Are you addicted to Slashdot? This might help you kick the habit...or make it worse. Try MicroSlash instead of the real thing. It's a Flash version of Slashdot that reads the Slashdot RSS feed, so it only shows you the last ten articles.

Ever wonder why not as many people own Mac versus PC? Do you own a Hilti? Do you even know what a Hilti product is? If you're a PC owner, that's why you don't own a Mac; you don't need one.

How to completely screw up a recall election:

1. Get a federal panel of three judges to declare a delay to a state special election until March 2004, effective in seven days.
2. Wait.
3. Get the rest of the circuit to agree to review the case.
4. Wait.
5. After the original seven days are up, get the rest of the circuit to agree with the first three judges, and tell everyone to take it up with the Supreme Court.

Mark my words. With reguards to the California recall, there are going to be people who will say after the recall election is over that they didn't know they could vote 'No' to 'Recall Davis' and still vote for candidate.

Just thought I'd journalize that...

Slashdot is great. People who complain about trollish or spam comments should learn how to use Slashdot. There are those who choose to post comments that other people don't like. It's really easy to avoid those types of comments by using the moderation modifiers found in the Comments Preferences.

Anyone who complains about comments that have been properly moderated is a bonehead. If you can't handle the content found in certain comments, you're not using Slashdot correctly.

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Some day the MPAA will invent an almost invisible watermark for DVDs that will be on every frame of the movie. This watermark will be a serial number unique to that DVD. The watermark also move so that it won't be easy to cover up or mask. The only sure fire way to get rid of this watermark would be to rescale the movie to such a size that people who really want to enjoy it would be able to.

That'll be fun, won't it?

First of all, you need to subscribe to Slashdot. You need this because you have to be able to read messages in The Mysterious Future.

Second, you need an atomic clock. If not, you'll fail the first time, but from then on, it'll work. Just pay very close attention to the time.

Steps:

Some of you are confused by my mirror. It's simple. I'm trying to make a buck. But I am trying to also understand the dynamics behind the interesting geek demographic.

See, most of you aren't actually geeks. I have embedded a lot of javascript in the mirrors (once I've retired them) to help me figure out which of you are geeks and which of you are just regular people who are fascinated with us.

I went to a coffee shop last night with a friend. There were three other people with laptops besides us. Out of the five laptops at the coffee shop, four were Apple TiBooks of one model or another. I don't know if that parallels any real world market-share statistics, but it's pretty impressive.

Chewbacca acts as midwife to Natalie Portman's Padmé when she gives birth to twins Luke and Leia. We hope he washes his paws first.