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  1. Give the guy a break on How The Internet Works - With Tubes · · Score: 3, Insightful

    He has obviously been reading Slashdot.

          Internet Access Via Pneumatic Tubes -- Whooosh!

  2. What a waste on Microcups Made of Nanopaper · · Score: 1

    It takes a thousand sheets of nanopaper to make only one microcup.

    What a waste of paper.

  3. First Post?? on Of Internet Users, Only 4% Knowingly Use RSS · · Score: 1, Troll

    Complements of RSS!

  4. People are sometimes wrong. on C-SPAN Interviews Wikipedia Founder · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I love Wiki...

    but I always verify the info with another source or two because people (even the majority) are sometimes wrong.

    For instance, most Americans still think there's a connection between Saddam and 911.

  5. Re:Good article on KDE Running on Mac OS X · · Score: 1, Funny

    The important question is....

    Is it KDE 3.5 Beta 1?

  6. Re:Does it bother anyone.... on One Find, Two Astronomers · · Score: 1

    I guess they're apparantly expecting a lot of rants!

  7. Re:Finders Keepers on One Find, Two Astronomers · · Score: 2, Informative

    "I really shouldn't hotlink it w/o written consent from the author, but..."

    Excuse me for the off-topic rant, but... since when is pointing people to a publicly displayed document wrong?

  8. Duhh... on One Find, Two Astronomers · · Score: 1

    "...the same object ..., and almost the same size."

    If it's the same object, then it is the same size.

  9. Re:Thanks Slashdot on First Cocktail 5,000 Years Old · · Score: 1

    Grog may not run linux....

    But, linux runs on glogg (similar to grog?)...

    See 'Woozy Numbat' release.

  10. Let's blame Congress on 9 Weeks to Pump Out New Orleans? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Congress cut the fiscal year 2006 budget to the US Army Corps of Engineers in the New Orleans district by $71 Million, the largest single year cut ever.

    Ironically, a study to determine the effects of a Cat 5 hurricane was also shelved.

    Moreover, the New Orleans district imposed a hiring freeze back in June, the first time in 10 years.

    Congress may be partially to blame for the failed pumps and the long clean-up time.

  11. Measles outbreak, five dead. on Microsoft Infected by Virus · · Score: 4, Informative

    Perhaps the employee traveled to Indonesia.

    There's a measles outbreak there.

    So far, five people have died.

  12. Link to original article on Death Penalty For Hackers? · · Score: 1

    The NYTimes Op-Ed piece is just a brief summary of the original article in Slate by Steven Landsburg.

    "Feed the Worms Who Write Worms to the Worms The economic logic of executing computer hackers."

  13. Re:BSD Status on Zlib Security Flaw Could Cause Widespread Trouble · · Score: 2, Informative

    Oops... You meant 'July', not June.

  14. Only a CVE candidate? on Zlib Security Flaw Could Cause Widespread Trouble · · Score: 1

    Can someone explain why this zlib buffer overflow is only considered as a candidate for inclusion in the CVE list?

    Has it not been completely verified, or is there just a lot of red-tape involved in being accepted by the CVE board?

  15. Re:Already patched on Zlib Security Flaw Could Cause Widespread Trouble · · Score: 2, Informative

    What took 'em so long?

    Gentoo announced the bug July 5th and had the patch a day later.

  16. Time for a name change? on New Ubuntu Foundation Announced · · Score: 1

    I've heard nothing but good things about 'Ubuntu'... But for some reason I can't bring myself to try it out because of the funny name.

    Is anyone else out there in the same boat?

    I guess I'll just stick with my Yoper distro.

  17. Re:Maybe 4 bombs on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 1

    I agree totally. However, I would like to remind people that the war on terror possibly prevented many more such incidents.

    But, isn't equally possible that the 'War on Terrorism' contributed to this and the Madrid incidents?

  18. Re:Miscalculation? on 83,431 Recited Digits of Pi · · Score: 1

    Yep. apparently.

  19. Re:Miscalculation? on 83,431 Recited Digits of Pi · · Score: 5, Informative

    To set the record straight...

    ...as a mistake, I initially typed '84,431', which more than doubles the previous record. After finding and correcting my numerical mistake, I forgot to change 'more than doubles' to 'nearly doubles'. Oops.

  20. Re:mistakes? on 83,431 Recited Digits of Pi · · Score: 1

    Mistakes???

    I made a whopper in the story description. Initially, I made a mistake and typed 84,431, which more than doubles the previous record. But, after fixing the mistake, I forgot to change "more than doubles" to "nearly doubles". Duh!

  21. The following two browsers are not affected... on Major Browsers Have JS Pop-Up Flaw · · Score: 1

    (1) elinks

    (2) lynx

  22. Part-time project = OK, Full-time = look elsewhere on Google Launches Summer of Code · · Score: 1

    According to this report, UPenn-Wharton students doing summer internships in Information Systems/Computer Science earned an average monthly salary of $4000.

    That's $12000 over the whole summer.

    So, unless the Google-paid project can be completed in 4 to 6 weeks, you'd be better off looking for a summer internship elsewhere.

    However, there is a tradeoff between money and freedom (less money/more freedom VS more money/less freedom).

  23. Watch your backs. on Google Launches Summer of Code · · Score: 0, Troll

    Gates purchased the rights to QDOS for $50,000 and churned it into a multi-billion dollar business.

    Now... Google wants to give you a measely $4500 for a software product that may reap them millions or billions!

  24. Op-Ed are "Most E-Mailed" NYTimes Articles on NY Times Op-Ed Page Goes Subscriber-Only · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I have been an on-line Op-Ed NYTimes reader for many years now. The pieces represent the full political spectrum from the left (Krugman) to the right (Brooks). The pieces are very well written and highly intelligent. Unfortunately, $50/year is kind of steep for my budget, so I will deeply miss this source of information.

    However, I understand their reason for targeting the Op-Ed pieces. They are usually the "Most E-Mailed Articles". Over the last 7 days, for example, Op-Ed articles were 11 out of the 25 most e-mailed articles.

  25. Re:Source of the laser? on Caltech Pranks MIT's Prefrosh Weekend · · Score: 2, Informative

    It was superglued to the "Great Sail"??