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  1. Dudley Hiibel's side on U.S. Supreme Court: Public Anonymity No Right · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here's a link to Dudley Hiibel's side of the story: http://papersplease.org/hiibel/.

    Thanks for fighting for my rights, Mr. Hiibel!

  2. Re:How reliable is Bittorrent? on Fedora Core 2 Officially Available · · Score: 1

    Here is your useless use of kill -9 award.

  3. the name tells it all on Fathers of Linux Revealed: Tooth Fairy & Santa Claus · · Score: 1

    This can't be true. If it were, it would be called Santix or Toothix.

  4. Re:Still Waiting on Solver on Excel Clone for Linux Now in Beta · · Score: 1

    I can't get the solver to work on rather simple spreadsheets like I can in Excel. I just assumed it was a known bug, but perhaps it's user error. Does the solver in gnumeric work?

  5. Re:Why? on Excel Clone for Linux Now in Beta · · Score: 1

    I would use gnumeric if I could get the solver to work well. I can never seem to make it solve things that I can on Excel.

  6. Re:Knee-Jerks... on Linspire Accused Of Misusing Creative Commons Art · · Score: 1
    How many people do YOU know, who totally understand IP and Copyright laws?

    You must be new here. Everyone here is an expert on all legal issues.
  7. slashdotted already on Summer Is Coming; Will Your Mousing Hand Survive? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    One of the benefits of being a slashdot subscriber seems to be that in addition to seeing the stories posted before the unwashed masses do, you get to read the linked stories before they are slashdotted. I'm surprised that slashdot doesn't include this fact in their marketing material aimed at increasing the subscriber base.

    Actually, have any subscribers found that sites get slashdotted before they're even presented to the main audience?

  8. Re:Why is this a surprise?! on BIND 9.3 Released With Commercial Support · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Free Porn. Period. [ninenine.com]


    Would you take porn from a guy on street corner that was giving it away, even if he assured you that it was perfectly good...

    Perhaps some analogies are flawed, I guess.
  9. public offering on LinSpire LPhoto and LSongs: bring on the lawsuits! · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the other Lin[dows|spire] news. They are apparently one step closer to a public stock offering after filing some paperwork with the SEC.

  10. Re:Remember when we had unions? on Computerized Time Clocks Susceptible to 'Manager Attack' · · Score: 1
    I beliege that these companies have factories here because by having factories in the U.S., they can avoid import fees.
    ...and exchange rate risk.
  11. Re:Made my whole week on Plumber, Electrician... Digitician? · · Score: 1

    It made your hole weak?

    You must be doing it wrong.

  12. Re:Useless, but... on NASA Scientists Get Custom 24h39m-per-day Watches · · Score: 1

    That doesn't appear to be the same watch to me. I think it may actually run on Earth time. Did I miss something there?

  13. affero on Wikipedia Needs $20K · · Score: 1

    Perhaps a service like affero (http://www.affero.net/) would be able to send some money in the way of wikipedia. I've never tried it, but it looks interesting.

  14. Re:Not just *NIX on Free-Floating UNIX · · Score: 1

    The item description actually says "This product is designed to fit juniors." Is this product for the same kind of person that asks the Victoria's Secret salesperson "Does this come in childrens' sizes?"

  15. Re:In other news... on Vancouver Bars Network Together to Track Patrons · · Score: 1

    or worse: my health insurance provider, employer, wife, and priest.

  16. Re:WTF? on The Weak Signal Challenge - Decode and Win $100 · · Score: 1

    While you're at it, collect your useless use of cat award.

  17. Re:Representative government? on House Votes to Launch Do-Not-Call List · · Score: 1

    ...which is consistant with the chart displayed on the senate floor today.

  18. Re:Primestar Dish's on eBay on Using an Old Satellite Dish as a WLAN Antenna · · Score: 1
    Sheer brilliance! Look for articles that say you need rare XYZ, and post a reply saying...

    You mean post an article recommending using a rare XYZ and then post a reply saying...
  19. Netflix account on RIAA Sales Compared to Download Statistics · · Score: 0, Redundant

    What does Netflix have to do with the RIAA? Do they let you rent music over there now or something? Is this about movie soundtracks?

  20. Re:DRM Restriction on Testing The Right To Resell Downloaded Music · · Score: 4, Insightful
    The question is, is it possible to give away your right to sell an object and still be considered the legal owner of it. And that is very much up in the air. The right to sell is considered by many to be inherent to ownership.

    That's the position I'm in with my left kidney and my right eye. It's my understanding that I own them, but here in the US I can't sell either. (especially not on eBay.)
  21. Re:Personal Brain looks interesting on How Do You Organize Your Data? · · Score: 1

    Have you found yourself making many crosslinks between "Family" and "Porn"?

  22. Re:Must come down? on Clock Ticking for Hubble · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It will fall out of orbit eventually if you don't do anything about it. Satellites periodically lifted a bit to keep them up there. "Just leaving it up there" actually costs money. That's why many old satellites are "deorbited".

  23. Re:Too expensive on More on the Tango Electric Car · · Score: 1
    Plus, current sockets aren't widely available like gas stations.

    Really? I have two 220v outlets in my house, and could have one in the garage by sundown. I think it's somewhat more common for people to have electrical outlets in their houses than to have filling stations.
  24. Re:"Tricks?" on The Growing Field Guide To Spam Techniques · · Score: 1
    On a second note, isn't ham.. pork? I think it doesn't stand for that.. prolly just "Spiced Ham"'

    The "S" stands for "shoulder." The shoulder pork meat used to not be worth too much because it's hard to seperate out the good and bad parts. Grinding it all up with some other ham makes it useful.
  25. Re:n00bs? on Linux Security Cookbook · · Score: 1
    If not, any suggestions?

    yeah, quit writing "n00bs."