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  1. Re:Security issue? on Breaking Google's DRM · · Score: 1

    A denial of what service? Your inaliable right to Copy-Paste-Repeate? Your God given right to duplicate copyrighted works?

    Well, I don't belive rights come from god, but I do belive that I have a 'right' to copy and paste things, and use my browser the way I want. Javascript hacks that disable the functionality of my browser are security holes.

  2. Re:Security issue? on Breaking Google's DRM · · Score: 1

    ...by this logic, an operating system that does not permit a user to dive directly to an arbitrary RAM address and twiddle bits is an operating system that poses a security risk, as you've lost the control to directly manipulate your machine's memory.

    Well, if it's your computer, you should be able to do that. I don't know of any Operating systems that do not allow this.

  3. More like mr. didn't RTFA on Biggest Console System Collection on eBay · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No one has spent their life savings buying 75 NESs, 50 ps1s, etc. This is clearly excess inventory from a game shop, or something

  4. um, no on Two Women Found With HIV-Immune Mutant Gene · · Score: 4, Informative

    China and India are in the "developing" world, not the 3rd world, get it straight.

  5. Re:How I See It on Stern Will Jump To Sirius In 2006 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    OK, that out of the way, here is how I see it. First of all, it's a very novel solution to this whole "FCC is censoring people" stuff (which I don't believe, but that's a matter of opinon).

    WTF are you talking about? It's not an "opinion" that the FCC is censoring people, it's a fact.

  6. Re:Already predicted in this Wired Mag article: on Stern Will Jump To Sirius In 2006 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    It's weird that the XM founder would predict the death of one of his biggest investors...

  7. Hmm.. on LP files Suit To Stop State Funding Of 3rd Debate · · Score: 2, Insightful

    seems resonable to me.

  8. Woop Woop it's the language police on S. Korea Claims N. Korea Has Trained 600 Crackers · · Score: 1

    If the headline had said "North Korea has Trained 600 hackers" I would have known exactly what they meant. But using the word "Crackers" here made no sense to me at all.

    The only thing I could think of was that they had traned "White People" to be spies or something.

  9. Ethenol fuel cells? on E-bike E-xperiences? · · Score: 1

    Has there been much research into ethenol fuel cells? Ethenol seems like it would be easer to produce then methenol, with all the corn out there, and it has so many other uses... :)

  10. Well, on World's Largest Wind Turbine · · Score: 3, Informative

    I know that for smaller windmills, say the 1-5kw models you can buy online would pay for themselves in saved electrical bill cost in about 5 years.

    And thats the cost to buy the thing. Meaning materials, employees, as well as power in production. I don't see how you can say the power required to make it would be more then the power generated. I mean, unless the manufacturer were getting power for free, which is pretty unlikely.

    Windmills are simpler then most other kinds of power plants too.

    Now, i've heard that solar cells have this problem, though.

  11. You idiot on George Soros Speaks Politics · · Score: 1

    If you'd even read the first page of the linked article, you'd see that he does support the operations in afghanistan.

    The invasion of Afghanistan was justifed: that was where bin Laden lived and Al Quadea had it's traning camps.

    I don't really know how he could be more explicet then that.

  12. Re:wrong wrong wrong on George Soros Speaks Politics · · Score: 1

    um, there's a bit more to 'facism' then corporate welfare. Actualy, there's a lot more. Calling him a 'facist' because he asked for a handout is idiotic.

  13. interstate commerce clause on Help Select Questions for Bush and Kerry · · Score: 1

    There was never a need for an amendmant, apperantly, to ban alchohol. But what the government has done is ban the sale of MJ and other drugs under the commerce clause of the constitution.

    The bigger issue is that the states have also banned most drugs pretty much universaly, which they have the right to do (in fact, they can ban alchohol if they wish)

  14. That's pretty amazing. on First JPEG Virus Posted To Usenet · · Score: 3, Funny

    Congrats, microsoft, for making just about every filetype unsafe.

    The worst part is that you don't even need to be using IE. Hopefully mozilla decodes the jpgs itself before rendering them on windows.

  15. Re:This would be a good idea... on Voting A Class Requirement For Some At Drew · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Illegal? Private universities can require whatever they please so long as it is not discriminatory (or against an explicit state or federal law). If there is any question as to the legality of an action, it's up to the student to appeal to a court.

    They can't require you to smoke weed, they can't require you to work for less then minimum wage, they can't require you to shoot cops, and they can't require you to vote. It's illegal to force or even reward anyone for voting.

  16. How did it make it passed? on Does Your LCD Play Catch-Up To Your Mouse? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Easy. Slashdot editors are idiots who don't care a wit for the content on the site. I mean really, this site could have so much potential, but it's really been squandered by the creators. Average people who don't want to cede control to people who could actualy do a good job.

    /rant.

  17. Um, no. on Does Your LCD Play Catch-Up To Your Mouse? · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've used lots of LCDs, including plenty of DELL LCDs. The LCDs we've used at work were faded, and the colors looked awful after a copule of years. but I've never never seen any kind of lag like this in any kind of monitor.

    My guess is that there is something wrong with the video drivers, or the mouse drivers, or some other part of his computer that's causing these problems.

    I can't see the vid because the file is apperantly slashdotted.

  18. No heat on Burt Rutan On his Upcoming X-Prize Attempt · · Score: 4, Informative

    Orbital craft need to travel fast enough to orbit the earth. Fast enough to travel all the way around the planet in 90 minutes. That's why they come back in so fast.

    This craft is going to straight up, and fall back down. Much slower.

  19. Wtf... on Burt Rutan On his Upcoming X-Prize Attempt · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The X-prize isn't a government program. Why would the government spend $1 million on private research when they can spend $1 billion slobbing pork-fat all over the pockets of Halliburton and other government contractors, and projects in every district.

  20. Re:More to it than that... on A Liquid That Turns Solid When Heated · · Score: 1

    Caramelization is the oxidation of sugar, retard.

  21. Re:Application: Construction of Skyscrapers on A Liquid That Turns Solid When Heated · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If true, this chemical will possibly force the scientific community to reevaluate chemical laws and make new, more general (and therefore better) ones.

    Are you retarded. There's now "law" that that stuff melts when hot and freezes when cold. It's just how most thing happen to be. Chemical 'laws' are much more complicated then that. Who modded this up, anyway.

  22. Re:Weird, but cool! on A Liquid That Turns Solid When Heated · · Score: 1

    Whats wierd about it ?. Ever heard of a thing called an "egg" ?

    Yeah, I hate it whem my eggs re-liquify after cooling down for a few minutes. Makes 'em hard to eat.

    /actualy read the article.

  23. Re:Weird, but cool! on A Liquid That Turns Solid When Heated · · Score: 1

    Hehe, "discovering a priori things we weren't aware of" is somewhat of an oxymoron: Websters: a priori

    Clearly you've never studied AI. Logical reduction take exponential computation time.

  24. Well on The Rest of the World Wants Kerry · · Score: 2, Informative

    Remember that Anzar also tried to blame the bombing on ETA, when clearly it was AQ. It was an obvious, and crass lie about something horrible in order to score political points.

    That definetly would have cost him my vote. Not that I would have voted for him anyway.

    The other issue is that voter turnout was huge. People who normaly wouldn't give a fuck about politics suddenly said "WTF have we got ourselves into!?"

  25. Re:Nigeria, eh? on The Rest of the World Wants Kerry · · Score: 1

    Right. Since everyone in Nigeria is a spammer, we hate all Nigerians. Got it.