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  1. Re:It was felt at the hockey game on 5.2 Earthquake Shakes Up SF Bay Area · · Score: 1

    Actually that's Fox Sports Net broadcasters Randy Hahn and Drew Remenda to the uncultured swine of Colorado. And the Avs wouldn't be nearly as close as they are if referees could actually call interference these days.

    Too bad I need to root for the sharks now that Phila keeps sucking ass.

  2. They don't know yet? on How Dangerous is Online Chat for Kids? · · Score: 2

    By 12 kids should know, or at least be tought that not everyone in the world is a wonderful nice person like in the movies. Sure bad things can happen if they're thrown right into the rawest, most honest form of communication without considering the possibilities of deceit and general evilness.

  3. Re:What goes around comes around.... on Blizzard Gets DMCA Smackdown From Sony · · Score: 2

    Why? Why should companies reconsider something that is commonly accepted and promotes working (via morale improvements and efficiency of workers because they don't have to download/find songs)?

    Yes. It's illegal. Yes. Artists deserve paid. But nearly everyone sees music at work as a good thing(tm), and more selection of music is a good thing(tm). Eventually people will try their damnedest to make good things(tm) the common thing(tm).

  4. Computer Awareness? on Freaky Flash 6 Fishy Features · · Score: 2

    It's not even security as an application poking its head where it does not belong. Is there any good/common reason for flash to do anything with anyone's webcam/microphone? I think not.

    Though I also think it's reasonable to at least muse the posibility that this was all just setup by the X10 camera people to setup a world wide voyeur web =]

  5. Re:Localized effects of high density matter on Do Strangelets Pass Through Earth? · · Score: 2

    Note that due to the time distorting effects of the high density, it may be impossible to slow the things down =]

  6. Wait? this is bad? on Technology: Fueling Hatred and Misunderstanding · · Score: 2

    Seriously. Sure there is a ton of communicative trash on the internet. There's a bunch of lamers on the internet. There's plenty of illegal/immoral/inhuman things on the internet. Most people suck. Get used to it.

    One of the things I loved about IRC for example was that this was true. Sure it meant there was tons of human waste I had to deal with, but it also meant the good people where honestly good, since there was nothing beyond themselves to "make" them good.

  7. Not batman, nor spiderman on Spider-Man, Star Wars and the Power of Myth · · Score: 2

    How about the (soon to be movie) Hulk? He always seemed to be the prototypical super hero for stereotypical pimplyfaced teens. The Hulk was someone that kids could easily relate to as he centered around the base emotion of anger. Everyone knows anger.

  8. Re:Overwhelmingly Positive Reviews on Star Wars: AOTC Reviews Pour In · · Score: 2

    I dunno. Reading the reviews on imdb they are all very positive, and all bring up the same/similar points. The user reviews there it seems to me give a good indication of differing people's tastes and are pretty genuine.

    It bodes very well as it is quite rare for movies to get unanimously good reviews there.

  9. I've read this before (spoilers) on The Story of "Nadine" · · Score: 4, Funny

    Apparently the story is about a slashdotted webserver...

  10. Re:Not necessarily on Microsoft's Goal, Security Through Obscurity? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Come now. Unix suffers from the same problems. Remember when the one compression lib had problems a month or so ago? Tons of stuff was affected. The only benefit *nix has on that point is that those sort of things seem to have *much* better coders working on them than the actual applications.

    Immagine if glibc had a buffer overflow in it... How many services/applications would be vulnerable then? If the GNOME libs, or a font renderer had the same problems?

    Microsoft uses much more object oriented versions of the shared libraries, and thus it *does* take a bit longer to track down the actual source of the problem, and make sure the fix doesn't break alot more; but that's also what's allowed them to do alot of the things that sells windows (common user interface, good cut/paste)

  11. Standard operating procedure: on Wrangling Over Proposed Privacy Laws Continues · · Score: 2

    Look, we have in the past emailed/written/called Boucher to say "yay, good job". Why not now call to say "hey, this sucks. we should be able to sue for privacy violations, and we should have to opt in for this shit."

  12. Re:please don't get carried away on New Bill Would Restrict Sale of Video Games to Minors · · Score: 2

    Actually I think that the majority of slashdot is of the opinion that the current "lack of rights" of minors is already too much, and if anything minors should be given more rights (since we already burdened them with more responsibility) not vice versa.

    Furthermore it is patently false that disallowing porn, gore, and obscenity for children prevents the corruption that their immaginations can create anyways (though don't worry, America is working hard on removing immagination too)

  13. heheh: from the update on James Doohan Not In A Coma and Likely To Survive · · Score: 5, Funny
    made news just two years ago with the birth of his daughter, Sarah, when he was 80 years old. His wife, Wende, was 43 at the time.


    Apparently she can take more of it Cap'n!
  14. Re:Better way? on James Doohan Not In A Coma and Likely To Survive · · Score: 2

    Yeah, like the stories of the PKZIP guy, and the maker of MULE. Very interesting people, like probably all of the people who create groundbreaking work.

  15. Devil's Advocate on Salon on Video Games and Free Speech · · Score: 2

    Perhaps the judge merely meant/intended by law that games should not explicitly get free speech protection just because they are games. The 4 games listed are pretty thin on plot, storyline and certain types of artistry. The artistry that is shown isn't speech so much as trademarkable/copyrightable "feel" and characters.

    He also might believe simply that the speech of games is irrelevant to *his case*. After all, people are free to film porn, but are not free to display it on network TV (in america) or even sell it to minors (in america).

    IMO I hope this is struck down with great prejudice by higher courts, as IMO the above mentioned limiting vs minors does as much harm as help and it would be foolish to carry that to more genres.

  16. Re:The future of Linux on Ask Alan Cox, Activist · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yes. *duh*

    A more interesting question I think would be:

    What are your views, as they pertain to *nix in the mainstream, of OS X? Does it hurt or help Linux's chance in the area, or allow Linux to perhaps concentrate on server side areas?

  17. Re:Of COURSE.. on Fewer Jobs, Less Pay In The IT Industry · · Score: 2

    Actually I think that salaries are dropping just because a bunch of people woke up, moved out of the valley where they don't need $75k just to afford a studio apt!

    As for MCSE's: I am a windows admin by trade. I've interviewed everyone coming into IT since my hire (except for my boss of course, who was just let go). Ironically enough, every MCSE that we've interviewed, we've not hired (except for my boss, who was just let go). They generally understand how to do things (think procedurally) not how things work (think reason-based).

    Simply put: people that can only think procedurally, and do not understand *how things work* do not make good sysadmins. The problem with windows, is it's very hard to find out how things work. Even then it's a pretty vague understanding, and spotty because of Microsoft's kludges and tinkering.

    This is why there are few good windows admins, and even then they will never be as good as the best *nix admin. [This is also why I've got 3 BSD machines at home, and also admin 2 solaris boxen at work]

  18. Re:It's a matter of corporate culture on HP, Compaq Deal Approved · · Score: 2

    My appologies for being the cynic:

    I don't think people question HP's Linux committment, I think people question what sort of management would do something that (from the outside, and being uninformed) appears to be ripe with headaches, inefficiencies, and cost for very little (relative) gain.

    I hope that's merely perception and not truth, though there's little history or proof to show otherwise.

  19. Back to Basics on The Most Beautiful Experiments in Physics · · Score: 2

    dropping a bowling ball and a light foam ball to demonstrate how mass is independant of gravity.

  20. Let me get this right... on "EverQuest II" to debut in 2003 · · Score: 5, Funny

    There will be a tradesman class, so after work people can go home and exist in a fantasy world where they... work...

  21. Sure sign of geekdom? on Nature's Building Blocks · · Score: 1

    I never found stoichiometry problems annoying, let alone difficult.

  22. Do I understand correctly? on Font Company Wielding DMCA Against Bit-Flipping · · Score: 2

    There's 1 bit in the font that says "please don't allow anyone to copy me?"

    Dumb.

  23. Re:First rats, then people on Remote Controlled Rats · · Score: 2

    Wait? doesn't that happen now? =]

    At least then we wouldn't have to pretend we don't.

  24. Re:First rats, then people on Remote Controlled Rats · · Score: 3, Funny

    I dunno, it might not be so bad...

    Maybe I can get one for my boss!

  25. Easy to use Help? on Sneaking Open Source Software Through the Front Door · · Score: 2

    Eh? maybe it's just me, but in 7 or so years using windows, I've never once had the MS help actually solve my problem.