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  1. Re:LDS vs Christian. on Slashback: cubans, crises, code-dependency · · Score: 1
    Apart from your terrible spelling, you're plain wrong too.

    IANAM (I Am Not A Mormon), but I am familiar with their belief and they ARE true Christians. They believe in Jesus Christ.

    The only difference is that they think that Jesus was not the last "prophet", but that there are still "prophets" around. It's actually the leader of their Church, which called "Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints".
    1) Jesus Christ should give away that they are Christians.
    2) It's Latter-day, not Later day. Note the subtle difference in meaning here!

    Ivo.

    Bibliography: LDS Articles of Faith

  2. Re:American law doesn't apply in the UK on Oxford Yanks Student Page Over Spoof DeCSS · · Score: 1

    Hmm, as a Dutch guy I'd like this issue clarified.

    How far goes the American jurisdiction?

    Can the 4LAs (RIAA, MPAA, DCMA) do anything to my posting DeCSS (the real one) on my website?

    I'm curious.

    Ivo

  3. Re:This Should Do Wonders.. on Be to Drop BeOS? No. · · Score: 1

    Redhat?

  4. Re:Deja Vu on Which Digital Camera Do You Recommend? · · Score: 2

    I fail to see why anything over 1.3 Megapixels would increase the probabities of taking over 35mm.

    1280x960 (1.3Mpixels) already fills my screen completely. And on the HP Color Laser 4500 I get pretty nice printouts on the printer's highest resolution.

    Fact is: You CANNOT print pictures made with a digital camera, at this moment. Regardless the quality of your camera, you need a printer to print those pics, and to get to photoquality, those printers are unaffordable (if they exist, that is)

    I own a Canon A50, I would recommend it, after extensive research I found this one had the most bang for the buck, especially considering my high priority in size, it's really small. I use it for normal photography, put the pics on the web, so all my friends can see them too. Good enough for me.

    Ivo

  5. Re:Question from a european point of view on Slashdot Meets The Pinkerton Corp. · · Score: 1

    Do KGB, Stasi, Gestapo and Sekuritat ring a bell to you?
    <p>
    Well, it had to happen.
    At this point in the discussion the <a href="http://www.science.uva.nl/~mes/jargon/g/godw inslaw.html">Godwin's Law</a> comes into action:
    <p>
    <em>
    <b>Godwin's Law</b>: prov. [Usenet] "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler
    approaches one." There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis
    has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper
    bound on thread length in those groups. </em>

  6. Re:OSS is not a solution for every problem. on Is there An Enterprise-Level Open Source RDBMS? · · Score: 1
    we know it will stand up, and if it doesn't, there are people to sue.

    Please re-read your licensing agreements with these respective vendors. You can't sue them...

    So replace "sue" with "service contract". Last time a Netware server went down here, we just called the guys from Novell and they came and fixed it. Same goes for Sun. Fileserver died, Sun came and repaired. Well worth the $xxx k in service-contracts, one day downtime for ~60 expensive research-engineers costs... well... a lot!

  7. EMusic.com on The Dark Side Of Napster · · Score: 1
    I can't understand why noone else has mentioned EMusic.com yet.

    You download MP3s for $9/album and they split the revenues 50/50 (with the artist, I think/hope)

    Sounds like a sane businessmodel to a) have MP3s as a medium/format and b) make money off of it. Ivo

  8. Re:Talk about looking a gift horse in the mouth... on Netpliance Ban I-Opener Mods · · Score: 1
    This is idiotic on their part. Someone comes out with something which I'm willing to bet at boosted their sales by an order of magnitude, and they cut that revenue source off? That's just stupid.

    Because they LOSE on the sale, which you say yourself later on.

    But come to think of it, this proves that the i-opener is sold at a loss, with the profit made through the ISP. This makes the ISP a hidden cost of the i-opener, and frankly that's deceptive advertising. They should do something about that.

    Again: bullshit. If you buy a subscription to a newspaper, WITH NO MONEY DOWN, and then you have to pay subscriptionfees to actually get that newspaper every day, do you call that deceptive advertising, too? Of course not.

  9. Re:Covert channels, bandwidth and trojan spooks on Surreptitious Communication via Page Faults · · Score: 1

    That the same as lying on a nude-beach, and running into the water everytime a goodlooking chick is walking past, because you don't want to let know you have a boner.

    To be completely fair/let noone know you get aroused by beautiful women/not insult anyone, you also have to run into the water with ugly women...

    Just an analogy...

    Never thought my running into the water was actually covering up a covert comm-channel!

  10. Re:Problem #1 on CmdrTaco's Week with Tivo · · Score: 1

    No, commercial TV once was like that.
    In my homecountry, TV went from 2 public channels in the eighties to a lot more, including commercial ones.
    Starting with commercials only around the newsblock at 8, then in between shows, and now in breaks during the shows.
    It'll only get worse...

    On the other hand, in the Netherlands we still watch Friends in 23 minutes, because we have only 1 commercialblock in the middle of Friends. And NO irritating commercials between the intro and the first scene, or between the last scene and the trailer.

    I still don't get how you can run 3 minutes of commercials, 30 seconds of credits/titles and then 3 minutes of commercials again...

  11. Re:Full-Time Telecommuting on Full-Time Telecommuting -- Does It Work? · · Score: 3

    Nice sig, a little contradicting though after your story about being a fulltime homeworker....

  12. Haiku on Is "coke.ch" A Violation of Coca-Cola's (tm)? · · Score: 0

    not again this thread
    slashdot has beaten to death
    let's find new topics

  13. Re:Great! on DeCSS To Be Broadcast Over Oz TV · · Score: 1

    But don't forget it's aired at 3am.
    Only geeks are awake at that time.
    And they already have the source.

  14. Better use on Iridium Hardware May Burn · · Score: 1

    There MUST be a better use for 66 telecom sattelites in orbit, even if the primary use (wireless phones, right?) failed...

    Guess it's too late now. And I can't imagina the people over at Iridium didn't think of other solutions themselves.

  15. Course outline on Red Hat Takes Heat Over Certification · · Score: 1
    is here.

    The only thing that keeps me from getting this certification is the money, if I look at the list of what is thaught, I think 80% of Slashdotreaders can pass it without ever looking at a book.
    Well, maybe learn how an rpm works, if you're used to ports or debs, for the rest is pretty standard Unix sysadmin stuff on a x86 arch, if you ask me.

  16. Re:GPL!!! on Human Genome To Be Released To Public · · Score: 1

    Is that the infamous "Genome Public License" ?

  17. Re:Perl and Python wars on Perl 5.6 Release Candidate Announced · · Score: 1

    You forgot the obvious.

    Rewrite perl in perl.

    Just like gcc.

  18. Jesus Christ! on Update on 'Blame Canada' and the Oscars · · Score: 1

    So when are the words "Jesus Christ" put on the blacklist?

    After all, I use it as a swearing word. "Jesus Christ, my paycheck has never been this late."

    Yeah, let's all bleep the name of our Lord too! It's a swearing word!!!! IT'S A DIRTY WORD!

    (Actually, I know that the old Jews were not allowed to pronounce the name of the Lord, so they just wrote all the consonants, JWHW, something I have also found strange all my life)

    [Dis]claimer: I'm Roman Catholic

  19. Re:Censor what? on Update on 'Blame Canada' and the Oscars · · Score: 1

    OK, so everyone who thinks of himself putting his right (or left) hand in his pants and slowly starts jurking off when someone tells him to fuck off, raise hands now.

    Noone?

    Thought so.

    People who have a problem with a word that is to be found in 50% of all American sentences, because THEY think of sex (and what is wrong with that, since when is sex ugly and disgusting), should not make rules of what I should find a bad word.

    It's just four letters, F, U, C and K, and I never relate it to intercourse^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HBLEEEEP.
    Hmm, intercourse is not a bad word? Strange, both words talk about the same thing.

    And since when is the name for a lady-dog a bad word...

  20. Re:Can we get a single topic right? on Web Censors Prompt College To Consider Name Change · · Score: 1

    Don't forget that MS did NOT invent symbolic links, if you want to get an analogy with the Unix world, they should have used "hard links". Or "on the fly hard links"

  21. Re:Inaccurate reporting (again...) on Microsoft Invents Symbolic Links · · Score: 1

    Actually, this algorithm is fundamental to the idea of "hash" anyway.

    If you hash, you are bound to wind up with duplicate pointers sometime, so implicitly in the hash algorithm is a final "real data" check.

  22. Re:What about my own root server? on Care to Register Your Own TLD? · · Score: 2
    So what, technically, is there preventing me from putting a DNS server on the internet?

    Nothing prevents you. Do you remember AlterNIC and their .earth and .biz domains? They had a whole network of TLD nameservers, that actually also incorporated pointers to the normal country TLDs and .com/net/org/edu/gov/mil, so you didn't need any other nameservers in your resolver.

    But it failed, and you know why? If half of the world implemented this system, but the other half didn't, half of the net's email would go into limbo because on its route it would find a nameserver that has no clue where to find the MX for yourdomain.earth.

    Also, t his article has some good reasons why you should not have a fragmented DNS.

  23. Another site about Open Hardware on Free 32-bit Processor Core · · Score: 2
    circu.its.tudelft.nl is a site about Open Hardware, too, but this is more of a research point of view.

    It's pretty old, but contains interesting thoughts about Open Design Circuits as they call it, and has a number of good links to other sites about Open Design/Open Hardware

  24. Re:YOU FORGOT THE POPE on Leap Year Woes in Japan · · Score: 1

    Of course he's not born on a leap year, otherwise he'd be like 20 years old now.

    And you have to admit, although I have the deepest respect for my pope, he doesn't look like 20 to me. (and I've never seen a 20 year old guy falling down during a speech either)

  25. Re:Interesting? How? on Linux 2.3.48 Released · · Score: 1

    No, Rob has never tried to hide his emailaddress.
    But I've never seen him replying to any suggestion I made. Inlcuding adding a section for softwarereleases. Not that I care for an answer, I hope he picked it up somewhere, but I don't know.

    So we whine in here.
    Ever noticed that these kernelreleases REALLY do not trigger ANY useful discussion except for long threads about why this should[n't] be on Freshmeat....

    P.S. I have a Slashbox called "kernelnotes.org", I see if there's a new release the first thing after I get to Slashdot. I don't need no useless posts on the mainpage that I can't filter out. "If you're not interested, don't read them". Well, they clutter my mainpage, and there's no way to get rid of them.