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  1. Guess you don't read the hard leftist sites... on French Riots Lead to Crackdown on Blogs · · Score: 4, Informative
    If some American blog advocated setting fire to police stations and lynching Dick & George, it would also be "cracked down" upon.

    Just go visit Democrat Underground or Daily Kos. You will find many articles that discuss violence against authority and the death of our President and Vice President. Heck Air America Radio between fundraising breaks and stealing money from poor children has had several commentators advocate the assassination of our President.

    I am always amazed at the shouts from the left that they are being "oppressed" in this country. I am going practically deaf from their oppression. Its like a Monty Python sketch. If you want to see truly speech oppressive societies, just look at Europe and their numerous speech codes/laws.

  2. Netflix on The Ultimate Star Trek Collection · · Score: 1

    Just sign up for Netflix and you can watch these anytime you want without wasting the storage space of 212 DVDs.

  3. Generous Offer on Linspire CEO Offers S. Korea To Replace Windows · · Score: 4, Funny
    Linspire CEO Offers S. Korea To Replace Windows

    That is one generous offer by the Linspire CEO. I give up Windows and he will give me South Korea? I would take him up on the offer but I would be kind of nervous about North Korea blowing it up. Plus Windows probably has a lower cost of operation than entire country of South Korea.

  4. Clearly not diverse... on Novell to Release 20% of Their Employees? · · Score: 1
    which many have speculated could result in more than 20% of the 5,800 man workforce getting a pink slip

    So only men are getting the "pink slip"? This is either sexist or homophobic. I can't figure which.

  5. Okay, maybe not... on Automated TiVo to iPod formating · · Score: 4, Informative
    Lower down on the page in the change log:

    Moved MAK from watermark into invisibly encoded MAK directly into file.

  6. Ugly video conversion on Automated TiVo to iPod formating · · Score: 2, Informative
    From the website:

    Caveats

    To prevent copyright validations and to be consistent with Tivo's usage policy, these applications imprint your Tivo Media Access Key as a a watermark on your video which can be tracked back to your account in case of illegal duplication. To validate your media access key, the software must communicate with your Tivo prior to conversion.

    So the tiny little screen on your iPod will be filled up with a legible Media Access Key because the author's don't trust end users. No thanks...

  7. Re:But on Ancient Greek Computer Reconstructed · · Score: 3, Funny

    or support Ogg Vorbis?

  8. Note to developers on Firefox-based Social Browser Flock Launches · · Score: 4, Insightful
    I want my web browser to browse the web. Quit trying to bloat it out with k-k00l web 2.0 features. Just make it stable, secure and fast. About the best thing you can do is add a spell checker to the TextArea and Input fields of forms like Safari. Plus if I want to flickr my firefox, I will hunt down an extension.

    Have a nice day and enjoy the VC money. Foosball rox!

  9. Good idea on CIA Investing in Modular Green Energy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Protecting the environment while you are electro-torturing terrorists for information at the same time. That's how the CIA butters up Democrats and Republicans during the budget hearings. A little something for both, green and mean.

  10. You missed the obvious on Original BeOS Developer Now at Trolltech · · Score: 1
    4) Apple was smart for integrating NeXT and Jobs instead of BeOS.

    /ducks

  11. On the bright side... on NASA Jet Propulsion Lab Lays Off 300 Engineers · · Score: 1

    In their upcoming job interview they can say, "Dude, I'm a freakin' rocket scientist!". I always wanted to say that...

  12. What it is... on What is Ruby on Rails? · · Score: 1, Troll

    A really poor name for what seems to be a great development environment.

  13. Re:is there anything Alcohol can't help? on CEOs Who Invite Email From All Employees · · Score: 1

    Only if he sprained his ankle...

  14. is there anything Alcohol can't help? on CEOs Who Invite Email From All Employees · · Score: 5, Funny
    "Cinergy Corp. CEO James E. Rogers, who at 11 one evening was reading email from employees at home while nursing a vodka, is the norm, not the exception at major U.S. companies, the Wall Street Journal reports. 'Advocates say such a policy is a powerful leadership tool that can nip crises in the bud, boost morale, uncover new ideas, and cut through corporate red tape.

    Who knew that drinking vodka could nip crises in the bud, boost morale, uncover new ideas and cut through corporate red tape. I always thought Bourbon was a better choice for that. Guess its Bloody Marys for me!

  15. How you know it's a hoax on Single-play DVDs a Hoax · · Score: 2, Funny

    Slashdot has only run the story once. If the editors dupe the article, then you know it's genuine. A lot of you gripe about dupe posts but at least you know the story is real the second time. It's a feature, not a bug...

  16. Re:Slashdot should partner with Google on Google Forms Partnership With NASA · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wow the Slashdot editors didn't like that post...

  17. Slashdot should partner with Google on Google Forms Partnership With NASA · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Slashdot editors should partner with Google so they can search their own freakin' homepage so they don't post duplicate stories...

  18. Mac Version on Ask The Civ IV Dev Team · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Will there be a Mac version and will it be released at the same time as the Windows version?

  19. Also known as... on Happy 7th Birthday Google! · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The day Altavista died. It's amazing how fast and how hard Google crushed all the other search engines.

  20. I'm delusional on Computer Security Still Totally Inadequate · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Symantec foretells a dark future for Firefox and Mac users describing their security as a "false paradise"

    I have been happily living in a "false paradise" since 1984 using Macs.

    P.S. Fair disclosure I was laid off by Symantec when they bought Fifth Generation Systems in the early 90s.

  21. They were lucky... on Singapore Bloggers Charged Under Sedition Act · · Score: 1

    They could have been caught chewing gum in Singapore, then they would have really been in trouble...

  22. Very impressed... on SpaceX Announces Bigger Rocket · · Score: 1

    The Sunday Slashdot crowd is very mature. Not one Deuce Bigelow joke regarding the phallic shape of rockets.

  23. Re:That happened 3 days after my post on Sonic 'Lasers' to be Deployed in Hurricane Region · · Score: 1

    That was when it was reported not when it happened. Your contention is false, rescue helicopters were fired upon. I was the poster, the firing on of rescuers was well known and not an urban legend.

  24. Re:I see nothing in that article on Sonic 'Lasers' to be Deployed in Hurricane Region · · Score: 1

    Man Charged With Shooting at Helicopter. As I said before, this is true.

  25. But you know what is going to happen... on 6.8GHz 1TB RAM and 2TB HDD Laptop? · · Score: 1

    It will be dupped in at least 2 days. Count on it.