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  1. But, um... on New Technique Makes Most Gene Patents Irrelevant · · Score: 2, Funny

    we have the DMCA now... clearly the technique is a Digital copy protection circumvention method.

  2. Yeah... on Java Thrown Back in Windows, For Now · · Score: 1

    Now that's something they really need to put back. Anyone who really wants Java can download it from Sun.

  3. Mine on Real Genius Now Available on DVD · · Score: 1

    was copied off the Disney channel

  4. So... on AllTheWeb Claims Bigger Index Than Google · · Score: 1

    What does VI do with all computer storage?

  5. Physically lining up... on Augmented Reality Billiards · · Score: 1

    Now they need something to help you physically like the shot up. To use an easier example with drawingI can picture things in my head, but getting them to the paper, the pen has a mind of its own.

  6. Is your OS anything like Penultimate by any chance on Andreessen on the Browser Wars · · Score: 1

    Penultimate is an OS described by Graham Watkins

  7. I suppose you've never heard of planning for... on Are Written Computer Science Exams a Fair Measure? · · Score: 1
  8. Or do you E. on Are Written Computer Science Exams a Fair Measure? · · Score: 1

    avoid scheduling yourself into such tome constrants. There's no reason to schedule a departure that close to quitting time... besides can't you just remote in that bugfix?

  9. No, It isn't on Are Written Computer Science Exams a Fair Measure? · · Score: 1

    Frame of mind is very important in order to code effectively. He isn't discounting the first two issues in establishing a frame of mind conducive to coding; he's giving an example on how to establish such a frame of mind when such tools aren't available.

  10. 'Actively' scanning for messages intended for it? on Peer-to-Peer Cell Phones? · · Score: 1

    While it is sending packets to the nearby cell tower going 'here I am' every once an awhile, it isn't sending out a signal to 'see' the messages sent it any more that your eyes do, which it sounds like you are saying by saying 'actively scanning;, because it sounds like active radar.

  11. It's a trade off... on Peer-to-Peer Cell Phones? · · Score: 1

    The cell phone doesn't have to send as high a power signal when you are using it, in exchange for having to send signal more frequently. Btw how does a cell phone know when it is switching cells.

  12. Could it be... on Keeping Children's Software on a Networked Server? · · Score: 1

    it appears that the poster just called himself stupid.

  13. Except the people complaining about others being.. on Is it Wrong to Accept an Employment Counter-Offer? · · Score: 1

    critical usually don't understand anything.

  14. Copying? on Slashback: Riftiness, Ixianism, Eclipse · · Score: 1

    They don't quite seem to grasp the concept of satire though.

    On Fox News they said the exact same sentence

    Can't remember if more of what they said is the same though. I need a PVR so I can go back and sheck these things.

  15. New Content? on P2P Television? · · Score: 1

    Now, let's stop to consider that the U.S., every day, produces something on the order of 360 hours (12 hours times 30 channels) of new content I don't get where he makes the connection between channels and airtime, and new content.

  16. And this is a good thing? on Is it Wrong to Accept an Employment Counter-Offer? · · Score: 1

    left a company only to return after a few weeks or even years for roughly the same pay and position;

    If you leave a company, only to come back for the same pay and position, why would you have left in the first place.

    Yet another reason not to trust anyone

  17. My perception on Is it Wrong to Accept an Employment Counter-Offer? · · Score: 1

    1. You loyalty should always be in question. 2. Like the company who hired you away doesn't know that you werent loyal to the first company. 3. Companies usually begin cutbacks with the most recently hired, so if you go to the oter company the cutbacks are still going to begin with you. 4. No matter which offer you accept, you were still bought. 5. Your company should always be looking for a new person at a cheaper price. However, the very fact that they offered the counteroffer means that they can't. However, the counteroffer could mean that they want to keep you on long enough to hire someone else at a salary between your old and new. 6. There should be other indicator to examine to tell if you should stay or leave. Did your present company seem happy to give you extra money to stay or hesitant or resentful.

  18. Critical? on Is it Wrong to Accept an Employment Counter-Offer? · · Score: 1

    Just what goes for critical in your book. "He complained that the lights don't work right, the program crashes the computer all the time, the tools are from the 1980's and so is most of the hardware. Boy is that guy critical." IS that what you mean?

  19. Forget about it. on Making Users Back Up Important Data? · · Score: 1

    Install Wake on lan network cards in all their computers and have the server back up their computers each night... or eliminate local storage and back up the server.

  20. Freedom on What Is Public Domain? · · Score: 1

    Freedom is a completely white, empty floorless ceilingless, wallless void, don't you know.

  21. Abandoning a car. on What Is Public Domain? · · Score: 1

    If you've abadoned a car in the backyard, is it really abandoned?

  22. Correction on DVDs By Mail? · · Score: 1

    You can rent 3 at a time during the month, and as many as you want during that month as long as you don't have more than three out at any given time during the month.

  23. Re:Dear Slashdot on DVDs By Mail? · · Score: 1

    Except Netflix has a much wider selection. I wonder why Blockbuster has a bigger space than Suncoast but doesn't appear to have a better selection. Maybe it's simply that I don't care for their selection. (They seem to carry more older movies than suncoast does, gotta reuse that inventory maybe?)

  24. But the Jedis are decadent... on How Yoda Became an Action Star · · Score: 1

    They've gotten to the point where they think "Who needs skill when you have the force?"

    Could someone please expain the Michelle Yeoh-Dah?
    Er, Nevermind

  25. IPv6 on US Govt Wants to Control ICANN? · · Score: 1

    Question: Will it get us to IPv6 or even v7 faster?

    btw, The Screensavers have a poll on the topic of 'Should the government control the Web?'
    On the Screensavers page scroll down.