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  1. Re:If your so nasty you chew and have a sink... on Army Develops New Chewing Gum · · Score: 1

    What about brushing in the morning and evening, and chewing this after lunch? It's a bit harder to bursh your teeth after lunch, although I know some people do.

  2. I know this company on Can Open Source Outdo the IPod? · · Score: 1

    I just sent my Neuros I in for fixing. Again. For pretty much the same issue as last time. They are pretty generous in fixing things that are past their warranties though, it seems.

  3. Re:Windows Vista finally stops this crap on Sony DRM Installs a Rootkit? · · Score: 1

    You sure? I know Windows XP asks you what to do if there's no autoplay file on the disc. Do you know if it will ask you if you want to autoplay in the final version of Vista? Or is this just experience from a beta? And what happens when you double click on the cd icon?

  4. Re:China won't take lightly. on Unblock Google Cache in China · · Score: 1

    Well, I agree with the original poster. It's not what Communism was supposed to be, for sure. But then no country has ever really been communist then, right? Honestly, communism or socialism or whatever seems good...in theorey. It's just impossible to implement.

  5. Re:I've got the solution: on Internet is Killing the Newspaper · · Score: 1

    That's too expensive, first. Second, seems like a pretty good idea otherwise. Although I don't like the dock, have it sync via wifi/cellular. And how about Minority Report style newspaper? Same form as today's papers, only electronic. I like the DVD case size better though.

  6. Re:Who cares? on Internet is Killing the Newspaper · · Score: 1

    I read the paper sometimes. Mainly just the front page stories and the public opinion section though. I get it for free, though. I don't like having to turn pages and fold the paper though. Well, mainly I don't like having to turn to a different page to finnish a story I'm reading.

  7. Re:Corporate Control on Google Hiring Programmers to Work on OpenOffice · · Score: 1

    Yes. But with OSS, someone can just fork it if they don't like the direction it's headed.

  8. Re:You don't remember Ma Bell, do you? on SBC CEO: Pay up if you want to use our pipes · · Score: 1

    Ha, which cellphones? Verizon, Cingular, and Sprint? The landline companies won't go belly-up if people buy cellular service from them. And, I rather like landlines. They are cheaper.

  9. Re:apparently the ds can only manage slow wifi on First Step In DS Wifi Challenge Complete · · Score: 1

    It would be nice to multiboot games faster. For games such as Mario 64 DS, Metroid Pinball, and all the other games that use single cart multiplayer.

  10. I have an idea to appeal to college students on Use of Student Plants to Pitch Products Rising · · Score: 5, Informative

    Make your stuff cheaper. In all the colleges/universities. This idea is more for Microsoft, since I don't want Cartoon Network to make their shows cheaper.

  11. Re:Ha, congradulations Microsoft you've proven you on Halo 1 and 2 On The 360 · · Score: 1

    And you know this how? Wait until it comes out, then we'll see.

  12. Re:Publisher's Have a Bug Up Their Ass on The Point of Google Print · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This rare information is all the more reason for electronic full texts. Rare stuff can be a lot easier to find electronically than via whatever method. While books can go out of print and disappear from the libraries, the file can still exist if they scanned the book.

  13. Not interfere with college bowl games? on Congress Pays You $3 Billion to Keep Watching TV · · Score: 1

    Seems like ending analogue transmission the day before would interfere with the bowl games to me. You know, I think the end of the year might have just beena convenient date.

  14. Re:More seriously, I'll check it out on OpenOffice.org 2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Well, it certianly is licensable. It also seems pretty well documented.

  15. Virtual PC files don't work at all on VMWare Inc. Releases Free Virtual Machine Runtime · · Score: 2, Informative

    Virtual PC files don't even work on Windows. Well, Virtual PC 2004 files on Windows XP home to be specific. It gets half way through importing the virtual machine, then says it could not be opened. I tried with a dynamic hard drive, no hard drive, and a fixed size hard drive. Same thing every time. I'm not sure why it says it can open vmc files, because apparently it can not.

  16. Re:Torrent Links on OpenOffice.org 2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I had no problems at all getting it from the Univertiy of Illinois mirror. Why use bittorrent when you can get it faster via http?

  17. Re:More seriously, I'll check it out on OpenOffice.org 2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Open Office imports/exports .doc files much better than it handles the documented MS XML files. In a beta I was using at least, if you saved a file as XML in MS Office 2003, and edited it with Open Office, the indentations at the beginning of paragraphs and such would be gone when you tried to open it on MS Office. I don't know if they fixed this or not. But it seems like Open Office has much better support for .doc than .xml, so I just use .doc for interoperability.

  18. Re:If... on Nintendo & McDonalds Providing WiFi · · Score: 1

    I'd imagine just restrict the ips you can access without logging in to the Nintendo servers. I don't know if the DS actually hosts the games and needs to be connectable or not, but if it does, they can just block all ports but the ones needed for that without logging in.

  19. Re:If... on Nintendo & McDonalds Providing WiFi · · Score: 1

    I though McDonalds was pay. I know SBC's freedomlink thing included the McDonalds hotspots. I know Burger King does offer FREE wifi though. At least, in 2 of 3 locations I've gone to around here. The third one is next to a McDonalds that also doesn't offer wifi.

  20. Re:Jack's email got slashdotted!!!!! on Jack Thompson Calls Cops on Penny-Arcade · · Score: 1

    That's their standard user not found error, in case you didn't know. He probably cancelled it because he was tired of getting all that hate mail.

  21. Re:Contact information on Jack Thompson Calls Cops on Penny-Arcade · · Score: 1

    Don't harrass this guy, it's pointless. But is that really his phone number? 305-666-4366

  22. Re:Interesting pricing structures.... on ABC Affiliates Grapple With TV-Show Downloads · · Score: 1

    I'd rather go to a concert for $8-$10 and then buy the cd for $10. $20 for a concert and a CD doesn't seem to bad, hence I got my last two cds that way. Both from the same band though.

  23. Re:Yay for content producers on ABC Affiliates Grapple With TV-Show Downloads · · Score: 1

    Limited bandwidth will prevent a lot of longer stuff from being made yet.

  24. Re:Choice on ABC Affiliates Grapple With TV-Show Downloads · · Score: 1

    I still don't have VOD (apparently, Comcast just doesn't feel like getting it up or something). When I miss a TV show, I can go to a torrent site or on IRC a half day later and watch it. And I have more of a selection of stuff I can watch whenever, since the divx/xvid content takes a lot less space on my hard drive than the mpeg2 on my dvr's hard drive.

  25. Sound like this Music Magic thing on Dissecting Songs Down to Their 'Musical Genome' · · Score: 1

    It's included in the winamp full distrobution or at http://www.predixis.biz/ Although, it's more for finding simillar tracks you already have. Basic level is free though.