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  1. I for one... on Bad News for Earth's Magnetic Field · · Score: 2, Funny

    welcome our new cosmic ray overlords! (Well, for at least a couple thousand years)

  2. Microsofts business plan: on Microsoft Pays $440M to License InterTrust Patents · · Score: 2, Interesting

    1. License DRM patents
    2. Release DRM Software
    3. Wait for DMCA to get struck down as a show of good faith
    4. Sue unsuspecting F/OSS developers writing a WMP DRM bypasser for xmms for "patent infringement"
    5. ???
    6. Profit!

  3. In Soviet Russia... on Microsoft Pays $440M to License InterTrust Patents · · Score: 1, Troll

    You pay millions of dollars in lawsuits to Microsoft!
    Wait.. why wasnt that as funny as I thought?

  4. Obligatory... on Google's Next Steps · · Score: 1

    I for one welcome our new free universal computing overlords!

  5. Re:Good idea for a game, bad idea for a pressconfe on S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Glows With Chernobyl Radioactive Link · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think they would know it was radiation - the whole cracked open reactor and all. Also, the radiation lethality depends on the time and intensity - if one person went back several times, they could receive a cumulatively lethal dose, whereas a person who left the area might survive. In addition, many of the heroic actions they took were not futile - the firemen putting out the burning graphite moderator probably prevented an even greater release of radioactive particles (from the smoke, etc), also somebody would have to shutoff lines spewing radioactive steam, electrical breakers vulnerable to fire, etc, so some of the actions were to save more than an individual trapped person.

  6. Re:Good idea for a game, bad idea for a pressconfe on S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Glows With Chernobyl Radioactive Link · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There was nothing good in the story of Chernobyl.
    Hmm... what about the firefighters/engineers who went back into high radiation areas to shut equipment off or perform other rescue tasks, knowing they were condemning themselves to a slow death of radiation sickness to save their younger colleagues?

  7. Re:I don't know about you, on Netflix to Offer Movie Downloads · · Score: 4, Funny

    The story-driven, linear RPGs popular in Japan could work,
    Or the rocket-driven (but also linear) RPGs popular in Soviet Russia...

  8. Hmm... on CPA Googles For His Name, Sues Google For Libel · · Score: 1

    The first page of google for "Mark Maughan" brings up a British car ad, some HERF hax0r website discussion messages, some baseball stats and 2 LDS pages. Either:
    1. This guy was on a fishing expedition to find people to sue
    2. Or according to Googles malicious misrepresentation, he's dangerous for google - an expert Mormon pitcher who has HERF guns and tcpdump installed in his Mini :-)

  9. Re:Across state lines on 20 States Collecting Internet Tax · · Score: 2, Funny

    Kinda like civil forfeiture where some small town rouge cop
    Rouge cop? Is that like the fashion police?

  10. Re:IRS says they will audit any offenders on 20 States Collecting Internet Tax · · Score: 2, Informative

    The IRS and state tax departments do have agreements to exchange data...

  11. Re:Applications on Realizing Near-Optical Magnetism · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Could this help with chemical research (IIRC the largest current NMR spectrometers work up to 900MHz)? If true it could revolutionize the study of large protein/other biomolecules. Any knowledgeable chemist/physicist Slashdotters care to comment?

  12. Money.... on Are Modern Games Too Easy? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In the 70s and 80s a good chunk of the money was made from video games in arcades, etc. or video game rentals - developers had an incentive to keep people playing as long as possible to pull in the quarters/late fees. Now with the advent of the $9.99 CD rack at CompUSA, programmers have a financial incentive to make games easy-keep the user coming back for more games after s/he is bored with the old ones

  13. Re:Contradiction? on Yahoo To Charge For Search Listings · · Score: 4, Informative
    From the SiteMatch trademark application:
    Providing electronic navigation services via the internet, namely, providing search engine services for obtaining data on a wide variety of topics; tracking and analyzing the performance of online advertising for others; providing information, creating indexes of information, indexes of web sites and indexes of other information sources in connection with the Internet; providing information from searchable indexes and databases of information, including text, electronic documents, databases, graphic and audio visual information, by means of the Internet; providing editorial review, marketing consultation, site performance analysis and reports regarding the performance of client web sites
    It is possible that the payment ensures that the commercial sites are regularly crawled every x days for example, which would be of assistance to online merchants who want their latest deals to appear on searches, instead of their page from a week ago. The trademark app also indicates the possibility of companies being able to get usability/statistics reports generated by the crawler for their sites.
  14. Re:I'm skeptical. on Do Your $20 Bills Explode In the Microwave? · · Score: 5, Informative

    just because his body happens to generate the precise frequency of electromagnetic energy they're keyed to.
    Actually, the tags work passively (not requiring onboard battery) because inductors and capacitors can be printed on foil/similar materials, so a LC (or RLC) circuit can be designed to resonate at whatever frequency the antitheft system uses. When this resonant circuit passes between the detection gates (a receiver and transmitter), it resonates, causing a change in the received signal intensity at the gate (the circuit is now picking up energy originally flowing to the transmitter). Small electronics could set it off if some random connected inductor and capacitor on the circuit board form a resonant circuit - clothes or someones body could conceivably do this as well. The magnetic pulse in the store either permanently breaks the circuit (used in stores, etc) or bends a foil-type contact open (used in libraries so they can bend the contact shut again to activate the tag when the book is returned).

  15. Re; Verizon on An Open Source Alternative to Verizon's GetItNow? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In A.D. 2004
    A wireless slashdotting was beginning.
    Verizon: What happen?
    Operator: Somebody set up us the bomb.
    Operator: New phone get signal.
    Verizon: What!
    Operator: Main screen turn on.
    Verizon: It's You!!
    AC: How are you gentlemen!!
    AC: All your base stations are belong to us.
    AC: You are on the way to irrelevancy.
    Verizon: What you say!!
    AC: You have no chance to survive make your GetItNow open.
    AC: Ha Ha Ha Ha ....
    Verizon: Take off every "approval form"
    Verizon: You know what you doing.
    Verizon: Move "approval form".
    Verizon: For great justice.

  16. Re:Fired by text message? That's nothing! on Fired Via Instant Message · · Score: 2, Funny

    In A.D. 2004 marriage was ending.
    What happen?
    Someone set up us the tent.
    We get signal.
    What!
    Husband not turn on.
    It's you!
    How are you honey?
    All your camels are belong to us.
    You are on the way to your moms house.
    What you say?
    You have no chance to appeal make your time.
    For great justice take off every 'burka.'

  17. Re:Wait a minute on Russia Working on Soyuz Replacement · · Score: 3, Funny

    Their economy is in a slum right now; how are they paying?
    Typical capitalist criticism. Didn't you learn in PoliSci 101 how in Soviet Russia, the Soyuz pays for 60% of your income tax?

  18. Re:No complaints now, but... on Cell-Phone Wars · · Score: 1, Informative

    AEDs that are put in public places have sensors that, when you put the pads on the persons chest, it will analyze their heartbeat and only deliver a (appropriately measured) shock if the heart appears to be fibrillating. The less-automatic older ones carry some risks of messing up the heartbeat because of the potential to be used when the heart is not in fibrillation; that is why they were in hospitals and ambulances instead of libraries and shopping malls (because of the need for a skilled user).

  19. Re:Excellent on Second Hypersonic X43 Scramjet Ready for Testing · · Score: 0

    Sorry to point out your error in "tense", but Bush it STILL a sick and twisted mass murder(er).

    Sorry to point out your error in "it", but he isn't.

  20. Re:Online could still have traps! on Ripoff 101: Gouging Students for Textbooks · · Score: 0

    One of my economics textbooks included a CD that was promoted as having "many useful quizzes, lessons, etc." - the entire contents of the 0CD turned out to be one 15k HTML file on it, which redirected you to the publishers course webpage for the book.

  21. Re:Whining Socialist.... on Watching You · · Score: 0

    Hmm...
    Fritz Thyssen broke with the Nazis in 1938 over their persecution of Catholics and Jews, and fled to Switzerland. He later was arrested and spent 1941 to 1945 in a Nazi prison.
    Sounds like a hardcore racist Nazi to me...

  22. Re:Handcuffs on Sony, Intel To Push Content Protection · · Score: 0

    When taping is outlawed in Soviet Russia, only friends will tape outlaws.

  23. Re: merger on Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of Penguin Computers · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's about time that Scyld goes, seeing that he's DEAD (his funeral) at least as far as Beowulf is concerned.

  24. Re:IN SOVIET RUSSIA... on Bruce Sterling On Total Information Awareness · · Score: 1

    people kill nuclear weapons!

  25. PR Help... on Future Army Battle Uniforms - Wired, Lethal · · Score: 1

    It would probably go over better with the younger crowd if they called it the Future Universal Battle Uniform (FUBU)