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  1. Dell's Usb keychain offer is pants on Slashback: Folding, Cursing, Exporting · · Score: 3, Informative

    Apparently from a freind's company who buys lots of dells their Free USB keychain drive offer (Here in the UK at least) was only good for 1 week after they announced the removal of floppy disks. Please someone else tell me this is wrong :-(

  2. Re:Get the advert + making of FREE (For UK ppl) on 606 Takes To film Rube Goldberg-like car ad · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just phoned up , he asked where i heard about it and i said here. "Ah ive just had someone from slashdot ask for one." "Yes i said, the whole slashdot readership have just reduced your webserver to smouldering wreck :-)"

  3. Re:Google Topic Icon on NYT On Google's Role In Internet Advertising · · Score: 1

    I dont know , but google seems to be betraying its "not be evil" commandment recently :-(

  4. Using ISP serves not an option for some on AOL Bans Mail From DSL-Hosted Servers · · Score: 1

    A lot of posts seem to be suggesting outgoing mail be routed through their isp's servers. However what about the "No frils" providers who just provide a broadband connection to the net, no mail servers or newsgroups etc??
    how will they email AOL.
    Anyway spams are only effective if they are sent in the hundreds of thousands or millions. If you notice more than 100 messages a day from a known DSL connection then block em.

  5. Re:Not too worried any more... on DMCA, Auf Deutsch · · Score: 1

    How i would love to beleive your bold black airel text. However pot isnt tagged with the serial number (Read- Ip adress) of its destination

  6. Re:Google Topic Icon on NYT On Google's Role In Internet Advertising · · Score: 1

    Google wont be well pleased -
    1)Google icon added
    2)Google sends slashdot a cease and decist letter
    3)Slashdot users boycott google and get their friends to do so too
    4)Google goes bust and the internet closes down
    5)You get modified -5 "Destroyer of worlds" ;-)

  7. Hiding your porn collection from the cops on Stash Your Hard Drive In The Attic · · Score: 1

    Porn is illegal???
    What kind of porn are you into buddy? :-s

  8. Re:On trusted computing and networking standards on Trusted Computing Group Formed · · Score: 1

    as much as i would like to beleive you ... corporations will do what they want.The thing is its general public sales they will get. People thease days are far less likely to consult their geek friend before they buy a pc anymore :-(

  9. Who cares on Intel's Anti-Overclocking Technology Simplified · · Score: 1

    Overclockers are synonymous with AMD anyway.

  10. This guy is a jerk on Wired on Hollywood's Elite Message Boards · · Score: 1

    Ok i havent read the full article yet (still in the process of) but she sets up an anonymous meeting with him as a favour and he writes in his article a full description of her but with no name. Hmmm i wonder how anonymous she will be..

  11. How stupid on Pinnacle, Online Grades, Skipping School and More · · Score: 1

    Ok a better system would be something which emailed the parent IF the grades were low (cause for concern) or if the student was regularly missing lessons (come on everyone misses one now and again).

  12. Re:Get some new dreams on Concorde to be Grounded · · Score: 1

    Do all our dreams have to focus on big metal thingies that soar up in the sky?
    Not all but a good proportion - flying is the one thing man has yearned to do since time began. Birds do it with seamless ease ....
    And it is only fairly recently we have properly mastered this - i think your missing some dreams?

  13. Re:my school uses that.. on Federal Judge Rules Against Reverse-engineering · · Score: 1

    hehe my school banned slashdot for "Profanity" last week (well not my school the local authority filtering who do net acess for all schools in my area) they seem to have alowed it back through now :)

  14. Re:Personal interest in this case on MTU President Peeved At RIAA · · Score: 1

    Plaster it with disclaimers and maybe a link or 2 to a site where you can buy music legally on all searches which turn up mp3 files? (though dont make it more specific than just any mp3 files )
    would maybe make you more compliant?

  15. Hmm on Librarians Join the Fight Against The Patriot Act · · Score: 1

    I hate librarians , - maybe this will be their redeeming act. ??

  16. Re:Not really that surprising on Benetton Says No to RFIDs ... For Now · · Score: 1

    what if the scanner set in motion a self descruct sequence, but if it was returned this could be halted (ok this could get very complex but there may be a way?

  17. Re:What's the paranoia about? on Benetton Says No to RFIDs ... For Now · · Score: 1

    i wouldnt mind rfid tags if they were removed when you went out the store. ie some high power scanner next to the checkouts

  18. Sounds cool on Gardening for Geeks? · · Score: 1

    More herbs the better, stick them near the back of your pc to remove dead air caused by staying in your room on pc too much :)

  19. Re:In the UK... on Stations Can't Play Crippled Music Disks · · Score: 1

    . The machine connects to Fastrax and allows you to download tracks that the record companies have chosen to distribute
    And in the uk we also have the great system known as Kazza Lite . ;-)

  20. Re:How can they win? on RIAA Seeks Estimated $97.8 Billion From MTU Student · · Score: 1

    If i was at that university

    1)They scan my machine and cut my connection
    2)I phone up to see whats up
    3)"Im sorry but your infected with the Nimbda virus"
    4)"No im not ,i just set my machine up to infect others - this computer is virus free :)"
    heheh

  21. At last :-) on The Clueless Newbie's Linux Odyssey · · Score: 1

    "Note: Requirements 2 and 3 eliminate WindowsXP as an upgrade route. I would need to buy a new computer, probably new peripherals, and replace some eXPensive software to get the dubious benefits of product-activation codes and embedded functions I don't want and can't delete."
    A non geek who recognises XP is not an option :)

  22. Re:What a rip off... on The Clueless Newbie's Linux Odyssey · · Score: 1

    In those days DOS was the easyest thing around, as soon as something easyer and more widely adopted comes out suddenly the easyer things is the hardest thing that you can expect joe user to learn.
    things get easyer - people get stupider :-(

  23. Re:One more reason... on RIAA Seeks Estimated $97.8 Billion From MTU Student · · Score: 1

    Hmm - any link to download your music ? id like to listen :-)

  24. Re:Variety on The FCC and Media Consolidation · · Score: 1

    Hmm google - who now put non important Press releases in it
    http://theregister.co.uk/content/6/30112.html :-(

  25. Re:Easy fix on Pennsylvania Refuses to Disclose Banned Website List · · Score: 1

    I agreee that would be a great solution - however someone on the side of the PA admin will say "Oh so you support Child pornography do you" - damned media war with everything thease days :-(