IRC is a denzien of hackers, pirates and kiddieporn scum.
Maybe you are one of the 500 people who actually chat on IRC, good for you. 90% of the traffic is warez and porn. These people could care less about security and prefer anonyminity for obvious reasons.
yeah sure, no one using except for people breaking the law use crypto...get real
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i totally agree. i've been on undernet since i was a kid (like, 8 years almost), in mostly the same channels for years. call me nostalgic, but i feel as if i "grew up" on there with a few people i've (mostly) never meant. i hope i can still go on an irc network when i'm 60.
irc can definitely be the most "personal" protocol
you bunch of tards
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yeah you, hemos, for publishing it, and you too, anonymous coward, for submitting a story just so you could say something ignorant on the front page...
Of course, without the G4 and all that yucky Mac hardware -- just the aesthetics.
please...
Re:Stephen King, author, dead at 54
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this is the oldest hoax in the book, and you all fell for it
slack 8 is great, i've been running it since prerelease, solid as a rock with 2.4.6 (yeah i know). i don't need a fancy installer as some people have been whining about, but if they wanna update it a little, i'm cool with that.
my only complaint is that it shipped with autoconf 2.50, which is seriously broken and should not be used if want stuff to compile correctly. a good idea would be to get a previous version, rather than using the one that comes with it.
The only thing which matters is, "how good does it sound to the listeners". And that's indeed the most scientific way of testing it I can think of. Blind tests, comparing with real CD quality.
this is true, a blind test is definitely the way to go. but some quality control definitely needs to be instituted, as well as revealing the "brand x" that sounds so good afterwards. this "test" does none of this, it just gives us some random pseudoexperts who say that this format is the best, and this one is not.
...because the very nature of the test is invalid. if you want to determine what is "cd quality" and what is not, you need to at least use a more scientific method than this. check out r3mix.net for better info.
also, how did these people encode their mp3/ogg/wma files? there's no indication of bitrate, sampling frequency, encoder, encoder settings, nothing!. without this info, these results are even more invalid, and misleading to people who believe them. for example: in mp3 encoding, a file encoded at 128 kbps with a newer version of lame will sound much better than a piece encoded at the same bitrate with bladenc. why? cuz lame is much better, that's why!
i'm not supporting one format over another, but please, please don't base anything on this crap. i don't know how this even got posted.
actually, i think this is what the OSS (linux) desktop thing is moving towards: my prediction for the end? for the distro, i have no idea, but i think that Qt and KDE is gonna be what it looks like...
it's coming to this, it may take a few more years, for now i'll stick with my slackware+kde2
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you bunch of worthless fucking hippies
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i don't know what all of the whining is about. in the larger sense, these are all acts AGAINST the very corporate empire(s) that people here are constantly harping about invading their privacy, making life difficult, etc, etc, etc.
i don't want to hear your "peaceful protest" bullshit, cuz it doesn't work, not a bit. a few carefully placed bombs can do far more than having some goddamn sit-in and carrying signs around. remember the boston tea party? do you remember John Browns raid on Harper's Ferry? the civil war resulted, and good came from it. (this is us-centric, sorry).
i'm not saying this is always true, but don't ever tell me that good never eventually comes from violent acts, and these aren't even violent against people - if you knew even a speck of what you think you do about this, you'd know that.
Slashdot Mirror
[microsoft] was supposed to be a link. is slashdot censoring links now?
ie 5 runs on some unices, solaris and hp-ux. how does it compare to the windows version (in performance), etc...
And even those that DO know about it don't
seem to realize the huge improvements that have been made just since 2.1, like, in the last 2 weeks.
i do!!
IRC is a denzien of hackers, pirates and kiddieporn scum.
Maybe you are one of the 500 people who actually chat on IRC, good for you. 90% of the traffic is warez and porn. These people could care less about security and prefer anonyminity for obvious reasons.
yeah sure, no one using except for people breaking the law use crypto...get real
i totally agree. i've been on undernet since i was a kid (like, 8 years almost), in mostly the same channels for years. call me nostalgic, but i feel as if i "grew up" on there with a few people i've (mostly) never meant. i hope i can still go on an irc network when i'm 60.
irc can definitely be the most "personal" protocol
yeah you, hemos, for publishing it, and you too, anonymous coward, for submitting a story just so you could say something ignorant on the front page...
Of course, without the G4 and all that yucky Mac hardware -- just the aesthetics.
please...
this is the oldest hoax in the book, and you all fell for it
yes, thank you all very much :)
fortunately i don't have to be using that box tonite
real screenshots here - not goatse, i swear!
my only complaint is that it shipped with autoconf 2.50, which is seriously broken and should not be used if want stuff to compile correctly. a good idea would be to get a previous version, rather than using the one that comes with it.
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this is true, a blind test is definitely the way to go. but some quality control definitely needs to be instituted, as well as revealing the "brand x" that sounds so good afterwards. this "test" does none of this, it just gives us some random pseudoexperts who say that this format is the best, and this one is not.
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also, how did these people encode their mp3/ogg/wma files? there's no indication of bitrate, sampling frequency, encoder, encoder settings, nothing!. without this info, these results are even more invalid, and misleading to people who believe them. for example: in mp3 encoding, a file encoded at 128 kbps with a newer version of lame will sound much better than a piece encoded at the same bitrate with bladenc. why? cuz lame is much better, that's why!
i'm not supporting one format over another, but please, please don't base anything on this crap. i don't know how this even got posted.
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i certainly would like the kick ass snare drum effect tho...
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which is exactly why it's totally worthless to people who play games (lots of people)...
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it's coming to this, it may take a few more years, for now i'll stick with my slackware+kde2
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i don't want to hear your "peaceful protest" bullshit, cuz it doesn't work, not a bit. a few carefully placed bombs can do far more than having some goddamn sit-in and carrying signs around. remember the boston tea party? do you remember John Browns raid on Harper's Ferry? the civil war resulted, and good came from it. (this is us-centric, sorry).
i'm not saying this is always true, but don't ever tell me that good never eventually comes from violent acts, and these aren't even violent against people - if you knew even a speck of what you think you do about this, you'd know that.
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i'd like to see a few more blown up
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