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  1. Re:Their Fault on Gameboy Advance Frontlight Success · · Score: 1

    So is the gameboy advance ironically. It's a fine system everything considered. What can I say, most lighting systems would kill battery life. Even this one cuts it by a quarter and it's LEDs... which were more expensive a few months ago...

  2. Their Fault on Gameboy Advance Frontlight Success · · Score: 1

    People preorder Windows XP too, what can I say :-/

  3. You're right on Gameboy Advance Frontlight Success · · Score: 1

    After all, how can you live without video games?

  4. Petition? on Gameboy Advance Frontlight Success · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Our ultimate goal with this Web site is to measure the amount of dissatisfaction with the Game Boy Advance in the form of a petition. The results will be published on this site and, of course, sent to Nintendo and many other media entities.

    If you're dissatisfied with the Game Boy Advance... Why did you buy one?

    Fight the power that... uhh... provides you with video games...damn it!

    Come on, this is along the lines of people who petitioned Prodigy to switch to the IP protocol suite (I hate when people call it TCP/IP)... Why not just change providers to one that gives you what you want?

  5. Re:Licensing Problems? on IP Theft in the Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    The BSD license is much older than the "CopyLeft" as I recall. BSD is certainly an older project than Linux.

    Linux can use BSD code, all they have to do is say that they did, and put the author's name in there.

    Windows uses BSD's IP code.

  6. Re:Palm Compatible on Two Handfuls Of Handhelds · · Score: 1

    I read it, I guess I missed that. Even the damn poster didn't think it qualified as palm compat. Not to sound inflammatory of course.

  7. Palm Compatible on Two Handfuls Of Handhelds · · Score: 1

    Well, that's not at all Palm Compatible, but I am assuming that they mean it can sync with stuff that is written to sync with palm software.

  8. Favoring Linux? on Gartner Group Suggests Dumping IIS For Now · · Score: 2

    No offense... but they didn't say anything favoring Linux this time either. They said to dump IIS, they didn't suggest moving to Linux. There ARE other webservers for Windows.

  9. Re:Wow on Philip Zimmermann and 'Guilt' Over PGP · · Score: 1

    The is is out of order, however, your version is funnier. Would "My girlfriend [is] a [pussy]" be correct as well? Or perhaps you could requote it and change pussy to something more direct.

  10. Wow on Philip Zimmermann and 'Guilt' Over PGP · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This misquoting is absolutely incredible in scope. I've been afraid of being misquoted before, but this quite well takes the cake. The individual writing the article wanted to write ONE THING smacking about the crypto community and perhaps even programmers in general, and took the quotes WAY out of context AND pretty much just took sentences and cut out all the words that he needed.

    This is like me saying

    "So, if I get my girlfriend a cat, this is what she wants for Christmas?"

    and being quoted as

    "My girlfriend" "is" "a cat."

  11. Promisory Notes and Bank Scrip on How Feasible is a Cash-Less Society? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    We have to remember that money as we know it sort of evolved. It went from physical gold and other backing, to gold (and other backing) stored in banks with bank notes holding them, to paper whose only value is defined by the government issuing it, with no backing. Modern debit cards and checks are just bank notes that represent money that doesn't really represent anything other than the fact that it is money. We already are cashless, people just seem to want this state to be computerized... Well, realistically it is... I mean, a lot of the stuff we buy we never phyiscally move money around to pay for. Actual cash is just another representation of this, why get rid of it? If people stop carrying around cash on their own, I'm sure that less will actually be issued, but why make a big deal of this transition, when it will just occur naturally (if it occurs at all).

  12. New Moon Mission on TransOrbital: The Commercial Race To The Moon · · Score: 1

    Well, no offense to these folks, but they sound like a company whose only profit will come from "fund raisers..." like sending shit up for us (probably literally).

    To see the penguin, we'll need a REALLY REALLY big one... so we go to the company that makes those big inflatable annoying things (you know, bigger than buildings), and hook up some sort of way to inflate it, and we're set :-P

  13. Hrmm on Immersive HDTV · · Score: 2

    Not to smack on such products, I can see the technological merit, the gimmick, and a few other things, but how would this enhance the television viewing experience?

    I can hardly imagine walking around on stage during romeo and juliet and enjoying the experience any more than I already do.

  14. Re:Let me see if I understand this... on Anticircumvention Laws Seen as Threat to Science · · Score: 1

    Well, I'm sure that someone should sue Norton for making virus circumvention software.

    Perhaps if there was enough $$$ involved, a big player like MS or Intel could write a worm n sue them, then take over the antivirus industry n change the law :-P

  15. Re:I really don't see why everyone is up in arms h on Anticircumvention Laws Seen as Threat to Science · · Score: 2

    Why would you need a backdoor to a DVD or an ebook? Backdoors are so you can get access to the data that was encrypted... You can already do that with a DVD or an ebook, just not in a very useful format.

  16. Computation Theory on Anticircumvention Laws Seen as Threat to Science · · Score: 2

    Advanced study of computation theory involves the study of forms of mathematics and algorithms that could be seen as circumvention mechanisms. It doesn't matter what format the MPAA chooses next, if you show "this method doesn't work, this is why," you will go to jail. Since this sort of problem is at the HEART of advanced study in computer science (the really important stuff), you really limit advancement of computer science to its next natural step.

    IE, they're not talking about "duh, we wanna play DVDs fer free." They're saying "we want to be free to study important things."

  17. Re:wget, the forensic swiss army knive on New (More) Annoying Microsoft Worm Hits Net · · Score: 1

    Gotcha. So there is apparently an overflow in whatever plays .wavs for IE?

  18. Re:How to stop Internet Explorer executing said wa on New (More) Annoying Microsoft Worm Hits Net · · Score: 2

    I'm not going to question that you got this from wget, but what I'm wondering is, how did you find all that out using wget? Perhaps I'm not as familiar with this utility as I should be?

  19. Re:I May Be Stupid! on Fujitsu Releases Specs For Hackable Robot · · Score: 2

    RTLinux provides a REAL TIME operating environment. Many people make the mistake of thinking this means "fast." In reality, you have an environment for real time programs to run in, and then a version of Linux run in its own thread. The difference is that Linux only gets PART of the processor time, the rest devoted to programs designed to operated on a real time OS/in a real time enviroment, which is quite different from what Linux provides. Real time enviroments handle memory different as well as their process queues (where the OS hands actual executable code off to the processor).

    They also provide preemptive multitasking, where a program can use a interrupt or similar service to get to the head of the ready queue, rather than the back.

    Also, the treatment of memory provides for some unique interprocess communications techniques that are ONLY available under certain RTOS environments.

    In essence, it's not the LINUX that is real time, but the OS, which gives the LINUX a share of processor time/memory, which allows for a linux style interface to a real time system.

  20. Intel stays with Rambus on Slashback: Heat, Thought, Time · · Score: 1

    Well, no duh. They were going to dumb rambus when they had a chipset that they could sell exclusively that allowed you to use SDRAM in their computers. Now that that patent isn't theirs anymore, they're going to work to hype up rambus anymore try to marginalize their competition.

    This of course isn't to be critical of Intel, they're just trying to cover their hiney, but it is to mention WHY they would.

  21. DBZ on Cartoon Network Dropping Gundam and Bebop? · · Score: 2

    Nah, they just wanna be able to run DragonBall Z 4 times a day, like they are now. After all. If they did that, they could run through the whole series something like 1.5 Billion times in a year.

    No offense, but just how damn often can you show DBZ? I enjoy the series, but after the hundred millionth running on Cartoon Network, I'd like to see something different. I understand that the lineup is set to market to the kids who are at home at that hour, who would watch that show ad infinitum and never watch another happilly, but there's a lotta geeks like me who just happen to be able to watch TV from 5-7.

  22. Speedier? on Fast, Open Alternative to Java · · Score: 2

    Ahh, I can tell that you know a language other than JAVA, because people who only know one language seem to want to defend that language to the death. I am so sick of listening to programmers who only know one language, call themselves programmers, and will fight to the death explaining why that language is better than all others without a good grasp on theory to do so.

    I don't see why this should be any quicker though :-P

  23. Honor your contract on How Do I Sell Telecommuting to My Employer? · · Score: 1

    No offense, but if you said that you'd be a full time on site employee, then you need to live up to that contract. The ONLY thing you can do is accept your job or change it. The question is, is your job good enough that you're willing to make the commute? There aren't a lot of good programming jobs out there, the rest are filled by skilled workers. There's a LOT of programmers who would kill for a good job now. The market is flooded. Your employer holds the ball.

  24. Hrmm on Congress Considers Mandatory Crypto Backdoors · · Score: 2

    Backdoors would
    1) Let criminals see data
    2) Not stop terrorists from sending data cryprographed
    3) Could prevent defectors from having a safe route to transmit data to government authorities

    This is a bad idea.

  25. Re:End of the World. on Man-Made Black Holes Looming? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Uhmm, compared to other forms of energy measured by quantity, nuclear is still the lowest environmentally impacting and one of the safest. Chernobyl had a LOT of problems. 3 Mile Island was not as bad as it was made out to be. People just WANT you to be scared. I used to live near a fossile fuel powered plant. Currently I live near a nuclear one. The air is cleaner here, and the water is better. The plant is safer, there were was a rather large accident at the coal plant while I was there.

    People seem to think that nuclear plants are introducing a hazard to our planet. Perhaps it is prudent to remind ourselves that prior to nuclear power, the stuff was covering the planet. The reason it's hard to find these days is that it was mined out. It's similar to the gold rush, but everyone knows where it is.

    Think about it, if someone told you that dryer lint was valuable tommorow, your lint trap would never be full again, you'd sell it all right off. It's just that instead of having radioactive mountains & deserts, we have radioactive risers.