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  1. pegasos on Yellow Dog Linux Finds New PPC Hardware Vendor · · Score: 4, Informative

    Pegasos sells non macintosh, linux-based PPC machines. At least, they would if they weren't currently out of stock.

  2. eh on Japanese Companies Set to Compete with iTunes · · Score: 3, Informative
    sophisticated purveyors of music know that the Japanese release of many US albums contain additional tracks. It would be nice to get ahold of them individually, but it looks like these companies are only selling in sony's (retarded) ATRAC format and something else that looks even more obscure and attrocious, DRM wise. Too bad - they fail it.

    Guess I'll just have to keep buying import CDs (wink wink)

  3. Re:One... on A Piece of CherryPy for CGI Programmers · · Score: 1

    sounds familiar...

  4. back at ya on Original Einstein Manuscript Discovered · · Score: 1
  5. Re:Other than on Original Einstein Manuscript Discovered · · Score: 2, Informative
    USSR didn't declare war on Japan until august 8, 1945. For reference, the atomic bombs were dropped August 6th and August 9th.

    If you take a look at the Yalta conference, you have to wonder if Roosevelt was the most incompetent President ever, or just liked getting fucked up the ass by "Uncle Joe" Stalin.

    Consider: in exchange for declaring war on Japan (which they did at the last possible moment), USSR got

    1. All of Eastern Europe
    2. Some of the Japanase Islands
    3. US troops sant around and waited 2 weeks so the Russian troops could "liberate" berlin.

  6. Re:One of his last breakthroughs on Original Einstein Manuscript Discovered · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    He developed his final theory of relativity.

    Marrying your cousin.

  7. Re:submissions on Wanted - An Online Publishing Business Model? · · Score: 1
    Reading, rejecting, accepting, and editing article submissions is what editors get paid to do.

    CmdrTaco, Hemos, Timothy, Zonk, etc. disagree with you.

  8. Re:Google and the rest of the content parasites on Wanted - An Online Publishing Business Model? · · Score: 1

    Sorry, Google does not provide "two line snippets". Take a look at the books they currently have. You can search for text within a book and read the entire book at your pleasure. Most of the books I've looked at have only a handful of pages (less than 5%) that are missing. Some technical type books have missing figures and such, but most of the text is available.

  9. Re:Business Plan... on Wanted - An Online Publishing Business Model? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Adsense only works if
    1. You're engaging in click fraud
    2. Your visitors don't realize they're clicking on an ad

    If you have a third rate, cut-n-paste blog that somehow manages to get a high google ranking, you can exploit method 2 for $15,000 a month.

    If you can disable cookies and use proxies, you can exploit method 1.

  10. wait wait.... on Wanted - An Online Publishing Business Model? · · Score: 1
    you're asking slashdot for an online publishing business model...

  11. Re:Ask Salon on Wanted - An Online Publishing Business Model? · · Score: 2, Funny
    I asked Salon. They said:
    Get a shitload of venture capital money. Then blow it on expensive office space and posh parties.
    You can probably ignore that last part.
  12. Re:Further details / This looks strangely familiar on Fired AOL Engineer gets 15 Months · · Score: 2, Funny

    really? I submitted a story once and they changed the hyperlinks, changed the text, changed who the story was from, and they even changed what the story was about.

  13. Re:It's an insurmountable problem. on New, Faster Attack against SHA-1 Revealed · · Score: 1

    the rm(1) compression utility does.

  14. Re:Personally, I'd dump SHA. on New, Faster Attack against SHA-1 Revealed · · Score: 1

    no fixed size hash can be trusted (duh!). The only trustable option is a variable-sized hash, using 1 (or more) bytes for every byte in the original file, like rot-13 (or rot-0). That's completely unbreakable.

  15. Re:i'll never understand why... on New, Faster Attack against SHA-1 Revealed · · Score: 1

    well, they did release perl and that "secure" linux fork.

  16. Re:Dupe on New Digital Camera Lens Made of Liquid · · Score: 1

    LOTS of people email in dupes, spelling errors, bad links, etc. The "daddypants@slashdot.org" address is like tits on a bull.

  17. not what it's cracked up to be on Crocodile's Immune System Kills HIV · · Score: 4, Informative
    I'll reserve a real judgement for when more information is published in Nature or Science, but it doesn't appear to be anything useful.

    The human immune system is fully capable of killing HIV. However (dumbed down enough for Reuters readers) HIV infects T4 Lymphocytes, so killing the virus means killing your own immune system, and you die of obscure diseases.

    The antibacterial angle sounds promising, though.

  18. Read the Fucking article? on Booting an x86 Virtual Machine from an iPod · · Score: 5, Informative

    Did the submitter even read the article? It's primarily about IBM's SoulPad software, not the fact that they booted linux from an iPod.

  19. duh! save money! on Convincing Your Superiors to GPL the Code? · · Score: 1
    Think of all the money your company will save when they fire your ass and you work for free.

    More seriously, it can build goodwill and be an effective means of advertising. Like Hans Reiser and the ReiserFS.

  20. Re:That's right ladies and gentlemen on Henrico County iBook Sale Creates iRiot · · Score: 1

    Revolutionary war? War of 1812? The various Indian wars? Bear Flag revolt, Mexican/American war (ok, not US land until after the fact).

  21. Re:No CSS on that site. on 10 Best Resources for CSS · · Score: 1

    we also know that it will be fixed. (About fucking time, too)

  22. yet another framework on Which PHP5 Framework is Your Favorite? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I haven't used it (I only learned about it from one of the endless /. RoR articles), but Cake is another option. If nothing else, the logo is making me hungry.

  23. Re:RTFA ... DOS not Windows on x86 Emulator on PSP Runs Windows & Linux · · Score: 2, Informative

    Look at Sarien, a sierra AGI interpreter. It plays the old classics (KQ 1-3, SQ, Leisure Suit Larry 1-3, etc). It doesn't appear to be ported to ported to the PSP (yet), but it is available for the dreamcast.

  24. Re:Disappointing on Google to Include iTunes? · · Score: 1
    archive.org has some lossless shn files (yeah, not flac, wank wank) from their live music archive.

  25. Re:Apple! on Google to Include iTunes? · · Score: 3, Funny

    no, but they are known for breaking slashdot.