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  1. Re:How is this a 'culture'? on A Peek At Script Kiddie Culture · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Or the result of you-can't-do-this-and-you-can't-do-that raising, where the kid becomes more introvert/hiding in its search for playground, and eventually ends up doing really nasty things as soon as the parents aren't watching.

    The only way to raise a child not triggering its "do the opposite of what you say" when you ask it not to do something that really is bad, is to never say no if it really isn't a problem, and when saying no out of rreal need, allways motivate the no with good arguments that the child just can not ignore the truth of.

  2. Re:Hawking radiation on Famous Hawking Black Hole Bet Resolved? · · Score: 1

    Then your universe is quite wierd... Can you even do multiplication and addition within it? Does (a + b) * c = a * c + b * c in your univese? Normally, 2 can be made to equal 0 (mod 2), with the basic mathematical laws still holding (including divission, since 2 is a prime number,but OK, it becomes a bit stupid to talk about a multpilicative inverse to 1, since it is its own one, 1 * 1 = 1...).

  3. Re:From the changelog [OT] on USENIX Responds to SCO; Fyodor Pulls NMap · · Score: 1

    Funny thing 'sed' means 'custom' or 'moral' in swedish...

  4. Re:Ladies and Gentlemen: The Scientific Method on What If Dark Matter Really Doesn't Exist? · · Score: 1

    But the jewish god, the christian god and the msulim god just happens to be the same god... You all have heritage from your particular religion, the jewish, all of you share the old testament, and thus the same god, just different interpretations on what that god really is and wants from you.

    I'd rather not believe in anything that can not in any way be disprooved by finding some type of not-yet-found counter-evidence. Not that such a theory can not be true, just that it is not in any way practical to base one's life on it...

  5. Re:What the crap?? on Bill Gates to be Knighted · · Score: 1

    Nah, he allready got a more honorable title - honorary doctor at Stockholm University (sorry, in swedish only).

  6. Re:Why don't their web pages mention this? on SCO Wants to License Europe · · Score: 1

    So that germany can sue the hell out of them? Don't think so...

  7. Re:Total nonsense, but you probably knew that alre on Microsoft Rolls Out New Anti-Linux Ad Campaign · · Score: 1

    If you just want a Linux-admin on the same skill-level as an ordinary Windows-admin, i.e. able to install the system, install new software, keep up with secuity patches and after reading the manuals configure things like a mail-server (Postfix or the like, not sendmail!), you could get one for nealy nothing straight out of uni - there are loads of people with a new shiny exam, seeking for a job in today's cold IT industry. They'l settle fo anything you want to offer them, just if they can survive...

  8. Re:Norway on DVD-Jon Completely Clear · · Score: 1

    And norweigians are nice people, they just sound pretty funny (even when they' sad or angry :])... I personally know quite some norweigans, and this week-end, I'l actually go to a housewarming-party one of them has :)

    They do have some stupid laws, and so do we Swedes, but they generally seems to be _other_ stupid laws... Funny!

  9. Re:on crack on Forbes Ventures Bold Predictions For IT, Linux · · Score: 1

    Yesterday, I saw a really nice thing, in a forum on an on-line, totally non-techie website (helgon.net (swedish only)) here in sweden - a boy who admitted he was a total newbie, and had just installed RH Linux, and who searched for others in the same situation (not gurus, just other Linux newbies like himself) - so that they could help eachother learn. He'd learnt the spirit of Free Software, elthough not the techniques... That gave me hope for the future!

  10. Re:What ITER is about on Giant International Fusion Reactor Draws Nearer · · Score: 1

    Do you know what type of optimization problem the layout of the spools is? Is there a site omewhere whee that problem is presented? I've recently taken the second course in combinatorial optimization, doing a project on frequency allocation for mobile phones, and it would be fun to have another, harder/bigger problem to play with...

  11. Re:Rules on Web 'Rules' Changing? · · Score: 1

    It is not an as empty statement as it may first seem - quite some webpages out there contains just hot air and webdesign...

    When it comes to easily accessible - simpler i better. If it works in lynx and doesn't look too awfull in the latest Mozilla and IE (i.e. styles it up nicely uing CSS), it's great.

    If it uses special functionality like buttons with onClick javasript for things that could equally well have been done uing ordinary links, it sucks. Simple as that.

    Stangely, more private homepages sites about Free Software than corporate pages follows this...

    And don't tell me this is unimportant - if it works in Lynx, it does work in all brail-readers and such thing too, automagically :)

  12. Re:Or if you want a more geographical map on Latest Maps of the Internet · · Score: 1

    Most countries doesn't have states...

  13. Re:Menus on New X Roadmap from Jim Gettys · · Score: 1

    Every distibution has its own menu build system. However, freedesktop.org has a standard for desktop entry files. Those files define a rich set of propeties that can be used to filter and transform the menu, which should be enought to satisfy everyones need to sort the menu entries into submenus after his/he personal taste. This is much better than an installation progam that fill ones windows desktop with junk.

    I have hacked together a generic system called cookmenus, that I intended to replace the debian menu package (which has problems with tranlations and its filtering capabilities are bugging) with, that allows one to filter and transform the menu as one whishes. This program, cookmenus, is working, and can tansforrm debian entries into feedesktop.org (gnome/kde) entries, aswell as filter them and sort them. It also integrates into the system as a menu package replacement package. However, the command-line format is a bit awkward and documentation and output-desktop-entry-fileformat modules are still lacking (for outputing menus to e.g. fvwm2 and the like).

  14. Re:..."It relieves the copyright owner..." on Jail Time for Movie Swappers · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You, the Ameican people allways bag abour your right to bea arms, just to be able to protect yourself from a state acting outside of your interests.

    Regardless of that, you are not even able to _try_ defend yourself through the democratic channels still left in place against the curent ongoing stupidity. It's time you change _your_ country to be for you, the people, or shut up about "the Land of the fee, home of the brave".

  15. Re:Copy of article... on Israeli Super Drone Stolen · · Score: 2, Informative

    Uh, it isn't that unique. At Linkoping University, Sweden, the WITAS project is working on a similar thingy, see http://www.ida.liu.se/ext/witas/ And it seems quitte some other uni's around the world are involved in imilar projects, too...

  16. Re:When and how much? on Bombardier's Hot Wheel · · Score: 1

    Nah. What he _hould_ learn is not to drool and not get one, but to get a job where he _creates_ such ones, or woks with people who do, so that he gets to test someone elseses one...

  17. Re:Hackers on The Psychology of Virus Writers · · Score: 1

    You can't change the name a community without leader has for itself. And there i no reason to change it. We'l just have to live with that people knows nothing about who we are. They don't care anyway. And anyway, whining about bad journalism about computers _is_ part of the amusements a hacker have...

  18. Re:Political? on GNU-Darwin: Three Years of Free Software Activism · · Score: 1

    Nag, it's a sad thing the sstupid bastard wrote a changable license, and the OpenBSD-team accepted it in the first place. Note that this has nothing to do with copyleft, which most BSDers hate too, but with totally non-free-software!

  19. Re:It's really 400. on 800 Megs of Data Per Person Last Year? · · Score: 1

    The question, then, is if _your_ comment is also poste twice...

  20. Re:When will it end? on Tennessee's Super-DMCA Rises From The Grave · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think that the point is, that it does not matte. At all. If the founding father's pointt was that after a _limited_ time, eveyone should be allowed to copy a work, then it does not matter they did not know how easy or hard it would be in hunded yeas to copy that work _after_ the limited time had elapsed.

    What has changed is _not_ only technology, but goal and policy. Our culture is by large not our anymore. Our knowledge is neither.

    We the people, need to take back what is our.

  21. Re:But to see RFID, the mine must emit a signal... on Defense Department Drafts RFID Policy · · Score: 1

    But does the boobytrap need to send the signal itself? I'm not sure about how exactly these RFIDs works, but do you need to _be_ the sende to compare the sent signal with the reflected one in order to determine the RFIDs ID (or just existence, ffor this purpose), or do you just have to listen to the reflected signal? If so, you will be able to tell there _is_ boobytrap, somewhere "near", when you see the signal, but not exactly where. And if you pass between the sender and the trap, kazap.

  22. Re:Pretty useless then on Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 Removes Linux Support · · Score: 1

    You did not ead the parent of my post, did you?

    Either you run on x86, and have it optimized and as much as possible non-emulated, _or_ you run it on another architecture, fully emulatted. You can'r run x86-code non-emulatted on a non x86-arch!

  23. Re:Pretty useless then on Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 Removes Linux Support · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Uh, that's why thee's a Plex86. Plex86 shares some code with bochs for the emulation of secure features of the processor and of extenal hadware, but executes ring code natively in ring 3 on the processor, just as VmWare.

    Anyway, I can't see why anybody would care about this VirtualPC M$ junk, when VmWare is out there and compatible with everything except OS/2 (I've checked, and it doesn't work, and OS/2 does not work unde Plex86 either, and there, I got some more debugging info, OS/2 uses a bit in CR2 that none of these vitualizers have caed to virtualize...(But ATM, I can't remember which bit...))

  24. Re:Sounds like... on EC Dumps Open Source Conference · · Score: 1

    Not all companies... I for one work for a company that would love to see free software in all public organizations - especially if the configuration and support was done by us :]

    And we're not alone - from what I know, there are plenty of FS-companies in germany and some in the other EU countries too (hm, in my town in Sweden, I thenk there are 5 or so FS-based buissnesses).

    The only ones NOT wanting this are US companies like M$...

  25. Re:China isn't the only threat on Next Major War in Space? · · Score: 1

    If you threaten people, enemies are what you will get. And only enemies.

    Your opinion, if implemented by the US (which I believe it allready is), will come back and bite you the first day you'r not the largest superpower. In some ways, ut allrready is biting you...

    It's funny how similar the relations between the nations of the world are to the children play in a sandbox...

    Those who sacrifice long-term-good for temporary big wins, will get just that. You can just hope to allready be dead when the turn comes, because it will come for all empires, sooner or later. And it will be much much harder to live with, if the empire has been a big problem to the rest of the world...