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as far as travel, i don't think the original poster was talking about that. he's thinking about getting a pretty bigass dell. so i mentioned an alternative to *that*. not the lightweight mac models. i don't know what i'd recommend as an alternative to the ibook - i was swooning over the whole "sexy gui on unix" thing, and that's why i bought it. it's cool that it's light and all, but it just sits in my desk all day. occasionally someone pulls it down on to the bed to browse while i play q3. once i get off my ass and buy an airport setup, i might use it to browse el web while i watch tv upstairs or look up unblockable moves while i play soul calibur, but it's not a travel book for me. i'd recommend a slim vaio for that. those are pretty nice.

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hemos: karma doesn't matter.
Read it people. You are getting worked up over B.S. You place so much emphasis on getting karma. People tend to look at this as the source for the latest and greatest information. Think about that \. is your source for serious news. And a place for your opinion to be taken seriously. Get a grip. If Cmdr Taco or Hemos call Sig 11 an idiot it's because that is how they feel. Sig 11 placed all this importance on moderation scores, when the two people responsibile for the sight place almost none on it. In the log it says contribute your opinion and move on.(paraphrased quote). You want high karma scores so you can moderate the rating of a post? And you take this so seriously that you are willing to scream and shout when it doesn't go just the way you want? And this is your version of professionalism? Slashdot is fun, accidentaly informative, and not to be taken as seriously as real news media. Come to slashdot and learn to enjoy and have fun. Post a comment with a nice link so Hemos can wallpaper his house with another Cease and Desist order.
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Ah, the heck with that. Here's a direct link to the DeCSS tarball. Now Slashdot is in direct violation of the "law".

they're very serious. Apple *has* been handing out cease and desist letters left and right. more coverage can be found here - slashdot link.
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he's quite wealthy. back in 1996 (i *think*) he was estimated at $200 million. he has just traditionally always kept out of the spotlight, and so you never hear about it. anyway, he lives comfortably, and with his spare time and money teaches music and computers to children.
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there's a documentary-like feature done by PBS called "Triumph of the Nerds" and my dad being the Director of Engineering at an affiliate of PBS, I had him get me a copy. They cover Woz pretty well. By this I mean, they show his technical genius and accomplishments as well as his humility. I can't help but get the impression from *everything* I read, hear or see about Woz that he's a genuinely good human being and really one of the greatest hackers ever. It's always nice to hear about him in the news from time to time.
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Don't mean to nitpick, but for people looking for what you're talking about, it's the Intellimouse Explorer or the Intellimouse with IntelliEye. The regular Intellimouse is a mouse with a ball, but what makes it "intelli" is the scrolling wheel. Anyway, yes, they are pretty good, but the price is still pretty high (~$60 when I got mine).
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hmmm. it's an idea. but you need to understand where i live. most of the people around here don't have a computer. if they do, they're not the type that are into linux (let's admit it, linux isn't for everyone). gotta get people using linux first, and like i said, i've gotten three into it, but one went off to college... that leaves two :) 3 people isn't much of a LUG :)
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so here i am in maryland, just like you. in carroll county, actually (where the men are men and the sheep are SCARED.) what is there around here for us linux dorks? i have exactly two friends around here that use linux, both of whom were introduced to it by myself. i'm sure at least i would like to go to a decent gathering around here, but i'm not aware of any in the area. my budget is also *extremely* limited (i'm poor, that's why i use linux!). any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. thanks.
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yeah i know. it's these telemarketing bitches...
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sorry about the redundancy. this is what happens when you get a phone call after hitting the "reply" button...
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this is the correct link to the press release.
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bxxp... i dunno, i kinda like the alternative - "beep!"
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i, for one, would like to be able to play mp3s through my stereo system. better speakers = better sound, and more surrounding as well. and i think the equipment stores mp3s on it, you can *get* the mp3s off your computer and store them on the rack.
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if it's intentionally trying to confuse children, then it would fall under the "confusingly similar" umbrella and probably could be stopped with court action on mcdonald's part.
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:)

how did it decode? dunno. it's experimental. they can't release the details :)
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i understand. but suppose it did - this wouldn't surprise me. at all. and that's what i was saying. it seems to me that it's inevitable that eventually we'll find life out there... or it'll find us. this might be nothing. but it might be something. either way, interesting.
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this doesn't surprise me at all. it's a wee bit off topic, but i expect that we'll be finding more and more things like this as time progresses. there's a good book by isaac asimov called "extraterrestrial civilzations" i believe and in it he speculates on the existance of other intelligent life in the universe. it seems ridiculous to assume that we're alone, so i guess things like these don't surprise me. anyway, i'd be interested in where this discovery leads and what we can make of it.
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come on man... i like trying to get first post too but try and put some substance in it, eh?
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7:46pm up 22 days, 12:36, 3 users, load average: 0.39, 0.23, 0.11

that is with 2 netscape's open, netscape composer, xmms playing an mp3 (legal too), gaim, licq, 2 xterms, gqview, electric eyes and xchat running under gnome 1.2 with windowmaker 0.61.1... i'm experiencing no slow downs whatsoever. your stability argument, quite frankly, is untrue. win2k has better stability *than previous versions of windows*... it still does not beat a linux system. mine is used a good 10-14 hours every day, playing quake3 and mp3s and pushing it to the limit. 128 megs of ram. that's all. and it runs like a charm.

there are plenty of good reasons to switch. yeah, maybe we don't have ms office or visual c++, but linux is strong in other areas. anyone that argues otherwise is suffering from blatant ignorance. i experience better stability and speed from this box running linux than i ever did with windows (exact same hardware). all my software (except quake3 and unreal tournament) was *free* costwise, and most of it free in the sense that i can modify and distribute the source code. most people don't want to do that, but *i* do, and i'm not alone. furthermore, i like the ability to customize. when i used to use windows, i ran litestep because it offered me that, at least to an extent. with linux i'm able to switch window managers on the fly, even whole desktop environments. i can make my desktop look however i want. virtual window managing is far superior in linux desktop environments than its windows counterparts, and that helps me get done what i need to get done. i listed the current apps i have open - could you imagine all of that on a single desktop?

this is not to say that linux is for everyone. but your assertion that there is no reason to switch to linux is both silly and offensive.
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i was impressed beyond impressed with the mandrake 7.1 setup. it installed *everything*... i set it up on a friend's computer, it detected his damn 3d accelerator and installed drivers for that! it worked right out of the box... i was impressed with redhat 6.1's setup (what i'm running on this box) but mandrake 7.1 puts everything else i've seen to shame. quite impressive.
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that was once correct, but not any more. i have a "thing" with operating systems - they interest me very intensely, and so i try them out quite regularly. in the past few years, i've installed slackware 2.x, redhat 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, mandrake 5.2, 6.0, 7.0 and now 7.1, corel 1.1, windows nt server 4.0, windows 9x (probably 2-300 times), various versions of dos, freebsd, beos from 3.0 up to current... the beos installer was pretty simple, but i can *honestly* say that i have *never* seen a system better set up than the mandrake 7.1 system i installed a few days ago. it detected EVERYTHING it needed to and set them up accordingly. sound blaster live, crap onboard video, etc. win9x is relatively easy to set up, but this installer, quite honestly, put it to shame. you may prefer windows, and that's fine - to each his own. but please don't say things like this around easily influenced people and prospective linux users. it borders on propaganda...
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:) emacs... i admire emacs. it's an incredible piece of software. but when i want to save a file and exit, i want to type "ZZ" instead of having to type ctrl-x ctrl-c ctrl-alt-del 19834u9jasfkj;akjwerjslfjjasdf! and then sitting on my mouse while tapping my monitor 3 times :) i'm not sure emacs could be any more complex...
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alright. i've always wanted to ask people this - you have *no* non-free software on your system? alright... but what do you use to view slashdot with? i don't have *much* non-free stuff on my system, but i'm guilty of q3a for linux (gotta show my support for loki) and netscape and probably a few other things. anyway, this not meant as a "yeah right, jackass, you've got *something* nonfree" or anything... just wondering what browser you use. if mozilla, what *did* you use before mozilla was actually runnable? that's the only area i can think of where a non-free app accomplishes what free software hasn't yet.
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:) hehe... i wish i hadn't used my last moderator point earlier...
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After reading your TOS I have become rather curious in regards to the following cluase:

Unacceptable publications include, but are not limited to:

1. Material that is ruled unlawful in the jurisdiction of the originating server (Such as child pornography, in the case of our flagship Sealand datacenter)

In the case of the Sealand datacenter, what are some of the limitations?

Please note that in the following examples I am not equating one example with any other or implying that any of the following should be censored; rather they are examples of what I would consider sticky wickets when running a "data haven" and wonder how such things will be handled.

Imagine the following:

I am a rabid anti-choice activist in the United States. I wish to post a site with a hit list of doctors performing abortions in the United States. After each "accident" I wish to mark them with a big red X. I publish detailed information on how to find each of these doctors.

Is this site permitted?

I am a hacker who wants to play DVDs on my Linux box and I want to use free software. I want to place source code on my website. The United States says this violates some stupid law and some annoying people object.

Is this site permitted?

I am a devote Iron Chef fan and Fuji TV has just sent me a cease and desist order. I wish to move my materials to Sealand.

Is this site permitted?

I am a regular guy in the UK creating a website about my daily life. Some people don't like the way I talk about them and my site is pulled.

Is this site permitted?

Will you allow sites advocating the overthrow of rival goverments, challenged uses of intellectual property, bomb making instructions, and other information that will get other nation-states panties in a twist?

i once did a map of my school. it was good fun. not 'cause we wanted to shoot students or anything, just 'cause it was a pretty good layout for a DM map we thought. woulda been cool for CTF as well. that was for quake though, not q3. also did a map of my house once. it was pretty fun. maps of existing structures really are pretty damn cool...
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ROCKENROLLMCDONNELS, ROCKENROLLMCDONNELS! hahahaha. i saw him live and laughed so hard i had to pirate some of his mp3s :) haha. 'course then i bought the cd. it's a good laugh.
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my father is the senior director of broadcast engineerying (blahblahblah) at WETA television in arlington, virginia. they were filming some sort of documentary for PBS and gene kranz was part of it. my father and he got to talking in the studio and decided on dinner and that's pretty much how it happened. as i related before, a very interesting character to talk to, very knowledgeable on many subjects.
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i hear what you're saying. but it was pretty damn cool for a twelve year old. it's not stitched on a pillow, but he did write it on a note which i still have. and as obvious as it seems, it can be rather helpful to someone down on their luck.
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i actually had the opportunity to sit down at a dinner with Mr. Kranz and my father a few years ago. we had a good talk about many things, from space shuttles to his hobby of flying planes and whatnot. one thing he related to me (and has turned out to be a good piece of advice) is to fly high and never let go of your dreams. besides being intelligent, he's also an incredibly wise man and very fun to talk to.
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i appreciate the intellect. it was an exceptional post. i appreciated it. so i thanked him. sad world nowadays when you're criticized for being polite and thankful.
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this was an *excellent* post, Hobbex. i feel smarter after reading it :) thank you moderators for putting it up +3 above 5... i really *really* hope this gets to the band... i can't think of a single person that could have said it better.
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PLEASE put this up to 5... and then put a couple extra +1's on it to ensure that it gets to the band. i've been reading ALL the posts here on slashdot and this is the best that i've read relating to this whole shitty mess...
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prime minister. fucko.
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yeah, that's what we need, april fools jokes on topics that people take seriously. how many sites are gonna post stupid shit like this and then some clueless newbie is gonna do whatever. i can see it now: "to get rid of the remote administration exploit, simply boot into DOS and type "deltree c:\windows" and answer Yes when it asks for confirmation..." moreover, i find the trolls hilariously funny, but do we need stupid fucking shit like this on slashdot? much less two or three or five times? i come here for news, not bullshit.
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adsl-63-196-208-222.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net is the site this is hosted on. how annoying that people have the time to write this shit.
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i got it from someone else, though i don't remember their username. be jealous of someone else, not me :)
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as for his comments, they're rude but amusing. many americans perceive an arrogance from most britons. i have nothing against britons i meet, 'cept they all seem to look down on me FOR SOMETHING I CANNOT CONTROL. and DAMMIT does it ever irritate me, 'cause i NEVER did anything to them. it's a hateful world and it's silly. cut your shit out, yeah? "fight fire with fire" doesn't fucking work.
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ha. come on man. i was laughing 'cause i found your shit funny, but if you're going to argue, do it right. McKinley was assasinated a decade and a half before the US joined World War I. the ship was the Lusitania. as for World War II, there was much more than the bombing of Pearl Harbor - our ships being at danger, etc. you make some humorous arguments, but you need to back them better with facts.
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It's called "The Peacekeeper." More information is available here at the Internet Movie Database.
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sony has taken measures such that they're not allowed to leave japan, so i don't think you're going to be getting one any time soon, hemos...
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the comments so far are rather negative - an apathetic stance toward this. yeah, so you might not see it as all that important - but look at it this way: if they can fit the tens of billions on a single chip, think how small they could make a chip that only needed 27 million? smaller, faster computers - means more powerful laptops, pda's, etc. pardon me for seeing this as a *good* thing...
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sure - why not? you would just have to make sure that it didn't use any proprietary dll's - most delphi apps don't (or the ones i've written, anyway)... release the source for distribution. of course, not everyone is going to have delphi - but those who do may be of some help to the developer, or may learn from the source. just like i don't *have* to install a c compiler on my linux boxen - doesn't mean i can't have the source for a program, you know? all programs i'm writing for windows are being released under the GPL and there shouldn't be a problem....
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yes, i understand. i like having nice roads to drive on, and i like the fact that (most) killers and rapists aren't on the streets to kill my sister or rape my girlfriend. HOWEVER.... this is just like taxing cross-border purches, which currently are NOT taxed. the country is making enough money right now as it is, and so are the states. they don't need to steal more of my hard earned money so they can throw it, through welfare, to the people that are too goddamn lazy to work for themselves. fine if they actually can't work, but that's not how the situation is. just pisses me off that my hard work is financing a bunch of lazy asses.
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i'm in maryland too, and i've heard the same. but currently, you don't have to pay sales tax on goods that are shipped cross-border (ie if i buy a computer from new york, i don't pay sales tax on it, but if i buy one in maryland, i do)... i imagine that they're going to try to change this, but make sure to let your elected representatives know that they are there FOR YOU and that you DEMAND that they vote against such taxes. surely enough people will oppose these taxes - no one likes paying more than they have to.
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i had a friend that dreamt she was having sex... and woke up with her pants & underwear lying on the floor... she also had a dream that she had been bleeding, and woke up and saw the trash can was full of bloody tissues - nose bleed.
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wonderful. and you know what will happen here, right? he'll be forced to open up the source - and he'll put it on a 56k uplink on a windows box that needs to be rebooted 3 times/day...
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hehe... know why they went with Gentus?

same number of characters as RedHat... real easy to do a find/replace :)
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