re:Innocence? on Do Twitter Phishing Scams Herald the End of Microblogs? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm not sure if you're referring to twitter or the twitter phishing site :/

  10. Re:That would imply that non spam tweets were usef on Do Twitter Phishing Scams Herald the End of Microblogs? · · Score: 5, Funny

    2008-1-5 11:53AM - just took a dump.

  11. Re:More FOSS developers on Microsoft Rumored To Lay Off Thousands Worldwide · · Score: 1

    More likely they'll work do MCSE type work, asp/aspx, windows support, etc.

  12. Re:Companies do this kind of thing all the time... on Microsoft Rumored To Lay Off Thousands Worldwide · · Score: 1

    Well, In 98, during the .com craze, they hired masseuses that gave happy endings.

  13. Re:Layoffs on Microsoft Rumored To Lay Off Thousands Worldwide · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Firing 15,000 people is easier than firing 1 person.

  14. Re:H1B issue will be key on Microsoft Rumored To Lay Off Thousands Worldwide · · Score: 1

    Or they cut US jobs while increasing employment in Canada and India. But it should be interesting to see what the they do.

  15. Re:Layoffs on Microsoft Rumored To Lay Off Thousands Worldwide · · Score: 1

    Heartsick? I doubt it.

    One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic. -- Joseph Stalin

  16. Re:Hey Steve... how about a little on Steve Jobs Issues Update On His Health · · Score: 1

    You're right. You don't follow this stuff. There are two kinds of pancreatic cancer. Most (adenocarcinomas) are a short term ticket to death. 5% are in the "other" category and are treatable. Mr. Jobs was in the other category.

  17. Re:News because on Steve Jobs Issues Update On His Health · · Score: 1

    How do you explain Michael Spindler and Gil Amelio? Maybe John Sculley picked them so he could ride back and rescue Apple once Steve retires?!!!?!!!

  18. Re:Mac users spend more money on Why Game Developers Should Support OS X and Linux · · Score: 1

    There's more to being native than just the native widgets or having a global menu bar vs a window menu bar. I use PgAdmin III (wxwidgets based) on a macintosh. It looks native, mostly, but it doesn't feel native.

  19. Re:Time to hack into Blair's PC on UK Police To Step Up Hacking of Home PCs · · Score: 2, Informative

    You're about a year and a half too late.

  20. Re:Calendrical Calculations on The Exact Cause of the Zune Meltdown · · Score: 2, Insightful

    division (and modulo) are much slower than integer Math on the ARM.

  21. Re:Old on The Exact Cause of the Zune Meltdown · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Comments in the last zune slashdot story (yesterday?) were just as detailed as this "story". Maybe slashdot editors should read their own site. Or maybe I should start submitting all +5 comments for their own story.

  22. Re:Free NOT EQUAL TO freedom on Stallman On the State of Free Software 25 Years On · · Score: 1

    Open had a meaning before Open Source Software.

  23. Re:Free NOT EQUAL TO freedom on Stallman On the State of Free Software 25 Years On · · Score: 1

    the word "liberty" is much more direct and understandable.

  24. Re:FOSS Will Gain Market Share on Linux In 2009 — Recession vs. GNU · · Score: 2, Insightful
    The savings from switching to OpenOffice are no better than the savings from keeping Office 2003.

    PS: 4/12 is not 50%.

  25. Re:Discrimination on Overzealous AirTran Boots 9 Passengers Off · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It wasn't the buses (ie, the free market) that decided where black people sat, it was state law (ie, government intervention).