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  1. Re:Great, now when... on Fed Raids Software Pirates in 27 Cities · · Score: 1

    I suppose you could argue its victimless provided nobody is hurt. Accounts are insured up to $100,000, so the money is secure.

    But that's not a kosher crime for the slashdot population as it has nothing to do with Linux.

  2. Re:Great, now when... on Fed Raids Software Pirates in 27 Cities · · Score: 1

    Yes they are. Remember Timothy McVeigh? Every day I'm sure there's at least one crackpot that gets questioned by federal agents about some threat to the president or VP.

    Remember the Unabomber? He's in a federal prision.

    The FBI gets involved in any armed bank robbery.

  3. Re:What the hell are they thinking?!?!?!?! on Porting Debian to... Windows · · Score: 1

    Because it's called "reverse engineering". You think some AMD minions dug through the dumpster at Intel and found a book "Implementing SSE on non-Intel chips, a HOW-TO?"

    Hardly.

  4. Re:WU-FTPD maintainer ain't happy... on Wu-ftpd Remote Root Hole · · Score: 1

    In other words, he's blaming someone else for an oversight on his part.

    Email to security@wu-ftpd.org [where the Security Focus announcement supposedly went] forwards to my non-WU-FTPD address where it is merged with other traffic concerning the security and operation of my servers.

    And he's pissed that someone released notification of an exploit before notifying him. That's fine to be upset about it, but this isn't a monarchy. There is no Authorita here. It's a not even a half-assed confederation.

    Lest the author of Wu-FTPd realize that people still do have free will, and email programs still do have filtering functions and security@wu-ftpd.org is a non-standard email when perhaps abuse@wu-ftpd.org would make a hell of a lot more sense.

  5. Re:Best example of an imperfect google: on Google Letting Users Rank Search Results · · Score: 1

    You typed 'fuck me' in google? Dude, it works.

  6. Best example of an imperfect google: on Google Letting Users Rank Search Results · · Score: 1

    Try a search for "fuck me" and hit "I'm feeling lucky."

    I'll spoil the end: a website called Textism, which has nothing to do with fucking or me. It's rigged, a deliberate manipulation, and it worked fantastically well.

    He explains on his site how that worked, and how it worked so well.

    Excellent site on typography too....

  7. Re:Slashdot checked a story?? on SuperK Neutrino Detector Severely Damaged. · · Score: 1

    The use of periods at the end of titles depends on which style of headline writing one subscribes too. Often in advertising copywriting, you will notice periods at the end of headlines and important statements.

    In newspaper headline writing, at least in the US, it is common to omit the period.

    Traditional styled newspapers, such as the International Hearld Tribune, and the Washington Post, capitalize each word in the headline and put a period at the end of the headline.

    Generally, when the initial article of each word is capitalized, there is a period at the end of the sentence.

    Look at these photos of the print editions of the IHT and the Washington Post. They follow the more traditional method for the lead story, but omit the period for all others:
    http://www.iht.com/pdf/ihtfrontpage.pdf
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/print/image /

  8. Reports of its demise have been.... on SuperK Neutrino Detector Severely Damaged. · · Score: 3, Informative

    Premature at best.

    It's a real shame, the loss the Japan lab, but I can't help but think that the lab being built in Western South Dakota will be even more important. I cannot find a decent date on completion, but this page explains a newer, better neutrino detection lab being constructed right now.

    The location even better (8,000 feet deep, insulated from nearly every form of interference) and the site has fanstastic support from the state and federal government. The Japan lab isn't the only one in existance -- there are others in Ontario and the South Dakota lab has had facilities in operation since 1967.

    The articles, both the Slashdot commentary and the NYTimes article, predict a savage demise. But other labs, especially the South Dakota lab, offer a huge potential to pickup the slack.

  9. Re:the inhumanity on Operation Acoustic Kitty · · Score: 1

    Go ahead, moderate me.

    You brave patriot! Throwing karma to the sea like tea from a ship!

    GIVE ME +2 OR GIVE ME DEATH!
    REMEMBER THE DEAD PENIS BIRDS!
    LOOSE STOOLS SINK SHIPS!
    Early to post, early to reply, makes a karma whore healthy, wealthy and wise.

    Bravo!

  10. Re:Not necessarily... on Slash 2.2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Here's the best way to do it:
    Get a nice fat slice of karma.

    The tell people like you to Go Get Fucked because isn't like like losing karma will suck a quart of blood from your arm.

    It ain't worth nothing, to nobody. It's a stupid number that means shit. Posts that start at +2 rarely go above that. Look at the moderation totals sometime. It's far less common for a +2 post to go much higher.

  11. Re:You guys... on Looking At Gobe · · Score: 0

    Oh wonderful. So like the rest of the Linux world, when a user has a legitimate complaint that his files don't work, a bunch of raving madmen can jump on his ass and scream WRITE IT YOURSELF - WE MADE AN API.

    Fuck API. If I had an OS, I'd make it entirely extensible via API, then quit. When people bitched and said it was worthless, I'd yell "BUT IT HAS AN API. WRITE A MEMORY MANAGER YOURSELF."

  12. Re:U.S. shouldn't punish with law, but with purcha on MS Settlement: Six States (And Samba) Say "Stop!" · · Score: 1

    Maybe so, but Linux isn't anywhere on the list of evaluated and approved products for high-security use.

    Look at this link:
    http://www.radium.ncsc.mil/tpep/library/fers/tcs ec _fers.html

    No Linux. No *BSD. Just NT and 2k.

  13. Re:Schweeeeeeet! But is there an .rpm? on Kernel 2.4.14 is out · · Score: 1

    You Were Trolled. See, the post you replied to was a Troll of a Troll. A Meta Troll if you will.

    You were doubly trolled, as getting trolled by a meta troll is worth the number of trolls following the parent. Your Troll Factor is 2.

  14. Re:In related news... on VA Linux Dropping "Linux" From Name · · Score: 1

    Which makes about as much sense as Peter North dropping 'North' from his name, you assclown.

  15. Re:Run, early adopters, run!! on Quarter-sized CD's? · · Score: 1

    How can this possibly succeed? I don't get it.

    1. Because computer companies will bundle a player with each system sold.

    2. The player will be ultra cheap and highly portable.

    3. You will have no choice but to purchase the discs because new material will be released in this format only.

    The moral here is this: why make something better when you can make it more expensive (cost/disc), more restrictive, with poorer quality? -- to get gobs of money from record companies.

  16. Re:Linux-on-Mac solutions on Yellow Dog Linux 2.1 Shipping · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If I have seven piles of shit, and two piles of gold, are you telling me that you'd choose the seven piles of shit -- simply because there's more of it?

  17. Re:Obligatory "New OS" Slashdot Reaction on SkyOS Now Runs Linux Binaries Natively · · Score: 1

    Let me sum up the comments, since apparently you have not read them:

    50% will be "first dead penis bird post"
    30% will be "What the fuck is Timothy thinking...he owes them an apology."
    10% will be "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these"
    and 10% will be "here's a direct cut and paste of what's in the link, please mod this up as I am a karma whore."

  18. Re:Why SkyOS? on SkyOS Now Runs Linux Binaries Natively · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If you don't like it, don't hang out at a web site that pushes Open Source.


    The website itself doesn't *push* open source...nancyboy Linux zealots push the open source. If you don't like divergent opinions, maybe move to Central Afghanistan?

  19. Re:DIY dvd player anyone? on Shuttle's Tiny PC Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a user error. Did you place the DVD in the tray with the painted side facing up?

  20. Not quite... on Yellow Dog Linux 2.1 Shipping · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There are at least four strong Linux-on-Mac contenders now, which is nice to see.

    No, there are not. LinuxPPC is all but stagnated, MkLinux development has slowed to a snail's pace after Apple tossed them of the USS Jobs into rough seas, in an old Zodiac with just one oar, SuSE is, well, SuSE, and Mandrake PPC is a bitch to install on Pre-Grey G3 boxen.

    Hardly a steller showing for a fantastic platform. I all but abandoned my efforts at converting a StarMax 4000 (aka PowerPC 4400) into a Samba box. Installation is anything but straightforward unless you have a NewWorld machine, and the packages and updates are not particularly well kept up.

    I'm not faulting any particular distro or person here, but fact of the matter is, to call it a strong showing is just Linux bunko.

  21. Re:DIY dvd player anyone? on Shuttle's Tiny PC Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Get a $98 cheapo Apex DVD player from Walmart. They play *everything* except DiVX, and that includes CD-Rs or CD-RWs with mp3s on them.

  22. Re:Class Action on What Can You Do When Defrauded on eBay? · · Score: 1

    Ok, it's easy to be sympathetic when one gets shafted on a $20 hub. But a car! A Porche!?! This is one of those "What the hell were you thinking?" type things. A $20 hub or $100 vintage poster that turns out to be Not So Vintage is one thing. But a car?!? My god...it's *so* easy to get fucked on a car you can see, inspect, and test drive.

    Buyer beware man...this business of buying cars and stuff on ebay is about as dumb as buying licorice seeds.

  23. Karma whore? I don't care.... on IBM DeskStar 75GXP Hard Drive Failures? · · Score: 1

    Call me a karma whore, whatever. I spent long enough searching the IBM website that it's prudent to post a link to their drive fitness test utility.

    http://www.storage.ibm.com/hdd/technolo/dft/dft. ht m

    That's the main page which has a DL link and a datasheet. They have a linux version available also, which is amazingly impressive. Maxtor, Western Digital et al only produce versions which can fabricate a bootdisk on Win9x systems leaving everyone else hosed.

  24. Big speed boost? on AMD Athlon MP 1800+ Processor Review · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I didn't realize that people took press releases as gospel. What's all this crap about a "big speed boost?"

    We're talking about mhz increase of less than 10% -- in how many months? It's been over a year since the T-birds were introduced.

    Yeah, they have a new core. Whoopee. It's not a dramatically new improvement, and apparently AMD has decided that if its chips, in name, are as fast as P4s, they should cost as much too.

    I like AMD stuff, but the Mhz Myth shit hasn't worked for apple, ever, and it won't work for AMD. Apple tried the Mhz Myth stuff back when the ppc601 came out, and despite 6 or 7 years of PR bunko, it's not caught on.

  25. Re:gay on Preemptible Linux Kernel: Interviews and Info · · Score: 1

    That's the idea...