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  1. Bad Analogy on Look Inside A PC-killing WIPO Treaty · · Score: 1

    As opposed to all that corruption free foreign policy that occurs at the nation-state level. Like when we invade a country and give out no bid contracts and have proposals for the country's infrastructure drafted by domestic corporations.

    Don't compare the UN to wall street, compare it to the US govt. or any govt for that matter. Suddenly it doesn't quite so bad.

  2. There is no reason on First Experiences with X.org's X11 Server? · · Score: 1

    Right now, there's no reason to switch.

    But, since the developers have reorganized you can expect X.org to add many features that XFree will not add in the future.

    Since they're nearly identical I'd wait off on it.

  3. You're an idiot and a dick on Microsoft Patents The Task List · · Score: 1

    Don't look at quotes out of context. Read one of the your child posts which showed this.

    You're a disingenuous asshole, or an asshole who was too lazy to look up the context.

    You owe slashdot an apology.

  4. Re:FSAA? on Quake III Gets Real Time Ray-Tracing Treatment · · Score: 1

    Ummmmmm, care to link to these games?

  5. Unless on Should Hardware Drivers be Region/Language Locked? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They didn't write the installer from scratch, and someone thought it'd be a good idea to check off english in the installer configs perhaps not knowing the ramifications for this. Very few programs have installers coded from scratch.

  6. Think about it on Yahoo Anti-Spy Favors Yahoo's Adware Partners? · · Score: 1

    But why is that option unchecked by default? Probably cuz of their partnership

  7. Re:You're an idiot on The World's Most Dangerous Password · · Score: 1

    Regardless, the point is that this information was known by a larger audience than it should have been.

    The likelihood of this posing any real danger is slim, but this is a situation where that slim chance is one that should be negated.

  8. You're an idiot on The World's Most Dangerous Password · · Score: 3, Insightful

    As long as everyone outside the department thought it had a good password on it, no one would bother trying to steal one.

    So, the passwords were surprisingly effective. FUD at its finest ;)


    The fact that everyone in SAC knew them means that if a terrorist had gotten to a low level in position in SAC he would have known the codes. At this point your detterent is useless. If the code was distributed on a proper need to know basis then this wouldn't be possible.

    This isn't fud, mcnamara himself was outraged, those locks were there for a damn good reason. That password should NOT be available to everyone in SAC regardless their security clearance. It is should be strictly need to know.
  9. Re:IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT on California Senate Passes Preemptive Strike Against Gmail · · Score: 1

    I call our state govt. a steaming pile of shit.

    Surely you've expressed your concerns via more appropriate channels than /. too, right?


    Yeah, I'm gonna blow everyone in the state senate away like in that mel gibson remake of Mr. Smith.
  10. IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT on California Senate Passes Preemptive Strike Against Gmail · · Score: 4, Funny

    IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT DON'T USE IT.

    This isn't an OS, it's email. I'll start to worry the day google implements GMTP (google mail transport protocol) until then, as a californian, I call our state govt. a steaming pile of shit.

  11. And of course MS funds it on More Responses to de Tocqueville Hatchet Job · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Microsoft in the past has supplied funding for the institution, which has published anti-open-source papers. In an eWEEK.com interview, senior fellow Gregory Fossedal refused to say who, if anyone, is sponsoring the institution's Linux project. "We don't discuss our funding," he said.


    From here
  12. I Think on BYU Project to Silence Computer Fans · · Score: 1

    I think it's just my fan readings that are off. My computer is dead quiet when that CPU fan is throttled to 50 (i bought all quiet other components). Still, I'd like to run that fan at full RPM for XviD encoding. I can't do that on a hot summer day without throttling it up.

  13. Re:Yes, much simpler than.. on BYU Project to Silence Computer Fans · · Score: 1

    is that a bad reading? Maybe motherboard monitor isn't giving me the proper specs. At any rate, with the fan at 100 it's loud.

    Oh, and i'm cooling a 2600 barton OCed to 3000 with an SLK947U. It throttles up to taht full speed on a hot summer day while encoding DVDs, otherwise it runs at 50%.

  14. Re:Yes, much simpler than.. on BYU Project to Silence Computer Fans · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ummm, I bought nice fans, and they still make noise when turned up. What's your point? Running a 92mm fan at 6000RPM is gauranteed to make noise. No matter how much you pay for it. Fans just aren't that quiet.

  15. I used to work out on Weight Loss through Dance Dance Revolution? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I used to work out, then I stopped out of laziness but kept playing DDR frequently. My legs, abs and a good bit of my torso actually got in BETTER shape as a result. My upper body has declined, but everything else is great. I just started working with a personal trainer and she was amazed how well DDR kept the rest of me in shape. Oh, stop playing if it starts to hurt, good tip :-D.

  16. Think of it this way on Best Results From Bartering Computer Services? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That shirt is a big fuck you to the world. If you want to say fuck you to people who -DEMAND- they help you then by all means go ahead. I'm just saying that the shirt in question makes you seem like a dickhead to everyone, even the nice people. That shirt makes it seem like even asking is wrong. It reeks of snobbery, and anger. That is the message it sends.

  17. well on Best Results From Bartering Computer Services? · · Score: 1

    Feel free to replace busy with whatever reasonable excuse. "I'd really rather not, I fix PCs all day and I just can't handle any more of that work during off hours" is perfectly understandable.

  18. People on Best Results From Bartering Computer Services? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    People like people who like them. This shirt says that the world pisses me off, and you're part of that world. Therefore, i'm pissed off at idiots like you who can't tell that my time is too precious to spend fixing your broken PC.

    If you're too busy to fix someone's PC just tell them so, nicely.

    That's respecting yourself, AND others. (ok that sounds like an after school special but it's true).

  19. anyone on Best Results From Bartering Computer Services? · · Score: 4, Funny

    anyone wearing that shirt rightly deserves the social ostracization that will ensue.

  20. No need for an index on Efficiently Reading ID3v2 Tags Over HTTP? · · Score: 1

    Just read chunks of teh end of the file until you start hitting mp3 data. You'll waste some bandwidth, but if you choose appropriately sized chunks, you should be fine.

  21. Ummmmmm on Safari Falls Victim to Remote Code Exploit · · Score: 2, Interesting

    can someone please explain how this exploit made it into the browser. This seems so blindingly obvious. In fact, this seems like intended behavior.

  22. Not even close to green on China's New Craze: E-bikes · · Score: 1

    If you need to charge a battery it isn't green. One of china's many polluting power plants is really powering your bike.

  23. Re:Hierarchies don't work for me on Bloggers Assail Movable Type's New Pricing Scheme · · Score: 1

    ah, but, what if I want

    foo.com/dogs/humour
    foo.com/politics/humour
    fo o.com/humour

    where foo.com/humour outputs all stories labeled as humour and which are in the above 2 directories.

  24. As a CMS on Bloggers Assail Movable Type's New Pricing Scheme · · Score: 1

    It's more CMS-like than a normal blog, but it's no CMF+CMS. For a magazine, I'd really go with something like zope/plone or another full fledged CMF/CMS solution.

  25. Hierarchies don't work for me on Bloggers Assail Movable Type's New Pricing Scheme · · Score: 1

    I like the ideas of categories, but not hierarchies per se. I can file a piece under art & politics or art & me for instance. You can't comfortably do that in a hierarchy. That said, I wish Txp let you use more than two categories.