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  1. Re:OTOH... on Bikes Against Bush Creator Busted · · Score: 1

    I hate to reply again, but this is just too stupid.

    Spaghetti on NYC cops.

    Amadou Diallo got less than one foot when, in the midst of delivering some lo mein, was cut down by some 24 NYC cops who were (evidently) violently opposed to spaghetti. He was shot 41 times.

    Not a single pig uniform was soiled by lo mein at this vicious mans hands.

    So I think your story has little merit based simply on historical evidence. Spaghetti throwers are brutally punished, and all the protesters know that.

  2. Re:Time, place and manner regulations are lawful on Bikes Against Bush Creator Busted · · Score: 2, Insightful
    The First Amendment does not let you express yourself wherever or whenever you want.

    well here is where you are completely, utterly, shamefully (and theoretically) wrong.

    The first amendment isn't about letting anyone do anything. It's about limiting the power of authority to stop you from doing it.

    Of course it is all a sick joke anyway, but I was feeling pedantic.

  3. Re:OTOH... on Bikes Against Bush Creator Busted · · Score: 2, Funny

    Throwing spaghetti on NYC cops eh?

    Right.

    NYC cops shoot people for looking funny. Hell, they don't just shoot, they obliterate you with massive salvoes of small arms fire. Everyone knows not to fuck with NY cops, if anything, and I guarantee you everyone who has gone to NY to protest is well aware of that. The story itself prove you are a fucking liar, and a liar for a bad cause into the bargain, which makes you a double nitwit fuckwad.

  4. Re:Scary on 10Gbit to the Home by 2010 · · Score: 1

    sounds like the isp's may finally have to get their shit together and learn what egress filtering is.

  5. what have people come to? on New iMac Pictures Leaked? · · Score: 1

    This site has pictures of apple ads. As if the ads themselves weren't enough, we have to have Mac fanboys posting pictures of them on websites. WTF?

  6. minor edit on Microsoft Unveils A Designer Mouse · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This vibrator is beautiful, and it actually matches the theme of my most recent system.

    BUT -- I won't buy it for one reason. It has a cord.

    I'm using the Logitech MX700 Optical Cordless vibrator with charging station and I absolutely love it.

    I thought I would hate this vibrator at first because it's not designed for either right or left hand use but since I normally only use my vibrator with my right hand anyway I figured I'd overlook that fact.

    While Microsoft's new object is designed for either hand, I just can't go back to a cord. I've gone cordless, I've gone optical, and I've gone rechargable. The only thing that can convince me to replace this vibrator is one that has all those features as well as being usable with either the right or left hand.

    Maybe Microsoft will release a cordless and recharagable version? Until then it's just a pretty vibrator on a cord.

  7. Re:this is all interesting, on Electromagnetic Suspension System · · Score: 1

    true. I have been driving old cars for so long ...

  8. this is all interesting, on Electromagnetic Suspension System · · Score: 2, Insightful

    but I would rather see cars become simpler, not more complicated (yeah when pigs fly). At the rate we're heading they're going to be utterly impossible to work on yourself, and will be disposable. This will be hideously expensive and very wasteful.

  9. Solaris? on Blade Runner Is The Best Sci-Fi Film · · Score: 1

    Number 5?

    Well I think it's #1, Blade Runner was sexy, but not very smart. Solaris is too slow paced for most folks, I guess, but I'm glad to see this brilliant film in the top 10 at least.

  10. Re:Good on VoIP And Cell Phones Eroding Traditional Telecoms · · Score: 1

    newsflash: the cable comapanies are now telcoms, in case you didn't notice.

  11. Dodgeball? on Dodgeball: Text Your Location To Friends · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think this service would be more useful for avoiding encounters with people whose company you abhor.

    Hence the name "dodgeball."

  12. dancing trees? on Reiser4 Filesystem Released · · Score: 1

    but where are the dancing badgers? I want dancing badgers in my filesystem.

  13. amen brother! on Get Rid of Internet Explorer - Browse Happy! · · Score: 1

    I am not a Debian bigot, nor am I a fanboy. I use Debian and related Debian software because it just works, and I'd rather actually use the PC than constantly fight it. I've used Windows in the past decade (windows nt actually) and LOVED it, however I've basically given up or more accurately abandoned the desire to use Windows because Debian does pretty everything I need, and the software availability and stability meet or exceed what I need (graphic design, web development, 3D modeling and animation, games). I once again , just don't see the reason to learn a new OS. If I had a free month or two I might try windows longhorn or something again. The above spout was just to give background that I'm not an OS freak, nor a complete luser. That said, I've always disliked Firefox as an application in it's own right (performance, memory utilization, UI, etc.), however after a few iterations of IE being complete crap (rendering , performance, etc.) I resigned to use Firefox. tried Opera, not really impressed, switched back to Firefox. Recently installed IE6 and I will NEVER use IE again unless the page requires the active X crap. I love everything about Firefox, and as more extensions become available, I love that I can make it work EXACTLY how I want it to work. My only complaint is that I wish it was lighter weight in terms of system requirements, as I'd love to be able to run it on some REALLY old PC's that are essentially worthless for anything but dumb terminal applications (one example is Fujitsu Point510 tablet). Anyway, that's my story. I would love to see an extension in IE that spellchecked text boxes in online forms though, like in konqueror.

    In other words, thanks for a completely content free post.

    BTW, I left the following out since slashdot does not allow overstrike:

    Yes, I know there are "issues", but because I "know what I'm doing" and I'm protected by a firewalled router, as well as ZoneAlarm, SpyBot & TeaTimer, etc.

  14. Re:Copying textbooks.... on Information Preservation and Data Havens? · · Score: 1

    Excuse me while i piss on you, you worthless snitching baby. You fucking rat.

    Textbooks are a rip off and a ridiculous racket. Period. It is perfectly justified to steal college textbooks.

    Well I guess you were shocked at the attitude of normal people; you're a dwiddling fucking boob. They probably had a good laugh over you.

  15. Re:What a surprise on On Training, Recruitment Uses For Army Games · · Score: 1

    Hmph.

    If you think that it's hard being the American team, try playing the other side. No fancy toys, just simple weapons and far less ammo.

    Then think about the fact that they do it anyway, and not in a fucking retarded psychotic game.

  16. nevermind on Businessweek Recommends License Switch for Linux · · Score: 2

    that the real issue is that the patent system, the laws and governing bodies are the actual problem. Yeah, don't even question that. Thanks.

  17. electricity on Cray CTO Says Cray Computers Are Great · · Score: 1

    does anyone stop to think about what that 200 PC cluster costs in power? quite a bit i think ...

  18. Re:Rights on John Gilmore interviewed by Greplaw · · Score: 1

    thongs banned in louisiana? I live here, and there's plenty of thongs mind you ...

  19. Re:Warm up the keyboard on Digital Cable HDTV Tuner Card Reviewed · · Score: 1

    duh ... if you use linux, you get the cutting edge shit from two years ago. Not a bad compromise at all, considering the stuff is usually dirt cheap.

  20. Re:moral compass of companies? on Craig and his List · · Score: 1

    I'm not confusing anything - coops make unions obsolete - such was their aim. The ultimate aim of unions was always something like a modern coop (which makes a union uneccessary).

    Trade unions and syndicalists were always at odds. They have very little to do with each other.

  21. Re:moral compass of companies? on Craig and his List · · Score: 1

    Please explain exactly how syndicalism has "proved" it isn't "working." Care to site an example? ... and if you think there are no examples of it "working," you need to get out of your US centric propagandized bullshit life and look a bit more at the rest of the world.

  22. moral compass of companies? on Craig and his List · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Ridiculous. The only way for an organization of individuals to have any sort of lasting "moral compass" is to dilute power among it members. There is a practical method for this, it's called democracy. In business circles it's called a cooperative.

    Anything else will fall apart or centralize to the point of paralysis.

    A heirarchical organization has only the "moral compass" of the fellow at the very top - not much of a moral compass.

    It is quite amusing (well disheartening actually) these days to watch all these "internet activists" attempt to recreate (in complete ignorance) what syndicalists were doing over a century ago.

  23. limiting to the last few years ... on What's the Worst Movie You've Ever Seen? · · Score: 1

    Bad Boys 2
    Pearl Harbor
    Van Helsing
    Tomb Raider
    Anything with robin williams
    anything else by Micheal Bay / jerry bruckheimer

    and of course, the "great" "bad" movies:
    "Street Trash"
    "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls"
    "Penitentiary III"

    the last three are almost too awful to be believed. All will leave you completely incredulous in wake of their ever deepening awfulness/magnificence.

  24. Re:raid zero at home on Raid 0: Blessing or hype? · · Score: 1

    what do you mean non-relevant data - mp3's movies, etc.

    for a home use, that is the hardest type of data to back up (takes up too much space) and a redundant array is more or less the only solution to keeping it reliable.

    I for one, would not like having to rebuild a 40GB mp3 collection from scratch due to a disk failure. No thanks.

    the actual work I do, that means even more to me, is utterly trivial to back up because it takes up so little space.

    I would do raid0 in some circumstances - when i simply don't give a damn about the data, whatever it is. What you don't give a damn about, however, is your own business.

    To me raid0 is for OS, tmp and applications only. Data you care about should not be on a raid0 array.

  25. Re:And let's not forget... on Analysis of Spyware · · Score: 1

    why don't you just install a proxy? squid is free you know ...