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  1. Some cheap cameras can do it on Software To Flatten a Photographed Book? · · Score: 1

    I borrowed a simple 5 Mega Pixel camera from a friend 3 years ago and it had a built-in flat picture taking mode. It was one of the common brands probably a cybershot (though not really sure).

  2. Equal time on The Case For Mandatory Touch-Typing In High School · · Score: 5, Funny

    As chairman of the Hunt-And-Peck Association of Typists (HPAT), I demand equal representation in the class room.

  3. Also on Life Without Traffic Signs · · Score: 1

    In other news, Slashdot is doing a way with moderators. With the motto 'Unmoderated is moderated', the idea is that when faced with unmoderated posts, readers will naturally read all posts. Then again, they may end up with posts in other languages like Hindu and Chinese and not labeled as trolls.

  4. This was compulsory on Target Advertising Used to Censor NY Times Article · · Score: 1

    No fish and chips here. Please move along.

  5. what next is the RIAA going to do on RIAA Targets LAN Filesharing at Universities · · Score: 3, Funny

    It looks like they will soon send messages to parents informing them that their kids are engaging in filesharing amongst themselves at their homes using the home network.

  6. Not a valid poll. on Most Web Users Unable to Spot Spyware · · Score: 1
    I do not believe that to be a valid poll. Most of those clicked to take it are most likely in the "click hungry" category. This category of internet users visit websites and the first thing that catches their eye sight is a huge banner or pop up with phrases like

    "Take this poll to win an ebay gift certificate"

    "Shoot the rabbit and get a free ipod"

    ....

    Or worse still, those found the site already had a spyware problems and where looking for solutions so they took the quiz. You just don't wait outside a creek to find out about the memory capabilities of the residents of a city.

  7. Hope I have waited long enough on Leaving Early May Cost You Time · · Score: 2, Funny

    First post

  8. tough job, you gotta thank somebody after that on Man Builds 60-foot Tower to Get Highspeed Access · · Score: 1
    Final costs:

    * About 14,000 pounds of cement

    * About $404 CND (including ISP installation)

    * Days and days of work

    After that, go to church and thank God you completed successfully.

  9. Re:RF Jamming on Tagging Devices To Aid In Car Chases · · Score: 1

    You are a hard core criminal dude. Not committing the crime is not an option.

  10. many special cases to ponder on Cell Phones Learn to Recognize Their Owners' Faces · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I see a bruised accident victim denied access to make an emergency call.

  11. ai dont undastand on Hackers, Spelling, and Grammar? · · Score: 1

    The human brian is the best compila I no of. If the sintax is not totaly different from wat it shood b, the mavalus brian compiles with no era. However, in sum cases, the programmar haz not oven da slitest crew of the lungwage they r uzing. Then the drain will caind ov mess singht pu. And then avri wan wheel stat 2 komplayn. bat sum krazy peepo komplain even wehn they undastand and intaprit da sintax korrectly.

  12. last respects on Longhorn Drops 'My' Prefixes · · Score: 1
    A number of years ago it was My Computer, then My Zombie. Atleast I still owned the damn thing. I guess the zombie is going to be formally taken away .

    Even if it is taken away it will remain My Precious.

    Bring back My Precious. ohhh. Precious

  13. Make your claims on Playing with Sony's Linux-Based Networked Media Player · · Score: 1
    I got a chance to play with one today.

    Ok Mr poster, I admit I have not RYFA. But if you played with it and it still does what sony intended it to do, then you don't know how to play.

  14. Redmond will not give in. on UK Schools Told to Dump Microsoft · · Score: 1
    Looking at the situation a little deeply, I do not expect microsoft to let it happen without a fight. Usually students want to have the same kind of operating system as that used at their school. If not that, it is a better/newer version of the same brand.

    What happens when they leave school?? Go back to microsoft?? I don't think so. After that wherever they go or work, they will push for what they use. If it is open source then open source it is.

    Microsoft's strategy is like that of the tobacco companies. Get them hooked while they are still young.

  15. Suggestion that matters. on Black Boxes for Spacecrafts · · Score: 1
    NewScientist is running story about NASA's plan to put small, heat-resistant black boxes that will transmit data back to Earth when future space probes break up during re-entry to the Earth's atmosphere.

    Why don't they make the whole damn space craft out of that heat resistant material.

  16. Smart but not needed on loband - Killer App for Developing World? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Trying to design a $100 dollar laptop for starving users or kids who still go to schools where blackboards are mounted on trees is not a feasible idea.

  17. How real is the shark. on Finally ... RoboShark! · · Score: 1
    They have done a good job, but looks like they have not prepared the shark (human driver) how to act when sexual advances are made.

    I'll just wait and see.

  18. Re:AFP will be the ones to lose on French News Agency Sues Google News · · Score: 1
    I do not think AFP looked that far before they filed the law suit. Or maybe they did, I cannot be sure, but I bet what they surely looked at was the money they could extract from the successful search giant.

    Actually, they could even have facilitated this in one way or another, ok I am not a website king, but isn't there a way one can block the google web crawlers from indexing the material on there websites?

    If AFP are successful in extorting even afew dollars from google, this could lead to an avalanche of suits against search companies.
    Think about it, set up site -> register with search engines or use the right meta tags -> claim the search engine went beyond the limits -> sue and get rich.

  19. feature not available on Towards Self-Replicating Rapid Prototypers · · Score: 0, Redundant
    self-replicating

    If the human package came with this feature.
    /.ers would boast of being family men too.

  20. Mac Lunatic on IBM Using iPod to boot Linux on PCs · · Score: 1
    Barely recovered from the Real network daggers on itunes and now IBM has hacked our ipod.

    Oh lord, why us?

  21. Sherman Vs Sherman network s?? on RIAA Lawsuits from a John Doe's Perspective · · Score: 1

    Is it just a coincidence that the RIAA President is called Sherman?

  22. Re:It doesn't qualify on Random Number Generator That Sees Into the Future · · Score: 1
    "Read the article and his multiple qualifications. It's not like this is some crazy guy in his basement, it's Princeton."

    It's Princeton, many crazy nerds, in a basement of a library.

  23. monkeys are not allowed to have pets. on Monkeys Pay for Monkey Porn · · Score: 1

    I know some monkey is in court for sharing his bed with kids.

  24. Re:I spy a new meme on Gates Nose-Dives at CES · · Score: 1
    ipchains? I lost mine several years ago when iptables came out. Come on man, UPGRADE!!! ;-)

    The latest version of the ipchains is the iptables. Come on man, don't loose track of versioning

  25. Trust me, watch which wheel you re-invent. on Reinventing the Wheel · · Score: 2, Funny

    I took a Java course in college and the first chapter in the Course Text was all about not re-inventing the wheel.
    But when I got a program off the internet and handed it in for my assignment I was penalised heavily.