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  1. Re:Well then. on US to Pay to go to ISS · · Score: 2, Funny

    All I know, is that this seems like an act of terrorism. This is an obvious attempt by "the enemy" to slow the adoption of democracy the world over. Alright, Bush time to deploy troops to MIR.

  2. Re:Young Scientists on New Treatment Helps Cure Spinal Injuries · · Score: 1

    Or that mad scientist guy in The Man with Two Brains.

  3. Re:What would be better on GIMP 2.2 Splash Screen Competition · · Score: 1

    GIMP Tutorial:
    1) Create image
    2) Right click on image to do anything with it, or use shortcut key (which is shown in the right click menu)

    Done!

    They don't need to emulate photoshop. Just because you're too retarded to learn two different GUIs doesn't mean Gimp's interface is broken. I get everything done with it that I need, with no problems. Granted, they could use a little help with getting their plugins to all be parameterized and provide previews. Other than that Gimp works very well.

  4. Re:A company built on patents only? on Tech Giants Bankrolling IP Hoarding Start-Up · · Score: 1

    Did I sound like I was speaking contrary to your statements?

  5. Re:A company built on patents only? on Tech Giants Bankrolling IP Hoarding Start-Up · · Score: 1

    A corporation is an entity unto itself. I was referring to the big tech corps, not the actual engineers.

  6. Re:A company built on patents only? on Tech Giants Bankrolling IP Hoarding Start-Up · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Thats terrorist talk there bud. On that note, fuck America (or more specifically its government). It has ceased to care about any person without a million dollar pocket book. The laws of America now exist to enslave its poor and empower its rich.

    Although, the sad part is that the comman man is just as responsible as anybody else for this outcome. We have empowered them through our complacency and utter lack of regard for anything other than what is on our damn televisions every night. We have been enslaved to technology, and as a result those that produce that technology own us all. Especially, now that what we see on television (our defacto standard for the propogation of our culture) tells us that men have to be ignorant fools who are only interested in football, sex, gadgets, and being retarded with their friends to fit in. And women just have to buy everything including a perfect body to do the same. We are trained to be submissive idiots, questioning those who are otherwise.

    Oh well, at least we still have our sweet... sweet capitalism. At least we have a choice of where we buy things. You know ma & pa shop down the street or Wal-Mart up the street for 70% less (which coincidentally enough is all you can afford now that you work there). Good thing McCarthy came along and kept us from falling into the hell hole of desperation that is communism.

    And at least we still have our voice in our government. You know our solitary occasional whispering voices, compared to industries full time lobbyists. I am perfectly satisfied with all of my governmental representatives are you ;-). So when's the next civil war?

  7. Re:Well it makes sense, and saves battery power... on Samsung to use Sub-Pixel VGA Screens · · Score: 1

    "interpolation" is yet another word that comes to mind...

  8. Re:About freakin' time on Slackware Likely To Drop GNOME Support · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Does anybody else here refuse to use KDE simply because of its retarded naming scheme? But seriously though, I have KDE and Gnome installed. I occasionally switch over to my KDE session after reading about all these great new features. I usually end up using these features about once every other month, and then I end up switching back to Gnome. Gnome is simple, it doesn't bombard you with a million stupid menus with stupid program names, gtk is far less gross windowsie, and Gnome is just more intuitive. I'm not saying KDE doesn't have its merits, but I think Gnome in all its simplicity has many more.

  9. Re:Not for long... on Air Force Researching Antimatter Weapons · · Score: 1

    I don't think replacing a dimwit with another dimwit will make matters any better. At least as far as this is concerned. I'm sure the military will develop this no matter what.

  10. Re:URL? on What are My Rights Against Video Surveillance? · · Score: 1

    Boy, for someone that is so obviously pissed off that they were being recorded. They sure didn't hesitate for a second to post a link to a site where you can purchase it direct. Its almost as if this whole story was fabricated to put a little cash in some dumbasses pocket. Hmmmmm....

  11. Re:Never mind nonessential on No WiFi In 'Grantsdale' Chipset · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, when your DSL modem only pumps out 1Mb/s, a 20Mb/s connection is fine.

  12. Re:Link to get it on 1 Million Firefoxes in 4 Days · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yes I meant to say when will the Mozilla Foundation talk launch.yahoo.com ... etc. etc. Having no good way of getting a hold of them, you need bigger entities to make the persuasive argument. I know that firefox would be able to handle it. Unless they went the activeX route.

  13. Re:How many of these are repeats though? on 1 Million Firefoxes in 4 Days · · Score: 1

    I put it on 50 machines at work.

  14. Re:Most of that is probably from previous users on 1 Million Firefoxes in 4 Days · · Score: 1

    Yes, but for people like me, who downloaded it once and installed it on 50 computers, it grossly under-represents its spread.

  15. Re:Link to get it on 1 Million Firefoxes in 4 Days · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So when will the mozilla foundation take launch.yahoo.com into actually supporting firefox? I really miss being able to watch decent music videos online.

  16. Re:OT: sig on Deaf Children Invent Language · · Score: 1

    Thats a Ben Franklin quote. I think I had that exact quote in my sig about 6 months ago, with no ill effect.

  17. Re:I ran it for a while... on Gentoo Linux 2004.2: What You See Is What You Get · · Score: 2, Insightful

    gcc isn't as much of an issue for breakage (at least as far my experience has been) as glibc.

  18. Re:easy fix for that... on Gentoo Linux 2004.2: What You See Is What You Get · · Score: 1

    No, nobody should run ~x86 unless they really want their computer to break. Installing a few packages here and there is fine (but only by using /etc/portage/package.keywords NOT ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86"), but when the fine gentoo maintainers decide that the new experimental glibc is not stable enough even for ~x86 and they roll it back, boy will you be in for a ride.

  19. Re:Learning vs. Getting It Done on Gentoo Linux 2004.2: What You See Is What You Get · · Score: 2, Informative

    If its the wasted time you dislike, here is what you do:
    1) Setup a gentoo system as a template for each role of computer you would to set up.
    2) tar.bz2 relevant partitions
    3) script partition creation, and extraction
    4) burn to CD

    Now installing is as easy as running a script. Simple.

  20. Re:Design on Xbox 2 Concept Designs Leaked? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah, me too. They've already assimilated enough people to be that size ;). But seriously now. Aren't we all passed this "console gaming fad" by now? Console software has gotten so mainstream, that it borders on the same bland universally applicable edge that modern movies do (or at least its getting that way fast). I thought consoles were great until I realized that the ONLY "innovations" that are really happening are just more polys/sec (wooh). Oh well, your money. Have fun.

  21. Re:Wondering why this hasn't been done previously on Theora Codec Ported to Java · · Score: 2, Informative

    Theora's bitstream is frozen (meaning its not going to change). The reference Theora library on their site is alpha. As this java version is an implementation which in no way requires the theora c library, you cannot say whether or not the java version is of alpha quality.

  22. Re:Why do people care so much about drop shadows? on X.org X11 Server Release 6.8 · · Score: 1

    You don't have to recompile your kernel.

  23. Re:Leave the Fight Club way on Most Fun Way to Leave a Bad Job? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, you could do that. Or you could go a step further and: replace everyone's desktop with a bitmap image of their desktop (of course I like to make a batch file that runs at startup and just continuously renames the desktop so icons disappear and reappear), sign up the companys mailing lists to as many spam lists as you can find, jam pencil leads in the dollar slot of the vending machines, wd-40 his break pads, leave sexually harassing notes for your coworkers from your boss, and eat all the good donuts in the breakroom. Of course if you had a single neuron in that skull of yours you would not have the audacity to assume that you're new job is going to work out. Assume for just one moment that maybe having options to fall back on is a good thing. Now quit posting to slashdot and decide something for yourself. I think you know the answer already.

  24. Re:surprising? on Wikipedia != Authoritative? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So give them a year and not 5 days.

  25. Re:But that's not the point of SPF on Spammers Are Early Adopters of SPF Standard · · Score: 1

    Ever heard of SMTP AUTH? SPF doesn't break shit.