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  1. Re:Could we have a Slashdot post history as well? on Great points in Usenet history · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    First Oog The Open Source Caveman post?


    Undoubtedly he was finally defeated by the lame ass piece of second rate bantha shit that is the lameness filter.

  2. Re:Where are the compilers? on Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X · · Score: 2, Informative
    ...if anyone knows an easy way to get these let me know.


    Try Fink, it's got, among a mass of other stuff, Make. OS X comes with a version of gcc installed called cc. Fink will probably get you all you want other than that. Here are some common compiling problems and solutions for OS X.

  3. Re:John Varley on The Left Hand of Darkness · · Score: 2
    I don't know if it's so much about feminism or even women in general as much as Varley's stuff is about his mother. He's one of my favorite authors but he's definately got some oedipal hangups.

    Now if PBS will just refrain from making any more movies out of his short stories...

  4. Re:tortious on OSI Turns Down 4 Licenses; Approves Python Foundation's · · Score: 1
    Legal language has lots of latin in it, and the words have very precise meanings.

    But just the latin words. English words like "free" or "all" and even "no" very often mean "limited", "some", and "a few" in legalese.... especialy in constitutional law.

  5. Exsqueeze me? on Cable Co's Want More Control Over Your Network · · Score: 5, Funny
    With NAT-based hubs, cable providers won't be able to see into all connected devices-making remote troubleshooting difficult-because, again, the NAT is speaking for all connected devices. It's the data communications equivalent of, "You wanna talk to her, you go through me"-except you don't even know she's there to talk.


    Uhm, Cable droids, that's what my firewall IS THERE FOR!!! Damn skippy you ain't gonna see what's behind my NAT device, you and every NetBus packing, snot-nosed, loser script kiddie out there. My provider has this little numeric string that can be used to gain access to my machines if need be: My phone number.

  6. Re:Next July on Cybercrime Treaty to Be Signed · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Spouting racial hate speach is exactly like yelling "fire!" in a crowded theater: not in of itself illegal. If by yelling "fire!" in a theater or by spouting racial hatred one causes, say, a riot one will be charged with inciting a riot. If one causes the public to become endangered one will be charged with public endangerment. And if one causes a death by his speach one would be charged with manslaughter and/or conspiracy.


    Banning ANY speech is an infringement of Free Speech. Making one responsible for the consequences of one's speech is not.


    I don't get how people can look at words like "free" or "any" or "no law" and somehow see "limited" and "some" and "a few laws".

  7. Re:This might not be relevant... on MST3K "Manos" Arrives on DVD · · Score: 1
    Believe me, the first time I saw a Sampo monitor it was all funny again.


    Jack Frost was a good'un no doubt, all a matter of taste really.


    Failure, failure, he's a mighty failure....

  8. This might not be relevant... on MST3K "Manos" Arrives on DVD · · Score: 2
    ... but did you know Gamera is freind to all children?

    Yea, I heard he's made of turtle meat.

    It's really neat!


    BTW, best episode ever? The Day the Earth Froze . With the short Here Comes the Circus... "Oh my god! They're doing it clown style!"


    I thought the line for the gold would be much longer...

  9. Re:not a big fan on MST3K "Manos" Arrives on DVD · · Score: 1
    Is that the episode where someone looks all bleary in one scene and Crow says "Wake and bake; Keeps ya stoned all day long!"?


    Oh Cathy oh Cathy my fair Irish lassy, I want to come over and roll in your clover an kiss yer blarney stone!

  10. Re:population and federalism on French Government Online-Why Isn't the U.S.? · · Score: 1
    Yea, study history. Like the 1860-1865 period when we fought a little war over the whole state's rights thing. The state's rights people lost BTW. As for the founding fathers, perhaps you missed the Federalist Papers? It's been a contentious issue since the very founding of the nation.


    Unfortunately, with today's right wing propaganda, we are being lied to regarding the origins of the nation as well as being misled as to how America came to be how it is.

  11. Re:Original Did Indeed Say "Episode IV" on New Star Wars Episode II Trailer Out · · Score: 1
    From what I can find Episode IV was always there, "A New Hope" was added when Empire was released. It was, however, considered the title before the movie was made according to the 4th and later script drafts dated 1976.

  12. Re:Odyssey on Intel 4004 Turns 30 · · Score: 1
    I had one of those puppies.... taught me how to count in octal. Didn't know it was a 4004 though, I'll have to see if I can dig it up next time I go by the folks' place.

  13. Re:The 8080 on Intel 4004 Turns 30 · · Score: 1
    I'm with ya on the Sloop John B, but greatest intro?

    Holiday In Cambodia, Jello Biafra, the Dead Kennedys

  14. English (not the muffin) on Text-to-Speech on a Low-Power Chip · · Score: 1
    And here I was thinking it translated text to scrumy bread products, thusly being one step closer to Talkie Toaster. Crapazola...

  15. Re:Why is this under "Your rights online" ? on The Return of Eric Weisstein's World Of Mathematics · · Score: 3, Interesting
    If you write a book (or make a movie, website, etc) you can claim copyright, therefore copyright is one of your rights. That the particular copyright in question is not yours is irrelevant as this can easily be construed as affecting everyone's potential right to protection of information. Just because you chose not to excersise your rights doesn't mean you don't have them.


    Trust me, if you ever want to publish in dead tree format something you maintain online you need to read this guy's story.

  16. Re:Go do something else, maybe on What Do You Do When CS Isn't Fun Any More? · · Score: 1
    No, no, it would work with archaeology too. I'd seriously dig a Quake level based on the interior of the Great Pyramid, or the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, or the Acropolis of Corinth, etc. etc.

  17. Re:instructions? on Wolfenstein Multiplayer Test 2 Out · · Score: 1
    Hit escape, choose Limbo Menu, choose Axis or Allies, Choose Soldier, Luietenant, Engineer, or Medic, Choose weapon, play.


    That's how it works on the OSX version at least.

  18. Re:Oedipus Rex? on Halloween Document Revisited · · Score: 1
    So if IBM is Laius, Apple is Jacosta and Microsoft is Oedipus; Who is Creon* in this analogy? It's gotta be NeXT and by extension OSX.


    I think extending the analogy to cover the Seven Against Thebes might not be wise.


    *:Jacosta's brother, Oedipus' uncle by blood and brother-in-law by marriage who rules Thebes after Oedipus' fall.

  19. Re:lots of wires and junk on The Guts Of An iPod · · Score: 1

    Yea, but your 8-Track probably doesn't say Solid State on it anywhere like my reel to reel does.

  20. Re:But of course social geography was never .. on Behind the Scenes · · Score: 1
    The only problem with your position is that America has some states bigger than most nations. Not only in physical size, like Australia, but in population size as well. Yes boys and girls, the US of A is a big mother. Sure Australia is big, but we've got several states (New York, California, Texas, Florida) with similar or larger sized populations than the entirety of Australia. Even my own little podunk state of Tennesse has about the same population as New South Wales, the most populous of Australia's states with nearly a third of the entire population of the nation, and a larger population than New Zealand. The nearest really big city to me, Atlanta, has about the same population in it's metro area.


    And I know many a Canadian who has been mistaken as a USAian whilest abroad ("Oh? You are for being an American?" "No, I'm Canadian; That's like an American but without a gun."). Why? Because they speak American English. Why are Aussies and Kiwis so often lumped together by those ignorant of the exact home of those he encounters? They both speak the same variant of English. Sure there are differences in accent between New Zealanders and Australians just as there are between Ontarians and Alabamans but they speak the same basic variant. Neither South Pacific English nor American English will be mistaken for the Queen's English or each other.

  21. Re:But of course social geography was never .. on Behind the Scenes · · Score: 1
    And many non-Americans don't realize that in a goodly portion of the states you will get your ass kicked for calling someone a yankee. Yep, we're all ignorant of the specifics of foreign countries, although calling NZ the 'land down under' is pretty egregious. But, quick now aussies and kiwis, what's the nickname of Tennessee? Missouri? New Hampshire? etc... etc...


    (Volunteer State, Show Me State, and Granite State respectively btw)

  22. Re:Special Effects on Behind the Scenes · · Score: 1
    I can think of one good recent counterexample; The 13th Warrior is far better than the book, Michael Crichton's Eaters of the Dead, that it is based on. Now if we can just get the director's cut on DVD...


    An older example would be To Kill A Mockingbird which isn't better than Harper Lee's novel but rather compliments it.


    Personally I thought that the movie Jurrasic Park was no worse than the book, but I hate Clancy's stuff anyway.

  23. Re:Special Effects on Behind the Scenes · · Score: 1
    ...would have rivalled the Batman movie starring Adam West and Burt Ward for space in moviegoer's hearts.


    I have always thought that a movie version of Frank Miller's the Dark Knight Returns starring Adam West as the old psychotic batman would be fantastic. Delivering those crazy man lines in the same goofy tones he used in the TV series would be an absolute howler yet still be able to get across the chilling theme of Miller's book. Plus West perfectly looks the part of the ageing sotted crime fighter. If only Ceaser Romero were still alive to play the Joker....

  24. Re:40 Gigabytes, not 40 grams... on HP Officially Announces 40g MP3 Stereo Component · · Score: 1
    And here I was thinking the MP3 player accelerated at 392.266 m/s^2.


    (g=9.80665 m/s^2)

  25. Re:I have been bitchslapped, and must use another on Black Hole Sans Donut Puzzles Astronomers · · Score: 1
    Here's some info on M87. The main thing about it is that it's freakin huge, greater in diameter than the Milky Way or Andromeda and to top that it's an eliptical galaxy so it's volume is immense compared to spirals of equal diameter. It's fairly bright with an 8.6 magnitude (extremely bright absolute magnitude of -22!) and is well studied due to it's massive number of globular clusters and the prominant jet eminating from it at apparently superluminal speed (thought to be illusionary due to the jet pointing virtualy strait at us). The galaxy is also associated with the strong radio source Virgo A. Needless to say M87 has been a popular object of study among astronomers.