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  1. Re:Possible Problem on Exec Shield for the Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    Couldn't there be some sort of syscall to allow executing your stack, with the default set to "no"?

  2. Re:GPL says you can charge whatever you want on Microsoft Smartphone Code Signing and the GPL? · · Score: 2, Informative

    In fact, the signing works nicely in your favor, since nobody can undercut you on price. Or they can, but they too have to pay the L500, ... or purchase a copy from him and then resell it!


    DOH!
    LoL
  3. GPL says you can charge whatever you want on Microsoft Smartphone Code Signing and the GPL? · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can charge money for GPL software. You just have to make the source easily available. I think that would be covered by a URL in the about-box.

    In fact, the signing works nicely in your favor, since nobody can undercut you on price. Or they can, but they too have to pay the L500, in which case they'd have to either 1) charge as much as you or 2) hate you enough to take an intentional loss. Both are a lot of hassel. Seems to me like you just win.

  4. These comics look lame on Free Comic Day! · · Score: 1

    I read through the abstracts for the comics, and wow are they not-very-exciting-looking. I guess they have to convince you to buy other comics in as few pages as possible, in order to make a profit. But boy oh boy, do they look stooge-a-riffic.

  5. Re:Substitute for Codeweavers??? on WineX 3.0 Examined · · Score: 1

    Riiight, And WineX is not Free-as-in-speech?

  6. "3200+"? What's the real clock speed? on Athlon Xp 3200+ 400FSB is Coming · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What's the real clock speed of this beggar?

  7. sources on Hilary Rosen from RIAA will write Iraq's Copyrights? · · Score: 1

    Although I didn't make it up, I also can't find any trace of it. It might have been a link off of drudgereport.com, or a NYTimes editorial. Sorry!
    : (

  8. Re:The only one to win here on Open 3D-Graphics Spec For Devices Nears Release · · Score: 1

    Well, I think we the nerdy people also win, since OpenGL is quite fun to develop for, I hope to see some OGL games ported to cellphone. Because Snake II and Space Impact are getting Real. Old.

  9. Re:Substitute for Codeweavers??? on WineX 3.0 Examined · · Score: 1

    I wish someone would post a comparison of all the different Wine-oids, including what the license terms are. I looked into wine for starcraft and warcraft-III some time ago, and despite several anecdotes about how "it works", I never could really get tractable instructions.

  10. abortion on Hilary Rosen from RIAA will write Iraq's Copyrights? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    We're dumping all kinds of conservative stupid shit onto Iraq. I hear also abortion is now illegal there, thanks to G.W. He's treating it not as an American protectorate but as a Republican Party protectorate.

  11. Re:How to fold it in on Announcing Games.slashdot.org · · Score: 1

    Ok, once I do this I get all the articles in "Games". Unfortunately I also get all the articles in "BSD". I want to get the big, important BSD headlines, but not the minor ones. There's no way to do this and still get all the games headlines, right?

  12. How to fold it in on Announcing Games.slashdot.org · · Score: 1

    Dumbe Qwestion: how do I get this stuff "folded in" to my main page?

  13. Re:The Calculus of the Girlfriend on The First Steps Towards Asimov's Psychohistory? · · Score: 1

    We are engaged tho. :)

  14. Re:The Calculus of the Girlfriend on The First Steps Towards Asimov's Psychohistory? · · Score: 1

    Yep. Don't plan on any. Out of curiosity, what changes?

  15. The Calculus of the Girlfriend on The First Steps Towards Asimov's Psychohistory? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I do apply a semi-algorithmic approach to dealing with my girlfriend. I find it works very well.

    Sometimes she tries to step in and run my life. Sometimes she assumes her priorities should override my priorities. When that happens I express what is important to me, and stick to my guns.

    Other times, and frankly more often, I don't have priorities of my own, and I'm happy to let her have her way.

    Still other times, I try to get her to prioritize my concerns above her own. When that happens, she usually tells me to get bent. This is good.

    When there are attempts to control some issue, I try to quantify how important it is to me, and how important it is to her, and let that be my guide. Its important to rely on one's own internal assessment of priority, because of course if you ask her how important something is, its typically infinity. ; )

    God and/or monkeys created each of us to live OUR OWN LIVES. I see many people screw up their lives because they try to live for someone else (or worse yet, something else). This results in lost years and stunted freaky damage. Ya gots to get out there and defend yo turf, man.

  16. Re:Not all the mail YOU don't want is spam... on Online Marketers to Stamp out Spam? · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately innocent civilians are getting fragged in their rush to carpet-bomb consumerdom. I can't wait for ads that are actually useful. This can't come about while TV is in its current state. It can come about through "evil" doubleclick monitoring of web surfing. Just a thought.

  17. Re:Not all the mail YOU don't want is spam... on Online Marketers to Stamp out Spam? · · Score: 2, Funny
    the advertisers have a well-defined and mature methodology of knowing where and how to promote their products on TV and they don't have to worry about their audience getting annoyed by ads for things that they don't want.


    What TV are you watching? That doesn't sound so bad.

    When I was a kid watching cartoons I *swore* never to spend a penny at Smith's furniture because they totally over-advertised during Battle of the Planets. And I'm sticking to it. Ditto for snuggle fabric softener, etc.

    Now I'm bombarded by car ads. I think driving is immoral. I have no car and won't buy one untill I'm too old to bike. Yet 30% of tv commercials are car ads, and most of them are really REALLY inane and stupid.

    When we have real pervasive directed advertising, like some sponsored links on search engines, will be a great day. I would even go so far to say that if target audiences could "rate" ads they're subjected to, and dumb or irrelevant ads cost the advertisers more, and cool, funny or apropos ads cost the advertisers less (and hence they actually make a profit).
  18. Re:This is a manufactured problem on Analysis of Netflix's DVD Allocation System · · Score: 1

    We'll DVDs are digital, so just perform a verify step to ensure you got a good copy. That's the beauty of digital media: perfect copies.

    As for the liner notes, blah blah blah, encode them as .pdf files onto the DVD, and have the customer print them out, or view them online, or whatever. (Perhaps you can tell, I think liner notes are stupid)

  19. priacy on Analysis of Netflix's DVD Allocation System · · Score: 1

    That could be a problem, but I think its solvable through hardware. Only burn on serial-numbered media, dial up an mpaa server and log every transaction, and require employee ID codes be entered prior to each transaction.

  20. This is a manufactured problem on Analysis of Netflix's DVD Allocation System · · Score: 5, Insightful

    DVD burners are cheap now. They ought to just license the ability to burn-on-demand from the MPAA. That way they never run out of Titanic or whatever. Perhaps the MPAA would need to fund "UN inspections" to ensure that the excess DVDs are destroyed.

    I notice blockbuster charges ~$3.90 for all DVDs now, "because the cost of replacement for damaged DVDs is so much higher than VHS". Sha, right, why blockbuster's don't all have DVD burners in the back room is purely a testament to bad/non-existant negotiations between Blockbuster and the movie companies.

  21. Re:Not so easy on Bitstream/Gnome Release Vera Font Family · · Score: 1

    I am very frustrated by this process!
    I followed the abiword how to install truetype fonts directions carefully, adding /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera-1.10 and /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera to my /ets/X11/fs/config file. I also ran ttmkfdir -o fonts.scale mkfontdir in each of the directories. So, please, somebody, tell me why xfontsel can't find it?

  22. Not so easy on Bitstream/Gnome Release Vera Font Family · · Score: 1

    Man, for all the talk on how great these fonts are, people are really reticient to actually tell how to install for such-and-such distro. Thank you for bucking that trend. Now I just have to find someone else that goes through the ewie gooey for woody.

  23. Re:how channels work on Games Workshop Tries to Crack Down on Internet Sales · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Heh,
    I don't buy this "value add" thing. Even before the internet all the GW stores I went to had surly, greedy propriators. And why is that? I think its because GW intentionally breeds an "its all about the money" attitude. I once got to read the magazine they produce only for retailers, and it had a few telltale sentaces like: "soon your profits will be ballooning faster than your customer's belt sizes!"

    I think warhampster is clearly a money collector just like Pokemon. If you really like miniatures wargaming there are several systems out there that do not require $500 + 100 hours to get into. Pernsonally I like Ogre

  24. Heh, wouldn'tcha know just bought one yesterday on Shopping for a New Monitor? · · Score: 1

    net reviews, read lots of net reviews. That's what I did and eventually I sprang for the $650 sony instead of the $450 viewsonic. I'll reply-this when I actually get it.

  25. Courier on Mozilla's Major New Roadmap · · Score: 1

    Under Preferences>Fonts>Appearance try setting "Monospace" to "adobe-courier-...". Seems to work for me over here in Debian-land.

    Waaay off topic, but courier makes my ass hurt. I feel that the one true programming font is lucidatypewriter. Long live lucidatypewriter. All hail lucidatypewriter!