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  1. Re:Ooh, thanks. on College Students Lack Literacy · · Score: 1

    You may want to try the torrent link I posted in a cousin post. Actually, I think that post is an uncle of your post, and therefore a great-uncle of this one. But now I'm way off-topic.

  2. Torrent on College Students Lack Literacy · · Score: 1
  3. Roger Wilco! on NASA Warns of Cluttered Space · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What a great series of games that was...

  4. "Gouging" on Microsoft FAT Patent Upheld · · Score: 1
    This kind of thing comes up in discussions about "price gouging" all the time.


    The price that a merchant charges for an item is based on his cost to replace that item on the shelf.

  5. Not quite on It's "1984" in Europe, What About Your Country? · · Score: 2, Informative
    3,976,372 square km / 450,000,000,000 = 8.836382222 x 10^-6 square km / person.

    8.836382222 x 10^-6 square km = 8,836,382.22 square mm = 13,696.4198 square inches = 95.114 square feet.

    Still not a lot of land, but more than 1/4 inch.

  6. Doubt it's a problem on TiVo Causes Increase in Product Placement · · Score: 1

    I think a lot of P2P geeks suffer from the "Collector" syndrome. They want to faithfully record what was aired. I don't think they'll be too keen on editing out a scene with dialog about Coca-Cola. Yes, they take out commercials and network bugs, but I really doubt if placement got to be big that they'd do much about it. Too much placement makes for a crummy show, and who wants to download that anyway, regardless of the editing?

  7. Even more wrong on IPv6 Transition to Cost US $75 Billion? · · Score: 1

    Wealth isn't created by spinning your wheels for no reason. It may well be that the transition is worth doing in the long run, but simply spending money for no reason isn't a net plus. It's why we don't tear down our houses and rebuild them every year.

  8. Re:Admission Letter in Hand... on Tulane University to Reduce Engineering School · · Score: 1

    They decided this today, which really leaves a lot of people in a bind, I would think...

  9. Almost as bad on Tulane University to Reduce Engineering School · · Score: 1

    I've got to figure most of the buildings will be turned over to... liberal arts!

  10. Site Summary on Tulane University to Reduce Engineering School · · Score: 5, Informative
    There's a lot of useless information to wade through to get the good data, so I'll summarize what happened. (As an alum in one of the cut programs, I've read through it all.)

    ~100 faculty laid off from the Medical School downtown. ~50 faculty laid off from the main uptown campus, nearly all from Engineering. Cut programs: Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Computer, and Computer Science. Remaining: Biomedical (which was, in fact, our strongest), and Chemical.

    Also, previously there were the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the School of Engineering. Now it's going to the the School of Liberal Arts, and the School of Science and Engineering.

    Leaves me wondering where exactly I stand, having a recent degree in a program that no longer exists. I'm more worried about the kids who were planning to go back next semester in one of these programs, and only find out today that it doesn't exist!

  11. Re:Loosing? on Barcode Scam Redux - Target's $4.99 iPod · · Score: 1

    Yeah, come on, it was in Star Trek 6. Everybody should know that one!

  12. Captain Kirk? on Harnessing the Power of P2P, Looking Back · · Score: 5, Funny
    and it made a major impact on how people, used the Internet.

    Is that you?

  13. Yikes on Violating A Patent As Moral Choice · · Score: 1

    Risky move, considering the support of the United States is what keeps them from being a province of China...

  14. Re:usage on the way up too? on Firefox Tops 100 Million Downloads · · Score: 1

    Absolutely! It's extremely frustrating. I'm glad it's not just me. Let's get this fixed, /.!

  15. _Great_ analogy </sarcasm> on How About a Nice Game of Global Thermonuclear War? · · Score: 0, Troll

    If a small group of evil men want to kill Johnny and his family and destroy his country and his way of life, then yes, maybe he should see about stopping them ahead of time.

  16. Real-World Demonstration on Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 Released · · Score: 1

    This may not be a bad thing. When people do try it and go back to the Firefox page, they see a page that looks better in a standards-compliant browser than the one they've been using.

  17. Correlation / Causation on Microsoft Infected by Virus · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I think you'll find that circumsized people (at least in the US) are less likely to be hippy wackos, and that it's hippy wacko-ism that's the real cause of the correlation with HIV.

  18. UIP? on New Method of Tracking UIP Hits? · · Score: 4, Funny
    I tried to find out for myself, I really did. I can't figure out if any of these dictionary.com results apply. This is the complete list, and none of them seemed to fit. There's one kind of humorous one...

    International Union of Private Wagons
    Quimper, France - Pluguffan (Airport Code)
    Ultimate Irrigation Potential
    Uncovered Interest Parity
    Undegraded Intake Protein
    United International Pictures
    Universidad Interamericana de Panamá
    Unusual Interstitial Pneumonitis
    Upgrade Improvement Program
    Urinating In Public
    User Interface Program
    USIGS Interoperability Profile
    Usual Interstitial Pneumonia of Liebow
    Utilities Infrastructure Plan

  19. The command to open it: on Super Door of the Future · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Shh!"

  20. Obligatory on Wanted - An Online Publishing Business Model? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Try advertizing on Slashdot!

  21. No, it's Monty! on Winemaker Drinks To Linux · · Score: 1

    Eric Idle, I believe, doing his Australian accent.

  22. Worked for Scotty! on Mac OS X Running on Non-Apple Hardware · · Score: 1

    n/t

  23. Kind of like GW Bush: on Tim Berners-Lee on Blogging And The Web · · Score: -1, Troll
    There are two critical questions:

    Did our generation advance freedom, and did our character bring credit to that cause?

  24. Okay, I'll bite on 10 Technologies MIA · · Score: 1
    so says the man whose newest means of transportation is over 25 years old and has two wheels

    Are we talking about a 1970 model bicycle?

  25. Uh-huh... on Reconciling Information Privacy and Liberty? · · Score: 1
    And here you're spouting a bunch of mumbo-jumbo about relativism and whining about bigotry, without addressing the points made! He cited numerous examples, details, and why he believes those to be false.

    You've got nothing.