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  1. Two of my favorites when younger on Ask Slashdot: Best Science-Fiction/Fantasy For Kids? · · Score: 1

    To avoid some of the more recent and/or immediately comes-to-mind, there's always Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain and Jane Yolen's Pit Dragon Trilogy. And for popular there's Ursula LeGuin's Earthsea series, although some of those might be best to wait a few years past 8.

  2. Re:Tax Exempt? on US Colleges Say Hiring US Students a Bad Deal · · Score: 1

    Or perhaps it would allow foreign students to work, so that they aren't taking money from financial aid available to them from the University? That would seem to make it just as easy for more American students to be able to afford attendance, which looks like a win for everyone...

    But no, Dey took are jorbs!

  3. Re:FIST SPORT on British Hacker Loses Review of Asperger's Defense · · Score: 1

    But it is projected that in a few years that more kids will be born out of wedlock than in (it is slightly over 40% now).

    That doesn't in any way invalidate what has been said. Birth out of wedlock doesn't rule out later marriages, whether to the biological father or some other male to serve as a step-father. As it stands right now, you're just getting up on the soap-box and pulling numbers out of your ass to attempt to justify your position. I won't disagree with your point about parent involvement, however.

  4. Re:ARM? x86? on ARM Hopes To Lure Microsoft Away From Intel · · Score: 1

    I think that maybe this might lead to the year of the linux desktop!

    ...Or you're building castles in the sand.

  5. Re:Crazy Idea - during his time... on Nokia Developed Wireless Power-Harvesting Phones · · Score: 1

    Allegedly he did, but nobody was there to witness it. I'm not sure that counts.

  6. Re:Henrich Hertz on Nokia Developed Wireless Power-Harvesting Phones · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's more an electrochemical signal, though, not really anything to do with the energy of radio waves. It's electrical in the sense that it's charged (ions), not in the sense that there's an actual stream of electrons moving along like wires.

  7. Re:Two Things on Dinosaur Posture Still Wrong, Says Study · · Score: 1

    I've always kind of wondered if they mostly stuck to rivers and lakes, and used their long necks to reach out and graze trees/shrubs/what have you along the banks.

  8. Re:Tiger direct sucks on Dell Sues Tiger Direct For Misleading Customers · · Score: 1

    Honestly, the majority of the time I've bought parts lately Amazon's been cheaper even than Newegg. I think the last two years or so, all of my PC parts have come from Amazon instead of Newegg.

  9. Re:Not Really on The Pirate Bay Comes To Facebook · · Score: 2, Funny

    Bad troll is bad.

  10. Re:purell on Why Kindle 2's Screen Took 12 Years and $150 Million · · Score: 1

    You guys scare me....Canadians I mean. 90% of you live within 10 miles of our border.

    Are you guys getting ready to invade?

    Actually it's within 100 miles.

  11. Re:Don't be naive on Map As Metaphor In a Location-Aware Mobile World · · Score: 1

    Time to retire to a remote cave in an uncharted region of the world, then. It's amusing that techies can be luddites too.

  12. Re:One way to get more registered voters on Iowa Seeks To Remove Electoral College · · Score: 1

    So that large states could drown out the voice of smaller states? Yeah, that sounds like a real bargain! Apathetic voting-age individuals will always come up with another "reason" why they don't bother voting. I suppose on the positive side, though, you'd only have to deal with annoying campaign ads if you lived in New York and California...

  13. Re:A reasoned analysis? That's good. on Linus Switches From KDE To Gnome · · Score: 1

    Couldn't you just include a few such commands in a little leaflet with the PC, so that people could get whatever they wanted? You don't always need a high-tech solution.

  14. So? on Pandora Trying Out Invasive Commercial Breaks · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's their service, and they need to recoup costs for their bandwidth somehow. Really, this whole "ads are bad, everything should be free and beautiful" thing is getting old. Reality doesn't work like that.

  15. Re:shipping cost on Waste Coffee Grounds Offer New Source of Biodiesel · · Score: 5, Funny

    Given the taste of their coffee, it would likely come pre-burnt anyway.

  16. Re:one suggestion on TV and Movies On YouTube? · · Score: 1

    I think Viacom's current model of hosting the shows on the website of the respective show is probably a lot easier for most people to grok. Why go to Youtube and have to search for shows when you can just go to dailyshow.com or whatever and look for whichever episode you missed?

  17. Soil Mites too on Facts on Scientific Names of Organisms · · Score: 1

    Funkotriplogynium iagobadius Iagobadius, of course, being latin for James Brown, in the genus of Funk.