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  1. share on Negotiating Pay for Open Source Work? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If they are going to be benefiting from your work (attaching their name to it somehow), it might be good to get a peice of the company. Or profit sharing. Something. Sure the dotcom era has left a lot of people sour about working for shares in a company, but if you believe in the company, it could be worthwhile.

  2. no wonder on New Solar Cells 20 Times Cheaper · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Consequently, although the "fuel" for a solar-powered generator is free sunlight, the overall cost of solar-generated electricity (amortized over the lifetime of the solar cell, typically 20 years) is around ten times higher than the cost of electricity generated by burning fossil fuels.


    No wonder we still don't have widespread solar use. I had no idea it was this much more expensive to "buy" initially.

  3. too many words for SCO to play with on SGI's Letter to the Linux Community · · Score: 0
    All SGI should have said was this:

    Notably, it appears that most or all of the
    System V code fragments we found had previously been placed in the
    public domain


    Even this is too much for the PR department to mangle. But legally, SGI probably needed to cover their backs with the words "appears" and "most"

  4. Re:Yeah, but... on The Incredible Shrinking Recording Studio · · Score: 0

    if "Mac People" (note, there is a difference between the average mac user and "Mac People") had their way, a Mac would not even be considered a computer. Computers are too "eww, icky" for them.

    they are just like any other type of "zealots". stay away from them.

  5. rock opera! on The Incredible Shrinking Recording Studio · · Score: 0

    but only if it's about Franz Kafka!

    ("home movies" rocks)

  6. hard to find on Have You Personally Used an Honest Head Hunter? · · Score: 0

    Once I actually found a headhunter that would talk to me, that is. Most were only interesting in people with very specific skills, experience, job history, and was a local candidate. I was looking to relocate and finding a headhunter willing to deal with an out of towner was extremely hard.

    However, it still took a personal connection to get in touch with that right headhunter.

  7. Jeopardy on AMD Moves Closer To Linux PDA · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'll take "PDAs You'll Never See Again" for $500, Alex...

    oh wait, that was last article

  8. Jeopardy on FBI Investigating Lamo Via Patriot Act Provision · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'll take "Documents You'll Never See Again", for $500, Alex.

  9. New Poll on Adobe Releases Updated Creative Suite · · Score: -1

    Who wants advertisements masquerading as stories?

    1) I do
    2) I don't
    3) CowboyNeal

    especially when it's adobe.

  10. Re:Their own dumbass fault on Recall of Segway Announced by CPSC · · Score: 0

    No, it's like saying it's Fords fault if when the oil is low, that I get thrown out of the car and onto the road. Which Ford should be liable for.

    If the oil is low, the engine might die, but no damage should be inflicted on my body. (short of an engine fire engulfing the car, which also should be avoided by Ford somehow)

    Or better yet "You fuel tank is low, ejection seat activated. Please buckle your seat belt. I'm sorry, you did not purchase the ejector seat parachute. Please enjoy your ride."

  11. Soviet Wisconsin on Microsoft Wins Summary Judgement in Smart Tag Case · · Score: -1, Redundant

    In Soviet Wisconsin, the law laughs at you.

    ainahay?

  12. Re:katz? on IT Career Horoscopes · · Score: 1

    oh was he one of those pen names for about 20 different authors?

    thats sadly unoriginal.

  13. katz? on IT Career Horoscopes · · Score: 1
    thus proving beyond a shadow of a doubt the power that a gaseous orb a zillion miles away exhibits upon my laptop


    I thought Katz's influence on slashdot readers ceased when he stopped writting here.
    (he's not dead is he? or else i'd feel awfull about making fun of a dead guy.)


  14. radio braces! on Amateur Radio Braces for Hurricane Isabel · · Score: 4, Funny
    Amateur Radio Braces for Hurricane Isabel


    When I was young I always wished my braces could play the radio. Now a stinkin hurricane gets radio braces. Feh!

    Atleast they're the amateur model..
  15. Re:Mail addresses on Verisign Typosquatter Explorer · · Score: 1

    and then

    s/verisign\.com/verizon\.com/ig

    because they also suck, but in different ways