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  1. Re:Musical styles not for live performance? on Warner Music Pulls Videos Off YouTube · · Score: 1

    Obviously we're both Beatles fans, and I think we're worse off

    Very true. Very, very true.

  2. Re:Snarky article on 100 Years Ago, No Free Broadband Pneumatic Tubes · · Score: 1

    personal self sufficiency in terms of internet

    Hey that describes me. I just can't figure out how the lot of you got on my internet!

  3. Re:Snarky article on 100 Years Ago, No Free Broadband Pneumatic Tubes · · Score: 1

    does every grocery store own the building it resides in? Of course not, they push off costs that are not associated with their core business.

    I think you mean they push off the management of things that are not associated with their core business. Obviously, the store is going to pay for those costs through their lease agreement.

  4. Re:Internet crimes, like rape? on MySpace Verdict a Danger To Depressed Kids · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I think that's too much. All those things are already a matter of public record so anyone that wants to see it can. There are a lot of arrests and charges that never make it to the headlines so whether the people involved there are innocent or guilty the majority if people will never hear about them.

    If we're going to enforce rules on freedom of expression in this regard, then what ought to happen is media outlets should spend as much time/space/articles/etc on the exoneration as on the arrest. In the Duke LaCross example, that means for every 500 word article with bold front-paged headlines like "Duke Players charged with sexual assault", there should be at least one 500 word article with bold front-paged headlines like "Duke Players innocent; Crystal Gail Mangum and DA Mike Nifong are lying whores".

    There are two advantages of it being this way:
    1. Those that are already relatively private remain relatively private.
    2. Media outlets can still choose what to report on, namely, they don't have to report on arrests and charges at all, but if they choose to do so, they must report on all exonerations and dropped charges for the same an equal share.

  5. Re:Bailout Bandwagon on Governments Preparing To Bail Out DRAM Makers · · Score: 1

    Out of curiosity, what is a good temperature to set the thermostat? Here's an informal slashdot poll.

    I'll start it off: 72 during the day, 68 while not home or sleeping. It goes to 68 about 1.5 hours before I go to bed and 72 right when I wake up. I have no idea if this is normal, or high, though I suspect that it's not low.

  6. Re:Mod -1 on Esther Dyson Grudgingly Defends Internet Anonymity · · Score: 1

    I totally agree. It's nothing but flamebait. Pure unadulterated hate mongering, inciting us math-aware to rage.

    "Evolution is a lie" is 4 words. "God is a lie" is also 4 words. To say they are 3 words makes those who can count froth at the mouth with anger.

  7. Re:Credit where credit is due on Google Chrome Is Out of Beta · · Score: 1

    Does it do still do it if you have multiple windows open, each with multiple tabs? That's one thing that bothers me about Firefox. In that scenario, I have to open up the task manager and kill it if I want all tabs on all windows to open. If Chrome allows me to end it normally and then start it up later with all tabs on all windows, I'd get it.

  8. Re:Yes, Laughable Numbers. on Windows Drops Below 90% Market Share · · Score: 1

    They need to find a way to assess what people are using, not what they bought.

    I suggest monitoring websites and using the user agent string to determine what OS people are using.

    FTFA:

    ...users who connected to the Web sites that Net Applications Inc. monitors...

    Holy time warp, Batman! The people in the article are already doing what I suggested after I read the article. How did that happen?

  9. Re:Pulling stats out of thin air on Windows Drops Below 90% Market Share · · Score: 1

    While it may count as a Windows sale, the article gets its statistics from web browser user agent strings. Since you installed Linux, you would be counted as having increased Linux market share and thus contributing to a decrease in Windows market share.

  10. Re:Recession on US Has Been In Recession Since December 2007 · · Score: 1

    taxonomy?

  11. Re:Yes on Should We Clone a Neanderthal? · · Score: 1

    If you went into a room with a bear 100 times I'd say you must have come out on top at least 99 of those times.

  12. Re:The case against meat on PETA Using Games To Spread Its Message · · Score: 1

    You tell people that you don't eat olives, no one cares. You tell them you don't eat meat and suddenly they want to have a discussion that normally ends with them trying to convert you.

    Apples and oranges here. Tell someone you don't eat liver (but still eat meat) and they won't care. I'm on the other side. I dislike the majority of vegetables. When I tell people that I - a grown adult of nearly 30 - don't eat very many veggies they want to have a discussion and find out where I get enough fiber and convince me that veggies are great. It's the difference between telling someone you don't like one food and telling them you don't like an entire food group. One is an opinion that every one can understand. Almost everyone doesn't like one food or another. But to not like an entire food group is a lot more deep than that. For example, my gag reflex kicks in every time I eat salad and think that the lettuce or romano leaves aren't any different than the pile of leaves I raked last Saturday, and I wouldn't eat that. That's foreign to most people, so they want to have a discussion about it.

    As to why they want to convert you or think it's fine to bash you is because of groups like PETA, ALF, and the like. If all vegetarians just made their choice to not eat meat and leave it at that, most people wouldn't care. But when someone announces they are vegetarian people lump him/her in with those groups and think he/she is some wacko nutjob like the rest. So instead of waiting for the "nutjob" to launch into a diatribe of why eating meat is murder, they get defensive first and launch the opposition.

    Of course, it might just be how and when and why and to whom you say it. If you're offered meat and say "No thanks, I don't eat meat" you're much less likely to be confronted than when you are standing on the corner next to a KFC with a banner yelling "Meat is MURDER!!"

  13. Re: SSDs vs HDDs on Samsung Mass Produces Fast 256GB SSDs · · Score: 1

    The Dell Inspiron Mini 9 has no fans. It's never felt too hot to me.

  14. Re:Nope, sorry on Ender in Exile · · Score: 1

    And just for clarity here, which seems to be sadly lacking in these arguments, gays don't want to walk down the isle dressed in white and be blessed by a priest. What they want is for their partners to be able to receive health benefits, hold joint investment accounts, and be allowed to generally act as what a "spouse" is, from a legal point of view. That's all they want. Nothing more.

    Perhaps I'm wrong here, but I thought domestic partnerships did receive all the same rights, dutes, responsibilities, privileges and everything else a marriage does. If that's the case, I thought it rather silly that the GLBT community fought for the right to the word marriage when all they really want is the same rights. If that's not the case then I have been confused.

    With that being said, I'm not opposed to gays having all the same rights, because I am opposed to unequal rights. However, I don't understand why gays want what has been for millenia a heterosexual thing. Marriage has meant the union between males and females. I say gays make up their own word. They can even make it similar, such as garriage. That way when they say they are garried, people around them know about their relationship just as when I say I'm married, people around me know of my relationship. And garriage should come with all the same rights, privileges, duties and responsibilities that marriage brings.

    It's similar to intersexed people. Why must everything be male or female. If you're both, come up with a new word for what you are. Perhaps you are more male than female, so call yourself a birl, and if it's the opposite, call yourself a goy.

    Boiled down, what I'm saying is the world isn't black and white, so why can't we have words that reflect the different shades of gray.

  15. Re:don't remember anything of the sort on Ender in Exile · · Score: 0, Redundant

    So, only awards that are granted by non-people matter?

  16. Re:This was on NPR a while back on Online Carpooling Service Fined In Canada · · Score: 1

    Can you give more information. I'm new to Washington and would love some info about this. Then again, I currently take the 218. Since it makes so few stops and gets to be in the express lanes, it's just as fast if not faster for me to take it than drive.

  17. Re:Class of Cellblock R-85 on The Shady Business Practices of Classmates.com · · Score: 1

    Wow, I was in cell block 1138 for a while, but then I got transferred to detention block aa-23. How have you been?

  18. Re:Heh... It's using the Hibernate functionality.. on Boot Windows Vista In Four Seconds · · Score: 1

    Perhaps not, but the OS can detect when the user tells it to shutdown. Then, instead of shutting down directly, it reboots and upon reboot goes into hibernation.

  19. Re:Ruh Roh on As Seas Rise, Maldives Seek To Buy a New Homeland · · Score: 1

    The world heats up because of solar activity. It's the sun that causes it and our present climate is not unusual in the history of the earth.

    Now this is stuff that I can agree with 100%. The Sun does cause the Earth's heat (though I suppose the Earth's core provides a relatively insignificant amount). And it is true that the current climate is by far not unusual in the Earth's history.

    However, to claim that the Sun is the only factor is disingenuous. Venus, being closer to the Sun, is far hotter than Earth. Granted, its days are longer than its years, so the Sun is shining on any given point for a very long time. But then we look at Mercury, which is even closer still, and has a fairly long day (59 Earth days compared to Venus' 243) but its max temperature is less than Venus' mean. Rotation certainly has something to do with it, but so does Venus' atmosphere.

    Now whether or not Earth's atmosphere is changing, its rotation lengthening, its distance from the Sun shortening, the Sun is shining brighter, what role humans are playing, etc, can be discussed, theorized, debated, and studied by others. I just wanted to point out that saying "solar activity" is the only factor in a planet's warmth is misleading.

  20. Re:They're insane. on Vital Parts of Games As DLC? · · Score: 1

    People who hold on to their games still fit with what the GP said. That's why he didn't use numbers. I'm like a magpie when it comes to games, so for me, the Y is 0. For people who sell their games, Y would be different.

  21. Re:Duh. on Press Favored Obama Throughout Campaign · · Score: 2, Funny

    Concerning Obama's drug use, this is the first time I've heard of it. But then, I get nearly all of my news from slashdot.

    As for the outcome of the election, I knew back in 2006 that the democrats would have had to have put up a dead homosexual squirrel with needles sticking out of its back full of heroine and little burning American flags for them not to win. With that being said, I hope we can have one election very soon like the 1972 or 1984 elections where the People made it very clear who should win. Something to unite America more than it has been in the last few elections. If we could have a George Washington type of election that would be very heartening.

  22. Re:Disagree on Judges on How We Used To Vote · · Score: 1

    The Judiciary has checks. For one, they can't rule on something that hasn't been brought before them. The Executive doesn't have enforce laws and thus bring the breaking of laws to the Judiciary. Also, if the Legislative doesn't like the way the Judiciary interpreted a law, they are more than welcome to change the law, from minor tweaks to complete rewrites to repeals.

    As a recent example, in District of Columbia v. Heller, SCOTUS decided that the "well regulated militia" clause did not limit the "right to bear arms" clause. If the Legislature and the people wanted to, they could create an amendment to the constitution to clarify the 2nd amendment. Sure it would be difficult, but that's the point. That is also an extreme example. There are lots of cases that don't involve SCOTUS and the Constitution or Bill of Rights, where if the legislature didn't like what the judiciary did, they could rewrite the laws to get past the judiciary.

  23. Re:YES! on Ubuntu 8.10 Outperforms Windows Vista · · Score: 1

    Just install , and if you need something , click on add/remove programs.

    That is something that most Linux distributions have fixed before Microsoft. On Linux, I can actually add programs with the add/remove programs dialog.

  24. Re:Un peu de poids. on Miyamoto Scrutinizes Mario, Zelda, Hails Portal · · Score: 1

    Not that I disagree with your points (sadly, as I am a PC gamer), but stores are using less and less floor space partly because PC gamers can get nearly all their games online now. And by that I don't mean Amazon, I mean Steam and the like.

  25. Re:CliffyB! on Inside View of Epic, Preparing Gears of War 2 · · Score: 1
    From the Summary, sentence numero uno:

    "Lamborghinis, motion-capture rooms, secret new weapons â" these are a few things included in the profile of Epic Games and its Design Director, Cliff Bleszinski.(emphasis added)