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  1. Re:not sure what you want on Virus Prevention in the Small/Medium Business? · · Score: 1
    Supposedly, ClamAV gets definitions for the latest and greatest viruses before commercial vendors are able to...although I have no evidence to back this claim up.

    Here ya go!

    I'd give an excerpt, but SourceForge is currently down (that's where ClamAV's news is hosted). The gist is, for the most recent 50 viruses, ClamAV had the quickest response time for 77% of them. That says a lot.

  2. Re:This damage control isn't for you. on Refugee Radio Station Blocked by Red Tape · · Score: 1
    Having a radio stations where people affected could speak their minds openly, or even potentially openly would hurt this damage control.

    Agreed. But, aren't they kinda shooting themselves in the foot, by letting their management of the news become news?

  3. Re:Jesus... on GNOME 2.12 Released · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I want to support but please need the answer: when does Kali start groveling?

    Thanks,
    Thing 1

    PS "Holy spook" ends in a K...

  4. Re:yeah 60 dollars, more complex. BS! on Higher Game Prices Explored · · Score: 1
    I liked Half Life 2, Morrowind, UT2004, and Doom 3, but I don't need Big Mother Truckers 2, BloodRayne 2, or Fantastic 4.

    Wow! All but one that you like are sequels (unless Morrowind is a sequel to something); and apparently all that you hate are sequels (except I know that Fantastic 4 is not the 4th in a series).

  5. Re:Does time travel as well on 6.8GHz 1TB RAM and 2TB HDD Laptop? · · Score: 1
    You comment sounded like Ignignoc in my head. Thanks! (I think it was the elipsis that did it.) "We do what we want, to whom we want ... at all times."

    Google is creepy: I searched (to check my spelling) for "inignoc and ur" and Google gave me only one matching web site, but also asked "Did you mean: ignignoc and er "!

  6. Re:Video Interview on Valve's Gabe Newell Speaks on Console Development · · Score: 1
    Agreed. The smarter developers will band together and create an uber-SDK, with an API which works on all major consoles.

    Sure, it might not squeeze the most performance out, but that API can be wrapped around the 7 different processors and then have higher-level primitives exposed to the developer, so developers won't have to care which platform they're developing for.

    And, since it's open, when developers want extra performance on a certain platform, they can dive into the SDK and do it themselves.

  7. Re:Donating to freenet will not solve anything on Australian Court says Kazaa Users Breach Copyright · · Score: 1
    It is not your digital right to exchange copyrighted material at all.
    Fuck that. I'll thank you not to tell me to throw away my right to freedom of speech, if that's quite okay with you.

    Reading your response, I got the idea that us exchanging our viewpoints on Slashdot is "exchanging copyrighted material, digitally."

    And what we're doing is legal. So, yes, it is our "digital right to exchange copyrighted material", at least in some senses of the phrase, so the GP's "It is not" and "at all" are too heavy-handed.

  8. Re:one more thing. on Microsoft to Launch "Skype Killer" · · Score: 1

    Whose call? Certainly not the market.

  9. Re:As a Massachusetts Resident on The Massachusetts Office Party · · Score: 1

    Why don't the people who review the reports look at the dates on the receipts? Fucking government.

  10. Re:What is the Value of an IP address? on Mom, and Now Judge, Stand Up to RIAA · · Score: 5, Informative
    Your landlady violated federal law, unless she had prior instructions in writing specifying that she could open your mail.

    All her actions after that point are also actionable on your part. But, it sounds like you don't care to, since you're now in good circumstances. Luck be with you!

  11. Re:Freedom of speech comes with responsibility. on Blog Faces Lawsuit Over Reader Comments · · Score: 1
    in writing you can't hear the obvious lunacy which would normally decrease their credibility [...]

    OH YOU CANT CAN YOU HERE IT NOW? NIGERIA 4EVA!

  12. Re:one more thing. on Microsoft to Launch "Skype Killer" · · Score: 1
    Um, no, it's really SIP sucking.

    If other protocols can get through, then ... fill in the rest.

  13. Re:Why? on RIAA Hands out more Lawsuits · · Score: 1
    That must be some awfully repetitive music you listen to if 30 seconds is enough.

    It is, actually, for half the issue: 30 seconds is enough to know you don't like it.

    But to know whether it's worth buying? That really takes a full listen. Which you could do using the radio, if it weren't chock full of crap.

  14. Re:Weird on HOWTO: The Anti-Printer · · Score: 1

    Ya, they help keep the radiator fluid cooled.

  15. Re:Whats good for the goose on Legal Arguments Can Hurt Tech Job Mobility · · Score: 1

    Basically, "a thief thinks you're stealing from him."

  16. Re:I've never played Halo 2's multi-player on Fixing Bungie's Broken Masterpiece · · Score: 4, Funny

    As a friend of mine said, "the second half of the game is just a bunch of L-shaped rooms."

  17. Re:Geriatrics on Scientists Discover Possible Anti-Aging Gene · · Score: 1
    We don't need people living longer.

    I'm glad you're not in charge of society! Your views remind me of "Logan's Run."

    You're free to off yourself any time you like. This new drug is "noise" as far as technology goes, though. Within 20 years, we'll have achieved the singularity that is nanotechnology and we will all live until the heat death of the universe (if we so choose).

    And the universe will be our playground; we won't have to stay at the bottom of a gravity well. In fact, there are good proposals for taking apart the planets, to reduce the cost of moving from place to place.

    I can't wait to start creating Dyson sphere's around stars and harvesting the energy. By rationing the stars' "waste" we can make the universe live longer! How cool is that?

    (You're trolling, though, I'm pretty sure.)

  18. Re:nah. on iTunes Might Lose Labels · · Score: 1
    I tip the piano player, I'm not giving anything to a dirt bag who thinks he owns him.

    This is why, many years ago, I stopped listening to Pearl Jam. They "decided" that Ticketmaster was making "too much" money, and went off on a public rant about reducing ticket charges.

    What fucking business are you in? Making music, or exchanging pieces of paper for other pieces of paper that grant you physical access to a building?

    I had thought Pearl Jam was in the former. Similarly, I tip the piano player, and a percentage of that goes to the individual or firm whose job it is to find new venues for the artist to play. The artist's job is simply to come up with new, different, interesting tunes (or practice the covers they play). If the artist "wasted" their practice time by spending it on management issues, they'd quickly find that there was nothing left to manage.

    Of course, in my scenario the "dirt bag" doesn't "think he owns" the piano player, but then you never asked said "dirt bag" did you, it was all just assumptions?

  19. Re:Good... on Another Major Spammer Busted · · Score: 1
    You just described the "gateway effect" (the quote being, "pot is a gateway drug"). Someone's signature turns it on its head very nicely: "religion is a gateway psychosis."

    Alternately, you could say that mother's milk (or oxygen!) is a gateway drug, because 99% of all pot-heads have consumed mother's milk at some time in their past.

    As to narcotics like cocaine, nicotine is both more addictive and has a higher death rate (33%) than cocaine. So if we want to be honest about it, we'd outlaw nicotine as well.

    As to why pot's still illegal, in a separate response I mentioned that racism played a huge part in getting the drug laws passed, and that is also why we probably won't see them repealed in our lifetimes.

  20. Re:Good... on Another Major Spammer Busted · · Score: 1
    Believe it or not, I actually have compassion, and want all my patients to get well.

    Your patients have a much higher chance of success at "getting well" when they are outside of prison.

    Supporting the unethical treatment of our citizens by the prison industry doesn't sound like "trying to help." You're more than just a messenger; you're actively part of the problem because (from what you've typed here) you don't allow for the class of "users" -- if someone's putting a drug in their body, you see them as an "abuser". Please accept the fact that some people are productive citizens who experience altered states of mind at times, just as children do when they spin around.

    (Or should we make spinning illegal too?)

  21. Re:Good... on Another Major Spammer Busted · · Score: 1
    You cost us all money by raising the contribution rates and abusing the system. The system assumes good will on the part of the participants, that they are interested in living for the maximum amount of time as contributing members of society. In effect, you lower everyone's standard of living.

    Jazz wouldn't exist without pot.

    I've written some great (and, admittedly, some not-so-great) code while drunk and/or stoned. Don't accuse me of being non-productive simply because my poison of choice differs from yours. (And don't tell me you don't have one, because you do; for some people, it's prayer, but that's still something that takes time away from their being maximally productive, if that's how you define it and it seems like you do, above: "It's ultimately about money".)

    Some people sniff paint to ruin their brains. You wanna outlaw paint now?

  22. Re:Good... on Another Major Spammer Busted · · Score: 1
    And before somebody says it, no, I don't think drug legalization is the answer.

    Why?

    Especially given all the evidence (failed prohibition in the 20s; current prohibition failing (I can get pot for $35/quarter, coke for $50 for a small bag but I don't buy it so I don't know exact amounts; mushrooms for $15 for 1.5 oz, and hits of acid for $5--and Greendale is a bodaciously small town, Lane!); huuuuuuuuuge amounts of tax dollars being thrown down the toilet in enforcement and prison-worship instead of humanely treating the abusers, and providing an environment for the mere users to enjoy the high; and conversely, absolutely no tax revenue from the billions (US government estimates $60-108 billion) of dollars of sales per year of these products and associated products and services (most pipes are sold by head shops, which pay taxes; however, fucking Tommy Chong went to jail (but good news: was released a year ago) just for selling pieces of plastic with pictures of himself on them!) trying to make an honest buck.

    Sorry, didn't mean to go off on a rant, but how can you possibly defend that position? "I know better than you what you should put in your body?" Bullshit! We're all sovereign entities over our cells. "Your smoking pot might raise my health care bills" is not evidence to be used in defending prohibition; it's evidence to be used in eliminating the existing health-care system which has too many interdependencies! (Insurance would not be offered if it wasn't profitable; therefore, it would be most efficient if the user paid 100%, but that's not possible because prices are inflated because the insurers will pay them.)

    What makes you think drug illegalization was the right answer for the time, back when the decisions were made, either? Most accounts show that the predominant reason for making a substance illegal is because "them nigger's been fuckin my daughters!" Or Chinks, Spics, whatever racial slur the racists who made those laws used to get the abominations passed. Are you, therefore, a racist?

  23. Re:All things being equal... on Apple Rumored to Be After Samsung Flash Memory · · Score: 1
    OT subject nit: all things are never equal. (Chairs aren't tables.)

    What you're reaching for is "All other things being equal...", which means "change this one variable and that is the result."

    Now mod me down so I can be more powerful than hot grits, or something.

  24. Re:You know on Uneducated IT Managers, and How to Deal? · · Score: 1

    OT: I'm re-reading Footfall and got your name reference. Cheers! (Flishithy!)

  25. Re:Viral Marketing on Firefly Movie Using Viral Marketing? · · Score: 1
    I prefer "bacterial marketing".

    And, of course, a good full-spectrum antibiotic!