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  1. Re:Blaming the tool again... on LUG Pres Resigns Over Military Linux Use · · Score: 1

    There is a chance that a Duck can learn to read !

  2. Re:Astounding on Sex.com Settles Case Against VeriSign · · Score: 1

    another example of those crazy american lawsuits actually being counter productive.

    Greed is the problem. people and busness live in fear of being Sued !

    America has to many Lawyers
    they will be the 3rd against the wall when the revolution comes ( after the sirius Cybernetics Cord Marketing devision and the Politicians.)

  3. Re:Norton sucks! on Netsky Worm Variant Attacks P2P Services · · Score: 1

    well I didn't record times when I was fixing computers, it's not hot air , it's my Job.

    and I do know what I'm talking about
    most customers have older hardware ,
    your latest megagigaflop AMD Opteron with 2 trillion Meg of ram won't see the problem

    P600 , 64 MB - win98 - speed up about 2 times after setting NAV to only scan .exes and dlls , not all files.

    it is obvious that the problem is DISK I/O and CPU speed related.

  4. Re:wow, I thought the law was supposed to protect on Microsoft's Long-Playing Business Record · · Score: 1

    but the US corperations pressure their Bought Government to Pressure your Government.

    "You want those cheep F-16s you enact the DMCA"

  5. Re:Norton sucks! on Netsky Worm Variant Attacks P2P Services · · Score: 1

    3D Mark is not DISK I/O is it ?

    the slowness is every DLL etc beign scanned before you can use it. and yes it is slow !

  6. Re:But... on Handling Accusations of Trademark Infringement? · · Score: 1

    Terry Pratchet's discworld

    the Patrician has a thing about Mimes
    that's his punishment for them.

    not sure if TP had a historical reference in there.

  7. Re:But... on Handling Accusations of Trademark Infringement? · · Score: 1

    no Mimes go in the Scorpian Pit (with "Learn the Words" painted on it's wall) !

    the organised religions and law makers follow the lawyers !

    and then the marketing division of the sirrus cybernetics Corperation ...

    but lawyers first

  8. easy solution on Handling Accusations of Trademark Infringement? · · Score: 1


    When the revolution comes the lawyers will be the first against the wall

  9. Re:big hands on Suggestions for an Ergonomic Mouse? · · Score: 1

    200 not 250 darn it

  10. big hands on Suggestions for an Ergonomic Mouse? · · Score: 1

    I'm sick of mice that don't fit my hands
    250 mm finger tip to base of palm

    most mice feel to small

    I had a Kingston mouce that was big , but my fingers were made sore by button use.

    can't remember it's model ....

  11. Re:Solve the damn problem on Unprecedented level of Virus Alerts · · Score: 1

    Fine User HTML
    but LIMIT it
    Don't use your IE HTML engine !

    tags line <I> <B> <H1> - <H6> etc are ok

    but kill <SCRIPT>

    and who's Idea was it to Remove Extentions ? show the whole freaking Attachment Name !

  12. Re:Linux Changelog Email Publishing on Linux 2.6.5 is Released · · Score: 1

    I posted my address in lkml once by mistake, only once. now i even get bounces of spam with a FROM address of my Domain :-(

    spammers are psychopaths ! (look up the word)

  13. *twitch* on Death by Coffee? · · Score: 1

    I started Twitching after 8 cups in 30 minutes

    My heart felt weird too

    and People said I was talking kinda fast. i thought they were talking slow.

  14. Re:Lets keep this a secret on Nuclear 'Asteroids' Due In A Few Hundred Years · · Score: 1


    Well slashdot doesn't have a spell checker.....

    ( Is this the next killer mozilla feature , spellchecking a form ?)

    some of us illiterate University Graduates out here need all the help we can get.

  15. my start page on What's Your Browser Start Page? · · Score: 1


    http://10.254.254.250/

  16. Re:Failed economics? on Half-Life 2's Technical Details, Cost Estimates · · Score: 1

    hmmm

    Steam cuts out the middle man

    $40 on steam X 1 Million sales ....

  17. Once again... on The Worldwide Domain Battle · · Score: 1

    This problem is caused by .com being global
    make it .com.us and .com.uk and .com.nz , and map say google.com to google.com.nz if you are in new zealand ..

    this would stop all non america companys not doing significant busness in the US from from stripping (sic) the bodagious-tatas.com domain from it's owner

    see my Previous Post on this subject.

  18. Re:Not All Readers are alike on Online Publisher Blocks LinuxToday Referrals · · Score: 1

    But everyone on /. Blocks Banner advertisments.

    so we are a drain on their site for NO ad revenoos

  19. Re:Whatever they call it... on Intel 32/64-bit Nocona CPU · · Score: 1

    hmmm , maybe we can make a Sandwich press which uses spare cycles for dnetc or seti@home......

    there could be a market on THinkgeek !

  20. Re:Slight Blip on the Irony Detector on Ex-Blizzard Devs Sign With Namco, Blizzard Using BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    Well I own 2 warcraft II BNE

    and those numbers just piss me off

    My job is to install custom software on PC before shipping to customers ( I have to enter numbers from those stickers 8B88B-8BB8B - pure evil)

    Activation keys are pure evil!

    Q3 managed an auth server for 3rd party servers!
    why can't blizzard,

    Not that I am worried I haven't bought any of their products since they used the DMCA.

    Blizzard you can **** my hairy ****s !

  21. Slight Blip on the Irony Detector on Ex-Blizzard Devs Sign With Namco, Blizzard Using BitTorrent · · Score: 4, Insightful


    Bitware OSI License , Open software

    bnetd, Open source , Sued by Blizzard under DMCA

    are they having their cake and eating it too ?

  22. Re:Interesting on Is the Key to Linux a Games-Based Distro? · · Score: 1

    my windows games don't work on windows !

    need for speed 1 2 and 3 , oops my nv fx 5600 isn't a supported card - download patch , oops no longer available from ea .....

    XV vs Tiefighter - same thing , no support for my hardware , crashes all teh time , and I havn't even moved to XP yet ( if ever)

  23. Re:couldn't resist on C Alive and Well Thanks to Portable.NET · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Fact: C is dead
    Umm Doesn't that Linus guy write his little project thing in C ?

    what is it called again ?

  24. Re:enough already on New Net Battle Over ".mobile" Looming · · Score: 1

    but the comerical world is geographic

    I worked at a OEM level distributer of computer bits
    they wanted companyname.com - taken my a tobacco co in china ...

    and .com is owned by america
    run by corrupt companys in america who charge 2 arms and a leg and Have a slow process ( according to other /. stories) this hairbrained p-lan of mine would break their monopoly a bit.....

  25. Re:Use a keyboard on Improving Terrible Handwriting? · · Score: 1

    reading my the shape of words doesn't help spelling , I wonder how many out there do this .....