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  1. I'm sorry, am I to be impressed? on Doug Chiang's Robota · · Score: 2, Funny
    this is they guy responsible for the look of jar jar Binks,

    and you want me to consider his book?

  2. what basic did you use? on A TCP/IP Stack and Web Server In BASIC · · Score: 1

    two letter variables? not in my basic
    and what about "on gosub" ?

  3. seti and custom computers on Supercomputers To Move To Specialization? · · Score: 1

    I've wondered, what would a mass produced box capable of running seti@home cost? something I could plug into my router, and the power, send it my user name, and let it burn through seti packets. hmmm

  4. lets hope on New Great Ape Discovered? · · Score: 1
    they weren't trained to crush skulls
    in order to protect a IIb diamond mine


    http://home.nyu.edu/~kan209/congo.html

  5. Re:Phone calls on SCO Targets US Government, TiVo · · Score: 1
    does not the fact that they specify version 2.4 and above give any clue?

    if earlier version do not infringe, then what changed into 2.4? (that's still in linux)

  6. Re:Put into perspective on Gateway Portable MP3 Player · · Score: 1

    and a little movie recorder too!
    (hell is defined as watching the winamp second counter so I make 20 seconds)

  7. I'm sorry- it's likely because of demographics? on There Is No Single Instant In Time · · Score: 1
    the beancounters must be loving this one

    have we become so very statistical, that it's good physics due to his age?

  8. I have a dream on Microsoft to do for Usenet what it did for Email & The Web? · · Score: 1

    that all people, (with internet access)
    will take the files, combined together in the glory that is pornography,
    sorted, in harmony.

  9. Re:Target audience? on Disposable Digital Cameras Have Arrived · · Score: 2, Insightful

    you can begin and complete step 3 in 15 minutes?

  10. Might I suggest on Last Chance for Slashdot T-Shirt Contest · · Score: 1
    the back be labled thusly

    Date of first +5 funny:____________

    Date of first +5 insightful:_________

    Date of first +5 interesting:_________

    etc..

    and issue cloth writing pens.. I know, the first time I got a +5, (funny), I almost ordered a custom shirt with the date & comment on it..
    I was just that proud..

    I told my co-workers, I told my family, I told my wife, they all gave me that 'slight amused stare' and not a one understood..

  11. um, a 2mp camera for 10.99 on Disposable Digital Cameras Have Arrived · · Score: 4, Interesting
    how long do you think. before they are reverse engineered?

    how hard could i tbe to determine the method used to download the pics, and then sell a cable & driver for 20$?

  12. Re:Illegal search & seizure on SBC Fights RIAA Over DMCA Subpoenas · · Score: 1
    yes, it would be, read the EULA of the individual filesharing apps..

    for kazaa
    http://www.kazaa.com/us/terms.htm
    In order to use Kazaa Media Desktop, you must first read and accept the terms of this Licence.
    1.1 ...grants you a limited, non-exclusive, personal... (personal)

    2.6 Transmit, access or communicate any data that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party; (note, no exception if you control the copyright-- all copyrighted material)

    the real killer, 2.11 Monitor traffic or make search requests in order to accumulate information about individual users;

    So, how can they "legally" use kazaa to issue writs?
    answer- they can't, and every time they USE kazaa, to track down kazaa, they are violating the EULA,

  13. Re:If I read the ingredients right, on (Solar) Power to the Masses · · Score: 1
    I take exception to this mod down,
    did you- Whoever modded this- check the ingredients?

    60% Sodium Nitrate and 40% Potassium Nitrate-- looky- they can make bombs from this stuff! it's common knowledge..

    and the file says in part "The molten salt is safe since it is nonflammable and nontoxic." yet it's potentially damn explosive!

  14. If I read the ingredients right, on (Solar) Power to the Masses · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    it'd be really easy to blow up.
    diesel fuel and fertilizer anyone?

  15. Re:repeat after me on Telemarketers Sue Over "Do Not Call" List · · Score: 4, Funny
    My home phone has been listed for the last 8 years under a sci-fi pseudonym

    my local telco doesn't charges for unlisted, but strangely, doesn't care what listing I have it under.

    whenever I get a call for Mr. 'Dorsey', I know it's time for a round of, "fuck with the caller until it's boring."

  16. Re:maybe 100 years.... on Will Humanoid Robots Take All the Jobs by 2050? · · Score: 0
    register jockey? where the hell are you from?

    here in So jersey, it's pump monkey
    in north jersey I hear it's gas monkey(too many strip clubs to use pump monkey safely I think)

  17. is it any wonder on Will Humanoid Robots Take All the Jobs by 2050? · · Score: 1

    that they can replace fast food workers ten years before they can match the capacity of the human brain?

  18. Re:MSN hates shopping on Digging Holes in Google · · Score: 1

    If I was looking into granny smith apples, don't you think MOST web pages discussing apples as a fruit might mention 'macintosh'?

  19. for the price of your daily cup of coffee, on MPAA to Launch Anti-Piracy Commercials · · Score: 1

    you can save poor Arnies estate in Malibu..

  20. Re:Great for highschool bands on Sell Your Music on iTunes Music Store · · Score: 1
    how much server space does a CD's worth of MP3's take? 30 megs? at that volume, how much does storage cost per megabyte to have and maintain?

    please..

  21. Re:False Privacy on U.S. Biometric Passports By Late 2004 · · Score: 1
    or, you have to have an array of cameras.

    say you have a wall, composed of eight or ten thousand little cameras, all pointing at people.. combine the images, and voila!

    if they can take a picture of a planet 10,000 light years away, than a very detailed picture can be taken of something 6 feet away...

  22. yes, our plan has worked, on SOHO Is Back · · Score: 1, Funny

    no longer, detect my home planet, will you.

  23. Nobody wants to run another line without justifyi on Want 12Mbits/sec for $21? Move to Japan. · · Score: 1
    About 20 years ago, I remember reading that the last in service (USA) magneto driven telephone lines were finally replaced with modern lines...

    magnetos == hand crank phones... with human operators to connect your call..
    the dial tone replacements had been out for 100 years or so..

    and you want cable in the boonies? less than 50 years after cable TV was invented?

    cable tv is generally considered as being invented in the 1940's

  24. will the last person to leave the country on Want 12Mbits/sec for $21? Move to Japan. · · Score: 5, Funny

    please remember to turn off the lights?

  25. Re:Reminds me of this old tech suppor story- on Sony Recalls 18,000 VAIO Laptops · · Score: 1
    Fer even more far out engineering

    http://www.netscrap.com/netscrap_detail.cfm?scrap_ id=501
    A car that won't start if you buy vanilla ice cream