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  1. Re:Asked and answered on Gnomoradio: Creative Commons Music Sharing · · Score: 1
    familiar and fairly consistent

    And the importance of this can not be underestimated. You may find yourself around a campfire someday with people from many different parts of the country/world, and a couple of guitars. What are you going to do, play your favorite local band's stuff or Billy Joel?

  2. Re:I think no on Is IP Property? · · Score: 2

    Excuse me, but what you call "freedom of capital" is actually a property right. Property rights are individual rights, which are essential to freedom of people. Those you have called "real libertarians" are apparently self-contradictory.

    But then, you are obviously a lefty troll trying to slander the "real" real libertarians, who do believe in the freedom of people to do what they want, including owning and utilizing capital.

  3. Re:I think no on Is IP Property? · · Score: 1

    How did Chomsky come into this?

    Well, EvilAlien, I suppose when all you've got is a hammer, the whole world looks like a nail. The Libertarians have me ticked off to the point where I'm leaning Constitution Party these days, and ol' Noam would excrete at both ends if they ever got anywhere.

  4. Re:I think no on Is IP Property? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Those of us who are more nuanced prefer to call the two major parties "the Statist Party" and "the statist party."

  5. Re:I think no on Is IP Property? · · Score: 1

    Wow. Who would have thought that the ACLU's choice of "the 8 worst internet laws" would end up so lopsided?

  6. Here's an idea: on University Bans Wireless Access Points · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Let's whine about it!

  7. Re:Mixed enterprise environments on IT Myths · · Score: 4, Funny

    With a name like "Nick Burns," he'll never be CEO of Gillette....

  8. Re:Dear God on Austrian Physicists 'Teleport' Light Over 600m · · Score: 1
    Your sig:

    If you reply, do so only to what I explicitly wrote. If I didn't write it, don't assume or infer it.

    Wow, here's a conundrum:
    Can I write in response to your sig? I mean, you did write it explicitly one time, but does every post constitute an explicit reiteration of the sentiments in your sig? Please advise so I know if replying to your sig is OK or not.

  9. Re:Oh, patients... on Hardware That Literally Doesn't Stink? · · Score: 3, Funny

    However, such a correlation is still consistent with the "nutso" hypothesis.

  10. Re:....and I'm posting from it. on Netscape 7.2 Released · · Score: 1

    When people asked Opera to get rid of the bloat and clutter, I think they had in mind something more than just the paisley scribbles in the button bar.

    See Safari for a clean interface.

  11. Re:Spam blocking uses? on LOAF - Distributed Social Networking Over Email · · Score: 4, Funny

    Correct, And since your List Of All Friends is appended as a hash and not plaintext, no one can "pinch" your LOAF, so to speak.

  12. Re:I'm sure I'm in the minority... on Real Cuts Prices for DRM-Restricted Music · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Does anyone know if Hymn opens up the Real DRM for iPods? It would be reassuring since Apple can change iPod firmware at will.

  13. Re:md5 is so weak on SHA-0 Broken, MD5 Rumored Broken · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Okay, jokes aside, this shows how social engineering will always be among the best tools for cracking. Krunch, you da man.

  14. Re:Possibly a remote tablet interface? on Speculation About An Apple Tablet · · Score: 1

    But what is the req'd bandwidth of, say, 1280x854 hi-color video? It would swamp 802.11g, wouldn't it?

    The thing would have to be connected with some kind of VNC or Apple Remote Desktop protocol, which means you'd need something more than a "cheap microproc" on the monitor itself to translate from the wireless signal to drawing. I don't know enough of Quartz internals to know if this could all be done in video card compositing. Anyone have real numbers?

  15. Re:Great News on Johansen Cracks AirPort Express Encryption · · Score: 2, Funny
    (notice the difference in my *free* and your "free")

    Free as in "asterisk sandwich."

  16. Re:An automatic change on Apple Releases 10.3.5 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow! I can't wait to see if that works on my PowerBook too!

  17. Re:well ... on How Powerful is the Turn-Off Power of Spam? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You know, Kerry seems unprepared to admit the extent of the problem with worldwide militant Islam, and Bush has enacted a bold foreign policy based on preemption which has kept the fights off our shores for three years.

    On the other hand, if I get one more "Voet Bu$h" email, I'd be willing to risk this nation's future with a scaled back and purely reactive war strategy.

    Sure.

  18. Re:Stupid stupid stupid. on Meta-tag Spam Declared Illegal in Germany · · Score: 1
    "What's next, x?" is a bogus argument

    No it's not. It may not be a logically necessary argument, but in practice it is completely reasonable to ask. Attempts at using logical rigor to set your expectations in arenas of social policy, even when it defies all experience and common sense strikes me as being significantly more bogus.

  19. Re:German judges need a life. on Meta-tag Spam Declared Illegal in Germany · · Score: 1

    We should see about finding some enlightened European country willing to outlaw the misuse of words. Ah, yes, what a paradise our continental betters have.

  20. Re:How can a court enforce the ruling on Meta-tag Spam Declared Illegal in Germany · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Courts can set precedents. However, by making references to clauses, whether real or imagined, in our state and federal constitutions, they do effectively write new laws.

  21. Stephen Galton a pseudonym on Lawyer Sues Yahoo for Message Board Name-Calling · · Score: 2, Funny

    His real name is Steven Bosell.

  22. Re:Phone upgrade addiction on Cell Phones Becoming Profitless · · Score: 1

    You're totally right, but this is Slashdot. The libertarians are off reading another story and the communists are unable to accept the concept of capitalists exploiting the free markets actually being beneficial to consumers.

  23. Re:Hacker tactics? on Real Responds to Apple's Hacking Claims · · Score: 2, Funny

    By confusing "missing the point" with "going off topic," you have once again missed the point.

  24. Re:That was the whole point. on Bash 3.0 Released · · Score: 1
    You misread me, and/or I didn't make my point clearly. I know that numerical operations on version numbers are invalid. Nothing makes sense besides the operations <, >, and ==. Never did I intend to say that (version x) / (version y) = z means that x is z times "better" than y.

    Also the only mention of tenths I made was in regard to the Linux kernel numbers, because they have a specific stated policy for their "tenths" version numbering. Another specific convention for versioning was well stated elsewhere in this thread where someone pointed out that integer changes can be expected to break compatibility. Overall, the conventions for versioning are nebulous, but they have become pretty intuitive to those who follow them.

  25. Whoa, too much politics lately... on CPAN: $677 Million of Perl · · Score: 2, Funny
    ... I thought it said "C-SPAN."

    Although their "Book TV" show is usually as dense as Perl, and often profiles books that are write-only.