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  1. Eco?! on GPS Used To Find Graves In Eco-Burial Sites · · Score: 1, Insightful

    With all the technology involved in keeping this going would it really qualify as eco anymore? Cremation would certainly overall be more environmentally friendly than this, if not for the immediate habitat.

  2. Solution is easy.... on PayPal Plans To Ban Unsafe Browsers · · Score: 1

    Solution - Paypal themselves send out a scam email - anyone who responds to it has their account shut down.

  3. Re:Vista on Robot Rebellion Quelled in Iraq · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey this was definitely OSX man. Vista would have first asked: I am about to shoot you. Cancel/Allow?

  4. Re:you, my friend, made an incorrect assumption... on Microsoft Designed UAC to Annoy Users · · Score: 2, Funny

    And please don't accuse anyone on slashdot of being trendy.

  5. Re:Evolution on Study Shows Males Commonly Mistake Sexual Intent · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah - I'm still waiting for a woman to fling her faeces at me as a clear sign of her sexual intent.

  6. Re:It would be good... on The REAL Reason We Use Linux · · Score: 1

    Windows is easier to install on PC hardware. Thats been my issue whenever I've gone for linux - there is something that just doesn't work out the box. I've had issues with dual screens, wireless drivers and then coping with hardware changes every time I've tried it over the last few years. OSX isn't for those without Mac hardware (and yes I am aware of the hacks around).

    I haven't got the time to install and play with it to get Linux set up - on the Asus EEE I've got though its great when its pre setup. And one the machine I did set up with Ubuntu my other half found it was easier to use for than the Mac was!

    But maybe thats why I gave up ... I just don't find configuration on the command line fun. In fact its even more annoying when you got through the procedure to do something for it to fail. YMMV.

  7. Re:I agree on Video Games Are Launching Rock-n-Roll Careers · · Score: 1

    So how do you feel about music now Audiosurf has come out!?

  8. Re:Big deal. on Nokia Unveils Shape Changing Nano-phone Concept · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does it also have an in-ear attachment?

  9. Arstechnica explains on Pakistan YouTube Block Breaks the World · · Score: 5, Informative
  10. Re:Don't tell Chef but on Scientology Given Direct Access To eBay Database · · Score: 4, Funny

    But I'm Hindu you insensitive clod! I have to use an Aum-meter for my religious measurements!

  11. Re:is it April 1st yet? on Sun Snags Open Source Virtualization Company, Innotek · · Score: 1

    As long as they don't start waking Egyptian Mummies that will unleash plagues of locusts and turn the water to blood.

  12. Re:The Slashdot headline in 2105 on 111 Years Ago, Indiana Almost Legislated Pi · · Score: 5, Funny

    I hope we read this in about 100 years

    I hope so to. It'll mean we're not dead, and we've still got our eyesight.

  13. Re:The best part is, on A $1 Billion Email Gaffe · · Score: 1

    The technology itself exists, but not necessarily in a easy to use format for users to keep track of, say across machines (PCs and mobile devices), via webmail etc.

  14. Re:Pffft. This is easy. on Thou Shalt Not View The Super Bowl on a 56" Screen · · Score: 5, Funny

    Exactly why he died a virgin.

  15. Re:Turn the tables? on Court Says You Can Copyright a Cease-And-Desist Letter · · Score: 1

    Will the submission itself count as its own prior art?

  16. Disease not spread by all mozzies? on Engineered Mosquitoes Could Wipe Out Dengue Fever · · Score: 1

    I don't know about Dengue, or what the other types of mosquitos actually are, but malaria is only transmitted across humans by one type of mosquito - and even then only one gender - the female anopholes mosquito. This would lessen the environmental impact if this one variant were reduced in numbers when compared to a blanket ban on mosquitos in general.

  17. Re:Where does this leave DRM et al? on NBC's Zucker Hints At Return to iTunes · · Score: 1

    They already have Disneys largest single shareholder on their board in the form of Steve Jobs, and for all of his getting on the 'DRM is bad bandwagon' all the Disney output is just as DRM'd as the rest of it.

  18. Re:Nelson points and says "Haha!" on Environmental DVD Wrecks Apple Drives · · Score: 1

    The point of it is to make up for the lack of an eject button for the drive!

    (at least on my mac mini)

  19. Re:The misinformation campaign has already begun! on Only 2 in 500 College Students Believe in IP · · Score: 1

    the group that stands to lose the most here is humanity itself if the absurd idea manages to persist that culture can be owned and people can be excluded from it so some few can make a few more dollars.

    But thats the American Dream!

  20. Re:what about making the Wacom Cintiq work? on This Year's Top Game Design Innovations · · Score: 1

    Then Wacom came out with the Cintiq http://www.wacom.com/pendisplays/index.cfm but to my knowledge they don't work either.

    I read that without a d in the middle word of that URL and then started thinking that penis play would be a pretty neat game control mechanism, but discriminating against the girl gamer.

  21. Re:Ya gotta wonder.. on Bar Codes Keep Surgical Objects Outside Patients · · Score: 1

    Doing otherwise makes you look like a typical fat,lazy, IGNORANT armchair skeptic who can't even be bothered to use the slightest bit of brain power their pathetic brain is capable of mustering.

    But there's an operation he can have to fix that, right?

  22. Re:Still Obvious on $360M Patent Suit Over iPhone Voicemail · · Score: 1

    Well as someone who has this mis-conception it probably boils down to how the patent law has been actually applied. e.g. amazons recently repealed 1-click system was a great example of this:

    Amazon is now prepared to salvage what it can. It has narrowed the scope of two of the claims in the patent, including the broadest, in a bid to have the patent restored, albeit in bowdlerised form. Previously, any "single click" action was Amazon's IP. But if accepted, 1-Click would only apply to "Shopping Cart" models in the future..

    That is to say, it appeared that it doesn't matter what the technology is behind it, the idea of having 1-click shopping idea is taken. Probably a bad example, as its been rejected now, but the fact that this happened is what made me think the 'mis-conception' is actually the real model for how things operate.

  23. Re:Hang on... on AT&T To Decommission Pay Phones · · Score: 1

    Bell was second to the patent office. The US Congress Resolution that gives Antonio Meucci credit for the invention is based upon that fact. He couldn't afford the full patent - but he filed his first patent caveat (notice of intention to take out a patent) in 1871, 5 years before Bells (or the other claimant to the invention, Gray) filed the same idea. No slashdot crowd helping the little guy out in those days.

  24. Re:Now I know who to blame... on A Chat With the Voice of Mario · · Score: 1

    This is something with the disk loading screen - just about all the games have extra loud soundtracks on that screen compared to the normal volume and even to when that game is being played. A volume setting for that screen would be great Nintendo....

  25. Re:I'm surprised on Deus Ex 3 Announced · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well even if this game gets terrible previews and people slating it before it gets released, I reckon the game still has a chance of being brilliant thanks to last minute unforseen intervention. I mean, thats what Deus Ex Machina is for, right?