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  1. Re:Where's the problem here? on University Bans Wireless Access Points · · Score: 1

    Do you really feel students have the "exclusive use or control" of the property for those rules to apply?

  2. Re:Get over it on University Bans Wireless Access Points · · Score: 1

    Hmm Federal law that refers to your own private property or University regulations that refer to the University's property... who are the feds going to side with...sounds like a complicated decision!

  3. Re:Where's the problem here? on University Bans Wireless Access Points · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Repeating it doesn't make it more valid. Students enter into a private contract where they agree to behave in certain ways and obey arbitrary rules in order to live certain places and attended colleges and universities.

    Students have every right to access part of the spectrum, but the University still has the right to expell them if they violate the part of the agreement that lists what they may and may not use in their dormroom.

  4. Re:Where's the problem here? on University Bans Wireless Access Points · · Score: 3, Informative

    As sort of a double whammy, there's also the: Code of Conduct that has clauses that ALSO specifically allow them to institute arbitrary rules for the good of the campus community, as determined by them.

  5. Re:Where's the problem here? on University Bans Wireless Access Points · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, it's called a lease agreement, with a change clause. Use the spectrum all you want, they are prohibiting a device, just like they can prohibit hotplates. If you don't like it, feel free to move out.

  6. Sliced bread WAS the next greatest thing. on Sony Develops TVs That Zoom in for True Close-ups · · Score: 1

    When the automated bread slicer was revealed to the world (I want to say World's Fair 1912ish maybe?) people were amazed. By the time it was ready for sale by about the 30s it could slice and package bread for sale.

    It's the bread slicer that allowed commercial bakers to make it into big business.

  7. Re:people still have those things? on When Emulation Isn't Enough · · Score: 1

    Bah, everyone knows you need two games, one to play, and one to put in on top of the other game to hold it down ALL the way. It's like up up down down left right left right b a b a {select} start. You can tell who had friends as a kid by who tells you the code had a select in it.

  8. Re:[OT] Re:Great News, but... on X.org X11 Server Release 6.8 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    fucking US residents

    Close, but not quite right. It's for SCREWING US residents.

  9. Re:Disable Flamebait? on Slashdot Goes Political: Announcing politics.slashdot.org · · Score: 1

    Actually, that didn't come out quite the way it was intended. The problem I see isn't peer review, it's arrogant antagonistic peer review by people who don't understand the process, intents, or scale of our country. I think from this point I'm going to take it into my journal, where I can rant a little more freely. I'm sorry for giving the impression that I don't care about ALL foreign input; it's actually a very certain type of foreign input I care very little about.

  10. When the line between troll and insightful blurs on Ask RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Boy, this question is really flirting with the line. Real has become one of those companies that geeks put in the catagory of "wouldn't piss on if they were on fire". How are they trying to fix those mistakes? Cutting the price isn't enough when people feel tainted for even using your product.

  11. Re:New Moderation Proposals on Slashdot Goes Political: Announcing politics.slashdot.org · · Score: 3, Funny

    -1 Hippie
    -2 Uses the term "dubbya" as if it gives his point weight
    -3 Refers to "you Americans"
    -4 Uses statistics without citing source
    -5 Thinks college is "The Real World"

  12. Disable Flamebait? on Slashdot Goes Political: Announcing politics.slashdot.org · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How the heck are we going to mod this section? It sounds like EVERY comment is going to be flamebait. Then we'll have the usual problem with Non-US people griping about how unfair it is that it only covers US politics (I'm assuming here) as well as put in their two bits ON US politics. It's going to be messy!

  13. iTunes - does it work or not? on 10 Points About Transgaming's Cedega/WineX · · Score: 1

    I remember reading all the hype about iTunes working now in Crossover to the point where I was about to buy it. That's when I noticed this page. Something about "Known to not work" concerns me when I'm buying one product specifically to use another product.

    So does it work, or not?

  14. Re:Hello NWO on Warez Suspect To Be Extradited, After All · · Score: 1

    Wacos?

    So you're going to commit mass suicide and pin it on the ATF?

  15. Re:Um. on Windows Media Player 10 Reviewed · · Score: 1

    You can't through the iTunes GUI. The convert function I believe you are thinking of is disabled if you select a DRM'd file.

    Of course there is always the fairplay cracks, but to me they just seem like more hassle than investing in a CD-RW.

  16. Re:Not impressed already... on Windows Media Player 10 Reviewed · · Score: 1

    It may be, but I personally love iTunes. I think zinf does any okay job, but I'd seriously pay money for a good iTunes on Linux solution. I'm looking hard at CrossoverOffice just for iTunes.

  17. Re:Installer? on ATI Updates Linux Drivers · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately my switch to using Linux as a gaming box came after getting the card.

  18. Re:Installer? on ATI Updates Linux Drivers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    See, that's the failed logic. LINUX is not a primary market, period. WINDOWS is not a primary market, either. The primary market for computer graphics cards in general are:

    1) Males
    2) Ages 18 to 35
    3) Disposable income

    Linux users are definitely a significant segment of that market. I upgrade my video card about once every other year. I typically buy the "high midrange" shortly after the release of the new big dog card. For example, my recent card is an ATI Radeon 9700 Pro. It bothers me that it's sitting in a box and my GeForce Ti4200 is in my AGP slot.

  19. Hoping it's an honest mistake on ATI Updates Linux Drivers · · Score: 0, Troll

    Of course, it's likely I'm feeding the trolls, but Gatos!=goatse

  20. Re:Lack of expertese? on ATI Updates Linux Drivers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Are you kidding? They could get some numbers from Rage3D's Linux Forum and justify the expense easily. ATI isn't a small company. It takes very little to justify hiring one or two more people. It's a terrible corporate image to be perceived as writing shoddy software even by a niche market, because it's a niche market in their prime market share. When you go to an ATI based forum and people suggest that you buy an Nvidia if you get frustrated and return their $300 card, that's a bad thing(tm).

  21. Re:Installer? on ATI Updates Linux Drivers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Part of it IS the installer. Nvidia's installer is what software installers SHOULD be like. After having to wrestle with ATI drivers, my jaw dropped when I put an Nvidia card in last night and had it installed and running about five minutes, including download time.

    The REAL frustrating part is the Nvidia is an old one I had laying around, while the ATI is a brand new present from this summer. Under windows the ATI decimates the Nvidia card but the Nvidia pushes ahead in Linux.

  22. Whistle blower on Ballmer on Linux · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't you by definition be covered under whistle blower statutes?

  23. Re:Is it REALLY a bad thing? on Britain is the World's Surveillance Leader · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Had you soundly thrashed the wanker, he might have refrained from starting trouble in the future.
    Yeah right. Do you really believe this? If you do, you might well be the least cynical and most naive person alive.


    On a reduced level, as a former Junior high school teacher I'm firmly convinced much of the drugs and violence in High School is because we stop bullying in Junior High too much. The way it now works is that the kids with fast mouths victimize and ridicule the ones with fast fists and they are helpless to respond. Even as a teacher who knew which kids to watch, actually catching them picking on someone verbally in earshot is very difficult. On the other hand, seeing the physical retaliation is easy. What a good chunk of these behavior problems need is a good ass kicking. For you non-US, Junior High is ages 10 to 13 generally.

  24. Re:You could... on Internet Babylon · · Score: 1

    As far as I know (and I pray this is true) it's just a picture. I also seem to remember something about chain pop ups to worse sites when you visit that one, so IE users watch out.

  25. Re:You could... on Internet Babylon · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's what appears to be a retarded girl bent over on her back in the bathtub with what is alleged to be her own explosive excrement raining down on her.