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  1. Re:Touting the Canadian Horn here on Zeppelin Flies Again · · Score: 1

    if Slashdot is too lazy to put in code that automatically turns an url into a clickable link, then I'm too lazy to type the HTML code as well.

  2. better yet on Meet Joe Blog · · Score: 1

    instead of ignoring the bias you dont like, it'd be better to view biased news from all over the spectrum, and afterward draw your own biased conclusions as to what might be the truth.

  3. Re:100??? on Starz, RealNetworks Offer Movie Download Service · · Score: 0, Troll

    100 movies a month??? Who has the time to watch 100 movies?

    those people that sometimes make the news when the fire department has to knock down a wall in order to load them with a crane onto a flatbed truck, and then drive them to the hospital.

  4. Re:Is this a new thing? on Starz, RealNetworks Offer Movie Download Service · · Score: 1

    IANAL, but wouldnt they be "breaking the law" by participating in the pirated movie download/upload torrent, in order to find out the IPs of the other computers in the torrent network?

    If so, wouldnt that count as wiretapping, and if done without a warrant, not usable as proof?

    Just curious.

  5. Re:12 Passengers? on Zeppelin Flies Again · · Score: 1

    so why are airships so expensive to operate then?

  6. Re:12 Passengers? on Zeppelin Flies Again · · Score: 1

    I remember reading somewhere that the cost of operating an airship is high due to the high number of support crew members needed on the ground at liftoff and at landing.

    This explanation didnt make much sense to me because airports need a lot of crews too...

    Maybe it's because there arent as many airships now as airplanes?

  7. Touting the Canadian Horn here on Zeppelin Flies Again · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Check out www.21stcenturyairships.com

    This guy made spherical airships despite everyone telling him it would never work.

    Personally, I find this much more interesting than the Zeppelin "comeback".

  8. common sense dictates on Labels Find New Method of Payola · · Score: 1

    IANAL either, but if you have a few seconds at the start or at the end of each of your songs that goes something like "this song was kindly provided by [sponsor name]", then it would probably be construed as an ad, where as having songs without those messages would be hard to prove as ads.

  9. Re:And the pictures arrive when? on Cassini-Huygens Reaches Phoebe · · Score: 1

    Call it a hunch, but I'd think that JPL and NASA arent using their web server(s) to download images from the probe.

  10. Surveillance Camera Players on Downtown Baltimore To Get Massive Surveillance Network · · Score: 1

    For the bored collective, I guess...

    http://www.notbored.org/the-scp.html

  11. Re:soo... on McDonald's Germany Moves to SuSE Linux · · Score: 3, Interesting

    when I was living in my hometown as a poor pre-college student, it was common knowledge that McDonalds hamburgers were a great cure for diarrhea.

    Insta-Constipation!

    Also, it was common practice to go eat a full meal at McD after an night of hard drinking, to avoid being sick.

    We conjectured that they probably put anti-diarrhea and antivomiting drugs in their food so that in case of food poisoning, no one would be the wiser.

  12. Dont worry! on Downtown Baltimore To Get Massive Surveillance Network · · Score: 1

    You can take off your tinfoil hats, my friends. In the interest of fighting back, I'll sacrifice my privacy by making sure I grab their attention with my increasingly geeked-up bike...

    http://photoshop.superdownloads.net/uploads/khsa er o6greenricer.jpg

  13. I hope I can score on RIP G4 PowerMac · · Score: 2, Interesting

    a G4 case for cheap... would be great box to mod.

  14. Re:How long before... on FCC Settles Censorship Claims with ClearChannel · · Score: 4, Insightful

    are there any children who listen to the radio anymore? (on purpose, as opposed to collaterally when having to ride in their parents' car, for example)

  15. Re:Please ... on Drexler Clarifies Grey Goo Scenario · · Score: 1

    ok, so Will Smith stars in I, Robot... but Wil Wheaton created intelligent nanites in a STTNG episode.

  16. Re:Please ... on Drexler Clarifies Grey Goo Scenario · · Score: 1

    starring Wil Wheaton?

  17. Re:Curve on Realistic Human Graphics Look Creepy · · Score: 2, Funny

    I love simplicity... the www.roflcopter.com flash game proves that you dont need complexity to have a fun game.

  18. cycles on The Millennia After Tomorrow? · · Score: 1

    cycles of cold/warm are plausible, but arent of any help to predict totally random events, such as when there's a gigantic volcanic eruption, when there's a big methane belch from the bottom of the ocean or when a non-periodic comet just happens to cross path with the Earth.

  19. Re:What is the best way to stop this? on Russia, China World's Biggest Spammers · · Score: 1

    I currently sit in the "email itself must change" camp to fix the problem of SPAM. Of course its an impractical camp to sit in at the moment, but things are moving along slowly

    Looking at how things work in today's society, I think it'll be a long while before email is changed, UNLESS somehow the system suddenly becomes totally unusable.

    Then people stand up and notice.

    Otherwise it's just an inconvenience for Joe Sixpack.

    In the mean time, with my personal home-based non-commercial account, all my main email contacts are on a whitelist.

    If anyone else's legitimate email ends up in my spam folder and I don't notice it, tough luck; write to your local politician about how spam annoys you. Or jump up and down in a temper tantrum. Or Whatever.

  20. Re:Stop stealing the photons I'm emitting on Look Inside A PC-killing WIPO Treaty · · Score: 4, Funny

    I encrypt the photons that I reflect with Hawaiian Flower print shirts.

  21. You forgot ONE thing on New PowerMac G5s: Up to 2.5Ghz, Liquid Cooled · · Score: 5, Funny

    Frickin "LA-ZER" Beams.

  22. Re:Quickly? on Nanotube Non-Volatile Memory Entering Production · · Score: 1

    All we need is another big war, to be fought entirely with computers

    The war on spam isnt big enough for you?

  23. Re:Quickly? on Nanotube Non-Volatile Memory Entering Production · · Score: 2, Funny

    I was doing expirements of buckminsterfullerenes back in 1996-97

    really?! well way back in the stone age, I was experimenting with rocks! and we were glad to have them too!

  24. a question of time on Infected Windows PCs Now Source Of 80% Of Spam · · Score: 1

    how long would it take for a spamming network to generally remove my email address from their infrastructure, as "a dead email", if I turn it off for a while to let the spam bounce off?

  25. As an amateur photographer on Digital Photography Composition 101 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I find it inefficient to take lots and lots of photos and keep only the best few. Makes for too many photos to review and evaluate before deleting the crap ones...

    This is what I do... I take my time, and I visualise what I want to get on the final image BEFORE even looking through the viewfinder or lcd screen.

    Then I try to make everything fit in the frame.

    I don't really follow the "rules" of aesthetics as defined by pros and critics, since the photos I take are for my own personal enjoyment and for decorating some walls, most of the time.

    Then there's also the issue of too many people deleting perfectly good photos because they personally dont like "how they look" on the photos, due to being way too self-conscious. This will lead to a biased of what the past really looked like, in the future, when looking at those carefully selected pictures.