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  1. That's Thick on Music Industry Conflicted On Guitar Hero, Rock Band · · Score: 1

    Oh, the irony!

    Thanks for the highly informative post, by the way. That's a nice little gem I would have otherwise known nothing about.

  2. Am I Seeing Double? on The Chinese (Web Servers) Are Coming · · Score: 1

    Am I seeing double, or what?

  3. Javascript on Web-based IDEs Edge Closer To the Mainstream · · Score: 1

    That would indeed be awesome, but I think the amount of Javascript code required to make the Web IDE behave properly would probably be too much for an Atom processor to handle in a responsive manner.

    Perhaps for your situation, a remote X session or RDP would be better.

  4. World Police on Pirate Bay Day 3 — Defense Requests Dismissal · · Score: 1

    But we are the world police, and this "BitTorrent" technology of yours will go the ways of cannibis.

  5. Ask A Kid on Don't Like EULAs? Get Your Cat To Agree To Them · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Just ask some neighbor kid to install your software for you, one that's too young to enter a legal agreement. Seems much more simple, and unlike this cat device, gives you plausible deniability to claim "I didn't even realize there was a EULA, let alone agree to it."

  6. Free Him on Accused Rogue Admin Terry Childs Makes His Case · · Score: 1

    Free Terry Childs.

  7. Comcast on Verizon.net Finally Moving Email To Port 587 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well your spam made it through, but the response must have been throttled since you didn't get first post. You're a Comcast customer, aren't you?

  8. Re:Making Available on Half the Charges Against Pirate Bay Dropped · · Score: 2, Informative

    Debate. Don't censor.

    That pretty much sums up Slashdot's policy with mod points. Don't forget that moderator abuse can be stopped with metamoderation, try it out the next time you're offered.

  9. Re:Not Surprising on Facebook's New Terms of Service · · Score: 1

    Never forget Beacon.

    I've forgotten, and Google can't help me remember.

    Who or what was Beacon and what was its significance?

  10. Maybe Rocks ARE Intelligent on Earth May Harbor a Shadow Biosphere of Alien Life · · Score: 1

    Maybe rocks are intelligent. How would we know? Has anybody thought to ask?

    The creative forces behind this video have put some thought into it.

  11. Simple? on WSJ Says Gov't Money Injection Won't Help Broadband · · Score: 1

    So if you want speeds faster than France, move to the one of the places listed above. It's that simple.

    Wow, I really don't want anything to do with a solution you would consider complicated!

  12. Re:not surprising on Is It Windows 7, Or KDE 4? · · Score: 1

    Tiber's wife, is that you?

  13. Botnet Zombies on Charter Cable Capping Usage Nationwide This Month · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I wonder what effect those millions of bot-infected Windows XP clients are going to have on this situation. The Charter customers who have these infected PCs already don't know what's going on with their computer let alone how much bandwidth they use. They are going to be very angry when the service gets disconnected for bandwidth they haven't personally consumed or when their $50 broadband bill jumps to $150.

  14. Must Be A Linux Guy.. on Torvalds Rejects One-Size-Fits-All Linux · · Score: 1

    Why do X-Servers have the graphics drivers rather than the kernel or HAL? The X-Server should only be a consumer of graphics services!

    You must be a Linux-only kind of guy. There are a dozen other kernels out there that can run X as well, if we move graphics drivers out of X and into each kernel then we end up with more OSS fragmentation than you just set out to solve.

  15. Err, what? on Obama Keeps His Blackberry (And Gets a Sectera) · · Score: 2, Funny

    On Monday, a government agency that the Obama administration -- but that is probably the National Security Agency -- added to a standard blackberry a super-encryption package.... and Obama WILL be able to use it ... still for routine and personal messages.

    Sentence goes -- but that isn't so... and someone WILL be -- understanding of this ... still better than me.

  16. Separation of Powers on Obama Keeps His Blackberry (And Gets a Sectera) · · Score: 1

    They are equal branches of government.

    The separation of powers defined in the Constitution do not make for an *equal* separation of powers. Congress has much more authority than the other two branches of federal government.

  17. So is mine.. In IT on Abused IT Workers Ready To Quit · · Score: 1

    My job's ridiculously easy, with long periods of not doing anything, while the bosses try to decide what project they want to do next.

    Sounds exactly like my job in IT. I used to try and use that spare time towards improving our existing systems. My boss is very quick to put a stop to that kind of non-sense, but then has me wait for weeks on end before giving me a project he deems worth my time. So I find myself wasting as many hours online as possible, I guess that's why I like Slashdot so much.

  18. Re:Turly DRM Free? on Apple Intros 17" Unibody MBP, DRM-Free iTunes · · Score: 1

    Amarok is my favorite MP3 player, by far the best in any class. Unfortunately, I upgraded to the 80GB iPod Classic and the "ipod:/" kioslave isn't compatible so Amarok support is now broken on my system / iPod combo. I haven't tried updating my box to see if the Amarok or iPod kioslave developers have caught up to Apple's newest bag of obfuscation tricks yet.

    In any case (and contrary to what most people have replied about) I can rip my iPod library using a handful of third party tools, but that wasn't the point of my OP. DRM on the internal library is just as annoying to me as DRM on the tracks themselves.

    Additionally, it's much more of a pain to help others (like my younger sister who just lost her hard drive) to do the same because she isn't armed with Linux, and most 3rd party tools want to charge for the convenience. A portable 80GB hard drive that plays MP3s loses usefulness when it doesn't also serve as a valid backup for the collection that I store on it.

  19. Re:Great! on Playing Tetris Is Good For You · · Score: 1

    You're obviously not talking about the NES version, so which one are you referring to? I've always considered it the classic, I would be surprised to find out there's another gold standard for the game.

  20. Re:Turly DRM Free? on Apple Intros 17" Unibody MBP, DRM-Free iTunes · · Score: 1
    Slashdot fits just fine, but you trolls always manage to strike a nerve..

    I can't easily move songs off of my iPod.

    What part of that quote implies I haven't figured it out yet? Your comprehension skills are beyond repair or you are willfully ignoring them. I suggest you move along to the next article before someone else beats you to First Post.

  21. Re:I wanted iPod news. on Apple Intros 17" Unibody MBP, DRM-Free iTunes · · Score: 1

    I wanted, nay, needed an announcement of a new iPod (something bigger than 160).

    You must have missed the last refreshment to the iPod lineup.

    The 160GB model is no more, they dropped the 'upgraded' option. The new Classics are only available in 120GB for $249.

  22. Turly DRM Free? on Apple Intros 17" Unibody MBP, DRM-Free iTunes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sure the tracks are going DRM free, but will iTunes still prevent me from copying music from my iPod to a new iTunes library? It's incredibly annoying to me that any time I move PCs or operating systems that I can't easily move songs off of my iPod. The tracks may be DRM free all the way through, but it still exists if I can't move my library as I see fit.

  23. XBox 360 Support on LG High-Def TVs To Stream Netflix Videos · · Score: 1

    XBox 360 streaming requires a monthly "Gold" subscription fee from Microsoft, who provides nothing in this situation but the hardware I've already paid for. Great. Looks like I won't be subscribing to Netflix this year, either.

  24. Save Linux? on 2009, Year of the Linux Delusion · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And, oh yeah, Palm might save Linux, too

    I didn't realize that Linux was in need of being saved.

    Its future might have been a bit less clear five years ago, but now it's pretty obvious that Linux is here to stay.

  25. Dear God, No on Microsoft Rushes Internet Explorer Patch · · Score: 3, Insightful

    FF needs a updater service that runs in the System context so that all FF updates can get installed without the user being logged on as an administrator.

    I would never enable that feature on my PCs. The last thing I want Firefox to do is join the ranks of Flash, Java, Adobe Reader and iTunes with nagging auto-update services that always run in the background. Often the updates aren't even critical, I think many of those 'features' are pushed by marketing departments who want to plaster your desktop with as many of their logos as possible.