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  1. Re:kind of scary on DHS to Send Widespread Alerts · · Score: 1

    The problem with having the alert text in the actual email is that it can't be updated. Having a brief summary of the problem in the email, with a link to further information is actually the better way to do it, instead of having to rely on several update emails as more information becomes available. Perhaps this is an area where an RSS feed would be a better fit though...

  2. Re:not quite! on A Closed Off System? · · Score: 5, Informative

    SELinux policies. You can configure SELinux to have a default deny to execute files that aren't on an approved list of executables, and also ensure that only trusted persons have access to change those files.

  3. Re:not a black and white case on Cutting out the Naughty Bits Ruled Illegal · · Score: 1

    It could technically be done outside of the DVD. Hook the DVD player up to an internet connection, and have it download an EDL list when accessing a new DVD, or have create a subscription to a firmware file that one would download that would have EDLs for many DVDs. However, the question would become is this a derivitive work as well. Is there a lawyer who could answer this question?

  4. Re:Cleanflix, not Walmart on Cutting out the Naughty Bits Ruled Illegal · · Score: 2, Insightful
    So, my answer is, of course you should be able to 'marry' any consenting adult, but you should not be able to force me to recognise your relationship as marriage.
    Certainly, this is an arguement against state sponsorship of any marriage, non? You are coercing others to accept your ideals of marriage just the same by providing them more benefits. Certainly, the ideal should be to encourage stable relationships, correct?
  5. Re:Absolute Evil banned from Relative Evil on eBay Bans Google Payments · · Score: 1

    Your actions still has the appearance of hypocracy; the fact that you advertise that as your legitimate email address allows others to see gmail as an acceptable email provider. Domain names aren't that expensive, surely you can afford one and create a throwaway account for spam control.

  6. Re:Absolute Evil banned from Relative Evil on eBay Bans Google Payments · · Score: 1

    And yet you have, and seem to use, a gmail account. Seems like some sort of hypocracy right there.

  7. Re:Immoral on Networked Landmines Work Together · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As others have pointed out, these are anti-tank mines -- designed to attack tanks, not people. Also, as they are radio operated, it is much easier to remotely disable/detonate them as needed, which makes them much safer for civilian populations. As the point is to eliminate civilian deaths, wouldn't you want a safer landmine, instead of forcing armies to rely on antiquated, indiscrimiate mines?

  8. Re:Apple has it coming on Nerds Switching from Apple to Ubuntu? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    What about when you want to run a Qt based application? You've got two different looking widget sets competing and distorting the entire view of things.
    What if you want to run an X application on your Mac? Suddenly you've got two different widget sets fighting. Surely by your logic the world will end, non?
  9. Re:Feedback more important than control on U.S. Soldiers Recipients of Newest Prosthetic Technologies · · Score: 1

    If you've ever been without the use of your hand for a period of time due to an injury, you pretty quickly learn how to do without that limb. Yeah, it's not as easy as having two hands, but you adapt. One handed typing is more than possible, pretty much half the slashdotters do it nightly ;3.

  10. Re:A Wine-based version ... on Dropping Linux Helped Restore Corel Profitability · · Score: 1

    The problem is that wine was not very stable when they were linking their product against it. Many of the reviews of the time showed that WP 2000 was not nearly as stable and polished as 8, which was motif-based and quite well-received. I remember several reports of various rendering glitches which were typical of wine apps, and not the sort of thing that one expected from a product like WordPerfect.

  11. Re:My question is... on Prototype System Blocks Digital Cameras · · Score: 1

    Y'know, you could just do what they did 10 years ago, and leave the number of the theatre where you can be reached. In an emergency, you can still be reached, and there is no disruption. Simple, cheap, effective.

  12. Re:Fiberlines, but no broadband - welcome to Europ on Internet For All in Europe · · Score: 1

    If the fiber and switches are sufficiently ancient, then they probably simply don't support faster speeds. You've still got to have the infrastructure in place to support hundred megabit fiber; such switches were prohibitively expensive back in 1990 when the modernization happened.

  13. Re:Great.... on Christian Science Monitor Putting OSS at the Helm · · Score: 2, Informative

    You don't know how to phrase your reports to your boss. Such a situation becomes, "I have escalated this issue to our developers and are currently working towards getting a solution for the problem." which sounds even more impressive than escalating to some phone jockey.

  14. Re:Friendly Business Atmosphere on Why Startups Condense in America · · Score: 1

    But you do need money if you wish to travel in any means of comfort, or if you want to purchase things like music or art. I like supporting people who do things that make me happy; I guess I'm just weird like that.

  15. Re:Expensive lunch? on Canadian Record Industry's Secret Lobby Campaign · · Score: 1

    I would disagree. $30 for food isn't terribly expensive. Moderately priced is much more accurate. Expensive is when you're talking $50+/head at least.

  16. Re:Wrong all wrong! on Why Startups Condense in America · · Score: 1
    Japan does have a Silicon Valley, it's called Sony.
    That's one company. It's not the several hundred companies, plus the venture capitalists that comprise the silicon valley.
    Oh yea, and it wasn't a police state under Clinton or Reagan or Nixon. *rolls eyes*
    Let me guess, your idea of a non-police state is one where the government robs you at gunpoint in the name of "income redistribution"?
    What kind of racist bullshit is that? He is blatantly promoting the idea that a, "Jew world conspiracy" is a good thing.
    So stating that killing and driving away millions of people is now evidence of a "Jew world conspiracy"? Perhaps if you're an anti-semite. Germany fucked up big time with the holocaust; they drove a lot of very smart people away.
  17. Re:Friendly Business Atmosphere on Why Startups Condense in America · · Score: 1

    Unless you have marketable skills and a few brain cells. I love making a good salary and having lots of money to be able to have fun. Europe, I'd have a lot less money, and a lot less fun. Plus, you don't have to be in the rat race anyways. I've got lots of friends who go their own way as well; they have fun, maybe not have the best finances, but they don't care. Europe would just stifle them too much.

  18. Re:Deja Vu on this story? on Allergy-Free Kittens Produced · · Score: 1
    Yes, and it's not even news for nerds.

    I dunno, most geeks seem to be cat people. Course most cat-loving geeks are probably not allergic to felines, so *shrug*.

    Course, I still want a pet fennec. Crazy and bouncy. Fox, not a cat, but most foxes seem to be cats in dog costumes anyways...

  19. Re:So he diverted security resources... on Flying Faster Without ID · · Score: 1
    Let me try that with paragraphs this time.

    There's a reason that "obstruction of justice" is a crime and not called "keeping useless cops busy."

    So now he's obstructing justice? Goddammit, remind me not to drink the waters in your hometown if I ever have the misfortune of visiting it.

    The only way to give as much attention to everyone else would be to slow them all down by closing one of the X-ray lines otherwise manned by the questioners or, if the questioners did only that task, by not sending someone else in his place, someone diverted for a better reason than being a non-i.d.-carrying prick, in either which case I say, "thanks, asshole."

    Or causing one of the people randomly selected to be more thoroughly screened to wait at most a minute until they were finished. As the article states, most people aren't screened in this way, and thus people go through the more invasive search often don't have to wait in anywhere near as long of a line to get to the airport. Surely if the screeners were trying to keep people safe, more people would be randomly screened this way, non?

    We have lists of people we don't want on planes, along with their aliases; if they can just pick a new name out of a hat and not so much have to pay a forger to get through security, we're in serious trouble.

    Howso? They've been checked for explosives and inspected thoroughly for undesirable items. If Jed McTerrorist wants trouble, I doubt that flying a plane into something will be on his mind; people, including terrorists, know that regardless of intent, a hijacker will most likely be removed from a plane in a body bag. If anything, we should check /everyone/ for explosives, not just terrorists. I was randomly checked for explosives way before 9/11 happened. It took all of 30 seconds, in fact, it took less time than the X-Ray machine. Plus, watchlists most likely wouldn't prevent these activities anyways. The 9/11 terrorists weren't on watch lists, for example, and they were able to barge right in.

    Though I do have to ask you again, why are you so willing to give up your constitutional rights for safety? Why is your perceived safety so much important than the laws that made this country great? Why do you want to make it any easier for terrorists to recruit against the evil americans. I await your answers.

  20. Re:So he diverted security resources... on Flying Faster Without ID · · Score: 1

    There's a reason that "obstruction of justice" is a crime and not called "keeping useless cops busy." So now he's obstructing justice? Goddammit, remind me not to drink the waters in your hometown if I ever have the misfortune of visiting it. The only way to give as much attention to everyone else would be to slow them all down by closing one of the X-ray lines otherwise manned by the questioners or, if the questioners did only that task, by not sending someone else in his place, someone diverted for a better reason than being a non-i.d.-carrying prick, in either which case I say, "thanks, asshole." Or causing one of the people randomly selected to be more thoroughly screened to wait at most a minute until they were finished. As the article states, most people aren't screened in this way, and thus people go through the more invasive search often don't have to wait in anywhere near as long of a line to get to the airport. Surely if the screeners were trying to keep people safe, more people would be randomly screened this way, non? We have lists of people we don't want on planes, along with their aliases; if they can just pick a new name out of a hat and not so much have to pay a forger to get through security, we're in serious trouble. Howso? They've been checked for explosives and inspected thoroughly for undesirable items. If Jed McTerrorist wants trouble, I doubt that flying a plane into something will be on his mind; people, including terrorists, know that regardless of intent, a hijacker will most likely be removed from a plane in a body bag. If anything, we should check /everyone/ for explosives, not just terrorists. I was randomly checked for explosives way before 9/11 happened. It took all of 30 seconds, in fact, it took longer than the X-Ray machine. Plus, watchlists most likely wouldn't prevent these activities anyways. The 9/11 terrorists weren't on watch lists, for example, and they were able to barge right in. Though I do have to ask you again, why are you so willing to give up your constitutional rights for safety? Why is your perceived safety so much important than the laws that made this country great? Why do you want to make it any easier for terrorists to recruit against the evil americans. I await your answers.

  21. Re:So he diverted security resources... on Flying Faster Without ID · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    How about you shut the fuck up you freedom-hating unamerican asshole? How the fuck does volunteering yourself for a more thorough search affect the safety of anyone else on that flight in any way? They didn't just wave others through because he went through a different search. Everyone else was still searched just the same. People like you are why unconstitutional shit like the patriot act gets passed. Get the hell out of my country and move to someplace more suiting your values, like Iran or Saudi Arabia.

  22. Re:Why not? on Firefox to Drop Pre-Windows 2000 Support · · Score: 1

    Have you tried creating a DOS VMWare image to try playing those games within vmware player, or is it still too slow there as well?

  23. Is there a math geek in the house? on Chinese Mathematicians Prove Poincare Conjecture · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, my higher level math skills are a bit rusty, but would it be safe to say that this conjecture proves that if it looks like a sphere, acts, like a sphere, then it's probably a) a sphere, and b) can be broken down into a circular-shaped plane. Or am I missing something here?

  24. Re:Demonstrations on The Pirate Bay Is Back Online · · Score: 1

    Well, talking to people in sweden, it seems more that the supporters are whiny children who want stuff for free than anything else. They appreciate some of the works, yet don't want to pay for supporting a "corrupt" system. Most pirate party members don't have the guts to support actual means of change like boycotts, and instead will continue keeping Hollywood relevant through propogating their memes, all the while claiming to be sticking it to the man. Childish hypocrites, the lot of them.

  25. Re:Thank you, Sweden! on The Pirate Bay Is Back Online · · Score: 1

    I think this is one: mmmm, coonass