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  1. Re:Simple to avoid. on Beware Your Online Presence · · Score: 3, Informative

    You can remove old google groups and usenet posts from Google's archives with this page. http://groups.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?ans wer=8380

  2. Re:Rocket eBook on eBooks - What's Holding You Back? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But if you drop a book the bookmark could fall out AND YOU COULD LOSE YOUR PLACE!

  3. Re:xbox 360 on Design Process Behind the Xbox 360 · · Score: 0, Troll

    There are plenty of reviews and user comments out there for the 360 and its games. Plenty of info for making an informed choice. Do you really want this article to degenerate into the same old marketing drivel we see day in day out?

  4. If I were manufacturing these things on RFID, Sign of the (End) Times? · · Score: 1

    I would make sure that it was implanted in the right hand and had 666 written all over it just to freak the Christians out.

  5. Re:hax on Building Online Stores with osCommerce · · Score: 1

    This is the same problem I have with allot of pre-made php applications like this. There is always one or two mods that have me rooting around in source code changing things. Then I'm afraid to ever upgrade anything because I'll break everything. Someone needs to come up with a solution for this.

  6. Ok who else on Symantec Users, Start Your Keyloggers · · Score: 1

    immediately ran into his or her favorite IRC channel to try this out?

  7. Re:I wasn't using my civil liberties anyway on Senate Passes Patriot Act Renewal · · Score: 1

    Good. I was wondering when someone was going to post that quote in some form. Hell, I can't even remember how it goes exactly anymore.

  8. Re:Easy on Senate Passes Patriot Act Renewal · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wait a second. I have a sneaking suspicion that Google is some how involved in all this. How long has this Patriot Act been out in what is essentially beta?

  9. Re:Instant on Wealthy 'Cryonauts' Put Assets on Ice · · Score: 1

    In this case though, the person must die before they are legally allowed to freeze the body. So unless dead people dream I don't see any problems with it.

  10. Re:Yeah, sure, how will check up on these people? on Wealthy 'Cryonauts' Put Assets on Ice · · Score: 1

    "The funds will be slowly leeched until you finally thaw and die, and at that point someone inherits it. "

    One small correction: You must be legally dead before you can be frozen (in the US at least). Anything else would be considered assisted suicide.

  11. Instant on Wealthy 'Cryonauts' Put Assets on Ice · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The one cool thing about freezing yourself that no one seems to mention is the process, if successful, will seem instant to you regardless of how many hundreds of years you're out for. Thinking of it that way makes it seem way more appealing. It's like a crude form of time travel.

  12. Re:Comical ethics of advance technology... on Wealthy 'Cryonauts' Put Assets on Ice · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thanks for spoiling an obscure movie from the 80's that I've never of and will never watch. Jerk.

  13. Re:Impressive but useless. on Building the Godzilla of PVRs · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What does religiousfreaks.com have to do with your post? Your Slashdot profile has an option for a sig like myself and many others use.

  14. Re:Why not? How about why? on Should Apple make .Mac free? · · Score: 1

    Keep in mind though that $100 million comming in is not pure profit. They still have to pay for the bandwidth, employees, servers, development, and other things I don't know about.

  15. Re:sounds like what you want on Review: Dead or Alive 4 · · Score: 1

    I was wondering about that but forgot to include it in my post. I plan on getting a dreamcast eventually and will pick that game up.

  16. I would wait on The World's Tiniest Power Supply Unit · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Every time a new device comes out, especially consumer electronics like the PSP and iPod I give people the same advice: wait. The early adopters are beta testers. Wait a year or so for people's computers to blow up from this new power supply and then buy your bug-free version for cheaper.

    Please note I have never used this power supply before and have no idea how well it's made. I'm just making a general statement on electronics.

  17. Re:automatic breaking? on High-tech Cars Replacing Driver Skill? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Damn it you beat me to the mildly funny AIDs joke.

  18. Re:The disconnect from reality is the real danger on High-tech Cars Replacing Driver Skill? · · Score: 1

    I guess no one had this talk with me either and I road my mountain bike a ton as a kid. If I slam on my front brake to stop then I flip over. So instead I use my back brake as my general stopping device. If I really need to stop fast then I slam on both front and back brakes.

    This all seems like common sense to me. What is the correct way of doing it?

  19. Re:sounds like what you want on Review: Dead or Alive 4 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Shenmue is one of those games that looks awesome but due to insanly bad controls it's unplayable. I even owned it for Xbox and started to get into it. But had to stop before I went crazy. Such a shame.

  20. Re:On getting a life on An Interview With 2old2play's Doodi · · Score: 1

    There are two things in this world I avoid like the plague. IRC and MMORPGs. I do not look down upon anyone who gets addicted. It's not their fault. They just wanted to play a game. No one told them these companies have figured out a way to inject heroin over tcp/ip.

  21. Re:Damn kids on An Interview With 2old2play's Doodi · · Score: 1

    You mean "2 old". Right?

  22. I read the article. on Scientists Figure Out How Bees Fly · · Score: 1

    Still have no idea how Bees fly. It just rambles on about how many flaps a second a bee's wing makes. Then scientists observed bees flying in helium. And that's it. Useless article. Can someone provide a link to something that actually describes it?

  23. Refunds? on IP Attorney - Why SCO Has No Case · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What about the people who were tricked into or were forced by an employer into buying a license? Has SCO said whether they will refund the money?

  24. Picture Quality on Book Excerpts: OOo Draw Documents with Imagination · · Score: 4, Informative

    The pictures in this article look bad because they resized them using HTML instead of just changing the JPGs themselves. Look at this picture as an example. http://images.slashdot.org/articles/05/12/Miller_c h04_img_10.jpg

  25. Re:Finally! on Sony Reader Taking Hold? · · Score: 1

    I've never used any kind of electronic ink stuff before. Can these things handle images? Alot of the PDFs I read have pictures of some sort. Sometimes they are important to help understand the text.