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  1. Re:It doesnt matter what China does on China Closes 1,129 Web Sites · · Score: 1


    How does someone peacefully expressing their beliefs affect you?

    It doesn't affect me particularly, except I need to keep a strong will to ignore it.

    Sadly, the peaceful part is frequently transgressed by the faithful and it is easy to see what harm such bunkum does to the world. Crazy ideas about devine retribution or reward fuel some of the most astonishing events we witness and too many of the less astonishing ones we don't.

  2. Re:It doesnt matter what China does on China Closes 1,129 Web Sites · · Score: 2, Insightful


    blah blah theology whatever, who cares, it's all bunkum.

    By the by, do you really believe non-living chemicals learnt to walk and talk all by themselves?

    Categrorically and without doubt. Belief not necessary. They did, ergo : they did.

  3. Re:It doesnt matter what China does on China Closes 1,129 Web Sites · · Score: 1


    I know, bans do nothing but opress. Each to their own.

    The meddlings of church in the state (and vise versa) are well documented.

    But when you have leaders who say they are doing the work of god you've got to wonder about their sanity let alone suitability.

    Our Mr. Blair found religion for his trip to the top and is pretty suspect. I'd love to have an evening discussing theology with these guys and see how deep their particular rabbit hole goes.

    Do you *really* think there's some guy in the sky watching your every move 24/7 ready to judge your misdemeanours to classify you for eternity in heaven or purgatory ? Really ? Are you sure ?

  4. Re:China is freer in some ways on China Closes 1,129 Web Sites · · Score: 1

    you can't openly practice religion, .... and you can't have websites that spread superstition. And this is bad... how?

    I would be with you on this one but my horoscope said to do otherwise.

  5. Re:It doesnt matter what China does on China Closes 1,129 Web Sites · · Score: 1

    sounds liek these guys forgot about the :

    "They're always willing and they're ready to please" part

    got to love anti-religions and anti-superstition laws

    Please can we have them in the West.

  6. Re:Sounds like a... on On the Ethics of a Code Split? · · Score: 1

    are you sure no-one else sells GPL'd code ?

  7. great news on Python For Nokia Series 60 Phones Now Available · · Score: 2


    I was going to try jython
    (although like many things hadn't got round to it)

    My Nokia 6600 has BSD socket support (which I believe was a first - though naturally I'm prepared to be wrong and no doubt if anyone knows better I will find out soon enough)

    The downside of the 6600 is the "no true networking via bluetooth" crippling. I've tried GNUbox but gave up after no luck.

    I hope the python socket API is present.

  8. Re:Hmmmm on Net Worm Uses Google to Spread · · Score: 1


    It is a phpBB design error called "trusting user supplied data"

    throwing serialized objects to the client and trusting that they are unserializable upon return is, well, stupid.

  9. Re:Homegrown apps are one thing... on Is Apache 2.0 Worth the Switch for PHP? · · Score: 1


    PHP was never designed, period.

  10. Re:Head line is way to misleading on Net Worm Uses Google to Spread · · Score: 1


    They serialized stuff and trusted the user to send it back clean !

    man those guys are nuts

    Sadly quite typical of PHP projects. They give PHP a bad name. Hmm, Personal Home Page as already a bad name but what can you do?

  11. I hope Bluetooth gets backported on FreeBSD 4.X Lives On · · Score: 1


    Last time I tried I could either have WiFi in 4.x or Bluetooth in 5.x but never the twain.

  12. Re:No thanks on Burn the CD on Both Sides · · Score: 1


    I think you made the mistake of assuming I live in the US.

    We have water fountains in hardly any buildings in the UK, certainly none that are govt. run, unless they are specifically for travellers such as motorway service stations or airports. The toilets are the last place on earth I would seek drinking water, especially when I can buy a half litre of water in a re-sealable container for 1 euro.

  13. Re:WoW what a tragedy on Severe Everquest 2 Downtime Over the Weekend · · Score: 1


    you should try 15:00 GMT, the servers are down every day for 30mins-1hour, even at weekends

  14. Re:Not profitable? on Sony and Sharp Backing LCD TVs Over Plasma? · · Score: 1


    hmm, so it will last 15 years if I keep it in the garden !

  15. Re:No thanks on Burn the CD on Both Sides · · Score: 1


    Can you show me where the publicly available taps are in the streets of my town please ?

    Last time I looked there were none.

  16. Re:No thanks on Burn the CD on Both Sides · · Score: 1


    one can only presume at their legal Windows only software

  17. Re:Not profitable? on Sony and Sharp Backing LCD TVs Over Plasma? · · Score: 2, Interesting


    how on earth does anyone know that a plasma TV will last 15 years ?

  18. Re:who else? on TorrentBits.org and SuprNova.org Go Dark · · Score: 1


    wtg Captain Underestimate

  19. Re:who else? on TorrentBits.org and SuprNova.org Go Dark · · Score: 3, Funny

    the latest Britney Spears sex video

    url ?

  20. Re:Hey I here there's already some software for th on Comment Spams Straining Servers Running MT · · Score: 1


    When I was a lad we had the crazy stuff called newsgroups.

    You could post to them, they we're threaded, they had an RFC protocol called NNTP and all sorts of programs understood them. Some of them were even moderated.

    I wonder what happended to them?

  21. Re:Once again, Microsoft blames the users. on Microsoft May Charge for Security Tools · · Score: 1


    Sounds like are vulnerable because you aren't firewalled from your friend, clever trousers.

  22. Re:How to arouse a woman ... on Make Something Unreal Finalists Posted · · Score: 1, Funny


    post sarcastic AC comments on /.

  23. Re:Upgrade. on PHP Vulnerabilities Announced · · Score: 1

    make extract - passed me by, thanks. That was why I compiled it twice. The first make used whatever process the port decided upon whereas the second was in the actual PHP directory.

    I have cvsup on a cron

    like the grandparent, was fed up with getting it to compile with my settings each time I installed a new server / got an upgrade

    just wanted something that was fire and forget while doing all the other stuff

  24. great on Splinter Cell Movie in the Works · · Score: 2, Funny


    2 hours of someone runnning round an empty warehouse looking for a key

  25. Re:Upgrade. on PHP Vulnerabilities Announced · · Score: 1

    yeah, nightmare

    % cat /www/bin/php_install

    #!/usr/local/bin/rc

    # run this after cvsup

    echo 'got root ?'

    cd /usr/ports/lang/php4
    make

    cd /usr/ports/lang/php4/work/php-* || exec echo php dir not found ./configure \
    --with-apxs \
    --disable-cgi \
    --enable-mbstring \
    --with-openssl \
    --with-pcre-regex \
    --with-pgsql

    make && make install