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  1. Technology isn't the issue on Gates Explains Microsoft's Need for Yahoo · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yahoo is a trusted name. I have had my yahoo email account since it was Rocketmail. They have Dating, IM, Domain Hosting, Jobs, and a host of other small stuff besides. Their Search engine is NOTHING SPECIAL. Expect it is integrated with the Yahoo site as a whole. It's a question of interconnectivity. Yahoo Maps does a few things better then Google Maps, it meshes nicely with their Yellow Pages site and I use it to find subway stations and bus routes, a choice of closest businesses etc. Microsoft wants to buy a turn key operation not hire a bunch of geeks.

  2. Re:I wonder who will be first.. on DVD Jon Creates DRM Killer · · Score: 1

    Prince hasn't been relevant for about 20 years. Actually it's been 9 years.

    We're gonna party like its nineteen ninety nine. Oh crap, now I am gonna get sued.

  3. Re:I have a bad feeling about this on Smart Rubber Promises Self-Mending Products · · Score: 1

    I fear a race of rubber killing machines, impervious to all our military resources due to their T-1000-like ability to split and remeld. I am going to discount the welcome to our new reformable rubber overlords jokes and remind you of a movie called THE BLOB
  4. Re:What is property? on DVD Jon Creates DRM Killer · · Score: 3, Funny

    Anarchists are so cute! Actually it's Anarchists are so cute when their Angry!

    Of course its just the structure fires that make it look that way.
  5. Re:Yes on DVD Jon Creates DRM Killer · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Slips out of a tricky situation with regards to breaking DRM. By using a already owned DRM key it doesn't have to break the protection. This keeps the software maker (you know who) out of any sticking 'breaking their encryption issues'. This makes it fairly immune to DMCA attacks thus reducing it to an automated method of converting files. These already methods already exist and it just makes the task easy.

  6. Re:I wonder who will be first.. on DVD Jon Creates DRM Killer · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wonder who will be first to be contacting these guys and threatening legal retaliation based on DMCA.

    "You can't copy that tune from there to this device. You must pay another fee!"... I would guess it would be Prince.

    Who else?
  7. Re:I for one... on Scientists Find 'Devil Toad' Fossil · · Score: 1

    Ok, this is getting hard to swallow. But it wouldn't be for our new ROBOTIC zombie demon toad overlords.

  8. This is why cats scratch on Automated Cat Cleaner · · Score: 1

    I would too.

  9. Can we get in on this? on The $54 Million Laptop · · Score: 1

    Well, we as the whole of slashdot's community should join in this lawsuit.

    Geeksquad gives Geeks (like us) a bad name.

  10. Re:The galaxy commented only... on Hubble Finds a Galaxy 12.8 Billion Years Old · · Score: 1

    it has a Ford Galaxy 500 up on blocks in it's front yard.

  11. I miss the Speakeasy cafe in Seattle on Starbucks Drops T-Mobile For AT&T · · Score: 1

    Run by Speakeasy (the ISP, it's how they started) they had beer smoking and bands. of course free intenet on Wyse terminals or wireless. You could talk right to the Sysadmins about your case over coffee or beer.

    Of yeah much better coffee and Microbrew.

    Starbuck? Meh

  12. Re:Selective Comments on Internet "Creates Pedophiles" According to "Expert" · · Score: 1

    The increase of paedophiles is accompanied by their average age going down. Some are minors themselves.

    That little nugget caught my eye. How are minors who have consenting sex with minors paedophiles? Am I missing something there? I would like to see the statistics for how many of these paedophiles are people who are +/-3 years apart, and around the legal age in their respective country. We'll answer that on the next Montel/Oprah/Fox & Friends!!

  13. Re:Use Open Office on Is Microsoft Office Adware? · · Score: 1

    C-q-[butterfly] key

    it's right next to the [any] key

  14. Re:Releasing the good stuff or not? on Tor Books Is Giving Away E-Books · · Score: 1

    Dude, if your self-designed-and-built elevator to bring you from the basement to the kitchen uses more than $6 in energy to do so, you're going to have to give me your Geek License. Sorry. Well if you want to be a Über Geek, it had better be Nuclear powered. [Best said in the voice of Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth]
  15. Re:Use Open Office on Is Microsoft Office Adware? · · Score: 2, Funny

    NO NO

    EMACS forever

  16. Re:IANAL-BIPOOS on RIAA's Attack On NewYorkCountryLawyer Fails · · Score: 1

    Tell me about it, it looks like I started a new Slashdot Meme.

    Number 12; I am not a [insert] but I play on in/on [insert]

    by Kethinov (636034) on Friday October 05, @12:32PM

    1. Russian reversal - in Soviet Russa joke - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_reversal#Russian_reversal [wikipedia.org]
    2. Beowulf cluster Slashdot meme - "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of..." self referential joke - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot#Culture [wikipedia.org]
    3. Natalie Portman obsession Slashdot meme - originally arose due to widespread attraction of Slashdot posters to Natalie Portman - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot#Culture [wikipedia.org]
    4. Insensitive clod Slashdot meme - joke originating from a Calvin and Hobbes strip dated February 14, 1986 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot#Culture [wikipedia.org]
    5. 1337 = LEET = elite internet meme - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet [wikipedia.org]
    6. Goatse internet meme - a widespread shock image - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatse [wikipedia.org]
    7. "I, for one, welcome our new (insert descriptive here) overlords" internet meme - originally arose due to the widespread popularity of the Simpsons episode "Deep Space Homer" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culturally_significant_phrases_from_The_Simpsons#Influences_on_language [wikipedia.org]
    8. "Netcraft confirms, (insert target of joke here; was originally BSD) is dying" Slashdot meme - one of the original Slashdot troll posts - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot#Culture [wikipedia.org]
    9. Naked / petrified / hot grits poured down the pants Slashdot meme - a reference to an unusual true story about the cruel and unusual punishment of a southern U.S. woman to her unfaithful significant other - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot#Culture [wikipedia.org]
    10. Cowboy Neal Slashdot meme - a reference to Jonathan Pater's nickname which is featured prominently, especially on Slashdot polls - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot#Culture [wikipedia.org]
    11. ??? Profit!!! internet meme - a reference to a joke in a South Park episode - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underpants_Gnomes#The_Gnomes [wikipedia.org]
  17. Court order vs Conviction on FBI Sought Approval To Use Spyware Through FISC · · Score: 1

    I don't see anything wrong with the FISA court approving a wiretap, it's not a secret trial ala Rendition. It's going to a Judge and saying 'We think this person is bad and we want to investigate' regular Judges do this all the time. Rejection of wiretaps in the real world are much higher but that is because the subjects of those investigations are more varied in their supposed crimes.

    If your a foreign national who came to they attention of the feds for whatever reason that reason will be told to the Judge who will decide if its enough. Granted thats Cold War thinking and thats endemic in the system. Spies are supposed to not be noticed so there is more latitude given to the investigation. And Spies are what they are supposed to be hunting.

    Considering the current administration the rejected authorizations were likely Democratic Members of Congress.

  18. IANAL-BIPOOS on RIAA's Attack On NewYorkCountryLawyer Fails · · Score: 1

    IANAL-BIPOOS

    I'm not a Lawyer but I play one on Slashdot

  19. Re:Goldfinger meets Pogo on Fifth Cable Cut To Middle East · · Score: 1

    But who is the enemy? Obvious; its Shirley Bassey

    Goldfinger
    He's the man, the man with the Midas touch
    A spider's touch
    Such a cold finger
    Beckons you to enter his web of sin
    But don't go in

    Golden words he will pour in your ear
    But his lies can't disguise what you fear
    For a golden girl knows when he's kissed her
    It's the kiss of death ...

    From Mister Goldfinger
    Pretty girl, beware of his heart of gold
    This heart is cold

    Golden words he will pour in your ear
    But his lies can't disguise what you fear
    For a golden girl knows when he's kissed her
    It's the kiss of death ...

    From Mister Goldfinger
    Pretty girl, beware of his heart of gold
    This heart is cold
    He loves only gold
    Only gold
    He loves gold
    He loves only gold
    Only gold
    He loves gold
  20. Mike Huckabee is this year's Pat Robertson on Best Presidential Candidate, Republicans · · Score: 1

    Considering the decline in Christian religious attendance over the course of the 20th century (not to mention other religions gaining footholds in GOD'S COUNTRY) it sort of indicated that not that high a percentage people in the US want to hear what Preachers have to say. He's been backpedaling from when he was one and trying to play up how he's an effective Governor not a Priest. It's not sticking. He might as well carry a cross to his rallies and most of the people attending wish he would.

    Fundies Only Fundies will vote for him, any other sort of Republican will run in terror.

    By that mark, you can see the percentage of Fundies in the party showing their colors.

  21. Might, Possible, Kinda Re:Ron Paul? on Best Presidential Candidate, Republicans · · Score: 1

    You win or you don't. Right now Ron Paul is staying in to shift the debate, not to win. He is killing Romney's business voters. Watch him endorse McCain after he concedes.

  22. Frost Giants on Life May Have Evolved In Ice · · Score: 1
    I always thought it's funny that there nine worlds in the Norse Mythology and there are nine planets. And that the 'gods' and by everything else was descended from rime frost. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ymir

    Opposite of Niflheim was the southern region known as Muspelheim, which contained bright sparks and glowing embers. Ymir was conceived in Ginnungagap when the ice of Niflheim met with Muspelheim's heat and melted, releasing "eliwaves" and drops of eitr. The eitr drops stuck together and formed a giant of rime frost (a hrimthurs) between the two worlds and the sparks from Muspelheim gave him life. While Ymir slept, he fell into a sweat and conceived the race of giants. Under his left arm grew a man and a woman, and his legs begot his six-headed son rúðgelmir. I have always suspected that we as a species have been pretty lazy for having been around so long in this form. If you consider that we have been around since before the last ice age then what knowledge from before then and in areas untouched by ice, civilizations could have flourished. Only to be drowned in the melted ice. Atlantis anyone, and who is to say that Hy-Brasil isn't true as well?

  23. Re:Obama is for transparency on Best Super Tuesday Candidate for Technology? · · Score: 1

    Justin Raimondo debunked it pretty thoroughly.???

    not quite and it's not him being a racist that is the issue, i know he isn't. It's his followers that I don't like he's got a bunch of the of the worst rightwing nutjobs trailing him about. He should either kick them to the curb publicly or they will drag him down. Guilt by association is a factor in politics. Even if it's bullshit.

    Still after its all said I agree with about half what he says, but only half and that not enough for a vote.

  24. Re:Obama is for transparency on Best Super Tuesday Candidate for Technology? · · Score: 1

    Following the Constitution will get the country on the right track; freedom from Big Government. Without the federal government in the way the nerds could make the internet shiney. SNIP

    I am not so sure I want any of his supporters in government. I voted for him once against GHWB, but the company he is keeping these days isn't to my liking. http://johnshirley.net/DesktopDefault.aspx
  25. Re:two words on President Bush Releases US Broadband Policy · · Score: 1

    "Mission accomplished."

    Thats Transmission Accomplished. There fixed it for you. Now if I could only fix it for the rest of the US's Broadband industry.