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  1. Re:Give the on Can Open Source Give Comfort To the Enemy? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Enemy of whom? Iran has not been in a war of aggression against any nation, since the 19th century.

    Don't bite the propaganda of AIPAC or Dick Cheney! Israel is the nuclear armed agressor in the Middle East.

    Persian culture, by way of contrast, produced the world's first assertion and declaration of Human Rights, and is responsible for the foundation of modern mathematics.

    You want ethical and humane living? Read the Avesta of Zoroaster. Unlike the rabid Old Testament, it pleads that humanity have good thought, good speech and good deeds, not casting it's neighbors as "abominations" and wishing them plagues.

  2. Re:Return to Oz was amazing. on Warner Bros. to Turn All 15 Oz Books Into Movies · · Score: 1

    I was far too young to feel 'homophobic' in 1972...

    It was just discouraging to a young boy. Heartbreaking to see a character you identified closely with - same age and all. Then he went away.

  3. SUNW now trades as JAVA? on Sun's Trading Symbol Going From SUNW To JAVA · · Score: 1

    Wheee! I wish BORL had traded as TPSCL.

    Ridiculous.

    This is a clear ploy to tie the stock to something that might drag it back to the 95-2000 glory days, where they'd hit USD 80, and split 2 or 3 ways - then immediately recover the price.

    Oh, well. What do you expect when Schwartz believes that Star Office is one of the most recognised brands in the world? "It is to larf, mate!"

  4. Re:Sounds perfect on Bionic Arm With Muscle Emulation · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's a dis-arming characteristic...

  5. Second Amendment - Heads up! on The White House Crowd Control Manual · · Score: 1

    Y'all gonna need this one, soon 'nuf my brotha's.

  6. Re:Sounds perfect on Bionic Arm With Muscle Emulation · · Score: 3, Funny

    I have other humorous insights - based on recent Slashdot entries.

    Would this break arms in a wrestling contest? And how does it stack up in such a contest against the jet-engine assisted are, recently featured on the fronpage?

  7. Re:So what you're telling me... on Warner Bros. to Turn All 15 Oz Books Into Movies · · Score: 1

    I will. My kids?

  8. Re:Return to Oz was amazing. on Warner Bros. to Turn All 15 Oz Books Into Movies · · Score: 1

    My 7 year old just finished reading Ozma - and we rented Return, to watch. He thought it ok, but preferred the book, with Princess Langwidere, and all the Nome King's ornaments... Toc-Toc met with approval, 'tho.

    I haven't given him Marvelous Land, yet. When I was 7, it was a bit hurtful and upsetting to have the Hero turned into a girl at the end... I think he can deal, but I'd rather he go to Dorothy and the Wizard, first.

  9. Re:Aren't they in the public domain? on Warner Bros. to Turn All 15 Oz Books Into Movies · · Score: 1

    Hence, they have been published in Dover editions, since the 80's or so.

  10. So what you're telling me... on Warner Bros. to Turn All 15 Oz Books Into Movies · · Score: 4, Informative

    Is that Hollywood is preparing to shit all over another part of my childhood? 13 times?

    Great.

    Man, Return to Oz was such a bastardization of "Marvelous Land" and "Ozma" - still, it had more Baum to it than the old MGM "all singing, all dancing" all vomiting wreck.

  11. Re:Talk about it if you must, but DO something on New Idea Could Lead to Quantum RAM · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Were you a g*ddammned hall monitor or something in a past life?

    What are you talking about? I replied to a non-sequitur about doing "something".

    I did "soemthing".

    I posted.

    About a funny idea that occurred from mis-reading the post. Quantum DRM is a possible misapplication of the crypto possibilities in quantum computing. But the existence of quantum RAM suggests that the problem might be moved into an area that was not previously accounted for in the speculation.

    I was appealing for folks with insight to explore this possibility, or to demonstrate where this was tangential or irrelevant to core cryptography problems.

    That is not nonsensical.

    Oh, and I think you might need to get laid, or something.

  12. Re:Talk about it if you must, but DO something on New Idea Could Lead to Quantum RAM · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I originally read the post title as Quantum DRM

    Another possible unintended effect? Will the code-breaking capabilities of quantum computing be offset by the capacities of quantum RAM?

  13. Re:You are the Kirk Unit? You will assist me. on Voyager Spacecraft Celebrate 30th Anniversary · · Score: 1

    "Sproinnnng, Sproin-Oinnnng!"

  14. Re:Fuel economy on Voyager Spacecraft Celebrate 30th Anniversary · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah. A frictionless environment will do wonders for your MPG...

  15. You are the Kirk Unit? You will assist me. on Voyager Spacecraft Celebrate 30th Anniversary · · Score: 1, Informative

    Spock: Mentally, V'ger is a child...

    'Bones': Spock, this "child" is about to wipe out every living thing on Earth. Now, what do you suggest we do? Spank it?

    Spock: It knows only that it needs, Commander. But, like so many of us... it does not know what.

    "SEND MORE CHUCK BERRY"

  16. MARS NEEDS WOMEN! on German Physicists Claim Speed of Light Broken · · Score: 1

    And maybe she can adopt there.

    Spa fon? SQUAA TRONT!

  17. This man's career on James Hansen on the Warmest Year Brouhaha · · Score: 0, Troll

    is staked on perpetrating the "Global Warming" hoax.

    We were worried about the melting Greenland glacier, and dissapearing Arctic ice in the 1920's, too.

  18. Re:Whiskey Tango Foxtrot on One Failed NIC Strands 20,000 At LAX · · Score: 1

    DCA IRMA!

  19. Re:Whiskey Tango Foxtrot on One Failed NIC Strands 20,000 At LAX · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well.

    Token ring sure used to fail like this! 1 bad station sending 10,000 ring-purge messages a second? Still, it was a truck. Files under 1Mb could be transferred, and this was TR/4, not 16!

  20. Re:I Blame Bush on One Failed NIC Strands 20,000 At LAX · · Score: -1, Troll

    Bitterness? He LOVES bitterness. It explains the penchant for felching.

  21. Re:That's all it takes on One Failed NIC Strands 20,000 At LAX · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Then that would lead me to think "hub", not switch. Or just a really shitty switch...

  22. Re:Let's Be Reasonable About This on Security Threat In the New Wiretapping Law · · Score: 1

    How do they determine if he's "a known member of al-qaeda"? Do they look up the records of his old CIA paymaster?

  23. Re:This really gets my goat on Security Threat In the New Wiretapping Law · · Score: 1

    No child left behind!

    It's a cog in the wheel: "Well, they test with very high scores..."

  24. Re:The blurb is actually pretty accurate on Open Source Community's Double Standard · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It is not unethical to say or wish this. He is making a statement that is in philosophical variance from those that dominate and define a market.

    It would be unethical if RMS were to restrict others to this practice with out their consent to the terms of the license.

  25. Re:The blurb is actually pretty accurate on Open Source Community's Double Standard · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You're free NOT to make the effort to GPL projects. You're free to pick another license for your own project.