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  1. Re:just what we've been waiting for... on WirelessCabin: Use Your Mobile Phone on Airplanes · · Score: 1

    Oh but this is slashdot so please try we are all interested.

  2. Re:I never turn it off on WirelessCabin: Use Your Mobile Phone on Airplanes · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've been using my cell phone on the plane for years and have only crashed once. Lucky for me the injuries where not severe and I am sure the plane was insured.

  3. Re:Huh? on WirelessCabin: Use Your Mobile Phone on Airplanes · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've used my cell phone on planes for years and have only been involved in one crash and it didn't really hurt as much as I expected. I would definitly not be interested in this service. Anyone know of amplifiers and/or high gain antennae that can get through security checkpoints?

  4. Re:Not asking for much... on Funding An Individual BSD Developer · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Wait a second, we have to pay for this shit? Come guys be serious, tell this guy to get a real job and leave the open source stuff to volunteers. Money grubbing programmers always gotta ruin a good thing...

  5. Re:Ogg Vorbis?Ogg Vorbis?Ogg Vorbis? on Fourteen Digital Music Players Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Have you paid for 1. the patented MP3 encoder and 2. the right to distribute your works in Fraunhofer's patented format?
    I believe all those fees and rights were included in the SCO licencing arrangement but please correct me if I am wrong.

  6. Re:Too complicated on WirelessCabin: Use Your Mobile Phone on Airplanes · · Score: 2, Informative

    One word, incoming telephone calls.

  7. Re:Ogg Vorbis?Ogg Vorbis?Ogg Vorbis? on Fourteen Digital Music Players Reviewed · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fruitcake LISTEN UP! * I'm 31, single, and work in the computer industry. Therefore, I like gadgets and have disposable income. * I'm a hobbiest musician and I have never heard of OGG VORBIS and have been encoding everything, no exception in MP3 since 1999. * It is feasible to play mp3 everywhere, that's why I don't have to bitch on slashdot to get support. There's your demographic. Continue reaching for the teenagers because it makes me feel younger and hipper with my white headphones. Your profit margins will thank you. PS: I'm posting this from an XP. I won't buy anything unless it cost money.

  8. Re:SCO now stands for on BayStar Cashes Out of SCO Stock · · Score: 1, Funny

    Martha Stewart got out yesterday.

  9. Re:A few thoughts on Apple Hunts Playfair in India · · Score: 1

    Evil-do'ers all of them.

  10. Re:unix? on No EZ Fix For The IRS · · Score: 1

    Actually that is part of the problem, nobody remembers the name of the language. Another advantage of C is that it's name is only a single letter and very easy to remember.

  11. Re:Not to mention on Mars Terraforming Debate · · Score: 1

    A monorail would be vastly more efficent.

  12. Re:AAC is already gaining ground on BusinessWeek on Opening Apple's iTunes DRM · · Score: 0

    Hate to break it to BW but the DRM is not the hard part. It is convincing the record people to release their greedy little fingers from the rights and open up an alternative distribution channel. DRM needs only be good enough to assuage their fears.
    The only value in iTunes over others is their library is pretty big and has lots of the material people want.

  13. Re:Preach on, on Congress May Force Revealing of Car Computer Secrets · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of when I lost my keys and found it would close to $500 to get a new set made and the little transmitter. Found keylessride.com online and got it for around $100. The cool thing was how you had to program the car to accept the new key. It was this funny pattern of lock the door and unlock the door insert key into ignition. lock and unlock doors then roll down windows. Went on for about 5 minutes and then the headlights flashed and key would start the car. How keylessride.com figured out the codes is a mystery.

  14. Re:Jesus Christ, slashdotters. on Linus on Linux in 1994 · · Score: 4, Funny

    why does it matter that you work for the government and have multiple t3? get back to work and quit wasting my tax dollars.

  15. Re:Congratulations! on Spirit Takes Snapshot of Earth · · Score: 3, Funny

    I was taking a picture of Mars at the exact same time this photo was taken. This gives me the distance record for a photo-of-you-taking-a-picture-of-me-taking-a-pictu re-of-you-taking-a-picture-of-me.

  16. Re:Very Awesome on Pocket PCs Masquerade as iPods · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Album art. Digitial photos. Portable porn. Fireworks visualizations. There is no reason it shouldn't have color, battery smattery.

  17. Re:So... on Fusion In Sonoluminescence (Again)? · · Score: 1

    I sure hope you are right. I just bet my left testicle and it is my only good one.

  18. Re:laws on An Ignition Interlock In Every Car? · · Score: 1

    I propose law stating that from 2AM-3AM drunk driving is legal and encouraged. Sober people are to remain in their basements and wait for the dust the settle. In the long run this is the only way to solve the drunk driving problem. A sort of needle park for DUI.
    The thing that most bothers me about current penalities is that a $5000 fine is either a devestating or pocket change if we really want to stop DUI's make the fine a function of your annual income. Doesn't Norway or Sweeden do this?

  19. Re:SDK ... Free? on USPS Providing Electronic Postmarks · · Score: 1

    80 cents a pop! I am sorry but why does computing a hash code cost twice as much as coming to my house picking up and letter and driving 2000 miles to someone else door?

  20. Re:Big challenges ahead for HD formats on HD DVD Coverage at CES 2004 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    higher res is the ultimate anti-piracy measure. you keep boosting the resolution and there is incentive to buy not download. i would be much more likely to buy a pristine hd-dvd for 20 bucks than spend 4 days downloading it but that's just me.

  21. Re:O2 on Everest is sort of a Catch-22 (OT) on Space Station Leak Found, Fixed · · Score: 1

    I thought that was what Sherpas were for. The "sweet spot" you mention is to load up Tonga with 100 lbs of O2 and suck that stuff down until you hyper-ventailate.

  22. How about getting adopted? on Tech Scholarships for College/University? · · Score: 1

    My parents paid for everything when I went to school. Having no loan payment and not writing any essays begging for money is definitly the only way to go.

  23. Re:Hack them from India. on Replaced by Outsourcing -- What's a Geek to Do? · · Score: 1

    I like it. Outsource the hacking to India and run very efficent extortion operation.

  24. Re:One word: on Replaced by Outsourcing -- What's a Geek to Do? · · Score: 1

    wrong and wrong. they can fire/downsize you even if you are employee of the year, that's the nature of at will employment.

  25. Re:Now I can poop even faster! on Coffee Flavored Breakfast Cereal · · Score: 1

    That sounds nice. If you do a hobbit promotion you must make sure the hobbits are accuratly represented. To often (unnamed fast food chain) hobbits are depicted in a cartoonish manner that belittles their importance. What color neck-tie were you thinking? Hobbits prefer earthy tones.