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  1. Re:OK, take these steps on Creating a Backboneless Internet? · · Score: 0, Troll

    You totally missed the point. What's worse, is that you don't realize it. And what's much worse, is that you aren't capable of realizing it.

  2. Re:Why is this moderated up? on KDE 4 Screenshots · · Score: 1


    Wow, it's startling to me how many words you can use and say nothing.

    But, even though he says nothing, he says it so well.

  3. Re:Internet Co-op on Why The Net Should Stay Neutral · · Score: 1

    It would be good if the co-op owns (not rents) as much of its infrastructue as possible. Maybe purchasing unused cell towers, or even launcing a satellite. The revolution will begin once AT&T starts acting foolish.

  4. Re:Cartoons on Danish, Western Websites Under Attack · · Score: 1

    You don't hide your racism very well. Would you ever describe a bunch of white people doing the same as "savages"? I'll answer that for you: no, you wouldn't. You would use more civilized terms, like "riotous", or "idiodic", or "stupid". You save the words live "savage" for the swarthy hordes, fool. Grow up.

  5. Re:An issue of points of view on Could Linux Still Go GPL3? · · Score: 1

    Your agreement with Torvalds leads you to prefer MIT/BSD licenses. Curiously, Torvalds prefers GPLv2. Maybe you two aren't in agreement after all?

  6. Re:Up to the developers? on Could Linux Still Go GPL3? · · Score: 1

    It would be funny, if after removing all of Linus' contributions, he sued for copyright infringement over the layout of the directories. I mean, he does put the thing together, even if he doesn't write most of the code.

  7. Re:Torvalds & Stallman and V3GPL on Could Linux Still Go GPL3? · · Score: 1

    Both men are not correct. Linus' reasoning is based on a mis-reading of the GPL draft. C'mon, we all know that Linus dislikes RMS, but wouldn't it be more professional to give facts instead of FUD for his disagreement with the GPLv3?

  8. Re:Okay, you asked for it...a female perspective! on Training - A Company or a Worker's Responsibility? · · Score: 1


    Why should women have to be "upfront" about expecting a man to share household responsibilities equally, but men can assume that a woman who doesn't say otherwise should be expected to carry 100% of the workload?

    Because you are aware that the majority of men would like a wife who does all the domestic work, and a simple question would settle whether the man you want to marry is one such, possibly preventing a lifetime of pain and anguish. Would you rather have a 5 minute conversation about it before marriage, or silently suffer for years during your marriage because you were afraid to speak up? Men don't know what women think most of the time, but the reverse isn't true, so women need to take the initiative to insure their own happiness (like men almost always do).

  9. Re:Okay, you asked for it...a female perspective! on Training - A Company or a Worker's Responsibility? · · Score: 1


    However, if your husband is not doing at least 50% of the job, that's a whole other can of worms, but one that I'm willing to open because I think it's an important point of discussion.

    I read the essay you linked to. One of the things many people miss is that when a woman gets married, she is not marrying the race of men, but one man. All of those points about empowering a woman should be used to fight for status in the work place, for the most part-- not fight her husband, especially after the marriage commences and a pattern has been set. Many women don't understand that a man wants more than just sex in a marriage. They are many, many women I've met with advanced degrees who made it ABSOLUTELY CLEAR that they would be willing to have a career AND do all of the cooking and housework in the evenings and weekends. These women do not feel weak or oppressed as far as I can tell, and one in particular tells me she derives joy from it. When a man is given a choice between an intelligent, attractive woman who cooks and does housework, and an intelligent attractive woman who doesn't, the choice is a no-brainer. If women were up-front about what they want in a marriage (e.g., the man doing 50% of the housework) they might find the men they're interested in not wanting to marry. Actually, men would appreciate such knowledge before marriage, and the world would be a better place for it.

  10. incorrect on Is LPRng Project Still Alive? · · Score: 1

    My first install of Mandrake was Fall 2001 (Mandrake 7.1-7.2?), and it shipped with CUPS. Even better, Postfix was the default mail server, and not Sendmail.

  11. Re:Unix compressors on A Look at Data Compression · · Score: 1

    Why don't you add to the list the compressor (bzz) that ships with the djvu tools.

  12. Re:Solution for Mathematicians on A Spell-Checker for Scientific Terms? · · Score: 1

    I think the OP was asking for a dictionary containing technical terms. I have to keep my own separate dictionary for math terms for use with aspell, but it would be nice if there were a community-maintained one.

  13. Re:You could always just use... on .xxx Domain Remains in Limbo · · Score: 1

    I wonder if it's o.k. to register huge.co.ck.

  14. screed -DR on Time Saving Linux Desktop Tips? · · Score: 1

    instead

  15. NOT TRUE on New Orleans to Deploy Free Wi-Fi City Wide · · Score: 1

    You are lying.

  16. Re:Write not read on Microsoft to Open up Office Formats · · Score: 1


    Please. If you know the format stream to write documents, you know the stream to read them.

    If you thought about this a little, you would understand why it isn't true. OOo already can write valid .doc files. Microsoft Office will still make files that are impossible to read. The write spec will only be a subset of MS's spec.

  17. 1st draft on The Areas of My Expertise · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Did anyone else find that hard to read?

  18. Re:Is current patent law unconstitutional? on Patents Chilling Effect on Science · · Score: 1


    The Constitution sez:

    Congress shall have power . . . To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.

    So the question is, if patents are now starting to impede the progress of science and technology (and I'm willing to bet plenty of people on slashdot could think of instances in which this is the case), there is a good case to be made that as it stands now, the law governing patents is no longer constitutional. In fact, the Constitution doesn't require a patent system, so having no patents is constitutional as well.


    Actually, the Constitution does not explicitly forbid a system where bad patents are granted, so having a bad patent system is not unconstitutional.

  19. Re:Not directly about the article.. on Windows and Linux User Interfaces · · Score: 1


    ..but can you stop referring to Microsoft as M$? It immerdiatly voids any argument you are trying to make.

    Your arguments are not unsound. M$

  20. Re:This just in on AbiWord beats OpenOffice to a Grammar Checker · · Score: 1

    Put down the crack pipe dude.

  21. DJVU on Hardware for a Paperless Business? · · Score: 1

    Consider using DJVU instead of PDF for scanned documents. You'll get much better size and much faster rendering. It makes a huge difference for me with my relatively small number of documents compared to an office.

  22. Re:Turnabout? on RIAA Sues a Child · · Score: 1

    Bad analogy. This would be a good analogy if we were talking about someone who copies music and sells it without authorization, but we aren't. We're talking about someone who uses the work without paying a fee, which is analogous to using GPL software without paying a fee, which is fine.

  23. Re:There is more to the net than the web on How Can Cybersquatters Be Evicted, Cheaply? · · Score: 1

    So what's your definition of squatting? Buying a domain name? If he isn't interested in selling the name, then what's his motive? Your businness is small, you say, so obviously he's not getting lots of traffic as a result, or is he? What the OP wants to due is not cool. People should just think of original names, trademark them, and they would have no worries.

  24. Re:Not ready for prime time yet on An Early Look at StarOffice 8 · · Score: 1

    And now the obvious question: did SO at least render the document correctly?

  25. Re:I'd imagine AMD could be easily integrated. on Why Apple Picked Intel Over AMD · · Score: 1

    Actually, it looks like lock-in to me. Apple probably want to distribute binaries optimized for only one CPU.