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  1. Re:This is a WASTE, unless... on Sweden Bans Copyrighted Downloading · · Score: 0

    making examples is a the quintessential injustice that the powerful few wreak on the disenfranchised many.

  2. Re:More of the same. on Desktop Linux on x86 - Adapt or Die · · Score: 0

    In the real world, I use linux and it works.

    In related news, quit using 'real world' to mean 'my world'. Maybe you and the people you love prefer windows, I find windows non-usable.

  3. Re:I don't know what to say on Halo Movie May Happen After All · · Score: 0

    It completely misses the point of the three laws.

    Whenever a robot even comes close to killing a person in the stories, it's positronic brain gets shorted out.

    The three laws existed because Asimov didn't want to write stories about robots killing people.

    And what do the robots do in I, Robot?

  4. Re:Are they for real? on Congress Ponders Opening up iTunes DRM · · Score: 0

    monopoly on the ability to play back music purchased through itunes

    monopoly on the ability to upload songs to the ipod

    if it was a snake, it would have bit you.

  5. Re:Annoying on PearPC Trying to Sue CherryOS · · Score: 0

    OBVIOUSLY, KB is a digraph.

    You know, like Da, AMU, etc.

    Do you say Tesla-Bytes when somebody writes TB?

    The distinction between kb, kB, Kb, and KB is useful, and you bloody well know what it means.

  6. Re:What law has been violated? on iPod Shuffle Lookalike Hits CeBIT · · Score: 0

    If you do that without copying the code, it is perfectly legal.

    Or is SCO right and Linux is an illegal unix-alike?

  7. Re:Grain of salt... (just nitpicking) on Breakthrough in solar photovoltaics · · Score: 0

    actually its 45.52ct
    45.52ct=9.104g

    but i thought they meant volume.

    average density of diamond is 3.51.

    so the hope diamond will be about 2.5cc

    Assuming monocrystalline salt, density of the salt will be 2.17.

    So that's 5.47g of salt.

    Maybe its standard crushed salt, though. According to saltinstitute.com, 1tsp of salt is 6.2g, which gives a density of 1.26g/cc. At that density, it's 3.18g.

  8. mozilla on 2.6 and 2.7 Release Management · · Score: 0

    1) CVS (or Subversion)
    2) Tinderbox
    3) Bugzilla

    Maybe others as well. Mozilla has a good development procedure IMHO.

  9. Re:My first slashdot limerick on Communication Making The World Less Tolerant · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    your verse sucks
    moderator is pronounced MODerAtor, so it can't fit in anapest.
    Better is:

    There one was a person on crack
    Moderating with brains in nutsack

    "He modded me unfairly" is ok, but "Could control myself barely" starts on a stressed syllable, which isn't bad, but isn't good either. Better would be something that goes with the previous line, "I controlled myself barely"
    "Wish he would pull his head out of his asscrack" is a common, extremely easy to make mistake. You should avoid putting too many syllables in the last line, and make sure the last line conforms strictly to the others.
    "of his asscrack" is not anapest unless of is stressed, which it can't be if out is in there. Out of can be replaced with from. Changing "he would" to "he'd" makes it all flow together.
    "Wish he'd pull his head from his asscrack"

    There one was a person on crack
    Moderating with brains in nutsack
    He modded me unfairly,
    I controlled myself barely,
    Wish he'd pull his head from his asscrack

    This was written in aftersight. I would advise anyone to reread and edit their poems to get the verse right, because if your verse is good your point goes across better.
    Please forgive my lack of grammar, I am pressed for time and I'm a poet, not a grammarian.