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  1. Re:It's all fun and games... on EU Scientists Working On Laser To Rip a Hole In Spacetime · · Score: 1

    In your dimensional pocket!

  2. Re:Cheap Chinese ones are fine on Ask Slashdot: Best EEPROM Programmer For a Hobbyists? · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about, Disco *did* take over. Just turn on the radio, and you can hear all the same samples you've heard when you we're attending Studio 54 parties.

  3. Re:I stopped reading the responses after... on The White House Responds To We the People Petition · · Score: 1

    Please, be so kind, and summarize those things for those who are ignorant of medical school teaching content!

  4. Re:Fight Club on BT Ordered To Block Usenet Binaries Index · · Score: 1

    Infidels!

  5. Re:Many people saw the economic collapse on Why Economic Models Are Always Wrong · · Score: 1

    The fall of unconstrained capitalism was predicted by Marx, and probably, thinkers before him.

  6. Stop Spreading FUD on OS X Notifier App Growl Goes Closed Source · · Score: 4, Informative
    http://growl.info/documentation/faq-new.php#1.3source

    We will post source code. However, our bigger concern right now is fixing issues and providing support to folks on our discussions group, and on our support email address, and on Twitter. As soon as the flood of inbound requests slows down, we fully intend to push the 1.3 source over the wall.

    On the other hand, I sure hope that won't be when they release 1.4 to the store.

  7. Re:The point of the ruling... on EU Court Rules Against Exclusive TV Licensing Deal · · Score: 1

    This, and besides, who mentioned that exclusive pan-EU deals are out of the question? The rights are sold to a conglomerate, who then distributes the rights on a network level.

  8. Re:The whole concept of 1%/wealth is ... irrelevan on Ask Slashdot: How Do You View the Wall Street Protests? · · Score: 1

    You're not 100% correct, my middle-aged friend.
    The thing that you're overlooking is that there exists another 1-10% somewhere that have to live without anything: without education, homes, income, food, water, medical assistance, etc. (Without going back to sources, I'd say that "1-10%" is probably around 50% of the world's population.)
    The system is broken in the respect that many of the remaining 99% (or even you) have (or had) to spend considerable amounts of time working their ass off for under 20 Euros or Dollars an hour *just* to be able to cover their most basic expenses, without having the opportunity to save up!
    Another point is that if you want to be a decent, ethical human being, it is especially difficult to save up without putting someone else in debt (be it monetary, emotionally or time-wise).
    There's a balance, which was broken under the promise of "it's just for a bit, until we get out, then we'll put everything back where it's supposed to be".
    Unfortunately, the bit turned out to be over a life-time and the heirs failed to understand where "it's" supposed to be or to honor their (grand-) parents' agreements.

    We are arriving at a point where we can't fix things locally without arousing the anger of others who have less. I.e. "What?! They're protesting for bigger SUVs?! Let's send some planes/bombs/bad mood/whatever!".
    We can only fix this by understanding our mistakes and taking the time to learn about ourselves. For instance, by admitting our weaknesses (i.e. greed and jealousy) and setting up barriers to prevent us from being put in positions, where such lowly emotions can put us or others in any danger.

    Stop hiding behind your house, cars and other achievements, if what you really did was sell your dreams and soul for shiny things of little value.

    Take your time to enjoy a friendly conversation or set up your tent on my lawn if you like it here.
    I won't be able to take it with me where I go, but I can use it to make people happier while I'm here!

    Now, stop acting like a robot and go out hiking! Go travel! Have a look at what nature has to offer and understand the cyclical relationships abound to free your mind of all those little material things that you mistakenly call wealth!

  9. The iPhone Force (4S) on News From Apple's iPhone Event · · Score: 1

    Best model name as of yet, IMO.

  10. Re:And what happens if you get hit by a truck? on BerliOS Software Repository Will Close At Year's End · · Score: 1
  11. Re:Pushing to look at alternatives, really? on Oracle May 'Fork Itself' With MySQL Moves · · Score: 2

    At least they didn't name it after some obscure dodecasyllabic Aztec god.

    There's no such concept. According to Wikipedia the longest name is: "Itztlacoliuhqui-Ixquimilli - god of stone, obsidian, coldness hardness, and castigation. Aspect of Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli"

    Refs:
    http://www.godchecker.com/pantheon/aztec-mythology.php?_gods-list
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_mythology

  12. Re:Military applications on Breath Detector To Help Find Earthquake Survivors · · Score: 1

    Can we modify it, so it can smell weed or truffles?

  13. Re:Sounds like a load of Web 2.0 bullshit to me. on Schmidt: G+ 'Identity Service,' Not Social Network · · Score: 1

    Where is this anti-social-network-network already?!

  14. Re:Or save yourself some money if you know network on Ask Slashdot: Best Connect Scheme For a 2-ISP Household? · · Score: 1

    Do yourself a favor and choose openWRT instead, which is truly open source. www.openwrt.org

  15. Re:enomcentral.com on GoDaddy Sells To Investor Group · · Score: 1

    Could you get into a little more detail about what you mean by "reliable" in regard to "copyright/dmca issues?"

  16. Re:Sneakernet on BitTorrent Turns 10 · · Score: 1

    I believe, you want something like a Napster combined server/client for LAN that forms an ad-hoc mesh with other clients.

  17. Re:Frist to get jailbroken... on How Apple's iOS Went From Insecure To Most Secure · · Score: 1
  18. Re:OMG... I cannot believe it... on Google WebRTC: Can It Replace Skype? · · Score: 1

    In other news: scientists discover the secrets of socket programming. In their current issue, Science Now has quoted one of the researchers as saying: "It's incredible how much performance we gain by running directly on the operating system level instead of the browser. To facilitate the use of information that was exchanged through sockets with http, we created an abstraction layer that lets us send and receive any events and data to and from the browser. This enables developers to easily develop small programs that allow other protocols to communicate through our common-http-API. We called these small programs plugins. We believe they will become very popular one day, maybe even a game-changer."

  19. Re:I disagree. on Steve Ballmer's Head On the Block? · · Score: 1

    So Oracle can buy it for a penny and remove the dot in Sky.NET? No way!

  20. Re:Shut up with the bitcoin stories on Increased Power Usage Leads to Mistaken Pot Busts for Bitcoin Miners · · Score: 1

    20 - a couple, when the weed-quality around here is at another low and there's only this ammonia-laden, spoiled shit from Albania that you roll one after the other and that was stored in a plastic bag in an earth-hole for over a season, just because a plastic bag's free with any purchase around these parts. And they even warn you that it "fucks you up" (as opposed to "gets you high"). Should still be better than smoking tobacco. At least there's a point to it.

  21. Re:Replacement for Skype? Ekiga on Ask Slashdot: FOSS, Multiplatform Skype Replacement for PC-to-PC Video Chat? · · Score: 1

    You need a software to use this address. Any SIP aware software will do, but we recommend our free Ekiga softphone, which has Instant-Messaging, Audio and Video built-in.

    from the homepage.

  22. Re:Mayhem only begets mayhem on German Police Seize German Pirate Party Servers · · Score: 1

    Hmmm? This comes to mind: This is what happens Larry... But seriously, hacking for the sake of hacking brought us where we are today.

  23. Re:Bad product = delighted customer on AppleCare Reps Told To Skirt Malware Questions · · Score: 1

    Oh those geometry problems. Holding the Powerbook by it's sides and twisting it around the center a bit helped sometimes. ;)

  24. Re:WTF? on Proposal For Gnome To Become Linux-Only · · Score: 1

    Because, it would make this part modular, hopefully allowing simpler modifications more contributions. I believe webmin, et. al already did a lot of the heavy lifting in this respect.

  25. Re:WTF? on Proposal For Gnome To Become Linux-Only · · Score: 2

    I have to disagree. I believe, it would be possible to work with a common configuration api (e.g. what the user sees and interacts with) with modules for each OS; much like the webhosting control panels do. Configuring wireless parameters can also be brought to a common denominator.