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  1. Re:Seems reasonable to sell a product on Sony Wins Battle Over Preinstalled Windows in Europe's Top Court (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Unless it's an OEM key and tied to specific manufacturer. Sony OEM keys won't install on ASUS for instance.

  2. Re:Good luck on This Company Has Built a Profile On Every American Adult (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's either her dead body, of the really feminine sounding boy dressed up and talking like her telling himself about how all the women are whores. 50/50, and most cops are smart enough to realize you aren't the dead mummified boy sitting in the rocking chair.

  3. Re:And I Will Stop Buying... on Ford Rolls the Dice With Breakthrough F-150 Aluminum Pickup Truck · · Score: 1

    I'm just hoping they don't do this with 3/4 and 1 ton pickups and SUVs. I agree with you, I need a pickup to work and haul. Sure, Al can be used in some places to lighten load, but when you start looking at the frame, you are weakening the overall strength...Got, imagine grade 8 bolts made out of Al.

  4. Bounty Source on Bribe Devs To Improve Open Source Software · · Score: 3, Informative

    How does this differ from Bounty Source? Bounty Source has been around for awhile now, is well maintained and already offers everything here. In some things, to much diversity is a bad thing and I see that here. You need to be able to meet up as many users with developers as possible for a system like this to work well.

  5. This is exciting.. on Tiny Pacemaker Can Be Installed Via Catheter · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The things we can do now adays in medicine are shocking...

  6. Re:I think that's all college students on Ask Slashdot: Rectifying Nerd Arrogance? · · Score: 0

    I have forgotten more than you will ever learn! This will hold true unless you realize you know shit and seek to expound instead of hold what little you know over those who know less which becomes a slowly shrinking number unless you constantly phase out those who make you look like a dip shit in search of new people to troll.

  7. Re:Display information on What To Do With Those First Generation Photo Frames? · · Score: 1

    Hacking doesn't HAVE to involve breaking open or doing something outside of the devices current limitations. A HACKER is someone who can also make new use of a device by further understanding its uses within its current limitations and adapt it to his/her need. Hacking is about understanding why things work and how you can make them work better for you also...

  8. Re:Dress for the role you want next on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Professional Geek Dress Code? · · Score: 1

    I am so going to start dressing like a male porn star...For straight films of course!!! I know you sick bastards would think otherwise..

  9. Moores law... on Android ICS Will Require 16GB RAM To Compile · · Score: 1

    Next Android will need 32GB.... Then 64GB... Soon, Skynet level of resources....

  10. Re:...and this has to do with /. ... how? on NASA Sues Apollo Astronaut To Return Moon Camera · · Score: 1

    I've heard of the Wright Brothers and the things they were first to do. But really? I'm pretty sure they didn't build the first place. Depending on your religious or evolution beliefs, I'm sure some prior art can refute this claim.

  11. Re:Why fit in? on How Do You Educate a Prodigy? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Making an art piece out of him doesn't seem to be the best use of him either. I'm sure some college art students would love to minimize his impact on society though.

  12. Re:In other news: on Unreal Engine 3 Running In Flash · · Score: 2

    "Dood.." Misspelled dude, and the use of two periods ".." is neither a period for ending a sentence properly or an ellipsis "...". Prepare for flaming death!

  13. Re:Go to your PO... on USPS Losing Battle Against the E-mail Age · · Score: 1

    To further this, people could sign up for 3 or 6 day delivery with 1 day delivery guaranteed with the option of local PO pickup offered. Then you could possibly quarter your drivers and keep an extra for guaranteed postage delivery in a set amount of days (like 3 day delivery).

  14. Re:Go to your PO... on USPS Losing Battle Against the E-mail Age · · Score: 1

    The bill is due on its dude date even if you never get the bill to begin with. I've fought this battle before when I never received a bill. You are just supposed to remember to pay them. And with most things going paperless for billing anyway, its a moot point.

  15. Go to your PO... on USPS Losing Battle Against the E-mail Age · · Score: 1

    I don't think we need 6 day delivery. I really don't think we need even 4 day delivery. Mon/Wed/Fri should be enough. There used to be a time in American history where people were expected to go to the local post office and check if they had mail. With USPS tracking, people could sign up to get mail waiting emails or voice mails. Then, if the mail was important enough, they could go and pick it up or wait for the next scheduled daily delivery. Would provide a vastly more efficient system in the long run I believe.

  16. Re:Can I just say this? on Firefox 7.0 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    I keep a version of aversion in subversion.

  17. Re:Use aliases. on Ask Slashdot: Privacy Paranoia · · Score: 1

    I didn't stop at friending her...I "poked" her as well.. :-)

  18. Re:My grandmother is one of them... on 60% of AOL's Profits Come From Misinformed Customers · · Score: 1

    I had a problem with services such as AOL doing this bull.. It became easier to look at my monthly billing statement, find the things I WANTED to pay, and then cancel my debit card and get a new one. Really..It avoided a lot of hassle.

  19. Re:limiting? on Mr. Pike, Tear Down This ASCII Wall! · · Score: 1
  20. Re:What momentum may that fork have? on OpenSolaris Governing Board Dissolves Itself · · Score: 1

    As of FreeBSD 8.1 with ZFS v14 I found it quite stable and usable enough to move it from my solaris install. the rig is a 16 core xeon with 96GB of RAM and 2 areca 24 port raid controllers with 4GB of cache each. Now, the 52TB of data configured into various raidz's and joined into the zpool all work quite nicely. And as of testing with separate drives, I have found it a VERY fast solution maxing connectivity across the 2 gig-e interfaces I have currently enabled on the machine. When you open your mouth, its a good idea to know WHAT you are talking about.

  21. Re:Ordering and Convergence on The Tuesday Birthday Problem · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The problem doesn't disallow twins as it doesn't give TIME of birth. Only day. A child born at 11:50PM on Tuesday and one born at 00:15 on Wednesday are still both twins. It also does not include if in that scenario is a single egg birth or whatnot so it could still be a boy and girl twin situation.

  22. Re:Yeah right? on Small Robots Could Build Landing Site For Moon Base · · Score: 1

    Ever here of a grease pen? How about Tang?

  23. Re:Bill Gates' influence? on MySQL Co-Founder Monty Widenius Quits Sun · · Score: 1

    And hear I thought it was Malwaria.

  24. Re:And What of the Others? on EU Could Force Bundling Firefox With Windows · · Score: 1

    I tend to agree. I've use all the options mentioned. I am not a normal user though, and happened to run across the projects you mention. They all seem to work best via word of mouth. The problem is, if all these get installed in the base, do I have an option to NOT install them? And how far will this go? Should MS be forced to include 5 competing browsers, music, video apps? How about notepad and wordpad? In MS's position, they are selling a ready to go for most peoples use OS. A lot of people appreciate not having to make choices and just having something that works out of the box. You start bundling all these things together and soon people will complain about bloat, the less effectiveness of there smaller hard drives they bought to save money, and who knows what else. If you want to compete in a market, you have to actually do something besides just release a binary/source. You have to market it, get your name out there. Opera's flaw has been marketing imo. Besides bundling IE, what has MS done to block Opera on the desktop? We aren't talking Java here, or various other tech's that MS crippled from working. Bottom line, I don't want all the excess bundle, and wouldn't mind a selection of apps to choose from during install time, but don't force them on me in a default install. I'm a FreeBSD/OpenBSD user myself with an XP box for gaming still so I am not MS biased as I predominantly use BSD's because I prefer the openess of the arch, and a base install is really just that. A base set of tools to get where I need to for what I want. But mom and pop just want it to plug in and get online.

  25. Re:Mugging is a civil offense? on A Teacher Asking Students To Destroy Notes? · · Score: 1

    I think its already going there. Canada already has a tax on blank media that goes to the big recording industry. What's to keep all blank media being sold under them though so they get 100% of the profit of the media (which will now be priced near the price of a album or movie).