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  1. Re:I don't understand this news. on Low Power FM Report Rejects Interference Concerns · · Score: 4, Interesting

    FM radio is so completely devoid of useful things to listen to (with the one exception of NPR, thankfully)

    FYI, NPR is one of the big lobbyists going against LPFM.

  2. Re:I would read it.. on Xbox Hackers, Linux, the DMCA, And Modchips · · Score: 1

    That link didn't work.

  3. Re:One step closer to Linux on Apple Updates Panther Via Software Update · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    If you are using a regular distribution, all of the sound modules are already compiled for you.. unless you distribution is that shoddy. I dont know of any distros that are like that. Every one I encoutered had everything compiled.

    PS: Bite me Moderators. I have karma to burn and you don't have the balls to reply, so you mod me down instead

  4. Re:One step closer to Linux on Apple Updates Panther Via Software Update · · Score: 0, Informative

    57 steps for sound card?

    lets see..

    Step 1: /sbin/modprobe es1370

    Where are the other 56 steps? You Mac fanboys really are smart, arent ya?

  5. Re:Fox? This is no problem on Rheingold Preaches Mob-Logging · · Score: 1

    Deregulation is not the problem, but regulation is.

    I agreed with you up until this point.

    We have media conglomerates such as Clear Channel and others who want to own every outlet of media in the country while at the same time ignoring the demands of what people want.

  6. Re:Bowling for Columbine has some answers on Warriors Of Freedom Prompted Rampage Attempt? · · Score: 1

    The Media shows what people want to see.

    It happens to be that the majority of Americans don't want to see the anti-American retoric of Moore and other hard-core left-wingers.

    When the Dixie Chicks got banned from many radio stations, do you think it was a US Gov't directive? Hardly. It was the intense demand from PEOPLE.

    Also, why did you add me to your freaks list? I thought we were having a fairly good discussion.

    I respect your opinion and the fact that you did not resort to ad-hominem attacks like other people on my freak's list have.

    Oh well. Have a nice day.

  7. Re:Bowling for Columbine has some answers on Warriors Of Freedom Prompted Rampage Attempt? · · Score: 1

    The media is hardly "government-run".

    Is it fair, balanced, and objective? No.

    CNN is an obvious left-wing news agency (One can only look to their programming - James Carville, Larry King, etc.).

    Fox News is obviously right-wing (despite their claims at being "fair and balanced" - I've heard their own anchors give straight out opinions in news reporting situations).

    Media attempts to appeal to a particular audience, and I dont think that the whole concept has changed ever since Pulitzer and Hearst.

    Back to Moore.

    I consider Moore to be a typical social liberal, perhaps one of the few in the left wing who actually hold onto their ideas rather than pandering to whats popular (i.e. Clinton).

    Bowling for Columbine is utterly and intentionaly inaccurate! He makes edits to Heston's speeches to make him say things that he did not! How can you possible consider this a fair documentary?

    I'm not going to say that the NRA is 100% righteous, I've seen them do some pretty stupid things, including the clip of a NRA rally touting that they'll be running straight out of George W's office if be became president.

    I don't mind critical social commentary, but for God's sake, make it accurate!

  8. Re:Bowling for Columbine has some answers on Warriors Of Freedom Prompted Rampage Attempt? · · Score: 1, Informative

    Bowling for Columbine is a typical Moore propaganda piece, ripe with inaccuracies, out-of-context quotes, and unfair portrayals.

    http://www.hardylaw.net/Truth_About_Bowling.html

  9. Re:fp from canada on Wi-Fi, Linux, And VoIP In Canada · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not to be an MS fanboy, but if your Win2K user accounts are set up properly, normal users wont be able to install applications that modify the registry or global startup menu.

    Your setup is equivalent making all Linux users on a system a member of the root group

  10. Re:Out-of-state on Michigan's Proposed Spam Law Called Toughest In U.S. · · Score: 1

    Thats the issue. If Joe Blow in Mass. sues me, in Texas, and I have no clue who he is and feel that the suit it bogus - why should I bother to show up?

    I have no financial assets in Mass or any other interests - What do I have to lose?

  11. Re:Out-of-state on Michigan's Proposed Spam Law Called Toughest In U.S. · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If someone out of state sues you (or a DA charges you with a criminal offense) in an out of state court, what can they possibly do to make you show up?

    They can't send a Michagan State Trooper to Florida to serve papers or forcible bring someone into court (Look at the incident in Texas with the Legislators who left the state for a few days to break quorom, which is a violation of the law, - the state police knew where they were but could not arrest them because they were in Oklahoma).

    This is why we need spam laws to be at the Federal level, but even then, our reach won't cover asian spammers (Unless you can get Dubya to declare war on Weapons of Mass Spammage).

  12. Re:Ha! on Teach An Old Athlon New Tricks · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm beginning to think the problem with Athlon systems are the chipset drivers..

    I have VIA KT133 board that wouldn't last over a day on Windows.. reformated and reinstalled several times and no help..

    Now the system runs linux and its been up for over a month. No odd crashes, segfaults, or lockups.

    My desktop computer has a nForce 2 chipset.. Totally reliable and not a single system crash.

  13. Re:WTF?! on Science Faction · · Score: -1, Troll

    no, the /. editors have long since sold out to Microsoft

  14. Re:Apple on Can Open Source Save Hardware? · · Score: 1

    Gigabit networking on PC's is really not usable until PC's start getting PCI-X or 64bit/66Mhz PCI slots to handle all the bandwidth. Its been avaliable on server class x86 boxen for some time.

    DEC had a 64-bit desktop out years before the G5.

  15. Re:putty on Deep Space 6 Publishes New IPv6 Status Pages · · Score: 1

    no don't worry, I've iptables'd you out

  16. Re:putty on Deep Space 6 Publishes New IPv6 Status Pages · · Score: 3, Interesting

    geez, as soon as I try to visit that website, I get return port scans from them. How nice (NOT)!

  17. Re:Still not the same comparisons... on NASA Benchmarks the New G5 Powermac · · Score: 1

    ::sigh::
    Typical Mac user arrogance
    first with Apple claiming to be the first 64-bit PC (lie), now this, saying that the G5 is the ONLY 64 bit CPU!

    Geez, have you ever heard of the Alpha or the SPARC?

  18. Re:Hey PUNKS! I now have THREE HERF GUNS.... on dB Drag Racing · · Score: 1

    you should also look into litigation.. get a lawyer and find all the tort laws you can use against him and sue the shit out of those bastards. if they can't/wont pay, have their property seized.

    as far as your own property, mount some outside cameras (with sufficent night time lighting) and keep it all on tape for the cops

  19. Re:Seagate Barracudas on Melamine Ceiling Tiles and the Quiet PC · · Score: 1

    Watts is voltage times current (amps)

    Voltage is always constant (well, constant enough for this explanation), whereas your components draw varying amounts of current. It will not draw more than it needs (unless you have a short circuit)

    So there is nothing wrong with a powersupply higher than the power draw of your PC.

  20. Re:Obligatory comment on Design Slashdot's New T-Shirt and Win Cool Stuff! · · Score: 0

    tell that to my supply of black ink that I have to replace every few months!

  21. Re:I don't see a point. on Digital Shoplifting From Bookstores? · · Score: 1

    so.. people do that anyway. Been to a Barnes and Noble lately? Every person who goes to the mag. rack reads an article or two and MAYBE decides to get the magazine

  22. Re:Newspapers on Digital Shoplifting From Bookstores? · · Score: 1

    FYI, the bulk of newspaper revenue is from advertisements, not actual newstand revenue.

  23. Re:There will always be.... on Digital Shoplifting From Bookstores? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Had this been an article about online P2P swapping and you gave that same reply, you would have been roundly booed and modded down -1, Troll

  24. Re:How about the libertarian angle? on Telemarketers Plan Counterattack · · Score: 1

    Hmm.. So if I drove down the author of that article's street and played obnoxious music or made obsence sounds through a megaphone for hours in front of his house, would he support having the police arrest me for distrubing the peace?

    By his logic, he should use technology to block me.. so that means he would spend 100's (1000's ?) on soundproof foam to prevent him from being distrubed by me.

  25. Re:How about the libertarian angle? on Telemarketers Plan Counterattack · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Do libertarians believe that government should protect citizens from other citizens infringing on our life, liberty and pursuit of happiness?

    We have laws against people playing loud music for hours at night (aka Disturbing The Peace).

    We have laws against murder and rape, I dont think any reasonable libertarianw would argue that the govermnent has no right to protect us from each other in that regard, so I dont see why this concept can't be extended to highly annoying telemarketers (or spammers) without encroaching on our rights.