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  1. Re:Great news for people with hand injuries. on "Interface-Free" Touch Screen at TED · · Score: 1

    For blind people, keyboard with tradiotional buttons is the best known interface, because most of them rely on remembering some typing orders to be able to surf in common Windows menus. This is the case before the speech recognition reaches a satisfying level.

  2. Russian mail bride? on Hans Reiser Arrested On Suspicion of Murder · · Score: 1

    The considerable age difference, the ethnicity and attractiveness of the victim and marriage problems hints that she was a russian mail bride. You can shop for a doctor there too.

  3. Re:How did it get there? on The World's Deepest Dinosaur · · Score: 1

    For non-SI system users there,it is
    0.000433070866 inch per year.

  4. Re:My review on Star Wreck Released as Download · · Score: 1
  5. Re:Speaking of obfuscated code... on 18th International Obfuscated C Code Contest Opens · · Score: 2, Funny
    Can somebody enlighten a newbie what is wrong with parent's code? Is the following snippet better:
    public boolean compareObjects(Object obj1,Object obj2) {
    return obj1.equals(obj2);
    }
  6. mod parent up on Net Addiction Gets Finnish Soldiers Out Of Army · · Score: 1

    I wish I has moderating points now.

  7. Re:When you're hungry, you're hungry on Just Add, Umm, Water · · Score: 1

    Don't woeey, It tastes like chicken.

  8. Nigerians on More Responses to de Tocqueville Hatchet Job · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe she is also interested in doing another Brown book? ;)

  9. Re:Let's make one thing crystal clear on Age Discrimination, Indian-Style · · Score: 1

    There was this late ./ article about geniuses. Was the abvious common denomiator between them that their had done their most remarkle finding before reaching age of 30 and/or marriage? And in the professions where the looks is really matters like modelling most of the ppl are in their teens or early twenties.

  10. Re:Glance-able technology on Text Messaging-Enabled Crystal Chandelier Shown In Milan · · Score: 1


    What about ppl living in their parents' basement, you inconsiderate clod!

  11. Re:Outsource expenses - CEOs on Tech Firms Defend Moving Jobs Overseas · · Score: 1

    She gets fired and replaced with other CEO wannabe.

  12. Re:Yep, he's naked but it ain't beer he's drinking on Internet History In Pictures · · Score: 1

    Lovely son ;)

  13. Re:Picture of his wife on 2.4 Kernel Maintainer Marcelo Tosatti Interviewed · · Score: 1

    More likely his mother, who is very beautiful. This could be his wife

  14. Re:I find it amusing on Will Wright On The Return Of The Sims · · Score: 1

    Japanese Dojinshi games = 'the Sims for Men'

  15. Re:hollywood vs bollywood on Bollywood Embraces Kazaa Movie Downloads · · Score: 1

    Just a thought... How many Bollywood movies were there movies near to you? These movies could entice pretty many people given the popularity of Broadway musicals. The newest A. Lloyd Webber production was partly influenced by Indian scene. It is just that Bollywood films are not really heavily distributed to the West.

  16. Re:Tannenbaum was right! on Linus Blasts SCO's Header Claims · · Score: 1

    Tannenbaum to Linux:
    I still maintain the point that designing a monolithic kernel in 1991 is a
    fundamental error. Be thankful you are not my student. You would not
    get a high grade for such a design :-) from this thread

  17. Re:Alan Cox goes on sabbatical and gets /. article on Update on Alan Cox's Sabbatical · · Score: 1

    Slashdot turning to wsgforum.com? Oh no...

  18. Re:Age of consent! on Perl is Sweet Sixteen · · Score: 1

    Age of consent for sexual activity Sexual activities or acts are not allowed, except in Legal Marriage. So you have to marry that 4 year old lover of yours ;) Seriously, the muslim daughters cannot marry Christian men, so you have to convert to a muslim.

  19. Re:Yah, but it's Wal-Mart... on Wal-Mart Music Download Service Launches · · Score: 1

    ..88 cents...

    The eighth letter in alphabet is H, so this
    converts '88' to 'HH'. That is quite common
    acronym for 'Heil Hitler'. Coincidetally?

  20. Home on LinuxWorld Moving to Boston · · Score: 1

    Come back home to Ultima Thule. Come back to Helsinki, Finland, EU
    where all got started. You would feel comfortable here with all these
    fellow pinguins and polar bears.

  21. David Lyons @ forbes.com today on SCO Code to be Protected in Closed Court · · Score: 2, Informative

    Revenge Of The Nerds
    Daniel Lyons, 12.16.03, 12:30 PM ET

    NEW YORK - In the real world, Brenda Banks is a 54-year-old grandmother in Greer, S.C., a former warehouse supervisor who teaches rubber-stamping arts and crafts classes. But online she transforms into "br3n," a passionate user of Linux software who cruises Web sites posting smash-mouth messages about SCO Group. So far Banks has posted more than 1,500 messages on SCO's Yahoo! message board alone--including five on Thanksgiving.

    "I feel very strongly about it," says Banks, who runs Linux on a six-year-old Acer home computer. "They want to come and stab Linux. It's just not right."

    Banks has joined thousands of others in a rag-tag Linux army dedicated to the destruction of SCO (nasdaq: SCOX - news - people ), the Lindon, Utah, company that last March sued IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ), claiming IBM put code from Unix, for which SCO holds some copyrights, into Linux, which is distributed for free. SCO also aims to collect license fees from companies that use Linux. IBM denies SCO's charges and has countersued. SCO also has been sued by Red Hat (nasdaq: RHAT - news - people ), a Linux distributor.

    Linux crusaders insist SCO's claims have no merit and that SCO's evil managers will all end up in jail. They write to government agencies complaining about SCO, and some have even threatened to boycott the Royal Bank of Canada (nyse: RY - news - people ), one of SCO's investors. SCO's management has hired bodyguards after receiving death threats. Robert Enderle, an analyst who believes SCO's claims might be legitimate, says he and others also have been threatened, and says this "techno-insanity" verges on terrorism.

    How do people get so emotionally involved with a piece of office equipment? "People are seeing something going on that they really consider evil," says Bruce Perens, a well-known Linux developer and independent consultant. "These people are just showing moral outrage."

    Linux was developed collaboratively by thousands of people around the world, all working for free. Now some of those folks are becoming amateur legal researchers and financial sleuths too. Banks says she has complained about SCO to the Securities and Exchange Commission. "There's after-hours trading going on," she says. Isn't this common? "Not that I'm aware of." Moreover, sometimes SCO shares drop during the day, then rise in after-hours trading. "That raises alarm bells," she says. "Maybe there are some preference trades going on." And what are preference trades? "I don't know," she says.

    Much of the rhetoric is ordinary cheerleading: "we will WIN. sco is TOAST," Banks wrote recently on Yahoo! (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people ). But sometimes it gets ugly, as when Banks and others refer to Laura DiDio, a market research analyst who is unpopular among Linux fans, as "Dildio." Says Banks: "I don't associate 'Dildio' with anything bad, and I think someone's mind has to be in the gutter to associate it with that. No offense."

    Says DiDio of her tormentors, who swamp her with hateful email and "report" her to her supervisors at Boston-based Yankee Group: "Welcome to the wonderful world of Linux. These people are living in an alternative reality."

    One poster, "korbomite," on SCO's Yahoo! message board has posted more than 3,100 messages to the board and says he is "single-mindedly working to destroy this company," though he won't give his real name. Another frequent poster, who requested anonymity, says he has stored evidence against SCO on CDs and stashed them in safe-deposit boxes scattered around his state "just in case." He says he has shared his evidence with the SEC and other government agencies.

    Some in this camp are so angry that in December, when SCO said hackers had attacked its Web site, Linux zealots suggested SCO was staging the attacks itself. "If there is an attack, where is the proof? Did SCO...attack itself?" wrote Pamela Jones, a White Plains, N.Y. paralegal who runs a Web site called Groklaw which is d

  22. Nokia N-cage on Nominations for 2003 Vaporware Awards · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It has three games and was initially sold for 300 euros. Do you know anybody who has purchased this product? I don't.

  23. Re:Advanced Screening? on A Return Of The King Review · · Score: 1
    Well, let's see. When you have obscene amounts of cash...
    Like Bill Gates? Is he getting a peek of ROTK before every other average person gets?
  24. Finally on We Are All Nerds Now · · Score: 1

    Cannot read the comments...
    Finally, Slashdot being slashdotted.

  25. Re:Spam on North Korea Introduces 'Secure' E-mail · · Score: 1

    Maybe he tries to hide from others about his peculiar pasttime hobby of mooning to the citizens of Free World.