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  1. Re:The Truth About Geekizoid on GNU Carnivore With Perl Data Lookup · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    is owned by the Jews..
    Those bastards control the media and everything.


    IF the 'Jews' controll the 'media and everything,' as you put it - then my hat is off to them as they have been running the country and the media pretty well. Maby we should have more Jewish people in control if they are doing such a good job.

  2. Re:Commercial software does it differently on Open Source Programmers Stink At Error Handling · · Score: 2

    And in this case, I agree with them. That DLL could just as well have been a flakey 3rd party device driver, in which case the fault isn't Windows. The new msg tells what part of the OS caused the error, and if it's a Windows DLL that will be apparent (or quickly pointed out on newsgroups).

    It's still the fault of Windows - a decive driver should not be able to bing down the kernel of an operating system. Failure of a decive driver is ok and to be expected, but to have that failure cascade down to ring zero is unacceptable.

  3. My solution for Small Business on Can Developers Work in a 'Locked-Down' Environment? · · Score: 2

    I manage a the IT structures of my small business clients: I urge then to decide on the balance between freedom/security on an individual employee basis: A competent office manager who knows what a potentially damaging email attachment looks like should have free reign, while the ditsy secretary who wants 'the AOL internet thingy' should have a locked down box.

  4. Re:NASA on NASA Releases Classic Software To Public Domain · · Score: 2

    The old joke:

    A good FORTAN programmer can write FORTAN code in any language!

  5. Re:and ...? on Microsoft Edits English · · Score: 1
    Cheerio, I say... pip pip! Want to take the lift down from the flat and share a fag with me?


    As long as you tap the sweet wine from my bung-hole - I'm there, mate!

  6. Re:1984 Anyone? on Microsoft Edits English · · Score: 2

    Your associates who are too stupid to form grammatically correct sentences and spell words from memory

    Your assertion, that people who lack the ability to spell correctly without assistance as 'stupid,' is specious. Many writers, superior to you, suffer from the lack of ability to spell our non-phonetic English words correctly. Shame on you.

    I'm not respongi to your diatrib on the Sapir-Whorf

  7. Re:Not the same old enemy on Anti-Terrorism Law Passed · · Score: 2

    I'm just making the distinction between two differing types of 'enemies'. The fist is a group with whom you may disagree violently with, but you can exist with and who can exist with you. Enemies in this category would rather live with their enemies, than die trying to kill their enemies. Classic examples of this kind are the US/USSR, Israel/Palestine.

    The second kind of enemy is the one that would rather have everybody dead than suffer their enemy's existence. The US/Al Quida grouping is one these - and in that case, it's kill or be killed. I hope we have the intelligence to know that after we weed out few bastards in Afghanistan, that we realize the people who are left deserve our full compassion. We need to do to Afganistan what we did to Germany and Japan.

  8. Re:Save Lives my Arse on Anti-Terrorism Law Passed · · Score: 2

    Chomsky is a bight and intelligent man. Unfortunately his arguments are laced with one too many 'conspiracy theories' and way too much vitriol toward western civilization. If you could point out a web page where Chomsky provides a SOLUTION to the current problem, instead of one of his general rants, I'd be much obliged.

  9. Re:Not the same old enemy on Anti-Terrorism Law Passed · · Score: 2

    The whole argument that the Taliban can be compairend to our noble foes like the Soviets is wrong. The Soviets had great reluctance to kill us, and we have great reluctance to kill them. Don't kid your self - Bin Laden dosen't have any reluctance to kill us.

    Indeed, I agree that most of the Taliban fight to protect their way of life. Unfortunatly, those in the Taliban leadership and Al Quida fight just to kill us.

  10. Not the same old enemy on Anti-Terrorism Law Passed · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    Even in the darkest days of the 'Cold War', we all knew that the Soviet's loved the same things we did: walks in the park, their children, maby even a good beer. Todays enemy just wants us to die - the more gastly the better. I'm glad that we decided to curtail some conveince to help weed out the scum, and I'm really glad that a good portion of the provisions in the bill have sunset clauses.


    Our enemy appears to have nucluar capabilitys and obviously isen't afraid to use them: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001350025-20 01372097,00.html


    Let's hope we can kill them all, before they kill us. These are not people who just have a differing viewpoint than us, or a different way of life. These are human debris that use the fruits of our civilisation to destroy us.



    Our well measured response, at home and abroad, will save our lives, as well as save the lives of the vast majority of decent people in Afganistan: if we were sucuessfully attacked with weapons of mass destruction, we would suffer horribly, but many more good people would die in the fires of our retaliation.



    A bit of violence and self sacrifice, now, will save lives.

  11. Re:Commercial software does it differently on Open Source Programmers Stink At Error Handling · · Score: 2

    There is a well documented case of how the Microsoft's BSOD changed from pointing out that "Windows Has Become Unstable" to "msdcex.dll has caused a fault" between Windows 95 and Windows 98. The change was done as to make it appear that Windows was not to blame.

  12. Re:Has anyone actually run the CAR on a PC? on 12-volt Plexiglass Computer · · Score: 3, Informative

    Looking at the specs on my 1992 GM car - there is an onboard computer that controls the ignition timing - basically the timing is done by an almost analog circuit with the computer telling the circuit add or remove fuel from the mixture. Given how fast a piston moves in and out of the optimum range for firing the spark, it would be rather difficult to get a general computer and operating system to reliably send the signal to spark. There is a data bus that is available on most GM cars that will tell you all sorts of information - RPM, Fuel Mix Ratio, Governor speed and wheel speed etc. I'd rather have a computer that monitored the bus than have one that tried to replace the computers and circuits already in existence.

  13. Iridium Is Not Gone on AT&T Wireless Drops Fixed Wireless · · Score: 3, Informative

    Iridium was bought out by a small company to service the large Department of Defence and US Governement contracts. The revenue from the US government is much larger that the cost to keep the Iridium constelation in orbit and in good repair. Becuase the 'new' Iridium dosen't have the debt burden of the old system - they can provide service at $1.50 a minuit. I use their service when I hike in the woods and need to keep in contact with my customers. The phones have been re-flashed and the voice quality is quite acceptable - it sounds like you're slighly muffeled, and now the phones can connect directly to the internet (unfortunatly only Windows is supported) in addition to connecting to an ISP. You can also send SMS messages to the phone.

    Because the new service has almost no dept and plenty of revenue, I don't worry about them going bankrupt.

  14. Bleed them Dry! on Crashing Xbox Kiosks · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ok... Lets assume you don't like Microsoft. Now buy an X-Box and take it to your local True-Value and ask the paint guy to stick the X-Box in the vibrating/shaking-paint-mixer-thing. The X-Box will now have a ruined hard-drive. Return the X-Box and repeat untill you see Bill Gates bumming quarters for sex in your local slum.

  15. Re:Interesting... on Apple iWalk: Mac OS-X based PDA? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Evidence of Faked Photo:

    The Direction of the shadow for the IWalk doesen't match the direction of the shadow for the pack of cigerettes.

    There is no hard shadow under the IWalk.

    The scale is off - the whole cursor pad that has five buttons on the IWalk is the same size as the Apple 'flower' key on the keyboard. You'd have to have small fingers to press that!

    The bright reflection of the light on the IWalk is from a differing angle than the reflection on the cigerette box - the cigerette box relects the light onto the paper tward the upper left - indicating a bright light in the upper left, while the IWalk reflection indicates that the bright light is in the lower left.

    Perhaps the Iwalk exists, but I thinks it's more of a Web-pad sized instead of PDA sized due to the scale of the cursor buttons.

  16. Re:I don't understand on GNU Emacs 21 · · Score: 1
    Because they are little linux gayboys whacking their puds over pressing "CTRL+A+ ALT+H follwed by K, S, CTRL+S" in order to just save their stuipd little recipes for turds on a bun with extra jizzjuice.

    Ahem... Don't you know? It's META+H not ALT+H.

  17. Re:Cultural spelling reference on Aluminum Server Case Review · · Score: 2

    While programming, the one that bites me in the butt is US 'gray' vs. UK 'grey'.

    Can't we all just agree that the constants with gray/gray should just be one thing? I don't care what we all decide on, but if my compiler balks on a "Undefined Constant" just for a color/colour again, I'm gonna invent a symbol and get it shoved in the Unicode standard just to represent the midway between black-and-white. We can call it the "Color Previsouly Known as the Often Misspelled Color Between Black and White." or we can just call it "the Color" for short.

  18. Re:Why Linux isn't on the desktop or never will be on Why Linux is About to Lose · · Score: 5, Informative

    Were alrady there for some userse - I'm a consultant for a bunch of small businesses, and have been replacing the "front desk" computer operating systems with Mandrake 8.0 in KDE mode and AbiWord. The secretary types love it becuse they can't "break the computer" and they don't loose work. Just make sure your printer is supported with CUPS and away you go. Granted, the Linux desktop can't replace the whole MS-Office desktop, but in actuall use (for the correct type of user) I've had great sucuess with the above.

  19. Re:I delt with this. on Microsoft Shuts Auction Doors On Old Windows · · Score: 2

    The important thing is that your books say "NOT FOR RESALE" - what the they don't say is "RESALE IS ILLEGAL."
    Just like Microsoft CD's don't say "COPYING THIS DISK IS ILLEGAL." - instead they say "DON'T MAKE ILLEGAL COPIES OF THIS DISK."

  20. Re:Virus challenge ... on £10,000 Prize for Linux Virus Challenge Re-Issued · · Score: 1
    Asking people to stop using them is a hallmark of an astroturfer



    Add to that: Any post that has been run though a spell checker is usually from an astroturfer.

  21. Re:Because no one here exerts any effort.. on Slashdot in Politics? · · Score: 2
    I don't know where a manual typewriter exists



    Maby I should have held on to my old daisy wheel TRS-80 DWII. Darn thing diden't do bi-directional printing - but it had a funky 2400 baud serial port! Oh... Electrc Pencil...

  22. Re:It's an education problem on Ellison Wants National ID Card, Powered By Oracle · · Score: 2

    Every corporation (maby not S) is issued a Federal Tax ID - guess what, they have the same amount of digits as an SSN and they don't collide with any SSN number, it's just that the hyphens are placed differently. I just hand out my Federal Tax ID for places that expect a SSN but don't really need it - like video stores.

  23. Re:That's genocode on Afghanistan Is Like Nothing You've Ever Seen · · Score: 1

    I think you're correct, unfortunalty. - I think it was just wishfull thinking on my part that we could stave the bastards. Everybody keeps serching for an easy solition - but it looks like there won't be any.

  24. Re:Your LA gang logic on Afghanistan Is Like Nothing You've Ever Seen · · Score: 2
    i was wondering



    You're left wondering because you're an idiot. Note the irony on regarding spelling errors when your spelling is so atrocious that you misspelled a single character word. Thats pretty hard to beat. Looks like the previous AC was correct in his/her assesment. Posting without the +1 bonus 'cause your're a troll or somthing.

  25. Re:Your LA gang logic on Afghanistan Is Like Nothing You've Ever Seen · · Score: 1
    Your LA gang logic



    Nice raceist remark. Idiot.