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The PPC will outperform an Intel chip by 15% to 30+%, on a clock for clock basis: the PIII 600 is eyeball to eyeball with the G3 500 or the G4 450,

Clock for clock An Athlon is 15-30%+ faster then a pIII as well. Of course, a Mac with a 500mhz g4 costs $3,499 on the apple store, whereas pricewatch lists the cheapest 500mhz Athlon at $599. that's $2900 less. (800mhz costs $1300).

The G4e due out this fall ought to leave Intel permanently in the dust, and pull only a fraction of the power.

Hrm... They might beat a pIII, but by then, we'll all be using 1.2gighz Athlons... Really, it's been months and apple has just barely gotten to 500mhz. Face it, your behind.

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how is cout difficult to debug?

idiot

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I really think that good humor should be in good taste.

I do not, nor to millions of other people. I enjoy southpark. I enjoy The Stile Project. If you don't, then that's your choice.

I would rather not see articles and comments praising South Park for its humor and originality and tunefulness, and forgetting the fact that vulgar language is an ugly black mark on those who use it. I don't care if you think I'm old-fashioned, I just don't like it!

Southpark isHumorous, and original, and truthful. The articles are not wrong, regardless of what you think is 'appropriate'. That little "black mark" is worth millions, because not everybody agrees with you. If you don't like it, I'm sure there are some American Family Assoc. news sites that you can visit. The rest of us will continue to enjoy our lives, regardless.

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The matrix was nominated for Film Editing As well. I doubt it will win, however, people tend to give every award to 'best picture' (Like titanic getting 'best makeup' for the frozen faces at the end, or somthing)

But anyway, it's cool to see the matrix with a nomination :)

Hen hao!

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I would have chosen The epic rendition of "Kyle's mom is a big fat bitch" or "Unckle fucker" personaly.

Southpark with an oscar. Were all fucked now :P

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All we have to do is wait for linux to go really mainstream... Then they'll all move to FreeBSD. Just look at the freeBSD users right now, there so bitter. Those people are the flameyest people out there.

/me sits back and waits for the BSD community to prove me right :P

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Why do they care now? I'm sure corel will push them as hard as they can to crush microsoft.

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When Clinton said he did not have sex with Monica he was speaking in terms of the definition of sex he was given by Paula Jones' lawyers in his deposition,

Clinton did have 'sexual relations' with Lewinsky acording to the terms in the Paula Jones suit. Spesificaly He touched her vagina with his hands (and a cigar). You know this. Why are you lying (what purpose are you trying to serve? I don't see one)

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What the hell is the point of having a huge mass of encrypted, usless, data? If you can't decrypt the data, you can't ever watch it. If you don't take the decryption keys when you copy (witch you can not do with a normal DVD-ROM drive)

The only way to watch a movie after you have the encrypted file is by decrypting it. A licensed player can't play a file without they keys (although a lot of people on slashdot don't seem to understand this). So, in order to watch the movie, you need to decrypt it. This isn't hard; because DVD encryption is amazingly shoddy. But, you still need to use something to do it... something like... (say it with me, people) DeCSS.

You need DeCSS on one end of the equation, or you haven't copied anything. DeCSS makes doing a pure digital copy of a .VOB file possible. (Yes, there other means, but almost all require at least some kind of special hardware (MPEG encoder cards, or huge, 140gig hard drives at the least). What the hell is the point of having a huge mass of encrypted, useless, data? If you can't decrypt the data, you can't ever watch it. If you don't take the decryption keys when you copy (witch you can not do with a normal DVD-ROM drive)

The only way to watch a movie after you have the encrypted file is by decrypting it. A licensed player can't play a file without they keys (although a lot of people on slashdot don't seem to understand this). So, in order to watch the movie, you need to decrypt it. This isn't hard, because DVD encryption is amazingly shoddy. But, you still need to use something to do it... something like... (Say it with me, people) DeCSS.

You need DeCSS on one end of the equation, or you haven't copied anything. DeCSS makes doing a pure digital copy of a .VOB file possible. (Yes, there other means, but almost all require at least some kind of special hardware (MPEG encoder cards, or huge, 140gig hard drives at the least).

But if you don't want to believe me don't. It doesn't matter what you think at all.

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South America, or south africa?

The artical says that the couple is south american, and that the Judge is south African... I suppose it would be posible for them to be in diffrent parts of the world, but why would a South American couple want to be married my a South African Judge who works with a South African Website?

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You can't get that stuff off the web at all, at least not that I've ever seen... Get yourself an IRC client and join any of the #warez* groups on EFnet or somthing...

Or just join a colage that has a residential network, and plug your computer into the wallsocket :)

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Okay, just a few things. One, a good source for information on CPS2 emulation is CPS2 Shock. Apparently they're still working on the encryption.
Two, MvC2 is NOT, I repeat, NOT, a CPS2 game. MvC was, IIRC (if not, then it was CPS3, but I don;t think so). MvC2 is written for the Sega Naomi board (aka the dreamcast). Therefore it'll be a while before home computers are able to emulate it.

And, maybe it's just because I'm broke, but I rather like that they're coming out on consoles. Look at it this way: most video game consoles simply DONT CRASH. Computers do. A good computer will cost a hell of a lot to keep up to date enough to run these games at resolutions and framerates that they do in arcades and on consoles.

Of course, maybe I'm just saying this because I got my Dreamcast for free. But my PSX and N64 were stolen from me a while ago; I replaced my PSX, but not my 64... because there simply aren't that many good games for the N64.

I take issues with your assertion that consoles like the dreamcast will be $300 doorstops. Sure, it probably will be in about 3 or 4 years (average life of a console), but your computer will need to be upgraded several times in that time, which will cost more than a console.

There's a good reason why more console and arcade games aren't released for the PC... hardware compatibility. These companies can write code, and use a compiler for the arcade board, and even write directly to the hardware, all without worring about how different cards will interact with that, because they only have to consider what's there. There's nothing else. PCs however can have any number of different configurations, and it can interact weirdly.

Hmm, actually I did see my dreamcast crash once... when I was gonna play a game that proudly showed a splash screen that stated "Powered by Windows CE." Interesting.

That's a coincidence. You will see that next week, GNet will have a story about EMC online. It just happened we had an exclusive with Linus Torvalds and a story about Red Hat. Then we got our hands on this report, so we published it too. Keep an eye on http://gnet.dhs.org/stories/, as we'll have more exciting stuff soon, maybe even things that go against linux !

If we apply standard ESR meters for this situation, then closed-sourcing the morphing code doesn't make sense. It will only lead to a chip which

That's why you don't apply the 'ESR meters'. ESR is full of crap... not everything the man says is god's honest truth, as they say.

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Say, for instance, a chip subroutine exists which can instantly trap a BSOD without the crash getting to the kernel, to allow you to save the machine state for recovery? What use would that be in Linux?

Well, linux does have kernel panics... but saving a macine state right before a Blue Screen wouldn't do you much good, it would just crash again right after you recoverd it.

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Why would china want to exspose all of its shells by DoSing a couple of 'dot-com' companies for a few hours? If they were really interested in info-war, I'm sure they'd keep it secret, untill they could actualy use the advantage

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Well, I don't know much about CSS, but you might be able to use the tag (and yes you can do it without including a href=whatever) and then defineing a CSS spec for the tag that says "color = white" or somthing like that (I don't know for sure, I've never messed with them myself.

Check out the w3c.org site for more information on CSS (cascading style sheets). It would save a lot of space in the file

I can't stand HTML editors, I guess its beacuse I grew up on Plaintext... I tried using frontpage once for making an extremely simple page, and I got so frustraited that I ended up redoing the whole thing in text (You can see the results Here. I ended up using like 3 levels of nested tables :P

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You should have at least tried getting mozzila, it's a bit slow beacuse of the debugging stuff, but It can pretty much do everything IE can.

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Of course, netscape locks up for like 3 minutes when it renders any large slashdot page, regardless of widgets.

Slashdot is actualy the real reason I switched from Netscape to IE :)

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RealAudio and RealVideo work only in few cases. Most of the time, clicking on an RA / RV / RAM link will result in no action at all. ASF / ASX support is great, though ;-) Not that surprising!

Are you tyring to use Windows Media player? It used to support RM, but not anymore, I think beacuse of legial issues. I hate realplayer, and I won't install it. (Its not like theres anything worth watching on the 'net anyway. and there's plenty of ASF/MPEGs)

Installing realplayer will probably fix that, unless IE is really fucked up. (I've never seen anything like that)



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Mozilla's actualy pretty slow on my windows box. I'm assumming its beacuse it's a 'debugging' build. but it is slow.

IE is fast and smooth, and netscape4... not even worth useing.

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Forget I posted that plz :(

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That's why there are over 10,000 bugs in debian linux! Its beacuse its closed source of course

Bugs only get fixed if people care enough to fix them, non-critical bugs might not get fixed.

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You mean like Netscape4.x for Linux?

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I get that on my win98 box :P

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Where can I get an opperating system that dosn't take control of my computer and data?

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Here is a ASCII version of the guy you all know and love

And the photo i made it out of

The gimp plug-in is called AA. It can be found on gimp.org. And no those links are not in 80x25 :P

Here is a ASCII version of the guy you all know and love

And the photo i made it out of

The gimp plug-in is called AA. It can be found on gimp.org. And no those links are not in 80x25 :P

Here is a ASCII version of the guy you all know and love

And the photo i made it out of

The gimp plug-in is called AA. It can be found on gimp.org. And no those links are not in 80x25 :P

I went to the story before, the last time it was posted, but this time there was somthing new:

Paul Wilkins, who apparently has waaaay to much free time, has graciously donated two HTML "screenshots" of ttyquake which he created by hand. No, really. He typed in all those little characters while reading from jpeg screenshots I sent him. His mother must be so proud.

Hrm... I wonder if this guy has ever heard of "OCR" software?

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1) there is no source.

Good god, does everything have to come with source nowadays (And, I'd have to say I'd be surprised if it actually didn't, what's the value in an proprietary ASCII based X server?)

Even if there were no source, it doesn't really matter. If you really need an open source ASCII X server, why don't you write one yourself? This was simply done for fun, bitching about not providing the source for something no one needed is really lame.

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example 1:
JonKatz

example 2:
JohnKatz

See the diffrence?

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DSL, from what I gather is 'open access' to the Core, IE the system was designed from the ground up with inoperability in mind. I guess the difference is that it comes from an industry (telephone) that has had competition forced on them for a long time, and only acted as a blind carrier to begin with.

When you get a DSL line, all you get is access to a faster digital phone line, that you can connect to the ISP of your choice (usually the phone company, but it doesn't have to be). And that ISP is usually just an IP provider, as opposed to a 'content provider'

Aside from the fact that cable is a shared connection and can be slowed (and sniffed) a huge amount, Cable is something that comes from companies who have owned with an iron fist both the Wire, DataStream, and content.

I don't know why, but I'd personally rather have a direct DSL line, even if it were slower then having 'my eyeballs owned' by a cable company. But, that's just me.

This may be just me, but I've always seen Steve Case as somewhat of a wanker, he never looked like he should be up there with people like the SUN CEO (who's name I remember, but can't spell) or Even Bill gates. Just some used car salesman in a polo shirt. Oh well.

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I wonder if they'll cast Asuka for the third one...

. There is no chance in hell that this company is going to get out of this without being sued into the ground.

This is a case about people suspected of breaking the law. The police had warents. Northwest did nothing illigal.

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The FEC says I can't support a political candidate on my web site..

Actually, this isn't true. At all. If you want to support a candidate on a website you need to report the 'value' of the site as a campaign contribution, as it clearly is. Where did you get the idea that you couldn't do that at all?

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When Michael mentions free PCs, he is talking about the recent Ford story

J.t.Qbe wrote that part. The parts in italics are always from the submitter.

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What is the reference to the "free pc" from the company then? I -did- read the article. Are you one of the computer users that feels "powerful and excited" when using a computer?

The free PC thing is something provided by ford motor company for its employees. And it has nothing to do with Northwest Airlines. Really, I'm surprised your reading comprehension is so low.

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In this particular case, however, how is "psst, call in sick on Christmas" considered "speech about a company"? It sounds more like strike-organization to me, which afaik is not only legal but protected by various laws.

It would seem like this is true, but in some industries, it might not be. I think nurses, for example aren't allowed to. The same thing might be true about airline employees, I'm not sure (or, it could be disallowed in there contract)

In any case, I find the idea of people going through other peoples personal email highly disturbing. I mean, there's going to be a lot of stuff in there that people don't want to share.

As a site question, how protected are political candidates? Does "Candidate X slept with 40 women in the last 5 years" count as political speech or a slanderous personal attack?

Probably not. In fact I could probably get away with saying the same thing about you (not that anyone would listen :). Because I think in order for something to be slander, the person saying it has to know that it is not true (and good luck proving that...).

btw... I'd also like everyone to know that I did in fact sleep with 40 women in the past 5 years :P

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Oh please I said nothing about Gay rights issues, and my in my earlier citation of abortion I neither stated that it was good nor bad.

Well, I assumed that you, know, we were talking about surfwatch, then we would, you know, want to talk about stuff surfwatch blocks... as opposed to whatever wonderfull magical software you think exsists that works perfictaly and never fails.

Somebody mark this joker's post as a troll, because given his inability to refrain from foul language nor stick to the facts...he has it written all over his angry hairless face.

Thats right sparky. a troll is someone who dissagrees with you. What facts am I not sticking to? your the one living in a dreamworld, with that crap about how filtering saved money.

...given his inability to refrain from foul language...

Real trolls don't sware, and by definition dissagree with the consensious. I'm not trolling. Fuckehead.

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Bandwidth costs money. Computer time costs money. If somebody is hogging the few library computers available, or wasting the bandwidth downloading MPEGs

Bandwidth is, in almost all cases a flat fee. I don't have any real data available, but I seriously doubt that having filtered 'net access will slow it down by much. On the other hand, you Will certainly have to spend lots of money on filtering software. You pay more if you filter then if you don't. Discouraging misuse of publicly-funded computers means saving money;

Misuse? wtf are you talking about? Since when is looking up Gay rights issues, or information about abortion misuse.

Otherwise more money will be thrown at the problem to either A) buy more computers, B) pay more for increased bandwidth or C) both.

What about D) Nether? Holland MI (and that is what we are talking about here) isn't having any problems with capacity or bandwidth right now, and they have an uncensored library. If what you are saying is true, then they already spent the money and it isn't an issue. You are also saying that a statistically significant portion of the population wants the stuff. As you know, only one person in Holland has ever been caught looking at porn, and this was in 4 years. Blocking porn, in this case would only save 0.0001% in resources if he couldn't do that. And its not like can go out and buy 29.998 computers, or 0.9999 t1 lines. You pay more with filtering then you do without.

Damn right that's what I'm saying. If you have a community full of uncompassionate penny-pinchers who don't want to provide public access to the Internet....well hey: it's their local tax dollars. With that decision they'll have to deal with the stigma of being [insert negative term here], which in turn could have an impact on tourism, etc. etc. In the end, they'll lie in the bed they make.

You don't really think it'll impact tourism, do you? And it's not like small towns get much of that anyway. On the other hand, you'll still be limiting what people can learn and read about. This is an issue of freedoms, and I don't give a god damn who's tax dollars it is.

I suspect that if I lived at or below the poverty line in the U.S. (which still means you own a stereo, VCR and TV I think), not being able to surf the Net at my leisure wouldn't be a major concern...especially when most of the things you do on the Net may still be accomplished in the Real World.

Wow, I'm glad your confident enough to speak for a class of people you know nothing about. It's something that I would never do. Fortunately, I've lived under the poverty line most of my life. When I was growing up we had nether a VCR, stereo or even color TV (I was born in 1980, btw). And I sure as hell cared about using computers and getting online. When I was 12 and 13 I would go to the library and use their Macs (No internet connection). Later I would use Iowa States public computer labs, and their Internet connection (I grew up about 3 blocks from Durham Center). And, my freshman year of higschool, when I finally did get a computer (after working all summer to be able to afford one). Got online immediately, surfing the web over the only 2400 baud link that AOL provided in our town. Later I would spend upwards of $40 a month, paying about $8 an hour for high speed (14.4kbps) over an 800 number. Some poor people do want to use the Internet, fuckhead. And just because you don't feel they need to be able to doesn't really matter.

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Bandwidth costs money. Computer time costs money. If somebody is hogging the few library computers available, or wasting the bandwidth downloading MPEGs

Bandwidth is, in almost all cases a flat fee. I don't have any real data available, but I seriously doubt that having filtered 'net access will slow it down by much. On the other hand, you Will certainly have to spend lots of money on filtering software. You pay more if you filter then if you don't. Discouraging misuse of publicly-funded computers means saving money;

Misuse? wtf are you talking about? Since when is looking up Gay rights issues, or information about abortion misuse.

Otherwise more money will be thrown at the problem to either A) buy more computers, B) pay more for increased bandwidth or C) both.

What about D) Nether? Holland MI (and that is what we are talking about here) isn't having any problems with capacity or bandwidth right now, and they have an uncensored library. If what you are saying is true, then they already spent the money and it isn't an issue. You are also saying that a statistically significant portion of the population wants the stuff. As you know, only one person in Holland has ever been caught looking at porn, and this was in 4 years. Blocking porn, in this case would only save 0.0001% in resources if he couldn't do that. And its not like can go out and buy 29.998 computers, or 0.9999 t1 lines. You pay more with filtering then you do without. Damn right that's what I'm saying. If you have a community full of uncompassionate penny-pinchers who don't want to provide public access to the Internet....well hey: it's their local tax dollars. With that decision they'll have to deal with the stigma of being [insert negative term here], which in turn could have an impact on tourism, etc. etc. In the end, they'll lie in the bed they make.

You don't really think it'll impact tourism, do you? And it's not like small towns get much of that anyway. On the other hand, you'll still be limiting what people can learn and read about. This is an issue of freedoms, and I don't give a god damn who's tax dollars it is.

I suspect that if I lived at or below the poverty line in the U.S. (which still means you own a stereo, VCR and TV I think), not being able to surf the Net at my leisure wouldn't be a major concern...especially when most of the things you do on the Net may still be accomplished in the Real World.

Wow, I'm glad your confident enough to speak for a class of people you know nothing about. It's something that I would never do. Fortunately, I've lived under the poverty line most of my life. When I was growing up we had nether a VCR, stereo or even color TV (I was born in 1980, btw). And I sure as hell cared about using computers and getting online. When I was 12 and 13 I would go to the library and use their Macs (No internet connection). Later I would use Iowa States public computer labs, and their Internet connection (I grew up about 3 blocks from Durham Center). And, my freshman year of higschool, when I finally did get a computer (after working all summer to be able to afford one). Got online immediately, surfing the web over the only 2400 baud link that AOL provided in our town. Later I would spend upwards of $40 a month, paying about $8 an hour for high speed (14.4kbps) over an 800 number. Some poor people do want to use the Internet, fuckhead. And just because you don't feel they need to be able to doesn't really matter.

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I'm against censorship, but I'm also of the mind that my tax dollars shouldn't allow Joe Public to view "hot naked coeds" at the local library.

It's not an issue of your tax dolars funding someone's porn habbit. It's an issue of wether or not you want to spend money to stop people from looking at pages that have been deemed 'unworthy' by surfwatch corporation. It costs less To let him see it. please stop using the tax dolars argument, it makes you look stupid.

so if the residents of Liberal, Kansas think that abortion-related pages are bad and should be filtered out, so be it.

So, what you are saying is that it's ok for the 'community' to decide what the poor (people who can't afford there own computers) Can and cannot learn about? And anyway, the community dosn't deside, surfwatch does, for all communitys.

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Oh, and a library doesn't have the right to decide what it wants to put on its shelves? If so, can't it decide what it wants to put on its computers?

The reason I library's don't carry every book, is because its physically impossible. Carrying even most Books is financially impossible. However. Carrying one website costs as much as carrying all websites. In fact, it costs less (no proxy servers, no expensive software...). It's not the same thing.

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I say that we let Asuka settle all these things.

From the first level:
Is this really so technically difficult to protect the liberties of adults while allowing parents to limit the surfing of their children??

Yes

and there's minimal cost involved in adding mag stripe readers

I'm sorry were talking about the real world here, not some superhappy fantasyland where all the software works perfectly. This stuff comes with only one setting, on or off, as far as I've heard.

Sure, the hardware won't be a problem, but who's going to write the software? You'll need a fat database containing not only each user, but all the sites that have been turned off for them as well (If you can even set the software up on a single-system basis). How are you going to integrate it with surfwatch?

willing to write the software non-gratis just to get people to shut the hell up about it.

non-gratis means not free. This project would cost thousands of dollars, possibly tens of thousands. If the software had this capability built in, it would be a different issue. But it doesn't. So shut up.

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Thats right, I watch packets bounce off my box at home too. I use FreeBSD and I deny ALL unless allowed. Bounce logs

Notice, I didn't say "GIRLS FOR GEEKS", I said "Geek Girls". i.e. a girl like me...

I am in fact hoping that Jon will provide us with an enlightened response, as he hasn't yet.

Sexbots or no, it's possible that he'll produce more insight than some others here.

Notice, I didn't say "GIRLS FOR GEEKS", I said "Geek Girls". i.e. a girl like me...

I am in fact hoping that Jon will provide us with an enlightened response, as he hasn't yet.

Sexbots or no, it's possible that he'll produce more insight than some others here.

Notice, I didn't say "GIRLS FOR GEEKS", I said "Geek Girls". i.e. a girl like me...

I am in fact hoping that Jon will provide us with an enlightened response, as he hasn't yet.

Sexbots or no, it's possible that he'll produce more insight than some others here.