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  1. It's a sure sign of impending doom when on HP Baited With Cutouts of Founders · · Score: 1

    the only way you can pump up your employees is to make fun of your competitor.

  2. Re:Sorry I'm on the phone on Using Your Laptop In Bed · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can't come to the Slashdot right now, because I'm on the phone with my girlfriend.

    Because the restraining order says I have to stay 500 feet away from her

    Please leave a comment after the beep, and I'll get back to you right away.

    Unless you are my probation officer. In that case, forget what I said about "girlfriend". I'm really talking to my sister.

  3. File provisional patents on your half-baked ideas on Are NDA 'Prior Inventions' Clauses Safe to Sign? · · Score: 1

    You then get a year to put up or shut up, but you're protected during that year.

  4. Re:Growing meat... on Cloned Beef Coming Soon? · · Score: 1

    I believe what Alton said is the most tender parts are furthest from the hooves and horns. Tenderloin is considered a very delicate (i.e, not much flavor) cut. If you don't want beefy flavor, then may I suggest milk-fed veal? Alton Brown is a single-source.

    I believe for C, you mean to say it is widely believed or widely held belief. If you say its a well-known fact, then it's a fact.

    I'm afraid you'll have to consult a few more sources that are more generally recognized as authoritative than Alton Brown. If you want to quote me from, say, Larousse Gastronomique about the relative degrees of flavor in various cuts of beef, then you're talking about a widely accepted authoritative source. Except that LG agrees with me and not Mr. Brown.

  5. Re:Growing meat... on Cloned Beef Coming Soon? · · Score: 1

    It's a well-known fact that that beef cuts from working muscles (shoulders) are more flavorful than those that don't move that much (tenderloin). Yes, they are tougher, but proper cooking methods break down the collagen that causes toughness.

  6. Growing meat... on Cloned Beef Coming Soon? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Unless you can exercise the meat that is "grown" it will be mostly tasteless.

  7. Not important to Slashdotters on Tomorrow's Cell Phones · · Score: 4, Funny

    The only way a slashdotter gets a girls number is when it's written on the restraining order.

  8. Natural drug? on Morphine Relief Without Addiction? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How is a drug derived from a vine any more/less natural than a drug derived from a flower?

  9. Re:No, its not time to upgrade. on Upgrading Wi-Fi — What, When, and Why · · Score: 0

    Ping? Are you thinking of latency, perchance?

  10. Re:ESR is a douchebag blowhard, film at 11 on ESR Advocates Proprietary Software · · Score: 1

    don't forget rms. I ignore the whole lot of them. I'm capable of making my own decisions without all the religious fundamentalism. Sometimes that's Open Source, sometimes it's not.

  11. Re:Second most overrated man in tech on Hard Knocks, Age Transform Marc Andreessen · · Score: 0

    I take it you prefer to limit your reading to The Communist Manifesto and back issues of Pravda, because you certainly haven't read a WSJ any time in say, the last 10 years.

  12. Those are political skiils, not business skills. on Who are CIOs Planning to Hire Next? · · Score: 1

    They are related, but not the same thing

  13. Tecnhincal vs. business skills on Who are CIOs Planning to Hire Next? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I've harped on this for almost two decades. Technical skills keep you employed. Business skills get you promoted.

    [OK, nit pickers, I'm waiting for you to point out the corner cases where this isn't true]

  14. I don't want to be a killjoy, but... on An 'Ethical Hacker' On Protecting Your Identity · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...was there really anything mentioned in that article that your typical /. reader didn't already know?

  15. Re:IRC the weakpoint? on Botnet Herders Attack MS06-040 Worm Hole · · Score: 1

    see second point about eastern europe, brazil & developing countries.

  16. Re:IRC the weakpoint? on Botnet Herders Attack MS06-040 Worm Hole · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How are the IRC channel and the hacker's IP address related? Just because somebody visits some random IRC channel doesn't make them the bot author. Security researchers, for example, will also be found there.

    Also, most bot herdes are in eastern europe, brazil, or developing countries. Catching hackers isn't high on the list of law enforcement priorities in the countries (and, if the right amount has been paid to the right people, it's completely ignored).

  17. Re:leaked MS Expense Report on OpenOffice.org Security 'Insufficient' · · Score: 1

    First class from SEA-CDG is closer to $10k.

  18. Re:Universal Adapters. on Dangerous Apple Power Adapters? · · Score: 1

    Just an fyi, the iGo does not have tipd for the new MacBook or MacBook Pro. The only travel adapter that works is the Kensington 150W inverter (available on the Apple web site)

  19. Re:One of many "missing" on The 25 Greatest PCs of All Time · · Score: 1

    It was also dog-assed slow in comparison to the offerings from Sun & SGI at the time.

  20. Re:Piers Anthony alien race from Cluster? on Robot Balances on a Single Spherical Wheel · · Score: 1

    This is slashdot. Unless you are left-handed, you call it Righty.

  21. Re:Airlines on Terror Plot, NASA, DHS Patch Alert · · Score: 1

    You missed the Mythbusters episode where they nixed the explosive decompression thing, huh? You need more than piercing the skin. You have to affect flight controls (triply redundant IIRC) or get the fuel tanks to blow.

  22. Re:More people are buying Apple computers. on Apple's Growing Pains · · Score: 1, Troll

    Yes, their market share on on the desktop is almost equal to that of Linux now. Dell & HP probably build more beta units for a new model than Apple ships of Gen 1 product.

  23. Yeah! Follow the money... on Google Releases Analysis of Click-Fraud Detection · · Score: 1

    How much its revenue does Google derive from advertising? That's the money that needs following.

  24. Re:What does this mean for current machines? on Mac Pro, Mac OS X Virtual Desktops Announced at WWDC · · Score: 1

    I doubt you'll see a Xeon in a Apple laptop anytime soon.

  25. Time Machine on Mac Pro, Mac OS X Virtual Desktops Announced at WWDC · · Score: 1

    I'm betting they bought the IPR for this from Quantum, who bought it from a failed startup I was working with in 2001/2002. It's a great concept. I can't for the life of me figure out why Quantum wasn't able to bring it to market.