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  1. Re:No way in hell would I use one on A Flying Leap for Cars? · · Score: 1

    The recipe suggested picking up a cat at the market, already dressed. The closest thing available around here is frozen armidillo and I'm told it's just not the same, "tastes like chicken".

    So, any suggestions are welcome. Mod to 'ask slashdot' if you see fit.


    Contrary to popular belief, you don't set traps for cats. You go fishing for cats. Trolling it's called specifically. Yes, I said it, trolling for cats.

    You take a bicycle and attach two fishing pole holders to it, one on either side. For the fishing poles, light line will work best so you can feel the strike and play the cat(ch). 8 lb test with a short monofilament leader works. As bait, you'll want to use fresh, or freshly frozen (but gently thawed) sardines, not canned sardines, as canned will fall appart too easily and your cat(ch) will get away. Don't use treble hooks, that will just be a mess when you land your cat. Once this rig is set up, you slowly rid your bike up and down quiet alleys at night and wait for the first hit. The ideal speed to ride is about 1 m/s, depending on the road surface and how active the bait appears. Some fat cats might only go for a slower bait.

    Alternately, if you have pegs on your back wheels, you can have a friend stand on them facing backwards and holding the fishing pole(s).

    hope this helps.

  2. Re:Damn you Kaspersky lab on "E-Jihad" Exaggerated by Russian Media Spin · · Score: 1

    sealing my linux box with duct tabe and plastic wrap.

    ah, the old Kaspersky Case Mod. a classic.

  3. Re:No way in hell would I use one on A Flying Leap for Cars? · · Score: 2, Funny

    What does any of that prove about flying cars?

    nothing, but i think it proves your cat is dead.

  4. Re:No way in hell would I use one on A Flying Leap for Cars? · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's a silly attitude. The addition of a third dimension also adds a lot more room to avoid other vehicles.

    You've obviously never lived with a cat. They live in full 3d space, as apposed to dogs who live only on the ground plane. Just because there is more room for the cat and you to coexist doesn't mean your paths cross less often and all your glassware will stay in one piece.

  5. Re:In other news... on Internet Meltdown Predicted for Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    Productivity tomorrow is expected to rise to levels not seen since the 1980's.

    Why's that? Cocaine making a comeback to the office place?

  6. Re:Where's this proof? on MPAA Sues DVD Chip Manufacturers · · Score: 1

    Have you *listended* to the tripe being put out by the major record labels?! that itself is indication, nay, documentation of the destruction wrought by digital file sharing!

    I wish the MPAA and RIAA would sue my eyes and ears and confiscate them from my body so would no longer have to put up with their Art.

  7. Re:Also Speed on Why is Java Considered Un-Cool? · · Score: 1

    this is deserving of going into "fortune" or some other QOTD app.

  8. emacs keyboard on Cherry Announces Linux keyboard · · Score: 1

    ...but does it have a Meta key labeled as a Meta key?

  9. Re:New Features (site is slashdotted) on KDE 3.3 Officially Released · · Score: 2

    i really despise the bastardization of written language that cheap stores and KDE apps to often use. For instance the Qwik-Stop shops at gas stations, signs in public places that use "Nite" instead of "Night", Konqueror, Kolourpaint, etc...

    Almost makes me want to release an Enlish language sane distribution of KDE that just have all the names changed to something reasonable. all this "K" stuff makes tab completion a pain in the arse.

    % k
    Display all 392 possibilities? (y or n)

    wtf...

  10. Re:Don't jump up and down yet... on Grokster Wins Big in Ninth Circuit · · Score: 3, Insightful

    First of all, the technology in question must be equally available for non-infringing uses. Napster wasn't. It was specifically designed for MP3 trading, and that's the big reason why it got smacked.

    Forgive me for my outsider insight, for I've never used napster or any similar class of software technology. As you said, Napster was specifically for MP3 trading. This says nothing of the nature of MP3's, for instance public domain performances or songs distributed through Napster by the copyright holder. In that sense, the technology was equally available for non-infringing uses. Most people just decided to use the technology for trading songs they didn't have the right to distribute under U.S. copyright law.

    but the technology itself was equally available for non-infringing uses. I could have as easily distributed mp3 files of my armpit making farting sounds, as I could have distributed my entire CD collection, no?

  11. Re:Compared to Canada on Broadband Majority in US · · Score: 1

    Virtually no package from our cable provider or ADSL provider actually blocks servers, but they do not officially allow them either.

    Yeah, i found that Time Warner RoadRunner explicitly forbade running servers, but didn't anything to stop you (3+ years ago). But now after a year of no net access except at work, I'm going to get SpeakEasy DSL because they explicitly say you can run whatever you want (maybe with the exception of e-commerce stuff?).

    I'd rather pay a little more to a fair company than, pay anything to a restrictive company.

  12. Re:This is Likely Not Very Accurate on Broadband Majority in US · · Score: 1

    not to mention those who have broadband but don't have a land line phone so they can't be contacted through a random phone number list.

    skewed both ways, eh?

  13. Invalid everything (was Re:huh?) on Epson's 12 Gram Flying Robot · · Score: 1

    invalid html

    a browser shouldn't be subjected to such torture. Not Firefox's problem.

  14. Re:Faked? on Epson's 12 Gram Flying Robot · · Score: 1

    the fact that they cut out any changes in the state of the robot is sketchy. it's sitting there still, then they cut back, and it's sitting there with the blades spinning. cut again, and it's in mid air all of the sudden.

    i was hoping we'd see it go from a stand still to a lift off all in one smooth shot.

    Epson get's a C- on video editing today. Japanese chickadee gets a B+ for being apathetic. Way to go chickadee!

  15. Re:Page broken in Firefox on Epson's 12 Gram Flying Robot · · Score: 1

    don't forget the last part:

    "About Epson
    The Epson Group increases its corporate value through its innovative and creative culture, who cannot design a proper HTML page."

  16. Re:You are what you eat... on Linus Torvalds' Benevolent Dictatorship · · Score: 1

    now i'm even more afraid to go to the page!

  17. Re:Pirate King on Linus Torvalds' Benevolent Dictatorship · · Score: 5, Funny

    As long as i have TCP/IP over parrots, i'm fine. I wonder how many times you would have to say http://slashdot.org to a parrot before he can repeat it and pass the message on to the next parrot on the next island.

    "Wrrrrokk! http://slashdot.org, pass it on. Tweet!"

  18. Re:You are what you eat... on Linus Torvalds' Benevolent Dictatorship · · Score: 1

    Here's a site for you then.

    (Worksafe)


    Why do I not believe you?

  19. Re:Can't is such a strong word on LOAF - Distributed Social Networking Over Email · · Score: 1

    they might have well just said, "We dare you to try to reverse engineer this."

  20. Re:lol... on The Spyware Inferno · · Score: 2, Funny

    All right...who told her we would actually get off our asses and burn someone at the stake?

    Havn't you heard? We have remote control robots to do that for us now.

    Let the burning begin!

  21. Re:Already there? on Dan Bricklin on Software That Lasts 200 Years · · Score: 1

    I'm sick of sustaining myself on spam

    in post Y2k, spam is sustained by you! (and your open XP machine...)

  22. scarlet & grey on Steven Hawking Loses Bet On Black Holes? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Earlier in 2004, Samir Mathur of Ohio State University in Columbus and his colleagues showed that if a black hole is modelled according to string theory...

    Go Buckeyes! Not just a football program! Neener neener!

  23. Re:In a word on Top Ten Linux Configuration Tools? · · Score: 1

    even your best friend has to kick your ass occasionally, or -w you of ill doings.

  24. Re:computer sales on Doom 3 Reaches Gold Master, Due August 5th · · Score: 1

    mostly, yeah. with the exception of 1 year of EQ, the entire Baldurs Gate epic, and I was able to run WC3 on lowest quality settings (and it was bearable). Load times were a little long in online playing, and a few people mentioned how slow my load time was. other than that... yes. 2 year leave, here i come!

  25. f this on Industry Group Would Permit (Some) DVD Copying · · Score: 1

    leave us to our fair use and fack off