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  1. Concealed hearing aid on 1928 Time Traveler Caught On Film? · · Score: 1

    http://beckerexhibits.wustl.edu/did/20thcent/index.htm

    Although from the video it does look like shes smiling/talking to the device?

  2. Re:Simple explanation on 1928 Time Traveler Caught On Film? · · Score: 1

    Mod this guy up!

  3. How about music sites that cater on MySpace Revamps Site To Recapture the Magic · · Score: 2, Insightful

    to people in the 30/40's, what are we dead? But I guess that would mean they would have to dig up creative artists that don't release songs that have ran through some software algorithm too see if it'll be consumed by the masses.

  4. 1989 CRX-HF on Mazda Claims 70 mpg For New Engine, No Hybrid Needed · · Score: 1

    Could get 50mpg backin 1989. Yes 70 is pretty nice but its taken 21 YEARS to improve 20mpg.

  5. As much as I hate cops on 'Officer Bubbles' Sues YouTube Commenters Over Mockery · · Score: 0, Troll

    The bitch got what she deserved. Look at the stupid smirk on her face, you know shes a bit "special"

    If she was standing there and blowing the bubbles away from him or just doing nothing and got arrested then that would be a different story.

  6. Less piracy from on Why Microsoft Is So Scared of OpenOffice · · Score: 4, Insightful

    younger people means less MS Office users when those people grow up which means smaller market share whether by install base or brand name recognition. If I was in my teens/20's right now and I had an option for running pirated PS or GIMP I'd go with GIMP. Same with office I'd rather go and download OO right off the site then spend days trying of warez versions which could possible have infected my computer.

  7. Re:Proof??? on Stuxnet Analysis Backs Iran-Israel Connection · · Score: 1

    >They were smart enough to write and deploy a complex virus, but stupid enough to include a reference to an obscure execution date of a prominent Iranian Jew; the first

    Right because no tech genius is ego driven or has enough common sense to let his/her feeling get in a way of the job.

  8. Re:Reform is needed. on Newspaper May Have Given Implicit License To Copy · · Score: 1

    >And the people who come to slashdot and think they have the right to any non-physical copyrightted work, even without paying for it. Thats what the Canadian recordable media levy allows me to do and store all the music I want for personal listening pleasure on cd'rs.

  9. Re:I'm OK with this on In Canada, Criminal Libel Charges Laid For Criticizing Police · · Score: 1

    >If he is innocent and things work there like the US, the charges will be dropped and the police involved will get a suspension with pay while things are being "investigated". The cops will then go back to active duty after the investigations and the whistle blower will be continually harassed because protect each other even when the other is a criminal or eve murderer - I mean accidental shooting victim.

    Yah they'll get the next town over RCMP detachment to investigate it. Yah no conflict of interest here after all this is Canada where the RCMP shoot you first then tazer you to death.

  10. Name on Developers Fork Mandriva Linux, Creating Mageia · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why do OS developers and other free software creators always pick user unfriendly names. When ever someone who knows nothing about free software/linuix asks me what free alternatives they could use I get a weird look from them when I tell them about Thunderbird, Firefox, Ubuntu, Amarok, Gimp and etc...

  11. Re:This is going to be a bit unpopular, but.... on Judge Allows Subpoenas For Internet Users · · Score: 1

    AND don't go and see movies in the movie theater. Yes yes its hard to do at firstbut its been about 5 months and I've managed to kill my a movie per month habit for good. Now I still buy the movie used for $4 but MY money doesn't reach the move studios and I get my pop corn dirt cheap.

  12. Re:that's one way to see it, here's another on Foxconn's Founder Opens Up About Making iPhones · · Score: 1

    Well you don't seem to mind using products that were made in factories where those workers worked.

  13. So now any company on Court Says First Sale Doctrine Doesn't Apply To Licensed Software · · Score: 1

    can just supply a single user license to any product and there goes the second hand market. THats fine but you'd better drop the price of your item by 50%.

  14. Re:Two Words on PayPal Withholding Indie Game Dev's €600,000 Account · · Score: 2, Interesting

    IF you are in the UK and US but forget Canada. I tried signing a few months back and there nowhere did it say as a Canadian I couldn't use checkout until I filled out my info, including my cell number and after submission I got a nice notice of I can't use it because I'm in Canada. So these fucks just got my personal business info and then one they got it they tell me I can't use the service.

  15. OMG on Researchers Create Real Tractor Beams · · Score: 3, Funny

    It worked so well that moving the particles caused the news about them to be duped http://tech.slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=Tractor+Beams They call it the Dupification Effect.

  16. Re:Culprit ? on Hurt Locker File-Sharing Subpoenas Begin · · Score: 2, Insightful

    >Well, to be fair, they may have a point. As soon as people started watching it, I'm sure that word of mouth started to circulate about the quality of the film.

    Isn't that better for the consumer, they didn't get ripped off by the film company trying to use advertising to make their product look better then it actually was.

  17. Re:Is It Only Through iTMS Application? on Ping Could Be Apple's Social Networking Backdoor? · · Score: 1

    >"It's Turtlenecks all the way down"

    Are you taking about uncircumcised penises getting a Steve Jobs?

  18. Re:If Chile can do it, why can't we do it? on Network Neutrality Is Law In Chile · · Score: 1

    They have everything to gain as a nation and move forward and prosper kinda like the first world countries did before them. Now that corporations run the governments and the people work for the government its all about the bottom line and now they can funnel your money into their pocket while restricting your access to information so that you don't wake up and smell the coffee one day.

  19. The Province news paper on Retargeting Ads Stalk You For Weeks After You Shop · · Score: 1

    does this. I was like WTF? Keep on seeing ads for things I searched for a week before.

  20. Re:A bad idea... on Full-Body Scanners Deployed In Street-Roving Vans · · Score: 2, Interesting

    >Personally, I won't be flying again until some sanity has returned. Choosing between being assaulted with radiation or assaulted by TSA staff is not what I'd consider a reasonable function of government.

    But isn't this what the gov wants? To have you stuck in the US and only fed their own views.

  21. Vancouver olympics on Full-Body Scanners Deployed In Street-Roving Vans · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They were using the x ray vans in Vancouver. I know one person who works as a delivery driver and he got pulled over downtown Van for having several 24L bottles of liquid in his van. Also they were looking for other things too as I also know of one person busted for having 10+ lb of weed in the car while driving through an area where the vans patrolled.

  22. Re:Flamebait article, flamethrowing comments on Facebook Says It Owns 'Book' · · Score: 1

    >The concern is that there will be confusion that Teachbook is a product of the Facebook team or that it is endorsed by Facebook or that it is affiliated with Facebook in any way.

    How retarded and a fucking stupid on-line socialite do you have to be to think that a website named Teachbook could have something thing to do or be endorsed by Facebook. Seriously step away from the keyboard. Teachbook.com Hmmm a website that teaches or is about learning? No, it couldn't mean that in the fucking real world.

  23. Note to self on Lexmark Sues 24 Companies Over Toner-Cartridge Patents · · Score: 1

    Along with Kodak with no Linux drivers don't support Lexmark products.

  24. Trabant on Canadian Cannabis Car · · Score: 1

    Composite material bodies have been done before

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabant#Overview

    The Trabant was a steel monocoque design with roof, bootlid/trunklid, bonnet/hood, bumpers/fenders and doors in Duroplast, a form of plastic containing resin strengthened by wool or cotton.

  25. Port Office to Linux on Microsoft Claims 'We Love Open Source' · · Score: 1

    and I'll believe it as a start. Even though I use and try to get others to use OpenOffice MS office is still so much more polished for the end user. Same goes with GIMP, as much as I want to switch to GIMP full time its still no replacement for PS7 for me.