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  1. Re:don't use the word WAR on Updates on War in Iraq · · Score: 1

    The President is using the word. Congress authorized the use of force, which is a way of saying war without saying it, if you buy that. A full-scale invasion of a soverign nation is most definately a war, no matter what is formally declared.

  2. Absurd on NYC Law Aims To Ban Cell Phones In Theatres · · Score: 2

    Why do we feel the need to legislate and regulate everything? If the theater doesn't like it they should start kicking people out (and they should).

  3. Re:A question on Klez: a closer look · · Score: 2

    If I receive emails with the Klez virus attached, that means someone I know is probably infected, doesn't it?

    Not necessarily. I find that I get most of mine from infected spammers.

  4. 3rd party telemarketers handle AOL cancellations. on Disconnecting · · Score: 2

    There's a Dial America telemarketing center here that handles incoming AOL cancellation calls. From what I understand from an employee, they get bonuses for convincing customers to change their minds. My guess is, you could get free service just by calling to cancel every month, getting a free month each time.

  5. Re:trailer question in general on Matrix Reloaded Trailer Online · · Score: 2

    Compression should take care of that.

  6. Re:Prarie Home Companion is the best on Slashback: Towel, Linkage, Drafthouse · · Score: 2

    Well you gotta have your news from Lake Wobegon.

  7. Re:The Bible and Shakespeare on Why Doesn't Sci-Fi Hit the Bestseller Lists? · · Score: 2

    Don't want to hear the preacher? Don't go to church. ;)

  8. Re:fourth movie title will be titled on The Matrix is Reloading · · Score: 3, Funny

    Though, Star Trek may sue if they find a basis for a subspace spanned by the columns of The Matrix.

    Of course, the columns got all shot up so maybe they only span {0}.

  9. This isn't going to help. on Dateline: Abuja; Nigeria Fights Email Scam · · Score: 1

    Short of police investigation and arrests, nobody is going to put a dent into the amount of scams going on by putting the scammers on a Web site. The unfortunately gullable person isn't going to check some Nigerian web site every time they get an offer via Email.

  10. Microsoft's support page. on Borking Outlook Express · · Score: 5, Funny
    Here's what Microsoft has to say about it.

    To workaround this problem:

    • Do not start messages with the word "begin" followed by two spaces.
    • Use only one space between the word "begin" and the following data.
    • Capitalize the word "begin" so that it is reads "Begin."
    • Use a different word such as "start" or "commence."

    That's pretty funny.

  11. Oh, that's easy. on ZeoSync Makes Claim of Compression Breakthrough · · Score: 2, Funny
    ZeoSync said its scientific team had succeeded on a small scale in compressing random information sequences in such a way as to allow the same data to be compressed more than 100 times over -- with no data loss.

    Ok, say I want to compress "foo" 100 times over:

    bash$ for i in $(seq 1 100); do gzip foo; mv foo.gz foo; done

  12. Re:Debian uses ash. on A Real Bourne Shell for Linux? · · Score: 1

    Now compiled? They have had initrd support for as long as I can remember (1996? 1997?).

    Well, maybe they have, I don't know. I've never tinkered with it, but the packages in testing now depend on initrd-tools, which in turn depend on ash.

  13. Linux ash == BSD sh? on A Real Bourne Shell for Linux? · · Score: 1

    From what I can tell from the documentation and man page, ash is just BSD's /bin/sh. Do the BSDs use GNU Bash, assuming the admin wants Bash on the system at all?

  14. Debian uses ash. on A Real Bourne Shell for Linux? · · Score: 1

    Debian kernels are now compiled with initrd support. They use ash for their kernel boot scripts. I'm guessing this is because of it's size.

  15. Re:Similar UPS experience here on How Not To Ship Computers · · Score: 1

    Funny, last time I shipped something via Mailboxes Etc. via UPS, they asked whether it could be dropped from waist height. This is standard UPS practice.

  16. Re:Hit by a bus on Ask New 2.4 Maintainer Marcelo Tosatti Anything · · Score: 1

    Maybe in an emergency the Secret Service should move Alan Cox to a secure location. And since the location is secure, anybody who reveals it violates the DMCA.

  17. Hmm... on Interview With Linus · · Score: 1

    Was I just trolled by Hemos? How foolish.

  18. Please dear god! Don?t do that crap! on Interview With Linus · · Score: 1

    On Slashdot of all places. I?m tired of seeing it elsewhere. This is the last place I thought I would have to...

  19. Re:Whitelist, not blacklist on MSN Blocks Mozilla, Other Browsers [updated] · · Score: 1

    Fun fact: Google can not crawl msn.com. I set my user agent to "Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)" and it was rejected. I'll be a lot of search engines are similarly shut out.

    I'll bet MSN can index it. After all, it's the only acceptible search engine for the Microsoft Internet.

  20. from linux/drivers/char/lp.c on Open Source Programmers Stink At Error Handling · · Score: 1

    A classic example of horrible error handling:

    } else if (!(status & LP_PERRORP)) {
    if (last != LP_PERRORP) {
    last = LP_PERRORP;
    printk(KERN_INFO "lp%d on fire\n", minor);
    }
    error = -EIO;

  21. Re:Subscriptions should add value on Slashdot Updates · · Score: 1

    I was with you until the part about the posting bonus. Somehow your opinion is more worthy if you pay to be heard? I don't buy it. :)

    But yes, exclusive functionality features would be cool! I think there are plenty of new things that can be coded to make it worth it without yanking existing functionality from those who don't pay up.

  22. ViaVoice on Citizen/IBM To Make A Linux Watch · · Score: 5, Funny

    If IBM has a hand in this, why not rig this thing up with ViaVoice? Imagine the possibilities!

    Me: KITT! Get me outta here!
    KITT: Yes Michael *wooh-wooh*.

    KITT Turbo-boosts into room and slides up beside me.

    Me: Thanks buddy.

  23. USDA on Which Government Agencies are *nix-Friendly? · · Score: 1

    At least on the web end of things, USDA seems pretty friendly. Their web server is running Solaris. The USDA Forest Service's server uses AIX. Both Apache. My university department works on a number of grants involving Forest Service web projects--all Linux.

  24. let's check proc... on IBM DeskStar 75GXP Hard Drive Failures? · · Score: 1

    veal@galaxie:~$ cat /proc/ide/ide0/hda/model
    IBM-DTLA-307030


    doh!! *prays*

  25. Palm on In Search of the Best Programmable Universal Remote? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I guess you could always use your Palm. It's about as programmable as it gets! Some Palm remote projects.