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  1. Re:Probable bug . . . . on Firefox 0.10.1 Released, Fixes Security Hole · · Score: 1

    Deleting the users firefox config and letting it recreate doesn't seem to help either.

  2. Re:Superceded on Navy ELF to Be Scrapped · · Score: 1
    "the ELF system would be used in the even of a global nuclear war, so that if all other communications means go down, submarines can still be in contact naval command."
    Sure... they would just use it to prevent the dolphins from taking over in the confusion.
  3. Re:Don't play games on Anatomy of a LAN Party? · · Score: 1

    Just make sure your insurance covers what you think it does. I've known people who only years after paying big bucks for business insurance, have thier policy analysed and find out it doesn't really cover *anything* literally, it was like some legal form of scam. So perform some thorough logical analysis, make sure a+b=c, etc, pay attention to the wording of exclusions, it's very easy to exclude every possibility with one extra word.

  4. Re:C'mon now on Nintendo DS Network · · Score: 1

    But if their is rw media for the DS, wouldn't that make piracy easier? I'm not sure nintendo would embrace this, as much as I'd love an mp3 player, and other custum files and software accesible on my DS.

  5. What's with the ANTI-GPL zealotry? on Microsoft To Sell Win XP Starter Edition In Russia · · Score: 1
    Then don't use it. If you do use it without properly licensing it, then don't complain if someone else does the same to something you produce, or to some piece of GPLed software.
    So because he doesn't pay for windows, it's alright for anybody to break the GPL on any GPLed software? That doesn't make any sense. You should have stuck with the "something you produce" part.
  6. Re:This thing doesn't run on hydrogen... on BMW Shows Off World's Fastest Hydrogen Car · · Score: 1

    Yes, but there are clean ways of making hydrogen fuel, and although the free market would never do it this way, government regulation could enforce a fully clean hydrogen economy. So in wealthy socialist countries it's quite plausible, but in american-centric slashdot the ignorant public is being bamboozled.

  7. OT on Are Today's Polls Clueless? · · Score: 1

    What is it with all those "US territories" anyways? Does nobody else find it strange that they can't vote/don't have US citizenship/rights , and that they are still a part of the US? Does that make the US president their unelected dictator? Why don't they "count" anyways? If I were one of them I'd be royally pissed everytime bush mentions the word democracy.

  8. Re:What's going on with Square? on PS2 Final Fantasy 7 Spinoff · · Score: 1

    I've never heard anybody complain about Saga Frontier before.

  9. Re:Too Far? on Independent Developers Fight Piracy & Lose · · Score: 1

    True, I usually mistype things like serial numbers once before I get it right.

  10. Re: Well....From the TFA- on Mushroom Cloud Reported Over North Korea · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Maybe they staged it. A large ordinance detonation used to make the world fear their nuclear power.

  11. Re:I'd have to agree. on Blade Runner Is The Best Sci-Fi Film · · Score: 1

    If you were to read the book you might change your mind *cough*lead codpieces*cough* .

  12. Re:"Liberal" talk in USA is Silly on Red Brains vs. Blue Brains? · · Score: 1

    As a canadian who votes 3rd party, I would vote in the 2 party sphere if american, in this election. You should punish the dems, and show support for your 3rd party, after a bad dem term in office. And when an even worse thing is in office(the bush construct) you should try to get them out. Common sense to me.

  13. Re:Not true on Red Brains vs. Blue Brains? · · Score: 1

    Actually, I think it's pretty correct. The majority of conservatives I've met lack empathy, and the majority of the liberals I've met have empathy. A simple emotional capability that seems to be 50/50 among humans. If there were a drug that forced empathy upon those lacking it, it would make everybody get along alot better, or a drug that removes empathy so that those with it can compete on a level playingfield as those who are naturally more self interested. Personally, as someone with an overabundance of difficult to supress empathy, I don't see how such antisocial qualities possesed by the greedy types aren't more descriminated against by society.

  14. Re:A good idea, but... on Linux Desktop Guide · · Score: 1

    More PDF compatable users than anything but html and txt, certainly way more than .doc . And since when do old people and those who are new to computers care about the OS? I've never seen a grandparent that is effected by using linux rather than windows, only kids who like to pirate games would be pissed off by having started with linux.

  15. Re:Wrong on Using Copyright To Suppress Political Speech · · Score: 1

    Every one of those are possibilities of feudalism as well.

  16. Re:Lets hope it backfires on BSA Asks Kids to Name Copyright Weasel · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Morality is so last century eh? So your the one practicing traditional values? I don't know what your roots are, but my ancestors certainly didn't pay any mind to ownership of ideas.

  17. Re:Wrong on Using Copyright To Suppress Political Speech · · Score: 1

    Fascism and socialism? Not quite, I'd say it's more feudalism and capitalism.

  18. Re:Bogus conclusions. on Exploring Linux Desktop Myths · · Score: 1
    "All the applications he lists (OpenOffice, Mozilla, GNU Cash) are no where near the level of their Windows counterparts. They are close but they are not the same. Yeah, you can always get stuff to work with your Linux software and I spent years doing just that. Regular Joe Blow User does not want to do anything but point, click, and go."
    Umm... Sure GNU cash isn't as consumer friendly as it could be, and OO.org could be argued inferior to MSOffice(certainly not "no where near the level") , but saying that mozilla is inferior to IE(you were referring to IE?) is totally unsupported and certainly not well accepted as truth. Even mainstream media these days freely admits the inferiority of IE over mozilla/firefox, and sometimes opera.
  19. Re:Ship % should underestimate, not overestimate.. on New Numbers on Linux Market Share Soon · · Score: 1

    Actually, I buy lots of linux software. Like ut2k4, neverwinter nights, quake3, and doom3 when it comes out. In that same period I bought zero windows software(mainly because I don't use windows).

  20. Re:Interesting that the Japanese authorities are on Bobby Fischer Found · · Score: 1

    Personally I would have modded this funny, but whatever. I'm not even going to bother to point out the obvious.

  21. Re:Taking Sony - Not going to happen. Yet on Ballmer - Xbox 'Can Take Sony' In Next Generation · · Score: 1
    "They are using a different CPU(IBM RISC), a new GPU(ATI) adding there own microcode to the CPU to stop people doing what they have been doing to the current XBox. Sony is using a different CPU (Cell), and probably a different GPU, why doesn't the same argument apply to them?"
    Xbox needed the extra points for being hackable and easy to pirate with for many people to buy it. I doubt they would have been nearly as popular without that, even if many don't mod thier xbox, the momentum and "cool factor" that the modders and pirates gave it helped sell alot of units. I know it was the reason I chose it over ps2(and regret that decision now that I see how devoid of RPG's and japanese franchises it has remained). I won't be buying xbox2.
  22. Re:Throw this guy your support! on Jaleco Borrows PocketNES Emulator Source Code · · Score: 1

    I think why many people like the gpl in this situation is that if a company wants to sell a product based upon the GPL code, then the GPL project gets back any improvements that are made, and the company still makes money. In this (pd) case, emulator doesn't receive any impovements that jaleco make. It isn't always blind anti-closed source people, some just like to give their software away and receive improvements if others modify it, and they couldn't care less what others do with thier own code.

  23. Re:Not the Net on Americans Read Fewer Books · · Score: 1

    High school is far to late to engender the habit of recreational reading in youths, and often when forced to read in high school it turns people off. You have to do it right when they are first able to read confidently on thier own(age nine for average kids I guess), and give them the most interesting material possible.

  24. Re:Prices, etc... on Americans Read Fewer Books · · Score: 1

    Most books I read are from the library, used, or *cough*ebookz*cough* , but I do buy quite a few books new for when they are exceptionally good that I'd want to collect, or will want to read multiple times.

  25. Re:Reading is poor... on Americans Read Fewer Books · · Score: 1

    I have near total recall of books, but for movies it's only about 45%, and the books have far more content and detail, so i guess it just depends on how your memory works (and I do read alot, so maybe I'm adapted).