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  1. Re:might be a while... on Asynchronous Logic: Ready For It? · · Score: 2

    Pentium 2003? Your other option would be a new bright color scheme each year.

  2. Re:Baen Free Library on Free Books: Under the Radar · · Score: 2
    If the record and movie companies provided free low quality copies of their works, they might be able to use this to get people to buy them in high quality formats.

    This would never work. With the crap they're been churning out lately, how would you tell the difference between the high and low quality formats?

  3. Re:What (cool thing) could you do w/multiple devic on Tackling AGP 8X · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Debugging full-screen 3D games. Right now I use a Matrox dualhead card, but it would be nice to have two independent adapters.

  4. Re:Machines Not Yet Our Masters? on Kramnik Ties Fritz; Machines Not Yet Our Masters · · Score: 2

    The real test would be BSD-related Slashdot posts.

  5. Re:Machines Not Yet Our Masters? on Kramnik Ties Fritz; Machines Not Yet Our Masters · · Score: 2

    Yeah, the bot would know not to mention Linux on the first date.

  6. Re:1 Million reward on Clockless Computing · · Score: 1

    Welcome to Slashdot, home of the trademark "geek smackdown." :)

  7. Re:Read Microsoft's page ... on Ballmer Admits 'Linux Changed Our Game' · · Score: 2
    And this still doesn't stop some good old fashioned flaming FUD from slipping in, and I quote:
    'Given the recent cutbacks and layoffs at many commercial Linux vendors, including Red Hat's recent 17 percent reduction in it workforce, it is questionable whether commercial Linux vendors will be around to provide support in the long term'

    I'm surprised you don't take this seriously. Check out Red Hat's financials. They don't impress.

  8. Re:Chemical Experiment Toys on Where are the 'Construction Set' Games? · · Score: 2

    I used to make my own fireworks when I was young. Some of the reactions gave off chlorine gas and I just did them outside and tried to stay upwind. I suppose it was pretty dangerous, but definitely educational. :)

  9. Re:Low Brow Solution on A Medireview Approach To Stopping E-Mail Attacks · · Score: 3, Funny
    William F. Buckley produces one every now and then. His vocabulary is scary, and he is an incorrigible show-off.

    Personally, I think he's just a blatherskite. ;)

  10. Re:17 years... on Seventeen Years of Tetris · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've heard dedicated players call the long skinny piece the "Tetris Penis." There's definitely something Freudian about the game, I think.

  11. Re:Well.. on Interesting Enemies For a Diagnostic Database · · Score: 2
    If you just payed a TON of money to goto medical school, would you then want all your education flaunted all over a network of information?

    Also consider malpractice lawsuits. If a physician badly misdiagnoses something and the correct answer is listed in a widely available database, that could mean big trouble for the doctor in court.

  12. Re:Early bird (corporate whore) gets the worm(pate on IPFilter Infriging on Bay Network Patent? · · Score: 3, Funny
    From the patent:

    receiving a data frame at a port of a network device coupled to said network said data frame to be forwarded to a destination node in said network based on a destination address for said destination node associated with said data frame

    I'm having a hard time thinking of a network device that doesn't do this. :)

  13. Re:mod of legend of zelda on The Mod Squad · · Score: 2

    There are some pretty decent Metroid mods that run on NES emulators as well.

  14. Re:Ahhh the days on The Mod Squad · · Score: 2

    Barney and Aliens were my personal favorite Doom mods. :)

  15. Re:Demographic breakdown. on Mac Users May Be Smarter · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    My theory is that Mac users are more likely to be pseudo-intellectuals. They're only superficially smarter than others. If you talk to one for more than 5 minutes, you'll see what I mean.

    Just kidding, of course. :)

  16. Re:the homepage glut explained on Mac Users May Be Smarter · · Score: 2

    Can I have your autograph?

  17. Re:The Difference... on More Attacks on Linux than Windows · · Score: 2

    The real difference is that up until recently you were more likely to get fake Natalie Portman porn breaking into a Linux box than anything useful. :)

  18. Re:Which are more successful? on More Attacks on Linux than Windows · · Score: 2

    I wonder what's considered an "attack." With the relatively low numbers they site, I assume they're talking about relatively sophisticated attacks, not old IIS worms. Any decent black hat will do an OS fingerprint before they try anything.

  19. Re:Network Solutions, One domain per user? on Collateral Damage in the Spam War · · Score: 2
    But do the people who go to such lengths to avoid spam EVER buy anything from spammers? EVER?

    I think non-technical users are increasingly the people who send the spam. Check out some of the sites listed here. Most of them appeal to the inexperienced. ("Send millions of messages in minutes!")

    Spam is a multi-level scam. I think the only people making real money are those who sell address lists and spam software to clueless newbies trying to make a buck.

  20. Good for PR on Robot Wars · · Score: 1, Troll

    Great, now the US can slaughter people in other countries without the bad press that inevitably accompanies American casualties. (Civilian casualties among foreign populations will be ignored as usual, of course.) I'm sure Henry Kissinger is peeing himself with glee.

  21. Re:OpenGL's future on A Lawyer's View on the OpenGL Patent Mess · · Score: 3, Funny

    Great, now we can replace the "BSD is dying" thread with "OpenGL is dying." :)

  22. Re:Jurisdiction? on Latest UDRP Stupidity: Unix.org, Canadian.biz · · Score: 2
    ICANN lacks an army or a police force of its own

    Don't give them any ideas.

  23. It makes perfect sense on Congratulations! You've Been Subpoenaed · · Score: 2

    AOL's subpoena policy is just a defense against customer lawsuits. The slant of the article makes it sound like they actually care about their users, but that's doubtful.

  24. Re:easter egg clients on Easter Eggs in Web Sites? · · Score: 2

    Post some banner ads on your site and redirect them to that. Why not make a little cash? :)

  25. Re:4 P3 on Software Engineering at Microsoft · · Score: 3, Funny
    and 512k RAM

    Maybe adding some RAM would help. :)