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  1. Weird Al doesn't make CDs anymore on How iTunes Hurts Weird Al · · Score: 1

    He stopped making them around the time of ... Poodle Hat? With the physical media that was available on and forward, he produced things that LOOKED like CDs but did not behave like CDs. They no longer had the official logos, and had all kinds of digital protection crapoloa on it.

    So I started buying his stuff second-hand, or not at all.

  2. Not completely impossible on Why Terror Financing is So Tough to Track Down · · Score: 1
  3. No, PROBE rocked on Soap Opera for Luring Women to Tech is a Flop · · Score: 1

    Had some brainy women, too.

  4. And if the United States on Ontario to Match U.S. DST Change · · Score: 1

    were to jump off a cliff, would Toronto do it, too?

  5. The alternative on Pay-Per-View to Provide DVD After Viewing? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You pay $3 bucks to watch it; if you like it, you can upgrade at the end to a "hard" copy.

    Or $3 to watch it, $10 to burn your own, or $17 to have a "good" copy sent to you (some of us don't realllly trust BYO DVDs to last, having had media/upgrade problems in the past).

  6. even better than a tool bar button on Google Declares War on Microsoft · · Score: 1

    From a button's tool bar!

  7. You're still getting comments on When to Leave That First Tech Job · · Score: 1
  8. Why bother with RFID? Take the paper's fingerprint on RFID Tags in Law Enforcement · · Score: 1
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4741809.stm

    The Laser Surface Authentication (LSA) system scans tiny surface variations of paper, plastic, metal and ceramics to detect the material's "fingerprint".

    The system then records the naturally occurring pattern of imperfections.

    The imperfections are so minute, say the scientists, that they are virtually impossible to replicate.


    Of course, that would prevent folks from reading them ever time you walk around with it not secured in your tinfoil-lined wallet.
  9. Re:The gf? on What (non-PC) Hardware Do You Hack? · · Score: 1

    what if Julienne doesn't want fries?

  10. Wired Walls? on The Problem Of Unused Cabling · · Score: 1

    Going forward, why not designate walls and such as "wired walls" much like raised floors are used for running wire. Make things a bit easier, I expect, for removal/locating wires.

  11. sorry, your domain name is taken on Los Angeles Gets Own TLD · · Score: 1

    go to the host that is 'selling' the names and you'll see that every keycombo.la you put in is mysteriously "taken".

    Unless going to the domain registrar in charge of 'selling' the domain names and requesting to 'buy' a domain name isn't the way to go about it?

  12. Re:Misread the title... on PDA/Radiation Detector · · Score: 1

    I agree, that's what I read first, as well. Then the cops couldn't bust you as easily in states where they are illegal, right?

  13. But are any of it enough to get patents lifted? on Science Fact From Fiction · · Score: 2

    I recall reading of someone who tried to patent the water bed, but couldn't because of the description in RAH's Stranger in a Strange Land.

    What about lifiting "Ginger"s/Segway patents based on the very similar transport devices described in "The Roads Must Roll"? (when they go down under, they talk about the little zippy personal transporters used to move around the tunnels)

  14. and if you can't not play it on EverQuest: What You Really Get From an Online Game · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Don't forget the expansion coming out, Kingdom of Stone, the phone version coming out, the single player version coming out, EQ2, and of course, EQ for the PS2.

    For someone who has never had to kick a habit, like drugs, drinking, sex, smoking, etc ... it's easy to stand there and laugh at those of us who have been there and tell us simply to "stop" or "don't".

  15. Re:But... on Refrigerators To Cool With Sound (Cool!) · · Score: 2

    I thought that the gasses weren't used in NEW fridges, just the old ones.

  16. So just come up with something else on Microsoft Just Says No to .Doc Replacement Panel · · Score: 2

    something that can open .doc and the new standard.

    Call the new standard .qbp or .epd

  17. Question for Shatner on Ask William Shatner · · Score: 2

    Why?

  18. Can we call it Al? on Smart Pool Table · · Score: 5, Funny

    It can call us Betty!

    (mangled Quantam Leap/Paul Simon reference)

  19. Re:Who else read the following on Namibia Says "No Thanks" To Microsoft Donation With Strings · · Score: 2

    ayup

  20. But what if it's supposed to crash? on Building The Navy Intranet · · Score: 2

    I read

    the largest Federal IT trojan ever attempted.

  21. Wow, weak hitcount++. on Unmaking The Game · · Score: 2

    Write stories and submit them to Slashdot? Why didn't thxinfo think of that?

    (If it's really 8pm, why am I still at work?)

  22. Re:Seventeen syllables? on Haiku vs Spam · · Score: 1

    BWAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH!

  23. Re:award winning, no less on Haiku vs Spam · · Score: 2

    Except for the part where I'm a "M'am" and not a "Sir".

    =^.^=

  24. award winning, no less on Haiku vs Spam · · Score: 5, Funny

    sometimes seventeen
    syllables ain't enough to
    express a complete

  25. opinions changed on Talk To Xanth Creator Piers Anthony · · Score: 2

    Does he still think computer manuals are scripted by demons in hell, or has he grown up a bit (along with our industry's improvements).