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  1. Re:Go figure... on Statistics On The Degrees People Earn · · Score: 1

    Around here, if your grades in math aren't good enough to be a computer science major, you can become a math major instead.

    Lovely, isn't it?

  2. Re:The evils of forced optimization...and other st on Mandrake 7.1 Beta Ready For Download · · Score: 1

    I remember compiling some arbitrary precision c++ code I wrote with various -O(some number) flags using pgcc, and getting differing behaviors with differing optimization levels. I wonder if this would still be the case with a current version of pgcc...

  3. Re:I enjoyed voting on 35,765 Internet Votes Cast by Arizona Democrats · · Score: 1
  4. Re:I enjoyed voting on 35,765 Internet Votes Cast by Arizona Democrats · · Score: 1

    Have you really forgotten the story about Jean McGrath so quickly? :)

  5. Re:oh my gawd on Tux Works for Microsoft?! · · Score: 1

    Is this the real Bruce, or an impostor?

  6. Re:Smart Kid on Jon Johansen's Answers to Your DeCSS Questions · · Score: 1

    I've gotten cute chicks talking to me by wearing this shirt:

    http://copyleft.net/cgi-bin/copyleft /t006.pl?2

    I'm sure the DeCSS one would at least work some of the time, too. :)

  7. Jean forgot something on Bills to Restrict Campus Internet Access · · Score: 1

    Net filters cost money!

    another wildcat article

  8. Re:what people think: on Bills to Restrict Campus Internet Access · · Score: 1
  9. Re:can we have another one? :-) (was Re:math :)) on Gender in the Internet Age · · Score: 1

    It should also be noted that the two curves will meet, and outside this meeting the function does not exist. This is because, as the distance between a point (x,y) and the origin becomes astronomically large, the quantity 1-2x^2-2y^2+f(x,y)^2 becomes negative (in fact, astronomically large distances should not be needed: a distance of 2 might do). So, the graph becomes a closed solid at some points vertical to 2x^2+2y^2-f(x,y)^2 == 1 in the xy-plane. Does that make any sense? :)

  10. one more thing on Gender in the Internet Age · · Score: 1

    I'm going to sleep now, and when I wake up I will be going to the gym, not reading slashdot, so don't expect swift replies from me.

  11. Re:math :) on Gender in the Internet Age · · Score: 2

    click on my user URL, and then click "slashdot" to at least see something

    sorry but I refuse to type that kind of crap in plain old text :)

  12. Re:Private Property?!? on DVD Hearing Today - Are You Ready to Rumble? · · Score: 1

    > And guess what? The contents on a DVD are private property!

    That's right. They are *YOUR* private property when you buy the DVD. Only the right to make copies is the private property of the studios.

  13. Re:slashdot also in the email on DVD CCA Applies for Restraining Order · · Score: 1

    > Is it just me or are the IQ's of lawyers a direct inverse proportion to their price tag? Don't you mean to instead refer to the IQ's of judges who believe the high-prices lawyers? :)

  14. Tell me about it... on Online Romance - For Good or Evil? · · Score: 1

    I did a similar thing a couple weeks ago, only in my case she answered and I actually asked her out before I found out she had a boyfriend. It sure made the class I have with her feel pretty weird from then on...

  15. Re:It's worse than you think. on Feds Want Access to Your Machine · · Score: 2

    At least it's relatively obvious when they bust down your door and you can actually make sure they really have a warrant. Why would they necessarily *need* a warrant to snoop on your computer? How can you check if they had one if you never knew they were there?

  16. Re:Burned ? on Win2k delay claimed to be helping spread of Linux · · Score: 1

    MS is in for some trouble if too many of their beta testers have this "it works on my single installation, it should work everywhere" attitude.

  17. netrek 1999 on Win2k delay claimed to be helping spread of Linux · · Score: 1

    Did you use gimp scripts for the title images?

  18. Re:Check LinuxToday... on SGI to Dump NT Workstation Business, Move to Linux · · Score: 1

    You are obviously correct that XFree86 is not part of the kernel. But, for what must be at least 90% of cases of the use of the term, XFree86 *is* part of the OS.

  19. Re:Again, who needs to crack it? on CrackThisBox Updates · · Score: 1

    I can't get to www.windows2000test.com either.

  20. Re:Cox@home in omaha !?!? lame thing 1?!?! on GCC 2.95 Released · · Score: 0

    If you're on redhat 6, don't use pump. Update to the latest version of dhcpcd, and modify the ifup scripts to invoke dhcpcd with a -h command line parameter instead of pump.

  21. Mirrors? HAH! on GCC 2.95 Released · · Score: 1

    If you're up this late on Friday night reading slashdot, you needn't use a mirror. I just downloaded the whole thing at about 300k/s straight from ftp.gnu.org. :)

  22. Re:Time to move on UCITA is passed · · Score: 1

    Most EULA's I've seen use opening the CD as a symbol of agreement, while you must only open the box to read it. IANAL, but I would not be too afraid to wholly ignore any EULA such as you describe.

  23. bugs bugs bugs on Mozilla M8 Released · · Score: 1

    I downloaded the linux fullcircle binaries, and the thing won't even stay running long enough to pop up a window. M7 did the same thing. This is on a current snapshot of debian potato. Anyone else experience anything similar?

  24. Re:Why not externalize data? on Ask Slashdot: GPLed code with non-GPLed output · · Score: 1

    I've preordered a paper copy of Havoc Penington's GPLed (or some similar license, AFAIK) gnome manual. For money. And I don't think I'm the only one.

  25. Huh? on Ask Slashdot: GPLed code with non-GPLed output · · Score: 1

    BSD and MIT licensed code isn't propietary, though. What exactly are you trying to say?