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  1. Re:Is this a problem? on Age Discrimination, Indian-Style · · Score: 1

    Insane? With the fox in charge of the henhouse, I suppose so. But just.

  2. Re:What they really need... on X-Arcade MAME Dual Controller Rated · · Score: 1

    Thanks--I'll give the custom thing a shot!

  3. Re:More games not controller on X-Arcade MAME Dual Controller Rated · · Score: 2, Informative
    Some alternative ways to find ROMS:

    StarROMs
    alt.binaries.emulators.* Usenet groups
    eMule

    I'm sure there are many more.

  4. Re:What they really need... on X-Arcade MAME Dual Controller Rated · · Score: 1

    Concur. The Logitech Wingman Warrior (check eBay) spinner doesn't work badly at all for that purpose--but there are no drivers for Windows 2000/XP; only 9x. Haven't had sufficient ambition to get it working in Linux as of yet. BTW, nice .sig!

  5. Re:Sticks like these are _not_ analog. on X-Arcade MAME Dual Controller Rated · · Score: 1

    You sell these at Software, Etc.?! I know what they're for (MAME, in my case), and would have bought one locally in a heartbeat if I had ever seen it. I ended up getting a HotRod instead, though.

  6. Re:cynical on FBI Plans Spammer Smackdown · · Score: 1

    Bull. If anything, 37 cent first class stamps subsidize ludicrously cheap bulk mail rates.

  7. So, how long before MS . . . on XLink Kai7 Gears Up For Xbox/PS2/GC Tunneling · · Score: 1

    . . . pulls a Blizzard on this project, a la bnetd?

  8. Re:Funniest part of the pics on P-P-P-PowerBook for a S-S-S-Scammer... · · Score: 1

    No, because no one would condone hacking up a second keyboard just for the second "G."

  9. Re:Back me up on "backing up" on Two Congressmen Push for DMCA Amendments · · Score: 1

    When I buy clothing, I own it--the person selling it to me doesn't claim I haven't really bought anything. If I were merely buying a license to a shirt design, yes, I would be right to expect a replacement were the physical object to become damaged.

  10. Re:Back me up on "backing up" on Two Congressmen Push for DMCA Amendments · · Score: 1

    That's ridiculous. You're paying for the bits, not for the media. If anything, if the "industry" wants strict copy protection, they should be willing to replace the media for the life of the user. Otherwise, backups should be allowed. In any case, if I can't copy it, I'm sure as hell not buying it.

  11. Re:Headline: Public doesn't RTFA on Google to Distribute Image Ads, Plans Email List Service · · Score: 2, Interesting

    But read carefully: At this time, we won't show image ads on Google. Be dead certain that within a short time after the IPO, it'll be blinking flash ad, punch the monkey, pop-up city on Google. Unless you pony up for a subscription.

  12. Re:Students? on Napster Gags University Over Fees · · Score: 1

    Which would imply that they don't read Slashdot?

  13. Re:Sue the ISP? on OptInRealBig Wins Restraining Order On SpamCop · · Score: 1

    Kind of like the web sites listing the personal information about abortion doctors don't actually say to commit violence against the doctors, SpamCop doesn't say to refuse traffic from alleged spammers. I doubt that argument will fly.

  14. Ah, Microsoft the benefactor. on Microsoft Allows Pirates to Install XP SP2 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Of course, were they to deny access to SP2 to those with copyright infringing copies, those using them might migrate to OSS. Or Microsoft might even be sued for having allowed infected machines to exist, when they had the means to patch them.

  15. Re:Powered by Capitol Advantage on Boucher's DMCRA To Get A Hearing On May 12 · · Score: 1

    "grassroots advocacy products"--now there's an oxymoron if there ever was one!

  16. Re:signature on Digital Cameras Change War Photo-Journalism · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If the camera can sign the images, the private key needed to do so must be in the camera. It would only be a matter of time before someone (and it only takes one) figured out how to get the key out of the camera, which would make people able to sign anything, and thus the camera's signatures pretty much meaningless.

  17. Re:Your sig on Professor and Student Thwart P2P File Sharing · · Score: 1
    My reading is more like "Your all of base is held by us." ("is held" because habetur is 3rd person singular passive voice) Sufficiently ungrammatical to have been translated into Latin from Japanese :).

    Nobis can be either dative or ablative, so "to us" would also be an accurate translation.

    Why, yes, I do have a life! Why do you ask?

  18. Your sig on Professor and Student Thwart P2P File Sharing · · Score: 3, Funny

    Translating "all your base are belong to us" into Latin is surely some kind of punishable crime :).

  19. So basically, Sony copied Apple . . . on Sony Connect Online Music Download Store Launches · · Score: 5, Insightful

    . . . even right down to the vendor lock-in part. Wonderful. Wake me when I can buy, rather than rent, music.

  20. Re:I got one on Ebay using "Buy It Now" for $19.99 on Gmail Addresses For Sale · · Score: 1

    But an eBay search wouldn't tell them which invitations were being sold unless they were to actually purchase one.

  21. Re:Obligatory AYBABTU on BASIC Computer Language Turns 40 · · Score: 1
    Nice job! Please try this out on your favorite BASIC interpreter and enjoy!

    10 CLS
    20 W = 34
    30 K = 3.1415 / 180
    40 FOR I = 0 TO 360 STEP 5
    50 PRINT SPC(40 + SIN(I * K) * W); "BRAVO!"
    60 NEXT I
    70 GOTO 40
  22. Re:BASIC? That's too newfangled for me! on BASIC Computer Language Turns 40 · · Score: 1

    If you were really old school, you would have used Hollerith formats :).

  23. Re:Obligatory AYBABTU on BASIC Computer Language Turns 40 · · Score: 1

    All your BASIC are belong to us :).

  24. Re:The chief has a point... on Big Brother Will Be Watching You In Florida · · Score: 1

    Wonder how the police like having the street entrance to the nudie bar the cops frequent after their shift filmed, the license plate numbers digitized, cross referenced, and made part of the public record. It's a public place, and they have no right to privacy, right?

  25. Re:New TV show announced: on RIAA Files 477 New Filesharing Lawsuits · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cool--got a .torrent?