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  1. Leaving your computer on overnight... on Free Net TV Threatens Telecoms · · Score: 1

    You mean you don't normally leave your computer on all the time?

  2. Re:Same Old FUD on Free Net TV Threatens Telecoms · · Score: 1

    http://www.animemusicvideos.org/ is real enough for me, though it does borrow heavily from other sources. http://www.amvhell.com/ is especially good. What we need are laws that will make it easier for this sort of thing. Also see: http://www.archive.org/details/opensource_movies
    Seems to me that there are enough "little men" with (almost) all the incentive they need.

  3. Re:Deserve? on IRS Compels PayPal to Release Info · · Score: 1

    What one has a right to and what one deserves, are two completely different things.

  4. Re:Strong encryption on Military Secrets for Sale on Stolen USB Drives · · Score: 1

    Only if the government isn't footing the bill.

  5. Re:Microsoft Monopoly & Windows Genuine Advant on Aero To Be Unavailable To Pirates · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sadly, that is not the biggest of our concerns.

    Some time ago, I might have read that to mean that we as a nation had bigger concerns, and thus the administration had bigger concerns, and that the concern was over the people getting away with antitrust violations.
    Now, however, it is the administration that is the concern.

    In your heart, you know he might

  6. Americans killed by Soviet on IRS Compels PayPal to Release Info · · Score: 1

    The Soviets had their hands in Korea and Vietnam, which was the whole point of us going over there.

  7. Re:There are opportunities out there... on IRS Compels PayPal to Release Info · · Score: 1

    Yes, but the system is so messed up that for a good number of people there is little discernable difference between an opportunity to better oneself and an opportunity to get attacked.

  8. Deserve? on IRS Compels PayPal to Release Info · · Score: 1

    People keep throwing that term around like it actually means anything concrete, but over several centuries a case has been made that nobody on this miserable, wretched, planet deserves anything other than a toasty spot in hell. However, what people "deserve" is highly dependent on what axioms you apply.

  9. Owing the government on IRS Compels PayPal to Release Info · · Score: 1

    The way I've been treated, I figure I owe the "government" a toasty place in hell. Problem is, I don't have a big enough rock, so I'll just sit on SSI and take whatever I can get from them. I don't particularly like Al Quaeda either, and nobody within the UN is offering me a way out, so for the moment, me and the American "government" are stuck with each other.

    The enemy of my enemy can still be my enemy!

  10. Welfare programs... on IRS Compels PayPal to Release Info · · Score: 1

    Little more than being on SSI is keeping me from either being in prison helping other prisioners escape, dead, fighting with Al Quaeda, or the like. I wonder how many other people are in a similar situation.

  11. Where to reduce millitary spending. on IRS Compels PayPal to Release Info · · Score: 1

    Let's start with the no bid millitary related contracts.

  12. When does it matter? on Memory Manufacturers Could be Cheating · · Score: 1

    Memory should run at a rated speed. Any speed over that only matters if you overclock, I would think.

  13. Yes, yes, it is. on The End of Naked PCs in China? · · Score: 1

    Unless you were to allow more choices in how to pick your government, and to chge your choice of government, being able to chose one's OS is much more important than being able to chose one's government. Right now I have the choice of electing two senators, one representative, and one president, and a few years or so, a drop in the water in the totality of the government. Repeat for state and city government. For those positions I have the choice of a handful of Republicans and Democrats, both of which are horrible pools, that aren't very distinctive from each other. To top that off, the candidates aren't very forthcoming on their positions and worldview. I spend most of my time with an OS.

    Choosing a pet or choosing to live without a pet is also more important than being able to choose your government. Also, what to eat.

  14. That's the job of the Speech recognition system. on Google Voice Search May be Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    People keep complaining to me how I want to do the job of the compiler, but getting the right phrase is the job of the speech recognition system, not the search engine, though I suppose the compiler is better at it's job than the speech recognition engine. Even so, I'd want to correct the speech recognition system for guessing wrong before I passed it on to the search engine, but such tools are poor, possibly for similar reasons people don't want to second guess the compiler.

    No, I didn't say "Tonight to be sent him" I said "Sailing to Byzantium". Now, we're going to train on this phrase until you consistently get it right.

    If I meant "free eye pod instead of "free iPod" I would have drawn out the eye and had a pause between eye and pod. Now if you used the canned results of a search engine to give the speech recognition engine a heads up as to how phrases are used, that's a whole different kettle of fish. Perhaps some variation "desktop search" should be used to tell the search engine how the user uses phrases, though currently "desktop search" doesn't distinguish between who wrote what.

  15. Re:Notepad++ features on Useful Apps for First-Time Windows Users? · · Score: 1

    so I just use the "SendTo" folder in Windows
    Is there an installer I missed for wyoEdit, because this is how such a feature would get set up. I also looked in preferences and it isn't there either.

    Where I said Notepad I meant Notepad++. I had been opennig documents in wyoEditor using File|Open which caused the file to open in a new window, which is different from Notepad++. Opening via Explorer, right clicking and choosing Open With... opens in the next tab, just as it would with Notepad++

    I like notepad++'s collapsion better because it shows the beginning and end of the collapsion in the non-collapsed state and is also similar to the way collapsing directories lists look.

    without a useful mimetype implementation on Linux

    One of several reasons I don't use Linux. (The biggest one being lack of transparent compression, though I suppose I could try to make the NTFS.SYS wrapper solution work for me.)

  16. Notepad++ features on Useful Apps for First-Time Windows Users? · · Score: 1

    It has an installer and puts a open in Notepad in the right click menu for All filetypes. I find it slightly easier to open a file in a new tab in Notepad, but apparently impossible in notepad to open a file in an entirely new window. I like Notepad's collapsing better, and I just loaded a C file in wyoEditor and got a second pane labeled Class with one entry --homeposition whatever that means. Notepad++ also has a plugin system.

  17. Yes we do have to tab everything on Useful Apps for First-Time Windows Users? · · Score: 1

    Windows XP chokes at the number of windows I like to have open, so yes, though that would be cut somewhat if Explorer were tabbed.

  18. Re:flame war? on Useful Apps for First-Time Windows Users? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Dictionary:
    http://wordweb.info/

    Search to replace Windows crippled search, though Desktop search may be better:
    http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/

    New to me, but have been wanting since before XP:
    http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardli nkshellext.html Video editing:
    http://www.virtualdub.org/
    Notepad replacement:
    http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/

    And of course Firefox and OpenOffice, but those are available for other systems, oh and VideoLan Client (VLC)
    For programming: (also available for Linux)
    http://www.freebasic.net/

    You also may want to check out my learning japanese apps post:
    http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=182351&cid =15073257

  19. Redberries on Chinese Telecom Company Launches 'RedBerry' · · Score: 1

    I thought Redberrys were raspberrys or... don't want to research red colored berries in the time to post this article, but there are others.

  20. Re:A detail that the patent would reveal on Paul Graham on Patents · · Score: 1

    One would do just as well to say that the Universe is proof of randomness. Unless you can point to specific evidence, I know of nothing in quantum mechanics that points to true randomness as the source of any complexity within quantum mechanics.

  21. Scientific Rigor: Questions to ask on Games Lead To Violence and Drugs? · · Score: 1

    How well did the scientists do at establishing the people's beliefs pre-game. The people may be more guarded in revealing their true feelings before game than after they've played. There's the whole notion of "acceptable" What I feel is acceptable and what I percieve various elements of society are two different things.

    Which games I have just got done playing would affect which thoughts are foremost in my mind, and thus which interpretation of my beliefs I would share.

    Also, the more time I spend with other people the more my answer to what is "acceptable" becomes colored with my personal ideas as to what is acceptable and less what I think various elements of society deem acceptable.

    Lastly, after playing a given game for a study, my perceptions of what the element of society the study givers are from is colored by the game and my answer to what is "acceptable" would be skewed towards what I want people of that element of society to hear.

  22. What? Observational study? on Games Lead To Violence and Drugs? · · Score: 1

    All scientific studies are observing something. What, exactly do you mean by "Observational Study" and how does it relate to circumstantial evidence.

  23. Analysis for how to cope on Is Corporate Speak Invading Your IT Department? · · Score: 1

    First sentence: No problem.

    Second sentence:
    ... your growth will accelerate by orders of magnitude. is a better rewrite of what was said, but the idea should be challenged, both the degrees by which "a little bit" and "orders of magnitude" would seem to indicate.

    Third sentence.
    If you look for a situation in which everyone can win, a successful stategy conveying many benefits will become clear.
    Again with ideas that should be challenged.

  24. NAS and NFS on Is Corporate Speak Invading Your IT Department? · · Score: 2, Informative

    NAS (Network Attached Storage) is hardware that connects to the network with minimal computer components.
    NFS (Network File System) is a Filesystem layer exposed to clents for connecting to storage on the network, be they NAS or server-based storage.

    There isn't necessarily a clear line between NAS and server-based storage, but there is a clear difference between NAS and NFS.

  25. Society is doomed. on Is Corporate Speak Invading Your IT Department? · · Score: 1

    I'd say that lettting it collapse as soon as possible is the best thing, but that is not a complete solution. We need to work on a new society infrastructure required for a healthy society. Unfortunately, the current dying society is using resources that will be required for the new infrastructure. In order to remedy this, wars will have to be fought.