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  1. Re:If I had the time ... on Ripoff 101: Gouging Students for Textbooks · · Score: 1

    In your own way you just explained why the books cost so much.

  2. Re:No it isn't , it uses flavour-of-the-month XML on IETF Approves XMPP Core as Proposed Standard · · Score: 1

    The "flavor of the month" for five years?

    http://slashdot.org/articles/99/01/04/1621211.sh tm l

  3. Re:Well... on Switching from Another Industry to Engineering/CS? · · Score: 1

    Open up your health care market and the shortage will be alleviated.

  4. It's about time on KDE 3.2 Release Candidate 1 Debuts · · Score: 0, Troll

    Well it sure did take long enough. Remember when KDE used to be known for its speed of development?

    - 2.0: 10/23/2000
    - 2.1: 2/26/2001 (4 months, 3 days)
    - 2.2: 8/15/2001 (5 months, 19 days)
    - 3.0: 4/3/2002 (7 months, 19 days)
    - 3.1: 1/28/2003 (9 months, 25 days)
    - 3.2RC: 1/19/2004 (11 months, 22 days and counting)

    At this rate, we won't see KDE 3.3/4.0 (whichever the next version ends up being) until April 2005!

  5. Re:Lone Gunmen on Automagic No-Fly-Zone Enforcement · · Score: 1

    "They'll come at us from a different angle now, knowing that they'll never again surprise us in that particular way."

    You mean, they'll never attack the WTC again, after having bombed it once? Oh, wait, they DID attack it again.

    They only have so many means at their disposal. A fully fueled 777 is just such a bigger weapon than anything else they can get into America, that I think they wouldn't pass up the chance to use one.

  6. Re:The rise of project K12 : XouverK on XFree86 Core Team Disbands · · Score: 1

    Yeah, right.

    While XFree86 has realized how dumb it is to have developers emeritus running the show, KDE is moving toward just the opposite.

    No, KDE has to wake up before it can join in anything useful.

  7. Re:When open source dies? on XFree86 Core Team Disbands · · Score: 3, Informative

    gcc.

    gcc was dormant, Cygnus picked it up and forked off egcs.

    egcs is now known as gcc 3.

  8. Good for them on UserLinux May Go Without KDE · · Score: 1

    I use KDE, I write KDE applications, and I've shipped apps in the KDE release, but I say good for UserLinux.

    UI consistency is more than similar widgets and colors.

    I wish this would teach the KDE people some lessons: stop being a follower, stop throwing away your own stuff for in favor of GNOME, and start going back to doing the things that made KDE great. Any other path just leads to KDE becoming treated as a GNOME auxillary, nice to have but optional when the real work has to be done.

  9. Re:The game of Go ? on Kasparov Wins Game 3 Against X3D Fritz · · Score: 1

    Try The Tromp/Taylor rules: http://homepages.cwi.nl/~tromp/go.html

    Life and death do not need special rules.

  10. Re:The game of Go ? on Kasparov Wins Game 3 Against X3D Fritz · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ladders, one tactical aspect of go, have been proven to be PSPACE-complete. http://homepages.cwi.nl/~tromp/lad.ps

  11. Badges? on Smart Badges For Better Meetings · · Score: 1

    Badges?

    We don't need no steenking badges!

  12. Re:Hello? on AOL To Be Purchased By T-Online? · · Score: 1

    The EU Commission won't stop it, they're too busy sticking it to the Americans^W^W^W^Wsuing Microsoft.

  13. Re:Vouchers on Artistic Freedom Vouchers Proposed · · Score: 1

    That's the artist's choice to make, not yours.

  14. Re:Vouchers on Artistic Freedom Vouchers Proposed · · Score: 1

    At no time does anything stop you from sending a check to an artist.

    We're talking about giveaways here, not buying CDs or paintings or whatever.

  15. Vouchers on Artistic Freedom Vouchers Proposed · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We already have a system of vouchers which can be given to artists, who in turn can exchange them for goods and services. Those vouchers are called "money."

  16. Re:"does not restrict copying" ??? on FCC Adopts Broadcast Flag Scheme · · Score: 1

    I think they have to say it doesn't restrict copying as not to run afoul of the Supreme Court's decision that legalized timeshifting.

  17. Re:Linus about Mac OS X? on Linus Holds Forth On the Future of Linux · · Score: 5, Informative

    Torvalds against anything proprietary? Where have you been since Torvalds has begun using Bitkeeper (a proprietary RCS) for all his kernel development?

  18. Re:Stalking is a felony on Columnist Threatens to Sue Blogger · · Score: 1

    If this anonymous individual used his anonymity to libel Luskin, then he forfeited his "right" to anonymity.

    That's what the courts will decide, if Luskin does take it that far. That's what the courts are there for. If Americans value their rights under the law at all, then there is nothing wrong with Luskin exercising his.

  19. Re:Stalking is a felony on Columnist Threatens to Sue Blogger · · Score: 0

    Luskin is exercising his legal rights. How is that "crying?" Are we to be free in this country, but be personally attacked when we exercise our rights?

  20. Stalking is a felony on Columnist Threatens to Sue Blogger · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Stalking is a felony in many (most) parts of America, so this accusation being made is a serious one. Paul Krugman recently made the charge on Hannity and Colmes, a television program, and Luskin had to go there to defend himself, too. Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from accountability, so I hope they find this guy and hold him accountable.

    Paul Krugman is a public figure, being a prominent columnist for the most prominent news paper in the country. If people like Luskin can't challenge public figures without being subject to this kind of abuse, then free speech really is in trouble.

  21. Re:Google text ads are a farce, here's why on France: No Google Text Ads For Trademarked Words · · Score: 1

    Google is right there. If people are clicking the ads just to click them, instead of clicking them to read the page they link to, then Google's paying customers aren't getting what they paid for.

    Read the agreement before joining.

  22. Re:Screw them. on France: No Google Text Ads For Trademarked Words · · Score: 1

    How about we put it in the context of the hardline anti-American stance the French government has taken, the wide success of books describing huge American evil conspiracies, and the vandalism of American graves in France?

  23. Re:Insanity! on France: No Google Text Ads For Trademarked Words · · Score: 1

    I believe that they do all the public sector recruitment from a few select government-run schools for public service.

  24. "Crazy People" on The OpenBSD 3.4 Song: Theo Sings Back-up · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So when is OpenBSD going to refund the US taxpayer's money that was taken from those "crazy people" at DARPA?

    Ingrateful deadbeats.

  25. Re:Not true on KDE 3.2 Alpha 1 Finally on FTP · · Score: 1

    Gee, and Red Hat has started patenting parts of linux, and VA has stopped writing free software.

    If KDE didn't have the Free Qt Foundation,t he latter would be a disaster.