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  1. Re:Does this mean on Solar "Tadpoles" Finally Explained · · Score: 1

    Funny, I feel like I just walked in when somebody said. "These are not the droids you are looking for"

  2. Windows running slow? on Windows 2003 and XP SP2 Vulnerable To LAND Attack · · Score: 5, Funny

    It may be a little thing called a firewall. A firewall is a spyware-like little piece of software that constantly pings a special server called a firedoor so that spammers hackers, and their ilk know when your computer is available on the internet. Unfortuntely Microsoft refuses to release a patch for this thing but a piece of software called a backdoor can be used to prevent the firewall from doing its dirty work. Download one today!

  3. Re:The government's so evil on Preparing for the Broadcast Flag? · · Score: 1

    All I know is that I'm on disability(SSI), yet managed to get an associates degree, yet find certain aspects of the world overwheming/downright bizarre.

    There are a ton of so-called Christians that claim to believe in the Bible, yet fail to follow the commandment to bring the Earth under their submission.

    The psychiatric institute "The Nord Center" has me under their thumb. Due to their ministrations, I had what they termed a "Psycotic episode" during which I attempted to clean the carpets of my apartment with water, but was prevented from drying properly by the Lorain Police department.

    Also I was brought up on charges of tampering with the boiler to all the apartments(4), which ?I believe the thieves did to get me out of the apartment.

    I had 2 laptop computers: 600mhz Gateway, 2Ghz Toshiba, and a PS2 stolen by one visitation by theives. After I was put into the hospital, the thieves came and went as they pleased.

    Between the Nord Center and the Apartment complex owners New Sunrise, there have been talks of me paying New Sunrise back for damages that I have as yet been uninformed of.

    There are people that work for both Nord Center and New Sunrise.

  4. Re:Write Some Letters on Preparing for the Broadcast Flag? · · Score: 1
  5. The government's so evil on Preparing for the Broadcast Flag? · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter who you elect anymore. I'm almost begging Osama bin Ladin to attack the U.S. again, but suspect he's just as bad. The media lies to us. I'd move to a different country, but the U.S. cripples people like me to make that impossible, not to mention the logistics of getting real information on other countries. You think China censors information? The thing is that the U.S. pulls the wool over people's eyes so that they think that it doesn't. http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/webreporterzx s11.htm http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22a+partisan +question

  6. Bad Slashdot article on Reinventing the Wheel · · Score: 1

    they need to be hard to be durable,
    Wrong, hardness makes things brittle...
    soft for a smooth ride,
    Um, that's what shock absorbers are for... grippy to grab the road,
    Unless you are desinging things so lightweight that they blow away in normal wind conditions, you don't want the tire gripping the road
    but smooth to reduce rolling resistance,
    and you'd want that because? A tire's resistance agaist the road is what keeps friction foom slowing things down and also provides acceleration.
    flexible to absorb shocks Again that's what shock absorbers are for. You do want it soft and flexible so that it remembers its shape after something hits it.

  7. On that note... on RIAA Loses DMCA Subpoena Case Against Charter · · Score: 1

    Since the RIAA and the MPAA want to treat Intellectual property, lets just treatit as such.

    Then we can use such concepts as eminent domain and adverse possession.

  8. Who's going to read it? on "Dark Alleys" on the Internet · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You must not have heard of a search function. Besides, AI can do some of the reading as well.

  9. That's absolutely true, because... on Microsoft Says Firefox Not a Threat to IE · · Score: 1

    The people who find features such as tabbed browsing are no longer IE users. Overlooking the obvious, really.


    Yes, I do post ambiguous statements that are true in more than one of the ways they can be taken.

  10. Re:Feed Mania on Microsoft Says Firefox Not a Threat to IE · · Score: 1

    I've gotten that error message too. By the way, I have a system that is not connected to the internet and it still checks off all the sending to the server, getting response from the server stuff. You think they are getting anyone's error reports?

  11. So don't explain, just change. on Microsoft Says Firefox Not a Threat to IE · · Score: 1

    It's not that hard really...Once you start, you'll get used to it eventually.

  12. So what's keeping these black holes from merging? on Second Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Does anyone see the point of Slashdot requiring a body (at least for registered users) and clogging up the hard drive bandwidth even more. If anyone with a registered user account abuses posting without a body, their account can be banned and the posts deleted.

  13. Amicus curie brief anyone? on Manhunt Murder Attorney Speaks · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Does anyone see the point of Slashdot requiring a body (at least for registered users) and clogging up the hard drive bandwidth even more. If anyone with a registered user account abuses posting without a body, their account can be banned and the posts deleted.

  14. Ignoring that this may be fake for a moment... on Manhunt Murder Attorney Speaks · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That is socially irresponsible behavior, and can be demonstrated so in a court of law. For someone who is trying to appear socially responsible as he is(and the case is based almost entirely on social responsibility), that would be a foolhardy thing to do.

  15. Re:Useless on Manhunt Murder Attorney Speaks · · Score: 2, Funny

    So did I.


    ...Posting "me too!" like a brain dead AOL'er...do-de-do, do-de-do...

  16. Re:Software on What OSS Programs are Still Needed? · · Score: 1

    I amended his question in my mind to mean "on windows" because I believe that is where OSS is needed most in order to transition society from where it stands now to OSS.
    When I click on the volume system tray icon it takes forever to open.
    I forgot to put it in the list above but a replacement for explorer.exe that is functionally exactly the same but split into separate executables. My notion is that OSS should do a similar embrace and extend approach to Microsoft Windows that Microsoft did in several areas, the end result being that there will eventually be a Windows skeleton that will be easily replaced once and for all with an OSS component.
    BTW everybody using Windows XP should download http://taskswitchxp.sourceforge.net/
    Does anyone know of other OSS Windows component replacers?
    http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/default.asp x is far and away a better desktop search utility than the one that has been bundled with Windows. Problem is, it's not open source.

  17. Software on What OSS Programs are Still Needed? · · Score: 1

    A replacement for the sound system tray icon.
    A muliiple desktop, scrolling desktop, desktop in desktop program.
    Getting existing open source programs to compile in MSVS.
    A P2P, webpage caching, distributed web search database, distributed wiki, distributed any data database program.
    A IFS(installable file system) tutorial.
    Retrofitting XP features to older versions of Windows.

  18. In other news, on Court Urged to Hear File-Sharing Case · · Score: 1

    The universal court just ruled today to ban life in the universe, determining that life posed an unwarranted risk of exposing sentient peings to identithy theft and being unwittingly exposed to spyware, child pornography, and diseases of every kind. The RIAU and MPAU representatives were reported to have said, "Best ruling ever!" before slumping over dead.

    But that ruling applies only to the states under the jurisdiction of the 9th Circuit.

    What's up with that...Federal court ruling should apply to the entire country. They are FEDERAL courts after all.
    Maybe the SCOTUS should hear this case so it can come out in favor of P2P.

  19. Re:goodbye CS... hello law school on SCO Puts a Cap on its Legal Expenses · · Score: 1

    IBM, or IBM's lawyers?

  20. Obvious Monty Python Reference on Novell Swings Back at Ballmer · · Score: 1

    Our cheif weapons are blatancy, obviousness, and easy refutation!

  21. The OpenBSD concept on Theo de Raadt On Firmware Activism · · Score: 0, Troll

    The OpenBSD concept is much larger than the source code. Conceptually OpenBSD is encumbered.

  22. Re:Arrogance on Novell Swings Back at Ballmer · · Score: 1

    His arrogance is very well placed, unlike the arrogance of our two Presidential candidates. In fact, it is refreshing to see arrogance of such high calibre.

  23. Re:The price of freedom is eternal litigation on BitTorrent Accounts for 35% of Traffic · · Score: 1

    So start litigating already. Or perhaps you misunderstood that quote.

  24. Again? This is the first time I'd heard of them on Cisco Source Code Up For Sale: Only $24,000 · · Score: 2, Informative
  25. Re:Not as serious as you're making it sound... on Florida E-Voting Machine Fails · · Score: 1

    Looking at the revised wikipedia entry, you don't have a popular vote for prime minister. That changes things substantially.