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  1. Re:open and accurate? on Wikipedia Reaches 200,000 Articles · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Yes but who watches the watchers ?
    e.g. Geography (Social and political views.. )
    • An arab's/Jew's writting on gazza strip
    • An Indians/Paki's article on kashmir
    • A tamil's/sinhali's views on Jaffna Jungles in Shri lanka
    • A catholic's/protestant's view on Ireland
      • Socio Political historical events
        No brainer here , History is always written by victors, so any other version would be deemed inaccurate and propoganda.

        How about a non-christian writing about christ , bible ? or a non muslim writing about koran ? Can they be un-biased ? Or for that matter a christian writing about christ and a muslim wring about koran ?Can they be unbiased.

        Let's face it, as long as there is a human element involved, there will be difference of opinion , no matter what the topic is about. And editing out parts which you don't necessaryly agree to is censorship.

  2. Re:USA to India: on Stallman Goes to India · · Score: 1

    India to Stallman :- Thank you come again.

  3. Re:This is pricing strategy. on Stallman Goes to India · · Score: 1
    In fact he is the fourth. link1 and link2

  4. Re:What can be done. on KISS · · Score: 1
    What about situations, when I want to buy something bare minimum and the company wants me to sell the moon.

    Consider the following situations...

    Buying coffee in a coffee shop. All I want is plain coffee with milk and sugar. No latte , no expresso, No mocca , no nothing . just plain coffee with milk and sugar damn it. Unfortunately the 5+@rbuck5 salesgirl never understands this.

    Or odered something over the phone. Say like a digital camera. you buy a camera worth 200$ and the guy wants you to sell accessories worth 500$.

  5. Re:Number 16 - Spike Lee on The 101 Dumbest Moments in Business · · Score: 2, Interesting
    i thought the whole thing was just some kind of gimmic staged by spice lee and the TV channel.

    Remember any publicity is good publicity

  6. Re:who cares... on Seth Schoen Reveals Himself Author of DeCSS Haiku · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    because, there is no chance in hell that RIAA or MPAA or any such organization is going to sue you and then you may eventually win and then demand a 22000$ compensation. Get it ?

  7. Re:Hey, d00d! on SCO Offers $250K Bounty for MyDoom Author's Arrest · · Score: 4, Funny

    And the stocks can only be vested after 2 years from now.

  8. Re:With all the Indians working as IT programmers on A Thoughtful Look at Indian Outsourcing · · Score: 1

    didn't he add "Thank you come again " ?

  9. Re:Photoshop? on Whose Desktop Would You Most Like To See? · · Score: 1

    Just like Heavy metal is redundunt ?

  10. Re:Best Keyboard... on A Glance At 24 Keyboards & Mice · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Am I the only one, who hates USB keyboard and mouse. What's wrong with PS/2 ?
    Each of my USB port is connected to a 4 port USB hub. But most USB device manifacturer's derive all power from the USB and you would be lucky enough to support even 2 devices on a hub.
    If you read the fine print on all USB devices, it says "Don't connect via a usb Hub, directly plug-in to the pc's usb port.". Call any tech support for a problem on USB device, and the first thing they tell you is NOT to connect via a hub.

    How the fcuk I am supposed to connect 8 usb devices on a 3 port USB card without a USB hub ?

  11. Re:Not just pop-ups on Pop-Up Ads Lead to Consumer Revolt, Ad-Blocking · · Score: 2, Informative
    Read the author's note, It works on the tag , but not tag.

    So depending upon whether the sites u visit use which tags, the plug-in may or maynot work.

  12. Re:Not just pop-ups on Pop-Up Ads Lead to Consumer Revolt, Ad-Blocking · · Score: 1
    Actually the flash clcik-to-view plug-in is quite simple.
    U can unjar the file, and try changin the class-id to that of an applet. I tried it several months ago but it didn't work. may be i missed something.

    but the point is , the plug-in uses the class-id property to dertermin a flash object, so theorotically you should be able to do that for an applet as well.

  13. Re:Measly 1.5 gig on Mix Wi-Fi and Portable Digital Audio, Get Aireo · · Score: 1

    Well it depends.
    The player has a slot for compact flash card to xfer pics from digital camera to the 1.5HD.
    I mean come on, these days even compact flash cards can do 4 GB., and when u shoot raw, u want lots and lots of space. 1.5GB is peanuts

  14. Re:Its only an aquarium fish! on Lawsuit Filed Against Unregulated GloFish · · Score: 2, Informative

    You must be refering to the snakehead fish (native of china) found in maryland.
    These are meat-eating fish, which eat other fish. Some local dude, got them as pets and then threw them in a pond (hundreds of them), once he got bored.
    There was a lot of fear, of these fish disturbing the fish eco-system of eastern USA

  15. Re:I can see it now... on New Gamepad Designed To Build Muscles? · · Score: 4, Funny

    from pressing CTR-ALT-DEL ?

  16. Hello on One-Way Ticket to Mars? · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Hello, I am Darl McBride, I would like to volunteer for this mission.
    Also as I would be the fist person on Mars, any subsequent visitors to mars will have to pay me $699

  17. D'oh! on SCO Fails to Produce Evidence · · Score: 4, Funny

    D'oh!, I demand a refund of my $699.

  18. Re:Gateway to wetware? on Matrix-Style Brain Interface Closer To Reality · · Score: 1

    No, but that's what anonymous coward monkeys are for.

  19. Re:Gas + Food on Exxon And Timex Release The Speedpass watch · · Score: 1

    Would you like some fries with that ?

  20. Never thought on Walking Through SkyOS 5.0 Beta · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I never would have thought, i would live to see the day when slashdot copies articles from osnews.com. Sigh

  21. Simpsons... on Novell Releases SCO Letters · · Score: 0

    Comic book guy says "Shortest Story Ever"

  22. Re:FreeBSD 5 works fine in production, here on FreeBSD 5.2 Released · · Score: 1

    Care to post a link to your site ? he he

  23. Re:rm on What is the Worst Tech Mistake You Ever Made? · · Score: 1
    Ah yes, the dynamically linked binaries would go bizerk. Still you can change your LD_LIBRARY_PATH and add /newusr/lib /newusr/X11/lib etc.

    But i agree with you it could soon become a PITA. Did you try to create a symbolic link to /newusr as /usr ?

    Don't mean to sound like a unix guru, just curious.

  24. Re:rm on What is the Worst Tech Mistake You Ever Made? · · Score: 1
    Why is this such a big deal ?

    you could very well have ....
    export PATH=/newusr/bin:/newusr/sbin:$PATH
    and be on your way. export is a shell built-in so as long as you have a shell , no problems.

  25. Re:Hrmm on Engineer Deconstructs Literary Criticism · · Score: 1
    Obligatory Simpsons ref.

    Three things that will get you by in life

    • cover for me
    • Oh! good idea boss
    • It was like that when I got here