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  1. Re:This is really stupid on Ontario to Match U.S. DST Change · · Score: 4, Funny

    Canada conists of several states called "provinces." These include Extremely Upstate New York, Really North Dakota, the Pacific North by Northwest, Niagra Falls, and Quebec. Saskatchewan is the Eskimo word for Really North Dakota.

  2. Re:From the article... on Homer Becomes Omar · · Score: 3, Funny
    Homogenizing the world just makes it a more boring place.

    That's why they're Homer -genizing it!

  3. Re:Pot, meet kettle. on The Princess Bride Musical · · Score: 3, Funny
    However, slashdot does need a "Culture" section for these kinds of articles(ie, Serenity, the Raiders of the Lost Ark remake, Spamalot, etc...)

    Demented and sad, but social.

  4. Re:Matt Asay's credentials and achievements. on Matt Asay on the Status of OSS · · Score: 5, Informative

    Matt Asay has been involved with Linux for the past few years, both professionally and academically. Asay is Director of Novell's Linux Business Office and Open Source Review Board, and is responsible for laying the strategic and business foundation for Novell's use of open source software.
    Before Novell, Asay was General Manager at Lineo, an embedded Linux software startup, where he ran Lineo's Residential Gateway business. Asay earned his Juris Doctorate degree at Stanford Law School, spending two of his three years studying software licensing and innovation, and specifically the GNU General Public License, under Professor Larry Lessig.
    http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2003/view/e _spkr/1627

  5. Re:Hate 2 Bitch but... on Sonic Torpedo Defense · · Score: 1

    Ahhh... but you probably didn't address the human interest part of the story.

    From now on please add either "Won't someone please think of the children (conservative, read with self-rightous accent)" or "Won't someone please think of the environment (liberal, read in nasally, whiney voice)."

    Do that and you'll have the karma whores throwing their panties at you in no time.

  6. Re:I hate to break it to you... on You Need Not Be Paranoid To Fear RFID · · Score: 1

    Yep, Meijer (big grocery + department store) doesn't have one of those "customer loyalty" cards but they still know to print me a coupon for baby formula even if I just buy bread.

  7. Back up kid's DVDs with DVDShrink on Video iPod Oct 12? · · Score: 1

    Young kid's DVDs take a lot of abuse, even if they're careful and especially if you have a DVD player in your vehicle. Backing them up with DVDShrink, http://www.dvdshrink.org/what.html, saves a lot of tearful nights when Dora or Peep is too scratched to play.

    And if you've got young kids who like science, check out Peep and the Big Wide World, http://www.peepandthebigwideworld.com/.

    Peep is great for Pre-K through early grade school, is NSF sponsered, and has enough dry humor to keep grown up geeks happy.

    Of course, if a video iPod had enough capacity and TV output maybe I could use that for scratchless video storage.

  8. FEMA Pub 320 -- Safe Room / Shelter from the Storm on Too Many People in Nature's Way · · Score: 1
    A FEMA compliant tornado room can be built for less than $1000. These are the "bank vault" rooms refered to in an earlier post.

    You can spend more and make it a dual-use room for more mundane purposes such as document storage or a wine cellar. Insurance may give you a discount, and you may be able to get funding to offset the costs.
    Something to look into considering most Slashdot readers spend more than that on their computers.

    The document covers hurricanes as well as tornados, but living near Xenia, OH (Google devil winds) I haven't looked into that part.

    http://www.fema.gov/fima/tsfs02.shtm

  9. Re:9 M? on How Much Bandwidth is Required to Aggregate Blogs? · · Score: 1
    By which I assume you mean 9 million.... the cited article discusses volumes of 900k, i.e.: thousands... from whence comes this discrepancy ?

    What a doof -- he was using the Roman Numeral M which is 1000 so he underestimated by 891,000.

    Never underestimate the value of those Liberal Arts classes...

  10. Vista Cruiser... the new Mobile windows on Longhorn's Offical Name is Windows Vista · · Score: 1

    I didn't know Bill was that big a fan of That 70's Show.

  11. Re:Chain of authority on VoIP Providers Worry as FCC Clams Up · · Score: 1

    Hmmm... apparently I live at NXDOMAIN, as do my co-workers in Atlanta, GA and Irvine, CA.

  12. Land lines and cell phones on IP Telephony Drives in Power over Ethernet · · Score: 2, Insightful
    PoE is nice, but it's expensive and a lot of customers don't like the idea of trashing their existing switches (yes, you can get injectors, no, it's not always that simple).

    Even with PoE a few well placed and clearly marked land lines combined with near ubiquitous cell phones add an extra layer of insurance for 911 and for more mundane VoIP issues.

  13. Re:Those crafty "Chineese" on China Planning For Sustainable Cities · · Score: 2, Funny

    Stop pulling my Chan...

  14. Re:I wish there was more hand-holding regarding Di on BBC Open Source launched · · Score: 1
    We touched on wavelets in Numerical Analysis and Signal Processing, so those would be good places to start. I doubt there is a "Wavelets for Dummies" book out there.

    That said, this site has explainations and code: http://www.bearcave.com/misl/misl_tech/wavelets/

  15. No greater hack on JBoss Founder Hard-Nosed About Open Source · · Score: 1

    There is no greater hack than this
    To lay down one's code for one's friends.

  16. Re:How much?? on Self-Heating Coffee Hacking · · Score: 1

    $12 for a 4-pack at our local Krogers.

  17. Wow! on The New C Standard · · Score: 1
    Thanks for making this available.

    It's going to take a while to digest a document of this magnitude, but at least some of us out here are part of your target audience. I've always been interested in computer language grammar. Back in the day I used to read the USENET C FAQ for fun, wrote several translators and code generators, and ID'd my share of C compiler bugs.

    What are your plans for the document? If you can't find another publisher there's probably at least a thesis or two hiding in there...

    Best of luck

  18. Re:Also up for sale ... on Star Wars Props Up For Auction · · Score: 1

    Sorry... that auction has closed.

  19. Re:One of my absolute top peeves on Java to Appear in Next-Gen DVD players · · Score: 1
    "most annoying DVD feature of all time" prize goes to (taaa-daah!) unskippable trailers/clips/FBI warnings/whatever.
    DVDShrink http://www.dvdshrink.org/ will remove the unskippable flag or allow you to re-author the DVD without trailers.

    I use these features because I don't want my kids to be forced to watch comercials ever time they watch a video I've purchased.

  20. Re:That's exactly right... on NY Times On Spam Zombies · · Score: 1
    Ummm... actually the term "Cracker" has been used by certain ethnic groups for quite some time.

    Martha, I'm dismayed! That strapping young African gentleman implied that I break into computers with malicious intent. Why, I'd never attempt unauthorized access to a computer unless it was for pure, joyful learning!

  21. Re:Useless? on Forget GPS, Hello WPS · · Score: 1

    I was there yesterday -- you're at the corner of Walk and Don't Walk.

  22. Reminds me of Peewee Herman on Plugging Internet Explorer's Leaks · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Peewee's ex-wife was on a late night talk show and when asked what Peewee was up to she replied:

    "He's over in Europe, plugging a dyke."

  23. Re:Kitchen? I want one on Scooba the New iRobot Product · · Score: 1

    You need a wife... ;-)

  24. Re:Ack on Does Voting Technology Affect Election Outcomes? · · Score: 1

    Ahhh... that would be the "Blue State of Death."

  25. Re:Death to Television on FCC Broadcast Flag Struck Down · · Score: 1

    Yeah! That would free up spectrum for use by wireless Internet!