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  1. Yes, it takes its inspiration from... on Google Transit Now In Beta · · Score: 1

    Microsoft Live Transit.

    This was all predicted in The Road Ahead.

    It's like Nostradamus.

  2. International Superstar David Hasselhof... on Apple Adds New TV Shows To iTunes · · Score: 0

    rendered 4 pixels tall.

    Pamela Anderson can say a lot with only two pixels.

  3. Re:Doesn't stop with the document format on IBM Stresses Importance of OpenDoc to MA · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah. These implementations speak:

    XForms in Mozilla (with SVG integration)

    WHATWG demos

    And Jacques Surveyor speaks.

  4. Doesn't stop with the document format on IBM Stresses Importance of OpenDoc to MA · · Score: 3, Interesting

    the IBM Workplace Managed Client will help protect an organization's investment in corporate data by promoting consistency, reliability and open accessibility of its documents.

    The document format addresses part of the investment, namely the content assetts.

    Also consider publishing workflows that occurs downstream from the document i.e. web publishing and print publishing.

    Savvy corporations can also effectively leverage open standards such as the W3C's HTML, SVG, CSS and interaction workflows such as those enabled by WHATWG and.or X-Forms to achieve stellar ROI across the publishing lifecycle.

  5. Bigger picture on Humanity Responsible For Current Climate Change · · Score: 4, Funny

    Carbon dioxide is 27% higher now than any other time over the last 650 000 years.

    But the Earth is 4.5 billion years old.

    Maybe the C02 level rises every million years or so, each time life evolves into things that make internal combustion engines. Then it falls for a while after each thermonuclear war.

    A graph of the last 3 million years?

  6. Re:Patenting animals? on The Guardian On Intellectual Property · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Something is very wrong with the patent system when living creatures can ba patented.

    That's not the worst thing we do to animals. Some people chop them up and eat them.

  7. Sans on Sony, Amazon Detail Rootkit CD Buybacks · · Score: 1

    sans rootkit of course.

    Are you sure or are you just giving them the benefit of the doubt?

  8. A bit late isn't it? on No More Lunar Land for Sale · · Score: 1

    Confucious say, Possession is 9/10th of the law.

  9. Then and now on Apple - What A Difference Eight Years Can Make · · Score: 1

    No ipods in this story.

  10. The Future of Surveillance on Amazon's Mechanical Turk · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Crime in your neighborhood?

    Get a webcam...

  11. Thine future? on USPTO Issues Provisional Storyline Patent · · Score: 1

    Didn't Shakespeare already write all the blockbuster plots?

    Whoever owns him will be bigger than Elvis.

    Uh oh...

  12. Accomplishments on 5 Years of Habitation on the ISS · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm trying hard to find a solid list of scientific accomplishments for the mission.

    How about accomplishments outside of the scientific domain?

    People of all colors, gender and race from more than a dozen nations have floated above our heads like biblical angels in peace and harmony.

    Achieving nothing.

  13. Yes its not the browser on Firefox Achieves 10% Global Market Share · · Score: 5, Insightful

    At 10% FireFox is starting to become interesting to malware producers. I guess I'll switch to Opera.

    That's what's good about web standards. It's becoming increasingly possibly for you to make a choice like that because content less and less tied to one browser.

    FF and Opera are both commited to implementing and supporting web standards like XML, SVG, and CSS. The bigger share they get, the more reason people have to develop standards-compliant content.

    A virtuous cycle.

  14. Re:The early Catholic church rang... on Mars Swings Unusually Close to Earth · · Score: 1

    It sounds like CNN looked up the orbital distance from Mars and assumed that it orbits the Earth...

    It still does. In Kansas.

  15. It has already lead to on New Zealand Government Open Source with Novell · · Score: 1

    cross platform development tools and web apps.

    People who make applications like the ones you describe like to use those where possible to maximize the potential users of the software they create.

  16. Already exists on Remote Control for Humans? · · Score: 1

    ...a remote control for manipulating humans through electrical stimulation of the inner ear nerves.

    Women have used a similar technique to control men for thousands of years, but they don't focus on the ears.

  17. Deep on IBM Leads Team to Alleviate Data Storage Woes · · Score: 2, Funny

    This group will attempt to "push the open source idea deeper into computing"

    How much deeper can they go?

  18. Good for you but no thanks on AbiWord beats OpenOffice to a Grammar Checker · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I don't want a grammar checker. Prefer my brain. Thanks.

  19. Like most people? on Why Do You Block Ads? · · Score: 1

    Like most people I am basically a lazy fat slob.

    Most people aren't fat.

    Oh, are you in America?

  20. Assertion belies facts on Why Do-It-Yourself Photo Printing Doesn't Add Up · · Score: 1, Insightful

    At those prices, why bother printing at home? Consumers seem to be saying just that. For the 12 months ended in July, home printing accounted for just 48 percent...

    The author appears to be 48 percent deaf.

  21. Competitive move by Gates on Apple to Recycle your iPod for Free · · Score: 1

    Microsoft will pay you $500 rebate to exchange your ipod for something with its software on it. Only Microsoft employees will be allowed to use the real ipods.

  22. Race 6 on Who Should Help LinuxFund Distribute $126,155.29? · · Score: 1

    Put it all on horse 17.

  23. Solutions: SVG Authoring Tools on The Return of GPLFlash · · Score: 1
  24. Actually... on How to Leave a Job on Good Terms? · · Score: 1

    it's cheaper and faster just to ask Slashdot.

  25. My TCP/IP on Microsoft States Full TCP/IP Too Dangerous · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe Microsoft is right. Protocols are dangerous.

    Wouldn't it be safer if we all just had a My TCP/IP folder?