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  1. Re:Sandboxing on Consumer Friendly Downloads? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Have you heard of capabilities? With this type of stuff, spyware would have to ask to get your personal information and such. A pity the early capability systems sucked royally, making ACLs win.

  2. Re:Offering radio services, meanwhile... on Cingular to Offer Radio Service · · Score: 1

    There is no AM radio because the antenna for an AM radio has to be quite big for good reception. As in, bigger than the iRiver.

  3. Re:Apple? on Cingular to Offer Radio Service · · Score: 1

    I don't know, but I think very few people would want to rape Al Roker... ;)

  4. Re:Nic0le is a PageRank spammer, MOD DOWN on Smart Optical Fibers Could Save Lives · · Score: 1

    Won't show up on Google anyways. Slashdot uses rel="nofollow" ;)

  5. Re:Indie Artists on Software Predicts Music Success · · Score: 1

    Well, with the RIAA's stranglehold over the radio industry...
    But I was actually trying to take a swipe at Microsoft, a really bad one at that.

  6. Re:Indie Artists on Software Predicts Music Success · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Indie pop", is this like "jumbo shrimp", "military intelligence", and "Microsoft Works"?

  7. Re:Is there anything... on Google Offers Free WiFi for Mountain View, CA · · Score: 1

    Evil, for one.

  8. Re:Pascal's Wager on New Discovery Disproves Quantum Theory? · · Score: 2, Funny

    That excludes the possibility of you buying it and it explodes on you...that would be a big loss.

  9. Re:A twist! on MIT Wireless Campus Tracking Users · · Score: 1

    Actually, there's a reason for that. If people keep submitting something repeatedly after it's already been covered, they dupe it. CmdrTaco said that at one point.

  10. Re:Just for that... on DNA and Online Search Finds Birth Parent · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia, Beowulf cluster of anonymous sperm donors imagines YOU, you insensitive clod!

  11. Re:Get ready to watch ... on Google Patent for User Targeted Search Results · · Score: 1
    Giggle is helping the Chinese oppress its citizens.
    1) Who's Giggle? I presume you're referring to Google. 2) Would you rather have the Chinese have to use a filtered Google or have them not be able to use Google at all? Because those are your choices.
    Giggle execs are buying plush polluting 767's while at the same time stating they drive hybrid cars and care about the environment.
    I don't know enough about this to comment.
    Now Giggle has IPO'd and is at the mercy of shareholders who can pull the strings.
    Hence the two classes of stock.
  12. Re:slick willy on Google Hiring Programmers to Work on OpenOffice · · Score: 1

    To their type, the difference is that the blowjob is morally wrong while fucking the whole world is morally right.

  13. Re:Well, a few reasons on Yahoo's Geek Statue · · Score: 1

    Well, I'd have to put Thunderbird's folders in a place where both Win and Lin could access them, and that means my FAT partition, which I don't believe nonroot users can access on Linux(although I think I can set nonroot users to access it, I don't want to). Plus, using Gmail means I can access it from school also, which is very useful in certain cases. Besides, even if I was going to use Thunderbird, I'd be using it with my Gmail account, since my ISP's account only has 10MB ;)

  14. Re:digg.com slashdot on MIT Wireless Campus Tracking Users · · Score: 1

    It's the newest form of karma whoring. To say "I saw this on digg three years ago".

  15. Re:Any browser? on Glide Effortless to Compete in File Sharing Market · · Score: 1

    If you're getting tired of "these Slashvertisement product announcements on the /. front page", go elsewhere. As in, LEAVE SLASHDOT.

  16. Re:Well, a few reasons on Yahoo's Geek Statue · · Score: 1

    And if you run a dual-boot, it's easier to just use Gmail for everything rather than have to move Thunderbird config files between the two interfaces or similar things.

  17. Re:uni..who ?? on Unisys: We No Longer Have A Way Out · · Score: 1

    Actually, they both are, IIRC. Or rather, were, since Unisys's patent has expired everywhere.(Don't remember whether IBM's has or not)

  18. Re:uni..who ?? on Unisys: We No Longer Have A Way Out · · Score: 1

    The GIF patent guys, if I remember correctly. I'm amazed this hasn't even been brought up once in this thread.

  19. Re:Communist radio on War of the Worlds by the Star Trek Cast · · Score: 1

    I can't tell whether you're serious or joking...

  20. Re:What!? on Could the Web Not be Invented Today? · · Score: 1

    And the Romans are asking for their letters back. And they're also asking for a significant segment of our lexicon...

  21. Re:At last, an honest ship date! on The Microsoft Singularity · · Score: 1

    And "making Windows stable" is one of the many impossible things Milliway's does...

  22. Re:Don't let your head explode on Microsoft Calls for National Privacy Law · · Score: 1

    When you can't find it on the opensource.com site, use a mirror,

  23. Re:Well... on Start of Life Gene Discovered · · Score: 2, Informative

    Manslaughter, not murder.

  24. Re:Or rather on NASA Scraps Shuttle And Returns to Rockets · · Score: 1

    Do you mean hundreds of billions of rubles? Because tens of billions of rubles would be merely billions of dollars. One ruble is worth about 5 cents, IIRC.

  25. Re:The Next New MS License on Microsoft, OSI Discuss Shared Source Licenses · · Score: 1

    And Steve Ballmer ends all his speeches with "Ceterum censeo FLOSSem delendam esse"*?
    *Translation:Moreover, I advise that FLOSS should be destroyed