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  1. Re:Reinventing EMail CLIENT on Remail: IBM is Reinventing Email · · Score: 1

    No, its because slashdot are providing the -service- of doing it for me. A service for their users who only have a single e-mail address and limited means by which to use that address (i.e. locked into POP3 or worse, webmail fronts for advertisers... repeat after me: webmail is not e-mail...).

    Listen, I'll try again: SPAM can be defeated with Multiple E-mail Addresses, and a high valued use of e-mail in general ...

  2. Re:Reinventing EMail CLIENT on Remail: IBM is Reinventing Email · · Score: 1

    Pfftt...

    I've been using e-mail for 20 years now, and it hasn't changed a bit.

    If you're getting SPAM, its because you're not using e-mail enough ...

  3. Re:The American Response on Real Gun Pulled At Counter-Strike Tournament · · Score: 1

    UMMM.... Its not the gun, or the atom bomb, or the sword, or the sharp pointy stick, which decides to kill someone and then does everything they can to kill them.

    It is the human.

    Just as Jesus' words, fictional or not, are still not any less or more powerful than any weapon, since the words themselves don't have any weight whatsoever.

    It is the person doing the talking that matters.

  4. Re:But did they use mathematical models? on Linux PCs Drive 74-Channel Pipe Organ · · Score: 1


    There is no such thing as an accurately modeled resonator.

    You can model its material properties, ad infinitum, as many ways in the world as there are to induce an object to resonate.

    The point of 'modeling' is that it is an analog, not a copy, and can therefore be scaled across infinite formulae and/or hardware implementations ...

  5. Re:ruler, inclinometer on Finding Airfoil Data For Amateur Projects? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah... that would've been neat in 1902, maybe.

    Airfoil follows fairly well-known laws of aerodynamics; I would wager that any modern use of airfoil data is an order of magnitude (time) more extensive in its demand for details...

    What he wants is data - modern data - which means probably *lots* of data for modelling, analysis, on a very accurate scale.

  6. Re:Obligatury Simpons quote on Japanese Train Sets A Speed Record Of 581 kph · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Umm... a greased Scotsman is a train.

  7. Re:i would prefer the snake on Pill Helps Doctors See Digestive Tract · · Score: 1

    What if the doctor misses something? What if?

    To be truly safe, you should have *both* procedures.

    Hell, why not have the pillcam embedded in your system permanently, so you can watch it yourself on a daily, consistent, obsessive-compulsive, regular basis.

  8. Re:If you liked that... on Get to Know GnomeMeeting · · Score: 1

    Oh man, please tell me she writes code.

  9. Woohoo! Finally... on Get to Know GnomeMeeting · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... a decent non-geek screenshot of a multimedia application that makes me *want* to use it:

    http://www.gnomemeeting.org/screenshots/latest/G no meMeeting_In_A_Call.png

  10. What, no Aliens? on BT's Predictions for the Future · · Score: 1, Funny

    If we're going to have totally wired cyborg societies, then come on... when are the aliens landing on the whitehouse lawn?

    Freaky. I do *not* want borgs living in my neighborhood.

    Guess I'll have to live on a boat...

  11. The solution is obvious!!!! on Who Owns The Facts? · · Score: 1


    Every single individual who wants to protect their data must become their own legal corporation, and assign all rights and ownership of all personal details to that corporation.

    From that point on, any corporation that wishes to use such details must negotiate a contract with the Person Corp., and fight it out, corporate-style.

  12. Re:Parts just do not add up on Cheap Linux Tablets, And (Maybe) An Apple Tablet · · Score: 1

    To me though none of these pieces add up. I can possibly see HD video feeds between components and even PC's being of some use - but to a tablet? HD resolution is going to be wasted on a tablet screen (at least at current DPI for LCD's).


    Say that again when you're in bed, tablet on your lap, watching your latest geekshow ...

  13. Re:That's okay: Use ParaGUI instead... on Trolltech Discontinue Non-Commercial Qt · · Score: 1

    In the case of ParaGUI just forget about it and download it, build the demo's and see for yourself how cool it is.

    Totally themable, good-quality open code for widgets you'd expect to work well ... I think ParaGUI has some future.

  14. This is a Straw Man. on On The Death Of Unix · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Linux is freakin' *everywhere*.

    Set-top boxes, watches, radios, DVD players, arcade video game cabinets, traffic lights, webcams, surveillance-cams, networking hubs, point-of-sale cash registers, automobiles, submarines, tanning booths, theme-park rides, oh, and lest we forget beowulf and the server/desktop worlds.

    To say that "Unix is Dead" is to set up a straw man... lets argue about 'why unix is or is not dead' and in the meantime ignore the fact - *FACT* - that the Linux kernel is revolutionizing computing as we know it.

    It is a totally free OS, and it is being used every day by hardware manufacturers around the world, in extremely diverse markets, to bring new product to light.

    I wouldn't call that dead. I'd call anyone calling it dead a moron, though...

  15. That's okay: Use ParaGUI instead... on Trolltech Discontinue Non-Commercial Qt · · Score: 3, Informative

    www.paragui.org (follow the link to savannah)

    The market for cross-platform toolkits is wiiiiide open, and there's a lot of ground to be covered. ParaGUI (on top of SDL) is not such a bad choice ....

  16. What this means to me: on Anti-static Polymer Stores Data, Too · · Score: 1

    Video surveillance algorithms now have an extra order of magnitude to deal with/rely on/utilize-for-efficiency.

    "Internet1" (cache of the 'net as it stands today) could be stored in everyones /tmp/public_p2p/ folder.

    Internet2, of course, requires a whole lotta more garbage bags...

  17. Re:Cheap WORM == ultimate secondary storage on Anti-static Polymer Stores Data, Too · · Score: 1

    Cheap is one thing. Paper is cheap.

    SPEED is the factor you're overlooking in your smart conclusion.

    Doesn't matter if its cheap, if its slow, its useless.

  18. Re:No doubt the OEMs have not been told on Embedded Device Manufacturers Ignoring GPL · · Score: 1


    There are also a number of cases where Asian/Eastern engineering firms have used GPL extensively in their products, and made their changes available, and been extremely successful with the effort.

    Case in point: Samsung, and the legion of service-industry companies around their 3rd-party engineering teams.

    I have worked extensively in this field, and as well have been a user of Linux since the post to minix-list, and I can tell you that it swings both ways with the Asian engineering firms. A lot of them 'get it' with regards to the GPL, and pitch in and do things their own way under terms of the GPL (grr ... korean README's ... grr...) and are in fact indistinguishable from American/Western companies in terms of practice and use of the GPL.

    But of course, on both sides of the ocean, there will be pirates.

    As a user of embedded Linux, I'm pretty confident that no matter the GPL use of linux, the use of linux will be good for Linux.

  19. Re:Was supporting open source Lou Gerstner's idea? on GUI Designer For Eclipse · · Score: 1

    Although I agree with some of the things you wrote, it is obvious that you have never worked with Java... It is trivial to decompile java classes.

    Hoo boy, your logic is whack.

    How is it obvious from what he said, that he's never used Java?

    He's not talking about Java. He's talking about .NET. How do you know he doesn't *also* think this same thought about Java bytecode?

    Oh wait, I get it, because he attacked .NET, you have to respond and sway the argument off into la-la land... I get it now.

    Like I said, your 'logic' is whack.

  20. Re:After looking at this closer... on Kurzweil Gets A Patent For Poetic Software · · Score: 1

    Art has always been worthless.

    It is modern values for art as a commodity which are the abomination, not the norm.

    Any single human being alive can be an artist. All it takes is for them to create something they consider worth sharing with their fellow humans beings.

    That's all. After that point, its all downhill.

  21. Re:Get off the cross on Around the World in a Solar Plane · · Score: 1

    We shouldn't save the Planet, we should save ourselves.

    And what of our children? And their children? And their children? Will they be left with the spoils of our vanity and greed?

    Assho--. Get off your fat ass and stop consuming!

  22. The troops in Iraq ... on Why Random Encounters In RPGs Aren't That Bad · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... know a few things about why random encounters with RPG's are a bad thing ...

  23. Re:What are you talking about? on Effective XML · · Score: 1

    XML doesn't just describe trees.

    I've got hash tables, linked lists, b-tree's, indexes and databases, all working just fine in an XML framework, no performance problems at all, everything works very nicely.

    You're just looking for an argument, not finding one.

  24. Okay, thats *IT*!!! on MPAA Close to Another "Stealth Victory" in Ohio · · Score: 1

    I'm getting a video camera (stereo) implanted in my forehead, wiring it up to my heart for power, and hard-wiring the power *ON*.

    No matter where I go, what I do, everything is going to be recorded from now on, for *my* uses only.

    Lets see if they can turn *THAT* off.

  25. I have a 120-gig HD ... on iPod-Jacked · · Score: 1

    ... full of system images of my friends iPods' ...

    Super great fun, just copying an entire record collection in one fell swoop. Never mind this one-at-a-time-mp3-downloading rubbish ... iPod is *HIGH BANDWIDTH*, damn!