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  1. XM vs. Sirius Adverts on Stern Will Jump To Sirius In 2006 · · Score: 1

    IT used to be when you go to Howard's Site you got a nice, big XM ad on the top right. Now when you go there it shows a Sirius advertisement.
    I'm just curious why he would make such a change? I hope he hasn't signed anything binding with Sirius that would potentially keep him off XM since they have better channels, better compression, and more listeners.

  2. No Surprise on White House Lied About Iraq Nuclear Programs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Weren't some of the news channels telling us that before hand or am I the only person that remembers history? I feel like we're living in the world of 1984.

    I intentionally gave party members syphilis, et all.

  3. Re:Pardon my ignorance. on Ozone Hole Getting Smaller · · Score: 1

    One word: chemtrails.

  4. Damn on OQO Price And Release Date Set · · Score: 1

    I guess I'll have to release another of my children into slavery and sell some stem cells.

  5. What me worry? on Is The Public Stuck With The Broadcast Flag? · · Score: 1, Redundant

    By 1:00AM on July 1st someone will have hacked it.

  6. Triumph on Lucasfilms Nixes Star Wars Live Screening · · Score: 1

    I wonder if the acting was similar to those guys who were acting out the movie in front of that truck on the bit Triumph the Insult Comic Dog did on Conan O'Brian before Episode II came out.

    There's a far difference between Rocky Horror-esque play-alongs and muting the sound and expecting the director to be happy with it. Audience participation has its place. Frankly, I don't see the advantage of just redubbing the entire show.

    For the sake of argument:
    What if, instead, they just turn the sound down real low and provide all the guests with devices of the hearing imparied that play the dubbed version?

  7. My Car on NYT On Flying Cars · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I've had a flying car for years, I just have to go really fast and find a sufficient ramp. It'll fly. But seriously though, why not just go buy a plane or a helicopter? It's not like you'll get some fuel, speed, or convenience advantage just because its a "car" because it's still just a plane in car skin.
    "Personal Flight Devices" on the other hand could be interesting. The Rocketeer anyone?

  8. Hobbit Love on LoTR RoTK Extended Edition Specs Released · · Score: 2

    Maybe they'll extend that cheesy love scene between Sam and Frodo at the end, we all know where it was going. "Oh Sam" C'mon.

  9. Amazing! on Chimp Can Hack Diebold Electronic Voting System · · Score: 1, Funny

    I've never seen the president use a computer before. You know, since he clearly doesn't write his own speeches.

  10. Spit? on Spam Over Internet Telephony (SPIT) to Come? · · Score: 1

    Sounds like one of my fetishes has finally gotten the recognition it deserves!

  11. I for one... on Camera that Sees through Smoke and Fog Underway · · Score: 0

    I for one welcome our all seeing overlords.

    How am I going to hide from the government if I can't be discretely nestled behind dust and fog?

  12. Re:Why West Nile? on Assessing Internet Viruses Like Human Epidemics · · Score: 2, Interesting

    +4 interesting?!?!!
    As a gay man I take offense.
    Straight women, specifically minority women, have the highest infection rates of AIDS right now. Don't even think that because you're straight and don't take it in the ass that you're immune.

  13. Game stores on "Levels" of Computers the Future? · · Score: 1

    This would make selling PC games at stores so much easier. Where I work I have to assist people with choosing PC games that will run on their system all the time and having a way for them to simply say they have an A7 system and I can point them toward Warcraft II Online would make my life easier. Instead, I have to walk them through looking at their hardware list and then pick and choose through the games and hope to God it works since they can't return a $50 piece of software.

  14. Patching Windows on Computer Viruses Cripple Colorado DMV · · Score: 1

    With how difficult it is to patch Windows through Windows Update with an active internet connection (on a fresh install) without getting any intrusions you'd think Microsoft would have included some way to limit internet connections to their server only in some sort of "Safe Patch Mode".

  15. Plug on Asterisk Open Source PBX 1.0 Release · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Since when is Slashdot a walking commercial? Oh wait.

  16. Phil Hartman on The Last Starfighter--The Musical! · · Score: 2, Funny

    Let Phil Hartman live in peace, Jesus Christ. We can only ressurect him from the dead every so-often for obscure roles!!! He's still recovering from News Radio.

  17. Re:another word on Tracking The (English) Words We Use · · Score: 1

    I wonder where antiquing ranks.

  18. Re:End of limited liability? on Libertarian Presidential Candidate Michael Badnarik Answers · · Score: 1

    Although this might improve accountability, this would drive the small investor right out of the stock market.

    The small investor was only involved in the stock market because the bigger investors, about a decade ago, realized that they only had so much money to invest and that they've hit a ceiling of growth without infusing more money. That's why personal investment has become so popular in the last few years, why companies sky-rocketed in the 90's, and the original stock investors have pulled out of the market. They realized that companies can only be valued at "so much" until people realize it's over valued. Look at Pets.com, etc..

  19. Re:Buffer checks on XP SP2 Can Slow Down Business Apps · · Score: 1

    Right but I felt that the parent was using it to justify using *NIX on the desktop, where local exploits are much more likely.

  20. Re:Buffer checks on XP SP2 Can Slow Down Business Apps · · Score: 1

    (Heh, funnily OpenBSD site says - Only one remote hole in the default install, in more than 8 years! - I guess it does say a lot).

    That's one network hackable hole. I'm sure there have been plenty of holes in the software itself or even holes that could be exploited by software ("viruses" et all) from within the system itself.

  21. My brain on Is That Pirated Software? · · Score: 1

    I think my brain might be pirated, is there anything I can download to find out if it is or not? My AOL 9.0 with Dandy Fop speed doesn't have a tool for checking that.

  22. Ironically Enough on Spinach May Soon Power Mobile Devices · · Score: 4, Funny

    We've been using Olive Oil to create light, now spinache to create power, sadly Bluto isn't a viable power source.

    On the other hand, if we could generate some form of alternative fuel out of cheeseburgers we wouldn't have to pay until Tuesday.

  23. Witchcraft on Bush vs. Kerry on Science · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised most of Bush's answers don't blame witchcraft, knowing how superstitious he is.

  24. Re:Beatch Please! on Bill Gates Gives $20M to CMU for New Building · · Score: 1

    But consider which institution will churn out more Microsoft-bound employees.

    Bill isn't in it JUST for being charitable when he can be in it to attract qualified employees capable of churning out more products and ideas.

  25. Missing the point on Time-Shifting For The iPod · · Score: 3, Informative

    A lot of people aren't reading the site and realizing what this technology is about:

    1) The program uses encapusization in RSS feeds to grab media from timely updated web sites.
    2) The program stores the media and transfers it to the iPod by way of iTunes.

    It does not "record broadcasts from streams" any more than using Kazaa to download videos allows you to fast-forward through the boring bits in porn.

    Essentially it expands on new RSS tools that give media sites the ability to post recently updated media resources.