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  1. Re:Good for second-teir news sites on Election-Day's Effect on the Net · · Score: 1

    What the hell was The Ladies Man doing on CNN?

  2. Shouldn't have run. on The Kid Who Wouldn't Be King (UPDATED) · · Score: 1

    He planned to disrupt homecoming, fucking over a good number of senior I imagine. So much for homecoming tradition!

    It worked. If he wasn't prepared to get disciplinary action he had no business trying to makeing waves.

  3. Re:One Question..... on When The FBI Knocks, A First-Person Account · · Score: 1

    If your school has any type of Policy (whether it be network/computing or even academic integrity) you can be pretty severely punished.

    This doesn't have a thing to do with the law, so doing things you might consider 'legal' can easily get you censured, expelled, etc.

  4. D.A.R.E's notoriety on Has D.A.R.E Been Effective? · · Score: 2

    Aren't they notorious for being largely ineffective but having tremendous pull in all sorts of local government. I've heard alot of thier strong-arm techniques on detractors -- news outlets, school officials.

  5. Re:RMS = Bill Gates?? on Richard Stallman vs. Jorrit Tyberghein · · Score: 1

    Stop the penis party!

  6. Re:Linux on What To Do If Linux Sneaks Onto Your Network · · Score: 1

    You write this with a straight face?

    Maybe a 25 chromosome grin?

  7. Reminds me of an old rant... on Microsoft and Cisco Don't Pay Taxes? · · Score: 1

    From the guy claiming that Microsoft was the largest Pyramid scheme ever conceived, and it only profits through clever books w/ regards to stock options.

  8. Re:A bigger problem than "It isn't HTML"... on A New Chance For 3D On The Web? · · Score: 1

    One obvious flaw in your argument:

    Without a 3d interface, it would have been all but impossible for Joey to retrieve the Gibson's garbage file.

  9. Re:Must be Made Explicit on Neither Stable Nor Unstable: A Midrange Debian? · · Score: 1

    Wow, it's a miracle that you use dselect but still _like_ the package system.

    I find it much simpler to use apt, where a command like:

    apt-get install perl

    Will fetch and install 'perl', as well as all the packages that it depends on (excluding the ones you have installed allready). There is a console based apt that functions much like dselect as well.

  10. Re:Wait a stinking minute..... on AOL Sued for Creating Gnutella · · Score: 1

    No GY to integrate w/ my panel?

  11. If this is 5 times the bandwidth... on VMSK/2 Promises 5 Times More Bandwidth · · Score: 1

    Where have all the 20 channel 128kbit mp3 stream FM channels been?

  12. Re:Why Sledgehammer? on AMD and SuSE Porting Linux to Sledgehammer · · Score: 1

    Holy shit that show was tight.

    Didn't it get cancelled in the middle of a cliffhanger?

    W/ an atom bomb about to go off?

  13. Re:The bugtraq statistics [mod parent up] on Fred Moody Says Linux Worst Operating System Ever · · Score: 1

    _If_ his numbers were correct, he would still be jumping to conclusions (ot -- Office Space :)).

    But it indeed does looke like he arrived at the Redhat number by adding the 'Redhat' figure to the 'aggregate linux' figure (which includes redhat allready).

    So with the corrected numbers, would Moody feel that NT is the worst OS? Or were the manufactured bugtraq numbers a convenient way to kick Linux sqaure in the jimmy?

  14. Re:The tip of the iceberg on Compressed Beyond Recognition: An MP3 Compendium · · Score: 1

    Why would Joe User run an IRC server?

    If you want to share MP3's, run a client on Efnet/Dalnet/Undernet...there are established 'scenes' on all of them. It's about as difficult as making toast. FTP site, XDCC bot, hell even one of those horrid polaris-like contraptions.

    And all the mp3's you could ever need...

  15. Re:Uh.. server problems?.. (OT) on ICANN Has Approved New TLDs · · Score: 1

    Looks like the upper(there are 2) 'reply to this' and the fake threads are part of the body of the post.

    If you look at the source you can see a bunch of errors made when typing...encoded stuff in the urls etc.

  16. ATI Support on XFree86 4.0.1 Released · · Score: 1

    Am i misconfigured, or is DGA support for the mach-64 cards not in place?

  17. Re:They just dont get it. on Sun Considers Releasing Solaris In Segments · · Score: 1

    Can you read?

    "There are not many people who know what to do with 10 million lines of code"

    And you counter that by providing one (inappropriate) example of someone who can? If you are involved in a project from it's inception, you can make sense of it's '10 million lines of code'. But when it's dropped in your lap all at once, without any previous exposure?

    They do have a point...If they were in it simply for the buzz they'd make the source available and not give two damns about how useful you found it.

  18. Re:Entrapment? on Gnutella Copyright Enforcement? · · Score: 1

    Well in the case of gnutella, i imagine 'authorities' recieve the 'lawbreakers' request for /metallica/.mp3, then generates a file w/ that name and pushes it to the 'lawbreaker'.

    This is different from a case, say of narc@fbi.gov emailing you a link to metallica.mp3

    The gnutella example is more like:

    <Crackhead> (talking to NARC) Hey man got any Crack?
    <Cop> Sure.
    <Crackhead> ty!
    <Cop> *savage beating/arrest*

    I think it makes it difficult to call this entrapment.

  19. Searchbastard on Quickiefest 2000 · · Score: 1

    Sure the about page was kinda funny, but the search was worthless...just searched one of those dmoz.org direcotories.

  20. Re:The Software Engineering Community on Who's Afraid Of C++? · · Score: 1

    Share your appreciation for this lame post appearing in all the stories at their contact form

  21. Pretty silly controversy. on Excite@Home To Change Routing Priorities For $$ · · Score: 1

    How does someone manage to be offended by this? Unless I am horrendously misreading the linked article, excite isn't offering much more than some kind of peering service (Universities do the same thing often, even for commercial entities).

    It's not as if @home is routeing packets to CNN at a higher priority than MSNBC, it's simply that if CNN has a 'direct' link to @home then @home subscribers will naturally see better service.

    Look for a cause elsewhere.

  22. Re:Here we go ... on Video Shrinks With MP4 · · Score: 1

    Pretty much every movie in recent memory has been available this way. The files aren't ridiculously large either, on the same order as the ones talked about in the article.

  23. Can't beat... on Essential Anime · · Score: 1

    Urotsokdoji (I've probably mauled the spelling, never seen it in type) sometimes known as The Overfiend. It's pretty widely available and a real riot.

  24. Re:The end for Python on Python Development Team Moves to BeOpen.Com · · Score: 1

    +1 (Savage Beating)

  25. Re:Will this be like the Virgin Connect Virgin pla on AOL/Gateway/Transmeta Team for Internet Appliance · · Score: 1

    Than you have a legitimate beef if you own one.

    If you don't, Virgin is under no obligation to provide it.

    Of course, that all hinges on the depth and quality of research that led you to believe it was "based on some variant of linux".