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  1. Re:From the "interesting read" link... on Mac mini Dissection · · Score: 1

    Really, thanks for taking the time to correct statements in error. I almost had to in your place. But I can't help but wonder if it's really worth your time; ie lost cause and all that. I mean, how many people would Genuinely be surprised if they actually looked at a PowerBook and saw a PC Card slot?

  2. Re:And...SO?? on Inside TechTV/G4 · · Score: 2, Informative
    I remember religously watching Computer Chronicles

    And, in case you/some-other-reader didn't know (Maybe there was a slashdot article about it on the weekend and you skipped it?), archive.org has mpegs of all the episodes.

    I lost track of the show when they moved to L.A.

    I haven't watched much G4 since the switch but the only show I liked and miss is Unscrewed with Martin Sargent (and co-host Laura Swisher [hi Laura! allow me to introduce myself...I'm #22537, and the only reason I'm on posting on slashdot at ten pm on a saturday night is cause I just got home after two days up in LA. no, really!]).

  3. Re:inevitable on Lycos Pulls Vigilante Anti-spam Campaign · · Score: 1
    Where's the dichotomy? If one were pro-personal-freedom on one point, that pro-freedom view should carry over.
    Since I made it this far into the thread, I just wanted to quote you and say, Word Up.

    And a postscript for others: spend the afternoon at a firearm safety class and calm your fear.

  4. Re:This is a sign of the times on Verizon Seeks To Nix Fee-Based Municipal Wireless Grids · · Score: 1
    An AC writes "It's not free. They are going to tax everyone to provide a service to a few. Thus we arrive at the inherit problem with government."

    He saved me the time of typing it out myself and it's a Troll?

    It's not free.

  5. Re:What's the point? on Internet Hunting · · Score: 1
    The notion that tradition is unchanging and unyielding is just too firmly fixed in American minds.

    At least we got rid of the silly Tradition that had us as Subjects to Royalty.

  6. Re:I live in Australia too... on Monitoring the U.S. Elections Online? · · Score: 1
    That was funny.

    Y'all will need to import millions of handguns before the Aussie states are Free enough to actually sign up for the Union.

  7. Re:A US expatriate's perspective on Pre-Election Discussion · · Score: 1
    The LP and Greens must be "radical" to differentiate themselves in centrist politics. Quoted below, which item from the LP Platform in the section on world government do you object to?

    Specifically, we oppose any U.S. policy designating the United Nations as policeman of the world, committing U.S. troops to wars at the discretion of the U.N., or placing U.S. troops under U.N. command.

    If social welfare and strong regulation are "attractive," picking on the LP for U.N. related items seems... irrelevent at best. Libertarians won't be elected in a bubble, overnight turning the States into some anarcho-techno-wasteland/utopia. The Libertarian party believes in limited government, not anarchy. Opposition parties will still be around to make sure there's DOT to put up speed limit signs on the roads.

    You mean to capitalize the L in Libertarian.

  8. Re:Apple Way Vs. Microsoft Way on If Mac OS X Came to x86, Would You Switch? · · Score: 2, Informative
    (To be fair, my Mac can't burn CDs by itself, but at least iPhoto can burn pics, and iTunes can burn music)

    Is your Finder defective? Sure, Toast has some extra features but for me Disk Utility and Finder both take care of anything the iApps can't.

  9. Re:If you're feeling lucky on Is it Safe to Use Win XP SP2, Yet? · · Score: 1
    My apologies, dummy. My understanding in the details of the moderation rollback procedures differed from reality. The goals of moderation are fairly obvious. But I suspect it may have been a change occuring in the time between when I registered and when you did.

    Such is the life.

  10. Re:If you're feeling lucky on Is it Safe to Use Win XP SP2, Yet? · · Score: 1
    anon cause i just used three mod points in this topic, -ptudor

    Dammit. It still undid my mods. Stupid slashcode.

  11. Re:Given that our system is broken on Ask Libertarian Presidential Candidate Michael Badnarik · · Score: 1
    why do you think your running is worth the risk of helping the worst candidate to win?

    I can assure you a worse candidate has already won by default without Badnarik present in the race.

  12. Re:Paraphrase the Constitution on Ask Libertarian Presidential Candidate Michael Badnarik · · Score: 1

    It's safe to say he already did. Go watch his Intro to the Constitution. I've seen it on torrent sites as well.

  13. Re:Sounds like a load of crap on The Underground History of American Education · · Score: 1
    Each state is responsible for public education within its own borders.
    Ever heard of "No Child Left Behind?" Sure, the Constitution might give that impression, but America stopped reading that old rag a long time ago. CATO has some fun reading about the decades of Federal involvement in local education.
  14. Re:Equal Protection under the Law on RIAA Grinds Down Individuals in the Courtroom · · Score: 1

    Any chance you could point out where that is in the CA code? I'd just like to read about it in context. Wish I'd known that during my four days as a juror. We did realize it was likely a three strikes and ended with a mistrial.

  15. Re:Legitimate uses for this on Johansen Cracks AirPort Express Encryption · · Score: 1

    I'd like to see support in DVD Player. I already play the video using the video-out on my PowerBook; one less cable using my existing wireless audio setup via the AEx would be ideal.

  16. Re:That's why... on Using Copyright To Suppress Political Speech · · Score: 1
    Fact is in the current system voting 3rd party really is throwing away your vote and the two major parties don't really care if you do it.

    That's not fact. Don't tell that to the 12% who preferred the Libertarian candidate in Mass to Ted Kennedy. And the 40% who could vote for anyone in the approaching Hoosier gubernatorial election.

    immigrated to the U.S. in 1902.

    That's 1905 according a page on Kerry's bloodlines. And you're glossing over his maternal roots, to my eyes deep in Mass and England.

    The Green Party bothers me more than the Big Two combined. The Green Party is the closest you'll come to the complete opposite of my political principles.

  17. Re:Another dell example on How Much Are You Paying For Electronics Labels? · · Score: 1
    Buy Dell and you pay twice as much for the same exact switch. Buy two for the same price as the Dell and you have support that even Dell can't beat - an always available spare!
    One might naturally think that getting two instead of one for the same price (or alternatively saving fifty percent) is appealling, but apparently you haven't seen what happens when the C?Os at your company see the Dell logo.

    I just ran into that problem with RAM. "Really, I would prefer getting sixteen 512M sticks of ram from Vendor X at $Y rather than only eight from Dell at $Y*2."

    But all they see is "WITH FREE SHIPPING!" and I get a box from Dell with half of what I need.

  18. Re:What a crock of... on VoIP Questioned · · Score: 1

    cool. I've always had a Live Person when I ring 411, but next time I'll have to Turing Test it if I get the mechanical voice of a bot.

  19. Re:Areas I hope are improved on Mac OS X "Tiger" Server Previewed · · Score: 2, Interesting
    ...but none I completely trust to do a bare-metal restore and give me a bootable system.
    The 60G Toshiba failed in my 12" PB last week, a perfect test of my SuperDuper based backups. I booted off the external backup with no problem once my PB was returned and just backed up, in the other direction. Two hours and a reboot later, it's like nothing happened.

    I've been pleased with SuperDuper since the start, and now that it's passed a big test I'm even more so.

    Just mentioning because it wasn't in your list...

  20. I can edit slashdot too! on NASA Abandons SimCIty Microwave Power Concept · · Score: 1

    1. spain: Spain is a proper noun, to be capitalized.
    2. dispite: This word has an E: "despite"
    3. farther explanation: What? Is this "further exploration" or is the answer just really far away?
    4. Accordong: Huhuh Beavis he said "dong"
    5. Microwave: This is not a proper noun and is properly uncapitalized in the prior sentence.
    I'll let "canceled" slide because one-L or two-Ls is a style issue.

    Now, back to the sunshine.

  21. swe-dish? on A Portable Satellite ISP in the Middle East? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Would anything from SWE-DISH help out? I remember reports from new organizations about it last year. Pretty much it has 1M satellite on one side with 10/100 rj45 Ethernet on the other, in a suitcase.

  22. Re:Our backup system on Server Redundancy for a Small Business? · · Score: 1
    Instead I compress them with a unique filenames.

    What's your method for this? I recall something along those lines from the last time I read the rsync man page/docs, but I'm wondering how you go about it.

  23. Re:RFC 2136 + Net::DNS + your monitoring software on DNS based Website Failover Solutions? · · Score: 2, Informative
    ...I can't think of a sane way to process your zone files with shell scripting.
    Luckily, when moving to tinydns there is a sane way to convert your zone files with shell scripting.
  24. Re:Sudo and CVS on How Would You Distribute Root Access? · · Score: 1

    You can patch bash/tcsh to log all actions to syslog. It can be quite useful as a supplement to sudo's logs.

  25. Re:If that guy went to jail... on Life-Ruining Browser Hijackers · · Score: 1
    If the man is a victim, it's because he made the choice to not bring his case to trial. You must give up your constitutional rights, they are not denied you, unless your name is Jose Padilla or Yaser Hamdi. You have the right to a trial by jury. You do have an opportunity to stand up for yourself. He gave that up. Freely accepting a perhaps unjust felony conviction is ultimately his fault.

    I sat on a jury several weeks ago for a fairly basic criminal case that ran four days. It was fairly clear to everyone what had most likely occurred, but we were still evenly split, ending in a mistrial. You do have an opportunity for twelve adults to realize the surrounding situtation and release you. And who out there in the world of normal people doesn't just loathe their Windows box? They all use IE and don't patch. I bet he'd have an okay chance.

    Your last sentence in the comment, "Until lawyers," is out of place and overly broad.