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  1. geroge bush on White Dolphin Functionally Extict · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Al gore and Michael mooore tell me this would not have happened if geroge bush had not stolen the election. One more reason to vote for a democrat in 2008.

  2. Re:Moo on Unrefined "Musician" Gains a Global Audience · · Score: 1

    you recompiled your kernel?

  3. Re:Moo on Unrefined "Musician" Gains a Global Audience · · Score: 3, Funny

    exit out of X, recompile your kernel with the correct modules (make sure you run make clean and make mrproper first). edit grub to load the new kernel, reboot and you should be all set.
    if that does not work, grab a live cd and burn it on yout back up machine (you had one right?) boot up your machine from the live cd then mount the hdd and modify grub to load the old kernel. its as simple as that.

  4. UFOs on Arctic Ice May Melt By 2040 · · Score: 1

    I love the headline. Looks like a description of rearden metal from atlas shrugged.

    Remember, alien UFOs may land tomorrow as well.

  5. since, from on UCLA Hacked, 800,000 Identities Exposed · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "The data may have been available to hackers since October 2005 until November 21, 2006,"

    Am I the only one who cringes when he reads this sentence.

  6. Re:Arg. Not free. on Map of the Internet · · Score: 1

    yeah? say all the engineers worked for only $60,000 (this is very little) a year for roughly 30 years. If it were only one guy, thats 1,800,000. Lets say just for fun the US military had 1000 folks working at this rate (in reality it is probably more, but i am making broad generalizations everywhere in this example)

    thats $1,800,000,000

    Assuming what you said was true,
    us-japan cable that crosses the pacific is 21,000 km
    assuming it was really $50,000 per km, thats 1,050,000,000 for a transpacific link.

    my massive understatement above of only 1000 guys working at only 60k/yr for 30 years is almost double that. In reality I'm sure the pentagon spent tens of billions on the net. So, yes, it is a free hand out.

  7. Re:Arg. Not free. on Map of the Internet · · Score: 1

    "The R&D costs for the underlying technologies have been miniscule compared to the actual infrastructure development and maintenance costs. China and India and every other country weren't "given" the Internet, they worked hard to make enough money via trade/enterprise to pay for and build it themselves."

    you're kidding. Decades of research is miniscule huh? they were given the technology for free and invested nothing in its development. By your logic, if i were to network my apartment, i was not given the tech to use the network because i paid for the hardware. Similarly, europeans were not given the tech for gunpowder or the compass because they paid for the components that made the gunpowder and compasses they used.

    we are talking about technology i.e. knowledge not the physical cabling.

  8. americans on Ultrawideband Soon To Be Legal In Europe · · Score: 2, Funny

    yeah those backwards Americans, good thing I live in the forward thinking EU.. oh wait..

  9. Re:MIT on Map of the Internet · · Score: 1

    good thing MIT HAS half as much as latin america.

  10. Re:IPv4 space on Map of the Internet · · Score: 0

    "Think about how many people are in India and China, and compare the asian assignment vs. the US assignment. It will be impossible to ever make IPv4 fair."

    I think it tells you more about where the network originated and who controls and owns the infrastructure. if the third world invested the money in the research and infrastructure, the would have more. Since they didn't they should be happy with what they have been given for free.

  11. Re:MIT on Map of the Internet · · Score: 2, Informative

    I haven't had my coffee...

  12. MIT on Map of the Internet · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I always laugh at how MIT half as much as all of latin america and as much as all of Africa.

    I remember being in MIT and getting a real fixed IP for every single device. We actually had a coke vending machine that was hacked and online with its own IP. Considering they has so much that they are no where near running out, I'm sure there are a ton of toasters online at MIT as well.

  13. Re:by this logic.. on Study Detects Recent Instance of Human Evolution · · Score: 1

    seems you didnt get the post. I was talking about things people can infer about today in the future based on data that exists they will see millions of black people with HIV in africa and then nearby in europe, far fewer where the only difference being skin color.

  14. by this logic.. on Study Detects Recent Instance of Human Evolution · · Score: -1, Troll

    by this logic in 2000 people can say that having lighter skin was a genetic mutation that offered people with such skin a significant advantage in the world. As a result people with darker skin did not produce as many offspring and most of those that did live ended up getting infected with HIV.

  15. DUPE on Microsoft drops VBA in Mac Office 2007 · · Score: 1

    funny, i remember reading the same thing here sometime back:
    http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/08/ 1232239

  16. huh? on Oblivion Takes Top Honor At Spike VGAs · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    spike vga? WTf is that? new compatibility standard? oh a video game awards show on spike tv... who cares. In other news final fantasy XII takes to honor in minus_273 VGA.

  17. Re:Wrighty on The Wii Hits the UK · · Score: 2, Informative

    ah, over here people tend to waste most of their time on the national football league. Not too many games in a season though, roughly once a week. College is really big too.

  18. Re:Wrighty on The Wii Hits the UK · · Score: 1

    heh, didnt know you brits played football. always took you for rugby people.

  19. Re:GlovePie on DarwiinRemote - AWiimote Frontend for OSX · · Score: 1

    look at the site and readme on that program and you will see the following

    "NOTE! You may not use this software on military bases, or for military purposes, or in Israel (which amounts to the same thing). Violation of the license agreement will be prosecuted. See the readme for the license agreement.
    "

    Seems like the neo-Nazi author is not fond of Jews.

  20. Re:hopefully on Sony Adds PS3 Support to Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    your sony game saves are already DRMed with magic gate

  21. hopefully on Sony Adds PS3 Support to Linux Kernel · · Score: 4, Funny

    hopefully the code will be audited to make sure there arent any backdoors, trojans or DRM schemes snuck into the kernel

  22. netcraft on NASA Finds Evidence of Recent Flowing Water on Mars · · Score: 0, Redundant

    has netcraft confirmed this water?

  23. Re:No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame. on Apple's Smart Phone Depends on OS X Tie-Ins · · Score: 4, Informative

    you can sync your ipod with outlook.

  24. Re:Here is what I think would sell like hot cakes. on Apple's Smart Phone Depends on OS X Tie-Ins · · Score: 1

    i do all of that with my Sony Ericsson z520 that i got for free from cingular. It does not have USB, just bluetooth (i like it better that way), but beyond that i can do everything you say in your post. It works like a disk with the OSX when i connect with bluetooth. The only issue i have with it is that i does not have a SD slot or any kind of expansion for additional Mp3s.

  25. Re:Good on Stem Cell Bill Passes in Australia · · Score: 1

    the key is to create a good foes/friends list. Make sure you have the trolls and brats on your foes list then suppress foes. It really filters out the riffraff. For example, i never saw the parent to your post. I suspect the slashdot I see is completely different.