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  1. Re:Think about the electric bill on Revolutionary Tower in Brazil · · Score: 1

    Wow, nice UID... oh wait, that's not your UID, that's the message-id..

  2. Re:Where do you get these stories anyway? on Build Your Own Teleprompter · · Score: 1

    Actually I looked through the settings using the latest NVidia driver just now and couldn't find any flip options... oops, one more piece of disinformation..

  3. Re:Where do you get these stories anyway? on Build Your Own Teleprompter · · Score: 1

    Actually the new Nvidia Windows drivers allow you to rotate and flip the output image (I think, not running Windows right now so I can't check).. dunno if they have it for their Linux drivers as well, in any case, he was using a Mac.

  4. Re:Clearing up ALL "it's just an assignment" posts on DJB Announces 44 Security Holes In *nix Software · · Score: 1

    To clarify, did you expect to fail the class before finding the bug, or do you still expect to fail the class? If it's the latter, why?

  5. Re:I don't get it... on AOL Plans A Standalone Browser · · Score: 1

    Any Linux user wanting to use AOL doesn't deserve Linux...

  6. Worked on Firefox 0.9 on New Vulnerability Affects All Browsers · · Score: 1

    Well, it's a simple enough trick. The Citibank popup window has a name, called 'spoofing'. After clicking on the "Open Citibank Website" at the Secunia site, a script loops waiting for the existence of the window called 'spoofing', and when it finds it, it tells it to load a different site. Guess it's not exactly a programming error, but just lax security, allowing a different window to grab another window's variable.

    I guess a patch would involve warning the user that the the pop-up is being controlled by an external window.

  7. Re:Single handidly working to get /. banned in Chi on China Bans Game Recognizing Taiwan Independence · · Score: 1

    Well, it's easier to criticize other people/countries than to criticize your own. The way I see it, China's been like that since the beginning of the current system, but the USA, which used to be a great respectable country is becoming more and more totalitarian, and that's the bad thing. Sure, call the Chinese to revolution, but I say you should also think about your own well-being and freedom (which I think is a different "freedom" to the one Bush would like to 'spread' like peanut-butter all over the world).

  8. Re:Single handidly working to get /. banned in Chi on China Bans Game Recognizing Taiwan Independence · · Score: 1, Troll

    Well, the whole first paragraph minus the last sentence goes for the USA as well.

    You are being ruled by a pack of brutal psychopaths that only care about their own pampered asses!
    Yup. Think Halliburton.

    Overthrow them and their corrupt government.
    And Enron?

    You are many and they are few, only fear can keep you from the freedom to do, read, and think whatever you wish.
    Patriot Act?

    Only the dictators that rule your contry are keeping you from taking you rightful place as one of the world's great nations!
    Also Patriot-Act, 2 botched elections no one's doing anything about (compare this to Ukraine where the people really want a democracy), religion meddling with the state..

    So what are you going to do about it?

  9. Re:Another issue: Netiquette on The Illiteracy of Corporate American E-Mail · · Score: 1

    I wish people would remember that English is read from top to bottom
    <aol>Me too!</aol>, another annoyance of mine is that blogs do this as well, so reading a "back(b)log" of a blog I've found usually means scrolling down to the bottom, go up a bit, read 2 paragraphs down, scroll up and find the next entry, read down, scroll up again.. argh. And blogger.com doesn't even have the feature to put posts in a chronological order!

    But luckily some JS and DHTML knowledge makes it possible to swap the order of paragraphs.

  10. So... on FairUCE - the Smart Email Proxy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Guess I'm asking at the wrong place, but does this mean if I send email using my uni's SMTP server with my Yahoo! E-mail address in the "from" field, I will receive a challenge? A challenge being an email to the sender's address so they know the address is active, I'm guessing..

    And I read of a whitelist/blacklist. Does this mean the user having to manage this list? It looks like it's being done so that the user can reactively work about it though (instead of actively), maybe an email that says "You got email from xyz, Do you want this email?" Heh an email about an email, that'd be annoying.

    I tried sending email using Yahoo!'s web interface with 3 addresses in the "To" field today, and when I clicked "Send" it asked me to answer a Captcha, interesting..

  11. Re:Thanks a bunch on Preview of KDE 3.4 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Can't you uninstall libkdecore, and then try to update KDE, so that it installs a (hopefully good) libkdecore as a dependency?

    I agree, this part of GNU/Linux still need work, the structure of Program Files\ApplicationName in Windows or Applications/SingleFileWhichIsTheApp is a lot easier to manage instead of putting everything into /usr/bin/ ...

  12. Re:Help! on Do-Not-Call List Could Be Opened For Phone Spam · · Score: 1

    The English are coming!

    Let's see if the French wants to help this time. ;-)

  13. Re:Simple enough.. on CIA Researching Automated IRC Spying · · Score: 1

    And the CIA's AliceBot will fool that lonely teenage geek chan-op to invite "her" in.

  14. To save time the time of the Gentoo folks... on Red Hat Launches Online Red Hat Magazine · · Score: 1

    Gentoo! Gentoo! Ebuild! Portage! 37.587% speed increase! Rah, rah! :)

  15. Re:I don't get it. on What is the Tech Jobs Situation in Late 2004? · · Score: 1

    To abuse a quote about 2 other countries "Whenever a Canadian moves to the USA the average IQ of both countries increase."

  16. Re:There are differences, but you're right on Senate May Rush Copyright Legislation · · Score: 1

    TV shows me how the US soldiers pray every morning before they go on duty, but they still go on torturing, shooting and bombing unarmed Iraqis...

    What about those majority of peaceful Muslims? Most of them would say, the terrorists are misinterpreting the Koran, just like Falwell and other gay-bashers are misinterpreting the Bible.. I'm sure they also believe Muhammad taught love. Are you saying they're misreading their Book, their Book is supposed to teach them EEVIL? Man, you're so fucking biased you can't see it, you're running around saying "Yay Jesus, boo Muhammed". Who washed your brain?

  17. Re:So... on MPAA Sues Movie-Swappers · · Score: 1

    Hehe, I like the last part of the sentence "[it] could be used to remove any 'infringing movies or music files'". How much do you want to bet that it will do that automatically on the first run, hahaha.

    Then again, it would be a handy program to have if you're expecting a knock on your door from a cops' battering ram.

  18. Re:There are differences, but you're right on Senate May Rush Copyright Legislation · · Score: 2, Informative

    There's an opinion that says, if Islam had become the major religion of the world, and Christianity the minor one, then we'd have christian Bin Laden's out there..

  19. Re:No Meaning! on Warezed SoundForge Files In Windows Media Player · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "Moment!" is the German equivalent of "Wait a minute!", without the "Wait a", nor the minute-wait long.. The "(no meaning)!" is for "Bingo!" isn't it.. yeah, the machine's dumb for not catching that.

  20. Re:SouthPark on Election Day Discussion · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Kerry didn't have political connections which made it easy for him to slack off and swindle money during his youth, Kerry is not a drunk, Kerry is not a bible-thumping Jesus-freak who forces his "faith" on others. Kerry volunteered to go to war..

    Please don't vote Bush.

  21. Re:Why bother? It's stolen already on Election Day Discussion · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the US should outsource the counting of its votes to India.

    Haha only serious, the US is supposed to be the world leader (and nowadays, "spreader") of democracy, but its election is as (in/un/non-) credible as ones which take place in evil dictatorships (like the former Iraq).

  22. Re:Foreward? on Making the 'Best' Desktop Linux System · · Score: 1

    You see, he had "foreward" before. I just re-opened the page right now, and I see he has corrected his mistake, believe me or not. Too bad I didn't explicitly mention that he had "foreward" in the article, so I can't prove I'm not the idiot. :)

    Oh, yes I do can prove it, check out the google cache. Thank you Google!

  23. Foreward? on Making the 'Best' Desktop Linux System · · Score: 1

    Excuse the nit-picking, but the misspelling of "Foreword" which is the first word of the article really got me. How does this site expect to be regarded as credible when it has articles with misspelled words?

    Guess I'm complaining to the wrong place, hey besides, knowing how to spell correctly is so uncool these days.

  24. Re:Obviously on Which VNC Software Is Best? · · Score: 1

    Hmm, all three letters are at the bottom row of a keyboard, so they have even height. I think temporary rearranging a keyboard for a photo shoot shouldn't be hard..

  25. Re:I got some really weird responses on Google Launches SMS Search Service · · Score: 1

    Oh, re-reading the page, I saw that Maghrebi is Moroccan..