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  1. Re:Wow on Google Complies with Law, Excludes 'controversial' Sites · · Score: 1

    Unless they were forced, they are willing to have sex. Not to be pregnant.

    If they had sex, then they consented to the possibility of having sex. Even if they reduced their chances via natural or artificial means, they still are consenting to "we don't want to get pregnant, but by having sex we know it's a possibility."

    It's trite, I know, but if you absolutly don't want to get pregnant, then don't have sex!

  2. Re:If only it was possible! on Google Complies with Law, Excludes 'controversial' Sites · · Score: 0, Troll
  3. Re:CSS is still messed up :-( on Mozilla 1.2 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    I am of the opinion that web page authors should check their sites with CSS off to make sure they will still be readable. I still check my websites that I build with everything I can think of, including Lynx.

  4. Re:Ouch, the sound on Gateway To Use Corel Over MS For Office Suite · · Score: 1

    Of course, if they come to the University of Oregon they can come to at least one of the comptuer labs and use WordPerfect (since we have WP, MSOffice, and OO.o on our computers in the lab I work at).

    Myself, I love WordPerfect. Every time a user comes in with some unknown error in Word, I scream for Reveal Codes...

  5. Re:comparison to OO.o? on Gateway To Use Corel Over MS For Office Suite · · Score: 1

    I'm assuming, knowing corel, that the WP8 for Linux file format is the same as WP8 for windows (which is the same format for verson 6 or 7 to at least 9 (haven't used 10 yet). Meaning that OO.o should have a nice converter for it considering how long it's been around.

    PS- a corporate WordProcessor that doesn't change the file format every version change! what a concept!

  6. Re:Standards anyone ? on Creating Applications with Mozilla · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In addition to all of the fine examples above, it'd be great for a company Intranet. It's a case where you can standardize all the computers that will have access to the app to have Mozilla.

  7. Re:Traditional game content on Retailers Won't Sell New Acclaim Game · · Score: 1

    they were probably as sexually liberated as the pope.

    Well, the Pope has been able to not be a slave to his sexual desires for a long time. That sounds pretty sexually liberated to me.

  8. Re:Copyright motivates creation of works after dea on Slashback: DRM, Eldred, Aridity · · Score: 1

    Make it 20 years from the first sale. So if one company owns it for 19 years and sells it to another company, it will still only have 1 year left.

  9. Re:Freedom and Disclosure on More on Microsoft vs. Lik Sang · · Score: 1

    This brings up the question of re-sale. Example: Alice buys an X-Box and uses it for a while. She gets tired of it, and sells it to Bob. Bob gets the equipment, but none of the documents. He's never seen any EULA, never heard of any EULA, and (my guess) is not bound by any EULA.

    Of course, if this is true, then Alice and Bob can go to the sore together, each buy an X-box, unpack it, and then sell it to the other one, but I digress...

  10. Re:As humans, don't we have right to our airspace? on Nokia calls Wireless Warchalkers 'Thieves' · · Score: 1

    note: don't bother replying unless you agree, other viewpoints ignored.

    This is slashdot, everyone ignores (or mods down) people they don't agree with.

  11. Re:RTFM! on "Squishy" DRM? · · Score: 1

    but someone had the work to encode the files and think it's ok to offer the enodes for the ones who are lazy, dumb, owners of slower machines...

    There are people who know a lot about computers but don't know how to Rip/encode a CD. They don't know (because they have no reason to know) that you need a separate program. My Dad, when he wanted to copy a CD to his computer, at first tried to simply copy the .cda (or whatever they are) files from the CD to his HD. That would be what made sense. It didn't work. He was able to ask me how to do it.

    Now, I have an old computer that I got when I first went to college as a present. I am in no position to upgrade it due to the fact that: it works for what I _need_ it to do. However, it is too slow to rip CDs. So, I've used p2p apps to get files from CDs _that_I_own_. Note: the person put our 'too slow' of a computer as a way for p2p to have fair use.

    So, before you tell someone to RTFM, why don't you read the post that he made, and think about the point.

  12. Re:What I really don't like about the default blog on Essential Blogging · · Score: 1

    See, I completely disagree. I like to go to a page and just read whatever's on top to find out what's new. So, to each his or her own.

  13. Re:The Question is What Whould Happen if US Denied on First Commercial Moon Mission Approved · · Score: 1

    Except that it's an American company, and according to international treaty non-governmental space launches (i.e. companies) must get permission of the country that they are based in before launch.

    If it was a french company, they'd have to ask france. It's not some US government controlling the moon thing.

  14. Re:Mission Trailblazer ? on First Commercial Moon Mission Approved · · Score: 1

    And an NBA team

  15. Re:The Thoughtlessness of Dogma on Adobe Gets Hit By DMCA · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The term Free Market means a market Free of Government.

    I would say, instead, that the term Free Market means a market free of undue governmental influence. After all, a free society is not a society with no government, but again, is one free of undue governmental influence.

    Now, how much legislation does it take until governmental influence becomes 'undue?' That's the question that people (note: people, not companies) need to decide for their societies.

  16. Re:Power supply adapters and plugs... on Connectors: A History of Their Technology? · · Score: 1

    You don't see too many electric kettles or Toasters in the US (Do you even know what they are?)

    So... this thing that I call a toaster, something that takes bread and makes it brown and crispy is rare in the US. Even though I see one in almost every house, and there's a ton of different ones at small appliance stores. (or the also common 'toaster oven' which toasts or can bake small things)

    Or this other thing that I have in my kitchen. You put water in it and plug it in, and it heats up the water. We call it an eletric kettle, is that what you were thinking of? I have it from my days in the dorms...

  17. Re:Power supply adapters and plugs... on Connectors: A History of Their Technology? · · Score: 1

    Well, we have undgerground cables in places in Oregon. Makes digging anything a little more complicated, as you have to call ahead and have them mark your property (but you'd have to anyway for water and sewer, so they just send out one guy who marks water, sewer, phone, cable, electricity)

    And for people on the east coast, yes that means that we do have electricity, and running water! (you don't know how many times I've been asked that).

  18. Re:Power supply adapters and plugs... on Connectors: A History of Their Technology? · · Score: 1

    You can do it safely with an US plug too. Just don't touch the part that your mother told you not to touch when you were little. I don't want to think of how many times I've pluged and unpluged things, and I've never gotten so much as a jolt.

    Also, at 110V 60Hz, if you do make a mistake and get your finger in the wrong place, you get a small jolt, some pain, and a reminder about the future. It would take some more power or some prolonged exposure to get even an eletrical burn.

  19. Re:Netscapes Market Share Down to 3.4% on Netscape 7.0 is Out · · Score: 1
    I have created all of my websites to conform to standards. IE (even 6.0) can't get some very simple CSS right (like 'clear both'). It looks okay in IE, just not what I want. So, I say that most people could (and should) make things that look okay in IE, but perfect in a standards-compliant browser.


    Standards mean something!

  20. Re:Spell Checker for Mozilla on Netscape 7.0 is Out · · Score: 1
    Yes, I do check my spelling with a program which is known as a spell checker because computer types like to make things shorter so they type less. The program that checks spelling happens to have a weird name that you don't think would be logical, but that's too bad.


    Now, I wish that /. had a spell checker so I could check my spelling. (and none of this would be a problem if most modern (western) languages hadn't dropped the perfectly good case system...)

  21. Re:Backups are a non-issue. on JVC Announces Technology To Prevent Software Copying · · Score: 1
    It is NOT your choice what laws you are going to follow and which you are going to ignore.


    Many theologians have said that an unjust law is no law at all, because the nature of laws is to be just. So, according to the 1st admendment (freedom of religion), I don't have to follow unjust laws.

  22. Re:You don't need an arcade.... on A Beginner's Guide to the Dance Dance Phenomena · · Score: 1

    Did you check out the local university or community college? Around here, lessons could be had for about $50-$100 a term (10 weeks, 2 hours a week which is $2.50-$5/hour).

  23. Re:Gah on Sony Kills Betamax · · Score: 1

    I still remember having to go to the one small wall of Beta Videos in our local video store, when there where shelves and shelves of VHS. All the movies I wanted to watch were on VHS too...

  24. Re:Morons, Idiots, and Fools...Oh My! on Is Win2k + SP3 HIPAA Compliant? · · Score: 1
    MS can't get on a box if it's not conencted.


    Sure they can, they can come to the office and sit down to look at whatever they want. The EULA says that they can look at any part of your computer in any way at any time.

  25. Re:doubtful on How Could TV Survive Without Commercials? · · Score: 1
    You know, sometimes I just have to sit and relax and do nothing. Just watch TV. Sometimes I need to _stop_ thinking and just veg out. Being an Academic who spends all day using his brain means sometimes I need to stop.


    Of course, I still watch TLC and the History channel... (and sometimes my fiancee gets worried when I'm yelling at the History Channel telling them "No! do some research!")