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  1. EasyNow! Probably Won't Take The Fall on Apple Possibly Pursuing Another iMac-look Clone · · Score: 2

    It looks like the cases that are being pimped by AMD aren't just iMac-ish colors on a stock IBM PC case. If that was illegal, then ColorCase would have been shut down ages ago.

    Apple, no matter how much they would like it, doesn't have a copyright on "clear colored plastic".

    And besides, the only thing that looks like an iMac on that C|Net page was the monitor, not the other components. The only issue here would be the shape of the monitor, and that can be done away with without destroying the overall effect of the case. I would be amazed if Apple won this one.

  2. Re:The REAL reason for the market plummetting on Tech Stocks Tumble · · Score: 1

    I disagree. I find feminists to be the largest sub-section of psuedo-anti-fascists around. But, that may just be me.

  3. Re:The REAL reason for the market plummetting on Tech Stocks Tumble · · Score: 1

    Welcome to Slashdot.

    The man was trying to create a "conspiracy theory", like the one Malda was talking about in the summary of this story. He was parodying the post he was repling to. It was not a serious post. He will not go out and try to over-turn their evil plot. It was a joke. Jokes are little pieces of humor that are sometimes mistaken by total, humorless morons as a political agenda.

    If I were him, I would be taken offended by your slinging of the word "nazi". But, if he was serious about his post, then he wouldn't even be a nazi. Hell, he wouldn't even be a clan member. He would just barely make it into the category of "redneck". But, the real point is that he isn't. He was making a joke. So, you and your "anti-fascist"-ism is misplaced and ignorant.

    You claim to be "anti-fascist", then say "These guys (Nazis) should be censored!". You're talking out of both sides of your ass.

    And, I don't see the point of blathering about your agenda on Slashdot, anyway. You can go protest fascism in world, were it happens everyday, over and over, not on Slashdot. You psuedo-anti-fascists are the ones who have created needlessly stringent sexual harassment laws in the workplace and an endless number of papers on "political correctness". I can't even say "fireman", "policeman", "mailman", "waitress", or "bag-lady" without being scorned by the appropriate committee.

    So, on behalf on every sane person left in the free world I say, "Go Away." We never wanted you here in the first place.

  4. Re:What's happened to Slashdot? [Offtopic] on Microsoft IIS4 Backdoor Claim Retracted · · Score: 1

    But, waitaminnit. There are trolls who are getting legitimate accounts on Slashdot everyday, just to see how much negative karma they can accumulate. Slashdot used to have to worry about the occasional "First Post", now we have to worry about hot grits and grandson/grandmother porn.

    Not to say that some of the trolling isn't funny. The chap that wrote offtopic prose about 404's being caused by the Slashdot effect was quite good, and the fellow who wrote in "ransom note" format was quite funny, too.

    But, that's all. I would give up the offtopic humor for on-topic informational posts in a fourm, any time, any day.

    So, to all the Slashdot trolls, it was funny for a while, but now everyone's doing it, and it's not half as funny anymore. Move on the the ghost fourms or Taco Hell. Just, please, stop with the off-topic yammering.

    Let's try to turn Slasdot into a functional fourm again, OK?

  5. Re:Random brainstorming on Best Live Streaming MP3 Solution? · · Score: 3

    Oh damn. Here we go again...

    The hard part is doing this under Linux, of course.

    Wrong answer. Playing with audio streams under Linux is easy as pie. Shoutcast makes a plug-in available in their package called "LiveIce". You install LAME, install IceCast, start it, then run LiveIce. It even has a tcl/tk interface for configuring it.

    So, getting this running is just as easy under Linux as it is under Windows NT. Just because you're not familiar with the interface doesn't mean this would be "hard" under Linux.

    Oh, by the way, BladeEnc would suck for this application. To get a good encode, you would have to stream it out at 192kbps. LAME is the best way to remedy this, it handles a 24kbps/22 kHz stream well.

  6. Re:MP3 Player UI on More on the Samsung Linux Handheld · · Score: 1

    Well, I'm just a big fan of the Player/Equalizer/Playlist look, and I really think that a nice interface would help sell more of these devices.

    But the fonts still look horrendous, don't they?

  7. Re:Man...and I just bought a Palm on More on the Samsung Linux Handheld · · Score: 1

    Also, if you look at his user info, you'll see another -2 post. Is this a new Slash karma thing? I think that would work, as it seems this guy's a fairly unsavory character (can you say "First Post?").

    Go figure.

  8. UI Development on More on the Samsung Linux Handheld · · Score: 1

    OK, Samsung. This is probably the single coolest PDA I've ever seen. Period. But, that being said, a few things need to be done before it's pushed out to the masses.

    First, the User Interface is a disaster. The Start button makes me sick and the fonts look like a throw-back from the DOS days. And it might be a good idea to interface through USB, as Linux 2.3 [soon to be 2.4] supports USB. Win98 supports USB. [Free, Net, Open]BSD[i] supports USB as well.

    And maybe you should chat with the XMMS team before you finalize your MP3 player's interface. It looks kind of gawky.

    But, look. It's an awesome CPU. Nice and healty memory, and look at that LCD!

  9. Mini CDs on New Business Card Rescue CDs · · Score: 2

    These miniature CDs have been around for quite a long time. As a matter of fact, I have one with a "New Kids on the Block" single on it. :b

    I think I saw an ISP using this media to distribute their software.

    Anyways, the little CDs took off elsewhere (Japan, I believe), while they were mostly shunned here.

    But, to be honest with you, unless you really dig "cool", they're a big fat waste of money. CD-Rs cost $1 a piece and these Mini CD-Rs run $2 - $5.

    `course, a Linux distro on one of these is just cool as hell. I wonder if I could pick up a couple of hundred of these and pass them out at out next LUG meeting.

  10. Re:Why this might not work.. on Yahoo Putting Movies Online · · Score: 1

    New movies would be available on the Website after they had played out in cinemas, on cable television and been released on video compact discs (VCD).

    Waitaminnit...

    A good movie never plays out! Look at Casablanca. I saw it on Showtime just a few weeks ago. Gone with the Wind was re-released in theatre just a few years ago. I saw Enter The Dragon a little while ago, too.

    Any movie with Guys, Babes, Weekend, or Party will probably be seen on Yahoo in a few years. So, I'm formulating a list of movies that will make it on.

    Weekend At Bernie's
    Ghostbusters II
    Halloween > II
    Nightmare On Elm Street
    Howard The Duck
    And that Micheal Jackson flick... what was that? Moonwalker?

    And what's the list going to look like once a few recently released movies die out?

    Godzilla
    Speed 2
    End Of Days
    Scream
    Scream II
    Scream III: Asscrackers and Cheese
    Scream VI: Even Louder
    Scream V: Look Behind The Door, Dammit
    Scream IV: Director's Cut

    Oh yeah, and anything with Leonardo DiCapro in it.

    Doesn't it feel good to release some venom sometimes?

  11. Re:Uhm. I AM the latex FreeBSD girlie. ;) on Slashdot Live @ LinuxWorld · · Score: 1

    Erhm, why are you wearing latex to a geekexpo?

    Years and years of staring at hardcore porn on our Linux boxen has turned us all into perverts.

    I hear, next year at Comdex, they'll be girlies tied to the Slashdot booth, upside, naked, and well-oiled.

    And you can't tell me *that's* not a draw to the booth.

  12. Re:Uhm. I AM the latex FreeBSD girlie. ;) on Slashdot Live @ LinuxWorld · · Score: 3

    You see guys, *this* is why the penguin logo was a bad idea. You can't dress up a girlie like an over-stuffed, flightless bird and expect her to look sexy.

    I guess the *BSD camp really is superior.

  13. Re:When will be first DeCSS-based Linux DVD player on Interview: Jon Johansen of deCSS Fame (UPDATED) · · Score: 1

    Here we go again.

    First, you do have a compiled copy, you nitwit. Someone, somewhere, compiled it. And they happened to compile it under Win32. Which means you have a runnable binary. Simple, see?

    I never said it didn't copy DVDs to your hard drive. I said it was a huge file [10GB-16GB], not that it was impossible.

    And I NEVER said anything about it being "for Windows". I said it that DeCSS was source code, not a Windows or a Linux program. Can you understand that? Not a "program" but source code.

    And that's great that you would bet money on a player being available. There's one out already.

    Frankly, I've already wasted far to many keystrokes on you. Read, learn, but until then, go away.

  14. Re:When will be first DeCSS-based Linux DVD player on Interview: Jon Johansen of deCSS Fame (UPDATED) · · Score: 3

    It's misconceptions like this which cause problems.

    DeCSS is not a Windows program, or a Linux program, it's source code. The reason that you have a Windows version is because somebody compiled it under that platform, not because someone wrote for Windows.

    And he didn't write a DVD *player* at all, he wrote a tool to decrypt the DVD movie so it could be watched using a seperate player, something that could not be done before.

    And you must be some kind of bad-ass k00l m0-f0 if you can copy DVDs using deCSS. The current DVD media won't allow for it, and only one movie would fit on today's hard drives.

    So, to sum up. No, it's not a Windows program. No, it doesn't copy DVDs. Yes, it's needed to watch DVDs under Linux. And the court case is still going to be a pain in the ass because of people like you, spewing half-truths and total lies.

  15. Battery Life on Wearable PCs Under Linux · · Score: 1
    Do we have any real solutions to battery life on wearables? I know that there was one project where camcorder batteries were being used to power a small-drain machine and a LCD panel, but no mention of the battery-life was available. Also, I have obtained a pair of i/o Goggles, and I was wondering if this and a Corel NetWinder could feasably be used as a wearable PC-thing?

    BOB_THE_EXPLORER: "Oh look! Natives! I'll just fire up my universal translator on my wearable, and we'll be good to go. Wait? What does this little light here mean?"
    ROB_THE_SIDEKICK: "It means your batteries have run out."
    BTE: "Oh dear."
    NATIVES: "Iba-Gibba-Goo. Wop-Wop-Wop."
    (*STAB*, *STAB*, *STAB*)
    BTE: "Alas! If only I could have used my wearable, I would have been able to trade all of their food, land, and women for a few plastic beads."
    RTS: "Yes, but you still would have been ugly."

  16. Re:Lovely. on Caught Before the Act · · Score: 1

    Mmmm-kay. This super-pisses me off. I had gone out and bought a black trenchcoat about four days before the Columbine shootings, and tried to wear it a few days after the incident and I was told by the faculty that wearing it was "Disrespectful to those killed, and inappropriate for school affairs". I kept wearing it until I was suspended for two days, much to my parents dismay, who blamed me for the entire incident. Anyway, this is another example of a "known routine" fallacy. Because the killers at Columbine wore black trenchcoats, anyone wearing a black trenchcoat is a killer.

    Couldn't this be extended to anything?

    "Criminals put on gloves before entering a house, as not to leave fingerprints. We have Mr. Public, on tape, in the act of putting on gloves, just like a criminal! Thankfully our men were there to stop him before he attempted his breaking and entering."

    Mr. Public gets locked away for attempted bugulary, and the Thought Police win again.

    And that damn coat cost me $150.

  17. Re:I've got the 16Mb version - runs fine. on Gateway Linux Microserver · · Score: 1

    Actually, my web server is running some basic web mail stuff that I hacked up. Once again, it's a smallish company, and I had the time to do it, and I had the hardware.

    Of course, I should probably go with a real web-mail package, instead of my version, but, who cares?

    Now, I'm sure my box would slow down if it was doing backups and things. The hard disk is IDE and quite slow, shoddy, and noisy, and IDE is notorious for sucking up major CPU cycles.

  18. Re:Missing the point... on Napster Being Sued by RIAA · · Score: 1

    So, now, instead of having one tool that could be used for "circumventing a lock", now you have a whole pouchful.

    Bah. Don't even THINK about finding a justifiable reason for pure bullshit like this, Jeff.

    Also, this sounds like a case of improper search and seizure. Unless John Q. Pig had a reason to believe you or the impliment you were carrying had been directly involved in a crime, he had no right to stop you in the first place.

    Well, to quote Old Man Murray - "Fuck da poleece." and [the funnier one] "You're the Grinch that stole JUSTICE!".

    Anyhoo, I hope the piggy's feeble attempt at justifying his existance didn't sit too long on your permenant record.

    You, too, might be interested in my new holiday, "Plug a Pig Day". I've already got Ice Cube and Dr. Dre lined up for promotion. I think it's gonna be a hit.

  19. Re:Geez guys on Gateway Linux Microserver · · Score: 1

    Ooooooh, I disagree with the statement that a web server needs anywhere near 64MB of RAM. I've been admining a 486/33 16MB RAM running FreeBSD as an inter-departmental web server in an office of 200 and I've yet to have any problems with it. It's actually *VERY* functional, and the whole sheee-bang ran us a hearty $100.

    If you've got some time, and you don't *need* a pretty little box to sit on your desk, find an "about-to-be-trashed" box and install [Free, Net, Open]BSD or Linux on it, and strip it down to what you need [Apache, Kernel, Shells]. Oh, yeah. And be sure to recompile the kernel after install. A machine like this will take a performance hit running a generic kernel.

    But, if *my* company had money to drop on a Qube, I know I would want one. They do make things quite a bit simpler when admining larger networks and things.

  20. Re:My 2 cents worth on Gateway Linux Microserver · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but then again, they're not really shipping Linux here. The Cobalt Qube is an awesome little device (I had the pleasure of admining one, with a nifty web-based interface) but it doesn't run Linux in the sense of a CD install. The OS has been stripped down to run on certain hardware and to provide certain functions.

    Chances are, if you are calling for tech support on your Qube, you're calling because your groups are improperly set-up, or there was a hardware failure, not because you want to learn how to admin the box over telnet, and you don't know the first thing about the bash shell.

    Really, in this case, Gateway is not supporting Linux but supporting an hardware package with a proprietary interface.

    So, you're still out of a job, man.

  21. Spumco. on 'South Park' Creators in Web Deal · · Score: 1
    I'm also pretty sure John K. doesn't do any T.V. *series*. I think there is a Spumco animation on Nickelodean.

    I was a huge fan of Ren & Stimpy until when it was on MTV, and could get away with damn near anything. But Viacom holds Nick to a higher standard ("Ha!") and they lobotimized the show.

    I saw a *really* neat-o Spumco animation on MTV a couple of days ago. The video for Bjork's "I Miss You", is definately Ren & Stimpy -esque.

    But I don't think we should count out some future Spumco genius. They did it once, they can do it again. And, I for one would love another animation that I could sit on the couch and watch without feeling too stupid, and right now, South Park sure isn't giving me that.

  22. Cobalt Qube on Gateway Linux Microserver · · Score: 2

    Ah, but the Malda does not notice that it is in fact the Cobalt Qube we have all grown to love.

    Now, there must be a point to all of this. Is Gateway gonna sell it cheaper? Oh, please. Oh, please. Oh, please.

    /me bounces up and down like a giddy schoolgirl on crystal meth.

  23. Geeks #15 12/03/99 19:42 on Geeks In Space: Return from the Turkey · · Score: 1

    Hey-yeah. Geeks in Space #15. History will be made. Boobies will be touched.

    Episode #15

  24. Microsoft Suits on Dave Whitinger announces LinSight · · Score: 2

    Yes, the tone around here is that Microsoft suits are evil. I'm not nuts about Microsoft's products or their business practices, but just because someone worked as a Microsoft suit doesn't mean they are coming to suck the soul out of our beloved penguin.

    As Linux becomes more and more profitable, you will see more and more people coming from the "dark side".

    I'm no more happy about it than any of you are.

  25. Re:I LIKE TURNING TEENAGE GIRLS TO STONE on Live from a Sunspot · · Score: 1

    I used to hate the "First" posts until this "Naked & Petrified" guy started hanging around.

    I almost felt the need to moderate up "Richard Stallman, wearing green lipstick and pantyhose, reclining on you coffee table."

    Almost.