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  1. Who ever clicks on ads? on Microsoft Says Not All Ad Clicks Are Created Equal · · Score: 1

    I know that I only click on sites as a result of google searches. Does this count?

  2. So happy to be a boomer! on National ID Cards Mandated in the US, If You're Under 50 · · Score: 1

    At age 57 I love to hear that our government makes arbitrary age limits on this.

    As a youth I fully expected to be driving a Jetson model car by now.

  3. Couldn't this happen in another way? on Old Stars Can Form New Planets · · Score: 1

    The sun could belch or burp out matter because of an internal explosion or an impact.

    Also one solar system could use a nearby system as a toxic waste dump. Think of all the junk leftover after making a ring world system.

    Finally small twin black holes could pull matter out of a sun that they orbit.

  4. FCC to investigate Congress on Congress To Investigate FCC · · Score: 1

    What is fair is fair.

  5. Password = Password on Password Vulnerability In Firefox 2.0.0.5 · · Score: 1

    keeps it much easier for all my sites, except my bank for which I use Pa$$word. I trust you guys here not to spread this around.

  6. didn't know what OOXML meant on What Happens Next on the US Vote on OOXML · · Score: 3, Informative

    Thought it might be Open Office XML but found out that it means

    "Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) formats"

    Thought others might want to know.

  7. It works great! My new iPhone is powered on Tiny Generator Runs Off Vibrations · · Score: 1

    by my jaw muscles as I chew gum. But I have to chew very quickly to make the music loud enough to hear.

  8. Can Slashdot be slashdotted? on Swarm Theory Makes National Geographic · · Score: 1

    Has it ever happened? Just curious.

  9. I trapped their trap and sent back "Legalize It" on MPAA Sets Up Fake Site to Catch Pirates · · Score: 1

    by Bob Marley. And I reported that I was George W. Bush and that I had all the Marley classics plus Cindi Lauper's "She Bop", "Girls just want to have fun" and other wonderful music including Bill Clinton on jazz saxiphone. Now let's see what happens.

  10. News flash: Ars Technica will also be gone by 100 on Far Future Will See No Evidence of Universe's Origin · · Score: 1

    News flash: Ars Technica will also be gone by 100 years from now and all of us readers will be gone then too.

    "Mortality just snuck up on me and stole my soul." --Slashdot ID #1 (RIP)

  11. Users file suit against Microsoft for .... on Microsoft Says Free Software Violates 235 Patents · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...infringment on 1) use of numbers 2) use of words, punctuation, sentences... 3) use of algebra sum(A1:A22) 4) excessive problems with operating systems and applications -- I can prove my mental condition is much worse having used MS products and so on...

    And our lawyers will work pro bono because so many of them hate MS too.

  12. The volume of SPAM precludes this approach. on France Launches Anti-Spam Platform · · Score: 1

    Can't keep up with billions of messages per day.
    Time to pay 1 cent per message.

  13. Trust French cullinary experts to destroy all SPAM on France Launches Anti-Spam Platform · · Score: 2, Funny

    and smoke a noxious cigarette to celebrate.

  14. I would find it hard to do without Google on Who Isn't Afraid of Google? · · Score: 1

    I hope that it does not fall into the hands of those who are only seeking "Shareholder Value", then all users lose and a few wealthy people gain more cash.

  15. Why assume caves? on Large Caves Found on the Surface of Mars · · Score: 1

    Couldn't they be drains or chimneys or even potholes? Or the Navals of Mars? Wouldn't that make a good Science Fiction novel?

  16. Anna Nichole Smith drawn in gold atoms on Nano Scale Artworks · · Score: 1

    is so beautiful.

  17. Please, please only pirate open software. on Pirating Software? Choose Microsoft! · · Score: 1

    We need to make people loyal to FREEDOM.

  18. But brute force actually does work. on Windows Vista Keygen a Hoax · · Score: 0, Troll
    I quote: "Apparently, the keygen program does legitimately attack Windows Vista keys via brute force, but the chances of success are too low for this to be a practical method."

    My software team of 665 programmers in Puna, India, has actually cracked the WV keys over 78,023 times. Get your key for Rs. 5,000 or US$ 30.00 on our site:

    http://www.windows-crakers-in-india.com/

  19. Hell, MS Onecare detector was effective on me... on Microsoft OneCare Last in Antivirus Tests · · Score: 1, Funny

    it detected some virus MAKING software I had swiped from some guys in Moscow, turned me in with the Genuine Advantage program and now I am paying "royalties" to some WISE GUYS in Tel Aviv who threatened to post my bank account numbers in Nigeria, put me in the Homeland Security database as a terrorist, and take me off the Do-Not-Call list.

    It may be 17% behind the leader, but it is damned effective.

  20. I could use it to program my automatic toaster on AMD Demonstrates "Teraflop In a Box" · · Score: 2, Funny

    which is fully connected to the Internet so that I can put my toast down or pop it up remotely.

    Wait...from some of the other comments about electricity usage, I might be able to do away with the heating coils and use the circuits themself to toast. That would really be an environment plus. Wonder how it would affect the taste of the bread?

  21. Stallman the philosopher on Stallman — 20 Years of Explaining Free Software · · Score: 1

    Stallman is a philosopher first and involved with software second.

    Actually GNU might be the worlds first truly free and secular religion.

    I read the whole article and agree with most of his arguments.

    However, unless you have a just society, with power controlled by the people it governs, you can not have the 4 levels of fredom. And I am not confident that good will is enough.

  22. Re:I am 56 years old and would love to learn COBOL on Modernizing the Common Language - COBOL · · Score: 1

    I hope to code until I reach 80. You have about 60 more years to go.

    Good luck to us all!

  23. Re:I am 56 years old and would love to learn COBOL on Modernizing the Common Language - COBOL · · Score: 1

    You are too young to remember the line: "Never trust anybody over 30" this was in the 60s

  24. Re:I am 56 years old and would love to learn COBOL on Modernizing the Common Language - COBOL · · Score: 1

    They still do, youngster!

  25. I am 56 years old and would love to learn COBOL on Modernizing the Common Language - COBOL · · Score: 1

    I am 56 years old and would love to learn COBOL, if it means that I can get a better paying job.

    Obviously, COBOL works. In fact, if statistics are to be believed, then it is perhaps the most successful of all computer programming languages.

    Why replace what works? In fact, why do employers always want to replace me with someone younger and cheaper and not necessarily more gifted?

    Never trust anyone under 50 should be my sig line.