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  1. Re:Wrong... on Wireless Freenets · · Score: 1
    Ahem. Please read more carefully.

    80ms is ping to the access point. Throw in the rest of the internet (since odds are the counter strike server you're playing on won't be running at that AP) and you're looking at significantly higher pings.

  2. Re:Quick Poll...Post Answers on Fourth Indiana Jones Installment · · Score: 1
    Oooohhh!!! You forgot:

    • CowboyNeal
  3. Re:Learn to spell, Taco on Fourth Indiana Jones Installment · · Score: 1
    And constant typos, faulty grammar and an utter inability to ensure the same story doesn't get repeated all urge me to stop reading /.

    If Taco and friends want to play at journalism, they can make the minimum effort required.

  4. Re:Not so cool reply! on Barney vs. Right to Satire · · Score: 1
    By downloading the Logo, you fully agree to the Policies set herein.

    So unless you have images turned off in your browser, you've agreed!

  5. Re:The GPL does not claim coverage of usage. on Caldera Per Seat Licensing · · Score: 2
    If you claim that your licence applies to the lot then your are enguaging in both fraud and copyright infringement.

    Er, I think a distro is more akin to a database - the individual elements may well be free, but the compilation is protected. Same thing here - the distro layout is protected, but anyone can take the GPL elements and reuse them at will. Just don't copy the layout (or the non-GPL software)

  6. Re:Get a grip, read the GPL, etc. on Caldera Per Seat Licensing · · Score: 1
    It'd be like a less-friendly version of Slackware.

    Is such a thing even possible?

  7. Re:Fond memory on Five Years of Quake · · Score: 2
    Yes! MULE has inspired more violenc than Quake ever could. For example, if you physically crush someone during the auction, they can't buy or sell...

    Tragically, the death of Danielle Bunten probably means MULE will never rise again.

  8. Re:Hm.. on National Broadband Access · · Score: 2
    Well, it was an oversimplification.

    But bear in mind: their acquisitions were made with Nortel shares (presumably newly issued shares). These would appear on the balance sheet at issue cost, which has now collapsed (down 90% or so from peak).

    So, Nortel bought now (nearly) worthless assets with now (nearly) worthless shares.

    There is cosmic justice in the world...

  9. Re:Hm.. on National Broadband Access · · Score: 3
    In a word, no. Nortel's "loss" is almost entirely on paper - they are writing off goodwill. Or, in other terms, they're publicly admitting that they paid far too much for what they got in their acquisition binge, and are adjusting thier books to reflect this.

    Besides, there's no Nortel plant in Shawinigan.

  10. Re:cool. My first SF (Secret Under the Sea!!!) on Mad Scientists' Club Returns To Print · · Score: 2

    Shouldn't that be "I am therefore I Grok"?

  11. Re:Social Answers to the Cheating Problem... on Cheaters Sometimes Prosper · · Score: 2
    . To use a bad example: Hitler

    BUZZZ.

    You have Godwin'd. Please try again...

  12. Re:All I want ina browser... on IE6 to Implement W3C Privacy Standard · · Score: 3
    Nope, not a legit use. Remember, kiddies, HTML is not a page description language. It is meta tags identifying data. The fact that the more anal-retentive want to dictate precisely how things should look is irrelevant; my browser, my prefs dictate display, not your god-awful layout or bizarre colour scheme.

    If you want complete control over layout, don't use HTML - use TeX.

  13. Re:Sure... for Windows only. on 2-Way Satellite Internet Now Available In Canada · · Score: 2
    So quit whining and start demanding :-)

    ...or start writing your own drivers...

  14. Re:Dwindling competition in the US on Telstra Says Freedom (Plan) Has Its Limits · · Score: 2
    Or how about wireless? Sure, there's that $400 Canadian setup fee (around $260 US), but isn't $50 Canadian ($35 US) per month a reasonable fee for a 2 Mb connection, with a 10 Gb limit?

    Disclaimer: I do own shares in Storm Internet's parent company.

  15. Re:An idea to prove the GPL. on Attorney Dan Ravicher on Open Source Legal Issues · · Score: 2
    Then you brag about it on Slashdot.

    Then the judge finds out that a bunch of people manipulated his court in bad faith.

    Then your lawyers get disbarred. So where's the bad part ;) ?

  16. Re:Manufacturing is not the only cost on Canadian Recording Industry Claims Drop in Sales · · Score: 2

    You're forgetting the payola that's still rampant in the music industry - pay to play still determines whose discs are played on commercial radio. Get rid of the "independant promoters" who work this deal and CDs can drop another $2-4 each.

  17. Re:the process... on On the Process of Creating a Game... · · Score: 2

    You left out:

    Let you ego grow as big as your hair, promise the world and get all the fanboys ravenously awaiting your masterwork, burn through $20M as quickly as possible, and then release Daikatana^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H a really lousy game.

  18. Re:So, honestly.... on Earthlink Pulling A Bait-n-Switch? · · Score: 3
    I Stop Interent doesn't suck.

    Here in Ottawa there are multiple DSL resellers, plus the cable company. IStop has good tech support, let you run servers, and has the best local prices.

    Example? I'm in a highrise condo and am paying $29 Canadian (That's just under $20 US) for 1.2M/128k line. For an extra $12 Canadian ($8 US) I could move up to a 3M/800k line with a static IP.

    Looking for a great DSL provider? Move to Ottawa and get IStop.

    (Biased customer rant ends)

  19. In Other Breaking News... on Security - Logitech Wireless Mice & Keyboards Can Be Sniffed · · Score: 2
    Radio Waves Propagate!

    This is not remotely (no pun intended) interesting - OF COURSE signals from wireless keyboards and mice can be detected at a distance. If they couldn't be detected, they wouldn't work.

    Slashdot: Home of the blindingly obvious.

  20. Re:No need ... on Do You Have Your 'Crisis Week'? · · Score: 2
    The classic reply:

    A lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

  21. Re:We don't simulate it, we are a crisis center on Do You Have Your 'Crisis Week'? · · Score: 5

    Ah! Another NT domain...

  22. Re:Int'l Patent Office on "One-Click" Patent Takes a Hit in Japan · · Score: 1
    Correction: rounding up a few makers who have fallen out of favour with the Communist Party. Well-connected officials and their children need not fear the crackdown.

    Sorta like being a Kennedy...

  23. Offtopic (was Re:Typical American reaction.) on Color Photography with B&W Film · · Score: 1
    US domain name

    Perhaps I'm looking at the wrong site - I thought this was slashdot.org, not slashdot.us.

    Silly me, confusing TLDs like that...

  24. Mod Up Parent!!! on Hi-Tech Repo Man · · Score: 1
    Indeed - too many folks seem to be above personal responsibility and such quaint concepts.

    Prudence and moderation in all things.

    (Well, we could sometimes do with a little less modeation around here. But that's a whole other topic...)

  25. Re:Curiosly blind, this author... on Can Open Source Escape The Apple Horizon? · · Score: 1
    Why should they? Get an EPROM programmer, dump the ROMs, and disassemble them yourself.

    Kids today. Everything on a silver platter...