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  1. Re:Left Handed on New Thinkpad To Combine Pen/Paper · · Score: 1

    Any one that read the original post woul notice that the poster said that he was left handed BUT the rest of his family wasn't. So a left hand only computer wouldn't work for him.

    But in my opinion laptops are kind of personal computers and in this point of view having two models are enougth.
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    "take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes"

  2. Re:Hello - encryption, not huge files on "D-VHS": Will it replace DVD? · · Score: 1

    What you're forgetting that you must decompress the video to be able to watch. how long do you think someone will carck a D-VHS player and read the roms to try to reverse engenier the encription? All you need is one player with a digital output.
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    "take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes"

  3. Re:Obviously the screenshots aren't very special.. on GTK+ without X! · · Score: 1
    Off course you can doctor screen-shots, but if you are assuming this how would you trust that those are not 'X' screen-shots doctored? This would be even easier then to add anti-alias.


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    "take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes"

  4. Re:it's the content that matters, and ONLY content on Buffer Overflow In All Shockwave Players · · Score: 1
    A good site does not mean a bad marketing site. The click here does not bother me at all. Many of the items in the original list are ok. But I do think that a site must be good looking.

    The web is filled with unexperienced users, and guess what, they have as much right to use it as we (geeks, hackers and computer literade). And it is all right to have sites made for them. I just want to be able to see any site I visit without having security problems.

    Flash is a very nice idea, too bad that is not "realy" open and it so badly implemented. SWF is much lighter then gifs, and very good to create animation files. This is realy serious security risk to have flash installed now, and at least for me this is bad news. :-/ Please wake up macromedia.
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    "take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes"

  5. Steril genetic plants on Golden Rice · · Score: 1
    The fact that genetic altered plants are usualy not fertil is more then just make the farmers buy the seeds again and again. Since there is no clear knowledge of the long term efects of adding genes to this or that specimen they are made steril so you can "control" the reproduction of an altered beign. (do you recall jurassic park?)

    Of course that this also fits like a glove to the industries that produce those seeds. :-)
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    "take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes"

  6. Re:Disturbing Trend on Unmanned (But Armed) Aircraft Experiments In 2001 · · Score: 1


    I'm sorry in advance to all of you americans in advance but that is the single thing that I HATE about the US. Your press and your goverment says that all you want is to battle for freedom. But you can't see that you're actualy imposing you freedom, your way to other. Some of the american values are good and even welcome to some, but there are other values that are simply not aceptable to others.

    Think of this like a DMCA or something, that is being putted down your trhoats. If the women in mussulman countries like to use weird clothes who am I to question them? If the Chile citzens love their ex-dictator, who am I to question them?

    In most of the time americans like to think they are police of the world, but in fact you're trying to be the dictator of the world. Who elected the US to be the police of the world? Who said that your ways are better then everyone else?

    Well I will finish here, because I think I made my point. I hope you don't think this is as flame-bait because it's not, and I actualy love a lot of the things that you americans produce, mainly in the entretainment area. :-)


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    "take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes"

  7. Re:From election official on eLection '04 · · Score: 1
    I am a brasilian my self and did vote on the election described above. :-)

    The reasons you mentioned are actualy quite good. But here in brasil we have one small diference from the USA, corruput people here does not goes to jail. If you create a project to a eletronic voting booth that will costs millions of dolars, the people behind the project are likely geting a few percents of those millions. So the more you expend the better. :-/

    Corruption aside I think that a single procedure to vote is good, in the sense that makes thinks easier and even cheaper. Here in brasil we have advertising campains to "teach" the people how to vote, and even how not to vote. Since in Brasil you HAVE to vote, there is a option to vote in blank and other to nullify you vote, both of this are considered a bad pratice, I don't agree. But the point is that those campains are made once for the hole nation.

    The worst part of voting in Brasil is that the hole process is a big black box. Who programed those voting booths machines? What is the hardware in there? Where is the source code? Where are the schematics? How can I be shure that my vote is even counting??? The answer is simply I don't know. All the process of voting should be compleatly open-source so people could review the process. Even if I didn't know how to review the process I am very shure that every candidate would have people reviewing it for them.


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    "take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes"

  8. Re:Violence, the real story. on Interview With Gary Gygax About Game Violence · · Score: 1


    I don't agree with you. I don't think that TV violence desensitizes you more then computer games. In TV, and I would say mainly in the news when you know that the violence is real, you are watching real people suffering and applying violence. This would be an awful vision so you simply create a "wall" to block your feelings from that. The more you can relate to the subject of the violence the more you suffer.

    It's very simple to test this, what kind of animal would you fell more petty when you watch it suffering, a dog or a cockroach, a cat or a fish, a monkey or a spider? You can relate more to the animal that have faces because they are more "human" then the ones that don't.

    Computer games, in my humble opinion, are more like a violence attenuation. You fell pissed off with something you go then and play quake for a few moments and get that stress out of your system. There you have all the power to blow up any of the terrible pixmaps monster or players you see. It is the same with sports, mainly the openly violent ones like American football, people don't get more violent just because they play a violent game.

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    "take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes"

  9. patent for the habit of posting the first one. on Enter The 'Stupid Patent Tricks' Contest · · Score: 1



    A simple way to get atention to your person by posting a reply to a story in a popular web news site that allows commenting before everyone else. By the use of an agent, being this agent biological or logical in nature, to monitor the arrival of new material in the refered internet site.

    too bad this isn't the first post. :-)


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    "take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes"

  10. Why the criticism? on Skiing Down Everest · · Score: 2

    I don't see why so many people complaning about this story. For me is one of the best ones in a long time. Not that the other weren't good, they were, but this is diferent from the usual stuff the we re read here.

    Just consider the fact that this story doesen't have any of the usual slashwords attached to it (:cuecat, echelon, linux, windows, NSA, DVD e etc). Isn't this great? :-)


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    "take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes"

  11. Carnivore or not, use encription. on Stacked Carnivore Review Team · · Score: 1


    The carnivore is just a road sign thet sais that whatever you send/receive from the internet is unsecure. This is for me just another billboard that says that everyone must use encription.

    I don't know if the NSA or the FBI have the computer power to unencript messages (I am very shure that they wouldn't say if they had it), but it would be impossible to unencript all of them. It would even more impossible to perform searchs in all of the encripted trafic.

    Bottom line, use encription, pgp, smime, https, what-ever. Protect your privicy. Remember that they are watching not only americans citzens, but potentialy they would watch a great percentage of the world citzens that comunicates passing throught routers in the US. And this is unaceptable. Imagine how would you feel if your email to your frient in france would be monitore by the UK govern?


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    "take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes"

  12. Re:2.4 upgradability on What's Coming In Red Hat 7.0 · · Score: 1


    This PC99 is extremely windows oriented. It seems to be made for fitting windows perfectly.
    It even says that remote control should suport a "windows" key to pop-up the start menu.

    :-P

    My question is, is this a real standard or this PC99 is only a intel recomendation, that no one will listen?


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    "take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"

  13. Re:Sorry to burst the bubble... on Can One Electron Hold Infinite Data? · · Score: 2


    Have you rad the article? In what I understood of the article, it says that with a lazer the scientist induces a wave into the elctron, and then it's possible to read the wave stored in the atom.

    The infinity of bits encoded would be stored in the time dimension, witch is infinity as long as I know. Then is want to store more data you just have to wait more to store it. It is something like a endless backup tape.

    Things I don't know is do we have to wait for a specific point in time to start reading? Is there a limitation in the wave length, probably yes, for the reason above (it's a quantic value)? Does it run on linux?

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    "take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"

  14. Re:How do the record companies GET the copyright? on Courtney Love Sues for Her Share · · Score: 1
    hings like Napster could shut down BMI and Sony and Universal and Time Warner forever, because Napster cuts them out of the artist/fan loop altogether.

    Man you took the words out of my mouth. It's very easy to see that if napster doing something to the record companies is helping them to sell, just see the cd selling figures they released. Napster when used with copyrighted is pure free marketing.

    What worries the record companies is not being able to choose witch "Britney" or "n'sinc" you will listen. They are not afraid of losing money, they are afraid of losing POWER.
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    "take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"

  15. Re:yahoo users affect google (Duh!) on Google Propping Up Yahoo In Search Results? · · Score: 1

    Good for geeks of course. If you attend one type of people mostly is easier to do it very well. :-)
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    "take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"

  16. Some things should be hard on Are Computers Getting Too Easy To Use? · · Score: 1


    I do believe that some things, mainly related to configure servers and the security of workstatins and even more things. Should be hard to do.

    Why? Because those are indeed hard things, that when you make them "easy", you are actualy hidding steps, droping less used options or even assuming important decisions or even hidding the function. All those things are simply making things harder in the end, and should be avoided.

    In resume if something is hard to do, don't try to create a easy to use tool to make it look like an easy task.


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    "take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"

  17. Re:FLAMEBAIT??? on Hackers And Mysticism? · · Score: 1

    I realy think you're missing the point here. Respect anopther religion is to let people believe in what they want and not harrest them because of it.

    This is a realy dificult for a /.er, even for me, because we are used to study somthing to make out the problems and solutions of this or that product or something. Ask any /.er why they like/dislike something and they will give you 1000 reasons.

    Reason is the problem here, religion is based on faith. You believe that something is that way and that is truth, you don't have to get a proof because you have faith.

    This may seem "wrong" for a scientific minded person (including me). But belive me it's not and that is the reason we must respect other religions, because we don't understand them.

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    "take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"

  18. Re:This is good on Capture The Capture The Flag · · Score: 1


    I couldn't agree more. This behaviour never cease to amaze me. People get realy mad when they buy a defective VCR or a car that after two day won't work. When those things happen they usualy return the product and when personal security is involved (in the case of cars) they can even sue the company that made the car.

    Now if the product in question is software it can have as many defects that no one will even think of returning it. People simply think that "computer are complicated, I must have done somthing wrong" and keep using the defective software.

    If some company looses a lot of money because, let's say a car didn't work as it should I am shure that this company will sue the car maker for it's losses. The hole in the wall OS have made many companies loose a lot of money due to security bugs (not counting the time lost in reboots and work lost due to crashes) how many have sued? The most they do is to go after the cracker that created the exploit/viruses to lock him up.


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    "take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"

  19. Re:Slowly morphing into Windows... on Helix Code's Red Carpet Simplifies Package Updates · · Score: 1


    1st. this tool will not update your computer behind your back, you start and choose what packages to update yourself.

    2nd every RPM package (I assume that debs have this also) can have a digital signature that can ensure that this package was indeed packaged by helix and not by a malicious cracker.

    3rd helix or any other gnome developer gains anything but bad reputation in diasbling KDE or any other software from your computer. All of those softwares are open-source and GPL, if any one tryes to disable KDE or anything else, I don't give a day to this "feature" be forever disabled.

    4th if you realy like the way linux is now, please keep using it this way. Linux is all about choice, and I belive that making tool that would make people, that are now using windows, confortable with linux is a +.

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    "take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"

  20. What about unlawful use? on Armed Robot Guards - Sorta · · Score: 1

    Imagine the following a robot enter a bank and says in a sintetised voice. "Everybody on the floor, this is an assault", while it shoots in the direction of ceiling.

    "please put all the money on this bag", and then it leaves. All of this was done via internet throw a stolen acount in local university.

    The robot then teleports itself... ops I think I am a little bit off here, he he he :-)

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    "take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"

  21. International laws on Ask The DeCSS Legal Team · · Score: 2

    My question is actualy two related questions.

    How does in you point of view does this case interfeeres with other countries? I ask this because the USA is known to use economic bully startegies to force other contries to agree with patents and stuff (I know that this was the case for medicines here in Brasil, for instance).

    I live in Brasil, but as much as anyone else would like to watch DVDs in linux. Do you think that we here can develop a player, or the developer would be tagged as terrorist (as some people who sent prank emails with threats to the white house) and would never be allowed to set foot in the USA?


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    "take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"

  22. Re:Even without mp3's I STILL would not buy albums on Prince Gets Wordy About Napster · · Score: 1
    There are plenty of ways for sucess musicians to make money, even if their music were absutely free. Let me enlighten you.

    live shows, these ten be even more pricely than CDs and you have top pay for every one you go.

    Artist could have sponors, just like some some sports players have now. (and this do not mean selling his music to them, just using their logos in public apperances)

    Seling their image. comercial are a very lucrative for celebritys.

    Creating music "for hire" to movies or comercial. Off course not every music would like to do this, but it can done right?

    And I am not even counting the new ways, that are either being experimented (like the stephen king new book) or were not yet invented.
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    "take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"

  23. Re:this is for 3D not 2D on Tighter Video Compression With Wavelets · · Score: 1

    Mpegs are 2d + time witch gives you 3 dimensions.
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    "take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"

  24. Re:Can't get corporate pop culture w/o corporation on Napster Aftermath: Fan Vs. Corporate Rights · · Score: 1
    But if one of these bands was promoted and hyped as being underground and pushed into rotation on MTV, then it would enter pop culture and people would be clamoring to hear them.

    This is one of the reasons that RIAA and midia corporations are in no danger at all. Our society is used to have a "midia father" that tell us what we suposed to like or not. (please don't think I am talking about you, I am talking generaly about average person that linstens to what ever is on MTV or something)

    The artists benefit from this? Yes and no, the few that get contracts and fame shurely does. But thosands of other don't get so lucky, but they dream about it every noght. :-)

    Does the fans benefit from this? I don't know, but if you would ask my opinion I would have to say no. The artists that are choosen for sucess, except in rare ocasions, are not selected by merit but by marketability, and with the possibility of digitaly tune a voice they don't even need to know how to sing. :-/

    MP3 and internet are here to change all that? Wait and see. There must thousands of unknown musicians that are making their songs available, but I never heard of a single one that could make himself visible. Downloading a MP3 takes a lot of time for most people, and many people would not download something that they don't know.


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    "take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"

  25. Re:Turning off napster = more bandwidth for us on Compressed Beyond Recognition: An MP3 Compendium · · Score: 1


    If you feel that your bandwidth is being wasted please setup a firwall to stop napster, is not fair to thank this ban on everyone just because your bandwidth is being wasted.


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    "take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabitt hole goes"