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  1. Re:Why the need for a WiFi finder? on WiFi Seeker, Finder, Detector Roundup · · Score: 3, Funny

    And some of us just log everything that passes and then read all your e-mails, store all your passwords and a credit card number or two. But, it's the price you pay for connecting to a network you should not...

  2. Re:To paraphrase the simpsons on 1994 BSD/Unix Settlement Released On Groklaw · · Score: 1

    can you please inform me why do you classify Mexico as "one of the least democratic"?

    They have a shitty federal police, that is for sure, but ... ?!

  3. Re:You already forgot the blackout? on Air Force Orders Up A Custom Windows Monoculture · · Score: 1

    No, the other one -- which was brought by the traffic of one of the Win32 worms, that did not let the stations communicate the failure, so the other ones kept failing in cascade;

  4. post-mortem spell checking on 1994 BSD/Unix Settlement Released On Groklaw · · Score: 1

    Terrorists ALWAYS win

  5. My point exactly: on 1994 BSD/Unix Settlement Released On Groklaw · · Score: 1

    Terrorists ALLWAYS win.

    The only way of not having terrorists is listening to everyone and not turning people into terrorists in the first place.

  6. Re:US is not 3% of the world its closer to 5% on 1994 BSD/Unix Settlement Released On Groklaw · · Score: 1

    As of the percentage: I stand corrected.
    The other stuff: all of this is not news in the US, but at least here in Brasil, they are all repeatedly in the news. Which is why I mentioned them in the first place.
    Finally: the US is not using force because it's security is threatened. They use the force because it's economically interesting to them.

  7. Other people told you this -- on 1994 BSD/Unix Settlement Released On Groklaw · · Score: 1

    but you seemed not to have listened, so I'll give you an example: Here in Brasil people were thoroughly informed about Spain's election, Spanish popular opposal to Aznar jumping the US war bandwagon... We felt sorry that people died in the bombings because of m-fcking Aznar. And we rejoiced when Zapatero won the election and pulled out of Iraq immediately as he has repeatedly promised in his campaign.

    It was running during a month all over 12:00, 20:00 and 23:00 news in Rede Globo (our greatest TV network, watched by 20-40 million people). So, no, we were really well-informed.

  8. Re:Drug-abusing terrorists? on 1994 BSD/Unix Settlement Released On Groklaw · · Score: 1

    Oh, I know people in each of the categories. I just don't know anyone in both.

  9. You did not grok then. on 1994 BSD/Unix Settlement Released On Groklaw · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And you do not grok now. No offense inteded.

    You made the creeps move out, you did not make them stop. You swept the problem under the rug. And the problem is: making drugs illegal is what causes the situation you lived. If they went to the pharmacy to get their fix, they wouldn't have to gather together in the "place". Believe me, I know. I worked two years as a para in a DA's office. The big drug guys profit huge BECAUSE the stuff is illegal. If pfizer and johnsons sold coke it would be 10 times cheaper and of better quality. The small guys are the ones that go to jail. And the users.

    You will not understand the war on drugs until you've had to fight it yourself. Oh, believe me, you only fight a war on drugs if you are an addict. The prohibition of booze in the 1930's generated the Chicago mob. What we have is a prohibition of drugs, not a war on drugs. And it's as stupid as the other one.

  10. Karol Józef Wojtya on 1994 BSD/Unix Settlement Released On Groklaw · · Score: 1

    As long as popes go, the current pope is a remarkably good one (disclaimer: I am a Catholic by birth) but... no condoms? this order, in itself, killed a lot of people from AIDS, so, no, try again...

  11. Just FYI on Tin Foil Passports? · · Score: 1

    my WAP is 15 meters (16yards?) away from my microwave, with 3 concrete walls in between. I can use my notebook in the kitchen with the microwave on, less than a meter from the microwave, and I have no signal problems.

  12. You already forgot the blackout? on Air Force Orders Up A Custom Windows Monoculture · · Score: 1

    The one caused by one of them internet worms?

  13. Your post is amusing. let's see why. on 1994 BSD/Unix Settlement Released On Groklaw · · Score: 4, Insightful

    First of all, this post is not offtopic. MODERATOR MADNESS applies.

    actually the war on terror isn't a loosing battle. There won't always be terror at least on the scale it is today.
    Hmmmm. Let me see. when I was 11 (1982) I was all the time scared to hell that Reagan would push the red button. Let's go futher back...
    1950's-60's people were scared of the commies
    1940's - the war
    1930's - the depression
    1910's - the war
    1890's - the war
    1500's-1600's - the Inquisition
    -500's - the Romans, Attila, Alexander, the Egyptians, etc. etc. etc.
    Yes, I got it pretty much covered. It is -- and has always been -- a blood-covered world. Terror world. It's a lost battle to begin with... unless you make real peace, which we don't have today (like: Israelis out of Palestine, Palestine and Israel get some common ground about what to do to Jerusalem; reunite Koreas; separate Taiwan; separate Euskadi from Spain and a piece of France; figure out something to Africa as a whole; get russians out of Chechenia; get USofAns out of everywhere but the USofA)

    The object of the war on terror isn't to make everyone agree and get along. It is to force the terrorist to make changes by piecful means.
    Yeah, by bombing the crap out of Fallujah. This one made me LOL.

    A group of people that don't reflect the population killing civilians is not a noble thing to do no matter how you try to justify it.
    You are right, but this applies equally to the US Armed Forces.

    There are alway other options like full blown war were you go after troops and military instead of average joe trying to make a living. No, in most cases full blown war is too expensive except for the US govment. I'm not justifying terrorism, just saying that it *is*, after all, a resource-efficient form of warfare.

    You even have countries like spain that cave in and give terrorist legitamicy. Even now there is a push to clean up the U.N. because of it's support for different terrorist or the countries that support it.
    I did not understand if you claimed Spain gave legitimacy for terrorists because of Euskadi or because of Iraq (from which they pulled out BTW, by popular force)

    What is being said is that they cannot use terror as a weapon to express those differences or try to force policy changes.
    And this is the real stupid part: if it comes to a group to get their claims unheard so much that they would resource to terrorism (because of scarcity of means to fight a full-fledged war -- including propaganda means) they will -- always -- use terror as the weapon.
    And now, my flamebait (not really, but a lot of people tend to think it is): it's exactly what the USofAn population-backed government does. It's a minority (3% of the world's population) that, by slaughtering civilians and by maintaing other governments "on check", enforces its views on the others.

    The war on terror also is fought several different ways. Some ways might include military action while others might make sure those disgressed have a voice in the politics surounding the issue. One thing is certain, once they decide to use terror as a bargaining chip, they won't get the second treatment.
    First: the second way you cited is *never* used;
    Second: usually, it's the other way around: the people who make use of terror are not listened to until they make use of terror; then they negotiate, then they are heard.

  14. Drug-abusing terrorists? on 1994 BSD/Unix Settlement Released On Groklaw · · Score: 1

    Yes. ALL people are drug-abusing and/or terrorists. (ok, not the Dalai Lama, I think)
    Really. Think. Give me an example of one person you know (more points if it's a public person -- the Dalai Lama is out) that:
    1. does not abuse ANY drug. caffeine and all the other stuff in chocolate included.
    2. does not tries in any way to impose its will upon others, by threatening force if necessary.
    The prosecution rests its case. I, for one, know of no such person.

  15. USofA lost both. on 1994 BSD/Unix Settlement Released On Groklaw · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Drugs exist. They won't cease existing. Lost this one.

    Terror is something that exists. It won't cease existing. Oops, lost that one too.

    You can fight a war against some people; you cannot fight a war against all the people.

  16. Many overt battles were fought. on 1994 BSD/Unix Settlement Released On Groklaw · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Spain, Brasil, Argentina, even in the US during the McArthism days. Lots of people died. Lots of people were deprived of their rights. These were overt battles to me. Ah, you meant overt like "Bam! I am attacking you because you are a communist" and not just "Bam!". Ok.

  17. Re:Slashdotted already on Jon Bringing WMV9 to Linux · · Score: 1

    I am putting on my transparent proxy that any referred-by-slashdot pages are to be fetched via Coral or something. I really think /. should Coralize ALL front page links and de-coralize them by request (like, hey, please, I saw a link to me in the fp, link directly so I can get some ad hits.

  18. Re:I have doubts... on User-centric GUI Design Explained to All · · Score: 1

    "Okay, lets move the clutch, the brakes and the accelerator out of order, and to different locations. Cope with that"

    Simple solution: I kart and ride a motorcycle every weekend or so. Now I can switch easily. If you switch the accel and the brakes I'll enter "kart mode" and voila.

  19. corrections on Intel Quietly Adopts AMD's x86-64 · · Score: 1

    alpha - belongs to HPQ (hp+compaq)
    amd64 - AMD
    arm - Intel
    hppa - HPQ
    i386, ia64 - Intel
    m68k - Motorola
    mips, mipsel - MIPS
    powerpc - IBM/Motorola/Apple
    sparc - Sun
    s390 - IBM

  20. I disagree. on Senate Passes Scaled-Back Copyright Bill · · Score: 2, Interesting
    You can't act like it doesn't hurt the companies making/distributing/advertising the movies.

    But it doesn't!!! At least not in my case: I usually watch movies first at home, and then at the theather if I think the experience would be good. The films I can't download, I will not watch at all. I will buy a good DVD with a lot of extras instead of downloading the KVCD version of the movie. The cost (to me) would be the same (a good DVD with 1 disc here costs approx US$ 15 -- the same price of one hour of work + one day of processing I have in downloading/transcoding the same movie). I watch Enterprise, which is not broadcast to my country, and that I would watch for free OTA if I lived in the USofA anyway.
    And I am certain that this is the majority of P2P user's cases here and in the US.

    Now, the message to the *AA:

    You are losing revenue because your products are getting crappier and crappier, not because of P2P.
  21. Re:Not C++ on Alternative Development Systems for the Mac · · Score: 1
    I disagree.

    The point is: C++ (well programmed, of course) makes you define well your domain and do stuff efficiently to boot.

    And I could not know (without knowing fortran) that he did what you said he did (doubles and formating). And I'm not a mid-level programmer, I'm an senior-level programmer (12 years professional experience) that just happened to not have used fortran.

    Anyway, the first complaint is fixed just by exchanging
    vector<int>
    by
    vector<double>
    the second one, adding
    cout << setw(width) << setprecision(prec)
    before the whole thing.

    Other tricks can be done with boost::, but then I would be cheating, because we're talking standard libraries here...

  22. Brasil on Australian Idol And ISP Censorship · · Score: 1

    We do have .com.br, .gov.br, .edu.br, .nom.br (=real people name), .psi.br (=internet service providers), .... and many more.

    ITOH, our universities and research institutions have the right to have .br only.

  23. Not C++ on Alternative Development Systems for the Mac · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I have said and repeat: C++ is not C.

    Your examples, no loop:
    vector<int> v;
    copy(istream_iterator<int>(cin), istream_iterator<int>(), inserter(v, v.begin()));
    copy(v.begin(), v.end(), ostream_iterator<int>(cout));
  24. More simple countermeasure. on Color Laser Printers Tracking Everything You Print · · Score: 1

    1. print something in your printer
    2. scan with a higher-resolution scanner.
    3. find the dots.
    4. slurp the exact color of the dots
    5. make a background/watermark/whatever with some (eight times more) dots of the same color determined in (4), randomly scattered in the paper.
    6. use said background to print your monies.
    7. Profit!!!

  25. My Home: on How To Manage Your Home Directory? · · Score: 1

    <all other garbage>
    Mail
    Desktop
    Docs
    Devel
    eclipse
    <projects>
    MonoDevelop
    <projects>
    kdevelop
    <projects>
    others
    <projects>
    Trash