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  1. Random obfuscation of information, LOVELY. :P on Browser news · · Score: 1

    Great distributed marketroid kitschery.

    I'll do the fucking reading between th lines myself.

    Parallel learning not withstanding, this sucks.
    I know what he's saying. It ain't what this is doing.

    A browser that gives me a collage instead of documentation about a particular subject. :P

    A better idea. Stick headlines at the top of a page. Stick Newspaper Masteads under them to allow easy juxtaposing comparing and processing of information.

  2. /. effect needs to strike the MBONE methinks. on Net Users Taking Over the News · · Score: 1

    It's time broadcasting was open to the public already.

    Think /.TV, the end of DNS, NSI on welfare. Censorship resistance.

  3. Malda != Drudge. USENET bows down to /. on Net Users Taking Over the News · · Score: 1

    seriously do you ever see an MLM scam on slashdot?

    /.ers do the talking here not journalists.

  4. Anything that will block the blasted signal on Techno Bra will alert Authorities · · Score: 1

    Hey why not?

  5. Several didtributed hosting projects in the works on Harvard's response to the Packet Storm incident · · Score: 1

    Keep coding. We'll be behind ISP's soon.

  6. The Cook, The Thief, The Wife and Her Lover:***** on How South Park Beat an NC-17 · · Score: 1

    Take some mescaline a touch of acid and watch that a couple of times. A full education into everything about humanity and the universe and of course:

    SEX, FOOD, LOVE, and MURDER! :)

    Director Peter Greenaway rules!

  7. 1984: Sexual frustration = Fuel for power control on How South Park Beat an NC-17 · · Score: 1

    It's what drives the 13 minute hate.

  8. Some parents can't tell fantasy from real life. on How South Park Beat an NC-17 · · Score: 1

    When they have children they act like they're cabbage patch kids. When the children start needing guidance they ignore them and have more babies.

    Pretty soon we'll be overpopulated like China and as a direct result a fully totalitarian state.

    We can thank the publishers of See Dick and Jane for this.

    When it's obvious that children are in fact capable of learning multiple languages and having a great time doing it they get See Dick and Jane.

    What is this? Some conspiracy to dumb down prallel processors like our world's kids so that serial processors like parents can pretend to understand them?

    Here's a challenge:

    See Dick. See Jane. See Jane chase after Dick.
    I'm willing to bet you couldn't explain those three sentences to kids in the context I meant them without failing in one or more of the following ways:

    Guaranteed you'd leave them confused. No chance in Hell they'd grow up without a sexual complex.

    Could never do it with a straight face and openly.

    And you'd probably wait till they beat you to it (God bless them, they might just turn out normal without contracting a disease)

    You know, it's expected in some cases. Not everyone knows enough history to know whom to listen to. Not everyone can dismiss religion without flinching and at the same time embrace spirituality. (if that confuses you I'm sad really) I know of one exception. My local pastor knows the whole media = murder school theory is bullshit.

    seriously go get a dog the next time your parental nerve itches.

  9. Accountabilty is important! on AOL Considers Ending Mozilla? · · Score: 2

    We don't care who you are. Even if it's an untraceable handle it's more respected so that people know who they're speaking to even if they can never identify them in real space. It shows that you intend to carry on a conversation that is more coherent by being able to identify you. If we can recognize the handle then we know that we don't have to repeat statements already posted.

    And for the AC-kneejerkers:
    The cyberpunk:cyberpunk thing with NYTimes' login is to prevent marketroids from filling our inboxes with crap and all the rest of the tracking shit going on.


    This does not work:
    AC - says blah
    Registered - says blah my ass
    AC - says blah (could be completely different)

    This is ridiculous:

    AC - says blah
    AC - says uber blah
    AC - says blah to all o' yas

    This works:
    X - says blah
    Y - says nope mister
    Z - says i agree and...
    Y - bull
    Z - that's not what I meant



  10. MEDIA = Sports, stocks, sex != INTERNET. on Elizabeth Dole Calls for Library Net Filtering · · Score: 1

    Go live in China, fucking NAZI.

  11. Pseudo-literacy ain't it. It's Media grammar. on US Gov't to double nano-tech funding · · Score: 1

    Ya know couch potatoes and their attention spans.
    The only way to keep their attention is to frequently pump up their adrenaline. Fascinating animals.

    Standard grammar:
    subject, verb, object.

    Media grammar:
    action, camera, lights.

    Announced - Action: the trap.
    Nanotech research (budget left out cause research is more exciting than budgets) - Camera: some background info.

    [Suspense!]

    Set to be doubled - Lights: What was announced?.

  12. GET Feds+openhardware.org in bed(OH dominant obv.) on US Gov't to double nano-tech funding · · Score: 1

    How we do dat?

  13. I know W9x/3.x != mk's!Message passing=Evil still on Nick Petrely responds to Metcalfe · · Score: 1

    Sheesh

  14. Woah Nellie! [Button] = beveled crap! on Caldera Graphic Installation Screenshots · · Score: 1

    Stop foaming at the mouth.

  15. We are gathered here in the memory of Charismatic, on RMS Responds · · Score: 1

    the horse. Now a moment of silence.

    Beats that Godwin's Law Bull anyday.

  16. The only overhead that exists is for HARDWARE! on RMS Responds · · Score: 1

    First having the source to an application allows you to counter the so-called CHEATING you're afraid of with better Advertising. And even if something sells for less, believe me if the other party doesn't spend time on bundling books and manuals just like you, they'll lose in the eternal beginner market which is huge.

    OSS/FSF/GNU/BSD = little cost + big money

    Every project I'm involved in is done without the overhead of Big Ominous Buildings with Big Black Tinted Windows. No R&D $$$ spent on effectively connecting the cubicles. You know those madatory debates about whether a star formation is better for spasmic outbursts of creativity broadcast to the rest of the group or a typical Manhattan/Roman setup for numbing the brain and "helping employee/associates (MCD-Burger King associate program) concentrate on their work.

    R&D in open source is done by reading and testing on the computers people already own. No overhead there.

    So frankly I don't really know what you're babbling about.

  17. Re:Socialism / Capitalism on Nick Petrely responds to Metcalfe · · Score: 1

    I'll thank you not to confuse me like that.

    Ignoring character is a social disease. Every civilization dies by that. And yes geek profilers, anti-gun groups, gaming=murder Nazis, all ignore character.

  18. MKs are SLOWER!Complexity kills serial processors! on Nick Petrely responds to Metcalfe · · Score: 1

    It ain't the kernel bud it's the processor.

    Some time ago 384 serial processors were setup on a mobo. They needed 80 proceesors to control 304 processors. Take that further. Probably 16 processors controlled 64 that controlled 304.

    One mobo can handle 16 proccessors under say Linux. The message passing gets self-multiplying and uses resources on its own. It cause the 16:1 processor to go down to barely 5:1.

    Plus message passing introduces a stability killer.

    While using 95/98/3.x I used to see

    -----------------------------------------
    | |
    | Msgserver(32).exe caused a Global |
    | Protection Fault at blah:blah |
    | |
    -----------------------------------------

    MK's will rule when processors do some of the describing of the universe themselves.

  19. He wasn't talking about GNU! on Infoworld Interview with Linus · · Score: 1

    He was talking about the dynamics of people turning to open-source, not the the GNU system environment.

    Complex thoughts are hard - Barbie.

  20. M. Twain:"Use not a 25c interface if 10c will do" on Commercial 3D UI and for Linux · · Score: 1

    Apparently Objective Reality is suffereing from the same illusion most GUIsers do. That M$ created the Universe, Al Gore created the Internet, and that efficiency comes on its own.

    I used to love how Wing Commander ran under 640k in the early days.

    And have you checked emulators yet? The gigantic storylines in games like Final Fantasy I fit in 256k and the emulator itself is hardly 100k.

    Seriously write a How to build an Open Hardware .25mm fab in under $1Million and leave the FAD, and FUD to marketroids.

  21. Hello you avoided the first question. on Open Source + Competition = Lean and Mean · · Score: 0

    I have yet to see someone climb higher up a mountain when he reaches the peak.

    By the way you GUIsers are all the same. A bunch of short-term memory dependent ingrates. How the fuck do you expect the code for a speech recognition program to be written without a text editor which is all Visual Studio is. Text editor, half-baked help system that can't answer serious questions like reading a manpage can, bunch of icons and controls which really don't help much since you don't read, and that nonsense about paying $61 for a resizer control any idiot can create.

    Have a fun Blue screened odyssey.

  22. UPS perfectly compatible on Ask Slashdot: Breaking the Computing Bottleneck? · · Score: 1

    I don't see why not.

  23. Volatile/Non-Volatile Decoupled Hybrid storage on Ask Slashdot: Breaking the Computing Bottleneck? · · Score: 1

    Make it a two layer process.

    Have a volatile RAM Storage mechanism that pretends to be the hard drive.

    Have a non-rotating plate be your Non volatile storage medium.

    Have the CPU and everything read/write from/to the volatile portion only.

    On its own without any disturbance of the processor, have the drive scan and update whole contents of the drive from the volatile storage to the non-volatile storage at intervals depending on the latency of the medium. Let the volatile and non volatile technologies develop independently and have the factory test the latencies to be written into a uniform driver.

    By the way how would a guy like me learn VHDL?
    URLs?



  24. No doubt used against terrorism. Look at China. on Interception in the UK · · Score: 1

    This is 1999 not 10,000 BC when humanity first set foot on Earth. Get real.

  25. Creeping features dicussion on /. not kernel-list on Ask Slashdot: Breaking the Computing Bottleneck? · · Score: 1

    Let's give the guys a break. If we do our part maybe the Linux kernel will be so sleek we'll ratify it's functions as the new laws of physics.