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  1. Re:Background music - No, I'm right on Censored Wikipedia Articles Appear On Protest Site · · Score: 1
  2. A plan on Microsoft Bypasses HOSTS File · · Score: 1

    I'm interested in developing such a plan, but it requires people in numbers. I have seen such a plan in works of fiction. Anyone care to contact me?

  3. Paraphrase on Microsoft Bypasses HOSTS File · · Score: 1

    First they came for those who knew about the HOSTS file, but I did not know about the HOSTS file, so I did not speak up.

  4. not very effective, indeed! on Microsoft Bypasses HOSTS File · · Score: 2, Informative

    -Considering the most popular non-microsoft patches are to tcpip.sys and uxtheme.dll

  5. What comes up must come down? on ISP Rise Against P2P Users · · Score: 1

    Call me when the price of gasoline comes back down to $1

  6. Background music on Censored Wikipedia Articles Appear On Protest Site · · Score: 1

    "Forever Rachel" from Final Fantasy VI

  7. Re:Journalism 101 on Censored Wikipedia Articles Appear On Protest Site · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is Ohio, and having lived in an Ohio nursing home for a few months, at the end of which they insisted my mom in Indiana come and get me, I can see how he might have been wrongly incriminated. The nursing home I was in, was in Milan, OH, just outside of Sandusky.

  8. More accurately on ISP Rise Against P2P Users · · Score: 1

    A spade and a wheelbarrow aren't tools common to being taken into an all-you-can-eat buffet, whereas attempting to max out your connection 24x7, doesn't. I am a fast eater and back in the day, I could really put it away.

    The problem here isn't contention, for this is ISP generated slowdown when there isn't contention to save the ISP upsteam fees. The problem here is the ISP's inaccurate advertising. They say x bps, but they fail to mention, "Oh but we'll do things(which themselves need elaborated on) to keep you from actually getting that amount), and also fail to mention a guaranteed minimum.

  9. Not the way it has to go down on Seeking Prior Art Before Filing Patent? · · Score: 1

    IF Notfound A then GOTO PatentAttorneySearch ELSE GOTO SavedMoneyOnPatentAttorneyAndAbort

  10. Supply and Demand on Organic LED Could Replace Light Bulbs? · · Score: 1

    There has to be Supply concurrent with demand. There is an amount of time between the time a patent becomes known and the time it can be supplied in which shenanigans can be played.

  11. #4 backwards, on Organic LED Could Replace Light Bulbs? · · Score: 1

    Usually with #4 it is because it is patented that inventions don't see the light of day, because the conspirators buy the patent or intimidate the patent owner into inaction, or the patent owner is frozen out of the market, or the patent owner is a little bit paranoid, etc. Then when the patent expires, people go, "If the patent was any good, the product would have been successful. Yet another flaw of the current patent system.

  12. Extrapolating from the smell... on Star Trek's Synthehol Now Possible? · · Score: 1

    Well, I am extrapolating from the smell, and smell is a component of taste.

  13. I don't drink alchohol on Star Trek's Synthehol Now Possible? · · Score: 1

    ...but I've smelt it, and it doesn't smell that good. From what I can tell, alchoholic beverages don't taste good half as much as it's an acquired taste.

  14. Slashdot bad comment skip feature... on TiVo vs EchoStar - TiVo Wins · · Score: 1

    That's what the moderation system is supposed to be for, but it lacks the features to be really useful.

  15. Answer: Stop teaching there. on More Unintended Consequences of the DMCA · · Score: 1

    The answer is simple: Stop teaching there. If the school won't allow you to teach at your best then stop teaching there.

  16. Re:schadenfreude on More Unintended Consequences of the DMCA · · Score: 1

    Who says he does? Maybe he just saw the joke before attributed to a Steve Wright guy. My first thought was "Hey the Sims!" but I did a search on "steven wright" and then Sims Wright, and it turns out the Sims guy first tname is Will.

  17. Alternative theory... on Boot Camp Flaw Leaves Some Users Fuming · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Elsewhere it was conjectured that these people had actually installed Windows XP over OS X.

  18. It is this hesitancy that ruins your Karma on Missing Link Found Between Human Ancestors · · Score: 3, Insightful

    My karma is always excellent, and my posting philosophy is to never be swayed by the potential of bad karma. There are plenty of places to post outside of Slashdot, but holding yourself back results in the mediocre quality that gets you on average modded down.

  19. Evil on Free Net TV Threatens Telecoms · · Score: 1

    The dark side and the light side are both evil. The one true path is the edge of the coin. Wide is the path, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction. The dark and light sides are both wide.

  20. Release situation on Alleged British Hacker Fears Guantanamo · · Score: 1

    The way it's presented in the United States is that they are released with the question of whether or not they were combatants presumed already answered in the affirmative and that either they have determined that the political climate has changed enough that they are no longer a threat, or they will be monitored in the wild for the potential to gain useful intelligence.

  21. Re:Redundancy on Slashdot Bookmarks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well eventually every themed website of sufficient size is going to have them, so you can organize your bookmarks around those sites instead of wading through your bookmarks menu in your browser.

  22. Headlines on Ubisoft And Starforce Parting Ways? · · Score: 1

    When I saw the headline "Ubisoft to Drop Starforce" for this on http://www.dailyrotation.com/ I thought that it meant a game project had been canceled.

  23. Re:How would he like it.... on Alleged British Hacker Fears Guantanamo · · Score: 1

    I would like to get rid of the moron currently in office, unfortunately the system is set up to put another moron in his place. Many of the votes for Bush in the last election were of the sort "Better the moron we already have experience with than one we don't" If Bush were to be impeached, Cheney is scheduled to be up at bat.

  24. Re:Deserve? on IRS Compels PayPal to Release Info · · Score: 1

    No, you and I deserve to go to Hell. The creator grants you certain rights anyways because it suits his purposes, not because in any way outside of him you deserve anything. To deny you those rights involves tangling with that all powerful creator. To secure your rights involves giving up the idea that you inherently deserve anything and that what you want is to be gained soley by virtue of acting solely upon the designation of the creator.

  25. Re:Microsoft Monopoly & Windows Genuine Advant on Aero To Be Unavailable To Pirates · · Score: 1

    It would be evidence in favor of it, but the real question is how much evidence there would be at that time promoting the FSM version of God. In a looser sense, the FSM story corroborates the other stories of A God. All the stories of God share elements that corroborate each other, and some that don't. Evidence for something does not mean that that something actually exists. Strictly speaking, FSM writings are evidence that the FSM exists right now, just not very weighty evidence. Simplistic equation: Evidence = variety of documentation * net intelligence of adherents * independence of discovery