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  1. windows.. on More Cell Processor Details And First Pictures · · Score: 2, Interesting

    with IBM is pushing linux, I can't see microsoft ditching their good buddy Intel, and throwing money at IBM by porting windows to run on the Cell processor. I would guess that this would allow Intel to retain their market share, even if the Cell is infact a far superior processor.

  2. free coasters on AOL Updates: Standalone Browser, Search, VoIP · · Score: 3, Funny

    I haven't gotten any of those funky multicolored coasters in the mail for a while, I hope this means that AOL will start sending them out again!

  3. poor guy on Where Have All The Cycles Gone? · · Score: 1

    someone posted a picture of an unattractive female next to his contact information at the bottom of the page.. someone should let him know.

  4. Re:deposit!? on National PC Recycling Plan Proposed, Again · · Score: 1

    Its even easier to not seperate your garbage and recyclables, which is what the majority of people do. A deposit gives people a small incentive, which is better than nothing.

  5. deposit!? on National PC Recycling Plan Proposed, Again · · Score: 4, Insightful

    While you're at it, put deposit on recycleable containers (juice, beer, milk) for god's sake.. it pains me to go to a party in washington (and other states), and see case after case of empty beer cans thrown in the garbage. I understand that unintelligent people can't figure out the difference between deposit and another tax, but thems the breaks. http://www.container-recycling.org/glassfact/decli ne.htm

  6. Re:Privacy laws extend internationally on Canadian Government Weary of Patriot Act · · Score: 1

    its a pretty sad state of affairs when you have to specify that BC is a province. Oh well, at least you didn't have to explain that a province is "kind of like a state, but canadian"

  7. what about on New Legal Center for Open Source Projects · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "to assist open source developers with legal issues for free"

    now all we need is someone that work for free to go after people that abuse the GPL

    ie: Sveasoft (http://slashdot.org/~Featureless/journal/ )

  8. Re:datapoint on Businesses Discover Skype · · Score: 3, Informative

    i'm having a "similar" problem. complete cisco VoIP, whenever the stateful firewall is enabled and someone on the LAN uses FTP the phone system crashes.. cisco is "working on it" and we're considering sending the system back to them.

  9. Re:Phone rates on Businesses Discover Skype · · Score: 1

    not if you include the "connection fees" and "maintenance fees" that all low rate calling cards seem to have. plus there's the fact that you have to GO buy the card.. outside is scary

  10. Re:Wow. on Microsoft to Sell Outlook Subscription Service · · Score: 1

    Not really this makes no difference. Outlook Express is still free, and you've always had to pay for Outlook.

    (from mozilla.org)
    Can I access my Netscape WebMail or Hotmail accounts through Thunderbird?

    No. Netscape WebMail and Hotmail use proprietary protocols. To access WebMail directly through an e-mail client requires you to use Netscape 6+ with AIM; to do so with Hotmail requires either Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express. There are also freeware applications available that will let you do the same thing, such as Hotmail Popper.

  11. Re:Err... on Microsoft to Sell Outlook Subscription Service · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ISP's don't provide 250Mb of email, and if you change ISP's you lose your email address. That's one of the benefits of a "hotmail" is that you're not locked to a certain ISP. I Know people that have stayed with dialup simply because they didn't want to go through the process of changing their email.

  12. Re:If it isn't free... on Bollywood New Releases Available via Video-On-Demand · · Score: 1

    I have "friends" that download a lot of movies, but only download screeners. For an increasing number of movies it takes quite a while for the screener to become available. With this system you can watch great quality movies at home instead of having to go find a theatre. I think its a step in the right direction. I'm sure they're not targetting for the guy with a 5 year old CRT, but rather people with TV Out cards, and/or pretty LCD screens.

  13. Re:Most surprising prediction... on In the Year 2020 · · Score: 1

    p.s bushes was intentionally misspelled. much like when i write about how much i hate the toronto maple leaves.

  14. Re:Most surprising prediction... on In the Year 2020 · · Score: 1

    hey, if americans are stupid enough to vote 2 bushes in, they might as well vote another one in.

  15. IP KVM + Modem on Laptops, Headless Servers and KVMs? · · Score: 1

    We have an IP KVM at each of our offices http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process ?Merchant_Id=&Section_Id=201720&pcount=&Product_Id =152988 and hung off the KVM is a modem. You can control multiple KVM's behind the IP KVM and configure hotkeys for each of your KVMS. This enables us to control all of our servers from our laptops when we are at the site, and when we are not. If the internet goes down it also gives us the ability to dial in to the KVM and do maintenance. They're under $1000 CDN and we've had great successs with them. They also keep the ps/2 ports on the server live, so if we have to plug a keyboard and mouse in locally we can (without having to do that annoying reboot). Just a forwarning they say it can have two serial devices attached to the device, we've only ever had success with the one port.

  16. Re:build in page validator. on Planning For Mozilla 2.0 · · Score: 1

    While you're at it, a built in grammar and spelling checker wouldn't hurt :p

  17. Re:WarTraining is c00l on Best Wireless SSIDs You Have Seen? · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised that "Fake" didn't show up more. I see this all the time.

    Example: Sveasoft running on a WRT54G.

  18. Re:NASA Planning? on 'Something' Cleaning Mars Rover · · Score: 1

    not so true.

    For iron to become iron oxide, three things are required: iron, water and oxygen.
    http://science.howstuffworks.com/question445.htm

  19. Re:And here we have ... on On the Ethics of a Code Split? · · Score: 1

    That's what it appears to be, does anyone was the author the original developer, and and/or did he started the spinoff? There have been quite a few arguments about jumping on board the project and then spinning it off, etc..

  20. Re:Photoshop and GIMP are not the competition on Paint.NET: The Anti-GIMP? · · Score: 1

    I like how you chose to use the wording are intended to be do-everything monsters. The gimp may have good intentions, but that's where the comparison between Photoshop and the Gimp should end.

  21. Re:returns? on CA Court Strikes Blow Against Hidden EULAs · · Score: 1

    i see where you're going, but i disagree. sure it might make the guy with tinfoil on his head switch to something OSS because he doesn't want to activate his software, but for average people online activations work a good percentage of the time (this is software we're talking about, not halflife 2) and when they don't they pop up a phone number, and the person happily calls it.

    sure, people will be curious the first time they see one, but they've most likely already activated windows XP.

  22. returns? on CA Court Strikes Blow Against Hidden EULAs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    doesn't this mean that if I lived in california I could go out, buy software, copy the cd, and then take it back?

    seems like its an incentive for companies to implement online activations, hardware keys, etc.

  23. Re:A girl-geek and slashdot on High School Dropout, Self-Taught Chip Designer · · Score: 1

    there's also nothing forcing you to sign up for your own account, when you can use http://www.bugmenot.com/

  24. Re:Oh oh.... on Penny Arcade Holiday Strip Series #1 · · Score: 1

    it loads.. just verrry slowly

  25. Re:Agreed, many profs are abusive on DJB Announces 44 Security Holes In *nix Software · · Score: 1

    this is why you use http://www.ratemyprofessor.com/ when laying out your timeline. other students are sometimes wrong, but when 10 reviews say that the teacher is an ass, and marks hard, then they aren't usually wrong.

    as for your murderered comment, i'd say you should seek help