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  1. Re:Go Roxio! on PressPlay + Roxio? · · Score: 1

    Don't forget how they desiged the perfect interface! I mean, of course it's always running, but that's good, it's just a click away, and it hardly eats any resources!

  2. Obligitory on NASA Sending Probe to Saturn · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm waiting for NASA to probe my anus, or atleast Uranus

  3. Re:$.99 versus $1.00 on iTunes Music Store sells 275,000 Tracks in 18 Hours · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Previously, It was to keep employees from stealing. If something is $0.99 they have to make change for the customer, where if it were $1.00 they wouldn't

  4. Re:Anime?? on Must-See Films at L.A. Anime Festival · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's a needs basis. Maybe The Matrix has it's own category on the premise that they understand many people want to filter out all articles dealing with it. A lot of news and information about The Matrix means that a lot of people who could care less may get upset. It just gives them a way to 'skip' the news. Dealing with the rest of your comment, Anime, by and large, is considered fairly geeky. Even if only ten percent of Slashdotters are 'into' anime, that's a large enough demograph to target.

  5. Umm yeah... on Time to Face the Music · · Score: 0

    it makes the Baghdad looters look like trick-or-treaters Because we all know that music piracy doesn't just support terrorism, but it's also worse than war!

  6. 20 years before... on Old-school Nerdy Comics · · Score: 1

    That would have been right around 2 years before my birth...

  7. Re:security features... on D-Link DVC-1000 Videophone Review · · Score: 1

    It's over, deal with it. You might as well be saying "In Soviet Russia, the phone records you"... err how about you record the phone?

  8. No phones on D-Link DVC-1000 Videophone Review · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If this product, or others like it eventually take off, we may get to a point where we no longer have a need for traditional telephones." I personally haven't gotten a phone hooked up at my apartment after I moved out of the dorms. I typically use IRC, or ICQ for communication, but for the calling home to ask for mone, I set up one of the Creative labs phone blasters at my apartment and home. I've been using it since after Christmas break, and it works like a dream. Even my mom doesn't have a problem calling me. (I'm just lucky I can get a static ip from my ISP)

  9. Re:but not as bad as Palm's Grafiti on Review of the Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 · · Score: 1

    I think the reason that there wasn't a picture is because he wanted to avoid getting slashdotted. Even so, function over fashion, hombre.

  10. Re:Re:Too bad it will still be just as unreliable on Windows 2003 Going Gold · · Score: 1

    Pushing your system to the max and changing the voltage while it's running are two entirely different things. I push my system to the max, I have it overclocked well beyond anyone I know, and it's very stable. I flashed my firmware on my lite-on burner turning it from 32 to 48x, change settings, and play with it all the time. I wouldn't classify myself as a lite user. However pulling a drive out, while it's spinning, to call yourself hardcore is absurd, of course it's going to damage it, turning a windows pc off enough times will corrupt your registry because of the way it's paged in your ram, things get erased that are being written in real-time, there's a reason, and doing it, knowing the reasons why it'll fail is retarded. The only time it's safe to pull a drive out is on a nice Raid-5 array, there is a chance the drive you pull will die, but the data will still be intact on your other drives, that aren't dead. If you're going to be such a hard-core (l)user you should become a little more familiar with your system.

  11. Re:Too bad it will still be just as unreliable on Windows 2003 Going Gold · · Score: 1

    It sounds to me like you're having a hardware problem. Take a look at what .dll's are corrupt, match them with a driver and match those drivers to a piece of hardware. If the hardware is too "integrated" it sounds like you're screwed and have to send it in. Some advice you may want to consider. Spend less time caring about your OS that you can change, and more worrying about quality hardware.

  12. Not ftp's on Mandrake 9.0 for AMD 64-bit Technology · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah, I know what you mean about not being able to find any servers, it's a bit offtopic, but does anyone know where I can download redhat enterprise server?

  13. Why? on A College Without Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    No offense, but do you want to deprive the students of the skills they'll need to function in the real world?

  14. Re:What were those commons passwords in Hackers? on New Windows Worm Inching Around Internet · · Score: 1

    Hey, you forgot about secret, that was on the list too!!! 1 L1\/3 []V[]y l1f3 ây th4t []v[]0\/i3

  15. Re:Think different on Maine Laptop Program a Success · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Grammatically, your statement is incorrect. You say "Think different" since different is modifing your verb, you should use the adverb form, differently, "Think Differently" is the proper way to state it. Remember kids, friends don't let friends use improper grammar.

  16. Re:bios? on BIOS' Days Are Numbered · · Score: 0, Troll

    oh man, how ignorant can you possibly be?

  17. Re:Bullying on Why Nerds Are Unpopular · · Score: 1

    I totally agree with you. I was bullied, and tormented from grade school until highschool. Until I couldn't take it anymore, I quit. After a week without going to school, I had some pretty upset faculty members. I was forced to spend sometime with the school psychologist, who recommended that I transfer schools. This is the really odd part. After transfering schools, with a group of people very much like the first group, I wasn't picked on. I made plenty of friends, fairly quickly, and because the schools were so close together, there were plenty of friends at my new school who new kids at my old school, so after having made friends at the new school, and then hanging back out with the other kids, they too quit picking on me. After thinking about it for a very long time, I realized that it must have been out of pure habbit that they were picking on me for all those years. After taking the time to actually get to know me, they didn't have a problem with me. In anycase, you're very right, it doesn't make one stronger. I am very careful about making friends who I believe I can trust, when someone is joking with me, sometimes I take it to heart, I can't react because of anxiety, so I just sit silently and take it until I almost feel like bawling, and I get uncomfortable in social situations quite easily.

  18. Re:question for Jacer on U.S. National Do-Not-Call Registry On the Way? · · Score: 1

    If you hang up, or they think you do, (hang up on another phone, and keep yours muted) and they hang up without giving the number, they can be fined. you do have to get information on who they are calling on behalf of, it'd be pointless to call unless you know who to narc on right?

  19. I worked as a telemarketer... on U.S. National Do-Not-Call Registry On the Way? · · Score: 5, Informative

    for a week to get money for rent one month. I may have stayed longer had I thought it in anyway ethical. The first thing you have to be aware is the close, they use information they know to be accurate, such as "To get you started, I just need to confirm your current address is " and if when you say that it is your current address, you're agreeing to the sale, now, they can't sign you up off of this, they have to record the offer, and you accepting it, but it's just a step to "confuse" the customer as they were telling me. Furthermore, they have to close the phone call by giving you a toll-free number, or possibly an email address or URL at which customer service can be reached. If they don't, all you have to do is call FCC and tell them the name of the company they were calling on behalf of, they'll do the rest and you'll get $500 of the fine (this is how I paid the rent the month after I quit) Another thing you can do is request their do-not-call policy, it's a document dictating all of their policies, it's just to irritate them. Just incase any of you were curious, I worked at Access Direct, in Ames, Iowa, and we were calling nationally on behalf of DirecTV.

  20. Re:Too bad on U.S. National Do-Not-Call Registry On the Way? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yeah, that thing screams false advertising. It sends no frequency over the telephone to delete your call. All it is is a recording that says the phone is disconnected. Have a friend mask his phone number from caller id, and then have him call. He'll hear it.

  21. Re:Thats too young! on First Red Hat Academy for High School · · Score: 1

    There will be plenty of people to disagree with you. I for one. When I was 16, I got a SA job, and I don't mean at a little ma and pop shop, I mean at a $2.8 billion a years company. I did have the slight regression during the work day that would reflect my age, however, it was also a factory with over 2,000 employees, of them, I would wager that not many had college educations, more frequently relapsing than me. One of the other SA's, a guy five years older than me, who more often than not, lacked the maturity of the corporate world.

  22. Re:Better player? on Humankind Makes Last Stand Against Machine · · Score: 1

    Kasprov won the first match against deep-blue, too. Deep-Blue was allowed to be programmed with all of kasprov's moves, and updated after each match, i think kasprov maybe even won the first too, maybe someone will post more accurate information than my fuzzy memor

  23. excellent! on Mission: Infiltrate the P2P Network · · Score: 1

    but, uh, if i run into a low quality download, i'll just delete it and not share it anymore...

  24. Large scaleSmall scale on Linux Is Cheaper · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sure linux is cheaper if you're running five hundred servers, but where I used to work, we had only five servers, easily handeled by one admin

  25. Re:Oh man oh man oh man on Radiation Detection Wrist Watch · · Score: 2

    be fare, that's a generalization, i hate america just as much as any other non-american, the catch is, i'm american. i hate the fact that we're facist. i hate the fact we're racist. i hate the fact we meddle in the affairs of others. i hate capitalism. i hate critics, such as yourself, and those worse than you. i hate your generalization that because i'm american, i must be bad. i love the fact that i don't hate you for your misconception, but i hate the fact that you'll never understand why i don't.