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  1. Re:Sensationalist /. headlines on Latest Version of MyDoom Exploits New IE Flaw · · Score: 1

    Whoopsie. Swamii forgot to mention that SP2 breaks stuff as well as fixes stuff, further perpetuating the fact that MS can't do stuff right the first time, the second time, or the THIRD time, so it's not worth bothering in the first place.

    Get With The Now

  2. Are You REALLY That Surprised? on Interview with a Spampire · · Score: 1

    Duh. Of course techies (and anyone else for that matter) are going to stoop to such lows.

    OUTSOURCING. NAFTA.

    We're losing our promised jobs right out of college because major corporations would rather pay some Hadji in Bangladesh $0.33/hour instead of paying a well-educated American techie the $8+/hour they deserve.

    Plus, the Bush Administration is actually ENCOURAGING this by giving tax breaks to companies that outsource. All this does is put more money in corporate big-wigs' pockets, which shows up in the hands of the Administration and it's cronies via Lobby and Campaign Donations.

    Well, fsck them. If they want to pull shady, back-room politicing and BS, then we'll show them how low we can go. Until Outsourcing is heavily regulated, taxed and put in its place, Techies will do whatever it takes to put food on the table.

  3. Re:Fanboy much on Lord Of The Rings - Oscars, We Loves Them · · Score: 1

    Here here. While I'm happy that Mr. Jackson was recognized at the end of his great ambitious work, his body of work isn't quite the greatest. I mean, The Frighteners? Not quite a big booster shot...

    Congrats due aside, George is right. Chalk that up to good old fashioned geeking out.

    Besides, we still have yet to see the crowning jewel, the Extended Cut. The Oscar was just a buildup...

  4. Tune In Tomorrow... on Australian Firm Asks SCO To Detail Evidence · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... As the SCO *Nix saga continues. Will IBM sleep with Novell? What will the wicked stepmother Microsoft think? Will Linus ever find love despite his arranged marriage to Kernella? Does SCO have the power to usurp all of the twon of Port *Nix? The answers to all this and more on tomorrow's "The Frivolous and the Greedy"

    Brought to you by a cheap, self-loving plug...

  5. Duh on The Best and Worst Movies of 2003? · · Score: 1

    LotR:RotK by far, hands down, the best flick of 2003. Everything else was crap. And I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that, despite Gigli, the two newest Matrix films were the worst of 2003. Never have I seen (or in this case, heard of, since I didn't see them) such dissappointment in a series.

    Individual suckiness includes that horrible Hulk movie, Gigli, and a host of others I don't care to mention.

    Kudos to X-2, though more could have been done with it. Am I the only one who can't wait for Shadowcat to grow up? Good kitty...

  6. It's not that it works better... on Retired Microsoft Operating Systems Still Popular · · Score: 1

    It's just that it's readily available, and as long as you have one of those there license numbers on a genuine certificate (either on a manual or on its own), then you're good to go.

    People are starting to realize that M$ is moving towards using thier license agreement to pull some pretty shady moves, so they want the OS with a little more flexibility. Honestly, there aren't that many people that actually figure that out. Most people who stick with it either totally fear change, or are so used to it they just simply don't want or need XP...

  7. 6 vs 26 on Cartoon Network Serves Up More Anime · · Score: 1

    So, you'ld rather watch the same 6 episodes of FLCL over and over again as opposed to 26 episodes of a new series? Don't get me wrong, I like FLCL and Cowboy Bebop, but damn! There are only so many repeats a guy can take! And I, for one, and ready for some new series that I haven't seen yet...

  8. Re:Anime Characters = White on Cartoon Network Serves Up More Anime · · Score: 1

    They aren't "White" in that sense. It's probably the eyes throwing you off. The big eyes in Anime are used to designate youth and beauty, unless an artist sees fit to give the larger eyes to everyone in the series (like Dragonball or Pokemon).

    Example: look at Mobile Suit Gundam. Amuro is a young kid, thus he has the larger eyes, while a character like Bright Noah has more conventional eye design.

  9. A Word On "All-Anime Channels" on Cartoon Network Serves Up More Anime · · Score: 1

    I'm all for it, really. An all-Anime channel would be a godsend for both hardcore and casual fans alike. But one channel wouldn't be enough. There should be two.

    It sounds a bit redundant, I know, but there's a silver lining to running things this way. Both channels would have identical broadcast schedules. Between, say, 7am and 7pm, you get TV series such as Ranma, Gundam, Tenchi, pretty much any series you'ld like to see plugged in. And with the abundance of series out there, there's a good chance that the daily schedules could differ from day to day. After 7pm, you get movies and such, like GitS, Iria, Spirited Away, etc.

    Here's the catch. The one major difference between the two channels is one will be English dubs, while the sister channel remains Japanese language with English subtitles. This way the casual fan gets the shows in English, and the more discerning Anime fans can quench thier thirst for Anime in it's purest form (well, as pure as it can get without ditching the translation altogether).

    Hell, there's even room for our own Rob Malda to host a show a-la A&E.

    What to call these networks? Well, all I can come up with is Anime-Dub and Anime-Sub. But I'd gladly pay a few extra bucks a month for this kind of programming option. Now, if only we could successfully pitch this to a major broadcaster. Since Turner has its Williams Street crew giving up the Anime on Cartoon Network, you'ld think they'd be interested in spinning off two new networks. They could keep them seperate from the more squeaky-clean Cartoon Network and Boomerang brands.

  10. I'm Willing To Bet... on Debian Project Servers Compromised · · Score: 1

    ...that Microsoft will pounce all over this and use it as an example of how much better thier product is as opposed to OSS. Nevermind the almost weekly reports of holes in Microsoft's software, a new virus that threatens IIS and Windows machines every few days, and thier returning to the Bloatware practices with Longhorn that got them into trouble with the DoJ in the first place.

    No, this is the perfect event for MS to unleash the FUD machine on. Debian's servers compromised, should have used Microsoft. Whatever. This is a drop in the bucket compared to the deluge of problems Microsoft products have.

    Fact is, you just don't hear about problems with *NIX OSes as often as you hear about problems with MS machines. That's because they just don't happen as often. In the last year, I can only think of maybe one or two major virii that I heard about affecting *NIX software. On the other side of the coin, I can come up with at least a baker's dozen that affected Microsoft products.

    In the end, the Debian Project will recover nicely, and MS will launch assaults that will fall on deaf ears. But that's just the opinion of one little OSS zealot, I could be wrong...

  11. MTV And Music Downloads on MTV Getting into Music Download Business · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah, right. This will fail, big time. First of all, the M in MTV hasn't stood for music in over a decade. They have shows featuring complete idiots doing mindless crap (Jackass, any Real World or Road Rules), celebrity-obsessed losers, and hardly ever shows a full music video without having some crazed Teenie Bopper screaming about how much she loves the artist (TRL).

    No, the M in MTV stands for Moron. Why? Because only complete morons tune in to it anymore. MTV hasn't been worth anything since the day they decided that Rap and R&B were more important that the genre that made it the cable giant it is: Rock. And when they do talk about Rock, they usually only mention these dime-a-dozen Pop Punk bands.

    MTV Sucks. All should either look into the new Napster or just deal with iTunes. I wouldn't trust MTV's judgment of "good music" any further than I can throw Carson Daley...

  12. Re:Hallilujia! on Lindows Announces Nvu - Frontpage For Linux? · · Score: 1

    Gracias. I'll have to check that out...

  13. Hallilujia! on Lindows Announces Nvu - Frontpage For Linux? · · Score: 1

    This is a long time coming, and finally, it's been announced! Happy day! This is a godsend, especially for a small peanuts web author like myself.

    I've been told Dreamweaver runs under WINE. I've tried it with many different kernels, builds, distros... All with no success. Now that a program to rival Dreamweaver is in the works, my days of being stuck in Winblows hell are almost over. This was the only thing stopping me from totally migrating over to Linux...

    Thank you!

  14. Just One Nitpick Thing on Microsoft Officially Shows Longhorn, WinFX · · Score: 1

    avoiding viruses, worms, and 'building apps that are as smart as Outlook.

    Does anyone else see the sick irony in that statement? Isn't Outlook the primary method of choice for virii/worm authors?

    Oh, nevermind...

  15. Me Third on Gator Forces Site To Remove 'Spyware' Label · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey, Gator! It's Spyware! S-P-Y-W-A-R-E! I did not choose to install it on my machine, but it's still here! Why is that? Because it's SPYWARE!

    Like Mr. Wheaton above, I would like a cease and decist order sent to me. However, since I have no previous career in entertainment, I need the publicity to get mine started. I'm a poor, non-RIAA aligned musician trying to crack an industry dominated by old men who think kids want to hear Justin Timberflake and some slut from Wexford, PA all day.

    Gator is Spyware. It sucks. Thankfully, I use Opera, which allows me to kill popup ads. But still, you're collecting my data (maybe you're collecting the fact that I'm taking your SPYWARE to task, nes pas? and selling it to companies so you can make an advertising buck. Sounds like SPYWARE to me...

  16. Re:why wait for your finance situated? on Windows iTunes Sells A Million Songs In 3.5 Days · · Score: 1

    Right now, I couldn't spare even a buck for a tune. That's how low my income is at the moment. Soon, things will be available as far as good paying jobs, but for right now, I suffer from the effects of Bush economics, "Free Trade" agreements and other such wonderful economic hoo-haa.

    I have good software as it is, don't need it unless I want to buy music. Once I'm ready to buy, though, this seems to be the best route. Apple is a well-respected company, I'm sure they'll have tunes I like since I like quite a variety of genres, and best of all, it's not M$.

    And while I'm thinking about it, This Entry from This Thread on Fark might amuse you all...

  17. Rock On! And A Question For The Community... on Windows iTunes Sells A Million Songs In 3.5 Days · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Praise be to Apple and Steve Jobs for figuring out that there is a better way to distribute music in this day and age.

    Once I get my finances situated, I'm off to download iTunes and get started. It's about time that someone realized that yes, there is in fact a good online music business model.

    Now, how to go about getting them to sell my band's music on the store? Since we don't have a label, the split of sales would be a bit different, I'd assume there would have to be a different deal structure worked out. Does anyone else here on /. have an indie band, and have you tried to deal with iTunes? Any experiences/comments would be most welcome...

  18. Implications on IBM Introduces Petabyte-Capacity 'Storage Tank' · · Score: 1

    OK. So, SCO is pissy with IBM over it's Linux/UNIX usage, right? So, now IBM has a system called the Storage Tank which could hold a whole buttload of data.

    How long will it take before the RIAA jumps on it because it has the potential to house and share an immense amout of media? If some schmo with the CD collection from Hades and some extra green- or t-backs (t for technicolor as in the new 20) to toss around gets ahold of one of these and has the free time to fill it up with tunes...

    And was I the only person who glanced at the "Large Hadron Collider" text and think Hardon off the bat? Oh well, such is the curse of being a young American male with a perverse sense of humor...

  19. My Net Learning Experience on Is the Internet Your Source of Knowledge? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Honestly, if it weren't for the Internet, I probably would have suffered from lack of education. Here's my story.

    The high school I went to was crap. It didn't focus so much on education as it did it's flagship program, Football. To the administration and school board, that was their "public relations" project. The better the football team looked, the better the school looked. Therefore, the players were placed in the higher academic brackets, while the rest of us were sequestered to the lower end.

    In all reality, though, the jocks were probably getting graded on a severe curve. Text books were old and outdated. World history books ended with the first launching of the Space Shuttle. Geography still looked at Germany as two seperate nations, the Soviet Union was still a world power, and computers were still clunky-looking boxes with monochrome screens.

    And teachers didn't really care about what they taught. Well, a handfull did, but most didn't. One particular math teacher would spend his time during class drawing up football plays (he is the head coach). English teachers drilled the same concepts over and over when it was clear that we all had a good grasp on the language. Science teachers cared more for learning from the outdated texts than they did giving us a hands-on approach to learning about the world around us. Hell, my Biology teacher was the stereotypical Polish idiot who did things backwards, no lie.

    I looked at that place and decided that there was no way it could give me the education I needed to continue in society. So I made my mother, against her wishes, get me an connection to the Internet. And thank the maker I did.

    Whatever I wanted to know, I just hit the search engines (Google wasn't yet a verb) and downloaded to my heart's content. Soon, in math class, I was using mathematical functions the head coach hadn't taught us yet to solve the problems he gave us. And the funny part was, I was the only one doing this. I distinctly remember one such conversation:

    Mr. Camberg: And how did you get that conclusion, Eric?
    Me: Well, if you would have taught us this method, it would have made things a hell of alot easier.
    Mr. Camberg: So what you're saying, Mr. Jacobson, is that you're criticizing my teaching methods?
    Me: Yes I am.
    Mr. Camberg: And just how did you learn about this method, seeing as how it isn't covered in the book?
    Me: Well, because the book is over a decade old, I can't trust it. So, I went looking for it on the Internet.


    After that, I was sure that the Internet would save me from Rural Public School hell, and it did. Thanks to what I learned online, I was able to graduate with honors despite being in a lower academic track, and move on to college where I furthered my education with the very things that saved it: computers.

    My little cousins have since moved to this area and are attending the same school I did. And I tell them to make sure they keep the Internet handy, because they're going to get a sub-standard education. They know it, I know it. And hopefully, telling them to trust in the 'Net when school fails them will be enough to help them learn for themselves that, in fact, they need to learn for themselves...

  20. Europe To The Moon? on Ion Engine Propels Probe to Moon · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The United States was quoted yesterday as saying "Been there, done that."

    You all know what will happen when SMART-1 gets there: Brittain will claim it as a Commonwealth, the Germans will take it by force, France and Belgium will surrender.

    Screw unmanned probes. We have the technology, and have for the last 30+ years. Let's send people back on a more permanent basis already. Just not Europeans. There's a reason why the word lunatic exists, and guess where it was coined...

  21. Re:If the RIAA doesn't get you, the NMPA will on SBC Refuses To Name File-Sharing Users · · Score: 1

    That's no problem. We have all the original copyright certificates in our posession. And they are, in fact, original songs.

    In short, I'm not worried at all. Let whatever organization that wants to come after me. All they'll do is get a black eye for picking on someone that they have no legal right to pick on.

  22. Hey, RIAA, Check This Out. on SBC Refuses To Name File-Sharing Users · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Hello. My name is Eric Jacobson. I'm a freelance computer consultant from Houtzdale, PA. And I am a filesharer.

    I currently use iMesh, version 4.2, to share files over the Internet, which I get access to through Pennswoods.

    Currently, I'm sharing the following eight files:

    Songs by the rock band Tempered Edge:
    Fade Away
    Slip Into Never
    Pull The Trigger
    Madness Follows Me
    I Need You
    It's Alright
    Picture This
    Footsteps.

    These songs are copyrighted, and I am offering them up, free of charge, to anyone who wishes to download them. The trick is, I'm the singer for this band. We own our own copyrights. We are not signed by any label, major or independant.

    Come and get me...

  23. So when will we see... on Space Wedding Successful · · Score: 1

    ...the first space divorce?

    /sad but had to be said

  24. Answer To The Age Old Question on SCO Calls IBM Countersuit "Unsubstantiated Allegations" · · Score: 1

    SCO, with their name alone, has given us the answer to the age old question "What have you been smoking?"

    Smokes Crack Obviously.

    Seriously, do they think they're going to get anywhere by charging $199 for a desktop Linux license? I mean, come on! Not even Microsoft chargs that much for XP (around $150)! Talk about information superhighway robbery! And besides, with all the recent debate over Linux on the Desktop, most would say that this license is a bit premature.

    Memo to SCO Execs: It's time to try Crack Light (TM)...

  25. So That's What It Means! on Another Beer Please · · Score: 1

    802.11b(eer). Sweet!