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  1. Re:They don't know where to go stoopid on Shirky: Given Enough Eyeballs, Are Features Shallow? · · Score: 1

    I think you'd be SOL with ANYBODY if you wanted the answer yesterday... lacking any way to change your forward movement in time...

  2. Re:Feedback from real end users lacking in OSS on Shirky: Given Enough Eyeballs, Are Features Shallow? · · Score: 1
    I wrote a package for TinyMUX back in 1997/ 1998, and released it.

    A little bit off-topic, I know, but what did the package do?

  3. Re:Too right! on Shirky: Given Enough Eyeballs, Are Features Shallow? · · Score: 1
    In ten years, we *may* achieve our 1975 dreams,

    I'd just like to point out that you *may* be falling into the same underestimation that you were in 1975...

  4. Re:Whats the Libertarian take on all this? on 160,000 Join Massachusetts Do-Not-Call List · · Score: 1, Insightful
    Browsing Slashdot, I've noticed a fair number of the readership are pretty hard-line libertarians;

    Life is so much easier when you're not a rabid extremist about anything. Additionally, it makes life better for the rest of humanity, too.

  5. Re:Not really deleted on Cryptome Log Subpoenaed · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I was hoping someone would bring this up... An AG can legally steall the hard drives and find someone with the technology and a desire for cash to pay to extract it...

    I say legally steal because we all know the hard drives would never be returned...

  6. I guess 'please' wasn't good enough on Cryptome Log Subpoenaed · · Score: 1
    As this subpoena is related to an ongoing criminal investigation, please do not reveal this request to any individual not necessary to comply with the supoena or to the subcriber.

    Hahaha. Whoops, looks like the whole internet knows about the request now! What a crock, anyway. Aren't subpoena's a matter of public record? If they aren't, they should be, IMO.

  7. Re:Isn't deleting logs an obstruction of justice? on Cryptome Log Subpoenaed · · Score: 1
    Everyone by know should know the old saw about giving up freedom for security means you deserve neither... and everyone should by now have a different individual that they think first said it.

    Yet, it's still true, and more so, no only will you deserve neither, you will indeed GET NEITHER. I thank the troll for giving me the chance to bring it up.

  8. Re:Who are the criminals on Cryptome Log Subpoenaed · · Score: 1
    it's just text - that doesn't require bandwidth

    Pedatic mode: You mean 'that doesn't require -much- bandwidth.

  9. Re:Interesting "news" on Slashback: Disputes, Clones, Audio · · Score: 1
    How can this kind of stuff even pretend to be "news"? Is it just because the story is talking about Christians that it gets away with this kind of writing around here?

    Everyone has biases. Even reporters. Get used to it and get used to sifting through it to decide for yourself what you want to believe. Thanks.

  10. Re:The Corporate Cause on Slashback: Disputes, Clones, Audio · · Score: 1
    And that Corporate interest is not about higher causes but what bennefits the Corporation.

    A bit of a nitpick perhaps, but technically corporate interest is about benefitting the shareholders (and realistically about enriching the board of directors/upper management as quickly as possible, who may or may not also be shareholders).

  11. Re:Wrinkle In Time: shot by both sides... on Slashback: Disputes, Clones, Audio · · Score: 1
    Actually Madeleine L'Engle's most important work, "A Wrinkle In Time" has been under fire both from those who are uncomfortable with anything that smacks of Christianity and from the more fanatic fringe of Christianity.

    Trust the extremists on either side of anything to reliably fuck everything up. =p

    a big gross brain running a planet.

    Damn straight, anything with a disembodied pulsating brain as a villian is good with me!

  12. Re:NATIONAL law will stop third-world spammers? on Lessig Wagers His Job On Anti-Spam Theory · · Score: 1
    Do you think the drug laws have no effect against third-world shippers of illegal drugs?

    I think they have the effect of making their business much much more profitable... :)

  13. Re:I had a wonderful old IBM like that... on Typewriter Keyboard Conversion · · Score: 1

    There at tons of Model M keyboards in the thrift stores, just look around a bit. Shouldn't cost more that $2... And they're a heck of alot more drop-resistant than modern keyboards, and fit my larger hands better...

  14. Re:sigh... someone's gotta troll... on The 20th Anniversary of the Internet · · Score: 1

    Bah, both parties suck. Sitting and arguing about which party is or isn't satan's tool in the modern world makes it pretty clear to me that all you parent posters have missed the little bit about them all being corrupt and completely self-serving.

  15. Re:Copying e-books on Microsoft Reader Format Cracked · · Score: 1

    How the heck did the parent article get modded up? Sheesh.

  16. Re:The environmental hazard of removing payphones on Requiem for the Disappearing Pay Phone · · Score: 1

    Good luck implementing all that.

  17. Re:EMTs will not be looking at these...lawyers wil on Automakers and Crash Data Recorders · · Score: 1
    If you give up the right to vote, you can't complain about the president. If you give up the right to a trial, you can't complain about the legal system.

    That would be nice, but in practice no one worth voting for can even make it to a primary, nor would such a person fit in well enough to get anything done if elected. In practice, going to trial can be prohbitively expensive and disruptive. It's a nice sentiment, and I'm inclined to agree with it, but in practice the system doesn't work.

    intentional malice (get outta my way, bitch), or incompetence (you walking backwards, talking with friends), or maybe unintentional personal injury (you bumped her, she fell down stairs)

    I have to agree that one of those is likely.

  18. Re:Its for drivetrain litigation. Transpondors EVI on Automakers and Crash Data Recorders · · Score: 1
    That is a truly wonderfull troll. I haven't seen one so successful in any type of forum in a long time. Wow.

    If you weren't posting AC I'd put you on my friends list.

  19. Finally we can use WOM! on Automakers and Crash Data Recorders · · Score: 1
    All you would have to do is put in a dummy recorder that accurately records the data, but just throws it on RAM or something so that it is written, but immediately disappears.

    Finally a use for Write-Only Memory!

  20. Re:Ah, yes on Indian Government Moves to Let Linux In · · Score: 1
    Not buying pills for minor things like depression.

    Excuse you, but Clinical Depression is not just 'the blues', or feeling a little sad because your boss yelled at you, etc etc. It's a real disease, and sometimes pills are one of the only, if not the only, treatments with any reasonable degree of effectiveness.

    So next time you go to sarcastically express your class envy, please leave people with mental illnesses out of it, or at least take your dark-ages mentality ("Minor things like depression") about it and find the most convient of your body orifices to stuff it in. Thanks.

  21. Re:what about the kroger plus card? on Kroger Testing Fingerprint Payment System · · Score: 1

    Fill those out with completely fake information. It's not hard to make up contact information that seems plausible but is worthless.

  22. Re:Here Here! on Nintendo's Playstation Settlement Bombshell (or not...updated) · · Score: 1
    That's just my opinion, but I'm not wrong.

    Hahahahahaha that's a funny line. You may catch me stealing it!

  23. Re:True, but not what the original poster said. on Nintendo's Playstation Settlement Bombshell (or not...updated) · · Score: 1
    What the hell is wrong with you? Are you really that ignorant or are you trolling?

    He's trolling, of course. This is slashdot, remember?

  24. Re:Of course hes entitled on Company Christmas Gifts / Bonuses? · · Score: 1
    Its HIS company, he can paint the walls pink and wear fuzzy slippers if he wants

    The stockholders own the company, not the CEO. A CEO can own alot or even all of the stock, but he doesn't automatically, and most often he doesn't. The positon of CEO is as much an employee of the company as is the janitor that empties his wastebasket. He has a job: To increase shareholder value. I don't see how making up bobble-heads of himself for all the other employees increases that.

  25. Equivalent on Fast CD-R Drives Make For Twice the Piracy · · Score: 2, Funny
    the equivalent of 421 CD-R burners

    Is that like 'the equivalent of being pregnant'?

    Either they're capable of writing CD-Rs, or they're not, sheesh.