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  1. Re:Is the Swedish Chef submitting stories today? on Yet Unuzeer Internet Treckeeng Ixplueet · · Score: 1

    Oh good. You saw it too. For a moment I thought something was wrong with my eyes.

  2. Re:This is NOT COOL! on Linux PDA w/Voice Recognition · · Score: 1

    Yea, but do you know his password?

  3. Re:Ironic on The Science Of Planet Detection · · Score: 1

    God is, of course, the brat kid that broke your window in this analogy.

    This doesn't explain anything. Then who built the window?
    It's much more likely that the baseball has always been traveling and, through a series of random events and natural forces on the ball has happened to smash through the window. I'm pretty sure the fossil record supports me on this if baseballs could fossilize.

  4. Re:Martin on Mail Order Bride · · Score: 1

    The GiS rendition of Dr. Zaus was prety good though.

  5. Re:Waste on A Eulogy for Iridium · · Score: 1

    Where exactly does this $10mil a month go? Are they sending resupply rockets up there?

  6. Re:not exactly a crack pot but maybe confused on Practical Gravity Shielding for Spacecraft? · · Score: 1

    Not to mention that he'd suck away our atmosphere.

  7. Re:Please clarify: Linking or selling? on Game Companies Sue Yahoo! · · Score: 1

    Apparently the article is talking about Yahoo's auction site but they don't make that very clear. After the first paragraph the article seems to imply that Yahoo is directly selling pirated stuff.

  8. Re:Taxes and Death on Innovation, Regulation and The Internet · · Score: 1

    I'm Canadian, and I shop regularly on eBay and Amazon.com, so where would the taxes for those purchases go?

    The same place they would go if you had bought stuff from an on paper catalog.

  9. Re:Plural of Lego (and lego kits) on Engineers Use Legos, Too! · · Score: 1

    I was impressed with the robots in the Constructopedia. Fun to build and each emphasized different aspects of the kit. Of course I expect nothing less from Lego.

    Does anyone know if the Mars Exploration add-on will be worth the money? Or am I better off just buying the motor stand-alone or from one of the other add-ons. I don't have many Technic bricks so I'm sort of hoping for lots of genereric Technic bricks.

  10. Re:Plural of Lego (and lego kits) on Engineers Use Legos, Too! · · Score: 1

    Personaly I think they should have come with three motors in one kit. It's got three sockets...why not three motors?

  11. Re:text "passwords" are the problem on KeyGhost Security Keyboard Records Keystrokes · · Score: 1

    I seem to remember a Made for TV movie staring Patrick Stewart that revolved around a password system like this.

    He had to drag-and-drop components of the image onto the screen in the right order. I think when he finished it formed a Chinese character or something.

  12. Re:Solutions over the flaws on Exoskeletons for Human Performance Augmentation · · Score: 1

    It doesn't have to be a "BOOM" kind of self-destruct - all the "self-destruct sequence" needs to do is to shut down the droid, in case interruption or hijaaking is detected and can not be prevented.
    But then you've lost your mech. All the bad guys would have to do is create a burst of static long enough for the comunications to time-out and sudenly your entire army has shut itself down. You going to send some guy out there to do a hard reboot on all of them?

  13. Re:Real-world mode. on Lego CAD · · Score: 1

    Now most larger Lego kits come with a piece designed for that. I don't know what they call it, I usualy just call it the Lego-Wrench. It looks like a shoe-horn and on the end is a brick-sized thingy with two bumps and two holes. It works a lot better then using an ordinary block, and if it slips your gums don't bleed.

  14. Re:The yahoos at yahoo were right. on Robin Williams To Sing "Blame Canada" @ Oscars · · Score: 1

    Did you watch the movie? Or even listen to the whole Blame Canada song?
    The movie makes fun of the Americans and american media for blaming everyone but themselves for thier kids problems.(You know, like the fiasco that followed all those high-school shootings.) The censorship was an example, Blame Canada was anouther.
    Besdies the Canadian military made quite a good showing. They more or less slaughtered 'Operation:Hide behind the darkies', right?

  15. Re:Finally, score one for Apple on iMac Look Protected by Copyright · · Score: 1

    The mouse works well, yea. But does it fit in your hand? I suspect that anyone who is honestly comfortable with the iMac mouse wouldn't stand any taller then my knees.

    On the other hand, a few places make comfortable mice out of translucent blue plastic if that's what you realy want. www.contourdesign.com for one.

  16. Re:How did this happen? on Boeing Throws Space Station Parts Away · · Score: 1

    Perhaps it'll show up on eBay.

  17. Re:Napster on Interview With The Creator of Napster on ZDnet · · Score: 1

    It IS that simple. Imagine that I work for a record company. I load up napster and search for our companies latest hits. I then get a list of people who are serving it. Now I click on "Download". All I'd need is to monitor the ip's Napster is connecting to.

  18. Re:the problem is.... on Update on 'Blame Canada' and the Oscars · · Score: 1

    Most people aren't aware of this but Slashdot isn't about "News for Nerds" it's actualy a bunch of words on a web-site generating ad revenue for andover.net

    We all know why people make movies. But that's not the Subject of the movie. That's not what the movie is about.

  19. Re:Incoming message... on NASA May Deliberately Crash Galileo · · Score: 1

    Why did this get "informative"? For one thing it's just a quote from a work of fiction so it can't possibly be informative. Second everyone else has already posted it. Third he should have quoted the book not the movie anyway.

  20. Re:Microsoft Invents *Automatic* Symbolic Links on Microsoft Invents Symbolic Links · · Score: 1

    Hopefully it uses some sort of inteligence to decide when to link the files. Maybe it won't link files with the "archive" flag set or something. Or maybe it'll only link files with the same file-name. Either way, there had better be way to tell it not to link specific files.

  21. Re:Hey! on Mozilla Milestone 14 Awaits · · Score: 1

    You see, it's a pun. The topic is about the latest build of mozilla(a webrowser) sometimes refered to as "seamonkey"(a jar of brine-shrimp)

  22. Re:Hey! on Mozilla Milestone 14 Awaits · · Score: 1

    Why is this off-topic? Silly maybe. But it's on-topic.

  23. Re:Solution: RENT Disney films. Then pirate. on Movie Reviews: Fantasia 2000 · · Score: 2

    Yes, don't forget to flip that switch on the back of your VCR. You know the one. The one that says "VHS/IMAX".

  24. Re:Picture? on SlashNET Forum With Jamie Zawinski · · Score: 1

    At 10:59PM?

  25. Re:I hate to sound whiny, but... on Lineo and Embedded Linux on the Move · · Score: 1

    Yea, but they hadn't finished drawing the icon.