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  1. Re:while you're at it on Copyright Bill could Stifle Innovation · · Score: 0

    are we making windows illegal now?

    We can but hope :)

  2. Re:WiFi Police on Japan Considers Taxing of WiFi · · Score: 1

    It's the licence fee, but you only need to pay it if you have a way to pick up the BBC. If you live somewhere where the BBC channels are unreceivable, you don't have to pay :) Also if you don't have a TV, etc., etc.

  3. Re:This is a technical training school, right? on Software Monoculture in Schools? · · Score: 1

    Where I used to work...yes. Yes it is. Windows 98 and Netware 4.11.

  4. Re:What about a scheduler? on When RSS Traffic Looks Like a DDoS · · Score: 1

    Mmmmmm 420. Too many stoned drivers %-)

  5. Re:Either you want SUX, or you want ROX. on Gnome 2.6 Usability Review · · Score: 1

    I love these... pity a lot of them are wrappers around programs already in /usr/bin ... now if only GoboLinux would have installed for me *sigh*.

    http://www.hardline.org/moslix/ looks interesting in the future as well... I miss RO 3.11 :/

  6. Re:A better idea... on Reverse Firewalls As An Anti-Spam Tool · · Score: 1

    What about mailing list servers?

  7. Re:This isn't normal behavior? on Reverse Firewalls As An Anti-Spam Tool · · Score: 1

    You should be able to do similar things using systrace.

  8. Re:McDonald's on How Would You Handle a $1,000,000 Coding Error? · · Score: 2, Funny

    /me attacks mods with a poin-ted stick

  9. Re: Custom phone on Nokia Losing its Cell Phone Dominance · · Score: 1

    Most Amazons ever made (30+ years ago) are *still* in traffic (ok, so that might be an urban tale, but it still makes a good story ;)

    I dunno, have you seen the M25 recently?

  10. Re:When it take just one model .. on Nokia Losing its Cell Phone Dominance · · Score: 1

    I really like my 6310i. I get about 7 days standby time, with mostly texting, and the occasional call. WAP and GPRS, with encrypted connections if you're paranoid. Supports some kind of downloadable applications, I believe Java...haven't really tried because they cost money and I'm cheap :)

    Haven't managed to get gnokii to send SMS through it yet, will have to check for any updates.

    Bluetooth support is ok, but not the best, it seems limited to sending business cards around (can't use it as a modem or anything fancy, that only works with a data cable or IR). If only I could play 2-player games using bluetooth, would be a damn sight easier than trying to keep the phones aligned when it gets heated!

  11. Re:I disagree... on Is Math A Sport? · · Score: 1

    Your post fits your username so well :)

  12. Re:Security, security, security on GNU/Linux Clears Gov't Procurement Hurdles · · Score: 1

    A few more words: short the battery out, replace some chips...or just move the HDDs to another machine and go mad :)

  13. Re:Useful metaphor for this kind of reactionism:dr on Violent Video Game Law Struck Down · · Score: 1

    You'd get confused and start munching on the seats. Or if you could be bothered, ramraid a donut shop :)

  14. Re:Yeah... and? on Oxford Students Hack University Network · · Score: 1

    If they're going to do this sort of thing, from the way it looks, they found an issue, then wrote a big article on it.

    Way wrong approach. If they find problems, it's their responsibility to inform the system/network administrators, give them a chance to fix it. Not just go and publish an article.

  15. Re:irrelevant on Time to Try a Linux Desktop? · · Score: 1

    I'm using ROX at the moment, when I click on the icon for a CD, it mounts it and opens a filer window. When I close the last window relating to the CD, it asks if I want to unmount it, saying: "Do you want to unmount this device? Unmounting a device makes it safe to remove the disk.".

    KDE does similar, I found. GNOME I couldn't say, but I would expect so.

    Even on the console, things like automount handle all this from in-kernel if needed. The problem of mounting removable devices was solved a long time ago, and most distros have something integrated.

  16. Re:dear god on Mozilla Gains on Internet Explorer · · Score: 2, Informative

    The text overlap on /. is known about:

    bugzilla

    They don't like /. referrers though, so you'll have to go to the URL yourself.

  17. Re:What you forget on Americans Read Fewer Books · · Score: 1

    "And then we woked yst for daes byfoer terning north"

    I would say your interpretation was correct, since if it had been four days, you would need:

    "And then we woked yst for for daes byfoer terning north" (east for four days). I might just be nitpicking though, but I always hear people qualify a period using "for", whatever the situation.

  18. Re:www.google.com on Fedora, SuSE And Mandrake Compared · · Score: 1
    Obligatory bash quote:

    <dm> I discovered that you'd never get an answer to a problem from Linux Gurus by asking. You have to troll in order for someone to help you with a Linux problem.
    <dm> For example, I didn't know how to find files by contents and the man pages were way too confusing. What did I do? I knew from experience that if I just asked, I'd be told to read the man pages even though it was too hard for me.
    <dm> Instead, I did what works. Trolling. By stating that Linux sucked because it was so hard to find a file compared to Windows, I got every self-described Linux Guru around the world coming to my aid. They gave me examples after examples of different ways to do it. All this in order to prove to everyone that Linux was better.
    * ion has quit IRC (Ping timeout)
    <dm> brings a tear to my eye... :') so true..
    <dm> So if you're starting out Linux, I advise you to use the same method as I did to get help. Start the sentence with "Linux is gay because it can't do XXX like Windows can". You will have PhDs running to tell you how to solve your problems.
    <dm> this person must be a kindred spirit of mine


    linky
  19. Re:NTFS streams on RDF For Desktop Metadata? · · Score: 1

    When I tried to copy a file with another stream from NTFS to FAT32, Win2K complained and said I was losing data. I don't know about zipping the file with, say, WinZip; is it even *possible* to get separate streams in? (Perhaps some kind of weird exported format that Windows can read/write so you can move your files around?)

  20. So! Many! Obvious! Babes! on E3 'Booth Babe' Interviews Reveal Comedy, Tragedy · · Score: 1

    --slashdotter "explodes"--

  21. Re:Wonder How Microsoft Will React on Corporate Servers Spreading IE Virus [Updated] · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually, yes. I want them to become targets. As a result of this, Mozilla/Firefox's quality will increase rapidly, and patches will be available within hours, going by usual standards.

    Don't know about Opera, but they seem to care more than MS does about fixing things.

  22. Re:do they smell on Toshiba Develops World's Smallest Fuel Cells · · Score: 1

    I believe methane itself is odourless, and a "smell" is added to it for easy detection by humans (i.e., "oh crap gas leak!" without being mistaken for something else).

  23. Re:Spirtuallity and Philosphy are the keys on Ghost in the Shell 2 in Theaters Late This Summer · · Score: 1

    Serial Experiments Lain has some nice thought-provoking philosophy... not convinced on factual accuracy, but it's good to sit down and embrace.

  24. Re:BitchX on The Latest And Greatest Console Applications? · · Score: 1

    Actually, gotta *not* love BitchX. It's horrible!

    www.irssi.org for life.

  25. Re:Delphi from VBasic?? on The History of Programming Languages · · Score: 2, Interesting

    C is not a subset of C++, for example the following is valid C code but not C++, if C were a subset, this would be valid C++ also:

    char *x = malloc(10);

    (malloc returns void*, C++ does not allow automatic pointer promotion).