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  1. Fix the wikipedia search! on Wikia Search Engine to be Launched on January 7th · · Score: 1

    Honestly, it's crap. It's like using infoseek back in 1995!

  2. Dynamic Range! on The Death of High Fidelity · · Score: 5, Informative

    The problem is that the waveforms of modern songs are increasingly rendered at a uniform loudness, causing listener fatigue (it sure makes me tired). This is well addressed in the article.

    MP3 compression is yet another issue.

  3. Re:awww jeez, not this $#!^ again on TSA Limits Lithium Batteries on Airplanes · · Score: 3, Funny

    Think sodium metal or any explosive really, that is keister stashed until the terrorist gets to the lavatory. Keister stashed? Slashdot, you teach me something new every single day!
  4. Re:Oblig. BB on FBI to Put Criminals Up in Lights · · Score: 1
    What? That makes sense, they have slogans and messages and things, all philosophies/ideologies do.

    When do these billboards start displaying the latest neocon? That works, it could be about abstinence and subliminal messages to buy halliburton stock... OK, it's a bit of a stretch, you're right. Should have said something like "the latest IngSoc message." I've read the book though, jackass.
  5. Oblig. BB on FBI to Put Criminals Up in Lights · · Score: 2

    So when do these billboards start displaying the latest IngSoc?

    Oops, wrong country. The US is far too smart for doublethink!

  6. the tagging system on Mark Cuban Calls on ISPs to Block P2P · · Score: 1

    The level of accuracy shown by tagging this article 'fucktard' truly indicates that it's now time to come out of beta!

  7. Curious on Ultra-low-cost True Randomness · · Score: 1

    I'm curious how a truly random number can ALSO be a fingerprint...

    "Your Honor, this alleged rapist has truly random DNA."
    "Dat's right, if da seed don't fit, you must acquit!"

  8. Super Dave beat you to this on Robotic Presence For a Telecommuter · · Score: 1

    RIP Arrested Development, we hardly knew ye!

  9. Ever heard of on Scientist Must Pay to Read His Own Paper · · Score: 1
  10. Re:too little, too late? on NeoOffice 2.2.1 Available For Mac · · Score: 1

    Where, pray tell, was your WIFE during all of this?

  11. Relevant Question on Highway Safety Agency Silences Engineers · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bush Appointee?

  12. The immortal stallone on Why Make a Sequel of the Napster Wars? · · Score: 1

    "I am the law"

  13. Re:That time of the year again on Apple Updates iMac, iLife, .Mac · · Score: 1

    Hmm, that explains why they just take it down beforehand with a "We'll be back soon" soon

    They've given up

  14. Re:The Executive was created for for secrecy on FBI Raids Home of Suspected NSA Leaker · · Score: 1

    Yes, I'm sure the main fear at the time was having the white house leak her job status...

  15. Re:The Executive was created for for secrecy on FBI Raids Home of Suspected NSA Leaker · · Score: 1

    Tell that to Ms. Plame

  16. oranges! on Making Old Sound Recordings Audible Again · · Score: 1

    I bet a lot of floridian orange growers do a lot of "grove scanning" as well.

  17. Hottie in a spacesuit! on MIT Team Designs a New, Sleek, Skintight Spacesuit · · Score: 1

    Mmm mmm.... what? Dave Newman? blarghghgh NOOO!

    Oh. DavA Newman... whew!

  18. Re:Where have they been? on Bogus Company Obtains Nuclear License · · Score: 1

    They're there as advisers and auditors, not to police everything the USG does

    Maybe that's the problem.
  19. Where have they been? on Bogus Company Obtains Nuclear License · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm curious where these GAO guys have been for the past SEVEN YEARS

  20. Talk about politically incorrect on Politically Incorrect Observations About Human Nature · · Score: 1

    What's most amazing is that a story gets posted to slashdot purporting that Bill Gates is a genius!

  21. Time Enough for Love on Robert A. Heinlein's 100th Birthday · · Score: 2, Funny

    Where it's OK to sleep with your mom... because she's your mom.

  22. Re:what Apple/Jobs should do is: on Mozilla Exec Claims Apple is Hunting OSS Browsers · · Score: 1

    Ahh, well I stand corrected.

    I stand by my statement that safari on windows was a success before the first download. And it's not a good enough browser to cannibalize FF users, so it can really only hurt IE, which is a win for us all.

    Having used it, I'm not a fan. Even the font rendering just looks wrong on windows, which is weird because I really like it on the mac...

  23. Re:what Apple/Jobs should do is: on Mozilla Exec Claims Apple is Hunting OSS Browsers · · Score: 4, Informative

    webkit has been open source for years. It was adobe who really did all the work getting safari to run in windows

    So apple spends no time/money, opens a new source of google search bar revenue, AND gets a wider iphone "sdk"

    Safari on windows was a success before Jobs announced it

  24. Say it with me folks on Apple's DRM Whack-a-Mole · · Score: 1

    Privacy != Anonymity

    (It would have been ironic if I posted this AC.)

  25. Re:307? on A Mighty Number Falls · · Score: 1

    with mathematica:

    In: Total[DigitCount[2^1039 - 1]]
    Out: 313

    Need to fact check your press release