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  1. And yet on 400,000 American Homes Have Dumped Pay TV This Year · · Score: 1

    And yet, NBC will not allow you to watch the Olympics online without an active cable subscription.

    Are the channels really that afraid of the cable companies? Or is there a lot of revenue sharing going on?

    Is it really the case that it's more profitable for the channels to screw over customers than it is for them to screw over the cable companies?

  2. What's the impact? on Google Hacked, May Pull Out of China · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I honestly want to know.

    What would the impact of Google pulling out of China mean to citizens? How popular was Google, compared to Baidu, Bing, Yahoo, etc. in the Chinese web search space?

  3. Re:Responsible Disclosure on Firm To Release Database, Web Server 0-Days · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is like punishment.

    The irresponsible party in this case, is the software vendor. If the vendor can't clean up their act, and at least work on fixing 0-day exploits, then public disclosure/humiliation is probably a good way to get at least some vendor to sit up, take note and do the right thing the next time around.

    This sounds like a good case for establishing a procedure.

    1. Contact vendor about exploit, with an expiry date.
    2. Release information about exploit once date has expired, irrespective of whether bug is fixed, and the fix deployed.

    Is there perhaps a clearing house for such things?

  4. Only Breast Cancer? on Baby To Be Born Without the Gene For Breast Cancer · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Is it possible for a gene to map to more than just one function?
    If so, now that they've eliminated this gene, isn't it possible that they might have eliminated more than just breast cancer?

  5. Of course, no one was willing... on EPA Reaches Goal On Data Center Study · · Score: 5, Funny

    After initially struggling in its effort to find data center operators willing to share data about their energy usage

    Well duh!! None of the data center operators opened their email.

  6. Intelligent Beings on Douglas Hofstadter Looks At the Future · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I personally believe that AI will never happen with us humans at our current level of intelligence.

    To build a machine that is intelligent, we need to understand how our own intelligence works. If our intelligence was simple enough to understand and decipher, we humans would be too simple to understand it or decipher it.

    Ergo, we humans will never ever build a machine that is intelligent. We can build a machine that will simulate intelligence, but never actually make it intelligent.

  7. Re:Internet browsers? on China's Battle to Police the Web · · Score: 1

    This is editorialising. The BBC article does not have the term "Internet Browsers" in it. Nice trolling, by the way.

  8. Not the right question... on Western Digital Service Restricts Use of Network Drives · · Score: 5, Insightful

    who needs a 1 Terabyte network-connected hard drive that is prohibited from serving most media files? Perhaps somebody with 220 million pages of .txt files they need to share? That's not the question we need to be asking.

    The question we need to be asking is - "How can I replace the firmware on that thing and make it my bitch?"
  9. Re:Why oh why ...? on New Dynamic Updating Discussions · · Score: 1

    Why does Slashdot hate IE...?

    Flinches for footwear attack
    Because IE hates web developers (and the feeling is mutual).
    sarchasm ('sär-"ka-z&m) : The giant gulf (chasm) between what is said and the person who doesn't get it.
  10. Why oh why ...? on New Dynamic Updating Discussions · · Score: 1

    You probably need bother only if you are using Firefox 1.5 or 2.x or Safari.
    Why does Slashdot hate IE...?

    Fliches for footwear attack
  11. Let me... on Teacher Avoids Getting Sent to Siberia For Piracy · · Score: 1

    Let me be the first to say... "Ha Ha"

  12. Nothing to See here. Please move along on Egypt Arrests More Bloggers · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Nooooooo!!!! Slashdot censoring Scuttlemonkey.

    ... Wait. Is that a good thing? ;)

  13. Re:OMG fp on Geekspeak Baffles Web Users · · Score: 1

    fp? Now what the fuck is that?

    Oooh, ooh, I know. Fountain Pepsi

  14. Lawyers from outer space? on Interview Lawyers Who Defend Against RIAA Suits · · Score: 5, Funny

    You guys are lawyers AND like to help people? What's it like on your home planet ;) ?

  15. Hey just like studying Slashdot on When Can I Expect an Email Response? · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Ever sit there waiting for Slashdot post and wonder what's going on? Did they post it? Did it get ad-blocked? A study looks at the posting habits of a small group of Slashdot editors. They find, among other things, that editors would try to 'project a responsiveness image. For example, posting a short summary if a complete summary might take longer than usual, intentionally duping a story to make themselves seem busy, or planning out timing strategies for posts.' Tit-for-tat, 'Users would try to reciprocate posting behaviors -- responding quickly to people who responded quickly to them, and lowering their responsiveness to people who responded slowly to them in the past.'"

    Somewhere along that post, I got bored and just did a copy-paste. Feel free to correct it later.

  16. Redundancy... on Search Companies Team Up Against Click Fraud · · Score: 4, Funny

    ....gross exaggerations generated by opportunistic lawyers and online advertising consultants hoping to cash in on the anxieties triggered by their calculations"

    I can't put my finger on it, but that sentence seems to have a lot of redundancy built into it.

  17. Mere, huh? on Nvidia Unveils New 64x SLI GPU Rig · · Score: 4, Funny
    ....a mere $17,500...

    I don't think that word means what you think it means...

  18. Re:Let's get it over with on Big Mother Is Watching · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Their shit diet is going to cost society massive amounts in health care!


    Thats OK. Considering they're probably paying a buck-fifty for the shit that they eat, they'll surely have a lot of money left over for their healthcare.

  19. Re:We need to teach these things to run on Cheap, Open-design Humanoid Bot - Runs Linux, Too · · Score: 1

    Interesting? INTERESTING?????? Hmm. Show's a lot about the mods, don't it?

  20. Re:She Did The Wrong Thing on Library Chief Criticized for Requiring Subpoena · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Those who would sacrifice liberty over security, deserve neither security nor liberty.
                    -Benjamin Franklin

  21. I don't know .... on Novell CEO Shakeup Puts Ron Hovsepian in Charge · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I just don't know whether to feel sad for these guys, that they're taking the fall for something that they may not be in control of, or to feel happy that the top management has taken the hit rather than the lower ranks which is usually more common practice in corporate America.

    I just don't know how to feel !! Help me Slashdot...

  22. Yes, but... on Wireless Data Plans Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Will the cards work with Linux?

  23. Of course ..... on Kansas Anti-Creationism Professor Resigns · · Score: 3, Funny

    If these men can beat up a prof for saying things out loud, then its obvious the evolutionary process left them by the wayside, and they grew a up as apes. No wonder they dont believe in evolution.

  24. Refresh Button on Mad Penguin on Ubuntu 5.10 Preview · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...... Ubuntu followers are just sitting there hitting their browsers refresh button on the DistroWatch Ubuntu page......

    You mean just like we do here on Slashdot?

  25. Re:Way to Go with the Misleading Headline... on UK Scientists to Create Embryo From Two Women · · Score: 1

    two women and a man = embryo

    You got it wrong, friend.

    two women and a man = good pr0n