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  1. Re:textbooks on Amazon to Sell Books by Page, Display Books You Own · · Score: 1

    Now granted, textbooks don't need to be bulletproof and able to withstand an atomic assault, but they are going to get used more than the King book

    You must have taken different classes than I am.

  2. Re:how very vague on A Monroe Doctrine for the Internet · · Score: 1

    That's not the point. The point is that you could.

    As someone else pointed out, the real choke point is the assignment of IP addresses.

  3. Re:how very vague on A Monroe Doctrine for the Internet · · Score: 1

    Not if you use IP addresses...

  4. Re:blogosphere CAN be healthy, too on Forbes Goes After Bloggers · · Score: 1

    I'd imagine some "creative" Slashdotter changed the account password.

  5. Re:Blog Bashin' Fools on Forbes Goes After Bloggers · · Score: 1

    Perhaps Forbes should go after the pundits on political talk shows equally - if not more - responsible for spreading similar lies.

  6. Re:His words seem genuine on Speaker of the House Starts Blogging · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That's what hoodwink.d is for.

  7. Re:WOOWHOO! on Microsoft Takes Aim At Google · · Score: 1

    Got a source on that?

    Seems silly to buy them for that reason, when their technology was entirely reproducible by other companies.

  8. Re:It would have worked... on Archimedes Death Ray in San Francisco · · Score: 1

    I'll believe that when I see a peer-reviewed journal pick it up. A cursory trawl of Google and Google Scholar found what appears to be mostly non-reputable stuff.

    Please excuse me if I don't just take the anecdotal word of another anonymous Internet user.

  9. Re:It would have worked... on Archimedes Death Ray in San Francisco · · Score: 1

    "Real" and "being looked into" are very different things.

  10. Re:$0.99 per song on Napster's Learning Curve · · Score: 1

    Not exactly. Before, they could hype one song and use it to sell a cd. Now, they hype that song and it sells...that song.

    I believe that's part of the reason many albums on iTunes cannot be split up, you have to buy all or none. Not a problem, as long as they let Apple know.

  11. Re:UN "Committees" on Senator Wants to Keep U.N. Away From the Internet · · Score: 1

    Some would say the same about the United States, which was until very recently one of the few countries to execute minors.

    Hell, the United States is only one of two - the other being Somalia - to not ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

    Now, the US is by no means as bad as China human rights wise, but they're certainly not perfect by any stretch of the imagination.

  12. Re:three projects fill 18 screens easily. on Intel Slashes Computer Startup Times · · Score: 1

    I feel like I'd get lost with 18 screens.

    XP does have a virtual desktop manager, it comes in MS's Powertoys package on their site. "Only" four desktops, but I believe the popular TweakXP program extends that.

    All told, I'll stick to my OSX.

  13. Re:and paging won't help on Intel Slashes Computer Startup Times · · Score: 1

    Eighteen virtual desktops?

    Can I ask what on earth you need that many for?

  14. Re:iTorrent? on ABC Affiliates Grapple With TV-Show Downloads · · Score: 1

    There are a few tracker scripts that now implement server-side seeding to fix that particular problem.

  15. Re:how long till it's hacked? on Britain's MI6 Opens Its First Website · · Score: 1

    Anyone intelligent enough to hack NSA's systems likely:

    a) realizes the penalties if caught
    b) realizes there are far better things they could be doing to penetrated NSA systems than saying "hax0red by guy now living in Cuba"

  16. Re:No, no, a question. on Google Terror Threat · · Score: 2, Funny

    Last time I bought a Dell they asked me if I planned on using it for nuclear weapons. Heh.

  17. Re:"seem" indeed... on Microsoft Spinning Against OpenDocument Via Fox News · · Score: 1

    You're seriously comparing a possible case of breaking military media rules

    I do believe revealing privileged details of a military operation, including current positions and destinations of forces, is closer to treason than a minor media rule infraction.

    As you said, "there is no comparison as far as seriousness goes."

  18. Re:Zimbra on Open Source AJAX Webmail · · Score: 2, Informative

    As the AC says, XMLHttpRequest was in Microsft's Exchange webmail in the late '90s. Note, for example, this September 1999 article that mentions XMLHttpRequest in IE5.

  19. Re:Oh for the love of God podcast is a stupid name on Yahoo Launches New Podcasting Service · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and that stupid "reading" buzzword just describes looking at symbols!

    Honestly. You'd think every use of the term kills one of your pets or something.

    If a website said "download my MP3", I'd treat that differently than "subscribe to my podcast". It's a descriptive term, and it's not going away anytime soon.

  20. Re:music today on Yahoo Launches New Podcasting Service · · Score: 1

    Music accumulates, it doesn't go away...

    You post on Slashdot and you haven't heard of DRM? ;-)

  21. Re:Google for President on Google Goes to Washington · · Score: 1

    It says citizens, not individuals. Corporations have individual rights, but I don't believe they're actual citizens.

  22. Re:WTF? on Watch the First 9 Minutes of Serenity · · Score: 2, Informative

    Had you actually tried it, you'd have noticed that it's not a browser popup, it's a Java permissions popup, which is (correctly) not blocked by Safari.

    Worked fine on my Safari with popup blocking. Hell, I actually had to use Safari because it wasn't working right on Firefox for Mac.

  23. Re:Now to fill its spot in the labs on Google Maps Graduates · · Score: 3, Interesting
  24. Re:PostgreSQL vs MySQL on Sun Eyes PostgreSQL · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yeah, but mySQL does that and it gives you a blowjob while you wait.

    Seriously, try it. ;/

  25. Re:Simple solution on Taiwan Irked at Google's Version of Earth · · Score: 1

    You might as well argue that half the "American Territories" in the Pacific are occupied and oppressed.

    Uh... yes? They certainly have been, historically.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine-American_W ar
    "The shift to guerilla warfare however, only angered the Americans into acting more ruthless than before. They began taking no prisoners, scorching whole villages, and routinely shooting surrendering Filipinos. Much worse were the concentration camps that civilians were forced into, after being suspected of being guerilla sympathizers. As many as 100,000 civilians may have died in these camps."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Guam
    "After World War II, the U.S. military had a heavy hand in the running of the island. This eventually led to resentment, and political pressure for greater freedom for the island in the 1950s."