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  1. Re:savings? on HP Introduces New Technology to Save Mobile Battery Life · · Score: 1

    Probably 21.

  2. Re:One word. on Normalizing Music? · · Score: 1

    Quit forcing your baby to listen to classical music, it probably just wants to get one fucking night of decent sleep. Or maybe your baby is more into rap, or Norwegian death metal.

  3. One word. on Normalizing Music? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Headphones.

  4. Re:ahaha, honour system? on Wisconsin Governor Proposing Tax On Downloads · · Score: 1

    Your spelling sucks but your point is valid.

  5. Re:Dutch Railway on Uses and Software for a Modern PocketPC PDA? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Are you sure she was swearing, and not just speaking Dutch?

  6. Money with OSS on Making Money Using Open Source Software? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Not that difficult, really. All you'd really need is The GIMP to modify serial numbers. Plus a good scanner, nice dye-sublimation printer, and the right paper.

  7. Re:Answer and a Question on Build Your Own PBX · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'll answer your question with another question: if you already have Vonage, why would you need Asterisk? Vonage already has most of the goodies you'd regularly use with Asterisk. Now, if you want to run a little business and do some fancy work with multiple phone lines, just ditch Vonage and save $5 a month with Broadvoice.

    If you don't need to put your grandmother through a five-level voice menu every time she calls, then Asterisk doesn't offer that much of an advantage. The Vonage box is actually pretty cool, you can take it with you on extended trips. My job often puts me in other parts of the country for a week or two, it's nice to have a phone that uses zero precious anytime cellphone minutes. Basically, with a laptop computer, access to a printer, high-speed internet, and a Vonage box, you are in your office.

  8. Beyond simple on Building a Simple Streaming Media Server? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Seriously, this is a non-question. Not only does Google turn up hundreds of straightforward options, but in 1999 I was streaming MP3s off a 486 SX-33 running Linux and Apache on a 13-gig drive, using nothing more complicated than saving a Winamp playlist and using Notepad's find-replace to convert each entry into a URL. From that point it's like the files are sitting on your own hard drive.

  9. Re:Get ready to say ... on NTT's Cool - Human Area Networking Technology · · Score: 1

    "Are you happy to see me or is that an OC-48?"

  10. Re:This kind of stuff is dangerous on Smart Holograms Used as Biosensors · · Score: 4, Interesting

    These aren't computers, they're basically a glorified version of litmus paper. A chemical response changes the size of molecules, which in these prototypes causes the sensor itself to become the display. You're not going to create a backdoor unless you actually make a door out of this stuff.

  11. It's all in the cards on Smart Holograms Used as Biosensors · · Score: 2, Funny

    We'll go to tarot readers to find out we have low blood sugar, high cholesterol, trace amounts of lead, and are pregnant.

  12. The Hyundai Hindenburg. on California Drivers Can Tank Up WIth Hydrogen · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sounds about right. Once we get nuclear-powered SUVs maybe we can start naming them after presidents. "And now the six-o'clock news. Interstate 90 was blocked today after a fiery accident involving the Eisenhower and the Monroe. Several smaller vehicles were also involved, including the Oklahoma, California, and . None of the drivers were injured, cushioned in their titanium-armored luxury staterooms, though several thousand local inhabitants are missing."

  13. Re:Bzzzt. Wrong. Bzzzt Bzzt Bzzzt on Sim Icarus Boeing 777 Handmade Flight Deck · · Score: 1

    Blood.

    Blooooooood.

    BLOOOOOOOOOOOD!

    *drip*

    *drip*

    *drip*

  14. Re:Another Proof... on Sim Icarus Boeing 777 Handmade Flight Deck · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Legal drinking age is 18 in Canada, I think that says it all.

  15. Great. on Sim Icarus Boeing 777 Handmade Flight Deck · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Now anyone can build a simulator for training more terrorist hijackers. /snicker

  16. Re:Allowed me to stop paying Starbucks/B&Noble on Panera Bread Is The Largest Provider Of Free WiFi · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yes, never do anything involving passwords or finances or sensitive corporate information while using an unsecured wireless connection, especially in a public place. If you have high-speed access at home, it takes very little effort to set up a simple Linux box you can tunnel your web traffic through to squid or some other proxy on the same box. Of course that means your home upload speed is now your remote download speed, but the peace of mind is worth the sacrifice. You might not get 300Kbps down on the public access point, anyway.

    With a little more effort, or some collaboration with your employer's network staff, you can get a VPN set up for the same purpose.

  17. Sweet. on U.S. Denies Patent on Part-Human Hybrid · · Score: 1

    Cat-girls without patent lawsuits! Though it would be kind of fun to try finding the patent number stamp.

  18. Re:Article Text (just incase of slashdotting) on How to Install Debian on Mac mini · · Score: 1

    I mean, VII.

  19. Re:Article Text (just incase of slashdotting) on How to Install Debian on Mac mini · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Personally, I bought the Mac Mini as a replacement for my girlfriend's aging 1GHz Pentium-III system"

    Aha! Here we have the TRUE purpose of the article: a geek bragging about having a girlfriend. And at a time of the year when most geeks weep silently into the pillow of their twin bed every night, fervently wishing they were Cloud in Final Fantasy IIV.

  20. Re:With a name like that on Inside Windows XP Reduced Media Edition · · Score: 1

    They could always call it the "Low-Carb Edition."

  21. Re:Evidence of simulation? on Random Number Generator That Sees Into the Future · · Score: 1

    That disconnected, surreal feeling you have is more likely to do with the LSD you pour over your breakfast cereal every morning.

  22. Re:I request you remove "land of the free" from yo on Public Park Designated Copyrighted Space · · Score: 4, Funny

    How about "land of the fee" instead?

  23. Re:Lesson Learned on Reverse Engineering of a Graphics Format? · · Score: 1

    If people read an entire comment before posting (all three sentences), then they wouldn't look retarded.

  24. Re:Why license based on processor? on Should Dual Cores Require Dual Licenses? · · Score: 1

    fully populated Sunfire F25k (72 dual-core processors, nicknamed "the Gibson")

  25. Lesson Learned on Reverse Engineering of a Graphics Format? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Never buy anything that claims to work with Linux. Buy things that Linux supports.

    Unless you're just adventurous that way, and want to write drivers.