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  1. Re:Slashdot makes me laugh on Gates Pledges $750M to Vaccinate Children · · Score: 1

    I know lot of people that donate 10% of their income on a monthly basis. While this isn't 10% of their assets. Since it is on a monthly basis, this approaches 10% of their total income over their lifetime as time goes on. (If you assume they weren't always doing it.)

  2. Re:Amazing explanation on How Do 'Singing Magnets' Work? · · Score: 2, Informative
    From their website:
    With The Wine Clip, a wine's impurities and tannins are broken down during the pouring process. There is absolutely no chemical change and nothing is introduced or taken away from the wine.
    The taste of many small molecules is smoother than the taste of fewer large molecules.
    Hmm? No chemical change? But it still breaks up molecules? WHOA.
  3. Re:What about Independents?!?! on Jail Time For P2P Developers? · · Score: 1

    Just look at disney and the Brother's Grimm. They've benefitted the most from copyrights expiring, and what do they do? Lobby to extend them.. Wonderful.

  4. Re:It shows on Interview with Jeff Bezos of Amazon · · Score: 1

    My sister recently got a book with pages 42 - 73 missing. Don't ask me how it happened, but Amazon immediately sent out another copy of the book. Hopefully it won't be missing those pages.

  5. Re:Easy to write therefore ridiculous to ban? on World's Shortest P2P App: 15 Lines · · Score: 1

    And it's not as if a government hasn't tried to ban salt before........ Silly British.

  6. Re:Perl Script on Y2K: Hoax, Or Averted Disaster? · · Score: 1

    It's because of the conversion in perl.

    for ($clock = 2147483641; $clock < 2147483651; $clock++) { print ctime($clock); }

    perl has no problem incrementing $clock past the ability of time_t (which maxes at 31 bits). So $clock is happily going over that limit, and when it's shoved into one of those variables by calling ctime() a conversion happens. On most systems it truncates, for some reason it rounds. Could be the version of perl, might be something with the architecture. I think the PowerPC chips handles it slightly differently. Might try it on an IBM mainframe. But, Obviously more investigation is required :)

  7. Re:So compromised keys make for faulty hardware? on Building the AACS Next-Gen Copy Protection Scheme · · Score: 2, Informative

    Simple:

    Disk is encrypted using private key A. Disk can be decoded using public key B.

    Public key B is then encrypted using 100 million other keys and each version is saved in a different place on the disk. These encrypted versions of B are small and take up very little space.

    When a player goes to play a disk, it looks for the key file for it's model, decodes it with the key it has in ROM and then uses the subsequent key to decode the movie.

    This is absurd, as I and I anyone else will not buy new DVD players every time some hacker steals the key from the model we bought.

  8. Re:Protest on Former Turkish DMOZ Editor Draws 10 Months In Jail · · Score: 1

    Without God, there is only Nihilism.

  9. I want one. on Steve Ballmer's $100 PC, Sans Windows · · Score: 1

    I want one, this is cheap enough and uses little enough power to do exactly what I want. Right now i have a Celeron 400 as my server/router. Now i can get rid of that :) I'm not ordering 1 million dollars worth of these things though.. Hopefully someday i can buy just one.

  10. Re:Ethanol on Hacking Vodka · · Score: 1

    I make 100% natural wine without using sulfur or any other chemicals to kill the yeast off. The result is very dry wine, but I've yet to get any kind of a hangover from it.

    You really don't want to know what kind of nasty chemicals make it into your store bought cheep alocohol.

  11. Re:Mine is pirated XP. So..??? on Microsoft Just Wants a Little Look · · Score: 1

    Frankly I always wonder how they can prove you actually accepted that EULA. If _you_ did not have somebody accept it on your behalf, and you did not accept it. How can _you_ be accountable. "Oh my friend must have installed that on my computer when i wasn't around."

  12. Re:comes with an "ipod" on Hip-e All-In-One PC · · Score: 1

    And they should call this hyp-e

  13. Re:Already exist on Zero-emission Power Plants Proposed · · Score: 1

    Solar panels produce tons of pollution during their creation.

  14. Wal-Mart Products... on Wal-Mart Squeezing Record Labels to Cut CD Prices · · Score: 1

    Wal-Mart does this all the time, and it shows in the quality of goods they sell. Try buying identical VCRs, eletric shavers, etc, from Wal-Mart and a competing store that sells it for more. Suppliers aren't stupid.

    Wal-Mart forces them to sell for cheaper. So they make cheaper crap for Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart buys enough at a time that it's profitable to switch over the manufacturing plants to build cheaper crap temporarily.

  15. Re:icky... on Humans Are Superorganisms · · Score: 1

    How about an enema?

  16. Re:First state to ban this? on Coffee is Addictive · · Score: 1

    I don't ban anything, you do what you like. heh

  17. Re:First state to ban this? on Coffee is Addictive · · Score: 1

    Actually, get your facts straight: It's the right that constantly wants to ban drugs and abortion. Liberals are the ones who DO the drugs. Don't get the two confused.

  18. Question for David Cobb on Green Party Candidate David Cobb Answers Your Questions · · Score: 0, Troll

    Do you have any chance in hell of being elected?

    Let me answer for him: NO.
    Does he have a chance at getting votes? YES.
    Would these votes otherwise go to Kerry, in most cases? YES.
    Could this cause Kerry to lose by a small margin? YES.

    Maybe we should look over what happened in 2000 with Gore and Ralph Nader. <obligatory deleted>

  19. Re:Read more on Senator Alleges White House Wrote Allawi's Speech · · Score: 1

    I could be completely wrong, but if I remember correctly:90 Allawi is an american citizen and an immigrant from Iraq that is now returning. Seems like he should be able to speak english to me. Of course I could be wrong...

  20. Re:13 - 17 #7 TOLERANCE/DISCRIMINATION on Help Select Questions for Bush and Kerry · · Score: 1

    Simply put, Christians have a set of morals for THEMSELVES. Nowhere in the bible does it say we must be a burden to our fellow man and force them under our beliefs. Rather, our call is to try to share the good news and hope they too become Christians. Thus, if Kerry voted against legilation making abortion illegal, he would not be violating his faith. Only if he told his wife to get an abortion would he be doing so.

    Some other posts attached to this question seem to state otherwise, claiming Kerry is a hypocrite because of some of his votes. Phft

  21. Same Situation on Energy Efficient and Cheap Servers for Home Use? · · Score: 1

    I'm was in the same situation. However, while this isn't the "green" environtment-friendly solution. I decided just to leave on my server. The extra expense saved on my power bill would take years to pay for any kind of low-watt server I would be able to build.

  22. Re:Looks flawed on General Solution for Polynomial Equations? · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you read the proof all the way through, you'll see that a_0 is required to be less than 1.

  23. Re:Theoretical Distance Limitation? on Open-Destination Quantum Teleportation · · Score: 1

    The point was that you can't use this for the transport of information. You need radios or something to do that.. which is completely different.

  24. Other databases... on PostgreSQL 8.0 Enters Beta · · Score: 1

    A couple (years?) ago there was an article about some SQL compatible database that was developed in academia which was much faster than even Oracle and was open source. But for the life of me I can't remember the name. Does anyone remember the artcle that was posted on slashdot about it?

  25. Re:more colors would be nice... on Bash 3.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the terminal emulators it's running on....