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  1. Come on! Disturbed kid, not a mayrter on 13-Year-Old Suspended For Hacking Commits Suicide · · Score: 2
    Please . . . I agree with people being stupid about technology and about stupid laws existing but this statement is stupid. We can't make this kid into some saint for technology simply because that's not what he was doing. I grow tired of /. thinking that because we are geeks that we can just go out and break laws. I don't care how stupid a law is, no one will gain respect by breaking them. If you don't like the law, then change the law. This kid had emotional problems, low self-esteem amoung other things if he went and killed himself over this. No one asked him to kill himself HE DID IT. I'm sorry, that was his choice and its no one else's responsiblity but his own. If you want to blame someone, blame the kids parents for not telling him enough that he's important no matter what he does but certainly don't blame a principal that's doing his job by enforcing the rules.

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  2. This is Cool on AtheOS Interview · · Score: 2
    Wow, where has this been? Believe me I like Linux but from what I'm seeing this has a lot of things Linux needs and almost nothing that Linux could do without. I'm going to try this out, it looks incredibly cool, I just hope to see some support for it. Nice to finally see a really cool Open Source project that is almost entirely based on their own ideas rather than copying or cloning something else.

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  3. Re:Our own form of spin control on More Thoughts on Microsoft vs. Open Source · · Score: 1
    The point is that the exec can't do either one. The idea is to refute the idea that with a MS product anyone can set up a business solution when in reality it takes a trained proffesional to do either one.


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  4. Our own form of spin control on More Thoughts on Microsoft vs. Open Source · · Score: 2

    What us advocates of Linux need to do is hold community open source meeting, invite the public, give corporate managers food. I'm sure that there are enough of us around that the costs would be less than TV campaigns and things like that (although advertising is a good idea). But such a community "grass roots" effort might be extremely effecitive. We could show exactly how and why MS products can crash and can cost businesses far more money. We could even crush the idea that NT/2000 is so easy to use that anyone can set it up. Just ask an exec to come set up IIS in the presentation :).

    Its not a war of OS's, but I think we have an obligation to let people know there are alternatives, and there are inexpensive ways to spin the other way :), MS may be king of the hill in marketing, maybe rather than just accepting that we should make a challange.


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  5. Re:ARG! Why not go the easy way? on AOL Introduces Neural-Net Content Filtering · · Score: 3

    You're over-simplifying the issue here: the Internet isn't controled by one body, it has no centralization so who would make the law? And if somehow every one of us could agree on such a law (all over the world) then how would it be enforced? Take places like Geocities for example, they have a rule against porn sites but there is still porn there. When they get taken down they just create a new account. Such a law would be far too easy to get around and then we're back to the same problem we have now.

    Its sad but its so easy to see people's attitudes when it comes to issues like this. "My kid saw some naked girl! Its the governments fault!" The answer is good resposible parenting, not more laws and not blaming the government for not doing more. They've done what they can, they can't very well take away the of people to see it if they want too. We need better parents.


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  6. Re:Way cool development platform... on Linux for the PlayStation2:It's Official · · Score: 3
    I'm hoping this will make it easy to for developers to port PS2 games to linux!

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  7. FSF cares but goes too far on Guido van Rossum Unleashed · · Score: 2
    I have to commend FSF for wanting to make GPL perfect and not have any loop-holes or what not but this is going a bit too far. They need to make up their mind and from the sounds of this article they keep changing what certain things mean. How can we expect Open Source/Free software to evolve and become a real continder in the market place if we can't even agree on a license. I love the idealism but this sort of thing needs to stop. I think we all want the same thing, which is choice in the marketplace and real compitition. These sorts of fights will be just one more reason MS users can brush us off

    As far as the State thing, the Python license has a good point, not all states honor the general disclaimer law. This could cause problems for GPL and FSF would be smart to take that into consideration.

    "One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad

  8. Re:In related news... on Sean In The Middle · · Score: 2
    This isn't insightful its flamebait. I don't understand why it is that when anything goes wrong in society its the fault of Christians. I agree there are some Christian's that need to get off CRACK and actually read their Bibles (like the jokers in the Christian Coalition) but not all of us are like that. I was bullied in High School, the number one reason being for religious beliefs, Christian's in High School have it as bad as geeks if they truely stand up and think differently

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  9. Good article, he should go to ACLU and Media on Sean In The Middle · · Score: 2
    I'm not much on lawsuits and not typically a supporter of ACLU but I think in this case its defenately justified. This boy did nothing wrong and was not even given a chance to defend his rights, rather just kicked out. Being someone who was bullied in school for my beliefs and intrests i understand that something more has to be done and that schools aren't doing enough.

    Better than contacting the ACLU might be to make an example out of this school. Take your story to Bill O'reilly on Fox News (I watch that show he'd run something like this). And post the address of teh school here, email and snail mail. If everyone on /. were to contact this people voicing our displeasure I'm sure that someone their would pay attention. Also any lawyers reading /. (ok I know its a long shot) willing to take up this guy's cause?

    BTW its refreshing to see a good article by Jon. Good job Jon you covered this one very well.


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  10. Optimism People! on TuxBox: Rising from Indrema's ashes · · Score: 1
    From the looks of things by the article on News Forge I think this has a good chance, the system comes with 30 games. A soccer mom would look at the box and go, hey I can get this one with 30 games or an Xbox or PS2 with maybe 1 if your lucky or pay an extra $1000 for that many games. Such a system might not need as much marketing...

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  11. Re:Starwars sends the wrong message... WHAT? on A Host Of Star Wars Bits · · Score: 2
    I can't believe I'm replying to this troll but with moderators on CRACK today I feel I must.

    Let's overlook the racism and the poor acting, for a moment.

    Acting is your opinion but where did you get racism? If you are refering too the whole trade federation is the Japanese thing that was said when Episode 1 came out well maybe George Lucas is a genius and wanted to make an evil trade federation empire and people assumed that he was making a statement about the Japanese because thats how they see them. The statement was made that various aliens look "obviously" look like various races well OBVIOUSLY no one has ever seen an alien and our human minds relate to what is unfamiliar to what is familiar.

    On a much deeper level, StarWars sends a shocking, frightening, and sickening message to America's youth. StarWars portrays space as a site of warfare between different species and even between rival human factions.

    1. What's different about that description of space and an accurate description of the way the world/society is? 2. Who's to say that space isn't that way?

    . . .But within a few short years, America invaded Grenada, Nicaragua, Panama, Iraq, and Haiti. What had happened? What had become of our message of peace? What could have transpired in the interim to bring about this cruel turn of events?

    In other news the government has also built the matrix and we are keeping another race of humans subject to us in a virutual world ... come-on this is a very very poor example of life immitating art. These actions were brought on because of America's insistance on policing the world. Korea, Cuba, Vietnam happened before this movie came out and the gov is still doing it today.

    I'll tell you what: StarWars was released to thronging masses of American youths. In their orgiastic rush to imbibe their new-found cultural icons, they discarded all the wisdom we had acquired through the blood and sweat of our recent military conquests.

    Ummm maybe news to you but America got their butts kicked in Vietnam. And you contridicted yourself, you said war was bad now you are saying conquests are good? Troll troll troll

    I can't believe this was modded up.


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  12. Call or visit your potentical customers! on Getting Good PR for A Small Company? · · Score: 2
    Look up companies that you think could benefit from your product or companies that use your competitor's product. Make an appointment with them, tell them you have the same product for one fifth the cost. If this is true and the IT manager of that company has half a brain then you will probably sell your product.

    "One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad

  13. Unfortunately... on Getting Good PR for A Small Company? · · Score: 2
    For that to work you have to have a customer base. I agree with emails and pop-ups. Those are annoying but no TV commercials? or billboards? These are two of the best ways to get people to notice you, its not a matter of subversion, its a matter of getting the name out to people who wouldn't otherwise know about it. Open source companies need more of this kind of advertising or we will always be one step behind M$oft.

    "One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad

  14. Moderators on CRACK on Slashback: Voting, Suing, Retiring · · Score: 1
    He's completely on topic. He's a karma burning troll! :)

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  15. Re:this idea has nothing... on Xbox As A Server Farm Commodity Box · · Score: 2
    they may try to license the hardware but my bet is that if it ever went to court it would be tossed out. You buy the box you can do whatever you want with it. About the only thing they can do is void the warrenty.

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  16. Re:#59 on 101 Dumbest Dot-Com Moments · · Score: 2
    Hehe, too bad most of them don't admit it!

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  17. Replying to myself on No Slump For Sex Online · · Score: 2
    I seem to get alot of the same questions about my post so I'm replying to myself to form some kind of response :)

    To boil it down: A lot of people asked why I was looking at cache files and accused me of being unethical by snooping around. Honestly I don't remember the specific reason I was looking at cache files (this incident happened several years ago) most likely had to do with me being much more clueless at the time. My friend was standing looking at the screen watching what I was doing and saw the cookies and files from the porn sites herself so I didn't point them out to her and say "look what your husband is doing!" She asked me how they got there and I simply told her that someone had to have visiting those sites.

    It is true: directly this is not the fault of pornography, its the fact that her husband was lying to her, but I believe that if there was less access to such a thing that there might have been less of a problem

    Also as far as statistic showing that porn effects long-term relationships, this is true, I don't have them infront of me and I'm not sure where they are on the net but I promise I have seen them.

    Finally I don't pretend to be a sex theripist or try to dictate how people should act about sex or how people should live their lives, I'm pointing out that there is evidence that says maybe there are good reasons to choose to stay away from it.

    As a side note I have been to Europe and just because sex is more prevelent doesn't make it any better


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  18. Real reasons why porn is not a good thing on No Slump For Sex Online · · Score: 5
    I'm sure this is going to get modded down since I don't have views of the general /. community but before you do at least see my point of view:

    Some interesting conclusions emerge from all of this. Simple exposure to sexual imagery doesn't appear as harmful or destructive as many politicians, moralists, educators and others would claim, as they pass legislation requiring blocking and filtering.

    First of all I want to say that I am all for free-speech and free-press. I don't believe that library computers should have censorware placed on them mostly because I don't think that it works and I don't want to be blocked from legitimate websites. The problem with this statement is that it paints all politicians, moralists, educators in a light of being completely conservative, stupid and incapable of understanding the real issue. Some of them don't, this is true, but to generalize all of them this way is unfair. I think there are real issues that should be addressed and are over-looked by both extreme conservative parties, and extreme liberal parties.

    I would most likely be considered by this audience to be a "religious" person. But I'm not going to sit here and spout off that God said sex was bad and therefore we shouldn't look at porn, that's not the point (and besides God never said that, just an idea that is put forth by people who haven't actually read the Bible). The point is that contrary to Mr. Katz statement above, people who engage in sexual activity, be it porn (internet or elsewhere), or one-night stands, whatever, have less fulfiling long-term relationships. And I know there will be people who don't much care for long term relationships in the first place but it is proven statistically that people in long term relationships, especially marriage relationships are happier and lead more fulfiled lives.

    There are more victims of porn than first meets the eye. First the people being photoed, erotic dancers, whatever, a lot of times they do these things willingly but because they feel they have no other way to make money. Of course there is the child argument which goes without saying. But I personally think what is most over-looked is partners/spouses of people looking at porn. About a year ago a married friend of mine asked me to come look at her computer (some problem with the Internet settings) in the course of working on it I discovered cookies and cached files from porn sites that her husband had been surfing. She was devistated. She felt like she wasn't good enough, that her husband didn't love her for who she is. In essence that women is a victim. I certainly would be upset if it was my girlfriend looking at these things, and I know she'd break up with me if she thought that I was. The victims can be the people we care about.

    Finally we victimize ourselves. By looking at porn we buy into an unrealistic fantansy of strange women who show up out of nowhere and have sex with us. Come-on! That doesn't really happen, and we start evaluating people by those ideas.

    Pornography turns people into objects of sex. Maybe I have high ideals but I believe that people should be judged as people. I know its rare but maybe its time as a society we change. Freedom shouldn't come at the expense of other's Freedom.

    Flame away! :)


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  19. Not a good idea on Sex.com Returned to Original Owner · · Score: 2
    Users are clueless enough, such a system would be extremely confusing. What if you don't know where a certain company or website is located? You are probably goign to have a heck of a time finding it becase search engines don't help most of the time.

    Why base the net on geographic location? I think the original idea of basing TLDs on content is the best way to go. We need to enforce the content restrictions (.com for business, .org for organization etc) and we need to make sure registrants have good security.

    Geographically based domains will make finding websites difficult, if not impossible, will make it possible to over tax businesses (as already mentioned) and any possible ways of making money on the web will disappear. I'm not a fan of e-commerce at all but I think that if there weren't any at all that the internet wouldn't be near what it is today (of course we'd probably have intellegent people on it too but that's a different angle :)

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  20. Wow a nice layout ... on Windows Exec Doug Miller Responds · · Score: 3
    On how Linux can be really successful for the end user. End users and pointy haired bosses look at a software package and evaluate it by how it looks, I think that Msoft has this one down pat. Really their idea of renting software is pretty attractive in some ways to larger companies (I've worked for a company with copies for every single one of like 500 machines, not fun). I don't think it would be good for end-users but that remains to be seen.

    I appriciate his honesty. Msoft isn't the Borg, they're out to make money and they are very good at it, some of their practices are questionable and for the most part their software sucks. On the flip side we in the Open Source/Free Software community would be very wise to take some these ideas and apply them to our own projects, I think that he raises some very good points about things we need to keep being successful.


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  21. Re:Training curve on Free Software's Star to Rise During US Recession? · · Score: 2
    I think the problem is that people are afraid that they are going to click the wrong thing and then break the computer. I really think this comes from MS and their notorious 'feature creep'. The other day even I was working in Word 2000. I was trying to hit Ctrl-B for some bold text but ended up hitting something else and my font color changed to red. Edit->undo wouldn't fix the problem and there was no obvious way to change it back. Finally I copied the text I had into another file and restarted because I couldn't get it to change back.

    Users are so scared that they will actually blow up their computer or cause viruses or wipe their harddrive because they've been told this for so long. If they weren't afraid they would break it then they'd probably do much better

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  22. Wow! I guess RMS can give up gcc on MSIE Security Worsens: Patch Bungled · · Score: 3
    because now even tiny viruses can read source code and change it and just change the system. Are compilers obsolete now? I guess I better get rid of Linux with all that open source code and get nice secure windows...

    Seriously this isn't possible, I can't believe that someone believed this FUD and modded him up.


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  23. Re:Lay the blame where it should be. on Are Kids Turning Your Kids Into Killers? · · Score: 2
    The sheer amount of flaming here bothers me. I think the comments in response to this are accurate from a point of view of a whole bunch of losers who go around giving Christianity a bad name by harrassing people and being hypocrites. These people have never truely read their Bible and do not truely know what it even means to be a Christian. I am an individual and as an individual I'm responsible for me (another teaching that is in the Bible) therefore I will not be responsible for what other people, now or throughout history, have done in the name of God, I don't believe God ordained these things I know I certainly do not.

    That said: Christianity is a teaching of love for all people. Right or wrong lots of religions have these and its a very good thing, PARENTS need to teach children moral value, and that value should be reinforced by SCHOOL. This entire movement to remove all religion from our culture is wrong and it is demoralizing us. Kids shoot themselves and each other because they have nothing to turn to, nothing to put faith in. No matter what religion you subscribe to, having faith in anything can change a person's entire outlook and help them deal more effectively with abuse

    To the posters above that have a negitive view of Christians I sincerly apologize for those people who have taken the name and twisted it into a hate field group of judgemental hypocrites. I for one LOATHE this attitude


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  24. In an ideal world, maybe on The Dark Side of "Me Media" · · Score: 2
    But this isn't an ideal world. Personally true to all the articles that Jon writes he again fails to really have much of a point. However I'm getting a sort of theme. Jon seems to believe that everyone should tolerate everyone else's opinion all the time. Its nice in theory but we are human and in practice boils down to not having an opinion on anything for fear of stepping on peoples toes. By that definition the very things that Jon Katz advocates in the name of "democracy" would perpetuate into "group think" and eventually censorship, communism, whatever, because these ideas breed in the "group think" tank. Jon in a perfect world it would work but in ours no political system is 100% perfect because I don't think the same way you do and Taco thinks differently and everyone else in the world. We're individuals. Some of us don't like censorship, I believe that some censorship is nessisary to protect the rights of other people. (I know that opens a can of worms). The point is this isn't a perfect world, and whining about things isn't going to change it. If you don't like the way things are then VOTE and encourage others to do the same, the prevailing mindset will be the one chosen.

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  25. This is so cool on IBM Linux Watch v2.0 · · Score: 3
    From the article: BM's newer watch has 8MB of standard memory as well as 8MB of Flash memory, which keeps track of data even if the watch battery runs out of juice.

    16 MB of total memory, a processor, display stuff in a watch! Why I'm I sitting here with this huge thing?

    Imagine coding some Perl or something hehe :), seriously though this is the direction computing is headed. I want one of these, too bad its not for sale


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