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  1. Re:IPX Network and Windows 95 on Sims 2: University Announced · · Score: 1

    Yeah, we tried playing GTA multiplayer a few times, over IPX I think. It was horribly slow, but still cool. :)

    Toward the end of 1997 though, enough good network games were out that it was basically one big ongoing LAN party on our hall.

  2. Re:Already Solved - Vanadium Redox on 230mph Electric Car · · Score: 1

    Because the question is of energy economy.

    If an "energy source" uses as much or more energy to produce as it yields, it shouldn't be called a source, only a storage format.

    It may be better overall, and worth doing, but if it is not really a new source, it does leave us in the same situation down the road.

    There's a different standard for the status quo because the cost of converting over to a completely new infrastructure of energy distrubution is huge!

  3. Re:Not very scientific on Killer Ozone? · · Score: 1

    Heh, what is "premature death" anyway?

    If you died, who's to say that wasn't when you were supposed to die?

    I smell a George Carlin routiene here, but I couldn't hold a candle to that master. :)

  4. Re:Guard the Table, EFF! on Public Interest Groups Face Uphill Battle at WIPO Meeting · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is exactly the sort of thing the second amendment was created for.

  5. Re:Not published. on Berkeley Researchers Analyze Florida Voting Patterns · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Let the scientific method work this out.

    Peer review is not the scientific method!!

    Peer review is supposed to make sure scientific methods get followed.

  6. Re:I'm glad this is happening. on Berkeley Researchers Analyze Florida Voting Patterns · · Score: 1

    Slashdot rendering problem in FireFox: Press Ctrl+ , Ctrl-

    I've known this workaround for a while.. but the question remains, Why don't they just fucking fix it!?!?!

    It would take them all of 15 mintues to validate the goddamn HTML.

  7. Re:Not very scientific on Killer Ozone? · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, of course this study is valid!

    In uninhabited areas where there is no pollution, there has never been a premature death! Not even one!

    Irrefutable proof!

  8. What? on Killer Ozone? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why would I think twice about "an hydrogen"?

  9. Re:Questions on TiVo to Sell Your Fast-Forward Button · · Score: 1

    They don't have to welcome it, but they should have no recourse if it happens.

    They don't have a right to have people see thier ads. Once the person buys the paper, they are free to cut out the ads with whatever means available, be it scissors, or special glasses that block ads.

    What "content producers" want is legislative recourse when people block or skip ads. That's bullshit, and strikes at the heart of property rights. Intellectual property "rights" shouldn't trump real tangible property rights our entire economy is based on.

  10. Re:The Mozilla brand is probably stronger now on Netscape Reborn? · · Score: 1

    They sorta have a field for that in the referrer. In a stroke of genius though, all browsers, even IE, report themselves as Mozilla compatible, so the field is useless.

  11. Re:I know wikipedia is hip and all on Patrick Volkerding Battles Mystery Illness · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Diagnosis is rarely suspected or made on clinical grounds. Usually, the clinical laboratory or the pathologist provides diagnosis.

    Patients present with nonspecific symptoms and findings, such as fever, weight loss, diarrhea or constipation, and abdominal pain. Extension to the perirectal space is not uncommon and these patients present with defecation complaints.

    -----------------------

    So basically we have a disease that doctors can't even disgnose reliably most of the time, with very nonspecific symptoms ranging over a huge range.

    I hope he gets a good doctor that totally ignores his self-diagnosis. The ones he has dealt with in the past seemed way too likely to just give him what he wanted without making a real diagnosis.

  12. Re:First stitching, then tiling on Largest Digital Photograph in the World · · Score: 1

    MrSID and JPEG 2000 support very advanced tiling of very high res images in the format itself.

    It's often used for geological data, etc, where you have very large images.

  13. Re:Passwords proclaim the end of Bill Gates on Bill Gates Proclaims End of Passwords · · Score: 1

    Wait, your password is "killbill" too?

  14. Re:Samples on DIY LED-Illuminated Sleep Chamber · · Score: 1

    Heh yeah, I was shocked when I got a digikey catalog recently, the last paper one I had was from years before, and it was tiny... these new ones are rivalling Grainger catalogs!

  15. Re:How hard can that be? on Making Holograms In The Kitchen · · Score: 1

    That is a possibility.

  16. Re:How hard can that be? on Making Holograms In The Kitchen · · Score: 1

    It's actually kinda tricky.. I tried to make holograms once in a grade school tech lab kind of environment. In a dark room with laser, mirrors, emulsion plates, developer chemicals, and teacher of questionable sexual preference.

    Thankfully the guy didn't try to make any moves on me, but even so, all I got was black plates. I must have tried dozens of different permutations of exposure time and time in the various developer baths.

  17. Re:Three words... on Electronic Arts Facing Possible Class Action Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Heh, don't compare me to her. I'm a Libertarian.

  18. Re:"Free" market hypocrites on Electronic Arts Facing Possible Class Action Lawsuit · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah, nowadays union members just beat up and kill scabs.

  19. Re:Interesting, Lies? on Where Is Sun Going With Linux? · · Score: 1

    It's funny when he says "contributed the most lines of source code"... any programmer will tell you that usually less lines of code that do the same work is better.

    As bloated and slow as OpenOffice is, I don't doubt their claim. Of course I don't know how much of that is code bloat or if it's just the inherent slowness of an interperted language running in an emulator for a platform that doesn't exist.

  20. Re:"Free" market hypocrites on Electronic Arts Facing Possible Class Action Lawsuit · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It would be a free market, free speech, free association, if unions didn't enjoy special protections under the law.

    Should people be free to form unions? Sure. Unions shouldn't get any special protections under the law, however.

  21. Re:Three words... on Electronic Arts Facing Possible Class Action Lawsuit · · Score: -1, Troll

    Where do you fucking commies come from anyway?

    You just seem to seep out of the woodwork whenever some story whining about bad work conditions comes up. Quit whining and find a better job!

  22. Re:Contribute to ridiclulous levels of spam on Defending Harsh Sentences for Spammers · · Score: 1

    You can't be a victim of something you chose.

    I guess a murderer is a "victim" of the legal system?

    If someone steals something, that's a crime.

    If someone uses crack, that's a personal choice, a not particularly wise one.

    If we are victims of our own choices, then that strikes at the foundation of personal responsibility. Without responsibility for our actionw, we have no freedom.

    You can't believe in freedom, and support this stupid "drug war" at the same time, it's simply not possible.

  23. Re:Contribute to ridiclulous levels of spam on Defending Harsh Sentences for Spammers · · Score: 1

    And those "victims" are?

    Looks to me to be a mutually beneficial transaction, no one was coerced.

  24. Re:A 100% functional and universal audio mixer on What OSS Programs are Still Needed? · · Score: 1

    Audacity is pretty good. Not great but still.

  25. Re:Denial? on 2004 Election Weirdness Continues · · Score: 1

    It's always funny when I realize I misspelled words like "incompetence". Especially in a discussion about how zero errors is an attainable goal. :) I guess it's not as bad as those who write something like "Your an idiot".