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  1. verticals with high commercial intent on Closing the Cover on Microsoft Book Scanning · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ...verticals with high commercial intent...The reason why M$ $earch will never be competitive with Google.

  2. Re:I wanna know why we need more government. on IRS Pushes for New Reporting at Expense of Privacy · · Score: 1

    Layoff thousands of useless unioned [sic] employee workers.
    This typical ignorant view that most government employees are lazy union members is simply not borne out by actual facts. As with any employer, there are lazy workers everywhere. As to unionization, do you object to government employees making a living wage? Or is it simply jealousy that you make low wages in a sweat shop?
  3. Re:microsoft's real solution to its search blues: on Microsoft To Pay People To Search · · Score: 1

    AKA those of us who are not coding in Visual Basic
    You're so yesterday, dude. MicroSheep code in C#.
  4. Slashdot Whipping Post Du Jour on Paypal Founder Puts a Half Million Dollars Into Seasteading · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I notice the summary workes in a dig at the Scientology Cult, even though there is no real connection.

    Haveing worked the Micro$oft / Windoze pithy witty digs to death, the nut-jobs are the new Slashdot Whipping Post Du Jour?

    Or is there some mysterious eBay-PayPal-Scientology connection I'm ignorent of?

  5. Re:That's the world we live in on YouTube Refuses To Remove Terrorist Videos · · Score: 1

    Personally, I think that if we allow terrorist videos, then at the very least pr0n should be allowed, too. :-)
    Try X-Tube for all your home grown "pr0n" needs. Clicky on the "Videos" tab. Plenty of home movies...
  6. Re:Obligatory on 2nd Generation "$100 Laptop" Will Be an E-Book Reader · · Score: 4, Funny

    But can it run Linux?
    No, but it's been certified Vista Ready, and they haven't even built one yet.
  7. Re:No suprises on FBI Wiretapping Audit Secrets Uncovered Via Ctrl+C · · Score: 1

    I wonder if there are step-by-step guides for "properly" redacting from PDFs so that this isn't possibel? Maybe a simple guide for Word users as well (please, yes I know, Word sux and Widows blows, but guess what? People use them).

  8. Re:Missing some subtle pun? on New Linux Distribution — Exherbo, Announced · · Score: 4, Funny

    I guess that was supposed to be funny, but "exherbo" apparently means to weed...
    Yes, Østergaard must have been on weed when he decided that the world needs another distro with an all new package format... Yes indeed.
  9. Re:compliance, not judges on Google Assists In Arrest Of Indian Man · · Score: 2, Insightful

    However, we need to remember that Google is a company, not a judge in a court of law.
    Was that the case as well for the manufacturers of Zyklon? Do you feel the same about "defense contractors" involved in the production of Nuclear Bombs? If it where still illegal for blacks and whites to marry, would you be OK with rounding 'em all up because after all, "it's the law"?

    Businesses should not be free to ignore moral and ethical issues simply because something is the law where they do business. This is not to the benefit of society as a whole. If a company does not benefit society, they must go.

  10. Re:Hydra by Two Noses? on Dragon vs. Hydra - Competing Development Styles · · Score: 1

    SLASHDOT Announces that N-BRAIN, Inc. has BOUGHT some ADVERTISING space at Slashdot. TAKE NOTE!

  11. Re:Politically-motivated Chain Letters on NSF Research Reveals Chain Letter Travel Patterns · · Score: 5, Funny

    I started sending point-by-point responses with links to government websites that actually gave the real facts.
    Indeed. I get all my "real facts" from government websites...
  12. Re:Revised Headline on Microsoft and OLPC Agree To Put XP On the XO Laptop · · Score: 1

    Well, there are actually more practical reasons for not considering the XO: Conceptually, it's a great idea, but the execution has resulted in a half-baked product. Bottom line, buy your kids a real computer.

  13. Revised Headline on Microsoft and OLPC Agree To Put XP On the XO Laptop · · Score: 1
    Let me revise the headline to something more accurate:

    OLPC Announces Death of XO Laptop
  14. Re:Reading not your strong suit? on Securing Your Notebook Against US Customs · · Score: 1

    2) No TrueCrypt volume can be identified (volumes cannot be distinguished from random data).
    Excuse me, but do most people keep large amounts of "random data" on their drives? Perhaps large amounts of "random data" on one's drives indecates the possibility of encrypted data?

    But thanks for your comment. You spend a lot of time on IRC, yes?

  15. Re:TrueCrypt on Securing Your Notebook Against US Customs · · Score: 4, Insightful
    People here keep talking about encrypting your files. Fine, but the second the Customs Guy figures out you have encrypted content on your laptop, you can kiss it good bye. They *will* keep it. You may not see it again for several years.

    If you're going to carry stuff over the border you don't wan't The Man to look at, put it on a thumb drive and attach it to your keys.

  16. Re:Problem with Rugged Notebooks ... False Securit on 3 Rugged Notebooks Take a Beating · · Score: 1

    The company I work for has had trouble with toughbooks because people think they are alot more rugged than they really are.
    I've dropped Toughbooks a number of times from around 4 feet to a concrete floor. Most of our have also extensively bounced around the back of a C17 in ugly parts world.

    No issues.

  17. Re:Inevitably.. on Mormon Church Goes After WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    You ignore the secret Inner Circle who practice the secret rituals reserved for the priestly class. Don't you know anything?

  18. Re:Awesome on British "X-files" Released to Public · · Score: 1

    As an intelligence analyst with a top secret and above clearance (some of the classifications have names which are themselves classified) working in "the system", I'm pretty sure there's not much more.
    This unfortunate disclosure will be discussed at your next clearance review.
  19. Re:MySpace **IS** Spam... on MySpace Wins $230 Million Judgment Against Sanford Wallace · · Score: 1

    Well then is /. spam too? Just not as hawt? What about google?
    Yes. Slashdot is not as "hawt" as MySpace. This is a good thing.
  20. Re:Inevitably.. on Mormon Church Goes After WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    "Mormons" (more correctly Latter-day Saints, at times abbreviated "LDS") practiced polygamy in the 1800's. The practice was outlawed by the LDS church in order for Utah to achieve statehood, which it did some years later in 1896. There are no Mormon polygamists anymore because any practicing polygamists are excommunicated. The nutjobs in Arizona / Texas are Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints (or "FLDS") church members.
    So, the *only* reason LDS outlawed polygamy was to move along Utah statehood. That sounds a lot like a political change of thought, not an overall mindset change. Yet you use the term "nut jobs". It's very possible, even probable that many LDS followers still do believe in polygamy, but don't (openly) practice it because it is illegal.
  21. MySpace **IS** Spam... on MySpace Wins $230 Million Judgment Against Sanford Wallace · · Score: 1

    This is "good" and everything, though somewhat meaningless since Wallace and his partner will never be able to pay the sum, but isn't it ironic that a company like MySpace that foists a product that is only a cunt hair different than spam is suing a spammer? MySpace is like OK! Magazine, sure it's a "publication" but it's certainly not "journalism". Likewise, MySpace is just opt-in legal spam.

  22. Re:Ubuntu Gutsy already updated... on Debian Bug Leaves Private SSL/SSH Keys Guessable · · Score: 0, Troll

    Got up this morning, booted the machine and got a software update first thing: OpenSSH (et al) updates for my Ubuntu Gutsy install. Then I show up over here and see why. Presumably Feisty and Hardy got them as well - they are listed on the Ubuntu announcement.
    Thanks for that wonderful insight. Did you also scratch your balls a stroke the morning wood? Please let us know.
  23. Re:Change LimeWire EULA now! on How the RIAA Targets Campus Copyright Violators · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Change LimeWire EULA now!
    And you think that the RIAA would follow the new EULA? Remember that they us a PI company that is not even licensed to practice in many of the states they do "investigations" in. Interestingly, they have not suffered any repercussions for breaking the law. Conclusion: They are above the law.
  24. FedoraSoft on Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Released · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's been a long time since I've heard any excitment about Fedora. The Linux buzz has moved on while RedHat lives in it's own little world, no longer cutting edge and as stuffy as Microsoft...

  25. Re:Sexually Transmitted Disease on DVD Porn Viruses Ravage US Soldiers' Computers · · Score: 1

    If it's anything like Government Cheese, then I fear for the sanity of our troops.
    It involves a lot of corsets and straps and elastic, and a knee brace.