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  1. Who put them on their lap? Dumbest article written on Laptops May Be Hazardous to Your Fertility · · Score: 1

    calling them laptops is a misnomer, they are portables. True most of slashdot can't even see their laps let alone balance something on them. This is so a non-issue. And those who's fertility suffer for it is a plus to the rest of us.

  2. You forgot Roving Garden Gnomes. on GNOME Foundation Elections Results Are In · · Score: 1

    That and pink Flamingos.

  3. Language changes, get used to it. on The Illiteracy of Corporate American E-Mail · · Score: 1
    W'll fnd 0ut th@t n tm l@ngu@g ch@ngs. Wh@t's slly t0 0n gnr@t0n s vrb@tm t0 @n0thr. w0ndr wh@t Wll@m Sh@ksp@r w0uld s@y @b0ut h0w w sp@k t0d@y.

    W3'll find out that in tim3 languag3 chang3s. What's silly to on3 g3n3ration is v3rbatim to anoth3r. I wond3r what William Shak3sp3ar would say about how w3 sp3ak today.

    \/\/'££ |\| 07 7|-|@7 |\| 7|\/| £@|\|9@9 ç|-|@|\|9. \/\/|-|@7' ££¥ 70 0|\| 9|\||2@70|\| \/|2ß@7|\/| 70 @|\|07|-||2. \/\/0|\||2 \/\/|-|@7 \/\/££@|\/| |-|@|

    We'll find out that in time language changes. What's silly to one generation is verbatim to another. I wonder what William Shakespear would say about how we speak today.

    And yes I cheated:

  4. No No NO! That's called D&D on Doom Movie Update · · Score: 1

    And We all know how bad that movie turned out.

  5. Likely they will let in the smaller companies on Supreme Court Takes Broadband Regulation Case · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Breaking the Ma Bell was good for america, the arguement would hold water here as well. Smaller operators would face what DSL providers face now. Which is poor service that the Babybells pass the buck on, danger of upstream providers i.e. the cable companies sniping their customers like they phone companies do now with DSL customers. Eventual buy outs from the cable companies as the startups work out the bugs in new tech and then get bought up. Cycle of life stuff. All wonderful from my point of view.

  6. adding the slashdot effect to a crippled net on BitTorrent Servers Under DDoS Attacks · · Score: 1

    Heisenberg would be proud.

  7. MacCentral, PLULEEEZE on Half of U.S. I.T. Operations Jobs to Vanish · · Score: 1

    Lets hear from at least a clueful source. The prediction must be spiced with a heavy amount of FUD based on a wetdream of a sudden switch of most of Business America to Apples. I am not saying IT in the USA has been all beer and giggles or will be improving soon, but Microsoft and Linux both require lots of care and feeding by the nerd class. Vested interests in both will keep the userbase filled with tech issues well into the next century.

  8. Lame moralism and dead wrong on HIV Vaccine · · Score: 1

    Now that we know how to make it it's really easy to duplicate.

    "The vaccine, composed of human dendrites holding dead HIV viruses"

    The Dendrites (Greek, dendr /o: tree) of a neuron are its many short, branching fibers extending from the cell body or soma.

    Easy, stip dendrites from infected cells and you got your vaccine. Not much really different from how modern vaccines are made now. They just kill infected cells and inject them into horses.

    However your moralizing sickens me in other ways; Your so called 'irresponsible action' means nothing but a sotto voce slam on people who have it. That does not cover the millions in Africa doomed to die thanks to your sort of moral high-horse. Too bad we don't got a cure for that.

  9. Zork, See you in COURT!!!!! on SCO Sells First Linux Licenses in UK · · Score: 1

    I own substantual parts of the Moon's shadow! Your aspersion has affected the value of my rights. I will sue you for your posting as slander, maybe even challenge you to a duel. We can take this up in court on the moon.

  10. Seattle - Dwtn Library super fast wifi on Linux Support for Wireless Laptop Internet? · · Score: 1

    I am running a panasonic toughbook. LT modem onboard and wireless card. If I really want fast wireless net I go to the Seattle Public Library and get online free. No reg no pass, 802.11b - I downloaded three ISOs of Solaris 10 in about 90min. Our Tax Dollars well spent!!! The rest is by various net cafes w/ free wireless or from wifi dsl at home. The bulk of the posts here are modem by cell or some variation. If I want to just check my mail - modem is enough. If I want downloads, I just need to pick my time and place. I could spend a week connected 24/7 to download a CD ISO or just get coffee and in the time it takes to drink it, get that big file.

  11. Lunar Embassy = worthless paper on Scientists Propose 'National Parks' On Mars · · Score: 1
    Lunar Embassy was claiming they where the owners of the moon, and where selling off bits of other planets as well. I am bringing this up is because claims like this and the Lunar Embassy game mean nothing to anyone. If nobody is there then nobody owns it. Claims to unexplored lands are worthless.

    I would like to however claim the night side as a interplanetarty parkland.

  12. Re:clone that on sourceforge? zombie sites on Lycos Declares War on Spam Servers · · Score: 1

    The whole problem with Zombie Site is that they are unnoticed. The owners don't care or can't understand whats going on on their own system. Once their system starts crashing and the ISP block service and tell the owner to fix it or get lost they will be affected and fixed/shutdown.

  13. Re:CARBON DATING?? on Using Computers To Weed Out Art Fakes · · Score: 1
    Re:CARBON DATING?? (Score:0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 23, @11:24PM (#10907392)

    C14 dating is accurate to 0.051% for t=500yrs, which most of this artwork falls within.

    I wonder why you used an AC to put this up. It's a valid point. Are you alergic to good karma?

  14. Re: on WA Governor Recount Ends With 42-Vote Difference · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Actually Rossi is Pro-life white trash. Also Dems had the biggest turnouts in the Convention in the states history. There was too much critical mass to be this close an election. Same for the national. There was fishy things going on here as well. Well We'll see. I personally support a recount.

  15. Fingerprinting a Artist isn't validating ART on Using Computers To Weed Out Art Fakes · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's plausable to find simalarities in a painting from one to another. You can get a fair match most of the time. But you would need a large sample over the life of an artist. How will illness, age, drunkenness, absenth and other drugs effect the painting style of a artist? Really I can't place too much faith in the tech here. The old standard of Carbon Dating would be more effective. Sorry try again.

  16. Contracting is like coke the white powery kind on Switching to Contracting? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I did contracting all thru the late 90's. worked well for me, I got a $5 raise every 4 months. In Post 911, outside Silicon Valley they ask a bunch of questions about why you left so soon. Saying you were contracting doesn't cut it. In the valley you get funny looks if you didn't contract. They will think you don't have any initative or skill. If your boss worked in the valley it's cool but you have to take that into account. Hope that helps, likely it didn't.

  17. Mind share mythology - The Holy Wars part 2 on Will Open Source Solaris Kill Linux? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There is no mind share to keep. What will happen is what has always happened. UNIX religious wars, which became *NIX religious wars. Solaris will start to look like a very advanced stable and robust Linux distro to big business users and developers. SuSE will become Solaris's kid sister and fast tract to merge with Solaris x86.
    Eventually Novell and SUN will merge and make an honest woman out of SuSE. 64 bit development will flood the market and AMD 64 and Ultrasparc cpus will start flooding the market. Intel and Redhat will start flooding the market with Intel 64 related stuff. And poor microserf will have to kick XP into the 64 bit world alot sooner the Ballmer's timetable plans for.

    Suddenly all those over 35 years old coders will admit they used Solaris and can now still claim they are always Linux programmers. Solaris will at last get a decent user interface and CDE will be dropkicked back to what ever icy part of hell it came from.

    Second Bubble here we come.

  18. Re:Novell, SCO, and Sun on Sun-isms Debunked · · Score: 1

    It was prudent on Sun's part to pony up for the license. Valid or not thats for the Lawyers to dicide. The *NIX market is getting crowded and it's not worth the hassle. If Sun goes back later and sues the bejezus out of SCO that's cool with everybody here. Sun is now back to charging $99 a pop for comercial version so Solaris 10 because it's needed to cover the downloading & license rights costs. 1 in 30 or so is a actual commerical user just like Linux, Even they don't do so more then once and then make copies. It's still huge overhead.

  19. BOFH Junket on How Do You Keep Up with Enterprise-level Tech? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Consult the BOFH series of articles on how one keeps up. It's on theregister.co.uk Sure it's dated in some places but a good read. Other then that vendors are willing do bend over completely to get a sale. I recently got a Demo of Weblogic from BEA and on for Webtrends. Just for asking. If your a serious (or even not) buyer, they will give your almost everything you need.

  20. Re:Intel is really a friend to Open Source on Intel Linux Driver Version 1.0 For Centrino WLAN · · Score: 1

    I kept getting PC Load Letter error. WTF is PC Load Letter?

    No Don't answer that, I am kidding you would know if you saw Office Space. BTW, ndiswrapper Blows.

  21. Lucy Lawless to join cast as yet another amazon on Stargate SG-1 & Atlantis Renewed · · Score: 1

    Is this a spoiler or a rumor?

  22. Intel is really a friend to Open Source on Intel Linux Driver Version 1.0 For Centrino WLAN · · Score: 1

    And I am not saying that as a joke. However I wished they has done this three months ago when I went out and bought a new card because my internal 2100 wasn't Suse friendly. Oh Well still got it.

  23. Worthless article. Slow news day? on RFID Labels On Prescription Drug Bottles · · Score: -1, Troll

    Using RFID tags is a new wave in inventory tracking, but as a people tracking systems it's worthless. What more do you need to know about the person? They left with the meds they were prescribed. You can find that out in the database. Please folks. Don't bother us with this crap.

  24. Re:Less emphasis on the resume is needed on Open Source Expertise in Short Supply · · Score: 1

    As it was in the begining so it is now. To date, I have seen one company who actually tried to have a clueful tech staff actually on the head hunter team. That lasted maybe 5 months. Then they all found their dream IT jobs by raiding the files.

    The problem has been there are good jobs but the bozos at the agency don't understand more then a few words of Jargon and even then they don't know the good from the bad. The last one that contacted me had mispellings in the req. I admit I am hopeful about this one. It looked like a slashdot post. And don't say you don't know what I mean.

  25. So that's why I a getting flooded by headhunters. on Open Source Expertise in Short Supply · · Score: 1

    Ever since that spam came out from Stevie boy my email has been getting a bunch of headhunter droids. What a pain in the arse. Well chock another one up to M$'s sins file.