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  1. Re:Just like deCSS on MS DRM Version 2 - Cracked · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    The author has remained anonymous! No DMCA prosecutions here, assuming she has covered her tracks properly.

    Why do you assume the author is female? As a member of the oppressed, much-maligned male minority, I find this most offensive.

  2. "working" examples on Exegesis 3 Released (Perl 6 Examples) · · Score: 3, Funny
    His article gives working Perl 6 code examples...

    How can these be working examples when Perl 6 does not even exist yet?

  3. Focus on ICANN Meeting off to Shaky Start in Uruguay · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Am I the only one who cannot take this so-called "digital divide" seriously when we live in a world where millions of children die each year simply because they don't have access to basic foodstuffs and medical supplies? And meanwhile, millions of Westerners celebrate their affluence by entering the ranks of the medically obese!

    Let's concentrate on what really matters.

  4. Propaganda on NSA, The Technology Future, and Where It Is · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Clearly this is a whitewash, designed to lull the public into complacency. The NSA is a highly-honed machine, and the American public are the victims of a massive hoax.

    Spread the word!

  5. Slashdot caught on the hop again; fillum at eleven on Alan Cox Resigns USENIX Post Over DMCA Arrest · · Score: 5
    This was covered on LWN Daily on Friday: http://lwn.net/daily/alan-quits-als.php3; not only that, but they posted Jon "maddog" Hall's response: http://lwn.net/daily/maddog-responds.php3. Where was Slashdot when all this was happening? Blithering about some idiot game company no-one gives a flying fuck about.

    Great reporting, guys.

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  6. This is a disaster on User-friendly Freenet · · Score: 2

    Why the fuck do we want FreeNet to be easy to use? If it's easy to use, all the Windows goobers will just clog it up with shit, e.g. MP3s and pr0n, and all the useful stuff, i.e. The Anarchists's Cookbook, Pigdog Journal and the Linux-Elitists mailing list archives will all fall out! GAR GAR GAR!

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  7. Why so surprised? on XBox Screenshot Flim-Flammery? · · Score: 2

    Put down those eyebrows, Milhouse. And the other one.

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  8. Re:A Commercial Version of Debian on Progeny Debian Release Candidate 1 · · Score: 5
    The whole point of Debian is that it's not commercialized.

    Actually, the whole point of Debian is that it doesn't suck.

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  9. Not Encryption on AIMster Uses Pig Latin Encryption to Defeat RIAA · · Score: 2

    Since this is just a simple transformation and no key is required to undo it, it is not encryption, and thus probably not covered by the DMCA.

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  10. You have all missed a vital point on Project Yourself On Mr. Toad's Wild Ride · · Score: 2

    You should all be made aware that the status is that Rob Levin needs to get a life.

    Thank you for your kind attention.

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  11. Re:This is Sega just being Sega on Sega Confirms Death of Dreamcast · · Score: 2
    Sega also promised a convertor to play Master System games on the genesis, but I never saw one in a store in my area.

    I saw one of those for sale in a shop here (in Ireland) years ago. It was never bought, probably because the Genesis and SNES were the first generation of consoles to really become popular; no-one had any Master System games to run.

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  12. Re:Correction on FASA Dies · · Score: 2
    Hey, I was typing fast. Spelling Nazi's allways take the fun out of life.

    That should be "Nazis", not "Nazi's".

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  13. Correction on FASA Dies · · Score: 2

    I see l33t sed syntax is considered "lame"...

    It should be "reins", not "reigns".

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  14. Re:Your .sig on Linux 2.4.0-prerelease is Released · · Score: 2
    Translation: I have no intellectual property of any value, but I want everyone else to give theirs to me.

    Correct Translation: The whole concept of "intellectual property" is damaging to humanity as a whole and should be done away with.

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  15. Not vapourware. on Is Freenet Vapourware? Ian Clarke Responds · · Score: 2

    There is working code available. There are even Debian packages available.

    So, piss off.

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  16. You can still be saved! on Ask An Ordinary Teenage Slashdot User · · Score: 2

    Get out while you still can, kid! Throw out the computer! Play sport! GET SOME FRESH AIR!

    If you don't do that, at least join Crackmonkey. You know it makes sense.



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  17. Re:XFree86 Debs from additional apt source lines on XFree 4.0 Moves into Woody · · Score: 2

    You can do that in one step using dpkg --divert --rename.

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  18. Re:Say goodbye to Sega on Sega to Shifts Focus To Software · · Score: 2
    Acorn went back to hardware, changed their name to ARM and are doing just fine.

    Wrong.

    ARM was a 1/3-each joint venture between Apple, Acorn and VLSI, started sometime in the early nineties. As far as I am aware, ARM still lives, but I don't know who owns it.

    Acorn is dead.

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    "Where, where is the town? Now, it's nothing but flowers!"

  19. Say goodbye to Sega on Sega to Shifts Focus To Software · · Score: 4

    Every company that ever did a shift from hardware to software either got eaten, died or is on life support:

    • NeXT (some argue that NeXT ate Apple from the inside out, though)
    • Be (on a respirator)
    • Acorn (if you don't know who they are, shame on you!)
    • Apple (Okay, an exception; they backtracked).
    • Microsoft (no, wait... this isn't right)


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  20. Re:The apostrophe shortage is long-since over on NESs 15th Anniversary · · Score: 2

    Actually, this is Slashdot. The Internet is just over there; exit the alley and turn left.

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  21. Re:babel on Linus Speaks With c't On Clean Design And ReiserFS · · Score: 2
    Given a German to English translation, what the hell is a French word doing in there?

    I was slightly inaccurate in my original post. "Email" is a French word meaning a kind of enamelling that migrated to English. I can only conclude that English is not the only language the word migrated to.

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  22. Re:The apostrophe shortage is long-since over on NESs 15th Anniversary · · Score: 2

    Normally yes, but since NES is an abbreviation for Nintendo Enterainment System, perhaps NES's is better?

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  23. The apostrophe shortage is long-since over on NESs 15th Anniversary · · Score: 2

    In the context of this headline, it's "NES's", not "NESs".

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  24. Re:babel on Linus Speaks With c't On Clean Design And ReiserFS · · Score: 3

    If had been written "e-mail", the word would have been translated correctly. The word "email", however, is a French word that refers to a type of enamel. The translation is spot-on.

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  25. Re:Some do different things on Merits Of The Different Journaling Filesystems? · · Score: 2
    Sounds like a clock hog

    The key word here is background. A defragmentation process running with a low priority that flushes its changes to disk regularly will not affect applications running at normal priority. Of course, if you're burning a CD or something, you will have the option of turning it off temporarily.

    As an aside, the Indexing Service on Windows 2000 isn't bad. The original version was written by one of these people.

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