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  1. Kutztown high school on Charges Against High School Hackers Dropped · · Score: 1

    bah, Kutztown, I'm still bitter they beat me at "Scholastic Scrimmage" in the Semifinals

  2. Re:The future is now on College Libraries Without Books · · Score: 1

    As long as the publisher's copy is not changed, there's not a problem. Just order a new one.

  3. Re:The future is now on College Libraries Without Books · · Score: 1
    Another example: the bible. Do you really think it contains any of the original texts? Or that the original texts are still available somewhere?
    Yes, check out the dead sea scrolls. The people who copy Torahs don't really mess around. Minimal variation for 1000's of years.
  4. justice will cum soon enough on Kutztown Students get Felony Charges · · Score: 1

    Kutztown has one of the highest STD rates in the country.

  5. Re:Sheriff of New York on Microsoft to Fight Crime With Spammer's Millions · · Score: 1

    I think even New York Republicans are betting he's going to be their next governor. That's why Pataki dropped out, he was polling so low against Spitzer and he didn't have any chance of keeping his office running against someone so popular. He didn't want to run for President after losing his governorship. I also have little doubt that Mr. Spitzer also has Presidential ambitions. He probably wont run in 2008 but 2012 or 2016 he's going to be a sure-shot for the Dems.

  6. Re:Key to this... New York's Mil on Microsoft to Fight Crime With Spammer's Millions · · Score: 1

    And by New York Attorney General they mean the [probable] next Governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer. And if I judge his ambitions correctly, the man will also probably run for president.

  7. Re:Does this mean civilization will ... on The Social Impact of Gaming · · Score: 1
    Will society inevitably accept things which are not benificial simply because the youth accept it?

    Yes. Look at what the baby boomers did. That's why we all live in hippy-lead free-love socialist anti-war state, with the a new national anthem written by Crosby, Stills, and Nash.

  8. Re:Maybe I first to say on FCC Approves Sprint-Nextel Merger · · Score: 1

    it's been a while since the last time I read a good Sextant joke on Slashdot.

  9. Re:"Is It Wrong to Love Microsoft?" on Is It Wrong to Love Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    If loving you is wrong, I don't want to be right.

  10. Re:They should check Karl Rove's computer on Hackers Forced Announcement of 10th Planet Find · · Score: 1

    You mean Karl Rove wouldn't have leaked it? Have you been reading the news?

  11. Re:The Jetsons on China Planning For Sustainable Cities · · Score: 1

    St. Petersburg, Russia and New York is maybe 350 years old.

  12. Re:Uhm on Sunscreen Not So Good for You? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Like most accounts of the Dresden bombing, the witness becomes unstuck in time, travels to the planet Tralfamadore, and watches his own murder by a laser in Chicago in 1976.

  13. Re:Which way? on Justice O'Connor Retiring · · Score: 1
    Oddly enough, it was mainly the so-called "progressives" on the court who voted to give the Big Bad Corporate World the legal means to get governments to push you out of your homes by promising to deliver better tax revenues with the land.

    Oh yeah, conservatives supporting "property rights" and 'progressives' ignoring them citing the "greater good", that's really a big surprise!

  14. Re:Current Taxation Structure is Bizarre on Court: Borders Web Ops Must Remit CA Sales Taxes · · Score: 1

    This might be a noble idea, but even providing common infrastructure needs can be very political and even destructive.

    Take for example the Interstate Highway system. Lots of apparent benifits right? Huge costs, multi-billion dollar contracts, it was a death-blow to the railroads (which when the Interstates were built they were mostly publicly-traded and tax-paying companies), they contributed to suburban sprawl and flight from the cities, and increased the US's dependancy and demand for oil.

    But it also created a strong and fast trucking industry, practical bus-travel, and allowed millions of Americans the freedom to just hop in their cars and be hundreds of miles away within a few hours, and it created commerce around its routes.

  15. Re:Ed Wood had better dialog than Lucas! on Home Made Star Wars Movie Injury · · Score: 1

    A lot of countries did the same. This included England, which is how Harold became king over William the Conqueror. This was done by barons, not a general plebicite, and the position normally lasted the monarch's whole life.

  16. Re:And the winner is... on Cars that Can't Crash? · · Score: 1

    Ford Motor Co is working with Microsoft towards software that can't crash.

  17. Re:No Outliner ?!?!?! on OpenOffice vs. MS Office for Education? · · Score: 1
    Aside from Powerpoint and Access specific tasks though, they would have been easily replicated in OO.
    And students who wish to make their presentations in Power Point can use Microsoft's free Power Point viewer to display their creations at school.
  18. Re:there will be hell to pay... on OpenOffice vs. MS Office for Education? · · Score: 1
    True, but that's a imporant part of an learning. The same thing happens in the business world too. Microsoft offers a Power Point Viewer that works great for displaying Power Point presenations. I remember back in high school I had to start bringing my own computer in because my Power Point presentations were too much for the teacher's computer to handle. Teaching students (and teachers) about compatibility, formats, and standards is a good thing.

    I would be interested in what the TEA has to say about this. I have a hunch they'd be against it on the grounds that teachers are unfamiliar with it.

  19. Re:Hmm...this starts to remind me of something... on Microsoft to Support Linux in Virtual Server · · Score: 3, Funny

    no, anything but the Gandhi quote!

  20. Re:Dammit, skip the moon, go to Mars... on Site for Moon Base Determined · · Score: 1

    Good thinking bring up insurgents. I don't know if anyone has brought that up yet. The US needs to secure the insurgents on the moon before invading it.

  21. Re:Taxes on Site for Moon Base Determined · · Score: 1
    The riches don't "pile up" as gold coins in Uncle Scrooge's vault!

    They do with inflation.

  22. Re:Finance: Money for Moon Base Unknown on Site for Moon Base Determined · · Score: 1

    I think, "Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's" and "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesar's" are a little more common versions of that verse, Luke 20:25

  23. Re:Anything innovation like that in the US? on WiMax Hits 100 mph on Rails to Brighton · · Score: 1

    It's not just downtown Philadelphia, it's all of Philadelphia and it's going to be free.

  24. Re:Why not go to DST permanently? on Daylight Savings Change Proposed · · Score: 1

    Some argue World War II started in 1931 with the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, Hitler was in Munich living with his niece. He wasn't even a German citizen until 1932! Japan invaded China in 1937, still well before the invasion of Poland.

  25. Re:Slow Down! on Daylight Savings Change Proposed · · Score: 1

    You automobile driving costs do not factor in insurance, car payment/initial cost of car (and depreciation as another pointed out), parking, licensing, registration, maintenance, and other costs. I still probably wouldn't advocate mass transit for your commute, the time difference much too large. Not to mention you are not dictated by a schedule to go somewhere.