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  1. Re:Has anyone here ever talked to a hooker? on FBI Agents Put New Focus on Deviant Porn · · Score: 1

    Yes, and most of them are fucked up, but way less than you contend. I don't know any who have drug problems or anyone who are pushed into it by boyfriends. I agree with the low self esteem thing, but that is a way larger problem.

    Part of the question is whether the industry is implicitly degrading or if it is just the current one. I'd contend the latter.

  2. Re:1985 on Is the iPod Generation Going Deaf? · · Score: 1

    "Anywho, posting this anonymously because slashdot don't like anyone that has made money through RIAA means and it would taint my future posts as a geek."

    It is better to hate the master, not the slave.

  3. Re:Terrorism forces us into a no win situation on How About a Nice Game of Global Thermonuclear War? · · Score: 1

    I can't tell whether you are being sarcastic or not. I hope that you are.

    If not, your knowledge of the world is horrid. If we were isolationists we wouldn't be able to rape the world; we'd have to do it internally. You'd get fucked (along with the rest of us lower 80%ers). Things would be more expensive. There would be no $2 to make chinese shirts. We couldn't drive SUVs. Most of us wouldn't be able to afford cars. It'd suck

  4. Re:Notable quote on Ian Clarke and Freenet in the Crosshairs · · Score: 1

    So they are members of a military and thus POWs? Well, the war is over, so we need to send them all back to their countries as they WERE POWs.

  5. wait.... on Tiny Holes Advance Quantum Computing · · Score: 1, Funny

    So are these holes real or not??

    (if you don't get it, don't mod it)

  6. Re:No, you ignoramus on 64-Bit Windows Releases Now Available · · Score: 1

    well, maybe then userland apps will commonly use more than 4gigs, but most people get 256MB of ram with their new computers, and OSX tends to be fairly legacy friendly (in that a 333imac is still _pleasant_ with 10.3 and 10.3 is faster than 10.2)

    I think that they will probably make some graphics libraries so that FCP and photoshop can use 64bit pointers while most things are still 32. The speed loss to too large to ignore.

  7. cheap, fun, dorky on Measuring Acceleration/Speed for Small Vehicles? · · Score: 1

    Okay, the easiest is to average the output from an array of accelerometers and put them into a joystick port on a laptop (mac probably won't work) because these can double as a 0-5V ADC. The next level of coolness will work with a mac. Average the accelerometors and use it to control the gain of a JFET. use a schmidt trigger (trust me, 555s are too noisy for anything) to occilate at some frequency. Put this into the audio in of the mac and use supercollider to write a program to exam the amplitude of the signal. You could also use multiple schmit triggers and do the averaging in software, which might give you better resolution. Each schmit trigger gives you two occilators.

    Oh, if you are using 9Volts and running them through a transistor to bring it down to 5, make sure that you cap it to ground or it will occilate like crazy at like 1.6MHz (but it will look fine with 5v going into the transistor)

  8. Re:A fistful of rebuttals... on Update on Project Prometheus · · Score: 2, Interesting

    As an anti-nuke nut, I'd like to say that I'm fine with NASA using nuclear energy.

    I'm just not fine with Haliburten using it.

  9. Re:Operating system written in Ada,Oberon,Python ? on 64-Bit Windows Releases Now Available · · Score: 1

    No.

    Longer answer: Hell no.

    Even longer answer: Think about how much of the kernel is tuned for speed or collisions and how much control one needs when dealing with the timeframes involved with something as huge and as fast as a kernel. You don't want garbage collection, it is one place where manual is a good thing.

  10. Re:Is it tru 64-bit? on 64-Bit Windows Releases Now Available · · Score: 1

    why would you want the GUI libraries to be 64 bit?

    Cocoa database?

  11. Re:Missed the boat; no AV IO. on Mac mini's New Friend · · Score: 1

    are there any firewire or USB TV in/out products available?

  12. Re:What is the crime? on AOL Monitor Accused of Luring 15-Year-Old for Sex · · Score: 1

    a.o.c. in ca is 18 iirc

  13. Re:The inevitable question on Trent Reznor Challenges Music Norms · · Score: 1

    soon OSten?

    Please? I thought that they were morally opposed to doing a mac version. I would love for one to come out though. Audacity does most of what I need, but I would like some of the Ardour features and tho I code some, I haven't the time or skill to port it.

  14. Re:Off topic - used mac prices on New Mac System Specs · · Score: 1

    Expandability for one thing. If you were to stick a RME card into that 733 you'd have an awesome audio workstation. That being said, if you stuck a MOTU into a mini you'd also have an awesome audio workstation.

  15. Re:The size of atoms are not a limitation. on Gordon Moore: Moore's Law is Dead · · Score: 2, Informative

    Nothing against you, but how the hell did this get rated insightful?
    Moores law is about transistor density, not speed.

  16. Re:Not really M$ on Microsoft Collaborates On Child Porn Buster · · Score: 1

    Bleh. Tims has disgraced itself by reheating stale donuts

  17. Re:Not really M$ on Microsoft Collaborates On Child Porn Buster · · Score: 1

    Uh.. what? There are horrible gang problems in Toronto, Winnipeg and Regina. Those are just the cities I've seen it first hand! There are huge problems with native gangs in all of those places. Toronto is the only one with black gangs as well.

  18. Re:Firewire? on Congress Ponders Opening up iTunes DRM · · Score: 1

    He is also comparing Firewire to USB, so it might be best to ignore him.

  19. Re:This is a little hard to swallow on Next Gen Oxyride Batteries Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    actually, you should always use cheapo, non-alkaline batteries in vibraters because the higher voltage alkalines burn out the motors faster.

  20. Re:It definitely has less that 300 - 400 years. on Forty Years of Moore's Law · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Look at the world was like even 150 years ago. Do you really think that we have any clue what the building blocks of society will be? 150 years ago the telegraph was pretty hot stuff.

  21. Re:Flash? Somebody please....! on Firefox Improves Pop-Up Ad Blocking · · Score: 2, Informative

    flashblock or adblock

  22. Re:Relic of the past? on The Lifespan of The Nintendo Entertainment System · · Score: 1

    man.. I wish I could play SM3 right now

  23. Re:Punishment on Spam Kings · · Score: 1

    I really hope that whomever modded this realizes that I was being half sarcastic and half pointing out how fucked up our reasons are

  24. Re:Punishment on Spam Kings · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    because we don't have to look at them silly. And most of them are black anyways, not actual people

  25. Re:This is why on 95% of IT Projects Not Delivered On Time · · Score: 1

    no, that'd be ($x)^2