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  1. Re:Internet Censorship on First Hand Look At Chinese Internet Censorship · · Score: 1

    You're just itching for some crumbs of evidence of Christian persecution, aren't you? Sorry, but the religious right already has its fingers around the political throat of the U.S., and no matter how much you want to believe, it's far, far more likely that you will see legislation of a completely opposite variety. So stop trying to play the underdog--it just makes you look ridiculous.

  2. 10.4 does indeed encrypt swap files on Mac OS X Tiger Released and Analyzed · · Score: 4, Informative

    if you tell it to "Use secure virtual memory."
    As evidenced by profiling in Shark, page faults can trigger decryption. I was initially worried--as files in /var/vm/ appeared to contain a uniform 128-bit pattern, I had thought at first that Apple was simply preventing user-space processes from reading them, but this is fortunately not the limit of 10.4's virtual memory protection.

  3. Re:command line and windows management on In Which OS Do You Feel More Productive? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Stealing Mac's cool features" will require a hell of a lot more than a replacement for X. Virtually every application available for linux will need to be rewritten and its interface redesigned from the bottom-up. The Mac OS is not worth using because it happens to look pretty--this is a ridiculous reason for using an operating system. It's worth using because it's possible to get important things done faster, and that's possible only through a platform-wide consistency and an adherence to a well thought-out, standardized set of APIs and user interface guidelines.

  4. Mac OS 9 on In Which OS Do You Feel More Productive? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sorry, but it's true. For most single-user tasks performed serially, cooperative multitasking is good enough. Mac OS X is still slow and ungainly in comparison (this is especially true for the Finder). Of course, for web and application development, OS X definitely blows everything else away.

  5. Re:humans are wired to... on Is the iPod Shuffle Playing Favorites? · · Score: 1
    It's much simpler than that. You can shuffle an array in two lines:
    for ( n = ARRLTH-1; n > 0 ; n-- )
    swap( &arr[modran( n+1 )], &arr[n] ) ;
    where modran(x) generates a random number between 0 and x-1
  6. Re:Let me get this straight... on RFID Cards to Include Tin Foil Hats? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Oh, there's no need to wait--that's already here! This site sells shielded shirts, aprons, and even socks! And yes, they also have a shielded baseball cap.

  7. Re:We need a usable freenet! on Former Turkish DMOZ Editor Draws 10 Months In Jail · · Score: 1

    Well, those Turks would have a much easier time if the U.S. hadn't been so insistent upon exporting over 9 billion dollars worth of arms over the last twenty years to their government.

  8. We need a usable freenet! on Former Turkish DMOZ Editor Draws 10 Months In Jail · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The Turkish government could not have arrested Ertas if they weren't able to determine who had "inserted" the contraband information, nor would the equivalent of a freenet-based DMOZ be susceptible to coercion of any sort in pursuit of the removal any particular category.

  9. Re:I don't understand some people's stubbornness on Some iPod Fans Dump PCs For Macs · · Score: 1

    How does P2P music sharing preclude the use of iTunes? It's not as if you have to buy things through Apple's music store. iTunes was a fantastic MP3 player and organization tool for years before it ever had a "music store". I have not a single iTMS-purchased song among the 24 gigabytes of music that I organize, play, burn, and have ripped with iTunes.

  10. Re:Count me as a fellow Lone Coder on Is The Lone Coder Dead? · · Score: 1

    Most people who have money to burn on software don't know or care about the GPL, and many of those who don't have money to burn don't know or care about the GPL, either. Furthermore, those who do know and passionately care about and believe in the GPL typically do not have money to burn.
    So given these three factors, after you adjust your target audience accordingly, you will find that your biggest threat is P2P, and that's only if demand for your product increases to the point where you would be making more than enough money, anyway.

  11. Re:More red than blue... on CBS Sees no Journalism in Blogs · · Score: 1

    The slashdot crowd thinks that it lacks information and poorly represents U.S. political views as a function of geographic location. The slashdot crowd thinks that scientists know better than journalists. Gee, all your 51% victories become pretty obvious now, don't they?

  12. Re:WMD, Abu Graphic, missing explosives, votergate on CBS Sees no Journalism in Blogs · · Score: 1

    Where was the right wing corporate media on those stories?

    Alternative sources had the news, and kept it fresh, for months and years before the sheeple were allowed feed on the mainstream. How many news hours has Clenis/OJ/Kobie/Jackson/Petterson had in comparison to Enron, MooniecrowninginDC, or the dollar dump?

    Thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness, covet, do unto others. The extreme right and their fundamentalists are following none other than the anti, so it shouldn't be too surprising. Simply disgusting.

    Someone moderate this man up.
  13. Quick, quick! on CBS Sees no Journalism in Blogs · · Score: 0, Troll

    We need an official debunking of the pre-election exit poll figures that seem to have suggested a lead by Kerry! I know, let's attack the legitimacy of those who published them!

  14. Encrypted gbde swap! Finally! on FreeBSD 5.3 Released · · Score: 2, Insightful
    The gbde_swap script, which supports gbde-enabled swap devices, has been added. When the gbde_swap_enable variable is specified in rc.conf(5), a swap device named /dev/foo.bde in fstab(5) is automatically attached at boot time with the device /dev/foo and a random key, which is generated by computing the MD5 checksum of 512 bytes read from /dev/random. Note that this prevents recovery of kernel dumps.
  15. Re:Vote for President? on How has the USA PATRIOT Act Affected You? · · Score: 1

    Uh, because there are third parties who are against it?

  16. Re:Umm on How has the USA PATRIOT Act Affected You? · · Score: 1

    I'm sure it didn't effect any Americans. How it affected them, however, is another matter.

  17. Rule of thumb for political spin of any sort on MP3 Going the Way of the 8-Track? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In politics, you proclaim as already true what you would like to happen eventually.

  18. Re:legal system designed to control populace on UCSD Vs. Free Speech, Round 2 · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power."
    - Benito Mussolini

    "Fascism is an extreme right-wing ideology which embraces nationalism as the transcendent value of society. The rise of Fascism relies upon the manipulation of populist sentiment in times of national crisis. Based on fundamentalist revolutionary ideas, Fascism defines itself through intense xenophobia, militarism, and supremacist ideals. Although secular in nature, Fascism's emphasis on mythic beliefs such as divine mandates, racial imperatives, and violent struggle places highly concentrated power in the hands of a self-selected elite from whom all authority flows to lesser elites, such as law enforcement, intellectuals, and the media."
    - Ben Tripp, paraphrasing Mussolini's diary

    "By setting up special parastate agencies or "corporations" to replace failing or inadequate private enterprises, [Mussolini] was able to control the important economic sectors. Elitists everywhere found that laudable."
    - Ernest Fitzgerald

  19. Re:No problems with my Samsung on Does Your LCD Play Catch-Up To Your Mouse? · · Score: 1

    This is the model with VGA-only input, correct? Don't you find that it gives you eye fatigue after using it for more than about half an hour? Compared to my PowerBook G3's completely digital LCD, which I can stare at for hours on end, I find the 171v rather irritating to use. I haven't been able to determine whether this is a result of some abnormality with the fluorescent bulb or whether it's due to the 75Hz "noise" that is occasionally perceptible if you look at the screen the right way.

  20. Re:Biased. on Are Today's Polls Clueless? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, it is biased. There's no reason to believe that older people would necessarily be more inclined to believe the Bush admin's lies than younger people would.

  21. Re:Hey, Dell !!! on AMD Desktops Outsell Intel · · Score: 1

    They'll catch on eventually. Once enough of their competitors begin selling cheaper, better performing PCs they won't have any choice but to switch. The king of commoditization will eventually be pulled kicking and screaming by the same forces of capitalism that it had (ab)used previously to obliterate existing markets.

  22. Re:Sci fi NOT about future on Science Fiction Writers Discuss The Future · · Score: 1

    Wow. Is it just me, or did you just completely rip off wholesale--typos and all--this guy's post? It's one thing to try to accumulate karma on slashdot, but it's an entirely different thing to steal someone's ideas and claim them as your own.

  23. Re:Should have included DVI *input* on Apple Introduces New G5 iMac · · Score: 1

    No doubt. And with a KVM switch you could have a dual-computer setup and not waste any extra desk or floor space. I'm still kind of hoping that there might be an internal DVI connector in there somewhere.

  24. Re:chic magnet on The Search Engine Belt Buckle · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't know, seems like a rather effective way to get people to bend down and observe your crotch area with great interest.

  25. Re:This is being done by Republican-SUPPORTERS, ri on Hackers Take Aim at Republicans · · Score: 4, Insightful
    I realize that you're probably being sarcastic, but what you're suggesting would probably be one of the most "American" things that one could do. Does this look familiar to anyone?

    We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.