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  1. Right ON! on Hams Complain about Powerline Broadband · · Score: 0, Troll

    Way to go hams!! Lets sacrifice modern and accessable communication in favor of bouncing radio waves off the atmosphere!

  2. Re:heck on YOPY Arrives · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Good Idea! The real question now is how to fit that computer in your pocket.

  3. Martian Cult on Might Mars Contain Life? · · Score: 5, Funny

    If one of these martians comes to earth, would he start a religion and make love to everybody? I am begining to grok the situation.

  4. Re:Why not let people download rather than stream? on Launching Gutenberg Radio - Public Domain Audiobooks · · Score: 2, Informative

    You can download some of them. Dracula is a 350 MB mp3 file. The Time Machine is only 50 megs. (It's short. I remember reading that one in just a few hours)

  5. it's personal on Launching Gutenberg Radio - Public Domain Audiobooks · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Gutenberg radio

    it's personal

    I wonder if the computer reads that slogan before each audio file...

  6. Re:Great on Trusted Computing Group Formed · · Score: 1
    Your stupid.

    Whose stupid?

  7. Re:Yeah but... on RotK Delayed Until May 2004 · · Score: 3, Funny
    Is that new?

    No. Sauron forged the one ring c. 1600, second age. It's kind of old.

  8. Re:This is great.. but don't forget: on Operational Testing of Linux Kernel 2.5.x · · Score: 1
    "it's because it can break drastically between minor versions as features are added/changed."

    Does that explain it?

    Finish reading the sentence; the second half sometimes explains the first.

  9. Re:The Price on Commander Keen: 13 Years Later · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sorry to reply to my own post but I found my Invasion of the Vorticons disk also. Same story. Game works in XP but sound doesn't. Does anyone know if this can be remedied?

  10. Re:The Price on Commander Keen: 13 Years Later · · Score: 2, Informative
    Oh, well. I don't think I can play it on XP anywayz.

    I found my old Goodbye Galaxy disk and tried it out on an XP computer. I can't get sound to work, but gameplay seems fine.

  11. Re:Could this be illegal? on Build Your Own Satellite Ground Station · · Score: 1

    If the government (or anyone else) doesn't want me to collect its satelite signals from its satelites, then they can figure out a way to broadcast radio without passing through my house.

  12. Command & Conquer again, and again, and ag... on Command and Conquer Generals Released · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I used to be a big fan of C&C. Problem is, Red Alert was just like the original, Tiberian Sun was just like Red Alert, Red Alert II was just like the original Red Alert. Each game has new graphics and different names for the same things.

  13. Re:What's the problem with PG? on Quickly Filling Up 150GB of Legal Media Files? · · Score: 3, Informative
    I was thinking the same thing. From a PG header:

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    [*] The etext may be readily converted by the reader at no expense into plain ASCII, EBCDIC or equivalent form by the program that displays the etext (as is the case, for instance, with most word processors); OR

    [*] You provide, or agree to also provide on request at no additional cost, fee or expense, a copy of the etext in its original plain ASCII form (or in EBCDIC or other equivalent proprietary form). [2] Honor the etext refund and replacement provisions of this "Small Print!" statement.

    [3] Pay a trademark license fee to the Project of 20% of the net profits you derive calculated using the method you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. If you don't derive profits, no royalty is due. Royalties are payable to "Project Gutenberg Association / Illinois Benedictine College" within the 60 days following each date you prepare (or were legally required to prepare) your annual (or equivalent periodic) tax return.

  14. Re:Could somebody please explain... on Honeymoon Over For Google? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    How the hell do you 'kleenex' something?

    I thought it was a noun.

    In English, you can verb any word you wish.

  15. Uh oh... on MMORPGs, Are You There Yet? · · Score: 1

    Pretty soon the mafia will be delivering pizzas.

  16. Re:Geez on DreamHack Winter 2002 · · Score: 1

    If you give each one of the 5000 people twelve cans of Jolt (modest estimate; 4 cans a day per person) there would be 6 kilos (13.2 pounds) of caffeine.

  17. Re:Nice but on Tidal Power a Reality · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How would the energy be sent back to earth? Do you remember SimCity2000 and microwave power plant? When the beam from the satellite got out of sync with the dish, fires started.

  18. Re:Not Totally Worthless on Copy Protection On CDs Is 'Worthless' · · Score: 1

    What about VCD? Could you burn a VCD session and an audio session on the same CD? Although, there may not be much space left for music if they include very much video.

  19. Re:Great! on Linus Explains his Patch Policy · · Score: 1

    If you want to add a patch to the kernel and distribute it, Linus can't stop you. Take the source, add your own patch, and distribute it. Sounds pretty equal to me.

  20. Re:Requires IE5 on Flash Version of Adventure · · Score: 5, Informative

    It works with Mozilla and the Linux flash plug-in.

  21. too young on Flash Version of Adventure · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm too young for this. I have it loaded and all I see are boxes and lines. Something must be wrong...

  22. Re:And... on Internet Backbone DDOS "Largest Ever" · · Score: 1

    Slightly off-topic and possibly a stupid question, but I am curious...
    Can one send an email to joeblow@123.123.123.123 or must one use domain names?

  23. Re:Going downhill.... on Review of Linux Mandrake 9.0 · · Score: 1

    I was a redhat user for a long time but when I was upgrading from 7.0 to 7.2 (I think, versions might have been different) I got a kernel panic on reboot, said, "screw it", installed Mandrake, and have used it ever since. 8.2 seems good enough for me.

  24. Re:Be that as it may.. on Purchase Your Personal Gene Map · · Score: 1
    >Ahh, but it was your destiny to say those very words on this day.;-)

    It was my destiny because the slashdot editors' genes thought that this was interesting and because I am genetically predisposed to reading slashdot. Then my genes took this input and my mind processed it in a formulated way and submitted the output for posting.

  25. Re:Be that as it may.. on Purchase Your Personal Gene Map · · Score: 1
    But isn't fate the result of cause and effect? Natural events cause other events to happen and your genes decide how you will act. Other peoples' genes determine how they will act, causing others to act, &cetera.

    Personality traits that are not part of your DNA are caused by things that have happened to you by other peoples' forced will of their genes and by the cause and effect of natural occurrences.

    Free will doesn't exist. Randomness doesn't exist. Fate doesn't exist.