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  1. Hmm... on The Economics of File Sharing · · Score: 1

    While I'm glad that he's finally come to his senses, one wonders why he didn't realise this in the first place.

  2. A Good Thing on Supreme Court Rules on Challenge to COPA · · Score: 0, Insightful

    There are some places where liberty of speech doesn't apply, and k1dd13 pr0n is one of them.

  3. Puzzles wouldn't work on Sci-Fiction Channel To Do Myst Miniseries · · Score: 1
    Puzzles wouldn't work out for a game. I still haven't found the following text in any of the Books:

    And Atrus wandered around K'veer, where he had been trapped again by his sons. He wanted to go to the Food Age to have a nice meal, but he sadly forgot the code. If only he could use the Tower Rotation now...
  4. Why support the little guys? Support noone at all! on HP/Compaq Merger Apparently Approved · · Score: 1

    Just build your own PC, there's no need to let anyone do it for you.

  5. OpenBSD on Open Source in the Military? · · Score: 1

    Luckily, OpenBSD is free even for integration into atomic bombs to be dropped on Australia.

  6. Re:Number of crashes in 100 days? on Byte Benchmarks Various Linux Trees · · Score: 1

    You obviously lack the technical knowledge to build your own server, so you buy a lame-ass and badly designed A-brand.

    That is good for you, but please don't troll these boards with your stupidity. It's a shame you got modded up like that.

  7. If you support forks so much... on Byte Benchmarks Various Linux Trees · · Score: 1

    then why is your -rmap patch a diff against the -aa VM? I thought your own old VM should be superior, have you stopped believing in it? And correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't RH porting it to a more recent 2.4 kernel?

    Or is the article incorrect?

  8. Re:I would prefer the other way around on Debian NetBSD · · Score: 1

    The BSD projects reject the Single UNIX Specification because many BSD things are just plain better than their SystemV equivalents. There is no point in reducing the quality of your software just to comply with a lame standard.

  9. Could you explain exactly why Multics is so secure on Microsoft to Focus on Security · · Score: 1

    Because I haven't seen any proof yet...

  10. OpenSSH on Microsoft to Focus on Security · · Score: 1

    The ssh problem was solved years ago, by the OpenSSH team...

  11. No you're wrong! on KernelTrap Interview With Alan Cox · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If there's no copyright law, that doesn't mean that companies will release their source. They can still keep their stuff closed source, because nobody can force them to release their code.

  12. Re:Great... (NOT! JAVA MUST BE DESTROYED!) on FreeBSD Foundation Announces Java License for Free · · Score: 1

    Java assembly != assembly
    VM != Hardware

    There is no point in using Java assembly, because it isn't more efficient, because using a VM isn't efficient, because the entire concept of a VM isn't efficient, and contradict with the whole idea of assembly. I use asm because it's efficient, not because I think it's 31337 or something.

  13. Intel Athlon? on OS X Vs. Linux On The Desktop · · Score: 1

    "I'll run it on my Athlon or not at all" mindset of current Lintel hardware owners

    Uhm, forgive me if I'm wrong, but doesn't it seem a bit odd that a Lintel (notice the intel part) guy would go for an AMD Athlon? I propose the term "Lamdux".

    Free Bird

  14. Huh? on Lineo Frees CP/M · · Score: 1

    Actually I already had the sources of some of Gary's earliest CP/M versions. Allegedly they weren't much of an OS yet, but it was definitely source code (in PL/M, and it didn't look like an OS at all - it looked more like a stupid game from a 13 year-old 31337 h4x0r). But it's definitely nice to see the DR-DOS sources, for comparison with MS-DOS;)

    One must notice, however, that it's hardly possible to write, for instance, a fdisk that's worse than the one for MS-DOS, source-wise...

  15. Re:Filesystems on Serious Bug In 2.4.15/2.5.0 · · Score: 1

    Great, I never compile my kernels with SysRq (except on non-production machines)...

  16. Re:The 8080 on Intel 4004 Turns 30 · · Score: 1

    Yes, it uses a Z80, as do the TI-73, TI-82, TI-85 and TI-86.

  17. Re:Unix on "Linux is *the* threat," Says Microsoft · · Score: 0, Troll

    Please don't use VM for virtual machine. It stands for Virtual Memory. Virtual machine is just some stupid, brainless Sun marketing term which should be banned.

    Yes, I think Java sux. And I'm right.

  18. Move your spam elsewhere! on ATI Drivers Geared For Quake 3? · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about? This is just BS, first you should come out with some real numbers instead of spreading some FUD that one mod would have more users than two innovative games.

  19. Whoa! on More Details Emerge on AMD's Hammer · · Score: 1

    I just knew the Hammer was up to it, but now I'm totally convinced. x86 isn't dead yet, and IA-64 will never live!

  20. Wow! on Preemptible Linux Kernel: Interviews and Info · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Cool! I really hope this'll make it into the official kernel, hopefully even 2.4 (though I doubt so not that 2.5 has been started).

  21. Brainless! on What is Happening with OpenGL? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Man, what are you STUPID! ROFLASC! The man you just called a "15 year old kid who's only experience with real game programming is writing dupe macros for Ultima Online" is one of the greatest gaming programmers that ever lived! You'd better feel really stupid now, AC!

    HAHAHAHA! It's just SO funny how you made a fool out of yourself!

  22. Re:I would also like to know... on Debian's apt-get vs Mandrake's urpmi? · · Score: 1

    >Is emacs better than vi?
    Yes.

    >Is gnome better than KDE?
    No.

    >Is AMD better than Intel?
    Yes.

    >Is Mandrake better than RedHat?
    Irrelevant, since they both suck.

    >Is red better than blue?
    Inconclusive.

  23. Re:Another Limit: Planck Time on Intel Claims Smallest, Fastest Transistor · · Score: 1

    The use of this program is a little naive. C++ is not a very efficient language, so all these steps probably take more than one clock cycle per addition. Secondly, there has to be some kind of sinus wave for a clock signal, and the resolution would be too low when a clockcycle takes Planck Time. Thirdly, this theory doesn't take stuff like quantum computing into account.

    So the limit you mentioned will be hit sooner if the current trend continues, but it's questionable if it'll really matter.

  24. Re:I returned the game .... on Myst III: Exile Review · · Score: 1

    Dude, what's wrong with Software mode? The game is prerendered anyway, so the difference isn't all that important.

  25. Re:It doesn't end on Silverman Responds To 'End of SSL And SSH' · · Score: 1

    fuck you