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  1. Re:But I'm REALLY CHEAP ! on Giftfile Project Primes Decentralized Gift Economy · · Score: 1

    Not quite. You do not reduce your taxes by that amount -- you simply do not pay taxes on your donation. That is, were you to spend $100 some way other than donating to a non-profit (503.1(c)-exempt) company, an income tax would be levied on that $100.

    By donating, all you gain is the government's obligatory share of that money.

  2. Re:Summary of Slashdot comments on EIOffice 2004 vs. MS Office 2003 · · Score: 1

    Open Office does support images in RTF. I just tested it.

    Yes, OpenOffice allows one to insert an image into an RTF file, but when you save it, OpenOffice will save the image as a separate file which is LINKED TO from the RTF file. If that exernal image file gets misplaced, the RTF file will display a broken placeholder for the image.

    My mother discovered that when trying to create a widely-compatible party invitation document that had a graduation hat image embedded into it.

  3. Re:Why you can't use an FM radio RECEIVER on a PLA on Cartoon Guide to Federal Spectrum Policy · · Score: 1

    I am not saying you are wrong, but please tell me, how do you reconcile your statements with the FCC warning on every transmitter that (paraphrased) "This device does not emit anything, but must accept any interference caused by other devices." ?

    If every radio in fact emitted radio waves, even if only to weakly mix with existing strong signals but enough to interfere with the plane, why would this statement exist?

  4. Re:that's not irony on Schizophrenia Experiences and Suggestions? · · Score: 1

    It is ironic because by posting an article about Schizophrenia, one can infer that Slashdot is not afflicted by this illness. Why can one infer that? Because people who have this illness do not recognize that fact and (arguably) believe that they are perfectly normal living in a world that's out to get them.

    (Yes, I know that this is just one type of it. The point still stands.)

  5. Re:The OFFICIAL torrent on Fedora Core 2 released to Mirrors, Bittorrent · · Score: 1

    Ah, thanks. I did not open the "About" section of their web site because I was expecting only corporate and investor info. They would do well to place a reference to their public key in their "Download" section -- it's the most logical place.

  6. Re:The OFFICIAL torrent on Fedora Core 2 released to Mirrors, Bittorrent · · Score: 1

    Can you tell me where the PGP key is? I cannot find a reference to it on their web site, and there is no gpg option to import the key from a keyserver based just on an e-mail address.

  7. Re:BitKep'R on Bitkeeper News Redux · · Score: 1

    Arch looks fantastic, but after some research, I came to the conclusion that there is no way for Windows-using developers to utilize it -- there are no Windows programs to interface with an Arch repository. Its official site offers only Linux (source/RPM) downloads.

    Does anybody care to disprove me?

  8. Re:Not a clear winner on Linux Filesystems Benchmarked · · Score: 1

    One can argue that this article, which used an older kernel, was the incentive for someone to improve ext2/ext3 performance now.

  9. Re:Fedora on Revealed: How Fedora And The Community Interact · · Score: 1

    I clicked, and my Mozilla Firefox entered an infinite loop; I had to kill it through my window manager. I posted a bug report on this: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=243150

    Thanks for allowing the Mozilla suite to improve!

  10. Re:Testing times on First Java AP Computer Science Exam Complete · · Score: 4, Informative

    No one that replied to you has mentioned it yet, so I will: the Computer Science AP test has two parts: A and AB. As you said in your post, you took the A part. The AB part, which is what I took yesterday, is more difficult and places strong emphasis on binary trees, linked lists, and stacks/queues.

  11. Re:More on TheOpenCD 1.4 Released · · Score: 1

    Thanks; I removed DivX (spyware) and added this to the collection.

  12. Re:More on TheOpenCD 1.4 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    Your list is quite thorough, but most of the things you listed and dozens more are already on the CD compilation that I update monthly:

    http://pmw.myip.org/oss/

    Please tell me what you think. :-)

  13. Re:Wikipedia on 1981 Personal Computer Catalog · · Score: 1

    Why is it less historically-important than everything else from that long list?

  14. Wikipedia on 1981 Personal Computer Catalog · · Score: 4, Informative

    Wikipedia is amazing -- it even has an entry for The Magic Wand word-processing software advertised on one of the catalog's pages:

    Magic Wand (software)

  15. Re:My personal feelings on OpenOffice.org, MS Office 2003 Compared, Evaluated · · Score: 1

    In OOo, word count, among many other quantities, is accessed through File -> Properties... -> Statistics tab.

  16. Re:Not a problem on Miguel de Icaza on Longhorn · · Score: 1

    You seem to be suggesting that Novell should implement ACLs into Linux. ACLs are already present in the 2.6 series kernels, and available as a kernel patch for 2.4. They're for ext2, ext3, jfs, and xfs filesystems.

    While the functionality is present, the problem is that so far no distribution has decided to implement them across the system.

    Extended Attributes and ACLs for Linux

  17. Re:Aaargghhh! on Postfix 2.1 Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    Are you saying mathematicians really refer to the style of "2 3 +" as "suffix notation"?

    No, they refer to it as Reverse Polish Notation.

  18. Re:Maybe... on AOL Mail To Be Accessible Via IMAP · · Score: 1

    This is not a conspiracy or a Netflix-esque bluff -- you've always been able to turn off all advertising in AOL's preferences. If I am not mistaken, they have checkboxes for contacting you by mail, by phone, and by sign-on alerts. You may uncheck all of them.

  19. A list of software collections on Free Software at the Local Library? · · Score: 1
    There are three major collections of OSS software for Windows:

    Of the three, I believe the Open Source Software CD is the one updated the most and is the most complete. (Disclaimer: I am its proud maintainer.)
  20. Re:Don't pick surprising pronunciations on Interview With Trolltech's CEO and CTO Eirik Eng · · Score: 2, Informative
    I certainly hear lots of 'Ess-Queue-Ell' instead of Sequel for SQL.

    The correct pronunciation is Ess-Queue-Ell, according to this documentation entry:

    The official way to pronounce MySQL is ``My Ess Que Ell'' (not ``my sequel''), but we don't mind if you pronounce it as ``my sequel'' or in some other localized way.
  21. Re:How many hands? on Hand-Powered Hardware? · · Score: 1

    I believe it was a pun. Words Per Minute =?= Watts Per Minute.

  22. Re:Hand Power PC? on Hand-Powered Hardware? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    For keys that you can actually press (since you could increase torque to get more power), a keypress most likely wouldn't produce enough power to travel an inch down the wire before being destroyed by attenuation.

  23. Re:How is this similiar to user-mode Linux and jai on Zones are in Solaris Express (Solaris 10) · · Score: 1

    Are you still using Windows 9x/Me?

    Any other recent operating system has proper memory and resource protection. The worst your assembly program will do is cause the operating system to terminate it.

    The assembly language is not a gateway to rampant system destruction.

  24. Re:Comparing the software on Subversion 1.0 Released · · Score: 5, Informative
  25. Re:kazaa, bittorrent, emule/edonkey? on Microsoft Warning Leaked Code Traders · · Score: 1
    The zipped source code is available on Freenet using the URL:
    CHK@JANQuMJMYGNWPVWyfwBwyXPsgBwPAwI,LeWue01uUKoEMG Kv54~o6A
    Remove the space between G and K.