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  1. So, that means 4 Macbooks?

  2. The shape of a husband's ear? on Scientists Have Discovered a Shape That Blocks All Sound (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Works for me.

  3. I don't buy it... on Redheads Feel Pain Differently Than the Rest of Us · · Score: 1

    I know a few reds and not a damn one of them can handle anything spicy. Hell, one of them thinks spaghetti sauce is too spicy.

  4. I think I'm doing this wrong on Aging Eyes Blamed For Seniors' Health Woes · · Score: 1

    And here I sit with my windows blocked off because I thought the sunlight was causing fatigue on my eyes, making me tired.

  5. Initially on Ask Slashdot: How To Go Paperless At Home? · · Score: 1

    When you start (and have a ton of stuff) going somewhere to use the big machines is probably your best bet. The Toshibas I work on scan at 80PPM. If they are well maintained and your paper isn't all tattered and folded they rarely double feed. Make sure you fan your paper out before putting it in the doc feeder.

    Then you can use a smaller home machine for your upkeep.

  6. Design on The Chevy Segway Keeps On Rolling (Video) · · Score: 1

    Looks like they got their concept from the head of a yellow jacket.

    http://levahnbros.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/yellow-jacket.jpg

  7. That will go well on Is Facebook Becoming a Central Bank? · · Score: 1

    Mark can print up as many credits as he wants for himelf and friends = inflation

    The government isn't going to allow that crap, they want people using dollars (which are taxed). They don't like competition.

  8. Konqueror on Opera 9.5 To Fully Support CSS? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I just ran it in konqueror

    From the 43 selectors 43 have passed, 0 are buggy and 0 are unsupported (Passed 578 out of 578 tests)

    So I guess opera isn't the first.

  9. Going to buy 2 right away on Kodak Challenges HP's Printer Sales Model · · Score: 5, Informative

    Just my way of telling the other printer makers that ink isn't worth $30,000/gal

  10. Net Neutrality on Why Are T1 Lines Still Expensive? · · Score: 1

    I blame it on the whole net neutrality fight. They charge for the T1's because they CAN, they know that if someone needs to send a lot of content then they are a content provider [ read business ] and will pay the money to be able to deliver their content. They can make up the money they lose by selling DSL that gives 1.5-6M (yes that's 1.5 guaranteed), by overcharging the providers, and they want to continue this, they are selling bandwidth too cheap, then they cry that the providers, which are paying 20 times more for the same amount of bandwidth need to pay more, so the telco gets to be the hero to the end customer by giving cheap net access, and they get to have the providers like youtube and google pay for it all.

  11. Why bother on How To Request Better ATI Linux Support · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I gave up asking for and waiting for ATI to wake up to Linux. If they don't want to play on linux they don't play on my computer. When I buy computers I do make sure I at least mention to the sales staff that I want Nvidia or Intel because all other gfx cards have crappy Linux drivers, I hope I may be educating the salesperson so they know if someone else mentions running Linux they'll offer them a real gfx card. I don't buy from big names, because then I get big headaches, and bad support. So my hopes of my OEM somehow having any influence over ATI isn't going to happen.

  12. Faster than light radio waves... on Speed of Light Exceeded? · · Score: 1

    When they do this with radio waves I'll be impressed. Imagine being able to use wifi and have negative latency! I'll really do some ass kicking with first person shooters then!

  13. Re:Vista Woman on What Vista Is Really Like · · Score: 1

    Is this your autobiography?

  14. Re:Funny on YouTube Blocked in Brazil · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why not? Look at the example we set when we allow charges to be pressed in NY against Russian companies, RIAA vs AllofMP3.

  15. Of course! on YouTube Blocked in Brazil · · Score: 4, Funny

    Of course they are all angry it's blocked! They want to see the damn video!

  16. Re:Alternate Universe on CERTStation Threat-Level Aggregator · · Score: 1

    Could be, I mean what's the point of worrying about who might be threatening you when you've already got a gun in your mouth?

  17. Alternate Universe on CERTStation Threat-Level Aggregator · · Score: 1

    I must have woken up in an alternate universe this morning. Their threats by product doesn't list a single Microsoft Product, nor Linux. Now I know there's got to be something for both of these.

  18. Re:They get what they pay for... on Policy Wonk Castigates Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Actually that's backwards, it's $200 for the local loop here and $400+ for the bandwidth, and I'm practically in BF Egypt here in Cheboygan MI, and Mackinaw City [ as far north as you can go in the lower peninsula], about 45mi North of the 45th parallel.

    Someone is still paying a hefty price for that OC192, which the telco sells as CIR, CIR means guaranteed BW, they are allowed to have a full pipe 100% of the time. That's what they paid for, again if the telco doesn't have it then whey are they selling it? And especially why are they selling it as CIR, or maybe the question is why don't they have enough bandwidth to cover the CIR they advertised and sold?

    So, either the telco's lied and they don't have the infrastructure to cover what they sold as CIR to the content providers, or they shouldn't be selling the DSL/CABLE for as cheap as they are [taking a loss on bandwidth] and thus now seeing the content providers load increase to a level the telco doesn't want - because the telco put a few million heavy downloaders on line, perhaps they should have thought about that before pricing DSL at 1/20th the cost for comparative leased line prices.

  19. They get what they pay for... on Policy Wonk Castigates Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Youtube has a finite amount of bandwidth, they are not given free reign to the entire backbone, they are allow to send out as much as they pay for - period. The worst that will happen is youtube will suffer a slashdot effect and be swamped. If the case is that the backbone needs to be upgraded then upgrade it. Maybe if the damn telcos stopped offering ghastly amounts of bandwidth to subscribers for near nothing it wouldn't be a problem.

    Be careful what you offer, you just might sell it. And that's exactly what's happened, youtube could have a gigabit connection to the internet and it wouldn't matter a damn bit if the telcos weren't selling 6Mbit DSL for $60/mo, yet turning around and selling 1.5MBit T1's at $600/mo. Which is it? Is the bandwidth really worth something or not? Make up your mind telcos.

    Content providers pay dearly for high bandwidth connections, yet the same telco will sell the ability to download for a fraction of that to DSL subscribers, then they whine because they don't have enough bandiwdth to cover it all and expect the content providers to pay to the price again because it's the telco that sold the DSL too cheap.

  20. Should have thought of that before breaking law... on U.S. Government Intervenes in EFF vs. AT&T · · Score: 1

    This is bullshit that the reason they claim they can't take it to court is because of secrets, they should have thought of the consequences before breaking the law.

  21. Re:DSL Lines on Verizon Ruling May Tax Dial-Up Customers · · Score: 1

    What frickin' rock you been under for the last few days? Net Neutrality?

    They will be taxing all internet access soon.

  22. Re:ha! on NSA Spying Comes Under Attack · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I vote for that!

    Oh shit, votes aren't worth anything are they?

  23. Interesting to point out... on Microsoft's Not So Happy Family · · Score: 0, Troll

    That he says that sales will come from people buying PC's with the OS pre-installed, not people buying the vista OS in a box off the shelf. Even MS employees know they can't sell their crap, they have to force it down peoples throats or it won't sell.

  24. Stock up on ammo on FCC Backs a Tiered Internet · · Score: 1

    It's time for a revolution!

  25. Flaimbait? on Microsoft Anti-Spyware Removes Norton Anti-Virus · · Score: 1

    Should be insightful. Personally I can see why Norton could be ID'ed as maleware, it causes worse performance by itself than any amount of spyware I've ever seen.

    It causes your e-mail and network to break sometimes, it's the most damaging piece of commercial software besides windows itself I've ever seen.

    Honestly mcafee is right up there with it, I've never had any of the top 3 free virus scanners break any system but then they don't try to be 6 packages in one and aren't overly aggressive in scanning - hogging your resources.