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  1. Re:Money goes where... on China: the New Advanced Technology Research Hotbed · · Score: 1
    China has a billion poor people, just waiting to spend all their money on stuff.

    What does that even mean?

  2. Re:its about time... on China: the New Advanced Technology Research Hotbed · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Chess? What the fuck are you smoking? Chess is an Indian game. As for "works on how to run a government" maybe the Chinese should read those themselves. And silk comes from a worm! That's like crediting Canadians with lobster! Spaghetti is Italian. You're thinking of noodles. But Art of War is a good book. I'll give you that.

  3. Re:Very clever indeed on Rob Glaser Responds, Talks Up Real Networks · · Score: 1
    But you paid perhaps $80-$100 for the right to use Windows Media Player when you bought Windows.

    Considering that I bought Windows XP Home Edition for $95.00 I got a hell of a deal.

  4. Re:Best quote from article on Early Warning For Microsoft Premium Customers · · Score: 4, Insightful
    In a nutshell, is this not what MS is doing?

    No. Everyone on the list finds out the same information. This is just a way to sort the list. No biggie.

  5. Re:Funny... on Speech Recognition in Silicon · · Score: 1
    Ah sorry, I should've said "internet search engine"-kind of way, instead of for example the windows file search...
    So you will need to index the files prior to being able to search them.

    What? Search engines index webpages prior to being able to search them. Did you think that Google was reading billions of pages in real time before returning a result?

  6. Re:your mission, should you choose to accept it .. on Batch-o-Moz: Firefox, Thunderbird, Suite Released · · Score: 1
    There's a lot of things done better in Mozilla through extensions.

    Too bad that upgrading Firefox to this release means throwing all your extensions away. They're not compatible.

    For one, am I really forced to press ctrl to stop links from opening in a new window?

    Middle clicking will open links in a new tab.

  7. Re:But in episode... on Obsessively Detailed Map Of Springfield · · Score: 1

    The Murderhorn.
    The Prison.

  8. Re:your mission, should you choose to accept it .. on Batch-o-Moz: Firefox, Thunderbird, Suite Released · · Score: 2, Insightful
    IE will soon be blocking popups.

    It already does. SP2 added that capability. Of course, the Google toolbar had been blocking them too. I was running Norton Internet Security which also had a popup blocker. Now I run Admuncher which blows Adblock away. The point is, popup/ad blocking isn't the selling point you may think it is. It's all about the tabs. But you can install the Avant browser which adds tabs to IE so tabs aren't that big a deal either really. I guess the smaller size might be a selling point to people with really old systems.

  9. Re:Well, not nitpicking on Spam Turns 100, By One Reckoning · · Score: 1
    Why not? Telegrams were, after all, electronic mail of a sort.

    It could be considered electric mail but not electronic mail.

  10. Re:No, a really really bad one would modify your M on New Worm Installs Sniffer · · Score: 1

    Parent isn't flamebait. Ever try removing the GRUB bootloader? It's impossible.

  11. Re:Trademark? on Beatles vs Apple · · Score: 1
    Maybe you should check out the logos of the two. Especially given at the time when there were a shedload of available logo styles uncharted, WHY did apple computers choose an apple with a bite out of it in the same place as the Apple records logo?

    The only two things I'd expect to see in a stylized illustration of an apple would be a worm or a bite mark. Put another way: it's not a stretch to think that two people in the world would draw an apple with a bite taken out of it.

  12. Re:odd background for a presidential candidate. on Ask Libertarian Presidential Candidate Michael Badnarik · · Score: 4, Informative
    Badnarik believes that the federal income tax has no legal authority and that people are justified in refusing to file a tax return until such time as the IRS provides them with an explanation of its authority to collect the tax.

    This guy is an idiot. The Sixteenth Amendment gives the IRS authority:

    The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.

    If that's not enough this pdf clearly outlines where the IRS gets it's authority and why US citizens must pay income tax.

  13. Re:Tortoises all the way down. on Universal Emulators Return · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think you're the only one who has interpreted their claims that way. I don't think Wired would bother writing up a company that claimed it could run Office on a C64.

  14. Re:The thing about corporations... on Companies, Government and Community Fiber Rollouts · · Score: 1
    Have you never heard the phrase "To vote with your feet"? Moving from one, crappy, ISP to a slightly better forced one to imitate the other and, hopefully, to go one better, and so on, until their respective services are worth the money you pay for them.

    Too bad where I live the government only licenses one cable company per market. Don't like Cogeco? Too fucking bad. If I were to vote with my feet I'd have to move to another city.

  15. Re:protect yourself on Pennsylvania Child Porn Act Overturned · · Score: 1
    The problem is... Where do you draw the line? Slashdot has trolls linking to stuff like tubgirl and goatse all the time. So it probably shouldn't be .safe.

    It's true. I remember reading a Wired article a few years back where they investigated how many clicks it took to find pornography if you started from certain sites. I remember whitehouse.gov was something like 6 clicks. What I'm trying to say is that a domain name for kids is a cute idea but what will it really do? Unless you lock out every domain except .kids for children who are browsing the Internet it's going to be useless.

  16. Re:I can think of another... on Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow · · Score: -1, Troll

    I stand corrected. But can the idiot mods who think I was making some kind of BSOD joke please wake the fuck up. Funny? WTF?

  17. I can think of another... on Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow · · Score: 4, Funny
    What sets this film apart from others is that every scene was shot against a blue screen.

    Pretty sure that Attack of the Clones was also shot entirely in front of a blue screen.

  18. Re:globalized economy. on Paul Samuelson Challenges Outsourcing · · Score: 1

    Idiot mods. I guess Martin Sorrell, British chairman of the global advertising firm WPP is a troll then because that's who the above quote is attributed to. Morons.

  19. Re:globalized economy. on Paul Samuelson Challenges Outsourcing · · Score: 0, Troll

    "There's no such thing as globalization. There is only Americanization."

  20. Re:same time! on Star Wars DVD Set Previews/Reviews · · Score: 4, Funny

    Han shot first.

  21. Re: technically no on They Killed Ken! · · Score: 1, Insightful
    Had you RTFA you would have noticed that they don't disclose whether he lost, but only that he's no longer on the show.

    Are you saying he just gave up? If he's no longer on the show then he must have lost. Slashdot fucked up huge on this one. Thanks for letting me know. I've been watching Ken since his first appearance and have been obsessed with this guy. Now I know that in 30 shows he's gone. What's the point now? FUCKERS!

  22. Re:or on New Google Toolbar Brings Browse By Name · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Try "waffles." I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.

  23. Re:Hell yeah on Michael Moore Seeks TV Airing of Fahrenheit 9/11 · · Score: 1
    There aren't really that many Bush supporters. Do you know any?

    That's why it's called the Silent Majority.

  24. Re:Interesting discussion on the radio... on Did You VoteOrNot.org? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    However, I believe that spoiling my ballot may show the politicians that people are not happy with the choices available to them.

    Bullshit. If you can't find a candidate you like amongst the Bloc Québécois, The Canadian Action Party, The Christian Heritage Party, The Communist Party of Canada, The Conservative Party of Canada, The Green Party of Canada, The Liberal Party of Canada, The Libertarian Party of Canada, The Marijuana Party, The Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada, The New Democratic Party, The Progressive Canadian Party, or the Republican Party of Canada then you've got problems. Or if you honestly can't find someone to vote for then fucking RUN YOURSELF! Spoiling your ballot is the pussy's way out. End of story.

  25. Re:Pimping the Freshman on The Changing Face Of Campus Tech · · Score: 2, Insightful
    What does an iPod have to do with education?

    They're portable hard drives. What don't they have to with education? I wish my school gave me one for my graphic arts program. Maybe then we wouldn't have been messing around with Zip discs and trying to squeeze 100MB Photoshop files onto a 64MB thumb drive. And yes there are other solutions but an iPod is a nice one.