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  1. I think it's a good idea on Apple to Announce iTunes Movie Rentals? · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I'd use this service if it's cheap enough for the following reasons:
    • Most movies I only want to watch once.
    • Video stores rarely have anything I want in stock, and not convenient
    • Pay per view cable is way too expensive (and requires you to pay $60 a month for hundreds of channels of suck to have cable in the first place)
    • It just might be cheaper than blockbuster
    • I live in a city, which means the post office does not collect outgoing mail, so Netflix is inconvenient
  2. Re:Why use bacteria? on Gold Mining Bacteria · · Score: 1

    Because we don't know where your backyard is.

  3. Fix it yourself on Blender 2.42 Has Been Released · · Score: 1

    Isn't that the open source way? Of course, like most open source projects, your fixes will probably be ignored.

  4. Re:Getting rid of it is a good idea on Minor Technical Issue Aboard Shuttle Discovery · · Score: 1

    All of this is especially true if your launch vehicles are made in the USA.

  5. they're just like .com files on Virus Trackers Find Malware With Google · · Score: 3, Funny

    They're similar to the .com files on one of your operating systems, only newer

  6. Re:Everything old is new again on A Magnetic Memory Alternative to Hard Disk · · Score: 1

    Or you could use one of many available methods to achieve this effect, such as using sram, giving the memory power, or storing the contents of memory on disk.

  7. As long as it can be remapped... on Cracking the GPS Galileo Satellite · · Score: 1

    If the developers were smart, they would have developed a method to remap the coordinates in times of need, such as when a missile launch is detected. Using that, they could most likely divert any missiles which attempt to use global positioning technology for guidance.

    Sub-meter accuracy for a nuclear missile is quite pointless. Usually they are detonated far above the ground. Anything within a couple kilometers will have more or less the same effect. And since they are a deterrant, you don't even need that.

    In order for them to be effective, you only need your enemies to think that your missiles could be accurate to within a couple kilometers if they do something to provoke a launch.

  8. Re:Black on black SHOULD be a crime on Solar System in a Can May Reveal Hidden Dimensions · · Score: 1

    But everything goes with black!

  9. Re:it's all fine until a bomb goes off on The U.S.'s Net Wide For 'Terrorist' Names · · Score: 3, Insightful

    we're in a war folks.

    When does this war end? Do I *ever* get my right to privacy back?

  10. Explosives are used to create tunnels on FBI Foils Attack by Monitoring Chat Rooms · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It would probably collapse a part of the roof and kill some people, but it's doubtful it would take out the entire tunnel, which is merely a hole carved in some very hard rock. It's likely explosives were used to create it in the first place.

  11. nope, #0 on FBI Foils Attack by Monitoring Chat Rooms · · Score: 2, Funny

    The feds had one hell of time joining it, however

  12. Next they'll use digital watermarking on Work Around for New DVD Format Protections · · Score: 1

    I predict that the industry's next move will be to require every player to use digital watermarking to encode the devices serial number into the image. I doubt it will have any real impact however.

  13. Re:Free market factor..... on Google Fires Off Warning to US Telcos · · Score: 1

    You're right. Let's start a telco. All you need to do is spend years and lots of money lobbying every government in your service area to change its laws so you can run your wires on its poles and your fiber optic lines through the streets. And all you have to do to turn a profit is reach a critical mass to achieve quantities of scale while competing against companies which are currently given government subsidies.

    Where do I sign up to invest?

  14. Other solutions? on FreeDOS Not Dead; 1.0 Release Imminent · · Score: 1

    Have you tried.... DOSEmu? Windows command prompt, under WINE? VMWare?

  15. Runs != stable on Nerds Switching from Apple to Ubuntu? · · Score: 1

    Many apps run under wine. Very few last long. How many minutes between crashes for Photoshop?

  16. Consistent opinion from who? on Cambridge Breached the Great Firewall of China · · Score: 1

    Last time I checked, slashdot was a community composed of many people without any sort of governing board or leaders. I'm sure the people posting these opinions are very consistent.

  17. Re:follow the money on MA Senator Decries OpenDocument Decision · · Score: 2, Informative

    By searching google: http://www.followthemoney.org/database/StateGlance /candidate.phtml?si=200419&c=410033 Looks like most of his money came from unions.

  18. Check to see if my front door is locked on Colorado Sheriffs To WarDrive For Safety · · Score: 4, Funny

    While they're at it, they may as well check to see that people's front doors are locked too. Criminals might break in and use their computer when they can't get a wireless signal.

  19. Reduce solar output with a neutron absorber on Scientists Blocking out the Sun · · Score: 1

    We should just reduce the solar output by dumping neutron absorbers directly into the sun. Now all we need to do is find a source for about 2 x 10^29 kg of Boron-10, a ship large enough to move it, and an energy source for said ship.

  20. It's $20. on Linux Hackers Reclaim the WRT54G · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's $20 extra and it has more ram. $20. Why should they bother giving everyone more expensive hardware when only 0.0001% of the consumers will even use the extra ram?

  21. Re:Budget Priortites on The Pentagon's Supersonic, Shape-Shifting Assassin · · Score: 1

    This administration did manage to cut medicare benefits while massively increasing the cost of the program to taxpayers. They're also responsible for any other rising costs of social programs and any other decisions made as they control both the white house and congress.

    As far as "another 3,000" of our citizens being killed by terrorists, how exactly has this administration done that? The man responsible for September 11th is still alive, because we decided we needed to move our war to somewhere with less value to the saftey of the USA, but more natural resources. And all it took was the president lying to the people about some intelligence, outing a secret a service agent whose husband threatened to reveal facts, lying about the knowledge of who revealed the information, later stating that the president has all powers to declassify, and then when it appears someone may have broken a law, magically getting their trial pushed beyond your mid-term elections. It's kind of hard not to hate the president and this administration.

  22. 7 digit pin means it's probably not too accurate on Biometric Payment Arrives in a Store Near You · · Score: 1

    I'd bet there are many duplicate fingerprints as far as their scanners are concerned if they need you to use such a long pin. The system probably functions primarily on your pin, using a relatively low quality fingerprint scan for verification or duplicate resolution in case two people have the same pin.

  23. Web Based != access everywhere on Microsoft Ex-Chief to Launch Web-Based Software · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "People want to get access wherever they are, from whatever device they're using."

    He's right, and that's why web based software will continue to fail. You can't use it in places without internet access.

  24. Why not use lossless compression? on Replacement for Jewel Cases? · · Score: 1

    Why don't you zip them, you'd save a lot of space and not lose any quality. Also, you will start to get errors at higher speeds of ripping on audio cds, as they don't have the checksum data contained on data cds.

  25. Re:Most common search phrase on Microsoft Workers Prefer Google · · Score: 1

    I would have assumed it would be Bonzi Buddy