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  1. Re:Probably Amazon, not Slashdot on Publisher Renames 'Katie.com' · · Score: 1

    It's possible no-one working for amazon ever saw them - i've heard amazon was working on implementing a system to not allow reviews without a real name and credit card info, and removing all older anonymous reviews

  2. Re:You're answering the wrong question. on Publisher Renames 'Katie.com' · · Score: 1

    Is Tarbox even employing the lawyer? She says not.

    Then the lawyer ought to be disbarred for misrepresenting this fact.

  3. Re:Nothing for us to see here, move along. on Katie Jones Interviewed · · Score: 1

    for the record, the "non-assigned phone number prefix" was narrowed to 555-0XXX about [i believe] five years ago, and now stands at 555-01XX.

  4. Re:Amazon is censoring its reviews? on Katie Jones Interviewed · · Score: 1

    (in the context of a factual review) that the author had been arrested for crossing state lines to have sex with a 13 year old girl he met on the Internet!

    If it's the same person (if not, mod parent offtopic), the statement was not factual - she was 17.

  5. Re:probably not on The Saga of Katie.com · · Score: 1

    She's had the domain name since 1996 - the book came out in 2000 [and don't say "the previous ones shown on archive.org are blank" - evidently archive.org doesn't save flash intros.]

  6. Re:Similar to the problems of Uzi Nissan on The Saga of Katie.com · · Score: 1

    no... it's Katie Jones [an individual] vs. Penguin-Putnam [a big corporation]

  7. Re:How is that libelous? on The Saga of Katie.com · · Score: 1

    titling the book as that did in fact falsely lead people to believe that katie [J] was an online sexual predator. how about i publish a book called "AntiCopyrightRadical(690243) eats babies"?

  8. Re:Almost too weird to be true on The Saga of Katie.com · · Score: 1

    Also WIPO will probably rule for Katie Jones on the grounds of "who was there first and using for a legitimate purpose"

    No, they'll rule for penguin on the grounds of "who's a big corporation"

  9. Re:Doubleplusungood on British Schoolkids Get Copyright Education · · Score: 1

    The record companies' definition of piracy includes letting your friends borrow a cd to listen to [no copying involved] - or listening to something as a group [without a "public performance license"]

  10. Re:Combat survival 101 on Marine Finds Duct Tape on Mars · · Score: 1

    I thought red lights [i.e. a glowing cigarette tip] didn't ruin night vision

  11. Re:In RE: "Mayo Jar" on Lawyer Sues Yahoo for Message Board Name-Calling · · Score: 1

    Your patent's specificity is your downfall - a sharp knife easily bypasses it - as would a fork.

  12. Re:Information on Lawyer Sues Yahoo for Message Board Name-Calling · · Score: 3, Funny

    my patent "Decanting a glass, plastic, or other receptacle containing an egg/oil emulsion for food flavoring or other purposes."

    However, that can be worked around via my patent of "dipping into the jar", which is available royalty-free under an open-license for anyone who does not have similar patents or who makes their own patents available to the public on similar terms.

  13. Re:Not really on Antarctic Lake Actually Two in One · · Score: 1

    cubic growth is x^3 - exponential growth is k^x.

  14. Re:In the sense you're thinking of... on Debian Project Votes To Postpone Policy Changes · · Score: 1

    it didn't have "old software" at release time... and you can't argue that it's as old as version 3 of other linux distributions

  15. Re:Not really on Antarctic Lake Actually Two in One · · Score: 0, Troll

    Since the heat requirements grows exponentially to melt a larger volume of ice

    why do people abuse the word "exponential"? if you take an argument based on the radius, the amount of energy needed to melt it grows cubically.

  16. Re:complete bullshit article on Dance Dance Revolution Hastens Heart Attack · · Score: 1

    Your explanation doesn't explain casting the "heroes" as the ones who knew how to use the "device", as in the original quote

  17. Re:Parents? on Spider-Man 2 Game Rewarded To Tusk-Impaled Spidey Copycat · · Score: 1

    The local theater here has an even stronger policy: no-one under 17 is allowed into an R rated movie. Period. it's stupid, that's what NC17 is for, but

  18. Re:They don't call it the 3rd world for nothing on Endangered Countries On The Internet · · Score: 1

    Regardless of the fact that they weren't aligned with the soviets, they were behind the iron curtain [only such map i could find showing southern europe, i apologize for the low quality.]

  19. Re:Linus makes announcement on Java 1.5.0 Now Officially Java 5.0 · · Score: 1

    regardless of the fact that XP is version 5.1, don't forget

    "XP" == 0

    "XP" 11

  20. Re:In the sense you're thinking of... on Debian Project Votes To Postpone Policy Changes · · Score: 1

    Well, to be honest it would also help if the version numbers weren't so deflated relative to other distributions

  21. Re:Bad for Debian? on Debian Project Votes To Postpone Policy Changes · · Score: 1

    if it rounded _up_ you could make 2+2=3 (1.3 rounding up to 2; 2.6 rounding up to 3) - what you mean is it rounds down :P

    if it rounded by the normal rule (>= .5 up; .5 down) you could do both:

    2=1.6;2=2.4
    1.6+1.6=3.2
    2.4+2.4=4.8
    3.2=3;4.8 =5

  22. Re:They don't call it the 3rd world for nothing on Endangered Countries On The Internet · · Score: 1

    But as part of the [former] "Socialist Federated Republic of Yugoslavia", and being behind the iron curtain don't you think it fits in with the rest of the communist bloc?

  23. Re:They don't call it the 3rd world for nothing on Endangered Countries On The Internet · · Score: 1

    It has been pointed out that many of the so-called "second-world" countries (i.e. those controlled directly or indirectly by the Soviet Union) are either progressing and becoming first-world countries, or falling behind and becoming third-world countries.

    The point of the original post was that the terms had nothing to do with development levels originally. A poor country could just as easily side with the US in the cold war (becoming "first world") or a rich one decide to remain neutral (becoming "third world") as anything else.

  24. Re:Profit! on Online MD5 Cracking Service · · Score: 1

    Step 5: realize nobody actually uses "goatse" as a password.

  25. Re:MD5 vs SHA-1 on Online MD5 Cracking Service · · Score: 1

    for a 17-byte file, there are an average of 256 files per md5sum.

    for a 512-byte file, there are many orders of magnitude more files per md5sum than exist md5sums.