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  1. Re:Braces on Is it Copyrighted or a Trade Secret When Using DRM? · · Score: 1

    Brackets are the square ones

    Americanism

  2. Re:Games that I think should be added. on Attempting To Create A Gaming Canon · · Score: 1

    Snood is based on Puzzle Bobble, which was released in the US as "Bust a move"... however, bubble bobble was a classic in its own right.

  3. Re:Subliminal Messages? on High-Tech Glasses Help Improve Memory · · Score: 1

    More than that, if TV's or some permutation of a TV in the future can do this, whats to stop companies from flashing "BUY COKE" every 180th frame.

    I think there's some sort of obscure law against that

  4. Re:Yeah on More Looks At Far-Off 'Longhorn' · · Score: 1

    Translate teh 22 into the hour number
    I'm lost... what exactly do you mean by this? 22 would be 10PM? 2010?

  5. Re:Solaris: Time machine to the 1980s on Sun Solaris Vs Linux: The x86 Smack-down · · Score: 1

    that's hardly the point... for those of you not keeping track, bill joy _wrote_ vi, originally.

  6. Installer on Progeny Ports Red Hat's Anaconda To Debian · · Score: 1

    am i, like, the only person who liked the old one better than most other dists?

  7. About the file selector on GTK 2.3, And The Emerging File Selector · · Score: 1

    what was wrong with the old one? or maybe i'm remembering a different one, can someone point me to screenshots of the one everyone hates?

  8. um on Lord Of The Rings Pinball Machine Announced · · Score: 0

    so, is this a good thing (more LOTR stuff) or a bad thing (corporatization,merchandising,etc crap)? I lost my scorecard

  9. Re:Well.... on GTK 2.3, And The Emerging File Selector · · Score: 1

    the windows file open dialog has been resizeable since windows 95. what app are you using? it's possible that your app is reinventing the wheel

  10. Re:Amazing Technology on Writing in Space with a Cheap Ballpoint Pen · · Score: 1

    "lead pencils"? you mean, with actual lead, as in the element 'Pb'? I think you're mistaken... it's possible that you think that "graphite" is some special kind of pencil material, rather than the standard

  11. Re:Evolution on For Americans, Imported Textbooks Can Be Cheaper · · Score: 1

    by that definition of "hard science", evolution is not and never can be, regardless of whether you believe in it or not. my original point stands.

  12. Re:Evolution on For Americans, Imported Textbooks Can Be Cheaper · · Score: 1

    correct me if i'm wrong, but i don't think biology has generally been considered a "hard science" anyway (that's an actual term, or so i've heard, the "hard sciences" are chemistry, physics, etc, "soft sciences" being biology, psychology, etc.) i could be completely wrong, though.

  13. Re:Has anybody noticed... on Microsoft Dismisses Apple's iTunes for Windows · · Score: 1

    actually, he was pointing out neither... he was pointing out, incorrectly, that apple powerpc hardware _does_ use IRQs, since he thinks "interrupt" and "IRQ" are synonymous.

  14. Re:Music is Music on What Counts as Music and Why? · · Score: 1

    Actually, fonts aren't copyrighted... only the "digital program data" of a font is copyrighted - i.e. the ttf/pfm file... that's why you don't need a special license to print it (though some foundries restrict printing in the licence for the data itself) it's also perfectly legal (assuming no contractual constraints) to scan and trace a printout of a font and make a "new" font... good luck getting it hinted, though.

  15. Re:site finder is misleading on ICANN Asks VeriSign To Stop DNS Wildcarding · · Score: 1

    >> I turned the sitefinder.verisign.com off by modifying my hosts file instructions?! or are you just making shit up without a clue how it works (making "sitefinder.verisign.com" resolve to nothing won't stop it from coming up when you type "http://fhqwhgadsasdf.net"

  16. Re:Why should US companies complain? on Australian Court Doubles CD Importers' Fines · · Score: 1

    the title on the post is wrong - the fines aren't for the importers (according to the text of the summary) they're for the [local, though branches of multinational coroprations] record labels that are trying to stop imports using anticompetitive leverage.

  17. Actually it's "octopodes" on During Blackout, Ham Radio Shined · · Score: 1

    no/text -- Slow Down Cowboy! Slashdot requires you to wait 20 seconds between hitting 'reply' and submitting a comment.

  18. Re:On the other hand... on Power Outages Strike East Coast · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The amendment was designed so that the militias could protect the people from the government, not the government from foreign powers.

  19. Re:It's a Manipulation Tactic on Insurance Claims to be Tested by Lie Detector · · Score: 1

    wrong; you could just be nervous because of being interrogated. many people are.

  20. Re:It's a Manipulation Tactic on Insurance Claims to be Tested by Lie Detector · · Score: 1

    But if you said in your statement that you locked that day, you have just commit fraud. what if you THOUGHT you did?

  21. Re:Glycol? on Zero Blaster Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Kids tend to equate cherries with stuff that tastes good when _i_ was a kid, "cherry flavored" meant "tastes like cough syrup".

  22. Re:Or Mayby he *REALLY IS* a terrorist on Former Intel Engineer Pleads Guilty To Taliban Aid · · Score: 1

    ...Yes, but i was responding to the (apparent) disbelief that someone could confuse either for a terrorist, which showed that the irony had gone over their head; not to that correction.

  23. Re:Or Mayby he *REALLY IS* a terrorist on Former Intel Engineer Pleads Guilty To Taliban Aid · · Score: 1

    And I don't see how anyone could confuse either with terrorists. parent post to yours is making an ironic statement about people who consider a full beard to be evidence of terrorism.

  24. Re:Copyright Infringment MOD PARENT DOWN on Inquiry Into RIAA's Piracy Crackdown Tactics · · Score: 1

    But what about when the poor kids end up in debt for their next five lifetimes as a result of the ridiculous damage counts...