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  1. sorry, clickable on Sony Launches First Commercial Electronic Paper Display Reader · · Score: 0, Redundant
  2. Japanese QWERTY on Sony Launches First Commercial Electronic Paper Display Reader · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    http://www.eink.com/news/images/SONY_Reader_1000EP .jpg I didn't know the Japanese typed with a qwerty keyboard? They're pretty resourceful if you ask me.

  3. e-mailing results on WebCrawler Turns 10 Today · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Ah the nostalgia of receiving search results via e-mail :)

  4. Stem Cells on Brain's Cache Memory Found · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I wonder what would happen if they just injected some stem cells around there?

  5. Re:Yeah, it's cache... on Brain's Cache Memory Found · · Score: 1

    I'd like to think I have at least 8 MB of full speed L2 cache.

  6. Re:Internal server error on Mandrakelinux 10 Official Released · · Score: 1, Funny

    I wonder if they were testing Mandrake Linux 10?

  7. dang on 1,028,000 Digital Photographs · · Score: 1

    At first skim I read:
    16,183 digital pictures shot by eleven of the magazine's staff photographers in Super Bowl XXXVIII of Janet Jackson.

    Heh, I guess we've all seen enough of her anyway! Oh well.

  8. Re:Will the media cover this? on Leaked Memo Says Microsoft Raised $86 million for SCO · · Score: 1

    The media will print any unsubstantiated claim by SCOX. It'll be interesting to see their take on this. The only thing real so far in the SCO case is the lawsuit itself. How would you as a journalist handle this tidbit?

    I couldn't feel more strongly that the media should seriously report on stories like this. CNN, FoxNews, etc. could make this story huge. If this was nationally portrayed as a serious scandal, the negative impact it could have on Microsoft could be huge. Basically, the case is Microsoft vs. the people (Linux-by the people for the people).

  9. oh wow, dotslash.com is Japanese bondage! on Wired Reports on 'Googlemania' · · Score: 1, Funny

    Wait a minute, I think that's Christina Aguilera.. on a Japanese site. Wow, she's all over the place.

  10. Re:Microsoft versus Google on Wired Reports on 'Googlemania' · · Score: 1

    Maybe I'm alone here, but I was thinking about all the ways one could change the net's history just by registering the domain google.com before those Stanford guys got it. Or slashdot.org. I just find it interesting the way regular people could have changed the internet in the recent past. Would I have been offered thousands for the domain google.com? Or would they just create their search engine under a different URL.. maybe like doogle.com?! It's always fun to think about these things.

    Hey, I could be reading dotslash.org right now! :)

  11. I sense an opportunity for profit on Germany Begins Iris Scans at Frankfurt Airport · · Score: 2, Funny

    *Gets to work on iris creation and replacement machine* *Puts away fake (novel) ID machine*

  12. Re:Broadcasting dead... on Space Burial · · Score: 1

    What?! You can enlarge your penis with a pill?!

    *Removes spam filtering software*

  13. Re:ICANN? on Verisign's SiteFinder - An Engineer's View · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hehe, I think I'm alone, but I liked Sitefinder because it tripled traffic to my site for a while- www.humans.com. So many people were looking for domains with humans and were directed to my page which has nothing even to do with science.. I just wish they would take the ads off.

  14. the calculator watch.. on Forgotten Electronics of the 70s and 80s · · Score: 5, Funny

    the epitome of cool..

    especially if worn while carrying a boom box blasting old school Beastie Boys on your shoulder.

  15. Mod parent down- He doesn't know on Macintosh's 1984 Debut · · Score: 3, Informative

    He doesn't know what he's talking about.

    1. Jobs did not quit- he was voted out of his own company, many saying he was too hard on his employees until 1997 when he returned to Apple as CEO
    2. It is doubtful the tables will turn to Apple again. Ever heard of Linux?
    3. Apple made lots of mistakes early on. They did not almost go out of business because Microsoft had a superior product.

    Check out this article for further information.

  16. Hmm.. on Tom's Reviews Expensive, Noiseless Case · · Score: 5, Funny

    $1400 for a quiet PC or $1400 for a bunch of strippers and beer.. decisions, decisions..

  17. One thing's for sure.. on Reflecting on Linux Security in 2003 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It's better than Microsofts! Sorry, I do not mean to troll..

  18. Re:what I did on Weird Presents Anyone? · · Score: 1

    I then let the older/less geeky b-in-l pick the present that he wanted. Being selfish, he picked the larger one. The result: a lesson hopefully learned - and if not, hopeful progress made on that lesson.

    Wow! Great way to show your in-laws your generosity and care for their chirldren! You'll definitely earn some extra brownie points as their daughter's husband from them!

  19. The Hulk on The Best and Worst Movies of 2003? · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Hulk. Need I say more? I wanted to throw something heavy at the screen during most of the showing.

  20. Not Quite on Doomsday PC-Cooling With Dual-Cascade Coolers · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's not cold enough unless it can offset global warming. AND refrigerate my beer.

  21. Re:Then never complain... on Canadian Music Industry Wants Royalties on Net Usage · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What if everyone with internet access was required to pay the RIAA $3/month? We could download all the music we wanted, and the RIAA couldn't bitch because they'd be making money. The most downloaded musicians would get paid the most, because they would have sold more CD's. Downloading music isn't something that's going to stop; it'll continue to grow unless some drastic(and censoring) changes are implemented in the internet. It's just too convenient.

  22. the future of music on Synthesized Singers · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What is really cool is when machines can do what people cannot do. The first sign of this was several decades ago when drum machines and analog synthesizers came about. The drum machines could play beats so fast and hit more instruments simulateously than a single person has limbs for and the synthesizers could create entirely new sounds. In the present, there are pitch machines which put singers' voices at a desirable pitch when singing. Hopefully next we'll have robots/machines with AI that can create their own insightful, fun, or intelligent lyrics to songs and sing them to an original beat. Popular music analyzers(just posted on /.) are already capable of predicting what tunes have potential. Music is a product of man, whether it is created through human hands or machines. You can't mentally hold yourself back to the idea real music is only a direct product of man.

  23. Re:What about PNGs? on Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The only argument I've seen against them is for compatibility's sake

    The GIF patent expired June 20, 2003-- we're free to use the compression scheme royalty free now. I have also noticed most PNG images are larger in size than their GIF equivalents anyway.

  24. SCO has a new target to worry about! on NASA Installs Linux Supercomputer · · Score: -1, Redundant

    SCO: "NASA's supercomputer Linux license can be purchased before December 31 for only $50,000. After December 31, the license will cost $100,000! Buy now NASA!"

  25. A draw counts as .5 on Kasparov Draws Game 4 and Match Against X3D Fritz · · Score: 1

    one win each, then two ties = 2:2.