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  1. How will this affect pacemakers? on Physicists Promise Wireless Power · · Score: 1

    My father has a pacemaker. Those things are _very_ sensitive to electromagnetic radiation. I don't want to give him another heart attack each time I charge my cell phone.

  2. Re:How did this get on Slashdot? on Why Apple Failed in the 90s · · Score: 1

    "That this meaningless trash makes it onto Slashdot and Digg simply amazes me."

    You must be new here.

  3. Re:No surprise... on More E-mail, Fewer Mailboxes · · Score: 1

    I remember doing nice drawings (well, maybe not nice, but at least they were drawings) for my grandparents in Paint when I was six years old.

    Still had to print-and-snail-mail 'em, off course.

  4. It's a puppet. on Quasi the Intelligent Robot · · Score: 1

    A cute-looking, remotely controlled puppet, but still a puppet. What's so special about it?

  5. Doesn't look that bad... on Beautiful Wooden PC Cases · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...though I still prefer the all-transparent cases. Still: w00d!

  6. Re:I feel so dump on A Buckyegg Breaks Pentagon Rules · · Score: 1

    You might have started by paying attention in your chemistry classes at secondary school. Really, it's not that hard.

  7. Scary, eh? on BT Futurologist On Smart Yogurt and the $7 PC · · Score: 1

    "He has some scary predictions, including (...) the $7 PC."

    How exactly is that scary?

  8. Re:"Second LIfe"? on Avatars Need Personal Space Too · · Score: 2, Funny

    Isn't WoW a primary life?

  9. Re:Bah. on Business 2.0 Says 'Boycott Vista' · · Score: 1

    Because Slashdot needs some new flame fodder every once in a while.

  10. Wow! on Apple Unveils 24" iMac · · Score: 1

    That's the second biggest iMac I've ever seen!

    (Monkey Island, kids.)

  11. RSiimote on The Future of Human-Computer Interaction · · Score: 1

    I'm afraid using a Wiimote for navigation for a long time will turn out to be _much_ more painful than using a mouse.

  12. Meanwhile, at AOL... on War Declared on Caps Lock Key · · Score: 1
  13. Move along, nothing to see here. on A Gallery of Unusual Chinese Robots · · Score: 1

    Except an astounding total of five (5) pictures, none of them very detailed, or very high-quality, of an astounding total of five (5) robots, none of them very special. All IMHO, of course.

  14. Re:Not exactly in depth on GUIs From 1984 to the Present · · Score: 1

    The root account gets a hash for a prompt where I live. =P

  15. Where's GNOME? on GUIs From 1984 to the Present · · Score: 3, Informative

    ...or NeXTSTEP, or Amiga, et cetera.

  16. Ah, progress. on 50th Anniversary of the First Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    And we'll probably be celebrating the arrival of Terabyte drives this year as well. Don't you love progress?

  17. Obligatory... on Japan's Petaflop Supercomputer · · Score: -1, Redundant

    "Imagine a cluster of these!"

  18. Speaking as part of the market... on Intel - Market Doesn't Need Eight Cores · · Score: 1

    ... we might not need eight cores, but we're geeks: we'll buy them anyway.

  19. Bingo! on Search 2.0 vs. Traditional Search · · Score: 3, Funny
    • First-generation search ranked sites based on page content - examples are early yahoo.com and Alta Vista.
    • Second-generation relies on link analysis for ranking - so they take the structure of the Web into account.
    • Third-generation search technologies are designed to combine the scalability of existing internet search engines with new and improved relevancy models; they bring into the equation user preferences, collaboration, collective intelligence, a rich user experience, and many other specialized capabilities that make information more productive.
    Bingo!
  20. Re:Browser differences on Dvorak Rants on CSS · · Score: 1

    I highly doubt even Dvorak has those links.

  21. Re:I guess slashdot would be on the blacklist on India Joins China in Censoring Websites · · Score: 1

    Well, it's not to bad considering the original wording:
    Web sites can be blocked if they contain pornography, speeches of hate, content, slander or defamation, or if they promote gambling, racism, violence or terrorism.

    Although that'd probably get Slashdot off the blacklist. =P

  22. Re:Awesome! on Fully Open Source NTFS Support Under Linux · · Score: 2, Informative

    SUSE's intaller YaST let me resize NTFS partitions. You might want to try that.

  23. CLI on Input Solutions for Repetitive Stress Victims? · · Score: 1

    You know, back in the day when we didn't even have mice, we used to work with these things called command lines...

  24. Re:Can't solve all your problems that way on China Getting 'Serious' About Spam? · · Score: 1

    "You can't solve all your problems with a great wall."

    Unless it's a firewall. =P

  25. Where's the icon? on Ubuntu Hacks · · Score: 2

    Odd. This is the first story on Ubuntu I've seen without the Debian icon.