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  1. lulz at the redundancy. on How One Clumsy Ship Caused A Major Net Outtage · · Score: -1, Redundant

    lulz at the redundancy.

  2. Go to your local orchestra on How Do You Find New Non-RIAA Music? · · Score: 0

    Or a nephew/neice's band concert. You can usually get rush tickets (read: cheap) for the former, and for the latter usually go for free.

  3. How to end the madness? on RIAA Goes after LimeWire · · Score: 0

    Music education.

    It's very simple. Music doesn't have to be marketed, sold, and controlled. Sit down and play some music with some friends. Get together every month for an afternoon and write a song. Go to local music performances. Learn music theory, learn an instrument for the first time, or learn a new one.

    End the madness now. Music is part of the human condition. Don't let the other part of the human condition market and control it. You can start now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Theory

  4. Too much on Cell Users As Bad As Drunk Drivers · · Score: 0

    [The subjects were observed] using a handheld cell phone, using a hands-free cell phone and while intoxicated to a 0.08 percent blood-alcohol level... Three study participants rear-ended the simulated car in front of them.

    I'd say that's a good thing if only 3 participants rear-ended a car while talking on a cell phone AND using a hands free cell at the same time. All with a 0.08 percent blood alcohol level!

  5. Parallel universes or something.. on Military Testing WMD Sensors at Super Bowl · · Score: 0

    OSGi allows networked devices to be managed from anywhere in the world, while allowing software to be installed, updated or removed on the fly while the device is operating.

    Ehh... SSH can do that too.

  6. That's like saying all webservers are illegal... on Making Files Available Breaking the Law? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    ...after all, your /var/httpd/docs directory is technically a "shared folder".

  7. 45nm wang? on Intel Makes 45nm Chip · · Score: 2, Funny

    Intel's marketing campaign: Smaller than AMD!

    Wait...

  8. Goobell... on Google Won't Pay Bell South · · Score: 0

    'Google is not discussing sharing of the costs of broadband networks with any carrier. We believe consumers are already paying to support broadband access to the Internet through subscription fees and, as a result, consumers should have the freedom to use this connection without limitations'

    And then Google buys a 10% stake in Bell South. That will shut the bastards up.

    Or it might just be the other way around...

  9. Re:Nothing is for certain... on The Backhoe, The Internet's Natural Enemy · · Score: 0

    He was shocked (literally) to find out that phone lines carry electricity. :-)

    He had it coming... if a telemarketer called, he'd be dead.

    Only solution: everybody give out your phone numbers to telemarketing firms, causing telemarketers to phone 300% more often, thereby causing high voltage to fly through telephone lines more often, making stupid workers drop like flies from the work force. But that's only assuming that they're all beside your house.

    The telephone system: the internet's real natural enemy. Killing people by phone since 1920-something.

  10. Re:Wait... on Trauma Pill Might Help Ease Emotional Pain · · Score: 0

    The article says that it does not erase memories or prevent the memories. It simply helps keep the memory from becoming a PTSD type memory - where certain stimuli actually cause you to relive the event.

    Perhaps having certain stimuli causing you to relive a memory is a mechanism to make sure you've learned from an experience (read: survival). If you saw your friend die from a powerful hand grenade, next time you hear a loud noise you'd most likely run for cover. And it doesn't matter what the cause of the loud noise was. Rather paranoid trait, but in some situations it may be the key to survival.

    So from what I understand is that the drug will supress this mechanism. But would that mean that you will lose certain habits that you have learned from past experiences? What if you were driving during icy conditions, and that habitual process of driving slower and increasing alertness that you learned from that car accident eight years ago during similar road conditions didn't kick in? Things like that might prevent this drug from gaining widespread use.

  11. Re:Reminds me of old Popular Science article on U.S. Army Testing Personal Cooling Suits · · Score: 0

    One of the few details I remember: A picture of him loading up the ice bag at a bar.

    So you're saying he jacked off in an ice bag? OUCH!

    Prime example of "popular science", I guess.

  12. Congrats on Overclocked Radeon Card Breaks 1 GHz · · Score: 1, Funny

    Dear enthuiastic customer(s),

    Congratulations, you have succeeded in clocking our cards past 1000 MHz. You are now in the ranks of Albert Einstein, Mary Curie, and Shakespeare. Many of our employees believe you are now cooler than santa claus.

    Your friend,
    ATI

  13. Re:Biggest Benefit on Performance of 64-bit vs. 32-bit Windows Dual Core · · Score: 0

    No way man! The second core is exclusively for pr0n processing!

  14. Re:Antivirus CPU on Intel Enters Anti-Virus Market · · Score: 0

    That would probably involve updating some kind of firmware to update the virus definitions, and if there is a security problem with that, repair people would probably have a helluva of a time fixing the firmware stuff.

    Also wouldn't antivirus CPUs have to be tied to a specific operating system (hint hint) to be able to detect some bad binaries? I sure as hell wouldn't want bigger chip real estate to support a specific operating system I may never want to run on that specific CPU.

    And then there's that antivirus thing in some BIOSes... haven't played with it though.

  15. Re:RTFP on Epicrealm Uses Vague Patents to sue Web Sites · · Score: 0

    The present invention teaches a method and apparatus for creating and managing custom Web sites. Specifically, one embodiment of the present invention claims a computer-implemented method for managing a dynamic Web page generation request to a Web server, the computer-implemented method comprising the steps of routing the request from the Web server to a page server, the page server receiving the request and releasing the Web server to process other requests, processing the request, the processing being performed by the page server concurrently with the Web server, as the Web server processes the other requests, and dynamically generating a Web page in response to the request, the Web page including data dynamically retrieved from one or more data sources.

    I say this patent could shut down more websites. Because the initial web server that takes the requests could be interpreted as nothing but a box dedicated to routing the packets to the appropriate web server sitting in the server room/farm. Routers send the packets to different destinations based on many variables including load.

    It states that the inital webserver processes the requests concurrently with the page server (pretty redundant IMO). How about that, eh? If you interpret it the way I did above, simply having two PCs serving up the same web pages and connected to a router with an internet connection would void this patent. And what about all the other routers that brought you your precious packets of TCP/IP goodness to your router!

    TOMORROW ON SLASHDOT: THE PATENT SERVICE HAS BEEN SHUT DOWN BY THE US GOVERNMENT. IN AN EFFORT TO KEEP UP WITH THE MASSIVE AMOUNT OF PATENTS, A C PROGRAM HAS BEEN PUT IN PLACE.

    double i;
    for(i=0 ; i!=i+1 ; ++i)
    {
    if(new_patent_exists())
    {
    AddPatentToDB(i);
    ThrowShitOntoSmallCompanies(rand());
    }
    }

  16. Game Maker on So You Want To Be a Game Designer? · · Score: 0

    Arr, you could just start coding in assembly if ye want to be a big shot, er ya cuud just use Game Maker.

  17. Guess what on Steve Jobs In Praise of Dropping Out · · Score: 0

    On the most part education does guarantee a well paying job and success in life. People like Jobs are freaks (haha)

  18. google will win on Looking for Answers in the Age of Search · · Score: 0

    Google will come up with something to combat this, they always win.

    Maybe there is already something like this that google offers?

  19. Turn them into weapons on CueCats vs. Common Sense Marketing · · Score: 0

    Don't barcode scanners have lasers? If so, buy all of these suckers, crank up the voltage on the laser, and sell it to the US army as a weapon of mass eye destruction.

  20. Prediction on HTTP Request Smuggling · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I betcha most people (your average bloke on the street) won't even care about this, and this will hardly make any difference that people won't remember it 4 years later. Just my simple, useless prediction.

  21. Yes! on Open Source Self-Replicating Robot · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes, of course robotics is the next big field for open source! The FOSS model works pretty damn well, it would be (in some people's opinions) selfish not to apply it to other aspscts of technology and life in general.

    North American natives did something similar to open source by sharing their ideas, methods, and beliefs with the Europeans that came to North America, and the Europeans gave them the advantage of metal pots and pans. Basic open source right there. Now we have North American society, home to the most powerful country on the planet.

  22. Re:Jurassic Park on Sexual Identification of A Rex Fossil · · Score: 1

    Oh ok. I remember now. Just had to ask :)

  23. Jurassic Park on Sexual Identification of A Rex Fossil · · Score: 1

    This could be just me and my will to believe everything in sci-fi movies, but can't the dinos assume either gender and reproduce? (Just like in Jurassic Park.) So why would these findings matter?