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  1. Re:Uh huh. on Cheating Detector from Georgia Tech · · Score: 2

    Ummm.. maybe you shouldn't be copying the answer from the book anyway?

  2. Re:What a great quote on KernelTrap Interview With Alan Cox · · Score: 2

    I'd rather add another 9 ... 99.999 is better than 99.990.

  3. Re:Slashdot should learn something... on Cheating Detector from Georgia Tech · · Score: 1

    That actually might work... could Slashcode at least warn the editor if a proposed story had the same link as a previous story? Or if the article linked had very similar text as an article previously linked to? (granted, this might be a little CPU-intensive)

  4. Re:gnutella on Mathematical Analysis of Gnutella · · Score: 2
    I'm guessing as long as you are running the program as a regular user you may not be able to actually read the files.

    On my Debian box (and my RedHat partition) just about everything in /etc is world-readable except for /etc/shadow. Not that people are really gonna be interested in a copy of my /etc/init.d/apache file anyway... It's /home you really have to worry about.

  5. Re:What's the point on Review of Pay Napster · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ummmmm.. maybe because it's actually legal to download and keep copyrighted music from Napster?

  6. Re:Liability. on Security Flaws May Be Microsoft's Undoing · · Score: 2

    MS license agreements already have a "no liability" clause, and so does the GPL.

  7. Re:gopher (probably slightly off topic( on Slashback: SmoothWall, Gopher, Be · · Score: 1

    goatse.cx pics aren't pr0n either, at least not for normal people.

  8. Re:gopher (probably slightly off topic( on Slashback: SmoothWall, Gopher, Be · · Score: 2

    Penis birds don't really count as pr0n ... well, maybe for some people.

  9. Re:Not just pretty on the outside... on Interview With iMac designer, Jonathan Ive · · Score: 2

    Y'know, there is Stuffit Expander for Linux.

  10. Re:Paying for the logo... on I Want My MTV... PC? · · Score: 2

    People pay money for Air Jordans, but they also pay money for Tommy Hilfiger t-shirts that are just normal shirts with a logo. It's more important to them to have a "cool" shirt or PC with the right logo than to have an equally decent one at 1/4 the price.

  11. UI on Rio Riot and Lyra Personal Jukebox · · Score: 1

    Until they makesomething with as nice an interface as the iPod, I won't buy one. And it needs to have FireWire.

  12. Re:Jerry Cerasale can kiss my ass. on Lawsuits Against Spammers · · Score: 5, Insightful
    The analogy I like to use is:

    You have the right to sell your product, but you do not have the right to break my window during dinner hour, climb in, come to me and interrupt my dinner to scream in my face that "MY PRODUCT WILL INCREASE YOUR EJECULATION 581%!!!!!" without even looking first to see if I'm a women.

  13. Re:Castration? on Lawsuits Against Spammers · · Score: 2

    Taco has at least one Windows box, as evidenced by his occasional mentions of the Windows games he likes.

  14. Re:Just in time on 10GHz Processors and Ultraviolet Lithography · · Score: 1

    I'm aware of what Moore's law really is, but it does seem to work with processor clock speeds too (for example, 36 months ago, 500mhz was top of the line). If you must be anal, my name is Moore too, so I'll say it's my law the processor clock speeds double every 18 months. That better?

  15. Re:Castration? on Lawsuits Against Spammers · · Score: 1

    But what if you're a female spammer/editor?

  16. Re:Just in time on 10GHz Processors and Ultraviolet Lithography · · Score: 2

    It would be, except that 10 != 8*2. August 2006 would be 16ghz. Someone better at math with me can correct me, but 10ghz ought to be a few months after 8ghz (maybe early summer 2005).

  17. Just in time on 10GHz Processors and Ultraviolet Lithography · · Score: 2
    Moore's law says we should have 10ghz processors in 2005, and lo and behold, someone develops a technology so we will.

    now - 2ghz
    June 2003 - 4ghz
    January 2005 - 8ghz
    Spring 2005 - 10ghz

  18. Re:it might not be so good on Korea Replacing 120,000 Windows with Linux · · Score: 2

    Governments and corperations tend to buy machines in bulk and upgrade them in bulk too. I'm sure they'll make sure that the few models of PC's they have are fully supported. If they aren't, I'm sure a userbase of 120000 would convince Hancom to write drivers.

  19. Re:Hum... on Korea Replacing 120,000 Windows with Linux · · Score: 1

    Koffice is not really ready for widespread usage yet. I've never used HancomOffice, but I'm sure it probably compares pretty well to StarOffice (there's no way it could be any slower) and I hear it has great Korean language support, better than even MS Office. And IIRC StarOffice isn't free either, if you want to use it for anything other than personal stuff. I suppose they could use OpenOffice, but that's beta software and there's no real tech support available.

  20. Re:You suck. on Free The TA Source Code · · Score: 1

    I was only posting some of the ones I thought were relevent. "Add to short logs" is a good one though...

  21. Re:A link to the ACTUAL license... on Borland Kylix/JBuilder License Reviewed · · Score: 1

    That's not a link, that's a URL. Here's a link.

  22. US on Korea Replacing 120,000 Windows with Linux · · Score: 1

    Now all we need is to get the US government to replace 23% of its machines with Linux boxes...

  23. Re:Forget it on Free The TA Source Code · · Score: 1

    It works with Glide, DirectDraw, and Direct3D. But Glide is the preferred mode if it's available.

  24. Re:RTS=Real Time Strategy on Free The TA Source Code · · Score: 1
    ADD LOG HOSTS ROT - anagram for "slashdot dot org"

    short lag DoS - anagram for slashdot.org
    ol' host drags - another one

  25. Re:Forget it on Free The TA Source Code · · Score: 1

    Diablo II uses Glide. It's still on store shelves (and not the $9.99 rack either) and still selling pretty well.