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  1. Re:+1 Mobility, but -1 Strength on Best Technology For Long-Distance Travel? · · Score: 1

    The best minicam that I'm aware of is the Casio Exilim EX-Sxxx series. I've had every model in the series up to and including the EX-S880. The newly released EX-S10 is smaller than the others, and I'm about to buy it in the next few days. Great sensor quality, great optics, easy to use, fast startup times, absolutely tiny and easy to use. Although make sure you get the ones coming from Casio's Japan assembly plant, as the ones from the Chinese assembly plant are slightly inferior in subtle but noticeable ways.

  2. Re:Their way out of long-term support on Microsoft Releases Office Binary Formats · · Score: 1

    "There are myriad ways to read our old crap."

    Is there some secret conspiracy I am not aware of to butcher the use of this word? Why does every attempt to use it end up in miserable failure.

  3. Re:I don't understand... on The Future of XML · · Score: 1

    You've obviously never worked with accounts. Or networks. Or anything requiring reliability, really. Redundancy != bloat, although sometimes it may be.

  4. Re:Real frog-boiling on U.S. Confiscating Data at the Border · · Score: 1

    Yes, there is a strong push towards it. Those "wishes" don't make it right, however.

    Kissinger? Is that you?

    Put another way, not you, nor the government has the authority to tell the people what is "right". If the people desire it, the government's responsibility is to not play political power games with their big buddies and deliver it. Anything else is fascism. So get your militant liberal bullshit out of here.

  5. Re:Define:tool on Tool Use Is Just a Trick of the Mind · · Score: 1, Funny

    I like to think of the brain as a very large FPGA

    So when I had to drag my friend out of the bar that time he was unable to stand or speak properly it wasn't because he was drunk, it was because he'd lost his encryption keys and the output from his mouth was just cyphertext?

  6. Re:Interrogated: Welcome to the New America! on Engineers Have a Terrorist Mindset? · · Score: 1

    By asking Google for access to Blogger.com's root password?

  7. Re:bullseye on Military Robots to Gain Advanced Sight · · Score: 2, Informative

    I was pretty sure the word "unmanned" was used mentioned, as well as the idea that these devices would go where it was too dangerous for humans to go. Back to detective classes for you!

  8. Re:The issue at hand is the government. on Web Hosting For Privacy Activists? · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the correction. However, correct responses to my post would include:

    • Haha
    • Hehe
    • *Chuckle*
    • *Guffaw*

    Any combination of the above would also suffice.

  9. Re:The issue at hand is the government. on Web Hosting For Privacy Activists? · · Score: 1

    A "libertarian government" would be an oxymoronic animal.

  10. Re:Nowhere on Web Hosting For Privacy Activists? · · Score: 1

    Legal documents are often indistinguishable from toilet paper, especially after it's been used, as at that point, both are covered in shit.

  11. Re:Let them transmit over cake on Web Hosting For Privacy Activists? · · Score: 1

    For you and the rest of the "Chavez is the devil" clowns out there, the second half of the GP's post pointed out that the TV station was shut down/prevented from broadcasting/had the evil Chavez eye put on them because they were doing something illegal, and if you did that same thing in the US you would not have your licence suspended, but you would go to jail.

    It's really starting to annoy me, that people like you have your heads so far up your own asses that you'll berate the Venezuelan govt for responding to something in a far more liberal way than could be expected of the US govt. Go to school or something.

  12. Re:Huh? on US Satellites Dodging Chinese Missile Debris · · Score: 1

    Write to your congressman and ask him to advocate a more conciliatory and cooperative foreign policy, and perhaps other nations will change their view of you as a threat and stop wanting to break all your toys.
    Yours truly,
    The voice of reason.

  13. Re:File formats can't be insecure? on Microsoft Apologizes To Rival · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes, the file format wouldn't be insecure. Your handling of it would be.

  14. Re:Great idea on Single-Chip x86 Chipsets Around the Corner? · · Score: 1

    3 Testicles per instruction?

  15. Re:Cool. on IE 8 Passes Acid2 Test · · Score: 3, Funny
    Hahaha!

    (Sorry, I have nothing more to say.)

  16. Re:Not too hard on Iran Builds Supercomputer From Banned AMD Parts · · Score: 1

    0.2 mi - Quite a bit less than a 5 minute walk.

    Not for a Slashdotter!

  17. Re:I don't for a minute believe this was unofficia on Ron Paul Spam Traced to Reactor Botnet · · Score: 1

    The Federal debt is conceptually no different than the debt of a corporation. In corporate debt, the stockholders, through their representatives (the Board of Directors), take out a loan that the stockholders are going to have to pay through the assets/profits of the company.

    In a corporation, the management has to report fully to the stockholders. The US government's stockholders (the citizens of the US of A) don't get within a country mile of a glimpse at the largest budget items (defense/security items)

    In a corporation, the stockholders can vote the management out. Democrats and Republicans don't seem to have any meaninhfully different spending policies, so an unpopular spending policy can't be voted out.

    Most importantly, in a corporation, there are SEC limits on how deeply a company can go into debt before it is considered insolvent. The US govt however is far more deeply in debt than any company would ever be allowed to go, yet it continues to operate at the pleasure of it's creditors who know that it is not the dollars that are really valuable, its the perpetual servitude of the shareholders (citizens) of its debtor who are now effectively working for their banking system overlords. There's a Slashdot pun in there somewhere...

  18. Re:Makes sense on Blizzard and Activision Announce $18.8bn Merger · · Score: 1

    It wasn't really Blizzard and Activision that did that, more the corporatisation of gaming in general. Gone are the days when small companies like Bullfrog and the Looking Glass of yore could do something totally new like Syndicate or System Shock 1 and not have to worry about risk associated with deviating from the known-good formula because there was no known-good formula back then. Now, shareholders interests need to be looked after, and that means lowering risk by copying the last successful game and making it different enough that idiots^H^H^H^H the average consumer doesn't notice.

    The sad fact of capitalism is that anyone on the right hand side of the IQ bell curve will not have their needs met by the market, as profit is not maximised by catering to any market segment other than the plebeian majority.

  19. Re:Pied Piper anyone? on Robots Assimilate Into Cockroach Society · · Score: 2, Funny

    Slashdotters will make up statistics based upon wildly inaccurate supposition and blatantly false assumptions 100% of the time.

  20. Re:Of course, he has an agenda on ARPANet Co-Founder Predicts An Internet Crisis · · Score: 1

    Do you really want to turn Cher's attention to your loins?

  21. Re:You gotta be kidding. on OpenOffice.org 3.0 Wants to Compete with Outlook · · Score: 1

    Why's that?

    Why did she do it?!

  22. Re:I blame Microsoft on A Google Blunder- the Sad Story of Urchin · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I nominate you for Slashdotter of the year. Nobody, and I mean nobody, else here can compete with brazen, baseless, brainless anti-MS vitriol like that, which is saying something, given the company we're in. You, sir, deserve a medal.

  23. Re:Forest, trees, etc. on James Randi Posts $1M Award On Speaker Cables · · Score: 1

    We're talking about elemental copper, not some exotic metallic synthesized compound. There are no molecules in copper. Please go away.

  24. Re:Don't trust any audiophile over 30 on James Randi Posts $1M Award On Speaker Cables · · Score: 1

    There is no way any set of however expensive earphones will give you any result at all for testing hearing >18khz. If you say you can hear 25khz out of your earphones, I say your experiment is ridiculously flawed for using the wrong testing environment and testing gear.

  25. Re:Forest, trees, etc. on James Randi Posts $1M Award On Speaker Cables · · Score: 1

    There are no molecules in a metal. Period. There's no ifs, buts or maybes. There are no complex explanations. Sub-lattices or whatever you want to call them in impure and unevenly formed metals are not molecules. "Highly rigid" lattices imply crystalline structure to me, metal lattices are malleable. Perhaps you and I went to different grade schools. GGP was wrong. I am right. You are wrong. Sorry, but there's no middle ground here.