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  1. Some day on The All-Red Route 100 Years On · · Score: 1, Funny

    We wont need no stinkin cable.

  2. Re:Whatever, I have a cell phone on Telcos Play Both Sides of Telemarketing War · · Score: 1

    its still illegal if the call is unsolicited. If I did business with a company once and this fone call was unrelated and unsocilited it is still illegal. Just because you give a company your cell phone number for contact info once...does not give them permission to call you whenever they want. Only for the reason you gave them the number.

  3. Re:I do! on Delivering Software, Electronically? · · Score: 1

    umm
    if youre doing 5k a WEEK...why the fuck are you using paypal.

  4. Re:Chase and USBank are okay on Online Banking And Browser Support · · Score: 1

    thats exactl what ive done..closed a couple accounts(bank and credit) due to nonlinux support.

  5. This may be the type of thing we need on First Worm with a EULA? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    to help force the govt to evaluate the merits of EULAs. While it can be argued..."you shouldve read the license before you agreed"

    I would rather say "There shouldn't exist any such licensing format. And we as the people should not allow it to ever exist."

  6. Re:I don't really get blogs... on Blogger Hacked · · Score: 1

    or just store it locally

    for those of us who hate writing by hand because it so much slower than typing....

  7. I use MSN and I have Linux on Microsoft Vandalizes NYC · · Score: 2, Informative

    No problem at all. Straight PPP. My MSMessenger pumps through gaim.

    Am I just lucky?

  8. Re:Tell me a few things on Satellite Radio in Fiscal Trouble · · Score: 1

    Youre an idiot. While your cable bill example was valid your electric bill was moot. You do not get billed for electricity you don't use.

    Personally, it all comes down to value. If the 10$ a month doesn't give you the value you want, you drop the service. Simple really. Same thing as buying something for a flat price...if it isn't worth that much to you, you don't buy it.

    But, if you bring up the cable bill that brings a whole different discussion in. And it smells like monopoly.

  9. Re:More overhead! on Postmodern Computer Science · · Score: 4, Insightful

    what are you coding? I doubt youre coding a kde app for converting database formats. Different languages have different uses. Different uses require different levels of optimization. For most people, rapid development means a good deal. If asm was the best way to do most things, then I doubt all these other languages exist. But they do, and for a reason.

    I don't care how good an asm coder you are but I can bet there are some severe limitations on how complex and how large of a program you can write. Code a FPS entirely in asm and you will have my deepest and uttmost respect.

    Until then, Id suggest losing the holier than thou attitude..for neither C++ nor Java have anything inherently wrong with them. They are simply tools designed to solve certain problems, and a good deal of people in this world have deemed them quite sufficient for their needs.

  10. Re:By Eugenia Loli-Queru on Review of Linux Mandrake 9.0 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Slackware is just a feature rich as any other distro out there. Im sitting here with my flashy kde setup and all the good jazz.

    I also run Slack on my laptop as well.

    Ive used RH and Ive used mandrake. But when it comes to control and simplicity, slack cant be beat.

  11. Re:Going downhill.... on Review of Linux Mandrake 9.0 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Slackware

  12. Re:Get some credit cards on Visiting the World, as a Geek? · · Score: 1

    What legal trouble?

    The banks will look at his current debt, his current assets and his future potential EARNINGS. Thats the key to determining whether or not you will be able to repay the loan and whether or not you will be approved for one.

    Granted, the 20/20 plan seems faulty depending on how high his income is. But there's nothing illegal about it.

  13. Re:Hard drives are becoming VERY poor in quality.. on Tom's Investigates Hard Drive Warranty Changes · · Score: 1

    you must be a fucking idiot. I'm sure you can choose components to install with RH, and I doubt all 5 cds are for the install, im sure most are source and extra cds.

    My slack set is 4 cds. Only one is install.. You can choose to install just a few hundred meg...or 100MB exactly w/ Zipslack. Or 2 gig.

    Your statement should be:

    It now runs Windows until I can get off my ass and actually learn a thing or two about OS installation.

    Christ, even if you need to switch distros, do it. Saying Linux is bloated compared to Windows is retarded. Sure, you have no control over your windows install...and maybe even RH, but there are plenty of distros with total control(or roll your own). Obviouslly you have no real use for running linux and I bet your reason for choosing windows isn't its compactness...it's its idiotproofness ;)

  14. Re:RTR is very silent on their licensing policies. on Passport for Linux On the Way · · Score: 1

    wtf how can charging 399$ for binaries be cheaper than downloading source from a BB?

  15. Re:call me anal on Build Your Own Carnival Ride · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    meant!~

  16. Re:call me anal on Build Your Own Carnival Ride · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    no dumbass, youd never say that. here lets try it:

    programmable logic controller's
    programmable logic controllers
    programmable logic controller's
    programmable logic controllers

    Damn, I say it the same.

    Of course, call me anal, but you might have might "write".

  17. Re:Who cares if a football player's taking steroid on Unmaking The Game · · Score: 1

    exactly I used to play DAOC then stopped...when I went to grab a MMORPG I thought...hey evercrack...50billion cant be wrong.

    Frankly, it sucked. If only DAOC had a linux client ;) Or any decent MMORPG....back to the mudding I spose.

  18. Re:Browser integration on What To Expect From KDE 3.1 · · Score: 1

    last I checked I never paid kde for my desktop enviro or my webbrowser(not that I use it).

    I dont understand the complaints about Moz, it runs fairly well for me and though I was using galeon, I went back to moz since it wasn't that much faster. And Ive never really liked konqueror because of the no tabs, but even then.....

    Right now...kde3 running moz opened/tabbed, gaim, x-chat, a couple of shells... 70MB/451MB in use, in these days of cheap memory...

  19. Re:So let me get this straight... on Retailers Won't Sell New Acclaim Game · · Score: 1

    how bout how they wont sell model spraypaint, power buffers, eggs near halloween and Im sure other things to minors.

    Im sorry, but we need some serious kickass minors rights legislation, when I was younger I seriouslly hated being a 3rd class citizen with no rights. Its fucked up. I paid taxes, prolly more than half the welfare assholes in my lovely state and Im sure as hell I was and am more productive than them. Not to mention I never did anything wrong.

    Do you think it be ok to not sell power-buffers to black people?

  20. Re:AOL needs to lose this. on AOL Threatens Peng, Demands Domain Handover · · Score: 1

    ummm
    you are a dumbass
    there needs to be a new moderation called

    Bullshit Analogy.

    Christ, didn't you ever do analogies in grammar school?

  21. Re:Come on Slashdotters! on AOL Threatens Peng, Demands Domain Handover · · Score: 1

    first off AIM stands for Asshole Insertion Magnet.

    2nd of all, I run GAIM...gaim formats packets that I send to aol servers. Aol can always choose to deny or reject those packets(such as theyve done to jabber) but AFAIK they allow 3rd party use of the feature limited TOC servers.

    Whats at issue isnt any of that. Its strongarm tactics that companies use to take out anything and anyone remotely threatening. Napster, jabber, decss etc. I'm sorry, but 99% of the OS projects out there cant afford to defend themselves in court. So it simply because a matter of who has the most money, not who is in the right. Thats what is fucked up about these things.

    Personally, your post didn't have much to do with anything. Your analogy was way off as well.

  22. Re:How much time on Newly Released WineX 2.2 Supports EverQuest · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ummm, interesting? How is this troll interesting.

    Just because some developers are writing software enabling windows emulation on linux, and some are making linux look like windows doesnt even compare to the staggering amount that arent.

    Go to sourceforge. See how many fucking linux projects there are in this world. See how many different things are going on. Just cause you can't see past anything else other than windows....cause you cant.

  23. Anyone else bothered by this: on Camcorder Jamming Devices Announced · · Score: 1

    The movie studios have been in search of a new DVD encryption scheme since the industry
    standard, known as CSS, was cracked by Linux programmers in 1999. The recording industry,
    meanwhile, was stymied last year in its bid to create a music copy protection system when
    academic researchers defeated a proposed watermarking standard.


    Not to be paranoid, but that statement reads very negatively against Linux.

  24. Re:Now if only ... on SANS/FBI Release Top 20 Security Vulnerabilities · · Score: 0, Redundant

    haha

  25. Re:How To on The First Automotive Easter Egg? · · Score: 1

    christ all this time I thought I *wanted* traction and zero tire-spin at the track. Maybe my ET will go up if I spin the tires momentarily, cause thats my goal ;P