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  1. Re:Help, "I know nothing" on WINE May Change To LGPL · · Score: 0
    IANAL

    GPL and LGPL should really be tested in the court of law. There's no telling how full of holes a professional lawyer could poke them if someone challenged them.

    Perhaps IBM could (formally) break the license, lose in court, pay FSF one dollar as "compensation" and thus set a precendent...

  2. Re:makes sense... on WINE May Change To LGPL · · Score: 1, Interesting
    including linux in Windows x is what you need to do to get Windows X to beat Linux

    Not really.

    W2K and WinXP are already as stable -- if not more stable -- than the current 2.4.x kernel series.

  3. Re:A needed change to a standard licence on WINE May Change To LGPL · · Score: 1, Funny
    our community as a whole body and not a big mess(like I heard one day from a CEO).

    CEO was actually right.

    Free/open software community is a big mess -- but there's nothing wrong with it! I'd rather have anarchy than soul crushing corporate order and discipline.

  4. Re:wine is a key ingredient on WINE May Change To LGPL · · Score: 0

    Where can I find the Backslashdot headquarters?

  5. Threat to democracy on Campaign for Free Software in the Bundestag · · Score: 0
    The biggest threat to world democracy is not some silly operating system but the way how GWB and his cabinet of cold warriors is dismantling the US Justice system and civil rights.

    You think it will stop inside the US? "You're either with us or against us".

  6. Re:Tax free hardware in the Bundestag? on Campaign for Free Software in the Bundestag · · Score: 0
    Really?

    Most vendors I know will not sell a computer without an OS (=Windows) and will not refund the OS either because it is preinstalled on the hard drive.

  7. Re:Works great if you have a clean room available on Clear Hard Drive Mods · · Score: 0
    the head of a disk drive is like a 747 jumbo jet flying at mach 4 at an altitude of 1/4" over the rocky mountains.

    I really want to thank you for your insightful comments.

    Some people still have some trouble appreciating the incredibly fine tolerances in the modern day electronics and fine mechanics the people like you hard drive guys can provide.

    In my work as an experimental physicist I'm constantly amazed at the level of control we have on (relatively) large mechanical objects these days. Scanning tunneling microscopy (picometer noise levels!) is an extreme example.

  8. Re:Works great if you have a clean room available on Clear Hard Drive Mods · · Score: 0
    Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.

    How do you get around these facts:

    Physics: The average diameter of a dust particle is larger than the distance between the hard drive platter and the head.

    Business: Why would the hardware manufacturers spend millions of dollars in clean rooms if it wasn't necessary?

    Do you follow everything you read online?

    Hardly. I'm a Physics PhD.

  9. Re:Works great if you have a clean room available on Clear Hard Drive Mods · · Score: -1
    Awww.... now I get it. You're one of the guys who cut open the hard drive and now you can't take any criticism?

    Fuck off. You don't know what you're talking about. You're full of hot air.

  10. Re:Consider the source on Clear Hard Drive Mods · · Score: 0, Informative
    How many of you who claim a clean room is needed, have ever TRIED taking apart a HD

    I opened my 40MB Amiga hard drive several years ago. Cover off, look inside and put the cover back on. The drive got fucked up in two months.

    Besides, why would the companies invest millions in clean room fab space if the requirement bogus Tha's the financial argument. If that doesn't convince you, you can check out the physics. A particle you can see with your bare eyes will not fit under a modern GMR head and the platter.

  11. Re:Works great if you have a clean room available on Clear Hard Drive Mods · · Score: -1
    What's your problem, dickwad?

    It might have been a good idea to point in the article that opening your hermetically sealed hard drive, wrapping it in a friggin' plastic (static electricity galore!) and grinding the cover away with dremel and spraying fine aluminum dust all over the place in the process is just a fucking bad idea if you want to keep something on that drive.

  12. Re:RLP! on Clear Hard Drive Mods · · Score: -1
    Your page lengthening/widening posts are defeated.

    Get over it, you faggots. You're not trolls or even crapflooders. You're shit.

  13. Re:Works great if you have a clean room available on Clear Hard Drive Mods · · Score: -1

    As my sign says, please stop moderating me up (or down, for that matter). I am a conscientious karma objector.

  14. Works great if you have a clean room available on Clear Hard Drive Mods · · Score: 1, Informative
    Idiots.

    Opening a hard drive lets in dust that will cause a catastrophic failure after a while.

  15. The Rules for Guys on Incredible Shrinking PC · · Score: -1


    High on the bestseller lists this week is a book called The Rules a guide to
    dating and courting for women that effectively advocates women, in order to
    snag a man, follow a sexist and manipulative dating game based on the
    principles of 50 years ago.

    http://www.therulesbook.com/topten.html

    What follows in the same vein is a counterpart, The Rules for Guys.

    --

    1. Be a "creature unlike any other."
    However, in particular think in terms of "The Creature from the Black Lagoon"
    (Universal 1954), a dark monster that conquers her. Beauty and the Beast.
    Chicks love that shit.

    2. Don't talk much to a girl (but do take her dancing.)
    She only wants to talk about relationships and girl stuff anyway. So take her
    dancing. They go nuts for this. Learn enough to get by and look cool, though
    you won't need it much after you have her hooked. In the meantime you can
    flirt with the other girls on the dance floor.

    3. Pay her way on the date, but expect to get back in kind.
    Buy her a nice meal, so that she knows what she owes you in exchange for the
    meal. In addition, if you buy her a fancy schmancy $50 dinner at some ritzy
    place, she won't be able to turn down your request for a $300 "loan" until
    you can "get to the cash machine." Good investment.

    4. Don't call her after sex.
    Make her wait a few days. Girls do this stare at the phone thing, makes them
    all anticipatory. Don't give them what they want. Call her in a couple of
    days or if you get horny again. Also, after sex, just roll over and go to
    sleep, even if she hasn't had an orgasm yet. You did a lot of work and you're
    tired, and you have important work to do tomorrow.

    5. Always end phone calls first.
    Especially if she's read the Girl's Rules that tell her to do this, you won't
    have to worry about long phone calls. I mean girls can yak so long on the
    phone.

    6. Don't give her any warning about a date.
    Make sure she stays free all the time in case you call. And more to the
    point, keep yourself free in case something comes up elsewhere, if you know
    what I mean. If you call and she's not available, act real hurt, make it seem
    like you will end the relationship if she does this a lot.

    7. Tell her what she wants to hear (ie. Lie.)
    You like long walks on the beach. You love kids. You like to cook. You're
    looking to settle down in a country home with that one special girl. You love
    horses, paris, chick movies, sushi and Meryl Streep. You support her goals.
    Tell her you're rich, famous, whatever. She'll figure out the more ridiculous
    ones eventually but if you play this right you'll get laid first and have her
    captured. Don't be scared to eventually talk to her about "the relationship"
    -- girls go for this. Just be sure not to believe it yourself.

    8. Stop dating her if she doesn't put out by the second date.
    Pretend like you're not super eager to get laid but drop the hint with gentle
    physical contact. It is nice to date easy chicks and all and get laid on the
    first date, but some of the hottest ones like to wait a date. However, if she
    doesn't at least give you a blowjob by date #2, #3 at the latest, there are
    better investments out there. On date #3, remind her of the "third date
    rule."

    9. Tell her you love her.
    This is the big corollary of rule #7. Don't do it right away but definitely
    do it if she's showing reluctance on that blowjob. Practice saying it like
    you mean it. As the old saying goes, "Sincerity is everything. If you can
    fake that you've got it made."

    10. No more than casual sex on the first, or 100th date.
    Definitely don't get too involved, as she might ask to be monogamous or
    something. Make sure that you never let yourself get tied down.

    11. Tell her what to do.
    Hey, in the end they all want to be dominated. So make all the decisions and
    see how she goes for it. If so, you can probably get this to continue in the
    bedroom. No girl is perfect, but most of them like to please a man so you can
    change the one(s) you have to fit your needs.

    12. Be the bad boy.
    Girls love the "bad boy." They hope they can "reform" him, or they're a case
    of point #11 above. Either way, you can be as bad as you like. Treat her like
    she doesn't exist. Be mysterious. Dangerous. Wear cuffs and a leather
    motorcycle jacket, even if you drive a Hyundai. (Park the Hyundai somewhere
    else and walk to where you meet her, though.) Remember, nice guys don't get
    laid.

    13. Don't let her know anything she can pin on you.
    Girls like to get close to their guy, and "communicate." But later, if you
    break up, she might try and get back at you so for crissake don't let her
    know anything she could use or spread to others. Invent deep intimate stuff
    you can tell her in bed, she'll go for it. If you can't think up your own,
    buy one of those books with Fabio (the guy from the "I can't believe it's not
    butter" commercials) on the cover and be one of those guys. (God, this guy
    can't tell butter from margarine and chicks swoon over him? Something strange
    going on here.)

    14. Don't tell her you're married!
    For some reason they get really upset. When you take off your ring, get some
    tanning lotion or put your hand under a sunlamp to make sure it's not visible
    where you took it off. Or tell your wife you just don't want to wear a ring;
    invent some sort of bizarre hand disease or rice picker accident. Anyway even
    the ones who haven't read the Girl's Rules don't want to date married guys so
    don't let her (or your wife) know.

    15. Be a pain to live with.
    Well, this isn't a thing to so much try to do as a reminder to be yourself.
    If you shack up, don't alter your own life just to make it easier for her.
    One exception, which is admittedly a royal pain, but worth it -- put the
    toilet seat down after you take a wizz. She sees that and she'll think she's
    found god's gift to girls, and she'll give you better sex than a $300 hooker.
    Compare -- 5 seconds of your time each day to put down the seat vs. $300
    blowjob. No brainer!

    16. Don't get caught staring at her tits or other girls'.
    For some reason girls don't like it when we stare at their tits when we talk
    to them. And they don't like us staring at other girls' either. As if we have
    a choice! Anyway, they're watching for this so don't get caught. Check their
    eyes, then do your looking.

    17. Don't let her leave your things in your apartment.
    Or give her a key, until you're sure you can count on her for very regular
    nookie. Otherwise they might try to insinuate themselves into your life
    before you are sure of this.

    18. Even if you're engaged or married, you still can play around.
    I mean, do they own you or something? This rule is the most fun.

    19. Do The Rules even when your friends or parents think you're nuts!
    Truth is, you're getting laid, and they are just jealous.

    20. Don't give her the ring, but make her think you will -- or give her a
    fake ring.
    Drop hints and pretend like some day you want to be married to her, but don't
    actually do it. You can even get engaged if you want to lock in some regular
    pussy. There's no law that says you actually have to follow through with the
    ceremony. Plus, it takes an expert to tell cubic zirconia from a diamond, and
    if she takes her ring to an expert she clearly doesn't trust you and is a
    lost cause anyway. You can get one of these rings for about $100 and trust me
    you'll get a fuck worth far more than that out of it.

    21. Double check the birth control.
    There's a trade off here. On one hand you don't want to use condoms, so get
    her on the pill ASAP. On the other hand if she runs the birth control she
    might blindside you with something annoying like a kid just to hook you. You
    decide. If she gets pregnant, take the new "morning-after" pill for guys. (It
    alters your blood type.)

    22. Don't discuss The Rules for Guys with girls.
    Like I need to explain this one to you? Do they explain their rules to us?
    Thought not. 22a. Don't discuss The Rules for Guys with your therapist.
    Because if you have a therapist you've really missed the point of The Rules
    for Guys.

    23. Figure out her romantic dream.

    Almost all girls have one. In 90% of cases it's the knight in shining armour,
    the handsome prince or the tall, dark and handsome mysterious stranger.
    Harlequin Romances isn't exactly going broke selling girls books about how a
    guy comes into the girl's life and does something as simple as fixing her car
    to make her life right and sweeps her off her feet. You would be amazed at
    the "mileage" you can get just by taking her car down to the shop. Though if
    you can find a good mechanic, let me know, OK? Anyway, subtly find out her
    own personal romantic dream, and play-act it. On the cheap, of course -- you
    only have to play-act. While she may dream of a billionaire who whisks her
    away to his ranch in his jet, she'll settle for a $60 rental limo and a $40
    1-hour rental horseback ride.

    24. Sometimes ya gotta break The Rules.
    Hey, Burger King said it best. And it's a great place for a cheap date (use
    $4 from the $300 she "lent" you.) But in this case I mean you gotta break the
    Girl's Rules.

    25. Do The Rules girls. Yes, you can!

    If you suspect that some really attractive girl is following The Rules for
    girls, take heart. I mean if she's a dog, lose her. But if she's got a great
    set or you have some other reason to particularly want her, you now know her
    exact game and can use it to get her. The book tells these girls to follow
    its rules religiously, even when they don't make sense. You will have to wait
    6 dates, but the authors do tell girls over 30 it's OK to have sex, so they
    will. Forget young "The Rules" girls unless you are really keen on
    virgin-plucking. You only have to date 'em once a week -- if you date them
    Friday then you are free as a bird on Saturday; they'll end calls and dates;
    they won't call you when you have other girls over -- a lot of advantages,
    and as long as you see past all the manipulative "hard-to-get" tricks you
    won't be fooled, just laid.

    First, you have to check if she's a The Rules girl or just a stuck-up bitch.
    Sometimes it can be hard to differentiate them. Test this by first telling
    her how much you admire a girl who sticks to her principles, and then call
    her Thursday telling her you just got front-row Orchestra seats to the Boston
    Pops (a classical musical group) concert on Friday. If she says yes, she's
    the stuck-up bitch. Say, "Did I say Boston Pops? I meant Iggy Pop!" and dump
    her.

    If she says a reluctant no, she's a The Rules girl. The book tells them never
    to accept a weekend date after Wednesday. Rush out to the bookstore to get a
    copy of The Rules. You'll find it in the dating/relationships section. Since
    there is zero chance you've ever gone near that section before, ask at the
    cashier's desk. When you get to it you'll know why you've never been to this
    section before from the titles of the books. Venus and Mars Together Forever.
    Men who hate women and the women who love them too much. Like Dave Barry says
    I am not making this up. You're the only guy in weeks to go to this section
    other than to laugh at the titles, so if you're lucky some chick might even
    hit on you. But if not, go buy the book, and then read it. It's short.

    Now you'll know her exact game. Problem is, as noted, it will be 6 weeks
    until you get laid. Be sure you have something else on the side during those
    six weeks. But look at the advantages. Other than those noted above, you'll
    learn that she won't bring up crap like "marriage" or "kids" or "the
    relationship." She expects you to bring these things up. Soon the book will
    tell her to dump you. Track this, and make sure to start dating another The
    Rules girl before the breakup -- 6 weeks before the breakup if you can time
    it right.

    26. Do The Rules For Guys and you'll get laid.
    Don't forget this. You may be tempted to break them, to be "nice" or
    "sensitive" or even listen to her. But everybody knows that nice guys don't
    get laid. You want to be nice or in the sack? I thought so.

  16. Re:GWB's speech at Pittsburg University on Bob Young says Linux won't rule the desktop · · Score: -1
    Dickwad.

    Of course you missed my point. North Pole, Evil Empire it's all the same. The enemy is all around us so you might as well give up the civil rights and spend the bulk of the national income in bizarre military projects -- for "homeland security" of course.

  17. Go to China on Bob Young says Linux won't rule the desktop · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    GWB can do it too.

    With the largest boost in the military funding in two decades he can do anything. He can go to China with nuclear missiles.

    Who cares about the health care, transportation, education and the rest of the national infrastructure... as long as the "homeland security" is guaranteed everything will be all right.

  18. GWB's speech at Pittsburg University on Bob Young says Linux won't rule the desktop · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    "Bombers coming over the North Pole to attack America!"

    What the hell fuck is wrong with this guy?!

  19. Re:Faggot. I found a way to defeat you! on Beta-Testers and Intellectual Property? · · Score: 0, Informative
    Actually I can't take credit for this. Here it goes:

    "Set your long comment +1 bonus to 1 character, mark the shithead as a foe with a foe penalty of -1 and read at 0."

    Don't get confused by the main page comment count. I think it doesn't take the foe modifier into account or something.

    Oh and this works for the logged in people only.

  20. Faggot. I found a way to defeat you! on Beta-Testers and Intellectual Property? · · Score: -1
    Hahahahaha!

    Now I can read at -1 and still filter you fuckhead out!

  21. Re:Slashdot Sucks on Palm OS 5.0 Preview · · Score: -1
    But I suppose in the end it won't work

    I also believe that he's a lost cause. I've heard that since he met Junis nothing apart from a tight, virgin boy's ass can turn him on.

  22. Re:Slashdot Sucks on Palm OS 5.0 Preview · · Score: -1
    Today's Lunch was fantastic by the way.

    And why's that? The LunchLady got laid?

    I'll bet you'll end up on Cheaters one day, you slut. Good work!

  23. Hairy Palms on Palm OS 5.0 Preview · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Remember boys and girls.

    Masturbation makes hair grow on your Palms.

    On another topic: kill the page widener motherfucker already!

  24. Re:Katz theme song, except not on Arguing A.I. · · Score: -1
    Wrong.

    Ian Dury and Katz fully deserve each other.

  25. Why CmdrTaco won't fix page lengthening on TiVo Watches the Super Bowl · · Score: -1
    Yeah.

    I complained about this to CmdrTaco who implicitly let me understand that he would actually prefer if people didn't read at -1. As far as he is concerned, -1 is the Slashdot gutter and people should have no business being there.

    So, he's doing nothing about it.