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  1. Re:I think they already did this... on Space Meat Coming to your Kitchen · · Score: 1

    off topic: You know I read too much slashdot if the "My God" in your sig looked at first glance to read "Mod"

  2. Re:Drupal powers... on Drupal Needs a New Home · · Score: 1

    Actually, spread firefox is using CivicSpace, which is based on what the Howard Dean campaign did with Drupal (DeanSpace) during the primary campaign last year.

  3. well on WSJ's Online Subscriptions Outperform Print · · Score: 1

    I wonder how many are people that converted from print to online access?

  4. Re:Slashdot creates endangered dupes list on EFF Compiles Endangered Gizmos List · · Score: 1

    And the EFF published this list Jan 24...

  5. Re:Try this on Bush Service Memos Questioned · · Score: 1

    The superscript in 187th settles it - that would be a clear difference in the way type writers and word processors handle this.

  6. How on Prions, Darwin's Friend · · Score: 0

    infectious.

  7. well for starters on What Should a Community Computer Lab Offer? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How many tourists (80% out of towners) are going to take a Windows 101 class on vacation?

  8. Re:Obsolete? on Romancing The Rosetta Stone · · Score: 1

    a unilingual anglophone. (say that ten time fast)

  9. geez.... on The 25 Smartest Moments in Gaming · · Score: -1, Troll

    I wish I could filter the homepage for WHERE EDITOR ="simoniker" AND Section = "Games"

  10. Re:Not a chance... on How to Legally Infuriate the RIAA? · · Score: 1

    I guess the writer should have RTFL (law) first.

  11. Re:The White House didn't pay the paper boy? on Howard Dean to Guest Blog for Lawrence Lessig · · Score: 1

    Okay, so he had a bunch of parts of things that could be used one day if they got any of the rest of the parts, from somehwere, somehow. So I guess when Tony Blair said that Iraq can strike with WMD within 45 minutes, he was planning on this guy being a really fast digger? If there program is so well hidden that all of our best intelligence and armed forces can't find a drop of anything anywhere by themselves, there's no chance in hell that Iraq could have used the things.

  12. because of the giant Webby budget cuts... on Apache Wins Webby · · Score: 4, Funny

    All they got was a secret decoder ring.

  13. The final line on SCO NDA Online at LinuxJournal · · Score: 4, Funny

    This NDA will self-destruct in ten seconds.

  14. Redundant but... on More on Oregon and GPS-tracked Gas Taxes · · Score: 1

    If they would open up the source to the GPS tabulator, privacy concerns could be eliminated.

  15. misleading on IBM Says SEC Probing Its Accounting · · Score: 2, Insightful

    IBM also stated that the reason for the review is because the SEC is reviewing one of IBM's customers in its Retail division that sells cash registers. No biggie.

  16. SCO stock price on SCO vs Linux.. Continued · · Score: 4, Interesting

    SCO dropped 25% yesterday, and another 10% today (so far)

  17. Re:How do you think the $ keeps it's value? on Counterfeiting With High Resolution Inkjets · · Score: 2

    OPEC is considering trading oil in Euros rather than Dollars. This would reduce the need for many firms and countries to hold dollars, and instead increase their need to hold euros. Combine that with the rapidly dropping value of the dollar and you'll realize that the dollar isn't keeping its value, and very well might plummet in value in the near future. There are even rumors and signs that the current American administration is willing to accept a lower valued dollar compared to other currencies.

  18. Re:Key quote. My question: how to remedy? on Today's SCO News · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Another thing that quote brings up is what program? Can anyone who has a SCO UNIX license go program by program through the code in Linux and find any possible culprits? If SCO won't show the code, perhaps we can find (or not find) anything based on these clues. Anyone with a copy of SCO's UNIX should be able to do this, even if you can't program you can at least be able to tell, "This block of mumbo jumbo is the same as that block". The results of a study like this would be very valuable

  19. Re:Conflict is human in nature on Space Development And Earth's Future · · Score: 1

    Without getting too off-topic from the original intent of this article, the War of 1812 was indeed partially about America's desire to seize British holdings, but the maxim still applies: The new civilization was drawn into a conflict that started in the old one.

  20. Re:There is no human nature on Space Development And Earth's Future · · Score: 2, Insightful
    A frontier brings out the best and the worst of people. Again, to draw from American history, e the settlers' "pioneering spirit" to create great works and the Sand Creek massacre (in addition to numerous other outrages).

    In addition, a very strong case can be made for a specific human nature, and has been made by Steven Pinker in his excellent book, How The Mind Works.

  21. Re:Conflict is human in nature on Space Development And Earth's Future · · Score: 3, Interesting
    We'll carry any conflict that does happen on Earth to where we go next, Mars, asteroids, etc. Look at how the Napoleonic wars in Europe led to the French/Indian wars in North America. The War of 1812 was also started by European politics. At the time, colonists tried to escape those issues. Any nuclear war would surely spread to the colonies.

    Overpopulation is also a critical issue. But the vast majority of people involved in the population boom couldn't afford cost-prohibitive colonization. The option of forced colonization is inhumane, as was effectively argued by free blacks in opposition to the American Colonization Society in the pre-civil war United States.

    The only serious concern left is an astronomical disaster, such as a meteor strike. It seems that the reasonable thing to do would be to focus resources on a defense system for that.

    I'm not arguing that all off-planet development is bad by any means, but it isn't the answer to all of our problems.

  22. Conflict is human in nature on Space Development And Earth's Future · · Score: 3, Insightful

    We can't assume that just because we go live somewhere else, everything will be okay. Granted, that's a simplistic argument, but humans will tend to carry conflict with them, or create new conflict elsewhere.

  23. Re:I've tried to boycott Clearchannel, I really ha on More on Media Consolidation · · Score: 1

    Can you say 91.7 KTRU (Rice University), 90.1 KPFT (Pacifica), or 88.7 KUHF (NPR, classical)? All good noncommercial Houston radio.

  24. Re:Hmmm... on Great Science Fiction that is Out of Print? · · Score: 3, Informative
    Sterling Lanier's Hiero books are INCREDIBLE... They're some of the best sci-fi I've read.

    One good place I've found to get out-of-print books is at abebooks.com. They're UI isn't that great, but the selection is incredible; basically used book stores around the world load up their entire inventories.

  25. Re:Too drastic? (not drastic enough?) on Earthlink Deploying Challenge-Response Anti-Spam System · · Score: 1
    In addition to requiring senders to verify themselves, users would have to use special e-mail addresses when registering to purchase goods online, because vendors often send sales confirmation notices by computer. The special addresses are designed to route such messages to a user's regular in-box.

    So, they'll be a way around the system? And people will be giving this email address to forms without reading the privacy policy, same as usual? Sounds like this won't work at all, at least when it comes to accidentally subscribing to new "opt-in" lists.