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  1. Re:Thin Client? on Windows Is Dead – Long Live Midori? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Midori is going to be coded to crash at least once every 24 hours to ease regular Windows users into this "new" technology. Other than that, it's the same.

  2. Re:What's correct? = or == on No Gap Found In Math Abilities of Girls, Boys · · Score: 1

    The = is correct, but not for your reasons, since it wasn't an assignment.
    if it were an assignment, boys = girls would be different than girls = boys, but that's not the point of the title.
    It's more of an algebraic equation, where each side would reduce to boys and girls. Thus, boys = girls and girls = boys are the same thing.

  3. Re:If The Shoe Were on the Other Foot... on Apple Suit Demands That Psystar Recall OpenMacs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    it's not somehow ok in a shiny, trendy, hip way, but it is evil, in a shiny, trendy, hip, way. and it's not really a monopoly anymore for microsoft either.

  4. Re:Forgetting the power adapter is worse on Doing the Laptop Drive of Shame · · Score: 1

    yes... that's right... I forgot my power adapter...

  5. obligatory quote on Doing the Laptop Drive of Shame · · Score: 1

    Uh oh. Sounds like somebody's got a case of the Mondays...

  6. Re:Ooh! Oooh! I know! on Gates' Last Day At Microsoft · · Score: 0, Redundant

    But does it run linux??

  7. What actually happened to the other people... on Surprisingly Few People Collect On GTA Hot Coffee · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the people who haven't claimed are all dead or in jail for running over hookers in their stolen cars, or beating cops to death with baseball bats.

  8. How many pictures are you going to keep? on Best Way To Store Digital Video For 20 Years? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Honestly, you're probably not going to look at most of the pictures in 20 years anyways. Sure it's good to have a lot, but with 100 GB of pictures/videos, that's pushing it a lot; babies don't exactly do much. Go through the collection and cut out the bad/redundant pictures, print off the especially good ones, and put em on the wall: they'll get more use that way. But... with what you do save, try burning to CD/DVD/blu-ray, since they don't degrade too much over time, and if you have space/money, archive it to tape: it'll last the longest. HDD's won't last the 20 years, but if you want to, try a RAID, but it'll have to be recopied and replaced every so often. And... with whatever media you choose, keep it away from light/dust/too much humidity.

  9. Davis Centre on Huge Data Center Looks Like a Circuit Board · · Score: 1

    Reminds me a lot of the Davis Centre of the University of Waterloo, which was designed to look and feel like being in a computer. there's lots of cool photos on flickr showing it, and a neat panorama of the inside.

  10. Link distance on Six Degrees of Wikipedia · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The distance going from Article A to Article B is not necessarily the same as from Article B to article A. For example, the Slashdot page links to the HTTP page, but not vice versa. It would be interesting to know if he took that into consideration when counting links, or whether he would have counted it as one in either direction.

  11. Re:So plastic bags are biodegradable? on Teen Discovers Plastic-Decomposing Bacteria · · Score: 1

    well we always knew that after a really long time the plastics would biodegrade... but that was after thousands of years. The bacteria were known to exist, but they were never found in high enough concentrations to do any good. What he's done is found the ideal conditions for living and reproduction for these bacteria.

  12. Another Option on Offline Wikipedia Reader For iRex Iliad · · Score: 2, Informative

    A similar project was covered recently on Hack-a-day. Same idea... different hardware.

  13. Make your own song on How the RIAA Targets Campus Copyright Violators · · Score: 3, Interesting

    1) record your own song
    2) rename it as a popular song: eg. Madonna - 4 Minutes
    3) they download it after it fails hash check
    4) sue them for copyright infringement
    5) ?
    6) Profit!

  14. Typical Government Response on US State Dept. Loses Anti-Terrorist Program Laptops · · Score: 1

    If the missing ones might have contained classified data, this could be serious. Typical of them to be so vague on what the contents of the laptops are.
  15. as depressing as it is brief on The Inside Story on Norway's Yes to OOXML · · Score: 1

    I didn't find the article all that depressing, just oddly disheartening. but I guess that makes sense... I didn't find it all that brief either.

  16. Re:May or may not be the same Anons on Griefers Assault Epileptics Via Message Board · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The fact that the group "Anonymous" actually has no goal or objective that they strive for means that anyone can claim to do anything under the groups name, and hence be a "member" of the group. Now from this, any Scientologist could have caused these attacks, and then claim to be doing it for the "Anonymous" group, with no one ever going to dispute that claim. Anonymous is not really a group; it's more of an identity to hide behind all things internet-like.

  17. The Great Glass Elevator on Space Elevators Face Wobble Problem · · Score: 1

    seemed to work fine for getting Charlie and Wonka into space. although it wasn't supposed to do that...

  18. Re:Reading a website doesn't form a contract anywa on Google Patents Detecting, Tracking, Targeting Kids · · Score: 1

    Disclaimer: IANAL I think that the contract is not accepted by visiting google, but by using their search you agree to the terms and services; (ie. their services.)

    From google:
    2.2 You can accept the Terms by:

    (A) clicking to accept or agree to the Terms, where this option is made available to you by Google in the user interface for any Service; or

    (B) by actually using the Services. In this case, you understand and agree that Google will treat your use of the Services as acceptance of the Terms from that point onwards.

  19. In other news... on Paypal Advises Users To Stop Using Safari · · Score: 1, Informative

    Microsoft advises Windows users to stop using internet explorer, due to lack of security.

  20. Life on Possibility of Life On Mars Looking More Remote · · Score: 1

    For all we know, there still could be life on Mars. Show me the where in the rules of life that it says that all life has to live like us. Just because we can't live on Mars, doesn't mean that some other organisms can't. Look at the small silicon based organisms living kilometres below the oceans surface. I'm sure we couldn't live like that, and before they had been discovered, scientists were probably saying that it was impossible to live that deep, or that silicon life forms were impossible. Nothing can for sure say that there is no life on Mars, only that we have not yet discovered anything.

  21. Re:Obligatory on Mars Rover, Spirit, Turns 4 · · Score: 1

    They're looking for mars cake. I'm sure it's delicious and moist.

  22. Still have a problem on FCC Requires Backup Power For 210K Cell Towers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The backup generators will probably not be very effective in preventing outages during natural disasters. Consider New Orleans: how many of generators can work while submerged underwater? Or California, where should an earthquake knock out the original power to a tower, it is just as likely to knock out the generator.

  23. Flammable Batteries on IBM Sues Company Selling Fake, Flammable Batteries · · Score: 5, Funny

    Shentech's slogan: They're the hottest product on the market!

  24. Re:WTF on Why Do Games Still Have Levels? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Except that while you are riding in this elevator, in first person, the game locks your ability to move, and a box in the middle of the screen shows up that says "LOADING..." but you know, maybe that's not a load screen, maybe it's just part of the plot, and GLaDOS temporarily poisoned you with neurotoxin or something...

  25. Re:Their HTML code revealed on Law Firm Claims Copyright on View of HTML Source · · Score: 1

    Ha ha ha, not only can I view their precious HTML code, I'm posting it to Slashdot for all the world to see!

    Attorneys at Law The Law Offices of Moron, Idiot, and Dumbass Need an incompetent ambulance chaser with no understanding of the law to represent you? You've come to the right place!
    as far as I can tell... your html is much better than that of their site. yours is readable, while theirs is a nightmare of tables embedded within tables of tables... but their images do have alts...