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  1. Clarification on Funding for Non-Traditional Comp. Sci Students? · · Score: 1

    Excuse my ignorance, but what exactly is a non-traditional student?

  2. Wonky? on Slashback: Swiftness, Ender's, Streams · · Score: 3, Funny

    What an unfortunate job title...what the hell is a 'Company Wonky'?

    I bet that looks real good on a resume.

  3. Re:Wow, another NYT story. on Venter's DNA Major Source of Celera's Database · · Score: 1

    Could someone please explain to me WHY so many people are so averse to the New York Times?

    Is it that hard to fill out a form with fake information, or even, God forbid, your real name??!

  4. To get it out of the way... on DirectX Support Arrives for the Mac · · Score: 1

    Oh boy, now they can port it to Linux even easier!!!

    Yes, I know that's not correct at all.

  5. You really need... on Blizzard removes Orcs from Warcraft III · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...to have something funny in an April Fool's joke. That's why they're called jokes.

    False statements and news articles aren't jokes, especially when they come so rapid-fire that they are obviously false.

    A real April Fool's joke would make us actually believe it, like the console-qt thing. I actually downloaded that.

  6. More description? on DARPA Severs Ties with Jason · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Isn't it customary to provide a little more details in the body of the story, such as why it is important enough to be posted to Slashdot?

  7. Duplicate Story on Class Action Lawsuit Against Spammer · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Why has this been happening so much of late? You'd think the slashdot editors would actually read slashdot.

  8. Right... on Class Action Lawsuit Against Spammer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Didn't we see this a little while back?

  9. Re:Anime-Based? on US Army to Try Out New, Anime-based Uniforms · · Score: 1

    Oops, sorry. I posted a complaint with the same title, and thought parent.parent was in reply to that.

  10. Re:Anime-Based? on US Army to Try Out New, Anime-based Uniforms · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry. How does knowledge of anime relate to intelligence at all?

    Maybe inversely, given the responses to my post.

    The fact that I couldn't give a rat's ass about anime does not make me a moron.

  11. Re:Anime-based? on US Army to Try Out New, Anime-based Uniforms · · Score: 1

    Oh, I see. I'm an idiot because I don't watch cartoons. What the fuck is Ghost in the Shell?

  12. Anime-based? on US Army to Try Out New, Anime-based Uniforms · · Score: 0, Redundant

    How the hell does that qualify as anime-based? Simply because they include some sort of technology not yet in use?

    I'm so damned sick of this anime crap. Now it's even cropping up outside of it's own category!

  13. Re:Hoping on Richard Stallman On KDE/GNOME Cooperation · · Score: 3, Informative

    Why would you have stability problems running KDE apps in gnome, and vice-versa? They're only X-Apps - konsole, gimp, and the rest couldn't care less what window manager/desktop environment/file manager/web browser you're using.

  14. Netscape? on AOL Time Warner Files Anti-Trust Suit against MS · · Score: 2, Informative

    CNNfn is reporting that it is Netscape doing the suing, not all of AOLTW.

  15. Oh no! on Microsoft to Focus on Security · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Just think of the implications!! Microsoft has already been "focusing" on performance, stability and security for many years - and look at the results! Such delightful products such as Windows 95, 98, ME, and NT.

  16. Faked? on Powered Exoskeletons In The Near Future? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is it just me, or does the image of the soldier on the first page of that article look like someone tried to add the "exoskeleton" in Microsoft Paint?

  17. What the hell? on Mathematical Analysis of Gnutella · · Score: 5, Funny

    Heh...somehow I read the title as "Mathematical Analysis of Guatemala", since this article has been posted before and Slashdot never posts anything twice.

  18. What?? on All Hallow's Eve · · Score: 1

    Does anyone but me find it strange that a "military school" is having jack-o-lantern carving contests? Seems more like an elementary school to me...

  19. Re:Late Linux ports of games is a losing business on X-Plane Flight Simulator For Linux · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You obviously don't understand how Austin's business model works - when you buy his simulator, you get a cd that serves to verify you paid for his sim - you can then download free updates from his web site until the next major version. If you pay for the sim, you can download it for win32, macos and now linux. You don't have to pay for each individually. I bought x-plane a while ago, and previously used it only on windows. Now I can use it on linux without paying a cent.

  20. Re:Enough with the whining on Hackers are 'Terrorists' Under Ashcroft's New Act · · Score: 1

    I'm not saying that the DMCA shouldn't be changed/repealed simply because it is law. I'm saying that is should be obeyed while it still is.

  21. Re:Enough with the whining on Hackers are 'Terrorists' Under Ashcroft's New Act · · Score: 1

    No, actually I do the first two of those things quite a lot. But I've never felt the need to remove the tag from my mattress.

  22. Re:Somebody has to say it, but... on Hackers are 'Terrorists' Under Ashcroft's New Act · · Score: 1

    Who the hell says it's victimless? Companies lose business every time their site is down, or gets cracked, or whatever. And people lose money when their credit card #s are stolen by some loser. As for the fact that it can earn you life in prison, well, that's too bad for the cracker. They'll just have to suffer the consequences of their actions.

  23. Enough with the whining on Hackers are 'Terrorists' Under Ashcroft's New Act · · Score: 0, Troll

    Arrgh!! Screw my karma! Stop the damned civil rights whining! Any crime is bad! That includes computer crime! The DMCA may be evil, but while it is law you must obey it! Why is it that every slashdot poster is some sort of liberal hippy freak?

  24. Re:cool,though my servers need to run this weekend on Linux Kernel 2.4.10 · · Score: 1

    (Maybe time to finally upgrade to to KDE 2.1.1, too).

    Hate to break it to ya, but KDE 2.2 has been out for a while...

  25. Hmm... on HP Buys Compaq · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Great - now there's only one brand of cheap, crappy computers on the market.