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  1. Re:hate and ignorance on Researchers To Climb Ararat To Seek Noah's Ark · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I doubt many of them decide to be homosexuals, they can't help it and the bible says to treat them... the way it says to treat lepers, which is another part that led to tremendous pain on the part of innocents.

    Bruce, check out the second half of the Bible. There is this one guy who hangs out with lepers, prostitutes and even tax collectors (much worse than homosexuals, in my book). He had this funny habit of loving everyone despite their sins or social status. Of course, the powers that be kill him for this but it all works out in the end.

  2. Re:OOo Educational Pricing on OpenOffice.org, MS Office 2003 Compared, Evaluated · · Score: 1

    Why pay for OOo (even at a discount) when I can get Star Office for free (Educational Use Only)?

  3. Re:I wonder on Trusted Computing/DMCA vs. Diebold Pentagon Paper · · Score: 1

    Try following the money and you might not sound so dumb either.

    Bush stole the election (and no I didn't want the other idiot either).


    So you are trying to tell me that Bush paid off county governments, specifically Democratic county governments in Florida, so he could only lose by half a million votes but win the electorial vote? Your powers of deduction astound me.

  4. Re:I wonder on Trusted Computing/DMCA vs. Diebold Pentagon Paper · · Score: 1

    I wonder how people can defend these kinds of actions? What I mean is, Diebold's CEO is obviously in the back pocket of the Prez of the US. He has said he would give Ohio to the Prez in 2004 (I dunno, maybe as a bday gift). And this happens in California. I know that people are not that dumb. They have to see the connection, be it in Florida, California or even Ohio. Yet the backers of Bush and Co don't care. Are they so blind to the fact that they want only their party in power, that they can't see the road these actions are taking the nation?

    Voting is not handled at the Federal level. It is done at the local level which is why each county has it's own rules and machines. Bush and company can't tell anyone what voting machines to use. Nor can Congress. You might want to learn a bit about how voting works (and often doesn't) before spouting off. You're pretty dumb even for a Slashdot AC.

  5. Re:Pardon my ignorance, on Mandrakelinux 10 Official Released · · Score: 1

    Yes it was. The latest group of Microsoft patches require a reboot.

  6. Re:Review cost on Embedded RTOS Maker Raises Linux Security Issues · · Score: 1

    So, is that what they are going to charge me per line to see their source code, or am I just supposed to trust them?

  7. Simple Question on Personalized Moon Crash · · Score: 2, Funny

    How many AOL CDs can we fit in 10Kg?

  8. Re:Hmmm on Listen to the Sky · · Score: 1

    I think I'll do the same thing but hang my phone near a hot shower. Should sound about the same.

  9. Illinois is one.. on Are You Reporting Your Internet Purchases? · · Score: 1

    Illinois has a use tax. It has for many years. Of course, don't take tax advice from /., see a real CPA!

  10. Re:I want on Auto-Censoring DVD Player · · Score: 1

    Ah, yes. The $43 Million aid package. I wonder how Bush got that aid package through Congress so quickly, considering he was sworn in in January. Then, of course, I found the truth: President Bush granted $43 million in food aid and food security programs to relieve an impending famine in Afghanistan in May 2001, continuing an aid program initiated by President Clinton (and approved by Richard Clark?). The programs were administered directly by the United Nations and NGOs, bypassing the regime.

    Seems like you've been duped by an Internet myth. A little story dreamed up by Robert Sneer and passed around by Bush-Haters. Al Gore has to be so happy he lost because he wouldn't be able to blame the problems on the prior administration if this happened on his watch. It would either be his fault or his and Clinton's fault.

  11. Re:before arrest on Losing His Religion: Adrian Lamo Interview · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Um... You are expecting the "editors" to edit? You must be new here.

  12. Re:I want on Auto-Censoring DVD Player · · Score: 1

    Except the creators of the movie, who find their work has been bowdlerised without their permission. The creators (the producer at least) usually have the option of pulling a movie from a market rather than cutting it.

    So, if my wife gets up to go to the bathroom during a movie, she had denied the director his rights to display his movie in the manner he intended? I now need special rights to hit pause? Or what if I think a scene has something special in it so I hit rewind to see it again? Once again, I have ruined his vision by watching the same part twice. Not to mention that I have a small TV. I'm not even close to the grand vision of what the director intended for the big screen.

    I don't think I need to agree to a contract from each director to watch thier movie. In my house, I watch movies as I damn well please. In your house, I'll watch them as you please.

  13. Re:MS on New Windows Vulnerability in Help System · · Score: 1

    If they unbundled IE, why the hell wouldn't the help files simply use the designated default browser??

    Because then Microsoft would lose control of how the help is displayed. It's all about controling every aspect of the user interface.

  14. WMA Secure Forever on New Tool Cracks Apple's FairPlay DRM · · Score: 1

    To me the authors are vandals not revolutionaries, and may have ensured WMA becomes the standard.

    WMA? Oh yeah. We know that will never be cracked.

  15. Re:Hypocrisy on WinAmp Security Hole Discovered, Patched · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The subtle irony of your post should rank at least a "Funny" mod or two. You were trying to be dryly ironic, right?

  16. Corel? Linux? on Corel To Test WordPerfect For Linux · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought April Fools day was over...

  17. Re:That's nothing on People with real l337 speak names? · · Score: 1

    So you are saying that Lt. Dick was really a Major Dick? Quite a promotion.

  18. Re:I fall for every April Fools Day gag! on Usenet Audio · · Score: 1

    Good to hear. I love the product. I'll have to check out the new docs.

  19. Re:oy on People with real l337 speak names? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Almost forgot about Frigga. Nice girl, I spent a whole day teling her what her name means.

    Telling her or showing her? Oh yeah, this is slashdot. Telling her.

  20. Re:I fall for every April Fools Day gag! on Usenet Audio · · Score: 1

    Is a new verison ever coming out? Not that the old one isn't working fine, I just feel the need to be bleeding edge.

  21. Re:SWEET! on New Zaurus Linux PDA Available In the U.S. · · Score: 1

    I've been waiting forever to get the 5500 to sync with Mozilla mail. Ever since they moved from XML to the database format, no one has done anything about extracting the data. I've taken a couple pokes at it, but I lack the skills needed.

  22. Re:This SHOULD NOT be a problem. on Nuclear 'Asteroids' Due In A Few Hundred Years · · Score: 0, Troll

    If those little punks are incapable of safely retrieving these reactors in the next hundred or so years, the little slackers deserve what they get.

    Maybe it can be defined as a weapon of mass destruction and we can invade. Kinda shines a new light on GW's sudden interest in space travel.

  23. Re:is anyone else a little hesitant? on Microsoft PR: Looking Under The Hood · · Score: 1

    Tipper was against music. John had a problem with a statue at the Justice Department.

  24. Re:is anyone else a little hesitant? on Microsoft PR: Looking Under The Hood · · Score: 1

    Actually, the first (and last) .cx site I saw was quite unsuitable for my impressionable eyes. It's two years later and I still wake up in the middle of the night screaming. As far as I'm concerned they can firewall off the .cx domain behind three feet of reinforced concrete.

    Thanks for your comments, Mr. Ashcroft. We will be adding drapes to the .cx domain next week. Hope you are feeling better.

  25. Re:Did AMD reps put them up? on AMD Papers Over Free Wi-Fi Network Builders · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Or does someone have the stickers? If you don't see them go up, you have no idea who actually is responsible."

    If this story were about Microsoft, would this question be asked?


    Nope, because it would be us evil Linux users who were abusing the stickers.