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  1. the great and powerful stallman has spoken on Stallman Unsure Whether Firefox Is Truly Free · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    and now we must all ruminate ad infinitum on his true divine meaning so that it may guide us in our respective technological paths.

    or, its a fat antiestablishmentarian with a beard and a flute whos been kicked off planes, pisses off BSD devs, and makes us all generally uncomfortable.

    heres some other tripe that stallman approves of:

    Contribute funds to avoid a ban on selling hallucinogenic mushrooms in the Netherlands.

    Boycott Coca Cola Company for using paramilitaries to murder union organizers.

    how is this guy still relevant?

  2. the universe is 6000 years old on Science's Alternative To an Intelligent Creator · · Score: 1

    for extremely large values of 6000.

  3. weird, and here i thought on Plastic Logic E-Newspaper · · Score: 1

    all the newspapers had died...well this is great news, now i have a chance to get that shitty advertisement pack in e-form now.

    i only wonder how well e-newspaper does at composting and lighting my charcoal grill?

  4. amazing...this must mean on Unhappy People Watch More TV · · Score: 2, Funny

    our children are hopelessly depressed.

  5. wait until people find out on Internal Emails Released In Vista Capable Debacle · · Score: 4, Funny

    about how windows certification for hardware doesnt always guarantee it works, and clippy is actually more annoying than helpful.

  6. the result is you can now on Boot Windows Vista In Four Seconds · · Score: 1

    have the fastest bluescreen ever!

    seriously love how this is ASUS, inventor of the recently killed eeepc which booted linux in around 1 minute. now we've found a way to stop making fast affordable linux pcs because, oh hai! windows is fast now too!!!

  7. hang on, the real answer is on Remote Access Policies · · Score: 3, Insightful

    no, you dont have anything to add to the policy...

    youre a system administrator, not a lawyer, or a board director, or an hr manager, or anything else so you dont know what the company needs. you just know how to enforce their policy and keep systems patched and secure. nothing to see here, move along.

  8. ah november on Microsoft Denies Paying Nigerians $400K To Ditch Linux · · Score: 1

    is it just me or has slashdot been slamming microsoft harder than usual?

  9. find the trick on (Useful) Stupid BlackBerry Tricks? · · Score: 4, Funny

    that makes it stop hauling me into work at 3 in the morning for some strange ritual called "escalation."

    or the trick that keeps the battery plate from breaking and falling off constantly.

  10. gentlemen on Colombia Signs Up For OLPC Laptops With Windows · · Score: 2, Funny

    let the conspiracy madness begin :)

  11. pager. on Where Have All the Pagers Gone? · · Score: 1

    you mean that thing that rattles around in my left desk drawer occasionally? i suppose its just going to keep rattling...damned if iknow what it does.

  12. gentlemen: on 40 Years Ago, the US Lost a Nuclear Bomb · · Score: 0

    The system works.

  13. ive always questioned on Windows 7 Benchmarks Show Little Improvement On Vista · · Score: 0, Redundant

    how a closed system like Windows gets truly benchmarked anyhow. its like having a car with a hood that doesnt open, but seems to go quite a bit faster than your old car.

  14. how about a regex on (Useful) Stupid Regex Tricks? · · Score: 1

    to filter ask slashdot posts for 'tricks' articles.

  15. now all it has to get past on The World's Heaviest Robot · · Score: 1

    is the entrenched mining unions that have prevented automation for more than 10 years now.

  16. tamed the eeepc??? on Netbooks Take a Bite Out of Windows Profits · · Score: 2, Interesting

    give me a break. even with a 10" eeepc stuffed with microsoft bloatware, im going to do the same thing ive always done with my new windows laptop: return the OS for a refund.

    funny though how with my eeepc 901 they have a section in the manual at the end guiding users on how to get back to a windows installation. not certain if it correlates with their statements on "no one is buying these linux laptops" or not, but id be curious to see an unbiased (read: not in bed with redmond) party evaluate whether anyone is buying laptops with linux.

    the one thing redmond cant fight on this is i believe price. as a wise man once said, "if your going up against 'free' you'd better have a damned good product."

  17. heres my favorite on (Stupid) Useful Emacs Tricks? · · Score: -1, Troll

    ln -s /usr/bin/emacs /usr/bin/vim

  18. heres your solution: on D-Link DIR-655 Firmware 1.21 Hijacks Your Internet Connection · · Score: 1

    www.pfsense.org

    the average slashdotter should be able to build a router. attaching lasers and memes to it may be a cowboyneal level feat however...

  19. id say sue the bastards on Suit Claims Diebold Voting Machines Violate GPL · · Score: 0, Troll

    but can you sue a government company?

  20. what the hell is wrong with ibm?? on IBM's Teri-is-a-Girl-and-Terry-is-a-Boy Patent · · Score: 1

    one mouth says it supports open source, and freely rewards its code to the community

    the other crafts junk patents for software that may never be written, magical ideas, and imaginary property..

    is there some kind of intervention for this shit?

  21. agreed on Reuse Code Or Code It Yourself? · · Score: 1

    lock in the requirements early, damage control the creep, and make sure your meeting attendance roster doesnt start including more useless management than is really necessary. ive been screwed by managers from departments ive never even heard of before.

  22. i dont think on Air Force To Rewrite the Rules of the Internet · · Score: 1

    this is so much of a pledge to rewrite the internet, so much as its toplevel brainstorming by folks who just dont know that much about the technology behind the internet. if its a wardog pondering, then the idea of 'dodging' and the concepts he implies sound vaguely related to tor routing. i think more than visions from leaders, the af is going to need to do some serious recruiting to find some very savvy sysadmins and network people, most of which are already purchased by fortune 500's. this is challenging, as most of the admins i know are rather opposed to joining the war machine agenda.

  23. allow me to on Asus To Phase Out Sub-10" Eee PCs · · Score: 1

    shed some light. im posting from a eeepc 901.

    i really love the OS. a 7 hour battery is the norm for me, and th.e ability to take the thing damned near anywhe,brre has saved my skin several times as im a sysadmin.
    for those of us americans, hit best buy and chances are they still have the 901 and its 10" counterpart. try them both out and im sure you agree, the initial feel and look of the 10" is way more comfortable than the 901, or so i thought. i chose the 901 because of the mobility factor and supreme battery life.
    phasing out the 10" imho is due to the average comfort factor. the linux os that ships and the keyboard size combined are probably a knockout for the average consumer who doesnt know the difference between memory and disk space.

  24. clearly... on 89-Year-Old Woman Refuses To Give Back Football · · Score: 1

    the only solution is to send in SWAT. im certain theres a nice home for this woman to spend her days sewing wallets and counting the teeth that havent fallen out yet due to malnutrition.
    the ball should be enshrined by the city in a glass sarcophagus and given its own parking space, election checkbox, memorial park, plackard, billboard, road, bridge, seat at the local theatre, and most importantly 11 day state holiday
    . during which the townspeople all burn effigies of the old woman and sacrifice a senior citizen over a tire fire
    once normalcy has been restored and this menace safely put to death, football protection amendments can be introduced into the state and federal constitution so as the next time something like this happens
    the offending old fart is promptly ground into grade B dog food and forgotten about forever; their fillings having long since been used for football championship ring gold.

    the child should be given a 20 million dollar settlement and an invitation to "god old people suck" days, during which a football related speech will be given and van halen will play music about how much footballs rock

    anyone still reading?

    idle is pants.

  25. a quick translation for our readers on Microsoft Announces Windows Azure, Cloud-Based OS · · Score: 1

    "Cloud-based developer capabilities are combined with storage, computational, and network infrastructure services, which are hosted on servers within Microsoft's global data center network."

    TRANSLATION: the gypsy wagons are rallying around the snake-oil. EMC, Cisco, and Intel to bunk down with microsoft again.