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  1. Re:The solution on The Beatles, Apple, and iTunes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ... except that the continued sales of Beatles records, especially the reissues of former rarities, proves that there's still more to life than iTMS (which I, for one, have never used...)

  2. Re:Ajax is a flash in the pan on Microsoft Releases Atlas · · Score: 1
    "Ajax requires all communication be serialized using a Javascript callback scheme that requires extensible but ultimately limiting xml communication between client and server."

    False. The web server can return text, plan old xml (POX), or JSON or anything that can be encoded over HTTP.

    Slashdot - bringing you the same damned discussion every day for the past year (and marking it maximally 'insightful')...
  3. Re:Nice ad on Everglide s-500 Headphone Review · · Score: 1
    Wow, a bio-cellulose membrane! It's faster at making sound!
    Pah, I wipe my bottom with bio-cellulose (at least once a day)!
  4. Answering your own question on Legal Issues of Opening Up Proprietary Standards? · · Score: 1

    Despite reply after reply saying 'IANAL but... screw the corporations!!!1', you're answering your own question - wouldn't you be annoyed if someone did this to you? Would you employ them?

    There's no law against farting, but letting one out at the end of an otherwise-succesful job interview's not going to get you far...

  5. Tabs on Mozilla Announces Extend Firefox Contest Winners · · Score: 0, Troll

    Doesn't it say something about the Firefox design that many of the entrants and winners are essentially ways to try to make the tabbed browser interface actually usable?..

  6. Re:Random Card theories on Orson Scott Card on Games, 21 Years Ago · · Score: 1
    the comment title [...] should have been more like "Random Card theories that always get mentioned on Slashdot whenever he is
    Oh, so you were going for redundant, not troll?
  7. Re:Random Card theories on Orson Scott Card on Games, 21 Years Ago · · Score: 1

    Oh please, it might be Sunday but do you need to troll so blatantly?

  8. Re:Headline on Amazon Plans Music Service To Rival iPod · · Score: 1
    I assume you mean to rival iTunes?
    I assume you mean: to rival iTunes Music Store!
  9. Another Pot-Kettle Comment on Prostitutes Call for a Ban on GTA · · Score: 1

    It's like copyright violators moralising about monopolistic company behaviour... oh wait!

  10. Camino is a Mac OS X browser... on Mozilla Camino 1.0 Released · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ... apparently. But, hey, they is Slashdot so we all know every Mozilla project on every platform before it even makes a 1.0 release, right?

  11. When is a design pattern not a Design Pattern? on Yahoo! Releases OSS Ajax and Design Tools · · Score: 2, Informative

    When it's a UI idiom...

  12. Re:ALIEN PARASITES ENSLAVE HUMANS! on Mind Control Parasites in Half of All Humans · · Score: 1
    I have it from a reputable (to me at least) biologist and veterinarian that this has been blown out of proportion. This only affects people under very specific criteria (e.g. pregnant females)
    You seem to be confusing proposed psychological effects of toxoplasma infection with the physical effects of toxoplasmosis. Even then it is not that this particularly affects pregnant women, but that if a woman is first infected during pregnancy then the parasite can cross the placental barrier and attack the foetus, which has few defenses (similarly toxoplasma infection can lead to toxoplasmosis in those infected with HIV).

    As for a link with schizophrenia, your argument makes about as much sense as: since 100% per cent of drivers aren't dead from traffic accidents, these can't be caused by motor vehicles!

  13. Re:What about mobile phones? on British PC Tax to Replace TV License? · · Score: 1

    Yet still they persist in this lie about 'detector vans'

  14. What about mobile phones? on British PC Tax to Replace TV License? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm not kidding, there was in sensationalist article in a newspaper (so poor I'm sorry to admit having read it) today (ok, it was the Mail), saying that shops are sending the details of all purchases of phones with video capabilities on to the licensing authority!

  15. Re:ALIEN PARASITES ENSLAVE HUMANS! on Mind Control Parasites in Half of All Humans · · Score: 2, Informative
    Especially reputable journals whose page title is "Inventions and Ideas from Science Fiction Books and Movies at Technovelgy.com:"
    No, I was talking about:
    Perspectives in Biology and Medicine

    E-ISSN: 1529-8795 Print ISSN: 0031-5982

    Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press

    Perspectives in Biology and Medicine publishes articles of the highest scientific and literary merit on a wide range of biomedical topics such as neurobiology, biomedical ethics and history, genetics and evolution, and ecology. Founded in 1957, this interdisciplinary journal places subjects of current interest in medicine and biology in a context with humanistic, social, and scientific concerns. The editors encourage an informal, humanistic style that preserves the warmth, excitement, and color of the biological and medical sciences.

  16. Re:ALIEN PARASITES ENSLAVE HUMANS! on Mind Control Parasites in Half of All Humans · · Score: 4, Informative
    "T. gondii may cause schizophrenia and may do so by producing or triggering the production of an hallucinogenic chemical" ('Genes, Germs, and Schizophrenia: An Evolutionary Perspective', Ledgerwood et al, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 46(3):317-48, 2003).

    But, hey, why keep up with current research (at least via credible objective surveys in reputable journals) when you can just read Wikipedia?

  17. Re:This could not be news on Mind Control Parasites in Half of All Humans · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Does this explain why religion is on the decline?
    That, and storing our grain better...
  18. Cava, anyone? on Microsoft's C++/CLI Spec Has an Identity Crisis · · Score: 1

    Maybe they should do the symmetric process to Visual J++ and call it Cava!

  19. Re:Global companies VS Local Laws on Yahoo Allegedly Sells Reporter Out to Chinese Authorities · · Score: 1
    Look, Yahoo and Google can do whatever the hell they want. If there is a country that allows corporations to place babies on spikes and plant them in the ground, and these corporations do it, so be it. We don't have a legal right to stop them, here, in America.
    The Law isn't the only way to influence the behaviour of a commercial organisation. We can hold them responsible to moral obligations as long as they depend on income from the Western world...
  20. Re:Manned programs are more important on Shuttle Retirement Costs Divert Science Funding · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What immediate benefits? How about turning that around and saying: "living and working in space" is not something that's going to be done on any scale for decades, so what does it matter if it's delayed a few years when the funding could be used for research that has more immediate benefits? Rather than talking out of my hat I'm saying that as someone who's done some work at the Langley Research Centre...

  21. Isn't it ironic? on Patents of Business Destruction · · Score: 4, Funny
    The irony of the patent system is that while it's relatively easy to get a patent, the vast majority of the assigned patents are completely worthless.
    "It's like raaaaaaaain on your wedding day..."
  22. Re:Smells like on PS3 to Act as Digital Video Recorder? · · Score: 2, Informative
    *sniff sniff* Vaporware to me
    I'm using PSP audio streaming right now and could be using video streaming if I weren't waiting to see what the new version of the hardware, integrated with the PS3, looks like (i.e. the software client's already rolled out)...
  23. Re:Are all slashdot headlines deceptive? on 86 games for the 360, 45 for the PS3 · · Score: 1
    the PlayStation 3 isn't out yet and because we still don't know a whole lot about the system or the games that are scheduled for it
    I know one thing - the PS4 has no games scheduled yet... man, I'm not buying that piece of sh...
  24. LocationFree on PS3 to Act as Digital Video Recorder? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Old news - the technology's called LocationFree, the LocationFree player was already included in PSP firmware 2.5, as was already reported here, with the PS3 as PVR story repeated too many times to even bother pointing you there.

  25. Re:That's pretty shocking. on RIAA Sues Woman Who Has Never Used a Computer · · Score: 5, Funny
    I mean she's NEVER used a computer?
    I know... like, how the hell does she pirate music and have meaningless arguments with strangers?