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  1. Re:So basically on UK University Making Universal Game Emulator · · Score: 1

    Not if he has a botnet... Possibly made out of those exact computers. O:-)

  2. Re:So basically on UK University Making Universal Game Emulator · · Score: 0, Troll

    So you expect us to give you special treatment? For what? That would be discrimination against all others. Because you are sooo special...

    You are not. Get over it. I'm fat, but I do not get something specially done for me, and demanded by the government. And rightfully so.

    You get treated like every other human. Not better. Not worse. That's what's called "fair" and "social" (as opposed to "politically correct").

    If this means a disadvantage to you, then maybe this is, because you have a disadvantage yourself.
    Should we overthrow the whole natural selection because of you? Or me?
    No, thank you. I'm not that arrogant.

    So help yourself. After all it's just color blindness. Try a Compiz-color-replacement/shifting-filter if you use Linux. Maybe create one. There. Problem solved.

    Isn't the world great if you have common sense?

  3. Re:Not a problem on Shifting Apps To ARM Chips Could Save Laptop Batteries · · Score: 1

    Well... Try running recent specialized software in Linux. They use the new APIs that Wine does not support yet, and they can't be run in a VM because this would slow them down too much.

    This includes pretty much all professional music software (Cubase, Native Instruments software, Reason, and so on), design software (Adobe products. No, the new versions still do not work in an acceptable manner under Wine), CAD and 3d design software (Maya, Vue, Zbrush, etc) and of course games.

    The reasons are clear. It's not worth the cash to make it compatible. The return of investment is still too small. Which is of course because most users still use windows. Which itself is caused by it being whatever comes with the computer. Which is of course Windows. First, because customers would be angry if they wanted to test their new shiny computer with some games or something else, and then noticed that this was not possible. And secondly, because Microsoft has some pretty evil deals and methods to make them pre-install Windows. And that's the core problem with it.

    We have to push Linux so hard as "whatever comes with it", that developers pretty much have to make their stuff compatible. Then we get a fighting chance with Linux on the desktop. And if we win this fight with Microsoft -- which will be the hardest thing you have ever seen -- it will be the year of Linux on the desktop.

    The nice thing is, that with Netbooks, this already started. Now we only have to find out how to make Linux the only option on the (real) desktop computer without it being Microsoft failing so hard.

  4. Re:And glasses... on UK Cinemas Get 3D Projection Rollout · · Score: 1

    As if you had someone to watch TV with...

    If yes, then why are you posting on Slashdot? ;)

  5. Re:when nuns attack on Bruce Perens On Combining GPL and Proprietary Software · · Score: 1

    No, luckily.

    Offending: The fun for the whole family! :D

  6. Re:Tux cant handle the Cuban heat. on Cuba Launches Own Linux Variation · · Score: 3, Insightful

    (Imagine explaining 'Free as in speech, not free as in beer' in Cuba or China. Or Russia, for that matter, with its open season on investigative journalists.)

    Or in the USA for that matter... where you can put away without any trial, any right to contact anyone or even ask them why you were put away... just because someone did not like your name or something. You/We're not that much better. They can only hide it better here. No need for censorship, if you have FOX news.
    I just hope they don't close that gap in difference soon. Because they work very hard on it.

  7. Bullshit! on VIA Nano Bests Intel Atom In Netbook Benchmarks · · Score: 2, Informative

    And still, your whole dissertation -- which apparently comes straight out of your uninformed ass -- is completely useless,
    since the Atom can only be so low in power usage, because all the power-draining stuff is in the north-bridge!

    Have you ever looked at a board with an Atom CPU? The thing with the big fat cooler is the north-bridge. That what looks like the north-bridge is the actual Atom CPU!

    And if you take the sum of the power those two chips need, they lose to every "netbook CPU"! By far...

    But as long as there are parrots and retards who think because they can pull it out of their ass, it must be true, Intel will do just fine, selling its fraud chips. And you are directly responsible for that fraud too. So thank you... really... (NOT!)

  8. A classic case of FUD on How To Argue That Open Source Software Is Secure? · · Score: 1

    It seems, that people know that programs are made of code, which is then transformed to an executable form "somehow". But not that this executable form is just another form of code. And just as easy to change. You only have to know a different language... to do a different thing. That's all.

    We, the community of experts, should make it perfectly clear when others are asking, in interviews, articles, and so on, that computers *only* accept plain code commands, that everyone can change. And that these commands are just another programming language. Nothing special. Especially nothing protected.

    I will make this clear to my friends from now on.

  9. Re:Stephen Fry... on UK Government Plans 10-Year Database of Citizens' Travel · · Score: 1

    It's "Lëtzeburg". That's how we "Lëtzeburger" call it. :)

    The variant with ou is the French word for our country. The variant with only u is the German word. That's, because of the word burg (castle).
    You're not French, are you? :D

  10. Re:159357 popular with lefties? on Passwords From PHPBB Attack Analyzed · · Score: 1

    Yes. You are right. That was, what I thought of. I must have generalized it wrongly. I just use that thing so rarely.

  11. Re:no soup! on $2 Billion For Broadband Cut From Stimulus Bill · · Score: 1

    No, you're only thinking on their level. That way, you can only get on their level.
    You have to think as much steps higher as you can. You're scientists after all!

    So... who are you working for? Big company X? Then get to their deciders. Become some of their deciders.
    You are a (bio)chemist? Put something in their food.
    Psychology? Add something ehem... fresh... to those therapeutic methods.
    And so on...

    Every science has a method to get the world to work a bit more your way.

    So control the biggest streams that lead do the sea of power. If you can, even pay others to do little things for you. Like little gifts, or some help here and there. And make sure, they completely know, that it is expected from them to give something back. Always keep them in a state of bad/guilty conscience. In this area, you can learn very much from churches and religions.

    Learn from lobbyists, religious leaders, rhetoricians, and so on. And learn from everything else. Because this is the only method not to imitate them and get a real advantage. Look at animals, games, completely unrelated social systems, and so on. Learn they flow of control. Improve it.

    But most importantly: DO IT.
    After you got your intention/purpose/target written down, decide the very first step that you could to right now. Then do it. :)

    No, I will not tell you where I'm working ;)

  12. Re:Wrong Premise on Why Sustainable Power Is Unsustainable · · Score: 1

    Ok, we go ahead, and then ask you again... in summer.
    is that ok?

  13. Maybe, in your ass-backwards town... on Why Sustainable Power Is Unsustainable · · Score: 1

    ...you never heard of the word "recycling".

    You know... you can recycle indium and platinum quite nicely.

  14. Re:Not an issue anymore on Keeping in Contact With Family, From Afghanistan? · · Score: 1

    I would really recommend you to move to somewhere else. Not too hot, not to cold, not too catastrophy, not too backwards. It can only get better. :)

  15. Re:159357 popular with lefties? on Passwords From PHPBB Attack Analyzed · · Score: 1, Interesting

    But for that, you first have to *find* the letters "qwerty", and maybe even "http://google.com" (because IE does not automatically add the http) first.

    Good luck, finding them on MY keyboard: http://www.neo-layout.org/
    Hint 1: The letters printed on my keys have no relation to the actual layout.
    Hint 2: "Ebene" means "level". So: Yes, that thing has 6 levels. (7 actually)

  16. This is the oldest hat in the book! on The Deceptive Perfection of Auto-Tune · · Score: 2, Informative

    Vocoders have been developed since 1936.

    The problems always were the number of channels/bands. The more, the better it sounds. But only with computers, you can simulate many of them, without it resulting a huge machine.
    As an example, a typical vocoder that I used for fun effects (because nobody says than any of the two inputs has to be voice, or even an instrument), had 8 bands.

    Modern software, like the one from "Native Instruments" has 1024 bands, and I bet they went up since I last looked, nearly two years ago.

    And that's all. It's just that since it was the style at that time to add noticeable vocoder effects on purpose, and that nowadays you can have them very powerful and very cheap, that everybody knows how to use them. So if you're a big music producer of a crook (which is the same thing) why not make more cash, by not letting you stop by the little annoyance of a totally crappy singer, when she has big tits.

  17. Re:their unvalidatable crap still exists in the US on The First Federally Certified Voting System · · Score: 1

    There is no piece of vote tabulation system including humans, that can ever be trusted, because it eliminates other humans from providing public oversight.

    Every time I hear about some new system, I don't even need to bother to look at what it is.

    It's a fucking human COMMUNICATION dipshit! OTHER HUMANS (grama, you, your son, your mother, your daddy, your NEUROSIS)* can't see what's really happening behind closed doors, and therefore you can not provide public oversight!

    So shut the fuck up about linux, or windows.
    THE OS IS IRRELEVANT

    The fascists who make these systems all the way to the officials who certify this shit are outlaws!

    Every fucking problem the United States is facing right now is because of these crooks that decide shit behind our backs and closed doors.

    There, fixed that for you.

    (Oh, and learn semantic HTML. We're not in the 90s, with your <b> tags. They're not even valid HTML anymore.)

    * That's what they really are, despite you calling them otherwise ;)

  18. Re:And this is news??? on RIAA Lied To Congress About New Filesharing Suits · · Score: 1

    Very simple. You take a set of photos of the same landscape with different weather, put them in a folder, and name them by their weather state.

    Then you write a little cron-job that reads the weather from some online update service, calculates a weather state string from that, and overwrites the symlink of the current background image with one linking to the image with that state string.

    If required, you can send a "update background image" command via dcop or something similar.

    My whole desktop changes (theme, image, colors, sounds, etc) with the weather, day and night, amount of sunshine (automatic adaptive color calibration), and season.

    Today I had the first flowers flowing over my desktop, and the grass started to grow, but now it's getting a bit darker.

    The only problem is, that I photoshopped many of the images, and did use different landscapes, because obviously I can't take a photo for every hour of every day of a whole year... and sit in my room all year long. ;)

  19. Hey you insensitive iranian clods... on Iran Has Put a Satellite Into Orbit · · Score: 1

    My brother Omid in NO satellite! How date you, launching him into space. /me hopes that he is not next.

  20. Re:and just for old time's sake... on IBM Building 20 Petaflop Computer For the US Gov't · · Score: 1

    My Qualculate says

    (1,6TiB / 1,6 million) to MiB = (1,6 tebibyte) (1,6 million) to mebibyte
    = 1,048576 MiB

  21. HA IMBECILES! on Comcast Apologizes For Super Bowl Porn Glitch · · Score: 1

    In France, to see porn, customers pay YOU!

  22. Re:It's all in the software on Snakelike Robot To Treat Soldiers During Battle · · Score: 5, Funny

    I managed to get a hold on the actual source code. Here's a sample:

    Sss (sss, sssSSS, sS, sSS):
        S.SS = s[S].s SSss * sssss / S(SSs) + sSSSs
        SsS (S s s.sss):
            sS(sss, ssS, Ss)
            SSS.SS.S(sSs.SS)
        SS && ssssssssss(SSSS)

    S (sS):
      Sss.SssSSS()
      sSS(SSS)
    s

    Does anyone here speak python?

  23. Re:Folks I don't want to hear say oops on Black Holes From the LHC Could Last For Minutes · · Score: 1

    Marionette, chosen by a comitee. He has nothing to do with the people.

    At all.

  24. Re:I don't pirate anything on Will the New RIAA Tactic Boost P2P File Sharing? · · Score: 1

    Exept that there will be no market anymore, because one song can't be worth more than another one anymore. So there will be no reason to make good music. So there will be no reason to buy that bad music anymore. So there will be no reason to make music for money anymore. So there will be no RIAA anymore. So there will maybe be no music tax anymore. So maybe everything begins again. (GOTO 1)

  25. Re:The Lesson Is... on In Finland, Nokia May Get Its Own Snooping Law · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Else they would not be big enough to pull it of in the first place.