"Then go in the other direction and imagine what the web could have been with a universal video format and vector animation format. That's the crazy amount of damage Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, Real and the MPEG4 LA have collectively wreaked on the web at large."

"Unfortunately you are wrong about recovering data that has been overwritten by using magnetic magic. That is an urban legend that has been disproven. Maybe 20 years ago using low density MFM drives it was theoretically possible, but now it is not. ... When data is deleted it is NOT overwritten. When a hard drive is re-formatted almost nothing is over-written. When a file is overwritten with zeros or random bytes there are probably 10 more copies of that file and previous versions of that file floating around in unallocated sectors, swap space, file slack, hibernation files, etc. But what IS overwritten is gone."

"However, what this research has shown is that this is not the case. The electron in fact takes several paths at once. ... This is actually very remarkable because it means that nature specifically engineered a molecule that manifests quantum behaviour on a larger scale then it usually appears."

"If *I* was in charge of the DL's computer, I wouldn't put on *only* Linux or *only* Windows or what have you. I think the DL needs a multiboot machine, and would really appreciate it if you tried to make him one with everything."

> Who would remember if we all died?

The race of intelligent beings who, millions of years from now, finds a small black hole orbiting a star, with a flag on its moon. Honestly, if the human race has to end, that is exactly how I want us to go out.

"Ten days into one particular trip, something suddenly occurred to me. ... I was living my entire day-to-day life completely contained in a giant stretched-out arcology."

"We used to tease and say "1-2-many" is how baboons count. So, imagine my puzzlement when I saw that there are... well... humans living by a similar system! Here we are wielding the Power of the Universe (maths) as if it is nothing... and others are still

"Actually, the top and bottom quarks were originally named truth and beauty. They were renamed to top and bottom because the original names were thought to be silly. Names like top and bottom count as sensible in the context of quantum mechanics."

"None of it will matter ... once we reach peak solar in 2015."

"Your power consumption is seven times larger than ours (ignoring fuel consumption which is a major component). ... Do you ever wonder why the rest of the world wants [Americans] to hold back on the raping the planet?"

"I didn't let my kid watch television until he was old enough to talk to. Then I sat down with him, told him the rules for watching it, and emphasized one point: "This is fun to watch, but remember - people lie. ... He is grown now, and has one awesome bu

"The UK's use of the name Skynet precedes the Terminator movies." "You mean they sent operatives back in time to create the company before the warning documentary was filmed?"

"I'm not sure how it's useful to classify trans-Neptunian dwarf planets again just so they can exclude Ceres, but I'm sure there's a reason that's definitely not arbitrary!""

"Upon entering the final level, you realize that it all looks suspiciously familiar... It is the first level! The game is an infinite loop! You have to play Duke Nukem forever!""

"And if this magic box will produce 170 proof at $2 per gallon ... Imagine the parties; gallons and gallons of alcohol and more being produced in every neighborhood every day. I suspect the law of unintended consequences is going to kick in on this one...

"Anyway, Google. PLEASE, please please grab AOl off of time warner...they've been dying to get rid of it, although they're too proud to admit it. ... While you're at it, take nullsoft too...and release all the source code."

"As a matter of fact, my post here was compose9 originally in OpenPa9 then copie9 an9 paste9 into the Slash9ot comment s4bmission page."

"... add a pink flag to any and all women living in the area that are my age, and have their social networking profiles set to single. one persons utopia is another's dystopia of course but I like the concept."

"You, sir, are a visionary. What better way to protect our children against the auditory abomination that is today's pop artists? I feel that DRM is a wonderful thing, we simply haven't been using it correctly and to it's full potential."

"Your post advocates a (X) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante approach to fighting spam."

"It's a fantastic time to be a mouse. Mouse with cancer? No problem. Mouse with alzheimers? No problem. Mouse with diabetes? Go ahead and have that Snicker bar, we have the cure for what ails ya."

All the classic Slashdot comment clichés in one thread.

"When advertising became about image rather than facts, adverts for the most part ceased to make truth-claims at all."

"It's actually pretty sad that people would even have to question the legality of removing a logo from a product... that the thought would even enter our brains. The way corporations use their weight to twist moral principles seeds our thoughts with doubt

"Don't worry, he's running a Linux file server on it."

"Don't worry, there's plenty of gaping holes in the kernel too.!"

"The more we tighten our grip the more software will fall through our fingers. ....Oh wait, which ones are we Linux guys again, Rebels or Empire?" "Microsoft is the Empire. Apple is the Rebels. We are the Ewoks."

"Canoe?" he shouted, "Here's your fucking canoe!"

"If I play Half-Life and Second-Life at the same time, will I get a life?"

"Seriously, it's two thousand goddamn seven, the "What is this X the article speaks of?" thing is OVER. You're on the fucking Internet, go to Google or Wikipedia and do five seconds of research.

"The solution was illogical but effective, we quietly arranged for our hardware friends to format the 250M physical drive into a 120M logical drive and ignore the remaning space."

"But this is BAD NEWS because it's GOVERNMENT CONTROL which is EVIL because the FREE MARKET would produce the BEST RESULT for the CONSUMERS!"

"Yup. You can sleep a lot better knowing that you had nothing to do with furthering the problems..."

"HURD - No, seriously... whenever a system crashes, you can pop it in, and BAM - you get the certain knowledge that, no matter how bad things might be, you're at least one step above absolute rock bottom."

"She had never seen it. She had no idea that had ever happened."

Reclaim the term 'paki'?

Someone asks about podcasting uni lectures on /.

Bit of a FUD article, but the comments are rather informative for an LCD vs. plasma comparison.

An Ask Slashdot post regarding burning movies to DVD.

A quick description of science and religion.

Pussy comes to mind.

The best comments ever seen on Slashdot.

"On the next Slashback: Backslash Backlash on Slashdot."