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  1. Re:Just curious... on KDE 3.0.1 Ships · · Score: 2

    KDE provide their stuff for free.
    KDE didn't take 20+ years to decide security was important.
    KDE's patch fixes the bugs.
    If you, or anyone, finds a bug in KDE anyone with reasonable programming competence could probably fix it.
    People who download software download patches.

  2. Re:Modular solution on KDE 3.0.1 Ships · · Score: 2

    environment..

    The difference is that in this case the environment is firmly in userland, and you want this. Otherwise usability can drop. But being firmly in userland gives me choices. I can run konqueror in Enlightment and even in gnome.

    Separation at this level is vital for healthy growth. Any other methodology is poisoned and will wither.

  3. Re:man.... on Why The X-Box Network Will Fail · · Score: 2

    We got our chipped and now have maybe 150 games to choose from. Still can't play many of them for more than 30 mins without boredom. Here's the ones I can play and play

    International Superstar Soccer 2 : Amazing
    Burnout : omfg - high speed driving on the busy freeway
    SSX Tricky - owned me for 3 weeks solid
    Gran Tourismo - another omfg

    On the XBOX I tried in a store I played Project Gotham - won the race on my second try. Wasn't overly impressed with the GFX. And besides I wan't playability, playability, playability first, gfx are a bonus.

    When you plonk it on the rumble strip in GT3 you know you hit the kerbs. PG - lame

  4. Re:Ethic? on Questions to Ask University CS Departments? · · Score: 2

    Most ppl graduating don't know how to use emacs.

    well there's a refief.

    acme & wily == the future

  5. Re:"Dubious Ethical Value" on Smart Money Picks 10 Rising Careers · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    it's very simple, when you're at 50 then any new points are discarded (not secretly added on and only 50 displayed)

    it's not like you're suddenly going to drop under 25 and lose your +1

    btw. if you're not concerned then shut up

  6. no Zardoz ? on The Wired Top Twenty Sci-Fi Movies · · Score: 2, Informative

    1. Blade Runner
    2. Gattaca
    3. The Matrix
    4. 2001: A Space Odyssey
    5. Brazil
    6. A Clockwork Orange
    7. Alien
    8. The Boys From Brazil
    9. Jurassic Park
    10. Star Wars
    11. The Road Warrior
    12. Tron
    13. The Terminator
    14. Sleeper
    15. Soylent Green
    16. RoboCop
    17. Planet Of The Apes
    18. The Day The Earth Stood Still
    19. Akira
    20. Barbarella

    Copyright © 1993-2002 The Condé Nast Publications Inc. All rights reserved.

    Copyright © 1994-2002 Wired Digital, Inc. All rights reserved.

  7. Re:Japan and bugs.... on FF XI Goes Live in Japan · · Score: 4, Informative

    How odd then that they don't even appear in the standings for the Motorbike World Endurance Championship
    In fact *every* entry in the 2001 series was a Japanese bike.

  8. Re:an obvious remark on The Case for the Empire · · Score: 4, Funny

    the VCD is out already :)

  9. Re: People die in the US every year from heat on Ultra Efficient Chip Cooling Passes Boeing Tests · · Score: 2

    HHOJ (Ha Ha Only Joking)

    hehe 10 yrs in BBS & Internet and i thought HHOJ wtf does that mean!

    what do I care if a bunch of Englishmen get farmed off to Austrialia

    Australians note that there are probably more Scots in Australia than in Scotland.

    I do appreciate the joke but it's one of my pet peeves in the world. A direct attack by the ruling elite on the poorest people. Made poor by the industrial revolution that empowered that elite.

    My own family was a victim of the Scottish clearances *and* the transportations.

    I stood in the dock in the museum (the museum is inside the former Crown Court of Nottingham) and went through a mini mock trial of one of the Luddite rioters from 1831 and then proceeded to tour the remand cells from whence prisoners were transported / moved to other prisons etc.

    My character was hung until dead on the steps outside.

    History teaches much about the human spirit. I wish more people were interested in it.

  10. Re:You think that's bad? on Microsoft Opts-In Hotmail Users · · Score: 3, Insightful

    wrong wrong wrong

    The worst part about IE being sloppy in what it accepts is that HTML authors who preview their page don't even get to find out that something is wrong.

    damn that does kill the doctrine
    "be generous in the data you accept but strict on the data you hand out"

    It should be an option in IE to report all non-conforming HTML

  11. Re:bans don't work on Slashback: Counterstrike, Identification, Patenxtortion · · Score: 2

    ever heard of "The Night of The Long Knives"?

  12. recruiting website plug on Landing a "Regular Job"? · · Score: 1
  13. Re:yay for the military on Landing a "Regular Job"? · · Score: 2

    If you work for a non-expansionist regeime then your job is to stop people getting killed by intimidating potential killers.

    Downside is that capitalism is inherently expansionist.

    oh well, stick to raising money for taxes to give to people to run submarines.

    Bugger it's all so complicated. I wish I was 20 again. I knew all the answers then.

  14. Re:I have a question? on MSIE Uber-patch Of The Month · · Score: 2

    Actuially it's nothing to do with popularity, It's to do with bloat. IE isn't a web browser, it'a an applications platform. It is these features that erode security.

    think of the difference between lynx and IE.
    99% of web sites hardly scrape at the surface of the capabilities of IE. Sadly the days of quick html rendering have almost gone.

  15. Re:Examples, please! on Bitter Java · · Score: 2

    simple

    M F C

  16. Re:Damn the ethics- full speed ahead! on Digital Mouths, Synthetic Faces at MIT and Lucasfilm · · Score: 1

    simple, video testimony will be less regarded by the legal system as irrefutable.

    Expert witnesses will be called to support and challenge video evidence.

    The defence will attempt to draw reasonable doubt in the judge/jury.

    So in essence, nothing will change.

  17. Re: People die in the US every year from heat on Ultra Efficient Chip Cooling Passes Boeing Tests · · Score: 2

    yeah I was a bit superficial at the end there.

    True - but were all a bunch of convicts and nobody cared ;) (HHOJ)

    hmm, you should maybe read up on the transportation thing sometime. Many were simply debtors or minor petty criminals (few loaf of bread or a few pair of socks). Transportation was a tool of the overpopulated and overworked inner cities of the new Industrial England to clear out the chronically poor. Hundreds/Thousands died on their way. Ships full of women were used as not much more than mobile forced brothels taking twice to three times as long to make the journey as the male boats as they stopped for longer in each of the ports to provide relief for the British Servicemen stationed around the world.

    We have a museum [The Galleries of Justice (bah flash only)] here in Nottingham, England about it and other aspects of our inherited justice system. The sinister debtors prison is open for visiting and makes for a sobering afternoon.

    /me is sweating, it's so hot here (maybe 20degrees :)

  18. Re:Big companies make mistakes occasionally! on Ultra Efficient Chip Cooling Passes Boeing Tests · · Score: 2

    I found this one while searching too, it has 0 (zero) comments and I never remember seeing it.

    Make pretty interesting reading (particularly in hindsight)

    ESR Writes on "Surprised By Wealth"

  19. Re:Big companies make mistakes occasionally! on Ultra Efficient Chip Cooling Passes Boeing Tests · · Score: 2
  20. Re:Slashdotted already? on Ultra Efficient Chip Cooling Passes Boeing Tests · · Score: 2

    don't forget the Falkland Islands

  21. Re:Either/or on Ultra Efficient Chip Cooling Passes Boeing Tests · · Score: 2

    Now I agree that AC is not a waste, it's damn hot in some places and people would die (litteraly) if it wasn't there.

    The goldminers of Western Australia didn't have AC for 150 years. I've been to a place where it can get up to a mind boggling 50 degrees Celcius.

    Underground houses/rooms keep the temperatures in living spaces bearable.

    India isn't blessed with AC all over the place and yet the hot streets aren't littered with burnt corpses. (just regular corpses and the living dead)

    I've not been to the inerior of the US but I guess the temperatures are pretty much the same. AC makes the environment less challenging but isn't life or death.

  22. Re:Experiment control on Contrails Affect Weather · · Score: 1

    how did that affect weather paterns in the area?

    Heavy showers of masonry and burning people moving to generally dusty in the afternoon, the evening will bring a deep desire for revenge and general bloodletting.

    Over the next few days a general disbelief with scattered crying.

    Next seven days : back breaking toil accompanied by horrific scenes of carnage.

  23. Re:I've been waiting for this. on Digital Mouths, Synthetic Faces at MIT and Lucasfilm · · Score: 2

    Well in this case it's the pure truth.

    I don't want stars I want talent. The cult of persona is detrimental to our society. It breeds inequity and helps to drive oppression. I'm fed up of the most newsworthy aspect of a film premiere being what dress somebody was wearing.

    shame you lost a point, because I think you've got one

  24. Re:Damn the ethics- full speed ahead! on Digital Mouths, Synthetic Faces at MIT and Lucasfilm · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's easy to spot when a politician is lying - his lips are moving. boom boom!

    they may as well be spared having to turn up in person to read today's lies out.

  25. Re:I've been waiting for this. on Digital Mouths, Synthetic Faces at MIT and Lucasfilm · · Score: 2

    I dont care who's in it so long as it's good