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  1. Re:And then what? on Apple Pulls C64 Emulator From the App Store · · Score: 1

    Wait, how would it depend on its length? Unless you're using a hardened Turing test, it would always be bellow the belt.

  2. Re:One more nail in the coffin.... on Emergency Government Control of the Internet? · · Score: 1

    Which one of his rights does it look like? You didn't specify.

  3. Re:And the point was? on Getting Through the FOSS License Minefield · · Score: 1

    Definitely not just you. I facepalmed when reading that sentence.

  4. Re:Yes, it looks like crap on Avatar, Has Sci-fi Found Its Heaven's Gate? · · Score: 1

    They do look a little elvish

  5. Re:There is no insecurity at all. Move along. on Facebook App Exposes Abject Insecurity · · Score: 1

    The same happened to me. And also, all of them are related to one hotmail account, and one that is NOT the one I'm using on facebook, which is even scarier. I wonder if someone has more insight in this...

  6. Re:Lost the point on Leaving the GPL Behind · · Score: 1

    Their license does. Again, if you don't agree with the terms of a license you have no right use the licensed works.

    If your problem is that you don't like license terms that restrict your usage of the licensed work, then I'm really sorry for you, because that is pretty much what licenses are for.

    I think you're seeing this from the wrong perspective: The license is not telling you what to do with your code, is telling you what THEIR code can be used with, in this case GPL-(compatible-)licensed applications. If I decide to license my work saying that it can't be used with commercial applications, for example, then you can't use it with commercial applications, period. If I license it saying you must wear a blue cowboy hat while using it, then that's my terms, and you can't pick and choose what to apply from the license.

    Honestly, it seems to me that you advocate being a leech and using people's code disregarding their licensing terms.

    P.S. Incidentally, I just realized that I've seen you before elsewhere. Funny little world, the internets.

  7. Re:Lost the point on Leaving the GPL Behind · · Score: 1

    You seem to have a serious problem of confusing copyright with licensing.The fact that you link your program with a GPLd library doesn't magically change the copyright on it. Your program would have to be licensed under the GPL or a GPL-compatible license, but it's still YOUR program with YOUR copyright.

    Of course, as it has been said countless times, if you don't want to license your program under the GPL, simply don't use GPL code (libraries or otherwise) that would imply you have to do so. I'm sure there will be other libraries with a different license that suits your needs, and if not, you can code an equivalent library yourself instead of complaining that you want to use someone's code but NOT comply with the license they choose for it.

  8. Re:Not many... on College Credits For Trolling the Web? · · Score: 1

    I wonder how many religious people are well-versed in atheism, and if it has anything to do with their parents...

  9. Re:nothing broke yet on Mac OS X v10.5.8 Ready For Download · · Score: 1

    I didn't wait - I was sleeping as a log. She woke me up AFTER powering it off and on again and getting the kernel panic (no sleep for us married geeks), but now she says that she waited about two minutes. I guess if she had waited longer, it would have finished. Now she'll wait more time next time it happens!

  10. Re:nothing broke yet on Mac OS X v10.5.8 Ready For Download · · Score: 1

    That's right. I am incompetent, and so is my wife. Or does the MacOSX problem fit your bias better than the Windows one, therefore making me an incompetent and Microsoft totally cool, while making Apple incompetent and my wife totally cool?

    And how am I supposed to be incompetent when all I do is click "Restart" after that nagging window keeps poking me with the fact that it updated a lot of stuff and I need to restart my computer like, right now? Is there any specific highly technical wrist twist I should be doing while clicking on it? Please enlighten me on this subject as I would love to stop having this problem in the future.

    For the record, debian has a record of having done this to me on a couple of occasions as well since Bo. You think I should start a class action lawsuit, too?

  11. Re:nothing broke yet on Mac OS X v10.5.8 Ready For Download · · Score: 5, Informative

    Of course. I have never seen a Windows update causing BSODs that forced me to boot in safe mode and actually go around the drivers/services/etc looking for the reason the OS won't start. That's just science fiction.

  12. Re:nothing broke yet on Mac OS X v10.5.8 Ready For Download · · Score: 5, Informative

    My wife's Macbook (MB881LL/A, white, early 2009) updated earlier today (from software updates), and froze mid-installation of the update. When restarted, it would kernel panic saying the kernel signature didn't match the CPU.

    I had to restart the mac with the shift key pressed (safe mode) and after aprox. 15 minutes of gray screen with the spinning circle, it restarted itself again and booted up correctly, saying that all is well and 10.5.8 is installed. I am still wary of what might have messed up in the process, but at least this may work for anyone else with the same problem.

  13. Re:Thanks... on RIAA Says "Don't Expect DRMed Music To Work Forever" · · Score: 1

    In Spain's case, to the SGAE, the equivalent to the RIAA there.

    The "rationale" for it is that everyone has to pay the recording industry when buying recordable media in case they use it for copyright infringement, and to offset the losses from the people who actually do it. No more innocent until proven guilty!

    You can see the slashdot news here:
    http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/06/06/27/2156220.shtml

    Where it says 'given to the copyright holder' it means "given to the RIAA-equivalent group".

  14. Re:Why does this matter? on Games Fail To Portray Gender and Ethnic Diversity · · Score: 1

    Tolerance and hospitality have nothing to do with it. War does. I'm not saying they were any worse than the Christian side, as the Christian side committed a lot of atrocities in that era (and a lot of other eras). I'm saying that, had a typically christian-looking person entered their territory, even if unarmed and friendly, they would most probably not receive him with open arms. They would be stupid to do so.

  15. Re:Why does this matter? on Games Fail To Portray Gender and Ethnic Diversity · · Score: 1

    And of course, had a friendly and unarmed caucasian male entered Muslim or Jewish territory during the crusades, he would have been welcomed with open arms and a nice meal.

  16. Re:Thanks... on RIAA Says "Don't Expect DRMed Music To Work Forever" · · Score: 1

    A lot of countries (mainly european, including but not limited to Spain, which is the one I have direct input from) already tax hard drives, USB fash drives, mobile phones, even cameras that have internal storage with a specific % that goes to the record companies. Nothing new!

  17. Re:Hmm. on Stroustrup Says New C++ Standard Delayed Until 2010 Or Later · · Score: 1

    [...] its almost like you're ignorant or out of date or something.

    Goes to show how brilliant C++ is, in a normal language psychotic fuckers can do all sorts of damage, in C++ they can't even compile...

    Errrrr....

    (*i) would refer to the object that the iterator is pointing at... -> is needed if that object is a pointer ( which seems to be, given that syntax and the delete (*i) )

    So indeed, his code seem to be valid at first glance, and would compile if the std::vector is a container with pointers on it. Maybe C++ is more suited for psychotic fuckers than for you...

  18. Re:So what? on Human Sperm Produced In the Laboratory · · Score: 5, Interesting

    And, on a chilling (for me) twist, if they took stem cells from a woman, they could generate some sperm for her, thereby allowing her to impregnate herself .

  19. Re:How Pointless.... on Amazon Wants Patent For Inserting Ads Into Books · · Score: 1

    "The Five Guys at the End of the Universe" sounds perfectly mystical and interesting, tho.

  20. Re:They're not even keeping the money... on Pirate Bay Announces Sale to Swedish Company For $7.8 Million · · Score: 1

    What's wrong about eMule? eDonkey got bought and was taken over by the RIAA/MPAA, but not eMule.

  21. Re:What made SS1 great? on Serious Sam Remake Coming In Fall · · Score: 1

    Oh, those are the new rules?

    Can't wait to tell my mother I made 89 friends today!

  22. Re:What made SS1 great? on Serious Sam Remake Coming In Fall · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    C'mon, this is slashdot. Are you really going to pretend you have 32 friends?

  23. Re:Do you blame the road if the car is stolen? on Another Question Of Search Engine Legality and Infringement · · Score: 1

    From http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutgrammar/data :

    "However, there has been a growing tendency to use it as an equivalent to the uncountable noun information, followed by a singular verb. This is now regarded as generally acceptable in American use, and in the context of information technology."

  24. Re:It's called... on Watch TV On Your Satnav · · Score: 1

    But if you hadn't commented, there would be nothing to mod +1 Funny in the first place.

  25. Re:Slashdotted on Open Source FPS Game Alien Arena 2009 Released · · Score: 1

    Package alien-arena is not available, but is referred to by another package.
    This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
    is only available from another source
    E: Package alien-arena has no installation candidate

    Not in amd64 I take it.