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  1. offtopic: lame sig file on FBI Raids Arizona School District Over Copyright Infringement · · Score: 1

    n/t

  2. Re:*sigh* on Making Science and Math Kid Friendly? · · Score: 1

    *from proj's girlfriend*

    Actually, there are junior high and high schools that are realizing the experiential approach works better, and are changing their methods of teaching. And they're public schools, believe it or not. So please remain the idealist, help us spread the word, and maybe someday all schools will be like this.

  3. Re:The Joke on AmEx vs. rec.humor.funny · · Score: 1

    read rec.humor.funny's policy on offensive jokes.

    there's way worse stuff in the rhf archives and in the internet oracle archives too.

  4. Re:Wha? on When Does Usability Become a Liability? · · Score: 4, Funny

    4k is plenty for a nice ascii art

  5. Re:What field next on What Should a Documentary Filmmaker Ask About Offshoring? · · Score: 1

    a blonde is trying to earn some money to go visit her parents so she decides to do some odd jobs. she goes up to this one expensive-looking house and asks if there's anything she can do for some cash. the owner says "y'know, you could paint my porch. here's a hundred to get the stuff you need and i'll give you the rest later."

    2 hours later she knocks on his door and says "all done! but i think you should know that it's not a porch. it's a ferrari!"

  6. Re:$33 cd? It is going to decrease profit on RIAA's Nasty Easter Egg · · Score: 1

    "Classical music probably costs a bit less given most of the works are already composed and perhaps, depending on the arrangement, royalty free, and then probably costs a bit more as a more performers -- in some cases whole orchestras, choruses, and opera singers -- are required."

    In addition to paying more performers, the production costs of a high-quality classial recording are astounding. You need to find a good-sounding room that can fit everyone, enough microphones to adequately capture all the instruments, and something that can record all this at once.

  7. Re:~The Essence of Slashdot~ on AOL to Give Away Spammer's Porsche · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    most politicians are evil shitbags.

    but most aren't particularly evil compared to spammers.

    especially not ralph nader, who doesn't even hold an office!

  8. Re:New Hampshire on Are You Reporting Your Internet Purchases? · · Score: 4, Informative

    New Hampshire has lots of ski resorts. The restaurants and hotels of the state end up paying resort and meal taxes, and all the visitors to these ski resorts (in a good year they come from Europe!) end up paying a LOT of taxes. In addition, the state operates the only liquor stores and tolls certain highways.

  9. Re:knee jerk on Suicide Caught on Surveillance Tape Appears Online · · Score: 1

    it's not just political parties that are messed up! it's marketing in general.

    rap artists have to make sure they keep enough black fans that the white folks will still think they have street cred.

    and so on and so on...

  10. Re:300,000 developers for under 5 % of market shar on Apple Developer Profile Changing? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    well, part of the key thing is that apple allows you to register as a developer for free, and they give away all their tools and docs, unlike microsoft who charges you a few grand for the privilege of developing windows software.

  11. Re:Train My Replacement? on Train Your Own Replacement · · Score: 1

    "Unions are for blue collar whiners who refuse to adapt to the economic tides."

    Then why are there teachers' unions? Airline pilots' and flight attendant unions?

  12. Re:It is? on Real Problems · · Score: 1

    nothing stops them from hitting pause and buffering everything until they get back. or installing speakers in the bathroom for that matter!

  13. Re:Good... down with Real on Real Problems · · Score: 2, Informative

    Multicast? Are you sure? For this to be advantageous, basically everyone has to watch the stream at the same time. To stream to different users at different times (which is usually the case) then you're basically talking about unicast again, which is the current model.

    For live broadcast audio, that's exactly what you want.

  14. Re:drool... on Giant Sub-Woofer · · Score: 1

    now imagine what it would sound like if you listened to some GOOD drumnbass.

  15. Re:I agree that they are vandals and scoundrels... on New Tool Cracks Apple's FairPlay DRM · · Score: 1

    so where is this linux music store client?

  16. Re:No one "makes up the difference" on States Link Databases to Find Tax Cheats · · Score: 1

    i was never really in the discussion to begin with.

    and i do believe that your proposed 'anti-godwin's law' is covered by the corollary: "anyone invoking godwin's law on purpose loses by default"

  17. Re:No one "makes up the difference" on States Link Databases to Find Tax Cheats · · Score: 1

    wrong discussion. godwin's interview is a couple threads over.

  18. Re:MIPS on A History of PowerPC · · Score: 1

    leave it to me to ignore the subject line

  19. Re:MIPS on A History of PowerPC · · Score: 1

    i think you misunderstand. i believe the parent meant "million instructions per second"

  20. Re:To paraphrase MAD. on IBM Files For Declaratory Judgement In SCO Case · · Score: 1, Informative

    Dr. Claw was the head of MAD.

  21. Re:Mugging on iPod: This Season's Must-Have for Muggers · · Score: 1, Insightful

    oh, it's better to get stabbed over a piece of perfectly-replaceable machinery?

  22. Re:DRM Online Music on BusinessWeek on Opening Apple's iTunes DRM · · Score: 1

    hey man,

    if you can afford the extensive equipment necessary to maintain that lifestyle, you can afford to hire some lackey to cart you around in a see-through backpack.

  23. Re:Channels of choice... on Congress To Force Cable a la Carte Plans · · Score: 1

    actually BET's Jazz channel has some pretty neat stuff.

  24. Re:Lack of.. on Six Barriers to Open Source Adoption · · Score: 4, Insightful

    organizing ANOTHER organization's project should NOT be a CIO's job.

  25. Re:Why is there only one database access language? on Prothon - A New Prototype-based Language · · Score: 1

    trust me, i'm trying to forget, but i don't there's enough vodka in this hemisphere