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  1. Good for them on Apple Makes no Profit from iTunes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They have created a brand that goes beyond Mac. Now they have Windows users using a Mac program! And Microsoft can't stop them! Even if they do break even they will see the profits when people see that they can actual program and switch.

  2. Re:What if you don't have a 2K/XP box? on Penn State Students to Get Free Music From Napster · · Score: 1

    So let me get this straight.. I go to Washington State Univeristy and I pay a lot of tuition. Some of that tuition goes to the communcations department. I don't use the communcations department but I'm supposed to pay for it? I demand a refund!!!!!!!!!!

  3. Re:Is an unfinished story better than a poor one? on 'Matrix Revolutions' Opens Today · · Score: 1

    You think the second in a trilogy is the worste? Have you seen a movie called Empire Strikes Back? Or the second in the LOTR trilogy? they are certainly amazing films

  4. Re:Spelling Error... on Fox News Considered Suing Fox's "The Simpsons" · · Score: 1

    I'd like to know where these liberal news outlets hide. I certainly don't see them. The news channels are ruled by conservatives, at least as far as I can see

  5. Re:Spelling Error... on Fox News Considered Suing Fox's "The Simpsons" · · Score: 1

    Aparently you don't watch cable news? This is one of the top complaints that I hear from conservative news commentators

  6. Re: Use of Q.E.D. on Gator Forces Site To Remove 'Spyware' Label · · Score: 1

    When you take a college mathematics course you will find out that it does not stand for Quite Easily Done. The parent of your post is right.. its latin and used in math proofs.

  7. Re:Unfortunate. on Observer Pans Touchscreen Voting Test · · Score: 3, Informative

    it might be hard to hack a piece of paper with a hand drawn X, but it is certainly not hard to pretend to be someone who died 50 years ago. This has happened before.. If they could make a secure E-voting machine (Which I doubt will happen for some time), it would be fantastic.

  8. Re:A thinly veiled political rant, actually on The Surprising Benefits of Being Unemployed · · Score: 1

    Do you think a democrat president would have gone to a full blown war with Iraq? Even though I agree with your statement (Clinton, for example, bombed the hell out of a lot of places during his presidency), I think that sometimes these minor differences can potentially make a big difference.

  9. Re:A thinly veiled political rant, actually on The Surprising Benefits of Being Unemployed · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you can call a 500 billion dollar defeceit "recovery" then I guess we are ahead of schedule.

  10. an old optical on Logitech Ships 500 Millionth Mouse · · Score: 1

    I had an old school optical mouse about 10 years back. You had to have it on special mousepad that was made out of some sensors. The sensors would read the mouse move, and the cursor would go.. it was exciting.

  11. great example! on Beer-Coated CDs are Optical Biocomputers · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is another good example of how beer benfits our lives. First I found out if I drink a beer a day it somehow helps my heart, but now... now.. my life is complete.

  12. Re:Chain Reaction on 14 Years Later, Cold Fusion Still Gets The Cold Shoulder · · Score: 1

    It must be nonsense.. because we don't have a nearly unlimited supply of air and sun for instance. Why don't we use those two energy sources instead of coal and oil?

  13. Re:Governments should tax behavours they want less on Slashback: Bouncing, Taxing, Releasing · · Score: 1

    They should tax behavours they want less of? Like food tax.. income tax.. gas tax.. the money taken out of my paycheck.. fees on my student loans. The government will tax anything that will make them money, and try to be within reason.

  14. Maybe not.. on NZ Spammer Shutdown Makes Big Difference · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't think the drop in spam is because of this guy in New Zealand, I think its due to AOL's new spam busting software! Go AOL!

  15. Re:The Rating on Masters of Doom · · Score: 1
    So instead of critizing the book, I should have been sucking you off because you shared with Slashdot your opinion on "Masters of Doom"? I don't get it. The only reason I managed to bairly get through this damned book was because the subject interested me, I swear I almost put it down a dozen times. Part of me wishes I did.

    Basicly what I'm trying to say is your probably a fanboy who will snatch up anything that has "Doom" tatooed on it. I hope I don't get so nostalgic for something that I don't see how shitty it really is..

  16. lacks talent on Masters of Doom · · Score: 5, Informative

    While this book was a nice read for me, it would have been terrible for most. It was written very poorly. The only thing that kept me going was learning all the little things about the people who created doom that I didn't know before. I struggled through some parts of it, and was almost embaressed by others. Great read for those who are interested in the subject, but for people who have a passing interest.. I suggest looking elesewhere.

  17. Re:Math texts on Science and Math For Adults? · · Score: 1

    I had a similar experience. I bombed my first midterm with like a 40 percent. Then I came back with a 93 on the second midterm. Schuams outline is a really great supplement to whatever you get.

  18. Things will shift on Will Humanoid Robots Take All the Jobs by 2050? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And then think of all the jobs that will go to maintaining the robots, creating them, programming them.. etc.. Jobs will shift as they have in the past. Jobs will be lost and jobs in other sectors will be created.

  19. I'm a real man.. on Linux-Controlled Segway Robot · · Score: 2, Funny

    I used Visual Basic .NET to build MY Segway robot. These people who use Linux are nuts!

  20. Geez on Technical Analysis of XBox Save Game Hack · · Score: 4, Funny

    From the looks of this article, they could probably make an entire course at a univeristy devoted to modding the xbox.

  21. Didn't you know? on Restrictive Sales Practices on the Web? · · Score: 0, Troll

    The US owns the world.. aparently.. Anything that sounds like it doesn't come from the USA scares us.

  22. Re:Government isn't tracking YOU on Russians Order Mobile Phone Encryption Removed · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So should we just resort to random police raids? I'm sure they would find plenty of illegal stuff, but at the same time I really don't want some police person coming over to my house when I'm trying to have dinner with my family. This is pretty much the same thing. I don't want to have to worry constantly that I'm doing something slightly illegal and will get in trouble on a technicality.

  23. Re:This is terrorism! on Glitches in Massive Government Databases? · · Score: 1

    I don't remember Timothy Mcveigh having a hard time "getting in to this country" because he was born here, and also trained by the US military! Closing the borders wouldn't help much. Also the same with the una bomber, and hundreds of other cases. I'm tired of people saying "close the borders" especially when there is a lot of people born in the borders who already have taken action against their own government.

  24. printer problems.. accidently shared networks on Glitches in Massive Government Databases? · · Score: 1

    If the government is going to depend on this, I would think it would be important to stop the printer problems and problems where one univeristy accidently gains access to another.. Couldn't this cause more problems for national security, and maybe cause a greater terrorist threat?

    If someone malicious worked there who wanted to delete a single record from another univeristy and then call up immigration to report them, it doesn't sound to hard to do. It also doesn't sound to hard to add someone who shouldn't be here, allowing them access to this country anyways! Whats the point!!!

  25. Re:my parents are spooked... on Filesharing Up 10% After RIAA Threatens Users · · Score: 1

    To bad instead of scaring you, you probably will tell all your friends. All these law suits do is piss people off (which makes people want to download more) and create more publicity.. remember Napster? I bet if all those people (Metallica, for example) hadn't stepped in and made a big deal of it, that regular folk wouldn't know that much about it.