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  1. In defense of Crunch on New Boxes For Captain Crunch · · Score: 1

    I've met Crunch on several occasions, and done energy work with him. It's applied reflexology, and there's nothing sexual about it. I do not believe any of these silly pedophilia accusations.

  2. Re:Technology and Luddism. on The Social Life Of Information · · Score: 1
    I too like what the Extropians have to say, which is why I have studied the arguments in the Unabomber's Manifesto -- one of the most solidly argumented attacks on the idea of Progress I have ever seen. (However, no need to remind me that he goes off on tangents. I know.)

    I put the Extropian Principles and the Unabomber's Manifesto right here.

  3. Chaff & Winnow on The Ultimate Weapon Against Censorship? · · Score: 1

    If you like this pad idea, you'll love Chaffing and Winnowing, by Rivest!

  4. Re:Ok, here we go again... on Why Can't We Reverse Engineer .DOC? · · Score: 1
    I see it there, but does it work? The converter for Word 5.1 MacOS which allegedly converted Word docs from some higher version crashed consistently on my machine, and half the time on others.

    It is in Microsoft's economic interest to release a buggy converter, to encourage upgrades. And that is how Microsoft works.

  5. Re:Why I should use Vorbis! on Programmers Will Debut Free MP3 Alternative · · Score: 1
    Such a bizarre file extension, which is so unrelated to the name vorbis will cause no end of confusion in the millions of people at which this is aimed. I guarantee a significant number of files will get named with .vor.

    More disturbing is the fact that the top bitrate is 128. 128 sounds like crap, so I hope this standard is significantly better than mp3.

  6. Re:Fine, just expire the password after bad tries. on Username/Password - Is It Still Secure? · · Score: 1

    This provides a wonderful service-denial tool. I simply try to access your account with a few bad passwords each morning when I wake up, and you are perpetually locked out of your system. If the dead-time was set to 10 minutes, a simple script could get around that by "attacking" continuously...

  7. Re:Special Instumental on Ask Slashdot: What Music do you Code By? · · Score: 1

    For inspiration and concepts, it should be high energy. Amon Tobin, the Smooth ambient Jungle comp, Panacea (Low Profile Darkness), dark science like Ed Rush and Trace, Icarus, T. Power, Equinox (Bill Leeb doing breaks!), Underworld, -ziq, Download, Goldie, 242, 4 Hero...

    For actually coding, it needs to put me into a trance: Spiritualized, Speedy J, Aphex, the Police, Simple Minds, Smiths

    During a death march, at the end of the day, Speedbass (speedbass.com) actually makes sense!

  8. Can GPL & BSD be complementary? on Feature:GPL vs BSD · · Score: 1
    It seems to me the the BSD license is appropriate for libraries, and the GPL is appropriate for applications and end-use packages.

    I am about to release an app which requires a library I use for much of my work. Suppose I release this app under GPL, and the library under BSD? I would like to be able to use this library in the future in commercial software. I don't care if other people do as well. (Can I release the same library, without changes, under a commercial license if I've already placed it under GPL? I would not expect that to affect the copies that were previously distributed under GPL.)

    On the other hand, I'd like to release the app itself under the GPL. I don't expect major forks, I don't want it to get hijacked in any sense, and I want any patched versions to remain free for everybody.