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  1. Re:CD's are too big on Penny-size 180 Gigabits CDROMs · · Score: 1

    Don't know about the show could you clue me in?

  2. Re:Small CD's are great but on Penny-size 180 Gigabits CDROMs · · Score: 1

    A really nice way to damage your drive. What do people like me who have removable trays for their drive do for a cup holder? :)

  3. Re:Real Technology on Penny-size 180 Gigabits CDROMs · · Score: 1

    You could have a backup for cd-rom.com all in the palm of your hand. However this raises an important if this keeps happening people will soon be accustomed to software bloat. Windows 10,000 will be somewhere on the order of like 900 Tb for the base install.

  4. Re:Find a penny... on Penny-size 180 Gigabits CDROMs · · Score: 1

    How do you keep it from getting scratched?

  5. Re:I want an Oompa Loompa now! on Penny-size 180 Gigabits CDROMs · · Score: 1

    Well *YOU* can't have one!

  6. Re:What about shock? on Penny-size 180 Gigabits CDROMs · · Score: 1

    Well it would have to be extremely air tight to avoid a head crash due to foreign particles and such. Wouldn't trust it with my important stuff.

  7. Re:Real Technology on Penny-size 180 Gigabits CDROMs · · Score: 1

    Would that be a real computer or just a storage system that is inside that watch? I don't think I could type on something that small easily.

  8. Re:but i lose everything on Penny-size 180 Gigabits CDROMs · · Score: 0

    I try not to loose pennies never know when they might come in useful. Pick them up all the time.

  9. Re:Real Technology on Penny-size 180 Gigabits CDROMs · · Score: 1

    That's basically what would happen with this could hold like 50Tb or something. I would hate cdroms that small could loose them really easily.

  10. Re:Another way to do it on Passing Porn, Banning the Bible · · Score: 1

    I seriously wish I had a cool/clued sysadmin such as you when I attended HS. All of my exp with admins has been people who had connected eyebrows, thick skulls, and no respect for anyone except themselves.

  11. Re:Some kind of censorship is needed on Passing Porn, Banning the Bible · · Score: 1

    I for one do not. The nature of the decline of the Roman Empire was multifold. If one is to read Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Emprire the main problem with the empire and it's main reason for fall was Christianity. This is not to say that continued encroachments by barbarians, lead poisoning, shifting political aliances, advance of asiatic empires or anything else did not contribute to it in any way. The contention of this is that being evil and viewing porn do not make a society go down hill. In my political opinion the thing that will cause the US to go downhill is that lack of strong actions against proliferators of nuclear weapons by small countries or perhaps biological agents, or more than likely the US itself. In communist countries where freedom was in short spply people had a severe lack of creativity and initiative.

  12. Re:Censorware--the ultimate tool of oppression? on Passing Porn, Banning the Bible · · Score: 1

    I just thought of something that may work with no (or less than 50) actual deaths. Basically it entails some place like a public building where a person can access it freely. Then just get some media coverage, people with paint ball guns (shaped like ak-47's) and S.W.A.T. team gear and then just pretend to hold the place up. Then blame it on censorship and how this "sex thing" dosn't exist. Maybe throw in a bunch of things about homosexuals, blacks, jews and the like to get almost everyone irritated and who is going to take the rap??? You guessed it Bess or similar products :) *smirk*. Perfect revenge and done (properly) without the loss of life that crap like columbine did to the world of free people.

  13. Re:Is there a need for the Internet in schools? on Passing Porn, Banning the Bible · · Score: 1

    I would have to strongly disagree with this statement. The only way I would have found slashdot or been able to find out about any developments in the last 40 years of computing have been through public access sites (from which I am writing this message). This fact would over stigmatize those who are less familiar with the dollar as one could say. Yes it may be an excuse not to give homework. However without this many would not get skills necessary to make a start in the world.

  14. Re:Damned Facts about N2H2/Bess on Passing Porn, Banning the Bible · · Score: 1

    Just like Alfred Nobel and the invention of dynamite. He thought that dynamite would be beneficial but soon found out that it could be used to help fund war so he set up the Nobel Peace Prize in his name to promote peace through discovery kind of similar here. They just got real greedy. Verry similar to the story featured on slashdot in about March or April About the Salt Lake City, Utah School disctrict filtering internet content with the same results. Basically internet filtering just plain sucks for everyone. What really happens to people is that porn pecomes an attractive nusiance due to the fact that it is so very verboden by most and therefore very desireable to people for that very reason. If people can access anything they want then they will never become as obcessed with anything "morally wrong".

  15. Re:I'm horrified by what they ban on Passing Porn, Banning the Bible · · Score: 1

    They did that and I would start ping flooding n2h2's servers. I will not have a bunch of idiots stopping me from accessing the net. Perhaps if I get stock in say mci and can get a T-3 and kill them with that.

  16. Re:Hypocritical Lucas on LucasFilms suing 'net Pirates · · Score: 1

    Get real a stupid movie like TPM compared to Shakespeare, The Bible, Koran, Milton? Hardly!

  17. Re:Whee, an amateurish B5 flame. on LucasFilms suing 'net Pirates · · Score: 0

    Well I will not say that I cared for the way Picard acted in Insurection (the movie that you aluded to that's more of a thing that sisko would do), but more precisely to the point I dislike things that paint a harsh, grim view of things like the future. What star trek is about is a group of people who have solved most of their problems and trying to keep order for themselves as well as those in the group they have. The level of technology they have is responsible for their ability to get out of situations. Now sometimes this is employed so that the main characters do not get injured. This is natural for continuity of the show and it responses. What is good about science fiction is believability of the reasoning. I really could see the ideas that are advocated in ST as quite valid. This is not to say that our current situation is less grim. Quite frankly getting anywhere near the tech level of ST would require about 100,000,000 years and a change of genetic structure. I just like stable governments that are in real control and people who are also in control. It becomes distracting when people are always fighting, bickering, and generally not getting along in any way except to further self-interest. All the things that ST advcates are the things we look for in a society as well as a government: trust, accomodiation, utilitarian use of force, staunch standing up for principles, etc. What also strikes me from some of these shows is that is what is largely missing from them. People become some sort of rough pioneering type of person who lacks grace. One thing I will say till my dieing day is that I would love to be half the man Jean-Luc Picard is any day of the week. He has more posh, pizzaz, and resolve than most characters. Sisko is the kind of person you would more expect to see on other shows where his actions and lack of tact get in the way of what is really going on. With star trek there is some history with what generally has happened before I would compare ST to linux in that it has history, constantly in development, and will be here for a long time.

  18. Re:RIGHT On! on LucasFilms suing 'net Pirates · · Score: 0

    That most of the themes in the above mentioned show lack in what could be termed ethical grounding about a leader and the nature of the universe. If one wishes to have a strong presence in space usually one does not incite a rebellion on the homeworld or pick a fight with them at any time.

  19. Re:A long time ago, on a Web far away... on LucasFilms suing 'net Pirates · · Score: 1

    Staring Bill Gates as the evil emperor in black (who is that guy supposed to be anyway?)

  20. Re:But is this "News for Nerds"? on LucasFilms suing 'net Pirates · · Score: 2

    I know I could sell anything if I had enough money (say like Bill Gates) in America. Even some old senile man sitting in a chair swearing and mumbling incoherently would sell with the right advertising.

  21. Re:Get in the game, people... on LucasFilms suing 'net Pirates · · Score: 1

    A gang of lawyers. What kind of grafitti would they employ? Business cards? Attack people with brief cases insead of guns?

  22. Re:Um, no.. on LucasFilms suing 'net Pirates · · Score: 1

    Correct the only reason he makes any money of this is that he just decided to wait for 10 + years to release the next installment to this. He could have put something like Barney meeting Luke Skywalker and it would sell.

  23. Re:not too happy... on LucasFilms suing 'net Pirates · · Score: 1

    It's really not leize faire (hint the Sherman Anti-trust act). That stopped happening in the 1880's or there abouts.

  24. Re:RIGHT On! on LucasFilms suing 'net Pirates · · Score: 0

    No from what I saw of Babylon 5 (very little) the whole concept sucked. Letting a group of idiots try and start a civil war with earth is reprehensible best. I am a star trek person myself.

  25. Re:RIGHT On! on LucasFilms suing 'net Pirates · · Score: 1

    Simple what is implied is that it just dosn't matter if it gets bootleged at all since it just sucks. I would get one right now it I could. Hmm.. If I leave tonight I can go to China and purtchess a copy in Bejing??? Hmm... Bootlegging.