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  1. Re:Forget RSS feeds. on Get RSS Feeds on Your Toilet Paper · · Score: 1

    Damn it, that was me. Stupid nicks that are the same except fopr 1 transposed letter....

  2. Re:guns illegal in Australia on Secretaries Sacked After Flamewar at Work · · Score: 1

    Semiauto's are illegal? Last time I checked, here in NZ semi's are legal. Maybe thats changed in the last few years (I havent been shooting for a while).
    Its odd really, if you are proficient with a bolt action you can shoot nearly as fast as you could with a semi....

  3. Re:My opinion (as one of 'those' folk) on Space Meat Coming to your Kitchen · · Score: 1

    >Male egg chicks are at least disposed of quickly ....

    The people that grow eggs, in order to obtain chicks to sell as either egg laying hens or meat producing chickens, dont know what sex the chick is /before/ the chick has hatched.
    Dont get me wrong, I find your whole post interesting (because you dont present your opinion in a rabid and unresonable fashion), but I thougt I should probably clear that part up.

    (P.S. leamas and I both have very similer passwords it seems. I may go change mine now....)

  4. Re:Meh. IMHO DRM helped kill this on Tapwave Closes its Doors · · Score: 1

    Yeah, well your DRM could be the best out there, but your description of it sounds like a pain in the arse. For everyone.

  5. Re:24mm square = 1" square. on World's Smallest MP3 Player · · Score: 1

    The difference is significant, but I am sure the GGP poster wouldnt appreciate it.

  6. Re:Well, to their credit on LA Times Pulls Wikitorial, Blames Slashdot · · Score: 1

    :)

    I can go on and on about this, I have thought about it a lot. How does one reconcile pain and damage? What does it mean to be damaged or in pain?

    I enjoy getting peirced, and its painfull. You can certainly not allow the pain to hurt you. I feel like I am mincing words here sorry. Anyway the pain happens, and you experiance it fully, but it doesnt worry you, it doesnt hurt you. Hell after a while, its quite enjoyable to feel these sensations without the downside of "damage".

    I think it would be difficult to wish away the hurt caused from a broken nose, when peirced you have time to prepare, and you get a new hole. But still, feeling bad beacuse someone called you ugly, or showed you a picture of a dead cute bunny is entirely under your control.
    I think people have a responsibility to the society they live in to have the mental strength to not lose it over a swear word. I am not saying they should be emotionless robots, and not feel compasion for the cute dead bunny :)

  7. Re:Well, to their credit on LA Times Pulls Wikitorial, Blames Slashdot · · Score: 1

    The pain may be just the way his brain interperates stimuli comming from the punched face, but the resulting broken nose is not his brains reaction to the stimuli.
    Physical assult is (usually) damaging no matter what you do, mental assult is only damaging if you let it be damaging.

  8. Re:Backwards compatable? on Sony's New DRM Technique · · Score: 1

    "DVD-A digital audio restorations"

    This is a straw man. If the audio has been "restored" then more work has been performed on it.

    As far as i am concerned, if I brought a licence to listen to Iron Maidens first album (self titled), then thats what I have got. I am not doing anything morally wrong with borrowing a friends copy on cd and ripping it, because my tape version is fucked. Its not my fault that the medium that the music is delivered on is fragile.

    It is morally dubious if I copied my friends cd of the remastered album.

  9. Re:Child pornography on Revamping Freenet · · Score: 1

    >You want to make it about absolute freedom of
    >speech? Limit it to just text files. No encoding of
    >binaries just text.

    So If i rape a child, then type up a document describing it, that would be okay by you? Its just an ascii text file after all....

    To write an acurate description of child rape, the author _has_ to rape a child. Otherwise, its just guess work. You can "guess" pictures to, I could take adult porn, and photoshop it to look like child porn if I so wished.

  10. Re:Obligatory Pac Man quote on Pac-Man Turns 25 · · Score: 1

    read "the electric coolaid acid test", and you'll find that rave's were started in the late 60's.

  11. Re:Windscreen? on Driver's-Seat Driving Game Controller · · Score: 1

    That usually sits near the velocimeter....

  12. Re:EMAIL ME IF YOU WANT THE FILE on Larry Page's Vision of the Future · · Score: 1

    jacob_briggs@paradise.net.nz

    Thanks heaps :)

  13. Re:Draconian business practices on Australian P2P Sites Disappear Overnight · · Score: 1

    Have you ever heard the phrase "hook, line and sinker"?? You could probably apply it to your post.... (I am a Kiwi)

  14. Re:Never attempt to turn off the ignition. on A Car With A Mind Of Its Own · · Score: 1

    you dont turn it all the way off, just into "aux" :)

  15. Re:It just keeps going... on Cell Phone Ringtones Give Music Industry Another Headache · · Score: 1

    My boss has a nice expensive cell phone. Great big screen etc.... I cant remember what is is, but his ring tone is "ring ring", like an old school rotary telephone. it sounds great, not all grating like normal cellphone rings

  16. i like them like that on Crawford Lambasts Overly Technical Approach To Games · · Score: 1

    I like my games to be fairly emotionless, i disagree that they are not works of art though. The art _is_ in the code. I prefer to inject my own emotion into a game, much like i like my music. emotionless. I'll decide how music makes me feel thank you very much.

  17. Re:There are other boundaries to push on Hardware Manufacturers Making PC Gaming Too Elite? · · Score: 1

    Half life _did_ have kick arse graphics for its time. High resolutions, skelatal animation.... My p 150 + voodoo 2 had a hard time....

  18. Re:patent on Sphere XP Makes GUI 3D · · Score: 1

    I forgot i posted this :) :

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=22367&cid=24 05 372

  19. patent on Sphere XP Makes GUI 3D · · Score: 1

    oh i wish i had patented this when i though of it 4 years ago >8)
    Wonder if he needs a hand, seeing as i was too lazy to implement it myself.

    Off-topic, but i wonder how many ideas are come up with independantly by people all over the world. I have had this thing happen a few times, think of something cool, dont act on it, 3 or 4 years later someone else implements it....

  20. 50 downloads on New Online Music Service For Australia · · Score: 1

    they had 50 downloads in the first day. They only have 2 supplyers, and only one will let you download. It dosent work right in firbird. Itunes is gonna shit all over it....

  21. old case new hardware on What's the Oldest Hardware You are Still Using? · · Score: 1

    ok the age difference wasnt to great but i had a k5 133 running in a comodore 486 sx case. The case was quite retro looking, big and square, and had a comodore ( C= ) badge on it, so it was kinda cool.
    I think a have an obsession with kick arse computer hardware, and old cases. My favorite mini itx case mod was one that was inside a snes here I quite like this one as the cdrom comes out where the cartridge went in.

    We have a sun sparc station 10 at work, i am dying to replace the insides with something x86 + linux. Of course i would never hurt any still functioning hardware, to much of a hoarder for that....

  22. i had the same problem on How Do You Get Work Done? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    i had the same problem at uni , i figured it out during my last year.
    wrt assignments , i found the sooner i started them the better the result , so on the same day as i got the assignment , i would start , knowing that i am only going to do 1/2 - 1 hour work on it. Then do 1/2 - 1 hour the next day , and so on. 1/2 - 1 hour isnt a long time so you dopnt procrastinate , and it gets you into the assignments groove (for lack of a better word). Befor i was doing all nighters , and procrastiniting till 11 pm!!! when the assignment was due the next day :) Just do little bits at a time , i garrantee you produce better results....

    (garrantee will not be honored)

  23. Re:The FBI on Russians Order Mobile Phone Encryption Removed · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "The session key used by the A5 cipher in the GSM standard is 64 bits. Interestingly, ten of those bits are not used."

    indeed , 10 of those bits were set to 0 by request of the American government , to allow easy decryption by unauthorised parties. 56 bit key is a hell of a lot easyer to decrypt than 64 bits.
    Also , you can buy mobile base stations for a few thousand usd. One of the examples shown to me worked by telling the phone it was in iraq/iran/somewhere else , the phone would not encrypte the call then. Something to do with not selling "weapons" to these countrys.

    All this was told to me by an ex-CIA agent friend of mine.

  24. Re:relapse on Adobe Still Ignores Elcomsoft-Discovered Holes · · Score: 1

    "well, I somehow agree with you but as I am French, I could also tell you they have some really valuable other aspects, like irony, self-criticism (what we call "remise en cause"), DIY, charm, good taste, humor and the ability not to feel outraged if somebody shout at them..."

    totally off topic , but every country has a "DIY" attitude , i mean in NZ we fix everything with number 8 wire buts its the same thing. Every nation thinks of itself as DIY , can do , ingenuity etc.... its rather odd

  25. Re:His mobile number 021 626 361 on CD Duplicator Refuses Linux Job, Citing MS Contract · · Score: 1

    nice one. I just txt'ed him then. No secretary will be "screening" those. go icq and its free sms to gsm phones (021 is vodafone , to txt try +6421 626 361). oh yeah.