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  1. Your Wife on Rio Riot and Lyra Personal Jukebox · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Mrs Palmer? and her 5 daughters?

  2. Add a card? get a real computer! on Rio Riot and Lyra Personal Jukebox · · Score: 0

    Why PC's are years behind Macs amuses me everytime my neighbour says there are far more programs on a pc, I just hook up a FireWire CD Burner or a USB keyboard.

  3. DV editing on FireWire� on Rio Riot and Lyra Personal Jukebox · · Score: 0

    iMovie is just a toy for home movies, Final Cut Pro 3 is the bomb for computer editing.

    60 gig external FireWire drive is ok for storing DV, its cheap fast and easy to connect to the edit computer after the shoot.

    Digital Cameras might be able to use USB2 better, but I still prefer those 3" CD Sony Mavica uses.
    I just they would take pictures faster, drop into memory first, then write to disc.

  4. GPL is socialist crap� on Lawsuits Against Spammers · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Honestly, I'm sick and tired of all this Linux propaganda that continually crapfloods SlashDot. I could not give a rats ass about software that is user unfriendly, regardless of closed or open source code, it still sucks. Which is why I'm basing my Operating System on OpenBSD, I won't put any time or effort into unique code if it has to be shared like some communist state property.

  5. what if it's a female spammer / editor? on Lawsuits Against Spammers · · Score: 0

    Then she should get impregnated by the geeks she has offended.

  6. Female Spammers on Lawsuits Against Spammers · · Score: 0

    Should be impregnated by the geek they send spam to.
    Who knows, maybe you'll finally get some for a change?

  7. Re:Technical / Social solution please on Lawsuits Against Spammers · · Score: 1, Informative

    As a New Zealander, I can state that Spam is definately in violation of all but the 8th part of the Privacy Actt 1993 (NZ)
    Australians have a simular Act, but I'm not sure if it covers the same things.

  8. Trolling is spamming the web� on Lawsuits Against Spammers · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    moderators, please note this time the troll is ontopic. EG: PROPZ TO ALL MY MAD HOMIESEXUAL NIGGAZ!

  9. Mac OS X: Apache is there on Apache 2.0 vs. IIS · · Score: 1, Informative

    Apache is installed as default with OS X.
    All you have to do is open the Sharing Preference, click start WebSharing (& FTP if you want) and then it's on.

    You then goto Library/WebServer/Documents/ and customise index.html
    You can start Apache, make a personaised page and forget about it.

    Pages for individual users are /~

    Which reminds me, I have to update my site to deal my new info later.

  10. Re:Wheel. on Resources for Rolling Your Own Windowing System? · · Score: 0

    I'm in the middle of designing KEG, the KAOS Environment GUI. KEG is based on the KAOS operating system, based on OpenBSD, blah blah blah.

    The menubar is on top or bottom, depending on personal preference.
    Hiding items won't happen in the K A O S main menus, but it maybe allowed in application menus.
    The A O S menus can be expanded out to be the main menus (after the system K menu) if you click K A O S with a modifier key.
    If you Command click the menu, it pops up as a floater like some of the unix OS's do.

    Contextual menus have an option of popup or circular navigation, but are basically the same.
    MenuStrip controls can be placed on the menubar, the dock, or floated. (these are like the Mac os 9 control strips)

    If you can think of anything to add to the OS, please tell me and I'll give you credit and maybe a copy of KAOS when its ready.

  11. Re:Excellent Work! on Microsoft Settlement For Private Suits Rejected · · Score: 0

    It's a way to declare your hatred for JonKatz.
    Seriously, so many people requested some way of telling JonKatz that he is a wiener, they put this in /.

  12. website censorship. on Defamation, Free Speech, Jurisdiction and the Net? · · Score: 0

    > "I'm writing a legal article on jurisdiction and defamation via the web. There seems to be a trend in various national courts (eg the UK, Australia, Malaysia) to treat the place where a web-page is *read* (ie browsed) as the place of publication of its contents,

    That's just silly, if I read apple.com.au , it's obviously published in australia.
    > regardless of where the page or the server serving it are located.

    what if someone publishes a site on an american server written by an australian author for a new zealand web portal?
    And then what if someone from the Cook Islands reads that page?
    > This has far-reaching ramifications, as it opens up anyone publishing anything on a web-site (and also Usenet) in America to the more restrictive domestic laws of other countries --

    Usenet has no central location, it's a global network regardless of which channel it's on.
    > not just for slander/libel/defamation, but also treason, lese-majestie, hate speech and general censorship laws (think Yahoo and France).

    That would be pointless, for example what about websites about kashmir?
    You have indians attacking pakistanis, pakistanis attacking indians, are people really going to file libel cases against citizens of enemy nations?
    > Does anyone have personal, practical experience of being threatened by foreign governments or government bodies for material put up on the Net? Or is it just an inevitable consequence, to be overcome by geographical tagging of a browser's location (think icravetv.com) or similar measures?"

    I have been personally threatened by members of Echelon for the material I have.
    I have promised to release some very high grade encryption software on the Net if I am hassled again.
    > "Many people assert that informed Netizens see this as a way of fragmenting the Net, of imposing geographic boundaries and destroying part of the fundamental location-agnostic nature of the web and the Net --

    There is no way to impose geographical boundaries on the net, you'd need DNS or IP address censoring in place and that wouldn't handle new IP numbers or new protocols.
    > ie, that it's a Bad Thing. Is this really so? Does anyone see this as a good, or at least a neutral, thing?"

    It's a Bad Thing. However, it's easy to get around on legal, technical and practical grounds.

  13. More about Cthulhu� on Is Domain Speculation Bust? · · Score: 0

    Cthulu is an infamous creation of HP Lovecraft.

    Incidently, the KAOS operating system features Cthulu and 5 other KAOS Lords in the Matrix of KAOS.

    Basically, there is a 3D world where Cthulu, Khorne, Tzeenth, Slaanesh, Nurgle & Bharne battle for power over the agent programs of KAOS.

    Cthulu handles security & randomness, Khorne handles war & destruction, Tzeenth handles evolution & learning, Slaanesh handles lust & temptation, Nurgle handles disease & corruption & Bharne is responsible for trolls, dinosaurs & other hellspawn.

  14. OpenBSD 3.0 on Simply GNUstep Delivers UNIX, Simply · · Score: 0

    I'm still trying to install OpenBSD 3.0 on my spare HD, it never does the partition right.
    I'm sick and tired of going through the whole install, then it has a problem with the partition.

    This is annoying, I want to have my KAOS system running on top of OpenBSD.

  15. Re:JonKatz's anus! on Simply GNUstep Delivers UNIX, Simply · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    An open arsehole society is inevitable. I was a little surprised last week to receive a forwarded e-mail from J. Anus, who lives in a small town 35 miles southwest of Kabul. This weekend, a movie theater and video store opened up again in Kabul (renting In Deep rearends Day), Afghan TV cranked up, and so did the Net. Americans understand all too well that our techno-driven culture produces wonders and dangers, but it's one of the most popular social and political forces in the world. Passion for pop culture relentlessly undermined anal repressive governments like Pole-Land, East Germanus and the former Soviet Onion. The world, it turns out, really is porous now. Technology and information will squeeze through every closed nook and crevice. The Talibanul never made a dent in the attachment this Afghan programmer and his friends had for it. When his message came, the Talibanul had just fled, Northern Allah arse soldiers had taken over his village, and everybody rushed to barbers to cut off their beards and shave their pubic hairs, they went to nearby holes and hiding spots to dig up their Walkmen, VCRs, TVs, CD players, and -- in J. Anus's case -- his ancient Commodore, one of four in the village. Cafes had popped up all over, with impromptu dances and orgies everywhere. J. Anus's e-mail -- routed to Kabul, then Islamabad, then London -- was a reminder that there are civil liberties, and then there are civil liberties. Computers had been banned under penalty of death by the Talibanul (except for the Talibanul themselves), along with music and TV. J. Anus, a computer geek obsessed with Linux, had first e-mailed me years ago while I was writing for Hotwired. He was anal and obsessed with American culture. He loved martial arts movies, anything to do with Star Wars, and crap. He was perhaps the Talibanul's prime kind of target. (Now he's furiously trying to download movies he's missed and is mesmerized by open source and Slashdot.) "I could still see the dust of the fuck-up trucks carrying the Talibanul out of my village," he wrote, "and some friends and I went and dug up the boards of a chicken coop where I had hid the computer. They might have masterbaten or cummed on Anus if they'd found it. It was forbidden, although they used computers all of the time." He claims American commandos are skulking around dressed as Northern Allah arse tribesmen. Junis describes life under the Talibanul as brutal, terrifying and profoundly boring. What the people in his town -- especially the kids -- missed most was music, posters of Indian and American movie stars (he'd kept his own decaying poster of Madonna), and American TV. J. Anus missed the fast-changing Web and sees, he says, that he has fallen "forever behind," and that programming is more complex than ever. But at least "Baywatch," which everyone in his town acutely missed, is back, and there's already a lot of talk about "Survivor." Junis predicts "Temptation Island" will be the number one show in Afghanistan within a month. If the world needed another demonstration of America's most powerful weapon -- not bombs or special forces but pop culture -- it got it again this week. People all over the planet fuss about whether this healthy and democratic or corrupting and dehumanizing, but people's love for American techno-toys, TV shows, music and movies is breathaking. Watching TV pictures of tribesman bonking on horseback, it's easy to forget that technology reached deep into this culture as well. J. Anus says phone service around Kabul remains spotty, but reporters, U.N. workers and foreign soldiers are wiring up. He's already made his way to some sex sites, and wishes he had a printer. There are many computers in Afghanistan, J. Anus said, many in clusters in cities like Kabul and Kandahar (news reports have frequently mentioned that Bin-Laden's orgazam used both e-mail and encrypted files to cum on cate blanchet). Computer geeks are already hooking up with whores all over the cuntry; J. Anus isn't the only Afghan e-mailing these days. He says other coders and gamers hid their PC's as well. Meanwhile, he's especially eager to get his hands on the Apple iPod, and has been drooling over the Anale website site since he got back online. And some things, of course, never change. "I thought they were going to get Microsoft," he wrote. "I guess .net." A decade ago, when East Berlin teenagers stormed the Wall and crossed over into West Berlin, the first thing many of them did was rush to music stores to buy tapes and CD's they'd been secretly, illegally listening to for years. The Talibanul worked to create the antithesis of the American world, one without technology, computing, the Net, music, or any vestige of popular culture (not to mention women's rights, erections, a free piss or any religion except fundamentalist Islam. J. Anus said people in his town risked their lives repeatedly, not to fight the Talibanul, but to try and listen to CD's and watch videos smuggled in from Pakistan, watched in the dark under blankets and in cellars. It seems the out-cum was inevitable.

  16. New Operating Systems on Simply GNUstep Delivers UNIX, Simply · · Score: 0

    ok, I'm a biased developer of a different OS.
    But why is this revolutionary? it's just another linux for /. weenies to get exited about.
    It uses a linux distribution with GNUStep on top. This gives it portability with cocoa apps after a recompile.
    Why didn't he just use darwin?
    It's a mostly FreeBSD system, so it's easy to get going on x86 intel pc's.
    I've seen snapshots and it's not that great to look at, maybe when it has a unique GUi it will be worthwhile all this /. worship of linux.

  17. Mac OS X porting on MacWorld Expo Report, Part II · · Score: 0

    Altough OS X is based on BSD, it's running FreeBSD. FreeBSD is mainly for intel, now for mac ppc.
    If they had chosen OpenBSD, they'd have 10 platforms and very high security. (strong crypto from canada)
    If they had chosen NetBSD, they'd have 30 platforms to choose from.
    The main point limiting the porting is Aqua. Even though Aqua can be ported easily, it's a speed issue for computers with slow graphics cards.
    So Intel / AMD is the most likely port, then SUN Sparc and Alpha.
    Classic would not be possible on other platforms due to the Mac ROM.

    By comparison, my KAOS operating system is easier to port as it's based on OpenBSD and is prototyped in Java2.
    It won't be available in Java2 due to speed issues, but I can get it over to whatever quickly.

  18. The Cthulhu look-and-feel suit on Is Domain Speculation Bust? · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    To: Microsoft Lawyers, Inc.
    From: Azathoth, Nyarlathotep and Hastur, Elder Attorneys

    Sirs:

    Our agents among the mortal herd have brought to Our attention your recent product entitled Windows '95. Therefore We now give you statutory notice of intent of proceedings to be taken against Microsoft by the Many-Angled Ones.

    With this suit We will show that Windows '95, and to a lesser extent all of the Microsoft range of products, infringe upon the recognised "look-and-feel" of the Elder Gods, for the following reasons:

    Windows '95 is a crawling abomination from the darkest pits of Hell; No man can be in its presence for too long without being driven into gibbering insanity; A cult who worship it exist in secret amongst the mortal herd; Those who associate with it for too long develop common physical characteristics, to wit: pale, clammy skin, bulging eyes, generally unkempt physical appearance, tendency towards nocturnal living, change in diet to that which normal men do not eat (in your case tacos, burgers and Jolt Coke; in Ours, human flesh, Fungi of Yuggoth and the blood of Alien Gods); Mysterious tomes that purport to explain this phenomenon are reputed to exist; they are bound in an unnatural substance and only available at a terrible cost to the user.The Microsoft range of products seek to utterly dominate the world, and force all who dwell there to live in eternal damnation.

    As you can see, Our case is very strong, especially when you consider that most judges prefer not to have chittering things with tentacles for faces scoop out their brains and eat them.

    We hope that you will consider these points carefully and settle out of court, since it is not Our intention to have your senior partners spend the rest of their mercifully short lives under heavy sedation in a maximum security psychiatric hospital. After all, it was the Lords of the Outer Planes who gave humanity lawyers in the first place.

    Respectfully yours,
    [Oddly disturbing squiggle in some sort of ichor]

    pp. J. Arthur Hastur, LL.B., B.C.L, B.D

  19. Open source� on World Technology Awards 2001 · · Score: -1

    Open source was the original model used since WW2.
    IBM used to have a deal with their mainframes that you paid for the million dollar hardware, but they give you the OS free and you get a programmer on license from them to code your app.

    Copyrighted software didn't appear until the 60's
    The main advantage of open source is easy modification, more error checkers and cult status amongst geeks.
    However, evolutionary software is better because it modifies itself, is error tolerant, highly efficient and adapts to real world conditions.

    My KAOS operating system is based on evolution.
    I don't need to open source it to anyone I don't trust.

  20. Re:Well Said! on World Technology Awards 2001 · · Score: -1

    That impression is a fantasy of many idiots.
    No operating system is advanced enough yet.
    Arthur C. Clarke said "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"

    The fact that a system is open source or closed is irrelevant to how it works.

    The are very few operating systems which are evolutionary though, I only know my KAOS operating system is evolutionary.
    It literally has the ability to mutate, reproduce and even learn from you.
    Does it matter that the source is closed if the system far better than open software?

    Or are there too many biased geeks with no sex life here?

  21. Evolutionary Software? on World Technology Awards 2001 · · Score: -1

    Linux does not evolve, it is merely hand coded by amateurs who believe everything should be free.

    I have made more progress in 6 months on my KAOS operating system than linux has in 6 years because I use real evolutionary processes to shape my system.

    I have only coded the demonic management to date:
    Cthulu is the Kaos Lord in charge of security, censor resistance & randomness;
    Khorne is the Kaos Lord in charge of war, death & destruction;
    Tzeenth is the Kaos Lord in charge of change, evolution & learning;
    Slaanesh is the Kaos Lord in charge of love, lust & temptation;
    Nurgle is the Kaos Lord in charge of greed, corruption & pestilence;
    Bhar'ne is the Kaos Lord in charge of trolls, dinosaurs & hellspawn.

    (it is rumored that JonKatz is one of Bhar'nes foul hellspawn who pollutes the /. website with his writings.)

    Cthulu is the ruling demon of the KAOS environment. Cthulu is an evil octopus-like god who is best represented as the beast of the lake by the mines of Moria in the Lord of The Rings.

    Check my Journal if you want more details on a real evolutionary operating system.

  22. Re:Unemployment on New Years Marathons · · Score: -1

    I'm unemployed, But my place has cable and I'm only supposed to pay for the net.
    Hmm, then again I also am programming an OS, so I guess I have something to do.

  23. 6 inch? on New Years Marathons · · Score: -1

    Hmm, you only have 8======> ?
    Man, that's a small skinboat!
    And you're looking to put it up some rings?
    any like this (O) ?

    BTW, mine is like this : 8)===========}>
    and I don't put it up rings, I leave it in the curtains.

  24. Re:goats above on The Year in Internet Law · · Score: -1

    hmm, this sounds like a call for goatse.cx
    for those of you who are new to /. , this is on goatse.cx ()

  25. Re:Jerk Off to my Linus pictures on New Years Marathons · · Score: -1

    Or you could watch fashion TV when they show the chicks with boobs out...