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  1. "sexual orgy"???? on FCC Levies Record Indecency Fine · · Score: 1

    is there another kind of orgy? why the extra adjective?

  2. Re:DON'T SLEEP WITH THEM? on Three-Dimensional Structure of HIV Revealed · · Score: 1

    works great in the us. won't work in africa where a woman's philandering and infected husband won't take no for an answer in the bedroom.

  3. get 'em for something on Lawmakers Try to Protect Kids From Spam · · Score: 1

    we got capone on tax evasion, and it worked out great. if all we can get spammers on is corruption of minors, i'll go for it too. just put them all in the clink for a good long visit with bubba.

  4. Re:Actually we have Gorelick et al to thank on NSA Wiretapping Whistleblower · · Score: 1

    Did you know about the bigger than 9/11 plot related arrests in Italy?

    you mean the illegal abductions the us carried out on foreign soil?
    BBC - Italy seeks 'CIA kidnap agents'

  5. what is art on 'Games Are Not Art' - The Fault of Game Journalists · · Score: 1

    you can't difinitively say that games is an artform until you decide what is art. so i think this is a stupid line of questioning.

    art is art when someone important says so.
    art is art when i say so.
    art is art when i like it.
    art is art when someone important likes it.
    art is art as long as it's done by an artist. ...

  6. lawyers are finding a new costumer. on Game Worlds and The Law Collide · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "... lawyers are finding a new costumer." ???!!!

    Halloween is over. Why do they want a costume for thanksgiving?

  7. Re:Well, driving without a... on Unsecured Wi-Fi to Become Illegal? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    they won't become criminals. it will be one more thing that their broadband supplier will convince them to buy.

  8. default passwords on Unsecured Wi-Fi to Become Illegal? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    if this law passes, people will be buying routers that automatically configure themselves to be "secure" with default passwords.

  9. Re:it makes sense really on Moody Non-Photo-Realistic Driving · · Score: 1
    from
    http://users.pandora.be/worldstandards/driving%20o n%20the%20left.htm#wheel
    All early automobiles in the USA (driving on the right-hand side of the road) were right-hand-drive, following the practice established by horse-drawn buggies. They changed to left-hand-drive in the early 1900s as it was decided that it was more practical to have the driver seated near the centreline of the road, both to judge the space available when passing oncoming cars, and to allow front-seat passengers to get out of the car onto the pavement instead of into the middle of the street.
  10. can we just slashdot them? on Copyright Office: Everyone Uses MSIE, Right? · · Score: 0

    can we just slashdot the patent office website into oblivion? i think they'll get the idea.

  11. Re:well-rounded on GTA Sex Game Debate Intensifies · · Score: 1

    have you ever seen an american? they are the most well-rounded anywhere in the world! http://www.ibiblio.org/bop04dl/0454/190.jpg

    no one is as round as the americans are!

  12. what CowboyNeal really means on New Michigan Law Means Kids Can Opt Out of Spam · · Score: 1

    I'm happy to say I'm under age 13 if it means... I can score with some cute girls from Jr. High!

  13. call the bsa on Copyright Law Protection for Employees? · · Score: 1

    call the bsa anonymously.

  14. Re:The Real Question is: on The Rise and Fall of Blogs · · Score: 1

    i have that "infrequent entry" thing down pat.

  15. what kind of an idiot... on 63% Of Corporations Plan To Read Outbound Email · · Score: 1

    what kind of an idiot leaks confidential information through their corporate email address? at least use a private email account from a non-work computer.

  16. buy? on Software Companies and Lost Serial Numbers? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    who said anything about buy?

    you are renting the privilege of being raped like the wife of a republican politician.

  17. bait on Revamping Freenet · · Score: 4, Interesting

    with comments like these:
    5. Slashdot effect doesn't write off the network for a month after release; if we grow by invitation, it will take longer to grow, but we will end up with a better network, and we won't generally have the collapse we have seen every time we've done a release.

    this might just be an attempt to bait the slashdot crowd into trying out freenet so that freenet's userbase grows and the speed become reasonable.

  18. speed on Revamping Freenet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    when the speed of freenet comes within an order-of-magnitude of the normal internet, people will start using it again. right now, it's just a nifty way to do things 100 times slower than you could otherwise.

  19. so no more /. on Google to use TrustRank for News, Possibly More · · Score: 1

    so that means no more slashdot on news.google.com? with all the duplicate stories, inflamitory and incorrect analysis, and bogus stories, slashdot has to be near the bottom of the heap.

  20. Re:How about... on Linus Drops BitKeeper · · Score: 4, Informative
    >How about Subversion?

    if you read the article, you would see that linus adresses this.
    NOTE! I detest the centralized SCM model, but if push comes to shove, and we just _can't_ get a reasonable parallell merge thing going in the short timeframe (ie month or two), I'll use something like SVN on a trusted site with just a few committers, and at least try to distribute the merging out over a few people rather than making _me_ be the throttle.

    The reason I don't really want to do that is once we start doing it that way, I suspect we'll have a _really_ hard time stopping. I think it's a broken model. So I'd much rather try to have some pain in the short run and get a better model running, but I just wanted to let people know that I'm pragmatic enough that I realize that we may not have much choice.
  21. Re:Referrer Log Spammers should be sued too on Gates' Resolve in Bringing Spammers to Justice · · Score: 0

    For all those who are not intimately familiar with cron, how would such a job be created?

  22. Re:how about don't install it on Adobe Acrobat Toolbar Worse than Malware? · · Score: 1

    ghostscript works for simple things, but it's font substitution method is junk, and it doesn't have all the fancy options for controlling compression of graphics. there is also no fancy ghostscript interface for editing pdfs.

  23. Re:Decimal Points or Commas? on Dutch A.G. Supports Scientology v. Spaink Verdict · · Score: 1

    you're an idiot. narrow space is the name for the unicode character U+202F. Probably, U+205F (Medium Mathematical Space) is what is actually called for, but it wasn't part of the Unicode specification before 4.0.

    next time, do your own search for 'unicode spaces' or read http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars/spaces.html.

    additionally, you have no idea how letters are actually measured. it's not in pixels, inches or hogsheads. the unit is em.

  24. Reformation on Dutch A.G. Supports Scientology v. Spaink Verdict · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The Catholic church maintained that uneducated people would just distort and twist the scriptures if they were given the opportunity. They still maintain that only the church can give an authoratative interpretation of anything Biblical.

    The reformers did not see this as much of a risk. They believed the Catholic church had many errant teachings that could easily be fixed if everyone knew what the Bible really said.

  25. Re:two wrongs makes a right? on 'Online Poker' Googlebomb · · Score: 1

    nofollow is nearly useless. the only feasible way to use nofollow is to apply it globally to all uncontrolled content. this blocks good links and bad links. most sites would rather remove the spam than leave it in place with links that google won't follow but everyone else will.