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  1. Hackable on Amazon Caves On Kindle 2 Text-To-Speech · · Score: 5, Interesting

    considering that this thing is running linux, I'm going to just set my timer and see how long it is before /. is posting a story that the TTS feature has been opened up to any book.

  2. Re:Done on Umbilical Cord Blood Banking? · · Score: 1

    There are ways to donate to a "public" bank in the USA as well. They are used for research and to help other people if they are a match. The problem (well, maybe it's not a "problem") is they are VERY and I mean VERY picky about letting you donate. We had to fill out a huge questionnaire. One asked if you had been stuck with a hypodermic needle accidentally in the last year. Well, the wife's a Veterinarian so that's just about a given. We called and explained that it was a clean needle, just pulled out of the sterile bag, but they didn't care, we were rejected.

  3. Re:HAHAHAHA on Oprah Sued For Infringing "Touch and Feel" Patent · · Score: 1

    Now, I'm not entirely sure about our friends from the South, who seem to have a rather schizoid view of citizenship these days. But that's a conversation for another time.

    It's the other way around. They think America (the USA) is Mexican.

  4. Re:Pipe Dream? on Is Finding Part Time Work In IT Unrealistic? · · Score: 1

    Well damn
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe_dream
    You got me. I shoulda known better. I routienly knock that phsyc prof for being a complete dufus. Why should I have believed what he taught me about Freud's enduring legacy?

  5. Pipe Dream? on Is Finding Part Time Work In IT Unrealistic? · · Score: 1

    The term "Pipe dream" comes from Freud's interpretation of objects in dreams. He believed that pipes signified unfulfilled sexual fantasies*. So... if you wanna think of a job in IT as an sexual fantasy... you go right ahead with that.

    *Then again, being a raving pervert, Freud thought of everything as sexual related.

  6. Re:Yeah... on Wireless Power Consortium Pushes For Standard · · Score: 1

    Your testicles give off focused microwave radiation?

  7. Re:mockery of the education system on Jedi Knights Course Offered By Queen's University Belfast · · Score: 1

    When the prequals came out, Frank Oz (Yoda and Miss Piggy's voice) explained the origin of Yoda's speach. Origionally his lines were written 'Normally". But Frank and Lucas got to talking about it and decided that if Yoda were 900 years old his speach should be different. What they came up with was supposed to be the more formal speach of a bygone era.

  8. Re:Drop out? on Netgear Launches Open Source-Friendly Wireless Router · · Score: 1

    It is a linksys WRT54GX2. And the thing really does not like linux. but since you've mentioned it, i'm goin gto google around and see if there are some firmware hacks to make it work better. I've just upgraded the firmware recently and have the .bin so if I fook anything up really bad, I can just stick the "real" one back on. right? :)

  9. Drop out? on Netgear Launches Open Source-Friendly Wireless Router · · Score: 3, Funny
    OK, I'm not a networking guy. (My nerd credientials fall in biology) but does this mean that my linux box would work better with this router?

    Currently the wife's XP laptop will never drop off the wireless. If my Linux laptop is connect they will both drop about once a day. If I turn on my linux desktop which is wired in, the wireless laptops will drop out about once an hour.

  10. Re:They is no such requirement... on Enforcing the GPL On Software Companies? · · Score: 1

    It has. MEPIS went though this exact thing. They were based off of Ubuntu but ended up having to host the source themselves.

  11. Re:If we want to go to the moon on Will the Earth's Tail Fry Moon Visitors? · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't this be realitivy easy to test? Just shoot something up there and have it sit though one of these episodes and see if anything bad happens. I would think it'd be cheeper than going to Saturn or something.

  12. Are we Sure? on CNN Website Targeted by DoS · · Score: 1

    Are we sure this was an actual atack on CNN? Could it have been that they did something right for a change and more than 10 people tried to hit their site and the server just couldn't handle it?

  13. Re:I REALLY hope Apple wins... on Apple, New York City In Legal Dispute Over Logo · · Score: 1

    Does anybody know why the *GREEN* NYC logo is not... err... green?

  14. Re:Link to the actual thing... on Inside UC Berkeley's High Tech Joke Recommender · · Score: 1

    Every day is something like April Fools' Day at the University of California, Berkeley

    The rest of the submission is irrelevent.

  15. Re:Just do what I do on TSA Evaluating Laptop Bags · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but if they keep piling crap on like this, at some point it's going to be cheeper (including man-hours) to buy your own plane.

  16. Bloody hell on Analog Cell Phone Network Shuts Down Monday · · Score: 1

    I've got one of those "just a phones" that is tri-mode and I can talk where no one else can around here with their all-digital phones. I specifically asked the company to get me a tri-mode when my old one died for this reason. All my co-workers are jelious that I can talk when we're out on our routes.

  17. Content? on Semantic Web Getting Real · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What good are fancy links if the content still sucks?

  18. MS? on Microsoft Bids $44.6 Billion For Yahoo · · Score: 1

    What does Multiple Sclerosis have to do with Micro$oft?

  19. Re:Easily Abused? on Wikia Search Engine to be Launched on January 7th · · Score: 5, Funny

    What this means is that no matter what you search for, the top hundred results will be to porn sites.

  20. Re:Failure is likely on Microsoft and Google Duke It Out For the Future · · Score: 1

    I agree wholeheartedly. I would love to be able to move from my light, portable laptop to my big gaming PC and not be able to tell much difference other than horsepower.

  21. Re:How will the skin get harvested? on Stem-Cell-Like Cells Produced From Skin · · Score: 1

    I believe a cheek swab will be the method of choice. I heard it referenced on the radio. Also, check cells tend to sluff off pretty easily but still be intact.

  22. Re:If you don't know what this is about on GOOG-411's "Biddy-Biddy-Boop" Sound Backstory · · Score: 1

    I'm sure this is completely off topic but - Phones outside the US don't have letters on them? (of if they do, please tell me the rest of the world put the entire alphabet on there the first time.)

  23. Partitions on Beyond Nobel, Hard Drives Get Smart · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What I want to know is if these new larger drives are going to come with new restrictions on partitioning the drives. I would love to be able to test drive a dozen or so different Linux distros, see what BSD is like, have a safe (somewhat) place to stick my /home while I upgrade - but I am limited by the number of partitions (got one taken up with winders).I know you can work it all around and do it with just 4 primaries, but it would really be nice to set up 15 or so partitions. Especialy if the drive has 4 terabites. Good Lord, I can't even fathom that much space.

  24. Re:The internet is booby-trapped on Bloggers Versus Billionaire · · Score: 1

    The internet is booby-trapped

    Oh, that kind of trap.

    I thought you were refering to porn

  25. stoned.angelina on Boot Sector Virus Shipped on German Laptops · · Score: 5, Funny

    stoned.angelina is a nasty virus too. If your computer is infected it will download other child viruses with weird names from third world countries.