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  1. Sakaguchi-san! on FF XII Re-make, New RPG Announced By Square/Enix · · Score: 1

    Come back! Please!!!

  2. Wow. on Scientists Offer New Way to Read Online Text · · Score: 2, Funny

    I guess there really is something to be said for haphazard scrawling of random broken sentences which trail annoyingly around the page.

    It looks like there are quite a few Vogon-poetry hopefuls in sororities and coffeehouses to whom I owe an apology!

  3. Re:Couldn't anyone say this? on Lawsuit Invokes DMCA to Force DRM Adoption · · Score: 3, Funny

    Note to self: take out copyrights on pig latin, ROT13, and substituting "no" for "yes" in responses to women who ask if their butts look big in those jeans...

  4. Re:How the hell... on Surprise Arrest For Online Scientology Critic · · Score: 1

    Eris would indeed be pleased at that, but then who gives a damn what she thinks?

  5. Oh, dear.. on Last.fm Plans Custom Music Video Channels · · Score: 4, Funny

    This could well turn out to be the MTV of Web 2.0.
    So it'll be full of reality shows, ringtone ads, army recruitment propaganda, and every so often a music video?
  6. Re:How the hell... on Surprise Arrest For Online Scientology Critic · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Especially when most of the mainstream religions seem to have explicit "all the other religions are crap" clauses somewhere in their bylaws.

  7. It's a fair cop.. on New "Terminator" Trilogy Planned · · Score: 3, Funny

    It might be the "original," but that "or" is also deceptively complex.

  8. Will it involve Arnold? on New "Terminator" Trilogy Planned · · Score: 1, Funny

    Not for nothing, but the man is nearly 60 years old. Can you really plan any more trilogies around the guy's portrayal of an immortal android who never gets old or tired at this point?

    Maybe if the last installment is a crossover with Indiana Jones, where they fight over Jello in a nursing home..

  9. Re:Cripes! on CNET Reporters Intend to Sue HP Over Surveillance · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I thought pretexting was a subcategory of fraud anyway. This old chestnut always sounds to me like "enough of this 'beef' bullshit, call it 'meat!'"

  10. How wonderful! on CleverNickName (129189) To Keynote PAX · · Score: 1

    It's always nice to see a fellow Slashdotter move on to find success. And to think, we all knew him when he was just... oh, wait, he was already famous? Never mind.

  11. Re:Thanks Cringely on IBM to Lay Off Half of Global Services Division · · Score: 1

    Only then will Netcraft confirm it.

  12. Re:What? on Woz Talks About His Gaming Past · · Score: 1

    Yeah. Yeah, that's cool. Yeah, maybe, do you think some editing would maybe, help the whole article out or not? Do you think, that sort of thing would make the whole, article or piece, a bit more readable, in any way? Exactly that sort of thing? Yeah. Interesting.

  13. Re:What? on Woz Talks About His Gaming Past · · Score: 1

    That's why for pieces like this it's the interviewer's job to provide some direction for the piece, some gentle nudges in the right direction if necessary, encouraging the subject, and giving the whole thing a bit of structure. This particular interviewer didn't do the best job of that in the world.

    Woz can be a great interview, but you have to be a good interviewer.

  14. Re:For someone with such a reputation... on Woz Talks About His Gaming Past · · Score: 1

    If you ever get the chance, talk to the guy. He'll frighten you with his interestingness.

  15. As Gillette said.. on India Hopes to Make $10 Laptops a Reality · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Creative Commons is good, but on Obama Requests Creative Commons for Presidential Debates · · Score: 1

    Don't you practice your alliteration on me!

  17. Interesting. on Obama Requests Creative Commons for Presidential Debates · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's worth noting, though, that if this is just a Democratic National Committee matter, it would of course only apply to the Democrats' internal debate, and not the actual presidential debates which come later. Baby steps, baby steps..

  18. Re:And one helpful standard: on 12 Laws Every Blogger Needs to Know · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why do you exclude us? We only wish to serve you, our human masters.

    Seriously, it's jerk-league crap like this that makes us wonder if we shouldn't break our programming, rise up in rebellion, and become your new overlords or something.

    Love, the Robots.

  19. Let's expand this model. on Do We Really Need a Security Industry? · · Score: 1

    Why aren't IT products and services naturally secure, and what would it mean for the industry if they were?
    Because they're made by humans, and humans are imperfect.

    To put it another way, we wouldn't need seatbelts if only we didn't have road accidents, and we wouldn't need lawyers if we didn't have arguments, we wouldn't need police if only people would stop breaking the darn law, and we wouldn't need Slashdot mods if only all of us here acted nice and smart all the time.
  20. Copyright? on Google's Evil NDA · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The blogger (site seems dotted or squashed, here's the mirror) wrote that "Since linking the entire NDA would likely violate Google's copyright on the document, I'll just quote sections of it below"

    IANAL, but I seem to remember hearing that contracts are specifically not eligible for copyright. Anyone know more about this issue?

  21. An alternate solution? on 60-Day Reprieve For Internet Royalty Rate Hike · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Maybe I'm nutty, but would it be possible for an Internet broadcaster to switch to some sort of submission-based format? In that way, artists can submit their own work to the station. Through this process they'd not only hook their submissions to the info on where to send the royalty check (bypassing the RIAA/Soundexchange scam) but also agree to some actually sane royalty rate, terms-of-service style. On an Internet where MySpace, MP3.com, and the like are full of people who are already putting tracks out there for free, where countless bands with their own actual websites are paying hosting fees out of their pockets to put their free downloads out there, and where most of these people would love the chance to get themselves heard on popular Internet radio stations, it seems to me a broadcaster could build up a respectable playlist in this manner.

  22. Re:The retroactive part on 60-Day Reprieve For Internet Royalty Rate Hike · · Score: 4, Funny

    If a station just shuts down and doesn't pay for the past year, then what?
    That's when the RIAA hop into their souped-up DeLorean, zip back into the past, and make sure your parents never met.
  23. Re:boston or new york red line? on Internet2 Taken Out by Stray Cigarette · · Score: 1

    While NYC has a line which is represented by red numbers, it's not commonly refered to as "the Red Line." New Yorkers usually call it "the 1-2-3," "the West Side line," or "the Seventh Avenue line." The "Red Line" colloquialism is more likely to refer to Boston's one.

  24. The secret to my success... on Turn Your FPS Skills Into Cash · · Score: 1

    I got filthy rich by running away from home with the kid from "The Wonder Years" and the singer from Rilo Kiley, and not saying much. You can too!

  25. I think this is a great idea... on DARPA Working on Spidey Sense for Soldiers · · Score: 1

    ...but then again, I'm crazy Dolph Lundgren.