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  1. Well, that's an intelligent story on NetBSD 1.5.3 Released, 1.6 On The Way · · Score: 5, Informative
    No links to netBSD from slashdot. I guess that's why MY submission of the story was rejected.

    Here ya go, click and drool:

    netbsd.org
    ftp.netbsd.org
    official text of the release
    Mirror listing, for when the ftp server gets slashdotted

  2. There's a really good site out there on Best Websites for Developers? · · Score: 2

    There's a really good site out there called slashdot. You should post a question to their ask.slashdot section, and you're certain to get some really knowledgable replies.

  3. Turbolinux is dying! on Has TurboLinux Collapsed? · · Score: 2

    Yet another beleagured bombshell hit the slashdot community today when it was revealed that Turbolinux may be dying. Linuxgram sent this weeniegram purporting the apparent demise.

    And it doesn't stop there! Linuxgram hits home with the realization that all the commercial distros are facing problems, and that's why they were banding together to form UnitedLinux. But a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Now it shows that TurboLinux may destroy the whole UnitedLinux project!

  4. Re:It won't happen on John Gilmore Sues Ashcroft et al. for Freedom to Travel · · Score: 2

    But it can be argued that it's not practical this day and age to exist everywhere sans car. And it can also be argued that cars today are the equivelant of a horse drawn carriage back when the constitution was written. And there were no carriage operator licenses that I'm aware of. Such things were considered to be a "right". The founding fathers were businessmen, not hippies. If you read the constitution with that in mind, you'll find that the US is WAY out of alignment with their principals.

  5. It won't happen on John Gilmore Sues Ashcroft et al. for Freedom to Travel · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm probably gonna get marked troll for this, but here goes.

    He's not going to win, for the same reason that you don't have a RIGHT to drive a car. Mr Gillmore is perfectly free to travel to his destination on foot or bicycle. I don't agree with that statement and think it contradicts the 10th amendment, but necessary and proper has prevailed. Air travel is interstate commerce, and thus can be regulated by the gov't.

  6. Re:But it's built by GM... on GM's Billion-Dollar Fuel-Cell Bet · · Score: 1

    Funny, I have a '90 buick century that just turned over to 200,000 miles. Original motor and trans. Runs good, uses no fluids. Only thing I've had to do is replace the blower motor and thermostat. It's not the most fun car to work on, but it runs good enough.

  7. How about . . . on Harvesting Capacitors for Backyard Munitions · · Score: 2

    Parking lot lights and other high intensity discharge lighting systems contain high current(to 55microfarad) capacitors. If you're looking to buy them here's Advance Transformer's catalogue for that sort of thing. Capacitors start on page 46. Their main page is http://advancetransformer.com

  8. Dang! on Jerry Falwell Claims Name is Trademarked · · Score: 3, Funny

    And someone also registered jerryfartwell.com

    You'd think he'd know all about parody by now, what, but I guess some guys never learn.

  9. Re:Would a moderation system slow them down? on Overpeer Spewing Bogus Files on P2P Networks · · Score: 1

    If this is a new problem, just allow users who have been on for longer than this problem has existed to moderate. Later on in the game we can allow other trusted users to moderate, and the system will evolve, just like another site you might be familiar with.

  10. Re:Reasons? on Microsoft To Exhibit at LinuxWorld Expo · · Score: 1

    > Demonstration of how Linux servers and Windows workstations can live in peace as soon as their engineers stop changing the specifications every
    five minutes.

    Probably gonna get marked troll or flamebait for this, but is the way microsoft changes the protocols the same as the way that the linux distros can't agree on command line syntax for utilities?

  11. A disk? on "Winking" Star Thought to Harbor a Disk · · Score: 1

    Would this disk happen to be supported by 4 elephants on the back of a turtle?

  12. Seriously on What's on Your Summer 2002 Reading List? · · Score: 1

    I'll probably get marked as troll for saying this but . . .

    Mein Kampf

    I figure it's something I need to read anyway, and history runs in cycles. It's interesting to know where people are coming from.

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    JgNmTfW/Pt1fzBZIT0FycakvwNC8h9cQYR aj+An5/y67BvA/hB ytdpB0UCPD2gS

  13. Re:its all the same. on How Hard is it to Manage Different Unices? · · Score: 1

    I'm sure you meant to type vi instead of emacs for editing a file. Also, you won't write a scritp directly with any of those options, but you'll use them to interpret scripts.

  14. Re:Big Bro on Surveillance Update · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I saw it. At first I thought the kids were sorry for paying income taxes. All the things they cited have been done by the CIA at one time or another.

  15. Open source helps terrorists? on 'Think Tank' Issues Microsoft-Funded Troll · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Google search for al qaeda and microsoft

    Google search for al qaeda and linux

    Those search results speak for themselves on who helps terrorists.

  16. What about nethack? on Mobile Gaming with BREW · · Score: 1

    Will the world's most ported game be ported to the cellphone? I can't imagine a cellphone ascention. And since you'd only have the numberpad, I guess it would be hard to actually do anyhting except walk around the dungeon.

    I guess you could use one of the keys as an option key to allow you to scroll thru the commands(apply, . , close, tAkeitalloff, ., Call), and you could just go up and down selecting inventory.

    Just a thought

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    JHFG_#@9599f999f9amAMANN)@Ml)28fl2KKF03

  17. Re:Door games on Remembering the BBS · · Score: 1

    Alan Davenport. He ran a bulliten board called Al's Cabin. My friends and I went to his house completely by accident, it was halloween, and we get to this house, with the name Davenport. He had a lizard, he talked about it on the board all the time, I forget the name, but we knocked on the door, the lizard was out, Alan said "would you like to pet N." I said, "You're Alan Davenport! Wow, I didn't think I'd ever meet you." All in all it was a positive experience. I think that was like '95 or '96. The board went down the next year, because he just didn't have the time anymore.

  18. Re:Don't forget on Remembering the BBS · · Score: 1

    >> 8 bit? 7 bit? Parity??

    7E1 eh? Who sold you your system, Marconi?

    (taken from The Jersey Shore, later Off Hour Rockers BBS, when you connected with those settings)

  19. Re:Door games on Remembering the BBS · · Score: 1

    I once met the guy who wrote yankee trader. I never really played that game. He wrote another one too, and I don't remember what it was, but I seem to think it was more popular.

  20. Re:Uh... on Geek Outdoor Hobbies? · · Score: 1

    In AEthelmarc and the East, the troll is the person you pay when you get to the event.

    Come See the Endless Hills of AEthelmaerc

  21. Re:Doe he understand what he's talking about? on Gates: Say No to GPL, Yes to the Microsoft Ecosystem · · Score: 1

    It is now official - Slashdot has confirmed: *VSB is alive and thriving
    Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered AC crowd when Slashdot reported that FreeVSB has released a new version. This comes right on the heels of freeVSB going home, when Wind River and FreeVSB Mall Inc. published a joint press-release today announcing the sale of Wind River's FreeVSB assets to Bob Bruce, founder of Walnut Creek CDROM--the company that in 1993 first published FreeVSB. This was the company that almost a decade ago declared to the world that *VSB is alive and thriving!
    The FreeVSB Mall web site has been redesigned, with many new products, including FreeVSB CDs, books, polo shirts, microfiber jackets, boxer shorts, bumper stickers, lapel pins, several different styles of t-shirts, mouse pads, travel mugs, buttons, sticker sheets, plate logos, denim shirts, CD cases, and paid support options.
    FreeVSB and its close relatives NetVSB and OpenVSB all are open-source projects, meaning that anyone can see, change and distribute the underlying source code.
    With the main FreeVSB distribution back in the hands of the record holding Free Software distributor Bob Bruce, trolls posting that *VSB is dead had better keep the "anonymous" in "anonymous coward

  22. It's all about the liability on Sony Intentionally Crashes Customers' Computers · · Score: 1

    Sony is just trying to cover their respective bottoms, due to this recent problem. They figure no mal-adjusted nerds will listen to the cd and kill themselves this way, only conformist sheep who listen to their cds on regular hardware.

    LF_)#NFNFNFQAK)@02-123041JFOA904jJ-0jfas

  23. Re:Well then... on FCC: Cable ISPs Need Not Give Competitors Access · · Score: 1

    I'd be interested to know what they fined adelphia for.

  24. Re:OT: my bitch on FCC on Ultra-Wideband, DSL Services · · Score: 1

    My case is closed. Granted, the screws aren't in it, but the case is closed. And it's not just interference on the power lines, I get it in my car, too. And I can imagine what it does to amater radio, seeing as the eq under my desk(which DOESN'T claim any specific FCC compliance on the nameplate, which is IIRC in violation, but says "sutible for home and office use") drowns out the 50kw radio staion 3 miles away, line of sight.

    It wasn't so much a post directed at this thread, either, it was one of those things where I'd "had enough" and hit [reply] at the easiest possible moment

  25. OT: my bitch on FCC on Ultra-Wideband, DSL Services · · Score: 1

    Everyone's so concerned about their uber-leet GPS devices MAYBE being disturbed by this new technology, when the SB4100 completely OBLITERATES the entire AM radio spectrum for about 300'. I'm going to get modded to hell and back, I know. But perhaps we should look at the devices we have, and how they affect the radio spectrum.