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I wasn't aware of any problems personaly, but some other people had complained...

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The point isn't about what the majority of the nation was feeling at the time of the revolution, but rather the religious feelings of the founding fathers. It is clear that many of these men were not christians, but rather diests, or atheists.

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WTF is 'hoplophobia'?

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Let me guess another "collaberator" from va-research. /. has clearly open-sourced their journalistic integrity to anyone who has a buck. Hey... I got a few thousand to invest. Can I become a writer too?

Jamie is from the censorware project, and his been posting on slashdot since before even the Andover takeover. idiot.

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The Founding Fathers were puritanical protestants who fled Europe because they found the religious climate there to be too permissive.

In the future, you should try avoid talking about things that you really don't know about. Yes, the pilgrems were puritanical, but then they didn't found the contry, did they? A lot of the founding fathers (I don't know if it was a majority or not) Were in fact athiests, or deists. Not even christian at all.

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Why are we trying to tell public libraries how to administer their computers?

Um, 'we' are not. The library has had no interest or desire to block this stuff, untill the AFA showed up, and put this on the balet. The library has publicly stated that there have been no instances where pornography has been a problem with there internet terminals. So, no government involvment, in this case == no filtering software.

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A. 'Big Brother' is a controlling paternalistic state. Christians who want to impose their morality on others are usually patriarch types. Big Brother is more like Al Gore helping you by installing decryption chips in all PCs sold.

Well I suppose we could call them 'big father' types. But more people are familliar with the term "Big Brother". Ever read 1984. This is exactly the shit that BB was pulling. well, what these people are pushing now is on no where near that level. What they want, however, is. (witness CDA, etc).

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Please moderate the parent of this comment as a dumb ass. If you post the claimed humor into slashdot, you get no apreciation. Which would make the poster an ignorant fuck, if he weren't just a fucking idiot. So did you get your hundred bucks reward, loser?

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go to altavista.com and search for "+cookie +grandma" and go to the third page, link number 27

The link is to:Grandma's Free Cookie Jar-free sex pics /thumbnails of sexy mature senior women

Unfortunetly, there's no pictures on the first page. You never know, she might have clicked 'hot pics' thinking they were pictures of hot cookies...

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and why nothing anyone does is going to stop fundamentalists from bringing issues like this to America's ballots.

I know it's terrible. These poeple are exsercising there rights as american citisens.

In fact, they seem to be supporting somthing that a majority of people (in certan places) agree with.

When are these irrational fundys going to learn? democracy is only for people who agree with us.

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Abit uses standard Intel chipsets. If there is a problem with linux running on them, then this is a good idea. Windows dosn't have any problem with the mobo's, so there probably isn't anything wrong with them. Abit is only trying to make things easier for linux users.

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Is this just a standard distro with a special kernel driver or somthing?

As long as there isn't any incompatiblity (and Abit put there modifications under the GPL), I don't see a problem. Abit just wants there boards to work. Abit has always been a pretty damn cool company, I guess that's there 'market nich'.

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Here is a link to the letter (E-mail) I received.

No more Win98 for me!

Or this.

I know visual C++ comes with a command line make thing, and I think borland does to. But are they putting out just the compiler, or the whole dev invironment.

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why isn't this attached to the artical that it spawned from? I noticed this on a few other posts as well. The thread has been torn asunder!

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What's up with all these wimpy sciantific theorys these days?

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The question you should be asking is How much of the NSA does Corel own

Those canucks have been wanting a piece of our National Security Agency for a long time, since they haven't been able to build there own shadow government worth shit. Now that Corel owns a part of the NSA, they can just use ours on the weekends or something. Plenty of time to disappear 'undesirables'

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Am I missing somthing here, why was this posted along with this 'MS owns a part of Corel' story?

Why not just write an essay and post it seperately, or just post a comment the next time someone bitches?

Oh, and one more thing:
And we don't post any submission that contains the word Linux or Microsoft.

I had to read that like 4 times before it made any sense, you might want to change 'any' to 'all'. It looked like you would notPost a story at all if it included the words 'linux' or 'microsoft'. Witch didn't make to much sense to me...

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I know some users of Linux who do not even know how to program in assembly language,

You mean, they don't even know assembly programing!? what are they doing in front of a computer to begin with!??

Ok, that was sarcasm, but I just found the idea of you even needing to say that kind of funny :P

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Is this in Sorenson codec or not? I really don't want to install QuickTime (or Realplayer for that matter) On this computer. Programs like that tend to like to reassociate every possible media type with them. Its really fucking annoying

When are these people just going to start releasing stuff in MPEG format so we can all see it?

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Look again at your numbers. According to you, only 60 million people (1% of 6billion) even know what a computer is. The population of The United States is 250 million, Japan has 120 million people, and Germany has 90 million.

And what do you mean by 'know how a computer works'? You mean like knowing how to use one? How to program one? How to build one out of transistors? You only need to know how to use a computer in order to use Linux. I would think that more then 6 million people know how to use a computer. I'd put that number at a several hundred million at least (The majority populations of the US, Western Europe, Japan and Taiwan. Plus large numbers in India and Eastern Europe)

Whats the problem?

The problem is in the idea that only 6 million people even know how to use a computer. By the way, if you look back at your post, you're saying that only .01% of the people in the world know how to use Linux, or only 600,000 people. About twice the population of Des Moines, Iowa.

The percentage of the population that is illiterate and lives in mud huts is probably around 90%
(literate: 600million)

Of the remaining 10%, 90% dont know what a computer is.
(Know what a computer is: 60million)

Of the remaining 1%, 90% dont know how a computer works.
(Know how a computer works: 6million)

Of the remaining .1%, 90% dont know how linux works.
(Know how linux works: 600,000)

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I guess I was assuming the guy was talking about the US population, not the whole world's. I guess that was a little short sighted of me. But I'm sure that if he didn't mean the US specifically, he was only really talking about industrialized 'first world' nations, where people can afford computers

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. Too many people are wasting their time trying to support Winmodems and the latest AGP 10X 3D enhance obfuscator instead of working on the core kernel.

Despite what ESR might say, the rules laid down in The Mythical Man Month Still hold true. Simply adding more people will not speed up development. You might think people are wasting there time, but people who enjoy 3d games might not, you know.

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Most serious Linux users don't give a rats arse whether Linux competes with Windoze on the desktop.

Yeh, right. That would mean that 'serious' Linux users don't post on slashdot ether.

Once the community recognizes this, we can move forward with MEANINGFUL work instead of trying to create a windoze workalike.

Maybe you should just let people program the stuff they like. I personally find interface design pretty interesting stuff.

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. The percentage of the population that has the skill and time to use Linux (as it currently is) is extremely small. I would guess about 0.1%.

I find this to be an odd statement, personally. Although I would certainly consider myself to be a 'technical' person, I found installing RedHat Linux 6.1 to be pretty much plug and play (Well, actually, the first time i tried it, Lilo wouldn't work, I just had to use a boot disk. The second time I didn't even bother with Lilo).

It even worked with my network and Graphics Card OK. Not perfect, but I would say that it wasn't any more difficult to install then windows 95 or 98 (Way easier, if you consider window's upgrade check)

If he's talking about setting up things like KDE or Genome manually, I could understand, but Just installing, for the most part, isn't really anymore difficult then win98/95.

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If you were to consider trolling an art, then that should be moderated down. It sucked. If it's art, that's bad art. It would be like the drawing of a 2 year old. It was a lame and pathetic rehash of the clichéd. RWM (right wing maniac).

If you want art, just look in trolltalk (although I'm not sure if it's still being updated) for the posts by 80md, 70% or ell7. Or the funny stuff by OSM or that 'g'whatever guy.

This was just sad. No one was fooled by that, no one

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Does anyone know if NSI can delete, remove domains if you register them with other registars? It seems like they still own the main boxes, can the still arbitraraly delete domains if someone else sets them up?

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Forget DeCSS. I would like to see someone create a device driver for Windows that fool software into thinking the encrypted .vob files (and whatever else off the DVD disk) sitting on your hard-drive is actually a physical DVD disk. That way you can use real, licensed, DVD player software to decrypt and play pirated movies you downloaded off the net.

Um, you can't actually do that. Windows players can't play a an encrypted .VOB file without the decryption keys. When you copy a .VOB file of a DVD disk, you don't copy the keys (indeed, it's physically impossible to do so with an unmodified DVD-ROM drive). Therefore, a windows player will have nothing from witch to decrypt the data.

Of course, you could just decrypt the data by brute force, since it's so weak. In fact, there is a program that does just that. It's called DeCSS. (Well, actually, I'm not even sure if DeCSS, or anything else, can do this)

You can't decrypt something with out the proper keys, that's the whole point of encryption.

Therefore, you can't play back an encrypted DVD without the data on the key tracks. That data cannot be copied. That's the whole point of CSS.

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DVD's are copyable (bit-for-bit) with or without DeCSS

No, they are not. You'd need to hack the DVD-ROM drive itself in order to copy the encryption keys. Just beacuse everyone belives somthing dosn't make it true. Copying a bunch of encrypted data get's you nothing at all.

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grab a copy now!

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Um, actually you could market a chocolate bar under the name "Marijuana" it just wouldn't sell.

You know damn well it would sell. Like hot cakes, it would.

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You make your choices, and we'll make ours.

My mirror is right here.

Some people belive that risks need to be taken to protect our freedoms.

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Okay, I have it mirrored on my site as well, if anyone wants a copy of it.

This program is really cool. Check it out!

From the page: The MPAA has got a bee in their bonnet about this DeCSS. They think it's good for COPYING DVDs, which, in fact, it's totally useless for.

WTF?!?!

How is DeCSS useless for copying DVDs? In fact, DeCSS is really the only way to get a perfect, unencrypted copy of a DVD without hacking the hardware. Other methods (frame grabbing from video memory, analog sampling from an input card), will let you copy the movie, but not the 'extras', such as audio tracks, other angles, whatever.

Don't you people know that a standard DVD player can't copy the decryption keys from the disk in normal operation! You can't just CP the encrypted VOB files and expect them to work anywhere (they won't work on windows players, because without the keys, the Software will have nothing to decrypt them with. In order to view them, you need something to decrypt them. Namely DeCSS).

First it was just that you didn't really need DeCSS to copy, you could get a DVD pressing plant, Then it was you can copy the files to the hard drive with CP. Now your saying that DeCSS is useless For copying??!?! That's all it does!! (Have you ever even run the software??)

Ok, I'm sure I'm going to be flamed for saying this, accused of being bought by the MPAA (wtf is that?), or marked as troll. But whatever. The amount of doublethink here on slashdot about this is just insane. Is there one person here who's actually just copied the VOB files from an encrypted disk and then been able to watch the video on another computer?

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This has to do with the cable to your monitor. Not the monitor itself. "Van Eck Phreaking" uses the radiation emitted by the glass tube (or LCD screen), not the cable. Also, you can already buy monitors that subtly mess up the picture so that they can't there images can't be resolved remotely.

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Many people seemed to have missed that Cryptonomicon was fiction

Many people seemed to have missed the fact that Proccessors, and all computer equipment give of EM waves based on what there doing. Well, you at least

Monitors, especialy, give of there signal very strongly. it is posible to see what's up on them.

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Or internet porn.

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With this scheme the video buffer would be encrypted.

I'm not sure the video buffer itself would be encrypted, that would break a lot Of programs that need to read and write to it... I think they would just encrypt before it gets to the card.

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Gee, I know plenty of windows users who know what the "Print Screen" button does.

This is actually the way that some of the earlier DVD-rip programs worked. Capturing video memory for every frame. However, it's not a Guarantied way to do things. For one thing, you have the issue of video ports, witch are a special way to reallocate a block of screen space in a different memory aria. With my old TV-Tuner Card, trying to do a print-screen of the TV would get me a big purple square. (Of course, my TV tuner card had raw input anyway, so this wasn't a problem)

Think about it this way, if there had been no DeCSS, there would be no (encrypted, not all DVDs are encrypted) DVD's on Linux. Presumably, this isn't being done to prevent people from saving the state of their computer monitor, but rather to prevent people from recording copyrighted material. Its possible that there might be a DVDCCA style license for this stuff, so Microsoft could just disable the Print-screen, or something (even going so far as to put the video-port aria into protected memory). They could also allow no open source players at all.

Of course, if you really want to record this stuff, all you need is a cam-corder. A bright LCD screen will probably record pretty well...

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There still a part of the british empire. And they are located on earth.

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is why I surf @ -1 :)

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A blue gaseous allotrope of oxygen, O3, formed naturally from diatomic oxygen by electric discharge or exposure to ultraviolet radiation. It is an unstable, powerfully bleaching, poisonous oxidizing agent with a pungent, irritating odor, used to deodorize air, purify water, treat industrial wastes and as a bleach. Informal. Fresh, pure air.

I guess I see your point. Actualy, I'm not sure if many people still buy that or not... who knows.

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Because once you read a dictionary definition, you know enough as professional scientists.

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We don't have hundreds of years of correllated, controlled data

No. We have thousands. There called Ice Core samples.

idiot.

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Hrm

I didn't have to much trouble learning premiere in my highschool media-art class... but then again I'm someone who would consider seting up a DNS server in UNIX to be 'moderatly difficult'. My 4d art teacher was still telling people to make every frame in photoshop, and then import them, when I was doing all kinds of crazy stuff.

I've never seen or used iMovie, but for anyone with a decent level of computer skills, Premiere is not that hard to pick up and use. Sure, some super-geek might be able to program a lisp based AI in Emacs, but it's not that hard to learn a few basic keystrokes and use it to write text files. Same with premiere, or any other decently designed App.

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Sorry, there is no PC-equivalent to iMovie. You can pretend, but making a movie on a PC is not easy.

Do you know what Adobe Premere is? (I assume iMovie a software program)

Formac video card with 3D glasses and *real* 3D.

PC's have had this forever. PC's are better game platforms, period. Just ask john carmack, not much has happend since he made those comments.

I'm sorry you feel insecure enough that the color of your computer matters.

Style matters, And the iBook looks like a bathtoy.

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do the video-editing tools that ship with the iMac DV. Apple is just trying to bring the sort of power that's traditionally been in the hands of professional video editors to the general public. This is a Good Thing.

The kinds of things that the DV iMac is capable of have been in the hands of the general public -- through add on cards -- for years, recently for as little as $50 - $200 (For firewire + MPEG). Add that to our hypothetic Athlon 500 box, and it's still only $700. $500 less then even the cost of a DV iMac.

Now, I haven't looked specifically, but I bet some enterprising individual has hacked together a Mac driver for the GeForce. And you're forgetting Voodoo3 (which is supposed to be damn good)

The V3's OK, but not better then a GeForce. And I really doubt anyones written an OpenGL driver for the GeForce on the mac. It took months for the G200 - G400 open source teams to write drivers for Linux with specs, the most a Mac User would be able to use wold have Nvidia's Badly obvuscated code (That's much slower then the windows version). And code like that won't cross compile. There are no specs on the GeForce available (Infact I'm not even sure that there's any Linux source drivers out there at all, right now)

Now, I haven't looked specifically, but I bet some enterprising individual has hacked together a Mac driver for the GeForce. And you're forgetting Voodoo3 (which is supposed to be damn good)

Well, I wouldn't be caught dead using an iBook. Diffrent people like diffrent things, and I've found apple-lovers seem to love everything that apple comes out with

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Compare equal boxes, dude:

Ok, ok, there's a pretty big diffrence between those two boxes, but not three thousand dolars worth. 128mb ram == $150.. 27gig HD == $180, and a 16mb video card (TNT2) is about $100... so about another $400, that still leaves a total of $2400 diffrence.

...doesn't count AltiVec. Checked RC5 lately for processor benchmarks?

About the only real use for this stuff by the average person is games, and PCs are better for games then macs (TNT2 || GeForce Vs ATI). If all you really wanted to do was crack keys, you could just get seven of those athlon boxes (The amount of ram dosn't really effect Keycracking speed :).

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Your point is moot And don't even bother responding if unless you read the artical

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