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  1. Just no on Microsoft Patent Monetizes Your TV Remote · · Score: 2

    No... I'm going to give you the same answer to this type of garbage that I alway's have:
    READ your TOS - as far as I can tell, and that some laywer friends of mine can tell, and unless there is something specifically stating this in YOUR TOS, You are NOT liable for 'skipping advertising of any kind' when you sign your agreement with your local broadcasting company.

    The advert's are nothing more than a nuisance to most people, and do absolutely nothing except provide for 'snack/bathroom break' time during the show. As far as 'advertisers/distributors /producers' aiming to make thier money back by violating your eyeballs, tough luck, they didn't pay directly for that privelege.

  2. Re:Different from wearing a mask? on Using Net Proxies Will Lead To Harsher Sentences · · Score: 1

    so sayeth Xiozhiq:

    That's just stupid.

    brother, you just summed the entirety of the technical knowledge of the our lovely socio-facist government

  3. Re:OT re: your sig on Prof. Johan Pouwelse To Take On RIAA Expert · · Score: 1

    I wonder if John Adams is using the word "end" in a way that is synonymous with "goal", rather than to suggest that he's some sort of radical anarchist. Do you have the context for the quote?
    I believe that your correct in this presumption:
    Attribution: John Adams (1735-1826), U.S. statesman, president. Thoughts on Government (1776). http://www.liberty1.org/thoughts.htm.

    The quote is in the fourth paragraph of the letter, and the context is (imo) close to what your supposing - 'end' is synonymous to goal, not 'end' being synonymous to 'end of days'
  4. Re:Coloured URLs and URLs displayed always on Firefox 2 To Have Anti-Phishing Technology · · Score: 1

    Two things I would like to see:
    - colouring of URLs in the address bar

    well, I can give you this part (for firefox anyway's, I'm unsure if this would fly in moz or seamonkey) -

    put this in your userChrome.css, below the gatekeeper line (fair warning, it's long): /* ::::: secure state urlbar ::::: */

    #urlbar[level="high"] > .autocomplete-textbox-container {
    background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgA AABgAAAAWCAYAAADafVyIAAAACXBIWXMAAAsTAAALEwEAmpwYA AAA
    BGdBTUEAALGOfPtRkwAAACBjSFJNAAB6JQAAgIMAAPn/AACA6Q AAdTAAAOpgAAA6mAAAF2+SX8VG
    AAACYklEQVR42mL8//8/Azro6OjgA1JeQOwIxCZArArEvAxkAI AAYkEX6O7u9mVjY8vg4eHx4uDh
    YGDlZmXgZOFkYP7PzMDMxEyyBQABxIjsg76+vkw+Pr4mYWFhER EVEYYnEk8YLvBdYDjLdpbhNONp
    hs9A+J/hP0kWAAQQ3ILJkycn8fPzT9LU1OTmUeRh2CayjaETCN 8CISMQ/gNCUg0HAYAAAgfR9OnT
    rXh5eauVlJW4hbSEGFZyr2ToAcIPQEiOocgAIIDAFgDDPAboei VxBXGGvdx7wS4HBQc1AEAAMSsp
    KVlwcnJ2y8nLsbOqsTJkMWUxvAJCSl0OAwABxMTKymrPxcXFC4 xYhhPMJxieASG1DAcBgABiAgaP
    OdACBl4BXoazQEhNw0EAIIBAFmhxcHAw/Ob+zXAQCH8DITUBQA AxsbOzy4Is+MD2geEpEFLbBwAB
    BLIAlIrALqe24SAAEEAgCx6zsrAwMP1lYuAAQmoDgAACxcE1Zq AFvH94GYSAkNoAIIBAFpxkZGRk
    4P3Fy2AAhCwMLFS1ACCAmFhYWA4yMjB8ZvzNyODz34eBHwipCQ ACiElDQ+MEMGqX/Pjxg8HppxOD
    NRACC2aqWQAQQExggolpyd+/f++xfWdlqP5XzaAMhKASlBoAII AYQMU1CN+7dy/p6ZMnXz5++vh/
    wp8J/5WBkAsImYCQgQIIEEAoFc6DBw8ygZHe9I/jn8g1rqsMt1 huM8xjnsdwkfEiuD4gBwAEECN6
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    RU5ErkJggg==") !important;
    background-position: left center !important;
    background-repeat: no-repeat !important;
    background-color: transparent !important;
    padding-left: 4px;
    padding-top: 4px;
    padding-bottom: 4px;
    margin-bottom: 0px;
    }

    #urlbar[level="high"] > .autocomplete-textbox-container > .textbox-input-box {
    -moz-appearance: none !important;
    background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgA AAAYAAAAWCAIAAABseHqEAAAABGdBTUEAAK/INwWK6QAAABl0R Vh0
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    AAGERQgggLAIAQQQFiGAAMIiBBBAWIQAAgiLEEAAsXz+8hlNCC CAGB8+fIgmBBBgAEAJGad5w4xb
    AAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") !important;
    background-color: transparent !important;
    border: none !important;
    margin: 0px !important;
    margin-right: 0px !important;
    padding: 0px !important;
    padding-left: 10px !important;
    padding-right: 0px !important;
    height: 22px !important;
    padding-bottom: 0px !important;
    }

    #urlbar[level="low"] > .autocomplete-textbox-container {
    background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgA AACgAAAAYCAYAAACIhL/AAAAACXBIWXMAAAsTAAALEwEAmpwYA AAA
    BGdBTUEAALGOfPtRkwAAACBjSFJNAAB6JQAAgIMAAPn/AACA6Q AAdTAAAOpgAAA6mAAAF2+SX8VG
    AAACb0lEQVR42mL8//8/w2AGAAHE0tHRMVAu/AzEt4H4DBDvB+ IVFRUVGIoAAohx69atdHfgv39/
    GRgZ/zL8+fOd4evX3wxfvvwA4i/b/v79O6O0tHQzslqAAGIExj ANHciIQ5yX4f9/U4Zfv4wZPn0y
    YHjxQobhzp03DG/fvn3z6dOnuqKioukwlQABRGMH4nM4ExCDrB YG4nKGN2+8GO7f/8Jw/fr1rx8/
    fszLzc2dB1IJEEAD5EB0xwoAcQkwusMZLlx4znD79p17379/V8 7M

  5. Re:I agree on Blackworm Dud Highlights Virus Naming Mess · · Score: 1
    I see your point, however I could see people confusing the virus with the antivirus company.


    Wait! There's a difference? :)
  6. Yeah? on BBC Writer Responds To Mac Security Critiques · · Score: 1
    so sayeth Bill Thompson in a fluffy article:
    some people might not update and their systems could be compromised. And there is always a gap between the discovery of an issue and an available fix, a gap which could be exploited.
    (emphasis in italics mine)

    Dear M. Thompson:

    No Shit, Mr. Holmes(ne: Thompson). Welcome to the real world, where there are unscrupulous characters just waiting for you to wander past that allegorical dark alley, and get gobsmacked for doing something unconditionally stupid.
  7. Matrox Parahelia on Triple Headed Desktop Display for Fast 3D Apps? · · Score: 4, Informative

    you may want to look at the Parahelia line from Matrox

    They do triple-head out of the box, nice cards.

  8. Re:.Torrent distribution via Usenet? on Bram Cohen to Release BitTorrent Search Engine · · Score: 1
    so sayeth costas:
    Has anybody tried/implemented distributing .torrents (not the payload, the .torrent file itself) over Usenet?


    It's already been done, but no-one that I know on usenet really uses it - when I do see them, in a high-traffic group, they end up being lost in the noise, probably due to the small size of the torrent itself. .torrent files would more than likely survive usenet better in a 'lower' traffic group that's seen by more ntp servers.

    they might be able to survive the higher traffic groups (the dvd groups come to mind, along with the anime one's), if the moron's that are coming in from ef-net would just leave, and stop crap-flooding all the more 'popular' groups.

  9. Re:Great Show on How Battlestar Galactica Killed TV · · Score: 4, Insightful
    so sayeth Tachys:
    You are supposed to pay for it by watching the commercials.


    No... I'm going to give you the same answer to this type of statement that I alway's have:
    READ your TOS - as far as I can tell, and that some laywer friends of mine can tell, You are NOT liable for 'skipping advertising of any kind' when you sign your agreement with your local broadcasting company.

    The advert's are nothing more than a nuisance to most people, and do absolutely nothing except provide for 'snack/bathroom break' time during the show. As far as 'advertisers/distributors /producers' aiming to make thier money back by violating your eyeballs, tough luck, they didn't pay directly for that privelege.
  10. Re:LUA? on Longhorn to use UNIX-like User Permissions · · Score: 0
    I realize it's hard to come up with simple names, but it's going to be annoying trying to Google for stuff about Lua soon.
    try googling for ms lua
  11. Re:A simple request on Solving the /etc Situation? · · Score: 1
    I'd be very grateful for nothing more than a README file, in /etc, for each application and service that tells what the files are named and what they do. Is that so much to ask?


    try this out for size:

    'man -k foo'

    and then try these:
    /usr/share/doc
    /usr/share/examples
    /usr/local/share/doc
    /usr/local/share/examples

  12. Re:Slashdot bug? on Firefox 1.0.1 Released · · Score: 3, Informative
    If your using Ad-Block, there's a very easy way to fix this - add
    http://images.slashdot.org/pix.gif
    to your block list and the problem go's away.

    I would imagine that this could also be added to a proxy easily enough also.

  13. Re:IBM Thinkpads are the same way on BIOS-Approved PCI Cards For Laptops · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Hate to argue this, but, no. I've got a T40p, and an R40, and have plugged in all sort's of card/mini-pci based device's into them, and have not had any issue's beyond finding proper driver's for the OS that I'm using at the moment

  14. Sucks, but what to you really expect? on BIOS-Approved PCI Cards For Laptops · · Score: 2, Interesting
    From TFA:
    I bought a Compaq/HP nx9110 a year ago, and recently upgraded my Mini-PCI Wireless card from non-OSS friendly Broadcom 11b to an 11g card. It's an HP Laptop. According to their marketing, I shouldn't have had to buy non-HP parts to be linux compatible.

    The HP BIOS for most models of laptop now have a whitelist of allowed Mini-PCI cards that can be installed in the laptop. If your new WiFi card isn't on the (very small) list of allowed cards for that specific model of laptop, then your laptop won't boot.


    Good reason not to purchase ANY HP/Compaq product from the Carly era, isn't it. Tough break there, but when you purchase something that's supposedly 'commodity', and then realize that it has a very, very short list of 'accepted' expansion options, you've done this to yourself.

    Personally, I'm a big IBM Thinkpad fan, plug in all type's of card's into them, and as long as I have driver support, I have no issues, be it XP, Linux, or any of the BSD's (of course, this changes with what hdd I plug in the laptop at the time).
  15. Re:How to not get pop-ups and keep your javascript on The Return Of The Pop-Up Ad · · Score: 1
    Nice try, but it doesn't defeat the new techniques.

    Here's their demo page. With Firefox set up as you describe, their alternative layer ad shows up (wait about 10 seconds for it).

    And its worse than the popup because the dismiss box in the upper right doesn't work.


    hmmm, didn't work for me, waited about 2 minuts for something to happen, and it just left a blank page, but I do have an entry in my adblock that reads: falkag

  16. Re:ABC Columnist Confirms: Something Is Rotting on Microsoft: The Faint Smell of Rot · · Score: 1
    so sayeth necro2607 :

    Umm... maybe DOS? Did they even actually make *that*? I mean, I was GOING to say Windows, but.. you know...


    fyi, no, MS did not make DOS.

  17. Did anyone notice... on Do You Want to Live Forever? · · Score: 1
    that this article is from the all too near future?
    Do You Want to Live Forever?
    By Sherwin Nuland Febuary 2005

    (emphasis mine)
  18. Re:OpenBSD Desktop on OpenBSD Review at DistroWatch · · Score: 1
    so sayeth Danathar:

    Is there a location that has info on how to tweak OpenBSD to be a good Desktop system?

    check the OpenBSD Misc archives, there was a very long thread about this, and a 'howto' link posted in there somewhere.

  19. Re:Copyright, Organized Crime and Schools? on FBI Raids Arizona School District Over Copyright Infringement · · Score: 1
    so sayeth Jonhnny Mnemonic:

    # Copying a book with a Xerox copier is, indeed, illegal.


    can you provide links to case law on this?
  20. Re:RFID is good tech with great abuse potential on Senator Leahy Calls for RFID Technology Hearings · · Score: 3, Insightful

    so sayeth whereiswaldo:

    Examples:
    - make RFID tags biodegradable
    nice idea, but how do you embed the ciruitry into something that won't either a) think that the circuit is food, or b) evolve the biomass into something non-degradable by normal means?

    - make RFID tags readable only a certain number of times before they stop working
    this implie's a powersource that could concievably be larger/bulkier than the tag itself, adding circuitry for logic, et al.
    all in all, a more expensive proposition.

    Nice idea's, but, IMHO, I don't see either of these examples happening.

  21. Re:This is a perfect time to promote the expressio on "Witty" Worm Wrecks Computers · · Score: 1
    More cryptic acronyms to the people!

    well, you did ask....:

    'FRTBRaBDI'
    =Feels Rightous to be running a BSD, Doesn't it=

    'FRGTBUABMSDI'
    =Feels real good to be using anything but MS, doesn't it= (ok, this one's a bit much, I think...)

    'IARGFTNHTWAVAWSMIT'
    =It's a real good feeling to not have to worry about virus's and worm's so much, Isn't it?=

    'NIKWIUU!'
    =Now I know why I use Unix!=

    'W!IHTIUAM!'
    =Wow! I'm happy that I use a MAC!=

    --- ok, that's enough, need more beer.

    have fun!
  22. Re:issue? on EB Demands Payment From Victim of Theft · · Score: 2, Informative
    Problem: if you have a gun and the thief is unarmed you are the one they send to pound me in the ass prison. Even if they are armed you have to be SURE they are going to physically hurt you or your family or you are required to just watch them walk off with your shit. Touch them and you get charged with assault.
    not neccessarily true, it's state/county dependant. I don't know where you live, but I live in Upstate NY, and the county law here on this pretty clearly state's that, basically,
    if you are not law-enforcement personnel entering a person's domicile without thier express permission, as soon as you place one foot/hand/appendage into an opening (be it a door, window, etc), that person has the right to take forceful measure's against your entering that property, upto and including the use of firearm's
    . I've had my home broken into previously, and the time that I'm referencing, I happened to be home (let my brother borrow the truck). Stupid bastard didn't realize that I was home, at least he didn't until I shot him. The court's didn't penalize me for it, and kinda thanked my for not making another homicide statistic
    Set traps and that is a another whole world of shit altogether.
    unfortuneatly, it is... but one can alway's dream, can't they..?
    And lets not forget YOU are held liable if the thieves steal your gun and then use it in a crime.
    alway's, and that's the way it should be. If you are stupid enough to have unsecured firearms laying around without a damn good reason, you deserve what you get. If your paranoid enough to sleep with a firearm that isn't secured, then you should be paranoid enough to be alerted somehow (gut feel, etc) that something is not right in your world, and you are going to need that firearm to correct it, ergo, the bastard that just broke into your home should only be meeting the business end of said firearm.
  23. Re:"a few years"? on More on Recent SCOings On · · Score: 1
    until schools start teaching "Propaganda 101" as a basic curriculum requirement, Western States are going to continue to be little more than Sheep Factories.

    rephrase that to read:

    until schools start teaching "Propaganda 101" as a basic curriculum requirement,most Western Countriesare going to continue to be little more than Sheep Factories.

    and I believe that you'd be closer to the real truth of things....

    disclaimer: yes, I'm american, yes, I'm appaled with what my country has become, yes, I'm disgusted that now, by association, I'm hated world-wide, and my sig just doesn't cut it anymore....
  24. Re:My copyrighted list of facts on Do You Have A License For Those Facts? · · Score: 1
    Actually, your posting submitted them into the Slashdot database, so they're property of Slashdot. You should be paying them for permission to reproduce.

    bzzzztt-- wrong. read the bottom the page. Wait, I'll put it here for you, so you don't have to risk an rsi from tapping page down or scrolling your mouse, and I'll even bold the relevant portion for you:

    All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners. Comments are owned by the Poster. The Rest (C) 1997-2004 OSDN.
  25. Re:Here's all he actually says on Open-Source Software and "The Luxury of Ignorance" · · Score: 1
    I feel exactly the same way. I gave up and used LPRng instead, but I still have not got postscript printing working properly with one printer.


    try apsfilter Needs a2ps & psutils, can work w/ both flavors of ghostscript (afpl and gnu), and use's the os native lpr(ng). Hell of alot less frustration involved.