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  1. Re:This is you on Programming Assignment Guide For CS Students · · Score: 1

    I can't seem to figure out what "El resto" means though

    Not sure if you were joking but I would guess it means "the rest"/other

  2. Re:Please guys... on Distress Signal Emitted By Flat-Screen TV · · Score: 1

    If this story had any potential, it doesn't now.

    It *didn't* have any potential. Hence, all the [attempted] humour.

  3. No fair on X10 Hallowe'en Display · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's not fair! The Hulk is taking votes away from Kerry!

  4. Re:Best quote from Bill... on IE Holes Not Microsoft's Fault, Says Bill · · Score: 1

    Bill, get a clue and stop using your PR department for your FUD.

    Then what department should he use for his FUD?

  5. Re:Pay up... on Mt. St. Helens Magma Reaches Surface · · Score: 3, Funny

    Geologists said there is still a chance of explosive ash eruptions

    Bet's not over yet. Of course I need KABOOM, ASH AND LAVA before I see any money..

  6. Re:What's the use? on An Alternative to SQL? · · Score: 1

    Of what? A 30 way union or your parents having sex?

  7. Re:Nice, but doomed on GMail Drive Shell Extension · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They already have a cache of the entire [public] Internet. What makes you think they can't handle this?

  8. Re:Easy to circumvent on Breaking Google's DRM · · Score: 1

    Hmm.. so they are.. so they are. I guess Copy is disabled by default if there is no text selected :)

  9. Easy to circumvent on Breaking Google's DRM · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is easy to circumvent, at least in X. You can copy text by simply selecting it.

    http://print.google.com/print/doc?articleid=y4tfu9 YqpnG (sans formatting):

    Variety Orwell Rolls in His Grave Ronnie Scheib Nov 4, 2003 Docu A marvel of passionate succinctness, Robert Kane Pappas' docu critically examines the Fourth Estate, once the bastion of American democracy. Docu asks, "Could a media system, controlled by a few global corporations with the ability to overwhelm all competing voices, be able to turn lies into truth?" "Orwell Rolls in His Grave" refrains from preaching to the choir but if its biting analysis proves true, film is unlikely to ever be presented to the general public. Indie arthouse and cable venues therefore beckon. Pic meticulously traces the process by which black may be turned into white, with frequent references to totalitarian states both fictional and real -- Orwell's "1984" competes with Goebbels' theories on propaganda and blatant examples of Soviet revisionism for pride of place. Helmer Pappas (director of the fiction features "Now I Know," and "Some Fish Can Fly") forsakes all pretense of presenting both sides, since presumably the other side is promoted daily by radio, television and the press. Pappas offers like-minded journalists, media watchdogs, scholars and legislators who voice their deep concerns about the health of democracy in America. Vermont Congressman Bernie Sanders, an Independent, wonders why his constituents never ask him why they must work longer hours for less pay than they did 25 years ago or why factories are moving to Third World countries. Instead, a worker might accost him angrily about his vote against the repeal of the estate tax (redubbed "death tax" to better demonize it), which affects only the top two percent of the population. Pic largely relies on talking heads, but the conviction and punch of the interviewees' commentary, leavened with pertinent excerpts from a lively Michael Moore speaking engagement, never becomes tedious. Graphs showing the income of the middle-class lamely flatlining while that of the upper-class climbs off the page are accompanied with shocking government figures of a 9% increase in middle-class income verses a 140% increase at the top. Pappas et. al. examine the conflicts of interest that make the giant corporate conglomerates who own the media unwilling to follow up on scoops that would adversely affect their varied sources of income. One pithy segment shows a comical changing of the guard: Scruffy peons, paid to keep a place on line, are replaced by Armani-clad lobbyists in the halls of Congress minutes before it convenes. Filmmakers assert that Big Media itself has become a huge special interest, pouring billions into lobbying and effectively controlling which politicians get airtime and which do not. Charles Lewis, an investigative reporter, former "60 Minutes" producer and founder of the Center for Public Integrity, discusses the way the media determines the relative longevity of stories, the Monica Lewinsky scandal wallowed in ad nauseum while a well-researched report on George W. Bush's insider trading has "disappeared" without a trace. Media treatments of the 2000 election and the Iraqi war come under heavy partisan fire. Furthermore, docu questions how 69% of the American public got the idea that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11. Docu merrily deconstructs the myth of "deregulation," from its inception under Reagan to the infamous Telecommunications Act backed by FCC head Michael Powell (son of Colin) who opined that "openness isn't always good." Pic ends with an epilogue that finds true drama and a sliver of hope in the hearing that led to Act's eventual repeal by a coalition of the strangest political bedfellows imaginable, including the NRA, Tom Daschle, Trent Lott, NOW and Jesse Helms. Copyright © 2003 Reed Business Information Subscribe to Variety
  10. Re:normal trademark behavior on John Doerr Disclaims Rumored GBrowser · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why is this news?

    If you take a peek at your address bar, I'm sure you'll find the answer you're looking for.

  11. Re:Free now, pay later? on Gmail Adds Features · · Score: 1

    Insightful? I suppose those that were in the World of Warcraft beta should get a free copy of the game, too. After all, they be expected to pay anything after trying it out for free.

  12. Re:Slashdot Addiction on Coping with Gaming Addiction · · Score: 1

    Reading the articles maybe? I'm sure I wouldn't be here nearly as often if I forced myself into reading every article.

  13. Re:Ugh on 100 GB Email Account · · Score: 1

    Maybe he enjoys moving his mouse around for hours and hours nonstop.

  14. Re:Is this real? on Star Wars TV Show · · Score: 1

    What do you mean? It's on slashdot isn't it? How much proof do you need? Do you need them to post it twice?

  15. Re:SC? on Dear Microsoft Windows ... · · Score: 1

    I think I speak for just about everybody when I say I think he's the only one.

  16. Re:Because we all know that... on File Trading Law Would Include 'Willing' Traders · · Score: 1

    What do we expect though? It seems that one business or another owns every member of Congress, "We the people" is now "We the corporations" as far as representation in Congress goes. *sigh*

    Just goes to show that democracy doesn't work. And for the same reason as communism: greed.

  17. Re:You don't want a "single" web... on Tim Berners-Lee and the Semantic Web · · Score: 1
    Windows executes stuff. The semantic web is just data. Your warnings about a monoculture apply to the semantic web about as much as they apply to text files.

    Oh no! If this is as bad as you say it is we need to burn all txts!

  18. Summary on Judge: Live Performance Copyright Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    For those of you who don't want to read the article, here's a quick summary:

    It's about a federal judge declaring a 10-year-old anti-bootlegging law unconstitutional, because it sets no limits on the length of copyright of live performances, and grants "seemingly perpetual protection" to copyright holders.
  19. Re:Miranda on Gaim Maintainer Rob Flynn Interviewed · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah.. well.. Trillian is.. uhh.. a trillian times better.

    PS: I use gaim

  20. Re:This is scary on Google Local Launched In Canada · · Score: 1

    Google is taking over the world faster than M$ nowadays.

    Don't you mean $oogle?

  21. Re:Presumed copyright on Why You Should Never Lose Your Digital Media · · Score: 2, Funny

    Unless finding it in the back of a cab counts as a "transfer of ownership".

  22. Re:Why RH9 ? on Geek Olympics Code for Gold · · Score: 1

    Why did they choose RH9, instead of FC1 or FC2 (or the myriad other _stable_ distributions that are floating around)?

    I thought Fedora was supposed to the the unstable, bleeding edge, experimental RedHat. How does that make it more "stable"?

    Note that I'm not necessarily against Fedora, I'm just wondering why it's more stable than RH9.

  23. Re:Dear Slashdot editors: It's really fucking simp on Obsessively Detailed Map Of Springfield · · Score: 1

    Or they could actually read Slashdot.

    What do you take them for? Some sort of fools?

  24. Happy Gilmore on Dodgeball: Text Your Location To Friends · · Score: 2, Funny
    Could this maybe be a decent use to social networking that will last? Or will this bust just as fast?

    Yeah, why don't I go eat some hay. I can make things out of clay, or lay by the bay, I just may. Whaddya say?

  25. Re:Just annoyances anyway... on MPAA Sues DVD Chip Manufacturers · · Score: 1
    Does the Security Locker Association of America sue Masterlock for having a lock that be opened with bolt cutters or a torch?

    God, I sure hope so. And the RIAA, too, if there's a DVD behind the door!