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  1. Kindergarden Education on Mars Polar Lander Lost Again · · Score: 1

    I learned in Kindergarden to keep up with my toys. Who knows who will take them when you aren't looking.

  2. Re:Integration versus Bundling, Choice on Pepping Up Windows · · Score: 1

    Last I checked when Installing Windows XP it allows you to 'customize' the installation by choosing certain components and unchoosing others. In fact, I'm possitive I chose to install IIS when I set up my workstation, but left it off of my secretary's. Insteresting.

    MS - Damned if they do, Damned it they don't.

  3. Re:WinDir on Pepping Up Windows · · Score: 1

    Sounds like something a construction company would say in the south.

    'Cletus, get off yer butt and bring me uh windir, stat.'

    BTW - I'm from the south.

  4. Re:Only reason MS is backing HD DVD on Blu-Ray Attacks Microsoft, Microsoft Bites Back · · Score: 1

    WTF?

    It doesn't matter what kind of disk the PS3 uses. It is a gaming console.

    if the PS3 doesn't support DVD (regular) then consumers will probably see it as less valuable. On the same token, if it doesn't extend its 'movie player' capabilities to HD-DVD, then they will have to get a 'hybrid' player anyway, to play all of their old movies.

  5. Re:if not legitimately, then by subterfuge on Broadcast Flag Back in Congress · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The article is extremely short on details. What senator (from what state?) introduced this bill?
    What is the bill's title? Number?
    How can I verify this article?
    I will not write an email to my Senators unless I can present myself as an informed citizen.


    This article is lite on 'information', therefore doesn't really inform me of anything.

  6. Re:TFA from a MU Grad who Just got Notice on Another School Exposes Private Information · · Score: 1

    Yes, this technology exists.

    When they use it to secure the newest 50-cent song, that DRM is horrible stuff.

    When they use it to protect your SSN, it is the greatest thing in years.

    But since we all use Linux here on slashdot, getting efficient DRM in place to force this type of security is rediculously difficult.

  7. Re:Artifacts? on The Return of Saturn's Spokes · · Score: 1

    Possibly a form of electromagnetic 'shadow' cast by an unseen object or force. Like the radiation belts that cause the aurora in the northern sky? Maybe Saturn's radiation or electromagnetic belts bend gravity and create lenses that, in-turn, cast shadows on the rings.

    my 5-second theory.

    Brad

  8. Re:Little Zonky on Apple Launches Video Podcasting For iTunes · · Score: 1

    But he gives good reviews of video games. I can't remember the last time I was inspired as by his review of Nintendogs.

    Beautiful.

  9. Re:Eh, what? What's that you say? Speak up!! on Is the iPod Generation Going Deaf? · · Score: 1

    The story about the black holes is actually like 13.5 billions years late. And with gravatational lensing, it could be a dupe.

    Brad

  10. Re:More money for corps, less for consumers on US Companies Sponsor Pro Gamers · · Score: 1

    If I understand your executive summary correctly, then you should stop buying from J&J.
    J&J isn't advertising Unreal Tournament 'Sunscreen Edition'.

    Brad

  11. Re:My prediction for the predictions on Roundtable on Apple's Future · · Score: 1

    My iPod Nano works great!

  12. Re:Because they can't be found on New Legal Threat To GMail · · Score: 2

    Get off your "Google is Holy" ideals and RTFA. These guys have a multinational trademark, and have been trying to negotiate with Google for the past 15 months.

    Google has it in their heads that they can 'Do No Wrong(TM)' . These guys beat them to the punch for the name GMail, they registered their trademark appropriately w/ the proper authorities, and all of this was done back in 5/2002.

    Who cares if they only have 7 employees. It certainly doesn't give Google the right to bully these little guys around.
    Google will be the next Microsoft. Any time a company is allowed to become an entity (incorporate), it instantly looses the ideals of the founders and becomes liable to its shareholders (in the case of a public corp). An Entity without any sense of morals will eventually turn Evil(TM).

    Brad

  13. Re:Dr. Brown on Making Ice Without Electricity · · Score: 1

    Doc Brown has some contraption in his barn that puffed a lot of steam and make a buncha noise, and spit out like 3 cubes of ice. This was in 1885. WAY before electricity and even before that movie with Peter Wier came out.

  14. Re:How does it come out? on Hydrogen Stored in Safe High Density Pellets · · Score: 1

    I vote we ban friction. Who is with me?

  15. Re:A bulge? on Oregon Is Growing A Mystery Bulge · · Score: 1

    Yep, Pissing right on Cuba.

  16. Re:So much for Moore's Law on Intel Reveals Next-Gen CPUs · · Score: 1

    Instructions Per Cycle, or Cycles Per Instruction?

    Make up Your Mind!
    I know I don't measure my car as getting .0357 gallons per mile!

  17. Re:The real scoop on Microsoft Proposes Cooperative Research With OSDL · · Score: 1

    Can we also get John Madden commentating on this?

  18. Re:We Need a Revolution in Chip Design on AMD Lures IBM Veteran to Lead Chip Design · · Score: 1

    After looking at the COSAed program a couple times and digging deeper, I got a couple things:
    1. Algorithmic processing works, it is standard, it is understood. Things need to be done in order.
    2. I'm a somewhat smart fellow, and I understood about 40% of that COSA OS design. The design is based on smaller chunks of algorithmic code, just like the new Cell processor from IBM. You know, the one powering the Xbox360 & PS3.

    Seems to me the silver bullet isn't going to smash through all things in a magical journey to software perfectness, but instead will show up making our video games better.

  19. Re:Research on Microsoft Testing Rival to Google's Start Page · · Score: 1

    What interests me is that on the default layout with default options, the first stock it tracks on the ticker is GOOG.

  20. Re:Slashdotted on 125-Mile WiFi Connection · · Score: 1
    From The Team Redwire iFiber site:
    The team has shattered their previous world record of 55.1 miles, and the groud to ground amplified record of 82 miles set in Utah, Team iFiber Redwire achieved a 125-mile, 11-Mbit connection for 3 hours.
    Lower down on the page they thanked another sponsor for the 'amplifiers & pigtails'. Whats the deal? Is the signal pure, or amplified?
  21. Re:Respond to THIS on TiVo Lets You Respond to Ads · · Score: 1

    Well, if it is my girlfriend asking me to pick up some tampons, I can quickly decide I have other plans.

  22. Re:This is retarded... on Australian Man Found Guilty for Hyperlinking · · Score: 1

    Slashdot also links to copyrighted material on an hourly basis. Does Slashdot Australia have to worry? I think not, since news sites and research papers aren't as much of a money maker as music, movies, and television re-runs. This judge just earned massive brownie points from those industries.

  23. Re:Can't resist... on Microbes That Produce Miniature Electrical Wires · · Score: 1

    I for one welcome our new nanobot, wire-crapping overlords.