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  1. Re:How about normal CDs? on CD-R Lifespan - Is It The Label? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Awww get off there backs. It's not they're fault that their illiterate.

  2. Re:Here's the angle I would take... on Belkin Routers Route Users to Censorware Ad · · Score: 1

    D-Link 704 - good. D-Link 624 - the crappiest AP I've ever seen. They even mangle perfectly good UDP 54 (that's DNS) traffic going _through_ it meaning you can't run a DNS-daemon behind it. I replaced mine with a 3com officeconnect instead which works like a dream.

  3. Re:Technology takes time on Bluetooth Shipments Exceed 1M per Week · · Score: 1

    Then move to Europe where we're doing this today, and have been doing it for a while. Claiming Bluetooth to be dead just because the US is so behind in the tech sector is ... weird.

  4. Re:The pressing issue: on Novell Announces Agreement to Acquire SUSE · · Score: 1

    For us non-hardcore Linux geeks - will I be able to do "up2date" to update my RH9 to Fedora 1/10/X or will I need to do manual updating of various things?

  5. Re:Why is this news? on Swedish ISP Blocks Computers That Send Spam · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm down to less than one junk mail per hour and still not prepared to pipe all messages through SpamAssassin (too high false negatives due to most mail being sent in Swedish).

    I've never had a mail in Swedish marked spam by SpamAssassin - the only false positives I've had (three in 6 months) were mails from mailing lists where the poster indeed had weird headers.

  6. Re:bullsh*t re: Iraq on Diebold Chases Links To Leaked Memos · · Score: 2, Informative


    According to World Bank figures, Iraq's total economic output grew from $3.6 billion in 1970 to $47.6 billion in 1980, thanks to that decade's oil boom. Iraq was a leader in the Arab world in health, education and culture, with a thriving middle class.

    But during the 1980s, as Saddam waged a devastating war with Iran, growth stalled and debt soared as Iraq bought weapons. When sanctions were imposed after his 1990 invasion of Kuwait, the economy collapsed, with a gross domestic product of just $27.9 billion in 2001.


    http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/spec ia l_packages/iraq/6828584.htm

  7. Re:bullsh*t re: Iraq on Diebold Chases Links To Leaked Memos · · Score: 2

    Iraq was NEVER a "nice little country" - get your head out your ass.

    My source is a Kurd who was an English teacher in Iraq. I've had quite a few discussions with him - and being a Kurd I promise you he doesn't say nice things about Saddam. What he does, however, is to speak about how things really were. Objectively.

    Iraq had the one of the highest standard of living in that whole region. Hard to imagine, isn't it.

  8. Re:Stupid Quote on Diebold Chases Links To Leaked Memos · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Saddam Hussein was standing up against the evil imperialist infodels that he was blaming for all of Iraq's problems.

    Some would say he wasn't that wrong on that either. Have you personally talked to people from Iraq? I have - and Iraq was a very nice little country back in the 70s. The problems began in the (US backed) war against Iran, and when Saddam later invaded Kuwait (after getting an OK from the US) everything went downhill due to the (US led) bombing back to the stone age.

    This latest war, for absolutely no reason, was the final straw. Today's Iraq is a lot different from what it once was - and the US is somehow involved in everything that has happened ...

  9. Re:Simple on Fight Woodworking Piracy: Add EULA Restrictions · · Score: 1

    When you buy the product, it becomes _your_ product.

  10. Re:Fwd:this link should help on Diebold Issues Cease and Desist to Indymedia · · Score: 2, Informative

    Thanks for the Freenet-link, worked just fine. Redoing it here as a real link to localhost for those with FProxy installed.

  11. Re:Sorry to dispute your findings, it was on Fox N on E-voting Patches Skew Election? · · Score: 1

    Why not host the site where the DMCA isn't enforceable?

    (... and there's always Freenet, although a lot of your intended readers probably aren't going to install a Freenet client .. )

  12. Re:1337 biotches on MSN Messenger Kickbans Third-Party IM Clients · · Score: 1

    USA or Europe? _Everyone_ I know (and I've got a lot of friends and old co-workers on my list) use ICQ. We kind of never saw a reason why we should switch from ICQ to something that hasn't got all the features (offline messaging, anyone?). Getting my parents to use ICQ was as easy as .. uh .. installing it for them.

    ... and I'm in Europe.

  13. Re:Dead? I think not on Is Bluetooth Dead? · · Score: 1

    ... in the USA. Here in Europe it's doing just fine. The USA is always behind when it comes to tech. (Yes I work in the telecom industry)

  14. Re:Freenet on GIA to use P2P to Avoid Litigaton · · Score: 1

    Why don't you have an Internet connection anymore? It hasn't got anything to do with Freenet :) Regarding your problems with the bookmarks and "what to do" - sorry - that seems to be problems with you more than with Freenet. I have absolutely no problems with it (knowing that it IS slower than the normal web - albeit running unstable with NGrouting helps a lot)

    It's not v1.0 yet - but it's VERY usable for the subject at hand.

  15. Re:Freenet on GIA to use P2P to Avoid Litigaton · · Score: 1

    Your point is moot since it STILL is:

    *) Install Freenet
    *) Click on the little rabbit (Windows) or browse to localhost:8888

    If that's to hard for you, how on Earth did you manage to surf to Slashdot?

  16. Re:Freenet on GIA to use P2P to Avoid Litigaton · · Score: 1

    Publishing data requires a series of arcane commands outside of the browser interface

    I recommend FIW - Freenet Insertion Wizard. Nice clicketiclick GUI. Java Swing app. Works.

  17. Re:Freenet on GIA to use P2P to Avoid Litigaton · · Score: 1

    No, you don't need to do that. The point is that it's anonymous - both publishing and reading. K++ Lite isn't.

  18. Re:Freenet on GIA to use P2P to Avoid Litigaton · · Score: 2, Informative

    Uhm.

    *) Install Freenet
    *) Browse to localhost:8888

    Done. What's unuseable?

  19. Re:A new email address might be more useful... on 'Winston Smith' Speaks Out On MS Reader Convertor · · Score: 1

    I disagree :) It's usable, and while causal browsing is slow it's very suitable for this specific task.

  20. Re:A new email address might be more useful... on 'Winston Smith' Speaks Out On MS Reader Convertor · · Score: 1

    Freenet

    It's designed for this, why not use it?

  21. Re:This is exactly what the world needs on China Plans Manned Space Flight October 15 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They didn't develop their own space program, they bought some old russian parts.

    World War II. German scientists. USA.

  22. Re:Even if the RIAA looses the fast-track subpoena on Charter Cable Sues To Quash RIAA Subpoenas · · Score: 1
    No, that's a popular myth. Sony and Nintendo make money on the hardware as well. The Dreamcast was the only console before the Xbox to be sold at a loss. History then tells us ...

    Ah well. Congratulations, you've fallen for MS FUD.


    (ps: MS would need to sell 14+ games for each Xbox to make up for the loss - they don't)

  23. Re:The ideal casting... on Hitchhiker's Guide Movie Greenlighted · · Score: 1

    No one does English humour better than Monty Python .. how true.

  24. Re:Tinfoil alarm! on Earthstation 5 Claimed to be Malware · · Score: 1

    ... why don't you look up in which situations members of the press, civil liberties workers etc have been shot at by the Israel military _before_ you try to claim it's being done in combat zones?

    I promise you - sitting in a tank shooting a guy with a camera where the nearest threat MIGHT be someone throwing a stone is not called "combat".

  25. Re:Tinfoil alarm! on Earthstation 5 Claimed to be Malware · · Score: 1

    Besides, the UN largely is an anti-semetic organization

    Uhh. Yeah. Whatever ... you know "anti-semitic" is getting old - it doesn't work anymore. The world isn't against jews (that's what you meant, right? Arabs are Semites too though .. ) and calling people anti-semitic when they're clearly not only makes Israel look even more pathetic.

    Israel might get that seat when they withdraw from the occupied territories, tear down the walls, tear down the illegal settlements and reimburse Palestinian families who's houses they've bulldozed down.