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  1. Re:Lets use me.. on Violent Video Game Protection Act · · Score: 1

    did you father or whatever adult that taught you weaponry teach you the basics? Yes he did, I am very safe. The only thing I do not use is a safe, I keep my gun in a gun cover and it is leaning against the fileing cabinet next to my desk.
    I firmly believe that EVERY child when they get into 4th grade should be taught basic gun safety EXACTLY!!!

  2. Re:Lets use me.. on Violent Video Game Protection Act · · Score: 1

    I talk about killing the English teacher because I just turned in a 15 page Research essay, which she gave us very little time to do, and expected it to be perfect.

  3. Lets use me.. on Violent Video Game Protection Act · · Score: 1

    As an example.
    I'm 16 years old, I've played almost every violent computer game since Castle Wolfenstein (Which I played on my Brandnew 386 at the time :-)
    Lets make a short list of some of the games:
    Wolfenstein
    All the dooms
    all the quakes
    Max Payne
    Halflife/CS - my current addiction
    Vietnam: Black Ops
    The list can go on, I have a whole cd case full of nothing but them.
    I also own a gun, I own a .22 Remington Viper with a 4x 1" Scope, Semi-auto with a 10 round clip (I've seen 30's that would fit it). A very sweet little rifle. There is also two shotguns in the house. I know how a gun works, I can take a gun apart and clean it, I know not to point it at someone, and I'm an excellent shot. When shooting skeet, I generally get 9 out of 10.
    I also like to do Powerball Wars (using the ghetto .6mm BB berettas from Walmart), its extremly fun, I get to shot my friends, and they shoot back, and it hurts too. I haven't tried Paintball yet, but I'm going to get a gun soon.

    Ok, the point is, NONE OF THIS is going to cause me to want to shoot my friends, my school, or my parents. I may talk about it, I talk about shooting my english teacher all of the time, usually right in her class and within hearing range. My and some friends in English will spend the whole period discussing the best ways to assasinate her. But I never would, I have respect for guns.
    I believe that if schools where to make a 1 quarter out of the year Gun Respect class, it would solve a ton of problems. In this class, kids would be shown what happens when they kill someone, they would be taken to a jail and shown around. They should be shown slides of nasty head wounds, sucking chest wounds, and suicides. They should be taught safety, how to handel a knife, a bow, and yes kids, a gun. I think that if the children where taught gun safety, how to properly handle a gun, and yes, even how to safely shoot a gun for their own protection, it would cause the gun death rate to sharply decline. The gun is a tool, a killing tool. Many people who carry them (we shall call them "Homies"), don't know how to properly take care of and use a gun. They see the gun as a problem solving tool. I pull out a gun, the problem is solved. It is not, it is a tool with which to kill animals and to protect ones self.

  4. Re:Piracy? on What if Harry Potter 5 Was an E-Book? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I could tape Simpsons episodes aswell, but I don't, I pirate them.

  5. Re:First ever slashdotting of a phone number? on TuVox Voice Interface · · Score: 1

    Nope, there was the PRess 8 to hear a duck quack number about a year ago.

  6. Stupid CueCats on Slashback: Playstation, CueCat, Games · · Score: 1

    I could never get the thing to work right.
    It was almost impossible to get anything to scan.

  7. My original plan on Gifts for Valentine's Day, 2002? · · Score: 1

    was to run around school with a small plastic bow and some darts and act like a dumbass. But then I realized that I could probably get arrested for the bow part.

  8. FPS? on New Space Quest Game Under Development? · · Score: 1

    I hope its a first person shooter.
    Kind of like the new Red alert game that is coming out. I think it could easily be played in the format, or 2nd person, kind of like Heretic 2.

  9. Very very easy on Inexpensive Network Servers? · · Score: 1

    Go get an old pentium, with lots of harddrive space. USe freesco, a free linux router/ server project. There are addons such as samba, mail server, ftp server, ssh, all kinds of stuff.
    Check it out.
    www.freesco.org

  10. so.. on Berlin's Robotic Pub · · Score: 2, Funny

    What happens when you get to drunk?
    Do you get kicked out by a robotic Bouncer?

  11. Actually... on Algorithms for Motion Tracking? · · Score: 1

    I was considering using my webcam as a motion sensor. I do not know if it will work or not, but I was considering having it sound the alert if the .jpg changes by more than so many bytes.
    That way, if the structure of the picture changes, with more or less pixels of the same color, the .jpg size will change, therefore meaning something has happened.
    Will this work?

  12. Do what my neighborhood band did on Constructing a Home Recording Studio on a Small Budget? · · Score: 1

    Go buy 4-5 SB live's.
    Buy some mixing software and have fun.

  13. Ok, I have 100mbs cable... on Cringley On Bandwidth-Expanding Modulation Technology · · Score: 1

    But, does that do me any good if the ISP's line is to slow?
    I have roadrunner, which is basically a 11mbps connection to an OC3. Say I have 111mbps cable, that means there connection would have to be 10 times faster for it to do me any good, doesn't it??

  14. I would never pay on Pay to Play · · Score: 1

    Personally, if I shell out 40$ for a game,
    I'm not paying 11.95 or whatever a month, just to be able to play it against anything other than the AI.
    Hopefully other servers will come out for games like these, like Opennap for napster

  15. Re:slightly similar on Retro-Futuristic Computing · · Score: 1

    Hmmm, /me starts thinking...
    I may do this to my jeep,
    All you would have to do is reroute all of the switch wires, and I could mount a metal plate in my ceiling upholstry, and mount them to it.

  16. www.freelectric.com on News Media Scammed by 'Free Energy' Hoax · · Score: 1

    This guy also has an add in Popular scince
    Is it for real?
    Supposedly it uses Rare earth magnets to make a generator that powers your house.

  17. so... on Mega Public WAN In Sydney · · Score: 1

    does this mean we'll have a "million man wan" now?

  18. Would this help for my 486 lab? on QNX RtP 6.2 World Preview · · Score: 1

    I am the Co-director of my schools Technology Department. We have a whole lab of 486 33's with like 16 megs of Ram a piece. Windows 95 just sucks ass on them. And win 3.1 is not an option (We don't have the liceneses, and we don't have the money to spend on them).
    Would QNX be a viable option?
    All we need them for is to Internet surf and write essays, and be able to print to a Postscript Network Printer.
    Is this possible with QNX?
    Are the computers fast enough to run it? Is there enough Hardware support for them (I believe they all are either 486 ps/2s or Compaqs, and they all have 3com cards in them.)
    Thankyou

  19. On a side note... on Million Man LAN · · Score: 1

    I get to start a lan party club at school.
    I told the principal me and some friends want to play CounterStrike against each other, and if we could use the schools network. I told him we have our own computers, etc, etc.
    He said we could use school computers (some are 700mhz Athlons, so they would run it fine),
    and it gets counted as a Club, so I can actually put on my Resume or whatever that I'm the founder of my Schools Lan Party Club.

  20. Just one question? on Linux DVD Player on a Bootable CD? · · Score: 1, Funny

    Are you to cheap to buy an old 1gig harddrive?

  21. Myrealbox on SMTP-Friendly ISPs? · · Score: 1

    www.myrealbox.com will let you use their smtp port if you sign up for an account. And you can use it to send from a different account aswell.

  22. Freesco on Role Specific Distributions? · · Score: 1

    I use Freesco as my home server. It officially runs off a floppy, but you can install it on a Harddisk, and add more options to it.
    It runs a 1.8 kernel though, but its enough to get the Job done.
    DHCP, DNS, HTTP, Router, and many many more.

  23. Re:Big Cases. on Improving Computer Form Factors? · · Score: 1

    Amen Brother.
    I got 2 IBM 386 Ps/2 cases sitting next to me.
    They actually still have the old Harddrives aswell, which I plan on opening and using for a Chem2 project.
    They are made out of Solid Stainless steel, and I doubt you could hurt them even if you ran them over, many times, with my pickup. They have to weigh atleast 60lbs apiece, and are rather fun to play with.

  24. Re:The word is googol on The Ultimate S.U.V. · · Score: 1

    No, a google is a one followed by a hundred zeros

  25. Wait a sec.. on AOL/TW Plans for $230 Monthly Cable Bill · · Score: 1

    I pay 50$ right now for Basic Cable and RoadRunner in the Cincinati Area.
    Does this mean my cable bill is gonna go up?
    I'm sorry, but RoadRunner just isn't worth it.