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  1. Bad movies, are something new? on Movie Industry Blames Texting for Bad Box Office · · Score: 1

    The American movie industry deserves a good kick in the ass anyway! Makes you wonder if there is so much extra cash out there that they need real big tax write offs again with movies like the HULK happening. As J Leno said "If the hype makes it looks like it will be a Block Buster then thats were you will find it next week!"

  2. Re:RedHat..Yah slack would be great but!. on The Increasing Cost of Red Hat Linux? · · Score: 1

    Thanks I will. Pico does rock for doing a quick config without X though. You got to admit it is fast!

  3. You miss the point. on Microsoft Virus Spam: SoBig.F · · Score: 1
    The fact that you can effectively install shit by clicking on it is the problem. Therefore Microsofts UI and OS is the problem..PERIOD Yes users are stupid but it is MS OS methods that are making them stupid. Teach people to protect their OS in the first place by making them do it and they will and guess what they will like it! Those who use windows have no right to bitch about stupid users.

    The only ones who will bitch if MS changed their OS are script kiddies, they would effectively be castrated. Now the solution that is coming with trusted computing is to not alow the user to make any critical choices. Typical MS treat people as stupid, then control their usage marketing. It will most likely work at first till someone cracks the processor encoding shit and starts to take down MS users big time! Do not fool yourself it will happen the more we think cyber attacks can be stopped by an encoding system the more the real crackers will work to whack it. The only way to protect ones self is to know how to hit stop buttons and be aware of the activity you and your computer are doing! Good example is hiding winipcfg in win 98, from users, then making people think that you need to go to your local MS crap/business college to learn how it works. Bullshit!

  4. Re:Good example on China Upgrades from Microsoft Office · · Score: 1

    Is it that long since in Ohio some innocent students proved that we are no different? How easily you forget!

  5. Re:"Offending" code? on Open Source Community Approaches SCO · · Score: 1

    I can get pretty puffed out when using the emac gui to do anything! Try looking at emac source comments whoooooa how the hell, it works just shut up and compile. No I just made a syntax error not a friggin' novel!

  6. Re:Irony - please contact your employer on SCO: FSF Reply To GPL Claims, Conference Sponsors Back Off? · · Score: 1

    No a direct attack is actions to co-opt Gnu by telling hardware manufacturers in public to not support any Open or free software because they will lose MS partner status. To publically use coordinated scheduled modifications to specs to confound free and open source software coders. We know they do this in the back ground. If the real extent of their coersion was public knowledge they would be in real trouble image wise. There is precious little difference between hardware releases there is always changes to drivers that are simple switch path functions. The faster a new Windows printer can come to market with really little change to the previous, but then so called upgraded drivers the happier MS is with the company. The same thing goes for any hardware that requires a driver. Sometimes these changes are only simple calls to DLLs that are proprietary not innovation at all. The screwing up of interoperability is one of the biggest tricks MS uses. I am tempted to do a detailed time line history product by product of this business practice and publish. Too bad slashdots Gods have not got the balls to do it already.

  7. Re:Irony - please contact your employer on SCO: FSF Reply To GPL Claims, Conference Sponsors Back Off? · · Score: 1
    You got it right companies like MS do not dare directly attack the GPL. Because the International howl would rip their already tarnished image to pieces. Solution get a company that is going down the drain to do it.

    One can only hope that the SEC checks into who is buying SCO stock in great detail! It is obvious that the SCO execs are taking a slushy fund payoff for this action but from where. Who the hell is buying up SCO! I sure as hell hope it is not IBM or some American government sponsored thing headed by the software IP and patent lobby groups, and politicos!

  8. Re:All this reminds me of a joke... on Solving a Wiring Mess? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Whats brown and hangs on to a wire, ...unqualified electricians.

  9. Get one box that can run off less pwer as on Solving a Wiring Mess? · · Score: 1

    Get one box that can run off much less power transfer your critical stuff to it, rent it if you have to. Stick a temp power source anywhere you can if you can, if not try farming out for the fix time. Shut the mess off and get the power fixed, by a real electrician after you have mapped your total current needs. Having the needs identified first greatly reduces the install repair time and costs. If you do anything else I hope you have a really understanding insurance policy and good business coverage!

  10. New Yorkers will love this camera! on Sony Shoots For 4-Filter CCD, 8 Megapixel Camera · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Rats I see the New York croud is coming back on line time to do something else. A prosumer camera post is the kind of digitally dysfunctional new speak that no New York yank wanker can resist. The Zeiss lens is all fluff and will mean nothing if the firm ware sucks like most other Sony low grade consumer stuff nowadays. Unfortunatly Sony, a once stellar brand, has been reduced to putting out low end junk to make quick bucks. They sure as hell should have stayed out of the memory and computer market. Now only respected brand naming keeps them afloat. Then again so does the much touted Electrohome brand for junktronics in Canada. If you can coin crap like prosumer I can coin the word JUNKTRONICS!

  11. Re:Explain why this was posted... on Are You Man or Mouse? · · Score: 1

    I quake in fear....like the little mouse over there who actually started the story. Give Michel due credit for not being an anon poster. Further the ability to use the area on the genome (once thought to be fluff) to help understand the tree of life is something very contraversial and very much a good slashdot science topic. If you are involved in genetics at all you need to have your head read now, stop your research and go see a shrink before continuing!

  12. Re:How to take care of portability on Carriers Might Profit From Cell Number Portability · · Score: 1

    On the contrary working on call makes them great, you do not have to jump to answer the frigging phone or pay the extortion fees for cell voice mail! They cost one hell of a lot less per month even with messaging. It is just plain rude to not answer or return incoming calls, legit e-mail etc and I do not do business with people who do not.

  13. Menue anyone? on The Death of A Universe · · Score: 1

    There is a really good resturaunt out there and there is even animals that prepare themselves for consumption after letting you examine the fair first, at the end of the Universe.

  14. Yipes, hope they do not use some Doom mod code! on World's First Game-Playing DNA Computer · · Score: 1
    "developing simple decision-making solutions that can operate in vivo. Molecules could, for example, assess faults in a living cell and then either kill or repair it."

    Yipes, hope they do not use some Doom mod code I've seen! Code with comments like " this should take all your extra lives away"

  15. Computer naming project! on The Death of A Universe · · Score: 1

    I have started a computer project to produce the 9 billion possible names of God in the Hebrew language. Any ./ dotters with code experience can help. The project might be very short lived if I can get my code to run on a good Opteron linux cluster!

  16. Re:The Guardian not safe for browsing with IE on The Death of A Universe · · Score: 1

    I would highly recomend Mozilla and shut off the friggin extra crap in IE \options\security you will find them, do not let redirects happen! Whatever you do stay away from linux if you have not even figured out how to browse the net with safety yet! For sure just shut the shit off ctrl-alt-delete before the crap downloads installs. How the hell did you load something without first letting it happen? The Guardian comes up clean in Mozilla and is no problem in Linux.

  17. Re:My conscience and ethics are torn on RPC DCOM Cleanup Worm Appears · · Score: 1
    What is friggin' silly is leaving ports open in the first place. The fact that defaults to open is the Windows install option is just plain silly. Anyone who installs Windows and does not pay attention to how the security is set then hands the computer to Joe user and say here it is, just put it on the net deserves to have their ass kicked.

    What am I saying that is just about any computer sales and tech dept of any store around! Not to mention Dell, Sony, Gateway and all the other names. So not to worry about your ethics, the big name companies and distributors sure as hell do not.

  18. No No Help! on RPC DCOM Cleanup Worm Appears · · Score: 1

    No kill I, I children feed! ./msblast please PLEASE!!

  19. Processor encoded security changes. on Ask a Music Producer/Publicist About Filesharing and the RIAA · · Score: 1

    Given that MS, Intel and most of the hardware guys are on board with measures that are going to completely sink file sharing of unathorised content, could there start to be greater value in musicians going it alone? Is the record industry really in that much of a slump? There is now a better secure and inexpensive method for indies to really develope market share. I think the advent of secured content computing could really hurt the big labels, and really help indies!

  20. Re:42 on Are You Man or Mouse? · · Score: 1

    We really are coming to the end of the epoc, there is a Vogon Constructor just outside the orbit of the Sun. Doe was right he just went to early, get the pills Doe here I come........

  21. Re:Explain why this was posted... on Are You Man or Mouse? · · Score: 1

    Go play quake three and wonder why genetics stories make it to a post about science. This is a hell of a to the point scientific post. Grow TFU, or only use your computer to play games, and be another /. lame brain.

  22. Re:I call troll. on Are You Man or Mouse? · · Score: 1

    Troll away but a 500-700lb grizz finds going up a thin branched skinny tree a little difficult and usually has trouble getting up trees in general. Claws can't quite hold the weight. A 400 lb black bear is a different story. You get out of the way of a snorting, barking Grizz and they will usually leave you be. Just kind of stamp off knowing they are boss, if they are just trying to tell you to fuck off. If the Grizzly is thinking you are food though you are toast. Blacks are a different story if they think you are dinner then you had better make them hesitate by whacking them hard with a stick. In my case the Grizzly hesitated to climb the tree and really was not sure if I was edible or not, I smelled funny too as insect repelant and a guy who is fishing and hasn't washed for a week gets a little high. Anyway the guys who I was with could hear me yellin' and came running with a bear banger. That put the bear off real quick. He dicided to go look for lunch somewhere else. I was happy with his choice and did not hold a grudge. Afterall we were both after fish him anything that swims me steelhead to shake hands with.

  23. Well Dah??? on Are You Man or Mouse? · · Score: 1, Troll

    We are closely related to creatures that climb trees to escape preditors, we have been known to do the same. I was once treed by a Grizzly myself. Humans have been on the carnivor diner list in the past and in some situations they still are. It should come as no suprise that we are closer in genetics to rats than cats. Rodents can be very preditory in the right situation. I am not at all suprised by these findings. Unfortunately the ignorant religous fundimentalists are going to have another reason to bash genetic science. I would not be suprised if these scientific result are not at all popular. You can bet some scientists will be hired to repute them the same way they did with Darwin.

  24. Re:More living things in computer cases on Aquarium Modcase · · Score: 1

    Now it most likely does a better bench mark running Quake3 under XP than a P$4 3gig with the latest ATI wundercard!

  25. How to take care of portability on Carriers Might Profit From Cell Number Portability · · Score: 4, Funny

    I was thinking of changing carriers because my (Telus) plan was a real ripoff. Then I went saltwater flyfishing and forgot that my cell phone was in my coat pocket. It solved the problem. I have found that if my voice mail, e-mail and pager will not suffice for the caller then the person calling was not worth talking to anyway. I always return calls from real people and finally realised that the ones that are desperate to get something for nothing in a hurry use the cell to call you. If it is that important people will get through. Cell phones for some people are a huge waste of money. They were for me. The next time I think about getting a cell I will just go fishing instead!