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  1. In industrialized Britain... on UK ATM System Could Have Ruined Economy · · Score: 4, Funny

    banks rob YOU!

  2. ok on The Problems with Broadband in America · · Score: 1

    Obviously, the only way to solve this is innovation. Innovation offers a solution to our broadband problem. It's time for Congress, the FCC and the White House to stop protecting the corporate dinosaurs and start exploring alternatives that will foster a genuine free market in high-speed Internet services. Who's with me?

  3. Ummm on Fortune Takes a Look at Bram Cohen · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I don't mean to troll, but given that he has Asperger's Syndrome, should it not be in his best interest to give the job of CEO to somebody who is more charismatic (in the sense that he can communicate exactly what people will want to hear), in an attempt to gain extra customers?

  4. Another approach at solving your malware problems on 180 Solutions Cuts Back on Spyware Installs · · Score: 1

    Billy solves his problems by calling up his mom Heather solves her problems with drugs and alcohol Daniel solves his problems with a doctor and the law, But Malcolm has his own way, and it's better than them all.. Malcolm solves his problems with a chainsaw! Malcolm solves his problems with a chainsaw! Malcolm solves his problems with a chainsaw! And he never has the same problem twice! Whether it's a bill or a cheque arriving late, Rancid marble cheese or a steak that's second-rate, Awful TV programs or a broken Elvis plate, or his fiance who dumps him because he's gaining weight.. Malcolm solves his problems with a chainsaw! Malcolm solves his problems with a chainsaw! Malcolm solves his problems with a chainsaw! And he never has the same problem twice!

  5. Amazing. on Another Taikonaut Launch This Week · · Score: 1

    Whats amazing is how long it took, since China has had a rocketry program since the 1950s, and Beijing fired its first satellite into orbit in 1970.

  6. Excuse me on The Firemonger Project · · Score: 0

    Excuse me for asking but if someone is going to use firefox, they should already have internet connection, in which case there should be no reason for making this on a CD unless I am missing something.

  7. In fascist italy... on Leonardo Da Vinci's Personal Notebook · · Score: 5, Funny

    in Italia fascista, i taccuini li pubblicano

  8. Good thing is on Wind River Joins the Mobile Linux Fray · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The good thing is that in any event, multi-vendor competition bodes well for Linux's chances against single-vendor operating systems such as Windows Mobile and Symbian, since competitors in the Linux space end up contributing to an evolving shared base of open source software.

  9. The Reason on Bad Reporting, Not Email, Worse Than Marijuana · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The reason that such things occur i because I think that we can not do much about media sensationalism or the scientific ignorance of many journalists. On the other hand , there's no reason why better information about science and technology should not also be available to the public.

  10. Problems on Pay vs. Happiness · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The problem in finding out whether job burnout is occurring is because job burnout is nondiscriminating. Employees at all levels suffer. The symptoms of job burnout, particularly cynicism, have a way of spreading. Even employees who like their jobs and find them rewarding eventually may perceive a co-worker's complaints about management and lack of appreciation as valid. Not dealing with a burned-out employee can undermine your organization's health and lead to a burnout epidemic. Alleviating job burnout causes can strengthen morale, job satisfaction, and (what I think is most important to the company): productivity.

  11. Finally, on Opening the Potential of OpenOffice.org · · Score: 0

    A last note: As in with all Open Source projects, the people need to help the process to be successful, and these means that we should all help where we can.

  12. DOS? on Hilton Hacker Gets 11 Months · · Score: 5, Insightful

    From TFA:

    In June, a second phone company became a victim to the juvenile's attack, according to the U.S. Attorney's statement. A phone that had been activated fraudulently was disabled, and the teen retaliated with a denial-of-service attack on the company's Web site when it refused to reactivate the phone.

    Im not trying to troll, but what kind of professional website gets harmed by a DOS attack anymore. Slashdot alone should make webmasters think twice before putting up a service with a server that cant handle DOS attacks. :)

  13. Too bad on An Early Look at JUnit 4 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    After reading this, I noticed it was great but the most obvious omission is a GUI test runner. Fortunately, it is possible that if you want to see a comforting green bar when your tests pass or an anxiety-inducing red bar when they fail. you'll need an IDE with integrated JUnit support such as Eclipse. Neither the Swing nor the AWT test runners will be updated or bundled with JUnit 4.

  14. Slammed on Free 3D Animation DAZ|Studio 1.0 Released · · Score: 0

    Since the server's getting slammed, heres TFA:

    Whether you're just getting started in 3D, or are an avid 3D artist and enthusiast, DAZ|Studio will allow you to express yourself in 3D like never before. Imagine being able to easily create your own convincing 3d artwork. You don't need to take any special courses or read any complicated books. Perhaps you have a scene in your mind that you'd like to create. Choose your 3D subjects and their virtual environment, and then let DAZ|Studio fill in the rest for you. Or, perhaps you've found an interesting 3D character that you enjoy and would like to build a scene around it. Either way, DAZ|Studio can be the means to bring everything together into a stunning representation of your limitless imagination.
    DAZ|Studio is a free software application that allows you to easily create beautiful digital art. You can use this software to load in people, animals, vehicles, buildings, props, and accessories to create digital scenes. DAZ|Studio includes two pre-configured scenes ready for you to Load & Render within DAZ|Studio. Just double-click on the scene thumbnails inside of DAZ|Studio, and everything will come on screen posed, lit, and ready for you to create a stunning digital image. Click here to view a sample scene render from DAZ|Studio using the included content.




    The power of a single individual can be substantial. Great things can come to pass as a result of the power and good faith of a single person. By joining together, each one of us can help insure a bright future for this 3d community. DAZ strongly believes that by simply telling a friend or two about DAZ|Studio and what can be done by combining this free program with any of the thousands of pieces of digital content available, the growth of the community can become exponential.
    DAZ Productions has a made a committment to keep the DAZ|Studio core application free to the public for as long as possible. In order for this to be possible, DAZ relies on the revenues generated by the purchase of content available in the DAZ online store. The more people that purchase regularly from DAZ, the more development that can be subsidized and the longer the DAZ|Studio core will remain free.
    You CAN make a difference! The more people that you help inform about our community, the better it will become.

  15. Just Testing on Why the Rokr Phone Is An Important Failure · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Bush = monkey

    Do i still get +5 insightful?

  16. I, for one, on UK Scientists to Create Embryo From Two Women · · Score: 0, Redundant

    welcome our new mitochondria-donating overlords.

  17. Question on Researchers Say Human Brain is Still Evolving · · Score: 1

    Excuse me for asking, but isn't this somewhat obvious? In certain regions, some alleles are much more advantages than in others (having exactly one sickle cell causing allele is extremely advantages in parts of Africa because it causes a very strong immunity to malaria), and it can be seen from the demographics in the article that certain regions tend to have more of a certain allele than others. True, sickle cell is for the entire body... but theres probably something similar that is specifically for the brain.

  18. For starters... on Infrastructure for One Million Email Accounts? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    For starters, uptime should usually be higher than 99.9% for this large a site. 99.9% uptime means 40-45 minutes of downtime a month. Try going for 99.99% at least, though this usually increases the cost by about 250% according to what I have seen a few years back.

  19. Re:Virtual PC on FEMA Demands Use of IE To File Online Katrina Claims · · Score: 1, Interesting

    From TFA: If you're running Mac OS X, you could run Virtual PC 7 and then access Windows and Internet Explorer.

  20. Re:And we shall call these pellets... on Hydrogen Stored in Safe High Density Pellets · · Score: 0

    In case you don't get where the numbers came from, a monosaccharide molecule of sugar (the simplest form) is made of 6 Carbon atoms, 12 Hydrogen atoms, and 6 oxygen atoms (C6H12O6). When combining two, one water molecule (H2O) is lost (in a process called dehydration synthesis), leaving you with C12H22O11, which IIRC is sucrose.

    You really do need to look up the definition of a lump, but most likely the dictionary will be too astronomical a size for you.

  21. Whoa on Space Penguin Could Hop Around The Moon · · Score: 1, Funny

    The lander sits on four legs, much like a small version of the original landers that brought astronauts to the moon. The squat, compact unit has a few tiny jump boosters protruding below and on its sides and looks nothing like an actual penguin. This looks just like my my linux box sitting on my table.

  22. Re:Inquiring minds want to know, on Comparing Tiger and Vista Beta 1 · · Score: 0, Funny

    Word Processing: Yes. MS Works often comes with Windows, wordpad always comes with Windows, and even though it doesnt actually arrive with the box, OpenOffice.org is free to download.

    Financial Stuff: Not to my knowledge

    Paint prog: MSPaint

    Spreadsheets: OpenOffice.org or MS Works.

    Desktop publishing: Not sure what that is :(.

    Multimedia editing / DVD authoring & burning: I think Windows Movie Editor or something of the sort comes with WinXP (no clue about Vista). I'm not sure about DVD stuff though.

    Webpage authoring / editing: All you need is notepad and most likely a browser (unless you are an alphageek and use notepad as a browser :P)

  23. Whoa on Intel and Laptop RAID? · · Score: 0

    Since when are there redundant array of inexpensive disk arrays? This is one "uber" multidimensional array.

  24. omg on AOL Fined for Making it Hard to Cancel Service · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    my left nut is still blue

  25. Whoa on Gaming's Rhapsody Second Movement · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Given that its been 6 minutes since the first post and this is the third, this is probably the slowest /. article to get comments in a few years :)