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  1. Re:From an Eagle Scout... on Boy Scouts Ask Open Source Community For Help · · Score: 0, Troll

    you stink of ignorance.

  2. Re:Just a natural phenomenon on World's Largest Tropical Glacier Vanishing · · Score: 1

    I see they've already gotten to you.

  3. Re:What's the Off-The-Shelf CPU on Supercomputer to Hit 1.6 Petaflops With 16,000 Cell Chips · · Score: 1

    I dunno... run gzip on a power5... run it on a intel/amd... :D

  4. Re:people actually use MAC filtering? on Wi-Fi Fingerprints -- the End of MAC Spoofing? · · Score: 1

    yes yes wpa is overly complex I know. a single passphrase or worse, pressing a button. crazy stuff.
    I like that statistic too, its almost like you're all knowledgeable and yet there is a margin for error, bravo.

    Here I just pulled this out of my ass, 100% of people that make up statistics are idiots.

  5. Re:What's the Off-The-Shelf CPU on Supercomputer to Hit 1.6 Petaflops With 16,000 Cell Chips · · Score: 1

    yeah seems odd they wouldn't use their own.. but I guess if you want raw performance POWER5 is not an option

  6. Re:What's the Off-The-Shelf CPU on Supercomputer to Hit 1.6 Petaflops With 16,000 Cell Chips · · Score: 1

    I doubt they would showcase someone else's work.

  7. people actually use MAC filtering? on Wi-Fi Fingerprints -- the End of MAC Spoofing? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why would you rely on such a silly system?

  8. Re:If American ISPs did what ISPs in Australia do. on ISPs Fight Against Encrypted BitTorrent Downloads · · Score: 1

    I think most ISPs are happy to see high bandwidth users leave their service, they probably lose money on them. I agree that the big users should be made to pay something reasonanble considering they are using a large portion of an ISPs bandwidth.
    In Canada most if not all cable companies have caps of 60-100GB/month and charge aroun 1-$5/GB after that. which seems reasonable, even if the speeds they offer allow for much more that that (fastest cable ISP offers 16mbps service). There are many though ISPs that do not cap and do not throttle bit torrent, the biggest being bell but they own their own cross country network which cable companies no doubt pay to connect to...

  9. Yes... on The 64% Violent Pacman · · Score: 1

    ... As much as the MPAA is trusted. It's a unaccountable entity that sets the morality of film in America.

  10. Re:Oblig. Terri Schiavo comment. on Drug Found to Aid Vegetative Patients · · Score: 1

    "simplistic characterization"
    dude, this is slashdot so I'll stick with "she was a vegetable"
    and the real point is whether her husband knew her wishes or not.

  11. Re:Oblig. Terri Schiavo comment. on Drug Found to Aid Vegetative Patients · · Score: 3, Insightful

    the autopsy showed she was a vegetable and not just in a vegetative state.
    She died years ago.

  12. Re:Really? on ISP Fined $5000 For Hate Content · · Score: 1

    I seem to remember something that refutes your point. ....and done.

  13. Re:Canada Not! on ISP Fined $5000 For Hate Content · · Score: 1

    Read the article, a complaint was filed with the Human rights commission, they had a hearing, and judgement was made. If you had a site that was spewing hate literature you could file a complaint and go through the same process.
    In Canada we do not have an absolute right to free speech. It gets limited where society is harmed by it (i.e. spreading hate).
    Now if you think that's crazy read up on how much power our Prime Minister has... yet somehow we've maintained a stable democracy...

  14. Re:He may have a point.. this from Wikipedia.. on University Bans wi-fi as Health Concern · · Score: 1

    your argument requires the assumption that any ill effects would happen after only several years of high exposure.
    Like smoking it might take 30 years of high exposure to see ill effects on a wide scale.

  15. Re:I don't see the problem... on OSx86 Cracked Again · · Score: 1

    Dude your some kind of super genius. You have it all figured out, its so simple! why doesn't apple get it?
    oh well, you can go ahead with your plans to release your OS to the masses.
    You do have one, right?
    I mean how else could you have figured this all out?

  16. Re:real money on Full Featured Pocket Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    Communism? I don't think what is going on in China can be called communism by any standard then their own. They "acknowledge the value of personal property".... not very communist. I *think* whats going on there is more unbridled capitalism.

  17. Re:Bring your own container! on Barenaked USB Drive · · Score: 1

    So where did you get this information from then?

  18. Re:Bring your own container! on Barenaked USB Drive · · Score: 1

    you mean like they passed on the savings of distributing songs via iTunes?
    9.99 for a downloaded album is *not* a reasonable price when compared to 12.99 for a physical CD.

  19. Re:Not Apple's stance on Apple iTunes to End Flat Fee Pricing? · · Score: 1

    do you really think there going to drop the price for some tracks?
    I would think 0.99 would become the minimum.
    Even at 0.99 I think we're getting ripped off.

  20. Re:Or in Quebec? on MozCorp Announces Firefox 1.5 Extension Competition · · Score: 1

    all contests are considered lotteries and require to be registered in quebec.
    Basically you need to fill out forms.

  21. Re:Open Doc? on Massachusetts' CIO Defends Move to OpenDocument · · Score: 1

    same reason your not making the decsion

  22. Re:abuse of power on Blizzard Made Me Change My Name · · Score: 4, Funny

    when did slashdot start having legitimate articles?

  23. Re:No.. It is currently a bad idea. on Google Office Still in the Wings? · · Score: 1

    check out http://www.writely.com/
    You're thinking in terms of porting Word (or the like) to the web.
    That would take megabytes. Word processors striped of their bloat
    are very simple apps. This is what an ajax based one would be.

  24. This is NOT wifi on Canada-Wide Wireless Broadband Network Planned · · Score: 1

    The technology uses licensed spectrum and is VERY portable.
    basically you connect their wireless modem to the power and then via ethernet to your PC. Done.
    It's been "on trial" for years I believe in Richmond BC and Cumberland Ontario.
    I really hope a PC card or (better yet) a USB device will allow for laptop access to the network...

  25. Still no healthcare on NASA Plan to Return to the Moon · · Score: 1

    100 000 000 000 for space travel, 0 for 47 000 000 people without healthcare.
    that just seems weird that their willing to spend so much on something with so little tangible value (to the tax payer).