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  1. Re:Here's a scenario for you on Telecoms Facing $50 Billion Lawsuit for Wiretaps · · Score: 1

    Well, the way it used to work, is that they listen to the call, and have some period of time after listening to the call to report it and get a warrant.

  2. Re:But! on Warner Bros. to Sell Movies Over BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    I still listen to Straight Outta Compton frequently.

  3. Re:What?! on Teaching Engineers to Write? · · Score: 1

    "Grammar" is a noun. I believe the phrase you're thinking of is "Grammatical Nazi."

    Personally, I'm only irritated by grammatical errors when I need to read a passage several times to try to figure out what the person was saying.

    That being said, I think another good way to learn to write well, which is probably what helped me the most, is IRC. A lot of channels with older users don't tolerate the "lol" nonsense, and you get a lot of practice since it's an ongoing text-based conversation with a large group of people.

  4. Re:What?! on Teaching Engineers to Write? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Slashdot is a great place to learn to write, because any time you make the slightest grammatical or spelling error, at least 10 people will bitch at you about it.

  5. Re:Massive giveaway on SF Wifi More Than Flipping a Switch · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but if Earthlink is just a front for Scientology, doesn't that mean they have that private Navy?

  6. Re:Message for Captain Obvious on Boot Camp For Suckers? · · Score: 1

    Regardless, the operating system is, you know, what operates the computer. You are correct in the sense that they don't care about the operating system - which is the whole point of the Mac - you don't have to screw around with the operating system nearly as much.

  7. Re:Message for Captain Obvious on Boot Camp For Suckers? · · Score: 1

    That doesn't seem really fair. Up to windows 98, you could argue that Windows was a kludge built on top of DOS. Since XP (2000, really), DOS has been a kludge on top of the Win2K kernel.

    From an architectural standpoint, you can think of what's running on top of what. In XP, DOS is running on top of XP. On the mac, OSX is really running on top of Darwin.

  8. Re:France backs down? on Apple Defeats RIAA and France In Same Day · · Score: 1

    You can't burn it to a CD anymore?

  9. Re:Political Parties Aren't Not Where It's At on Colbert New Comic-in-Chief · · Score: 1

    Do you live in New York? There is an "Independence Party", which is not independent. There was some noise about this a while ago, when it turned out that people who thought they weren't registering in a party, were. To register as an independent in new york, you have to pick "No Party" on the registration form.

  10. Re:Political Parties Aren't Not Where It's At on Colbert New Comic-in-Chief · · Score: 1

    Who knows? I used to like McCain, but lately he's been licking Bush's asshole so much that I don't know what the hell he'd do.

  11. Re:What kind of news for nerds is this ? on Colbert New Comic-in-Chief · · Score: 1

    This is the first time i've ever said this...

    MOD PARENT UP!

  12. Re:It's really quite fascinating on Colbert New Comic-in-Chief · · Score: 1

    Because, as far as I'm able to tell, this is the first time anyone has been able to say this stuff to his face.

  13. Re:Usage of the tongue on Scientists Probe the Use of the Tongue · · Score: 1

    I dunno, but I was testing 9V batteries with my tongue long before I turned 18.

  14. Re:Password changing on Spafford On Security Myths and Passwords · · Score: 1

    I hate it. I have to change my password every few months on my school email account. What I do is, I change the password, and immediately change it back to the old password. I suspect it probably works on most systems that require a password change.

  15. Re:I thought these were unenforceable on Making Sense of Software EULAs · · Score: 1

    And, in fact, for GPL software, accepting the GPL is optional. You may continue to use the software under plain copyright law.

  16. Re:I thought these were unenforceable on Making Sense of Software EULAs · · Score: 1

    Courts don't expect publisher to shrink long contracts that are of reasonable length for their purpose down to the size of a box

    A contract that won't fit on the box seems to be the very definition of unreasonable length.

  17. Re:But... on Lenovo & Customer Perception · · Score: 1

    Also, I don't know what the situation is in China, but reportedly, in Japan, CEO's only make a couple hundred thousand dollars a year. I'd have to believe it's even less in China, being communist and all. For a situation like this, I'd actually buy something made by a Chinese-owned company over an American one. (as in, American multinationals. Something like a Klein tool is a different story)

  18. Re:What? on Apple And The Boob Tube · · Score: 1

    That's why I use a mac. It doesn't piss me off on a daily basis like my Windows machines.

  19. Re:Amazing new unit on The World's Strongest Glue · · Score: 1

    and like measuring digital storage in Libraries of Congress, and a number of items by how many times they could go to the moon and back if stacked vertically.

  20. Re:"Time to get rid of the duct tape?" on The World's Strongest Glue · · Score: 1

    They sell rolls of teflon tape. It's used for sealing threads on metal pipes.

  21. Re:Blue Frog on Certified Email Not Here to Reduce Spam · · Score: 1

    From what I see, this only helps the spammer. They have an "encrypted list of email addresses" and a program to remove the addresses for a list. The spammer only needs to run this program on his list, see which addresses disappear, and know that these are valid email addresses.

  22. Re:I have used a PC for 2 weeks on Useful Apps for First-Time Windows Users? · · Score: 2, Informative

    "Flash BIOS" is called "Update Firmware" on a Mac. Like you have to do before you can install Boot Camp.

  23. Re:Stealing = bad on Bunk Camp - Apple Gets It Wrong? · · Score: 1

    1) If I take it, it becomes mine.
    2) If I buy it, it's not mine, I only have a license to use it.

    Besides, i'm sorry, it's just hard to convince myself to feel bad about screwing Microsoft out of $200.

  24. Re:Stealing = bad on Bunk Camp - Apple Gets It Wrong? · · Score: 1

    There's no point. People claim that if nobody paid for software, that developers would have no incentive to continue making software. In the case of the Windows developers..... GOOD.

  25. Re:Stealing = bad on Bunk Camp - Apple Gets It Wrong? · · Score: 1

    I do.