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  1. Re:Contact the Linux Foundation on Ask Slashdot: How To Handle Unfixed Linux Accessibility Bugs? · · Score: 1

    I'd probably start by filing a bug report with your distro, it sounds like something release critical. They likely have someone who will be able to fix this bug, and who will be able to get it upstream. They also will be better equipped to test this as they're putting together all the pieces in a distro. They are also probably more end user oriented.

  2. Re:Expect to be deported on Linus Torvalds Admits He's Been Asked To Insert Backdoor Into Linux · · Score: 1

    Thats crazy talk. No hospital would deport a patient with means to pay for his own care. Now, if he can't pay...

    If it makes you feel better, maybe the hospital wasn't planing on them waking up?

  3. Re:Why bother? on GNUstep Kickstarter Campaign Launched · · Score: 2

    I'll take a quick stab at answering your question.

    They're not trying to duplicate Mac OS X. The project started before that, to clone nextstep, or the api's at least, which were at one point being billed as a cross platform framework called openstep.

    I assume these guys liked Objective-C(which came from nextstep) and liked openstep and you know then the whole thing took on a life of its own.

    Now they could stick with the state of openstep when NeXT shutdown, or they could go off on thier own, or they could bring in the new stuff from Mac OS X(which is descended from nextstep).

    They seem to want to the last one.

  4. Re: This is why encryption isn't popular on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Request Someone To Send Me a Public Key? · · Score: 2

    No, the key would actually be generated on the card, as it has its own cryptographic processor, and cpu. Its called a smart card.

    I have no idea if they are actually doing this, as I am not estonian and am completely unfamiliar with thier ID card issuing process, but he seems to be implying that they do.

    Remember, there are two ways to get a key on a smartcard. You can have it generate a key(which CAN be signed without the key leaving the card), or you can generate the key externally and then import it.

  5. Re:lets try to get rid of the 115 jobs as cost 2 h on Lenovo Announces Grand Opening of US Manufacturing Facility · · Score: 1

    In part, maybe. But really capitalism is about who gets to decide things. In capitalism 1 dollar equals 1 vote. Therefore capitalism is not compatible with democracy.

  6. Smart Grids? on The Smart Grid Has Arrived · · Score: 1

    In Illinois were getting a "Smart Grid" which is supposed to make ComEds system more efficient. So of course that means we need to pay up front for the new meters and our electricity rates are going up. Yays for efficiency.

  7. Re:Congressional Campaign Donations Caucus on U.S. Reps Chu and Coble Start Intellectual Property Caucus · · Score: 1

    aww crap, now i had to read the linked story and press release. They make it sound like they're starting a lobbying firm. I didn't think they'd be that blatant. I just assumed it'd all be implied.

    On a funnier note, isn't it great how they used the word craftsmanship along side intellectual property.

  8. Congressional Campaign Donations Caucus on U.S. Reps Chu and Coble Start Intellectual Property Caucus · · Score: 0

    yays for corruption!

  9. Re:Hypocrisy on TPB Files Police Complaint Against CPIAC for Copying Website · · Score: 1

    Actually they don't only index pirated content.
    Look for open source and you'll find it there.
    Look for Creative Commons licensed works and you'll find it there.

    And don't forget "the promo bay".

  10. Re:Who This 'CEO' ? on How a Chinese Hacker Tried To Blackmail Me · · Score: 1

    oh crap they're monitoring us. everybody play it cool or they'll shut off our supply of iphones and ipads.

  11. Also, WTF? on The Foldable Readius Ereader Is Dead · · Score: 2

    Did anyone look at this? Sources? I looked at the recent section and didn't see this.

    BUT the related submission below the story, which seems to have been submitted by the same person seems to have a link to a story, which has a link to a source.

    I'm guessing the submitter screwed up his first submission and resubmitted it, then Unknown Lamer screwed up and picked the wrong submission.

  12. Re:He is on Ralph Nader Might Announce Run For President · · Score: 1

    Which is why we need democrats like Rahm Emanuel and Jan Schakowsky, both of whom of have made it clear that impeachment is out of the question. Or democrats like John Conyers, who as the head of the Judicial committee, is blocking the impeachment of Dick Chenny. Or maybe we we need good democratic senators like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton who voted for everything you just mentioned. And don't tell me that bull about Obama not voting for the war, voting to fund it is exactly the same thing.

    Gore lost because he refused to stand up to goofbals in florida who were rigging elections. And he didn't get the green vote because he waited until after the election to tell them what they wanted to hear.

    Now look, maybe I'm just being a little pissy because I just got out of a PRIMARY election in the state of Illinois where all over the state the "DEMOCRATS" AND Republicans where refusing to give Green Party ballots to Green Party members. Now I don't know about you but I'm not going to take this freedom and democracy crap from democrats who refuse to allow me to vote in my parties primary, and then insist that I shouldn't have the right to vote for my party in the general election.

    Democracy means you get to vote for whoever you want. I'm going to vote for someone who believes in free elections, not someone who won't even stand up for his own voters.

  13. Re:You must be misunderstanding "terrorism" on Iran Builds Supercomputer From Banned AMD Parts · · Score: 1

    I can't help but see the irony in your response.

  14. Re:You must be misunderstanding "terrorism" on Iran Builds Supercomputer From Banned AMD Parts · · Score: 1

    Who don't we fund or supply? Where the hell do you think all that oil money is going? If that wasn't enough, everyone here knows it, while continuing to insist that we can't drive anything more fuel efficient than an SUV.

  15. Re:Hate to say 'I told you so', but... on Judge Orders Deleted Emails Turned Over · · Score: 1

    Hey, if you've got nothing to hide, encrypt the hell out of it. Besides I hear it cuts down on thier battery life.

  16. Re:No need for anything special really on Linux Support for Hybrid Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    Why not just do that now by adding the memory to your system(if it can handle it)? It shouldn't be to hard to setup a shell script that will load a portion of your hard drive into memory. I wonder if you could setup unionfs to write the changes to the hard drive? You could probably setup proccess acounting or something to track program usage and load only the most commonly used programs. But, to get to the point, the value of the flash ram is that you can accelerate boot time by having the data already in the cache waiting when you boot. You save power by not having to spin the disk all the time. And you eliminate the risk of doing so with volatile memory. Your Idea about partitioning is good though. It'd be just like when we all had to make sure the boot partition was within the first 1024 cylinders. Nice.

  17. Re:Don't even talk to this guy! on Building Secure Computers? · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't you just want him to sign the email with his DoD issued encryption certificate? According to an article in the August "Network World" "If you have an official DOD e-mail account, you also get an e-mail digital certificate."

    Never mind, I just wanted to hear myself type.

  18. Re:Makes me glad I never gave them money... on ACLU Uses Data Mining to Profile Donors/Members · · Score: 1

    Don't forget mortars, artilery shells, anti-aircraft missles, anti-tank missles, heavy-machine guns, and pretty much anything else that is man portable.

  19. Re:Won't happen, Pentagon won't allow it on Private Spaceflight Law Shot Down · · Score: 1

    Yes, but I assume when the DoD wants to send stuff up with NASA the money comes out of the DoD's budget and not NASA's. And I believe that the DoD mantains their own launch facilities, which they do launch from. So basically none of what you said negates what the previous poster said. The DoD does have the expertise, internally, via NASA, and via their partners in the military industrial complex. And they most certianly have the budget. You probably would have been better off simply giving a reason as to why the FAA would like to restrict civilian space travel, and then stating that its fun to portray rummy as the bad guy but ...

  20. Re:Kum-by-ya. on Would You Move to Space? · · Score: 1

    That would just make me even angrier. Dang hippys!

  21. Re:Not PC, but: Intergraph==SCO, Intel==IBM on Intel, Intergraph Settle In Hyperthreading Suit · · Score: 1

    You seem to be implying that IBM took the work done on Project Monterey and contributed it to linux or to another unix. The problem with this is that everything IBM has been accused of improperly contributing to linux seems to have been developed independently by IBM and before the ill-fated Monterey project. JFS for example was developed before monterey and was ported from OS/2 not Monterey or SCO. SCO had nothing to do with RCU which IBM got when it purchased Sequent. And I know you can't be accusing IBM of stealing Monterey and using it in AIX. What would be the point? Frankly either you are very confused, have a grudge, or both. And Lastly, I don't think IBM needed SCO's help for Unix on X86. I think they just wanted to use SCO's custumer base against Sun, and thier other unix competitors. That's all SCO brought to the table, as they allowed their UNIX code base to get increasingly out of date for years.

  22. Re:Duh on NetBSD Imports XFree86 4.4.0 · · Score: 3, Informative
    Oh swweet! It's just like like "Where's Waldo"! Here is what you are looking for(part not in apache):

    "and in the same place and form as other copyright, license and disclaimer information."

    And here is the complete section from the XFree86 License V1.1:

    "Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution, and in the same place and form as other copyright, license and disclaimer information."

    The argument is that if everyone requires them to place their information everywhere that there is a copyright, etc... that this could get out of control.

    The apache license is vague enough to allow you to place the license in a file included with with the binary instead of everywhere in your distro.

  23. Re:Tom Bihn on Recommendations For A Good Laptop Bag? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Tom Bihn's bags are excelent. Another brand that's made in the USA is Trager. I have thier transporter and I think it's great. Tom bihn sells them too. I got mine at ebags.com on sale with a 10% off coupon and free shipping, but it looks like you might do better right now buying from Tom.

  24. Re:PartsExpress on Building Rackmount Cabinet for Home Use? · · Score: 1

    The rail you link too skips one out of every three holes. The standard spacing is 1/2" 5/8" 5/8". Thier spacing is 1/2" 1-1/4". Also I thought standard racks used 12-24 screws.

  25. Re:There is an alternative to a PDA on Old MIPS/ARM PDAs for Teaching? · · Score: 1

    From what I've read the GNU toolset can target the the gameboy advance. Check this site for more information on programing the gameboy advance. To get the code into them there is a flashable card or a cheaper adapter that will allow you to send code directly to your gameboy advance. Both of those are available at this site