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  1. Re:Damn that photoshop on Corbis, DMCA, And John Kerry Photos · · Score: 3, Funny

    And with this PS contest, they are clearly in violation of copyright. Look at all those photoshopped pictures of celebrities!

  2. They... on Lindows becomes Lindash · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They obviously arn't happy about the change, seeing as how their current front-page picture shows a hang-man with only d, o, w left in the letter-box. (Lin_ _ _ s might be a better way to put it.)

  3. Re:AH so THAT'S the deal on Open Source Software Serves Niche Markets · · Score: -1, Redundant

    AH so THAT'S the deal (Score:1, Redundant)

    A redundant first post? The mods need a dictionary.com .

  4. Re:It could be much smaller ;-) on Google's Bigger Index · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, two websites; Fark would be hosting the petition, and Slashdot would be redirecting all internet traffic there.

  5. Re:The tide is high, but are we rolling on.... on 4 Years Later, The Mozilla Tide Has Turned · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I have to disagree. IE's integration with the windows OS hurts it, and it's image. Why? because image-wise it makes it seem like the 'basic' or 'generic' version of the product, and once people start getting into in they want to move away from the 'generic' product and into a 'specialized' one; a catagory that firefox seems to fit into.

    The other thing is that Mozilla is being spread by word of mouth. I do the regular comp. geek favors for neighbors, and more than a few of them have been asking me about Mozilla because "the tech guys at work use it." People want to use it because the specialists use it, and I makes them seem more into computing image-wise. Throw in the popup blocking, bug support, cookie management, and the host of other features and you have a product that's very easy to switch to. And it's free, as in 'free beer' and 'trouble-free', not 'free headaches included' or 'free viruses'.

  6. Re:Yes, but it's not really the original on It's Official -- Star Wars on DVD · · Score: 2, Funny

    Return of the Jedi: 13. We see more planets celebrating at the end of the movie. We see an aged Jar Jar, who is now the leader of the Gungans, on Naboo celebrating with the people of Naboo and the Gungans. We see an old Watto, who is now unable to fly, sitting in a hover chair cheering on Tatooine. During these scenes Across the Stars plays transitioning to the victory celebration music at the Ewok tree village.

    They want to add in Jar Jar...

    Well... There goes all that was pure and good about those movies.

  7. Re:I wish they'd just stop on It's All About the Ununpentium · · Score: 1

    1st off, he was joking. Why else would he start talking about Doom?

    And 2nd, these things are NOT created in the upper atmosphere, it is unlikley that they are created anywhere outside of suns and blackholes. They are notoriously hard to create, and need massive energies to do so.

  8. Re:Paul thurrott blames *ix for MyDoom! on Introducing Linux to Joe Average · · Score: 3, Funny

    /*Chalk another one up for Open Software. Working together you can analyse virus code faster! */

    No, you analyse it just as slow as the other vendors, it's just that one of the analysts wrote the damn thing. ;)

  9. Re:MOD PARENT DOWN. on Comcast Targets Internet "Abusers" · · Score: 1

    By your reasoning, everyone always acts according to their training. The guy wasn't reading off of anything, and we had been talking for about 20 minutes because my modem died. He seemed to be telling the truth, and stressed that it wasn't a biggie if you broke it once or twice, and that they 'only sent an email'

  10. Actually, it's not that hard to get the info... on Comcast Targets Internet "Abusers" · · Score: 5, Informative

    I did manage to get the info about what constitutes a breakage of the caps policy when I called their tech support line...

    After a quick call to their tech support line, the guy said that the following would flag you as excessive for a residential downloader. 8 gbytes downloads over 20 hours and/or downloading enough to cause problems for other people in the service area. He also said that it shouldn't raise a flag if it's something like 3 gbytes/day for a month. Also, they mostly instituted these policies as a way to make sure that no one person was hogging enough of the pipe to make other cable users connections slow.

  11. Would someone mind telling me the difference... on Athlon64 Motherboards And Chips Compared · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Would someone mind telling me the difference between the 939 pin and the 940 pin? What difference can that one pin make?

  12. Re:what? on Footage From Star Wars: Episode III · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, a few of these questions have been answered in the books.

    Anakin really becomes Vader-Vader after falling in a Lava pit while fighting a worm not unlike the sandworms of Arrakis. He survives, but needs the black suit to survive.

    Padme goes into hiding after seeing that Anakin goes over to the dark side. She never tells him that she had kids.

    Palpatine has a military coup, the final bit of which is seen in eps 4 with the dissolving of the senate.

    The Jedi are hunted down by bounty hunters like Fett, along with Darth Vader and some other force-users that the books allude to.

    A few Jedi survive in out of the way places, some of them turn up in the books. (One teaches Kip Durron a bit in the mines of Kessel, another guards a cache of lightsabers on an old library planet that's name eludes me.)

    The longer it's been since the Jedi has died, the harder it is to come back. Even Obiwan stops appearing to Luke after a decade or two.

  13. Re:bittorrent not working manually or any other wa on Footage From Star Wars: Episode III · · Score: 4, Funny

    Manually? I told you that connecting a Cat-5 cable to your brain wasn't gonna work.

  14. Re:what? on Footage From Star Wars: Episode III · · Score: 1

    Technically, Eps 4, 5, and 6 ARE the middle. 1-3 is the beginning, and 7-9 is the ending. Though I have to wonder the logic of shooting the ending eps. Considering all the books that have been written, wouldn't the movies trample on the book's storylines?

  15. Re:Amusment park on The Absolute Worst Working Environment? · · Score: 1

    Man, I have to pay for that kind of entertainment... Seriously though, at the point where people set themselves on fire in the name of religion, don't you think that the entire religion thing might be a little in the negative? (Benefits-costs)

  16. Re:Unbelievable on Women Buy More Tech Than Men · · Score: 2, Informative

    "women accounted for $55 billion of the $96 billion dollar market." Do the math.

  17. Re:Deceptively simple on Freedom of Expression in Virtual Worlds · · Score: 1

    I agree with most of your comment, but it's an abomination to put goatse and pr0n in the same sentance. The mental image.... oh the horror...

  18. Re:Note to slashdot editors on A New HOPE on the Horizon · · Score: 1

    Hackers On Planet Earth, I realized I should have added that the second after I hit the submit button.

  19. I heard a disturbance on Star Wars Sequel Trilogy Rumors · · Score: 0

    I felt a great disturbance in the force, like a million geeks all crying out in horror at once.

  20. Comcast's acceptable bandwith use policy on How Much Broadband Usage is Too Much? · · Score: 0

    After a quick call to their tech support line, the guy said that the following would flag you as excessive for a residential downloader. 8 gbytes downloads over 20 hours and/or downloading enough to cause problems for other people in the service area. He also said that it shouldn't raise a flag if it's something like 3 gbytes/day for a month. Also, they mostly instituted these policies as a way to make sure that no one person was hogging enough of the pipe to make other cable users connections slow.

  21. Re:Tom's hardware is like Star Trek on Pushing P4 to 5.25GHz with Liquid Nitrogen · · Score: 0

    You mean boldly going where no red screen has gone before. It's just going fast enough to appear blue to you.

  22. Re:Hey thats my SSID on Warflying 2013 Access Points in Los Angeles · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It's called open spectrum. There was a wired article about it a few months ago.

  23. Famous last words on Quantum Cryptography Gets Nanotube Boost · · Score: 0

    -this unbreakable encryption. It'll be unbreakable until microsoft gets it's hands on it and creates a bug that lets you break it in five minutes. Or until we get quantum decryption.

  24. Re:a big AAAAAHHHHHH on Mystery Tiles From Around the World · · Score: 0

    especially because it's a french slashe` dotting. It's cold, but there's a pastry around it so it's not all bad.

  25. Re:10 years from now on Computer Expectations of Today, and a Decade Hence? · · Score: 0

    I thought is was Damn Dirty Apes?