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  1. TeamFortress? on Snort Creator Makes Good · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Isn't that QuakeTF not HalfLife TF, which is a horrible conversion and not anywhere near the greatness of the original?

  2. Not obvious geek names best. on Geeky Child Names? · · Score: 2

    Bree for example. It might be after a cheese, it might be after the town in middle earth. (btw I've known two Eowyns and two galadriels (one went by Gale))

  3. Rutgers on Anime Stores, Rentals and Theaters? · · Score: 2

    Go to Rutgers NB. There's almost certainly an anime shop around there; and if not ShogoCon(sp?) is supposed to be there next month, and should have shitloads for sale.

  4. Re:Bring your MP3's to work on CD-Rom... on Cracking Down on MP3s at the Office · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Actually music playing by all studies decreases your ability to work. It does on the other hand raise morale, and allow people to be more motivated to actually do work, even if it's a tiny bit less efficient.

    Companies unfortunatly cannot condone the mp3 server as it's patently illegal. When workers have mp3s on their machines, companies can claim unknowing, and then only the employee gets in trouble.

  5. Re:Not sure how this will help. on AOL Developing Cheap Switch for Audio Streaming · · Score: 1

    Yes, that is correct.

  6. Re:Not sure how this will help. on AOL Developing Cheap Switch for Audio Streaming · · Score: 2

    From what I understand of the system, this will allow one streaming box to rebroadcast (at the router/ level 3 switch) the stream to all of it's recipients without having to spend alot of CPU figuring out where all the packets need to go. You'll still need the bandwidth, and you'll still have the legal concerns, but you shouldn't need as powerful hardware.

  7. Re:Please note that . . . Re:$$, too on Pledge of Allegiance Ruled Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    And if you read to the bottom of that link you can see that it wa not on paper money until 1964.

  8. Re:Satellite radio on Shocked, Shocked at Payola · · Score: 2

    Wait... Doesn't Clear Channel hold a majority stake in XM (but not Sirius)?

    Somehow I don't think the company is going to suddenly become benevolent just because their transmitters are in space.

  9. Re:...and my analysis on Slashback: OpenSSH, Bio, Timeliness · · Score: 1

    Suspicion:

    Why not fix the actual bug? It seems terribly convinient that using something that Theo's pushing heavily (and not getting much cooperation doing it seems [as usual it seems]) is what fixes the bug... I'd hate to even think that they'd purposefully "miss" something in the code to promote their own agenda, but it's suspicious to me.

  10. Re:The Spruce Goose on The Ideas Behind Longhorn · · Score: 2

    What other options are there?

    I think everyone can be in agreement that the current windows architecture is pretty much unusuable, and hacked to bits as it is. Hopefully they will learn from their lessons and make something closer to win2k rather than win3.11 this time.

  11. Re:Always good to see... on Russia Poised to Restrict Net Activities · · Score: 1

    but rather continued their spread of influence unchecked.
    And then collapsed. (imo) Communism is a wonderful idea that is based on the assumption that people are not greedy. People though are of course greedy.

  12. Re:Always good to see... on Russia Poised to Restrict Net Activities · · Score: 2, Insightful

    quick reply:

    I believe that free speech should be a right for all people. That does not necissarily mean others do, or that I should force others to think so. I agree that history says that nations that do not allow free speech create havens for atrocity.

    IMO cultures should not interfere with other cultures, because the cultures will either succeed or fail given the strength (or lack there of) of their beliefs. Example: Communist Russia. They held their beliefs against outside interference, and in the end it was the belief that failed them, not outside influence.

    Perhaps this is greatly simplistic, as one's belief system cannot be conveyed in a few paragraphs...

  13. Re:Always good to see... on Russia Poised to Restrict Net Activities · · Score: 2

    I personnally believe that people should have the right to leave if they so choose.

    Hence yes, I believe that slavery in the old south, extreme Islamic treatment of women (not all Islamic treatment mind you, as most nations allow women to leave), and forced extremination of the Jews is bad (mmmkay).

    BUT I also believe that if women are allowed to leave the Islamic nation that oppresses them and they choose to stay, that is wholy within their right, even though I think gender discrimination is a horrible practice that should be never practiced (America first of all).

    I personally believe that all humans should have the right to free speech. I also believe in a human's right to live the way they wish to live as long as it does not impose upon other humans.

    Personally I believe the "don't fuck with me, I won't fuck with you" right is more important than free speech. Oppression with no escape is certainly against this. "knowing one's place" in a society that you've joined is something else.

  14. Re:Always good to see... on Russia Poised to Restrict Net Activities · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Free speech is not a universal ideal. You happened to reply to my other post in this regard, so I'll assume you're zealously opposed to any speech limitations. Many cultures believe that free speech is not a basic universal ideal for everyone. (ex: Formal Japanese/Indian castes, most Islamic states)

    It is not objectively wrong to prevent free speech when the person being "oppressed" can freely leave their oppressors with no consiquence (as exists in Japan, though not in most Islamic states).

    Your reply to my post referenced sept 11 as being something patently evil, and wrong; can't you even consider the fact that you, and everyone that thinks like you made us a target? Willfully imposing upon other cultures in such a "holier than thou" way something that goes against what they consider to be a basic, universal ideal handed down from God even.

    Let others be free to do what they deem to be "best", and maybe they will leave us to be free to live they way we think is "best".

  15. Not making millions? on Ransom Love's Answers About UnitedLinux · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's not as though Caldera is making millions off of Linux?

    This indicates Mr Love is making $277k/yr off of Linux, so I'm pretty certain they aren't strugling...

  16. Re:Counterfeiting, Dark Taxis, and National Image on Greenbacks No More · · Score: 1

    Actually isn't the dollar the most counterfeitted money because Americans are the best criminals?

  17. Re:And one to play on... on Familiarizing Your Admins with New Hardware? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Or better yet, a place where the admin can look at information/solutions posted by people that already have banged and broken the stuff.

    If possible it's a good idea to keep the same "feel" for systems the likely targets have used before (like making sure /? or --help exist if on windows or *nix respectively)

  18. Re:Ultra wideband to transmit 100 mbs wirelessly on New Wireless Technologies · · Score: 2

    Probably because the 100mbs is a bonus to cooking your late night snacks!

  19. Re:About time, too on Greenbacks No More · · Score: 2

    Hint for newbies:

    All cashiers (in america and montreal at least) will give you your cash in size order (20-10-5-1, etc). Every man I know also keeps the cash in his wallet in similar order. The trick is not to identify numbers, but to identify differences, which of course is now ruined by having 3 different types of $20 bills in circulation.

  20. Re:Civil disobedience on Copyright Office Publishes Final Webcasting Rates · · Score: 1

    Actually I'd wager that commercial stations probably do pay $500 per day; or at least they could from their commercial income.

  21. Re:Least expensive? Not always ... on Home-Built vs. Store-Bought PCs · · Score: 2

    Furthermore, even if the components are cheaper, it's difficult to find them all fomr the same place and cheaper. Once you start going to multiple places, the difference in price is quickly overcome by shipping charges.

  22. Re:perfect sig? The coin Flips.. on New York Times Plugs OpenOffice Suite · · Score: 1

    Or ironically enough sometimes I do get what I don't pay for! :]

  23. Re:perfect sig? addendum! on New York Times Plugs OpenOffice Suite · · Score: 5, Funny

    Spam: every now and then, you get what you don't pay for

    Pr0n: every now and then, you get what you don't pay for

    Warez:every now and then, you get what you don't pay for...

  24. Re:Will they fund it? on DOJ Wants ISPs to Log User Traffic UPDATED · · Score: 1

    Furthermore, why?

    I certainly don't want the government breathing down my neck because some wily hacker sent some nasty email on my behalf to the president while browsing www.kiddie-pr0n-r-us.com from my spoofed ip.

    After all, who's to say that ISP's records are sancrosant? Would the government take over the ISP's? I think not.

  25. Re:Sad on Cops Have Got Your Number · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Actually if I see someone walking down main street with a large trenchcoat now I wonder which bar my buddy's going to. Plus I'll also be on main street with my large black trenchcoat my folks got for me a scant 6 weeks before Columbine (thanks folks!) People forgot that, they forgot Oklahoma City, they'll forget this. People want to be free, people want to be lazy, and people want to be happy; even if it means hurting foreigners or it means forgetting something we probably shouldn't forget.

    And of course by People I mean we stupid lazy Americans. As for winning and losing? America defeated herself well before anyone knew who Osama even was.