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  1. Re:itll be years on NIH Confirms Protocol To Reverse Type 1 Diabetes · · Score: 4, Funny

    That just shows, if the protocol had been released under the BSD or even GPL license, we could have ported it to humans by now.

  2. Re:B.S. (NOT!!!) on Virtualization Disallowed For Vista Home · · Score: 4, Funny

    You need a legal department to setup a VM?

    Strange how I've never needed one of those for any other OS I have created a VM for in the past.
    Which repository do I need to add to get a legal department?

  3. Laser etching craze on Laser Turns All Metals Black · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How long until you can get your logos engraved onto your laptop/ipod in black (instead of the current efforts).

  4. Re:The question on everyones lips... on Mystery of Ancient Calculator Finally Cracked · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What I find amazing about scientists is their dedication to discover and understand the past.

    If the big business (Sony/MS/Real *and* Apple) get their way all these little plastic discs and memory stones will just be pretty ornaments to our descendants.
    There will be no way to decode the data stored within.

    We will become a black hole in history (no goatse refs).

  5. The question on everyones lips... on Mystery of Ancient Calculator Finally Cracked · · Score: 5, Funny

    Did it run Linux?

  6. Re:change behaviour for bots on Anonymizing RFI Attacks Through Google · · Score: 1

    No, you should not have to change your site.
    Excluding google usually causes more issues (especially when management chirp up and say why aren't we being indexed).

    This is a problem between google and the destination site.
    Google are the ones here that are not verifying the URLs and attempting to use bad links.

    The destination site should be using the best web server they can which is known to handle these kind of problems properly.
    The web is broken in so many ways, google should have a good idea which are well formatted URLs and which may lead to problems.
    A link could be posted anywhere which the google bot will try to index.
    If its a corrupted entry it should be dropped before testing.

  7. Re:Almost a month old on IBM Sues Amazon For Patent Infringement · · Score: 5, Funny

    Its not a dupe, IBM had to double sue because Amazon have a patent on single click lawsuits.

  8. Re:In my opinion on What's Wrong With the FOSS Community? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I find the reaction to questions is entirely dependant upon how the question was asked.

    A knowledgeable person who is simply inexperienced in an area will generally phrase a question better than a 12 year old kid demanding attention NOW.

    "Gentoo is shit, it won't install why not?"

    vs

    "I attempted to install Gentoo on my computer (an aging P2 on an Acer motherboard) and came up with a number of problems during the install. It spent about 20 minutes compiling before it stopped saying 'The XYX system could not be compiled: missing file xyz.c'.
    I tried looking around the furum but couldn't see where I am going wrong. Can somebody give me some assistance please?"

  9. Re:I think the courts have made it pretty clear on Office 2007 UI License · · Score: 1

    I don't think this is about copying the UI elements.
    Its about USING the microsoft provided controls inside your programs.

    There were similar restrictions (if I remember rightly) regarding using original MS Access to build a database management program.

  10. Re:Forgot another method of Disassembly on The Wii Disassembled · · Score: 3, Interesting

    smashmyps3.com

    Theres more as well..

    I haven't a clue why people would want to do this, but its their money being wasted.

  11. Re:Get her on Linux on Safe Computing For the Elderly? · · Score: 2, Funny

    To get your grandma up and running without any trouble, just update your repositories:

    deb http://silver.surfer.com/grandma/ grandparents human

    Then run your updates:

    sudo apt-get update perspective-on-life

    And finally, install the required old person packages (debian sarge includes a larger list, see here for more):

    sudo apt-get install falseteeth slippers cardigan

    Once you have done this, logout of your grandma and when you bring her back online she will be ready for action.

  12. Forgot another method of Disassembly on The Wii Disassembled · · Score: 5, Informative

    smashmywii.com!

    Its full of craptastic goodness.

  13. Re:old news on Students Put UCLA Taser Video On YouTube · · Score: 1

    (and dupe)

    Actually, I noticed a story in the mysterious future yesterday which would have been a dupe (it was about the DTN) and I wrote a nice little piece about slashdot running its own DTN by duping articles multiple times and ensuring they get through.
    Anyway, they removed it before it went live and took away my chance of a +5.

    Damn slashdot for actually listening to us and giving us the firehose to help pre-moderate articles.

  14. Re:prequel? on Peter Jackson Will Not Be Making The Hobbit · · Score: 1

    errrrr I think I missed something:
    link here

  15. Re:prequel? on Peter Jackson Will Not Be Making The Hobbit · · Score: 1

    My thoughts exactly.
    Something seems to have been lost in translation, from another article about the movie:

    The Oscar-winning director is planning to film ''The Hobbit'' the prequel to ''The Lord of the Rings'' trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien, but two studios must first fight over legal rights to the film.

    link here

  16. Re:Second Life = Snow Crash on Second Life Hit By Massive In-Game Worm · · Score: 3, Funny

    Am I right in thinking its Kind of like myspace in 3d?

  17. Ancient crash? on Ancient Crash, Epic Wave · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does that mean Microsoft was behind the blue wave of death?

  18. Re:Slashvertisement on Video of Fedora On PS3 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, we have something called the "Firehose".

    God knows if it works, but this is what it says about itself:

    Firehose is a collaborative system designed to allow users to assist the Slashdot editors in the story selection process. Try tagging and voting on the entries below. The hose can contain submissions, RSS Feeds, bookmarks, and journal entries. Please send your feedback to hose@cmdrtaco.net and be forgiving of beta code!

  19. Steve Ballmer can be Milk Monitor on Scott Adams Suggests Bill Gates For President · · Score: 1

    "No running in the hall"

    "PUT THAT CHAIR DOWN!"

  20. Re:It's a four lane highway that's why on Life Without Traffic Signs · · Score: 1

    If you have gotten rid of such silliness as lanes, then the traffic should manage itself, heres how I think it will pan out:
    One direction will gain temporary priority of a block junction for what could be hours at a time and the general flow of traffic will adapt to this.
    In a New York type blocked city, its quite feasible for these lanes to traverse the entire city, with the (for instance) East side generally flowing North and the West side generally flowing South.
    People coming up to the junction from a none priority direction WILL see whats happening and react accordingly.
    As for the times when there isn't enough traffic to gain priority the cars will react exactly the same as they do currently when the lights are broken - creepm, look, creep, look dash.

    Traffic lights keep everyone bottled up - let us find our own way.

  21. Re:Unsafe is safe, war is peace... on Life Without Traffic Signs · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you notice, the roads have been replaced (once again) by cobbles.
    This in itself limits the safe speed any car can travel.
    I think in town centres it can and will work.

  22. Re:How pissed would the... on New Google Service Manipulates Caller-ID For Free · · Score: 0

    You can't win can you.
    It looks better that way when abbreviated.
    Otherwise it looks like you said it twice and that's just as annoying.

    (criticism noted however and I will refrain in future)

  23. Re:Deserves attention, but not a very hard problem on New Google Service Manipulates Caller-ID For Free · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Personally, I think the verification portion should NEVER call the phone.
    However, after telling google you want to use a certain phone, you must dial a number displayed on screen to confirm - it doesn't have to be connected, simply ringing will be enough of a verification and should not cost any money.

  24. How pissed would the... on New Google Service Manipulates Caller-ID For Free · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    receptionist at Google be if EVERYBODY put a call to her(/him)?

    It might get the message across.

  25. Disagree with a point on The Failure of the $100 Laptop? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The people are harmed because these sorts of schemes are sopping up mind-share time of the people who might be doing something actually useful.

    Computer engineers and software developers are just that - they can create software and build computers.
    They aren't molecular biologists or doctors or anything like that, so its not taking the mindshare from those kind of folks.