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  1. Re:Hardware Costs. on Bridging the Digital Divide with Linux · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    What a fucking commie!

    Posted at +1 cause I care!

  2. Re:Fair use on Philips Says Compact Discs Can't be Copyprotected · · Score: 1

    I meant to say. as long as it "isn't" just a straight copy from one cd.

  3. Re:Fair use on Philips Says Compact Discs Can't be Copyprotected · · Score: 1

    Nope, fair use in music is law. There is a small tax on all audio media, in trade for a law that says you have the right to make personal copies. (you even have the right to make compilation disc you give to friends, as long as is its just a straight copy from one cd and you don't sell it in any way, this is the major argument point in the napster case weither sharing copies online is just giving it to friends, even though you may not know these people, but the fact that napster made money is what really destroyed the case.

  4. Re:how's this for a solution? on RMS: Putting an End to Word Attachments · · Score: 2

    Hell yea it can do tables, in fact I have a table that needs to have automatic changes (mainly the dates) on it weekly, you can actually grep sed rtf documents for said text and update them through a script, its freaken sweet.

  5. Re:Democracy IS mob rule on Slashback: Squashing, N'Synch, Yopy · · Score: 2

    Mob rule almost always turns into a ditatorship read your history.

  6. Re:main dilemma? on Orbiting Lasers for Hydrogen Power · · Score: 2

    No thats chemical energy. You don't actually lose mass in burning something. Nuclear energy causes a small mass lose. As well as the sun does. If you could turn atoms straight into their energy equivilent. You would have a lot of energy. E=MC^2
    1 gram of matter turned into energy would yield
    1*(3*10^8)^2=30000000000000000. I believe that measure is in Joules, anyone care to correct me on that?

  7. Re:OK, let's kill soldiers instead. on The Drone War · · Score: 2

    Dude, compare civilian casualties in WWII or previous wars to this one, before you start talking. Hell it wasn't even considered a bad thing to kill civilians till after WWII, and even then in wars preceiding the gulf war, Vietnam for example, civilian casualties were too high for us to ever have any idea as to the numbers.

  8. Re:main dilemma? on Orbiting Lasers for Hydrogen Power · · Score: 2

    Of course, E=MC^2, matter can be turned into energy, therfor generating energy. Now a practical way to do this? Umm would you like to buy some motorcycle doors?

  9. Re:Proprietary Eponyms on SuSE No Longer Barred From Selling · · Score: 2, Informative

    Aspirin, as well as Heroin (that is also on the list) were developed by a german company Bayer (yes Bayer is german) its talked about shortly at http://www.aspirin.com/faq_en.html
    but basically When Germany lost WWII America decided it really likes those products and took them. Sadly it was discovered Heroin wasn't safe, and the both markets discontinued productions. Oh well :)HAHA

  10. Re:Interesting work, from a technical aspect on Michael Robertson Interview about Lindows · · Score: 1

    Well 97 had absolutly no XP filters. People are currently working on and have pretty much created Office XP filters for openoffice and possibly Koffice.

  11. Re:intel or motorola on Search for Terrestrial Intelligence · · Score: 2

    Yes, we know your pumped about your "new" article. But seriously, your article was only vaguly on the same topic. Don't stretch it.

  12. Re:I'm still rooting for RealNetworks on TiVo To Support RealNetwork Formats · · Score: 1

    Well apple looks like its starting to get off its ass and market quicktime. If they can do it well and develop for linux, they could be a real force.

  13. Re:how can this be? on ZeoSync Makes Claim of Compression Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    Ok, can't resist saying this as you already know this, but perl code rarly has more than the typical typeable characters (94 I think) while you can store 256 characters in each byte. So simple exansion of the character set, is always possible in human readable text. But we all already knew that.

  14. Re:Time for a new law of information theory? on ZeoSync Makes Claim of Compression Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    1 to 2 odd is 50 50 1 to 1 odd means you just get your money back.

  15. Re:Mount on wall on New iMac Announced · · Score: 1

    Was asking what you meant by the D no longer stands for anything?

  16. Re:Mount on wall on New iMac Announced · · Score: 2

    Explain?

  17. Re:Warcraft 3? on Wired Releases Annual Vaporware List · · Score: 1

    Well its back up now, only for me to find the registration REQUIRES IE with ActiveX. Mainly because they an activeX control you give permission to, in order to find out the exact specs on your system.

  18. Re:Who's liable for AC? on Courts Begin To Frown On Online Badmouthing · · Score: 2, Funny
    because no one, not even Intel, says that we was lying.

    HA so it was you! FOOL!

  19. Re:3G phones on Wired Releases Annual Vaporware List · · Score: 2

    Well that depends upon how smart the caps they put on it are. If everyone slows down at a constant rate, at worse it will be equal toe the 56K we have now. Either way, believe it or not, not everybody is going to rush out and buy 3G phones, because not everybody needs one.
    BTW, does anyone know if current sprint 56K have an SMTP I can't seem to find it, and their tech support doesn't know.

  20. Re:No semantic web in 2002, maybe by 2004 on Cringely's 2002 Predictions · · Score: 2

    Can you please definate what exactly you mean by the semantic web?
    Sounds like buzzword to me.

  21. Re:ding ding ding ding ding (silly postersubj) on Cornell University Sues Hewlett Packard · · Score: 1

    Universities are so large, such an assumption would be stupid. That would be like Microsoft refusing the hire any California residence, because it is currently involved with a suit against that state.

  22. Re:Understands 'Fair-use' on Is CD Copy Protection Illegal? · · Score: 1

    What did I get? I'm confused? Anyways I stand by my words, and btw, as you obviously wouldn't know better you have a select to not get the +1 you get it automatically, but I usually don't bother. But I can't remember the last time I've had to post anonymously, because I have nothing to hide.

  23. Re:Understands 'Fair-use' on Is CD Copy Protection Illegal? · · Score: 2

    You dislike the entertainment industry, and how much money has it given you this year? Nothing? Your argument is a false assessment of the truth, and you know it :)

  24. Re:Good luck. on Email Clients with Encrypted Archives? · · Score: 1

    Thats, not what I meant. I meant it more as an observation to the fact that 3 AM EST postings rarly get many comments, expecially Ask Slashdot postings. Just an observation, sorry I wasn't clear enough.

  25. Good luck. on Email Clients with Encrypted Archives? · · Score: 1

    This article was posted in the middle of the night. Good luck getting any answers. BTW reading your comment inspired me to file that as a feature request on bugzilla for mozilla. So maybe mozilla will have it one day. But as for good email programs that have that now, I don't know, but I'm sure you could find something.