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  1. Fine on No PodBuddy for iPod lovers · · Score: 1
    An FM transmitter and power supply/charging assembly electrically coupleable with an MP3 player. The assembly includes a modular docking unit having a main body portion with a docking cavity therein, wherein the main body portion contains the FM transmitter and power/charging circuitry, with coupling means in the docking cavity for connecting the MP3 player with the FM transmitter and power/charging circuitry, to accommodate FM transmission by the FM transmitter of audio content when played by the MP3 player in the docking cavity of the modular docking unit, and adapted for transmitting electrical power through the modular docking unit and the power/charging circuitry therein, for charging of a battery of the MP3 player and/or powering of the MP3 player.

    I figure my AAC player shouldn't infringe on this, then?

  2. Re:doh on Windows Users Ignoring LUA Security · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Thereby defeating the purpose of having a least-rights account, when you have to run everything with elevated privileges.

  3. Re:What about WEB DEVELOPERS? on Windows Longhorn and Internet Explorer 7 · · Score: 1
    Except that 5 years ago, Internet Explorer was a light-year ahead of the competition in client-side functionality. Despite Andreessen's hype, Microsoft did far more to legitimize web-based applications than Nutscrape ever did.

    Given your username, I'm going to assume you're a little less than objective about this one. Netscape was a dead horse by the time you picked that name.

  4. Re:"Breakdown" on Google Summer of Code Project Breakdown · · Score: 2, Insightful
    of course. about 5500 people that were rejected ;-) it was a sort of lottery. imho if you had an independent project not following the ideas posted earlier by the mentoring organizations - your chances were low - judgin on some discussions after acceptance/rejection of proposals. mine got rejected ;-)

    That was obvious from the first paragraph. In general, following the recommendations for any application process is a good idea. You'll find this theme repeated pretty much everywhere. Reviewers are looking for something. Your best chance is to give it to them.

  5. Re:"formal rules" on Cross Skilling Across Multi-OS Platforms? · · Score: 1
    True, but a seasoned admin will have a solid understanding of the underlying concepts involved with accomplishing a desired result. He'll have some reading to do before he can do it on a different OS, but he'll get that learning accomplished much, much faster than an un-seasoned admin who only knows how to do it because "that's what the instructor said to do".

    I don't think employers are going to go with the whole "I'll figure it out" thing. If you haven't learned Windows by now, you're not likely to start.

  6. A Boy Named Jasmine on NY Times On Spam Zombies · · Score: 1
    The times they are a changin'. (That's a good thing, I think)

    I don't think so. I'm not sending my kids to any touchy-feely school that doesn't beat the shit out of any boys named, for instance, Jasmine or Sue.

  7. "formal rules" on Cross Skilling Across Multi-OS Platforms? · · Score: 1
    The formal rule here would be the insistence on an MSCE, for instance.

    Also, "pedantic" and "paradigm" are not similar in meaning.

    As for the actual content of your post, you can be a seasoned administrator and not know the details of each OS. Or does you know how to run the ENIAC?

  8. Re:In fact, just thinking about this... on SCO Includes OS Products In OpenServer 6 · · Score: 1
    Accepting the GPL for one project does not mean universally accepting the GPL in all cases. The GPL isnt an all or nothing license, one project has no power over another even tho both are GPLed so you can not accept the GPL in one case but abide by it in another.

    Their position wasn't against the GPL in regard to a certain product, it was that the GPL is a null contract in every situation. Because of that, the fact that they willingly license something under the GPL would seem to undermine that position.

    The interesting bit here is that if they do *not* accept the GPL, they have no choice but to pay MySQL lots of money.

  9. Thanks on Software Piracy Seen as Normal · · Score: 1

    for being the clown that posts this identical comment on every damned story. At least wait until someone contests otherwise?

  10. IP ban on MIT Physicists Create New Form of Matter · · Score: 2, Funny
    I'm sorry, you're far too knowledgeable of science - or anything else, for that matter - to be posting on slashdot. Please cease this behavior, and go, like, publish something.

    It would be nice though, if all problems in science were perfect spheres, homogeneous, hard, and always engaged in perfectly elastic collisions? Oh, and frictionless?

  11. grapes on Opera: Firefox User Figures 'Inflated' · · Score: 1

    Hate 'em. Too damned sour.

  12. Article is not particularly insightful, really on Inventor of Proxy Firewall Blames Hackers · · Score: 1
    Ok, but swap a hacker's desire for fun with a software companies desire to make money without properly taking responsiblity for securing their product and one could also write:

    I think that's kind of implicit, but as he says, there would be no need for security without hackers. Of course, his comments are no more insightful than saying it's only because of thieves that we have to spend money on locks. Well, duh.

    It's not insightful, but it is true. Hackers are to blame for our current security needs.

  13. 50/50 on LA Times Pulls Wikitorial, Blames Slashdot · · Score: 0

    I am the evil twin.

  14. Re:personal projects not necessarily helpful on Google vs. Yahoo: On a Collision Course · · Score: 4, Insightful
    While there are great possibilities concerning those personal projects of google employees, it's still a risk. For many employees it could just turn into a wasted day. For others, it could turn into something that Google puts a lot of money into and ends up being a flop. Hopefully enough good (profitable) ideas come out of it but there's no guarantee.

    That's why they call it R&D.

  15. Re:It's the users, stupid! on Canada Introduces DMCA-Style Copyright Law · · Score: 1
    Last election I heard dozens of my friends announce they thought bush got in illegally, as they knew nobody personally who voted bush.

    Now, apart from that just not being a representative sample

    Reminds me of a quote from the head of the NYT or Wash Post (can't remember which). Paraphrased, it was basically that she didn't know how Nixon got elected, everyone she knew voted for McGovern. Same situation as your friends, but you can't make the same argument of election stealing, as Nixon crushed McGovern.

    Rather, it points out that people tend to hang around with people who agree with them. The last two elections have been rather close. As such, if anyone truly doesn't know who voted for the "other guy" (either guy), it means that one might consider widening one's circle of friends, and therefore the ideas one is exposed to. It's no fun talking to a bunch of people who echo my political beliefs.

  16. Or... on Lost Credit Data Improperly Kept, Company Admits · · Score: 1
    Were they researching how quickly they could mess up my credit, therefore causing me to go into tremendous amounts of debt?

    ...how quickly they can get nailed with a class action lawsuit?

  17. Re:"Extremist" is the wrong word on Editorial Wiki Debuts At LA Times · · Score: 1
    No, no... the word is terrorist now...not extremist.

    No, actually the left is quite adept at that sort of thing too, and prefer the "extremist" or "ultra-" (as in conservative) tag.

  18. Re: No Thanks on Next-gen Windows Command Line Shell Now in Beta · · Score: 1
    Have you never noted the similarity with "those who don't understand history are doomed to repeat it"? UNIX people dismiss every revolutionary attempty to modify what they know because history has already showed that they are quite right about the way they do stuff

    What are these revolutions? Windows? Certainly not Macs, lots of unix people own those.

    (they wheren't always right, but fixed several things already)

    Doesn't that negate your previous point?

  19. Radical or activist? on Editorial Wiki Debuts At LA Times · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Why would radicals not also be capable of defacing it? And why use the word "deface" anyway? Are any opposing opinions automatically supposed to be "defacing" it?

    Yes. Kind of like how a crazy shit who agrees with me is an activist, and a crazy shit who disagrees with me is a radical or extremist.

  20. Re:Maybe? on Kernel 2.6.12 Released · · Score: 1
    I can't believe Slashdot would be so embarrased by their ugly HTML to actually ban the W3C validator...

    Wow. That's freaking incredible.

  21. Re:Christ yes! on Shuttles Can't Finish Space Station · · Score: 1
    But a great many entrenched interests will have to give up their pork supply (corporatate welfare)

    And social welfare.

  22. Re:MS tried to make it illegal to delete cookies on Marketers Back "Cookies Are Good For You" Campaign · · Score: 1
    Not long after IE 4 came out, Microsoft tried to make it illegal to delete cookies. Mysteriously, it is getting increasingly difficult to find those articles on the web.

    So could you help out there with, maybe, a link?

  23. Re:fake DOS... on Pure JavaScript Unix-Like Web Based OS · · Score: 1
    At least you aren't A1 years old

    At least I'd go great on steak.

  24. Re:fake DOS... on Pure JavaScript Unix-Like Web Based OS · · Score: 3, Funny
    10 in 94? Holy crap. Congratulations on making many of us feel old.

    Maybe that's hex. I'm 1A years old.

  25. Re:One step forward, two steps back. on House Limits Patriot Act Rules on Library Records · · Score: 1

    You're right, he missed one. It's 4-1 for the sponsors. I honestly have no idea what the 22nd amendment thing is for. Maybe the four are making a joke/statement, and Sensenbrenner didn't get it.