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  1. In Soviet Russia ... on Obama Wants Broader Internet Wiretap Authority · · Score: 2, Insightful

    the same shit happens. Disagree with the government, you end up in jail/raided/etc. ... WTF? At least Soviet Union had a law about disagreeing with the government, so at least you'd get a day in court.

  2. Re:Or the US could just use a paper and pencil on Public Clearinghouse Proposed For Evoting Failures · · Score: 1

    Scantron ...

    When I was in high school (and junior high school). We took these multiple guess tests (as my physics teacher called them), which used a #2 pencil and were checked using a machine the size of an HP Laserjet 1020 (6" by 6" by 12" thereabout). Why not use the similar technology? Or just give a big screen (24" with all the pictures of the candidates) with a touch screen element and let voters poke the candidate they like. Then give them a review screen at the end with names. ??? profit?

  3. Re:The key to not getting beaten up as a nerd on Nerds Still More Likely To Get Bullied · · Score: 1

    Couple of boxing lessons (to learn how to properly punch/defend/move) and learning from MMA fighters in UFC (submitions and how to get out of them) is all you should really need.

  4. keep the two possibilities? on Made-For-Torrents Sci-Fi Drama "Pioneer One" Debuts · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baikonur

    Baikonur is in Kazakhstan ... but no matter, an interesting story instead. I would have preferred if they weren't clear on the origins of the person in the capsule ... but instead kept the possibility of time travel (it seemed appropriate to me when the stories used were the same, likewise with the gear).

  5. Re:Happened to me as well. on UK's RIAA Goes After Google Using the US DMCA · · Score: 1

    The US DMCA includes provisions and exceptions written by library of congress, one such provision is when the work in question cannot be obtained easily or the device to play it on cannot be obtained easily. In short: roms of SNES/NES/Genesis/and other console games from before 90s can be legaly distributed (can you buy a 2600 to play pong?). Of course, if nintendo offers the game through the Wii, then it becomes illegal again since it is now easily available. Sony removing backwards compatibility on PS3 means that images of PSX and PS2 games are now legal to distribute since I can't walk into a store and buy a system to play them, nor can I go to a store and buy the actual game.

    I am not a lawyer, but would appreciate if one would correct me if I am misunderstanding something.

  6. Re:Great, now get rid of XSANE on Ubuntu Replaces F-Spot With Shotwell · · Score: 2, Informative

    Works with my camera (Logitech 9000) and my scanner (Canon u1240n aka Lide30) without any issues. The scanner was a nice surprise because installing the windows drivers for that was voodoo. Yes, Canon and Linux, it just works (tm). (I really didn't expect it to.)

  7. In the end ... choose Linux. on Open Source Router To Replace WRT54GL? · · Score: 1

    I was looking for a wifi router that I could run Linux on.

    In the end, I built a system for about 400USD (parts from newegg) based around Jetway JNC81.
    Dual Gigabit ethernet ports, built in wifi (with added card, but AP not supported by driver yet, used an atheros PCI card).

    Ubuntu Server with UFW and it works awesome.

  8. Re:Old OS on No More Fair-Price Refund For Declining XP EULA · · Score: 1

    What about simply installing Linux? Boot from CD and no need for bootcamp or anything like that.

  9. Re:Well... it WAS a problem... on The Machine SID Duplication Myth · · Score: 2, Informative

    Add Sophos enterprise to that list.

  10. Right ... on Rupert Murdoch Says Google Is Stealing His Content · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Media companies want Google to pay, not us (consumers). Because you can charge Google $X (where X has 7 digits) whereas to get consumer money, you have to produce a useful product.

  11. Re:Live in NYC - on Does Your College Or University Support Linux? · · Score: 1

    Call Brooklyn College and ask about CIS 46.1 - Distributed System Administration. ;) (not basics, but you do get to do cool stuff with FreeBSD).
    Then there is CIS 2.50 - UNIX Shell Programming, CIS 2.55 - Perl Programming and CIS 46 - Workstation Programming (write your own shell as a midterm).
    These are all undergrad classes though. Don't think that most of them have graduate equivalents. :(

  12. Re:This is will never fly in the courts on New York MTA Asserts Copyright Over Schedule · · Score: 1

    Walk up to any manned booth and say the following words: "May I have a map, please?"

    As for schedule, every 8-10 minutes during the day.

    You're welcome. :)

  13. Re:This is will never fly in the courts on New York MTA Asserts Copyright Over Schedule · · Score: 1

    Even those don't count (as they are never accurate anyway). ;) (I've taken my fair share of buses and commute via trains from south Brooklyn to south Manhattan 5 days a week.)

    To be fair though, trains do run pretty close to ever 8-10 minutes during daytime and slow down to 20-30 minutes at night. That's the train's schedule afaik and they are pretty good at keeping it.

  14. Re:Why? on Free Web Content a "Myth," Claims Barry Diller · · Score: 1

    4 years ago, Facebook only allowed uni e-mail addresses to register. It was MySpace, but cooler, it was the thing college kids did. NOW, it's a MySpace clone.

  15. Re:Silly question. on Study Claims Point-of-Sale Activation Could Generate Billions In Revenue · · Score: 1

    Your link talks about how gamestop and ebgames (and the like) benefit from it, since they get to buy games for 20 USD and sell them back at 40USD where a new game costs 60USD. This is the same scheme that college bookstores use. The article doesn't mention anything about people selling directly to people.

  16. Re:Support? on DHCP Management Across a Diversified Network? · · Score: 1

    I meant 24/7 type monitoring ... ie: some system bites the dust, etc.

  17. Support? on DHCP Management Across a Diversified Network? · · Score: 1

    I have to ask, who will be monitoring and supporting this architecture?

  18. Re:Um, first question: WTF is MapReduce? on MapReduce Goes Commercial, Integrated With SQL · · Score: 1

    I don't think that there is sorting going on in MapReduce (from what I've read). Could be that I missed something ...

  19. Re:Related research on the dolphin kick Phelps use on The US Swim Team's Secret Weapon, Science · · Score: 1, Interesting

    swimming backstroke in high school, I always noticed that my underwater dolphin was faster than my on surface backstroke ...

    I could go longer and faster underwater in backstroke than a team mate who would literally wipe the floor with me in backstroke, because his surface speed was much faster.

    That and the coach would tell us "do butterfly kick underwater near the surface until you feel that you are slowing down, then come up and do crawl." when training for the front crawl (freestyle) events.

    I've also seen Lenny Krayzelburg swim underwater in a 25 yard pool. The lung capacity on the olympic swimmers is something extraordinary.

  20. Re:Marketing on Examining gOS With Its Ubuntu Origins In Mind · · Score: 0

    if you want to compile everything by hand, why not keep using Gentoo? I have a laptop with the ati express 200M chipset, fglrx works fine. I also had an X800 PRO that worked with fglrx. Now I have an X2400 (in my work machine) and fglrx is working and functioning. Where did you get stuck with while installing the driver?

  21. Re:I love OSS and make money on Windows on XP Deathwatch, T Minus 2 Weeks · · Score: 0

    umm, you do know about the package management system, right? The only thing I compile on my Linux system is Wine, only because I get the sources faster than the distribution can build them.

  22. Re:GRUB GUI? on 2008 Google Summer of Code Highlights · · Score: 5, Funny

    BTW, in case you didn't pick it up, I'm the student developing the GRUB GUI for GSoC'08... :-) stop reading slashdot and get to writing code!
  23. no wonder on Training From America's Army Game Saved a Life · · Score: 0

    as a trained red cross life guard, when I saw the medical training in AA, the thought going through my head was "holy crap, it's the same thing I learned in life guard training."

  24. Eve is not native on 50 Landmark Game Design Innovations · · Score: 0

    You do realize that the EVE installer is actually installing Cedega, right?

  25. Great, new driver. But ... on ATI Releases AIGLX Linux Driver · · Score: 0

    where do I get it? The support page still lists 8.40 for my card (X300) and 8.41 for the HD line. Somehow I feel that phoronix is only there to hype "ATI on Linux"(tm). They seem to get the beta drivers and talk about released drivers that aren't available. Didn't Tom's Hardware do something similar but with Intel?