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  1. Information is a matter of survival. on Teen Sued for /Linking/ to MP3s · · Score: 0

    People kill people, not websites.

  2. Get a clue! on Teen Sued for /Linking/ to MP3s · · Score: 0

    I was lucky to have teachers who knew the Educational Editions of software were useless in my computer courses. At least now, I have a real future. And I totally agree with people who cracked Unix boxes so they could learn about the system.

    I am sick and tired of people who think a Utopia of no "visible" crime can sustain itself regardless of human nature, especially the Big Brother and blood sucking racketeering instincts.

  3. Simple reason no one is surprised, just pissed on Teen Sued for /Linking/ to MP3s · · Score: 0

    To be honest I hope he wins.

    Every industry is waking up to the fact that the Internet empwers individuals and they're running scared suing everyone.



  4. Thin clients bring back centralized mainframes on Compaq Announces Thin Client Running Linux · · Score: 0

    Not a future I want to see.

  5. Ludicrous warfare, human weakness for groupthink.. on HERF Gun: Make it in your basement · · Score: 0

    Great imagine this on a rainy day:

    War without end.

    "Honey, I'm goin to war agin. Anything you want me to tell that worthless Eurasian, I mean Eastasian, uncle of yours this time?"

    "Just tell him I'll see him in four years. Same time same day of the year."

    Granted since no one dies, you can't really have people surrender, just bored to death. Which means the word victory must be redefined again, and again. And if the Army pays for transportation, talk about free flights.

    You know, if people had the wit of older generations when they were our age this would rule. Imagine getting a free flight to a so-called target then everyone in every army blows off their politicians by going AWOL.

    Consider Denmark when Germany ordered all Jews to wear yellow markers. Everyone in Denmark wore yellow markers. (For the slow, not everyone in Denmark was a Jew. And for the really dumb, no they did not meet weekly in some town hall to discuss options and strategies. They all did it on their own. But the general US population doesn't quite measure up to such a task. This is the true power of individuality. All those groupthinkers foaming at the mouth about community effectiveness need to get a clue.)

    So that's what laser tag was for. Desensitization. However, thanks to the overflow of galactic dramas on TV, any country developing this would look ridiculous. I mean already it's hard enough to arouse public interest in Near Earth Objects.

  6. Oh brother... A widget addict on Mozilla Picks Up Third Party IRC and RT Messaging · · Score: 0

    Posturing? Beats pretending to know what you're doing by installing everything on Earth.

    Ahh... nevermind

  7. Re:Mozillas "GUI" on Mozilla Picks Up Third Party IRC and RT Messaging · · Score: 0

    Debug code

  8. Go back to your TV sports, stocks, and porn on FCC Makes Wiretapping Easier for Cops · · Score: 0

    Read some history asshole.

    If it makes you feel guilty that other people give a damn where you just pick the most comfortable policy, well fuck you.

  9. Was Martin Luther King a mod-boss? on FCC Makes Wiretapping Easier for Cops · · Score: 0

    Oh... so that's why pres. Hoover had him investigated.

    I don't think so.

    Get a grip yourself, dumbass.

  10. Public distributed fragmented mirror servers NOW! on FCC Makes Wiretapping Easier for Cops · · Score: 1

    Let's move already.

    freenet.on.openprojects.net

    www.biocomputing.org

    www.ompages.com

  11. Khttpd is not in the kernel. We have uhttpd. on Windows 2000 to provoke domain game · · Score: 1

    Kernel = services.

    User software = features.

    Should we have sendmail in the kernel too? "Ok... now to reconfigure sendmail, recompile your kernel."

    I don't think so.

    And no I don't like the kernel fractals idea either.

  12. Ain't the kernel's fault. Just replace software. on Windows 2000 to provoke domain game · · Score: 1

    The kernel talks to hardware about services not features. That's user space software's responsibility.

    C'mon get with the program. The radiator in your car is not part of the engine. Neither is [D,S]DNS part of the kernel.

  13. Mozilla is the cleanest most standards compliant on Mozilla M9 Released · · Score: 1

    browsers available. People who care about the inside not the outside will use it exclusively. Aside from Lynx.

  14. I think you're confusing shared with static on Mozilla M9 Released · · Score: 1

    First, it would make no sense to have a "shared" lib that only one application could use. That's static.

    Which is what I think M9 uses. It makes sense too because then they can see the whole thing report bugs rather than running old libraries with new code and having legit code barf over old libs. I think Necko and the rest of Mozilla are developed simultaneously so it has to be all together.

    as for Windows "shared" libs... I wouldn't know :)

  15. Centralization is dead. on Ted Nelson Releases Xanadu · · Score: 1

    Just say No to Centralization.

  16. The difference between functional architecture on Feature:Open Source as an Ant Farm · · Score: 1

    and art like Linux is that art follows a philosophy that may or may not be well defined.

    Functional architecture or that which is Just Code(TM) is driven by momentary winds, like 3-D is hot now let's put 3-D in our software. Or just a set of code that performs one function.

    I agree BeOS and NeXT are works of art. I patially agree that Linux gives into the demands of the world it lives in more than those two, thankfully. However, the philosophy is still there. Only more subtle. It emulates the Unix style in striving for clean, versatile code, though not necessarily small.

    Look at the efforts with Video 4 Linux and especially ALSA, where they keep a collection of processor interface code so that they can access the chips on different cards without rewriting code for each card. Beautiful.



  17. Not all that executes is not gold. on Feature:Open Source as an Ant Farm · · Score: 1

    Some code is lever-pulling work. Drivers require following instructions and schematics.

    Some code is craft. Driver architecture requires the ability to identify common structures all drivers depend on. The design and interaction of the different objects in the code is what makes Unices powerful.

    As for art I'd say languages are art. Perl is very well done, aside from the fact that one must get used to /\$#@! in code.

  18. If I'll go to Hell, I want to be on the right side on Integrated Circuits the Size of Molecules · · Score: 1

    cuz I'm crazy like that.

  19. The wrong side is starting the revolution. on Feature: US Govt & Invasion of Privacy · · Score: 1

    Guess what? Those Nazi media whores are using the problem as an excuse to create chaos.

    The wrong side is at it again. (sounds like a cool .sig)

    They destroyed the Revolution in 1917 and turned it into a power grab, the opposite of what was intended.

  20. Time to pool together a MS Office applet for this. on Feature: US Govt & Invasion of Privacy · · Score: 1

    I'm going to get arthritis writing the same letter over and over again.

    I'm 23 for God's sake.

  21. Will the ghost of Michaelangelo shut this guy up? on Feature: US Govt & Invasion of Privacy · · Score: 1

    Nudity is in the same category as the desensitizing effect of bullets flying everywhere but no one getting killed (convincingly)?

    Since when?

    Go Home Mr. Hale.

  22. Is you is for really on Feature: US Govt & Invasion of Privacy · · Score: 1

    Laws of nature exist so that time and space don't collapse.

    Constitutions exist... depends on who wrote them.

    Laws on people... ditto.

    Wake up.

  23. That's the whole point of government on Feature: US Govt & Invasion of Privacy · · Score: 1

    To scare the crap out of you. Back to your cubicle, asap.

  24. Encrypt everything on Feature: US Govt & Invasion of Privacy · · Score: 1

    I'd love to see their faces when they find a harddrive with Luke! I'm your father, all over it.

  25. Here come the HellCats on Feature: US Govt & Invasion of Privacy · · Score: 1

    This is only as much of an invasion of privacy as when the police get a search warrant and come into your home and look through your sock drawers. Nobody ever whined about that. Just take a moment and think about that before you flame the life out of me.

    The whined about it years ago. Now the Net is a hot topic. Illegal searches are already quite accepted.
    With the sealed warrant provision it's straight out of KAFKA, YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'RE ACCUSED OF.

    For the smart asses: That provision is in a previous /. article.

    Just imagine how it would feel to bust some drug dealers and get their computer hardware and browse through their files and see that all the files are encrypted. Those could be the names and addresses of thousands of drug dealers and users, not to mention other very bad things.

    If I didn't know better I'd say you were an aspiring flame artist. Very bad things. I love it.

    Very bad things indeed. Lose all your freedoms for an infinitesimal amount of marijuana, but you get to scare the hell out of your domestic abuse victim when you get out.

    Until I see a fed who can crack into a box without hiring a cracker and then can tell me how to block the hole and then have him/her crack it again and tell me how to close that hole real tight. No thank you. Then again, perhaps crackers with a conscience can slow things down a bit. Don't tell me crackers don't send people suggestions to fixing their boxes. Doesn't the gov't do crash tests?

    Bullshit.