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  1. Re:It's about time... on Review of Team America World Police · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes, and they couldn't make another Southpark movie since reality just recently got "more fucked-up then South Park"(tm).

    Just compare the famous deer-hunting scene in South Park with the recent incident where israeli soldiers shot a 13 year old girl on her way to school, because: She was running straight at them!
    She is comming right at us, indeed

  2. Re:Emergency Calls? on France to Allow Cell Phone Jamming · · Score: 1

    No, it is just an open relay. A network that identifies as open to all with no sur-charge. As noted these relays exists already in a lot of places.

  3. Re:Does it work properly/completely with Opera yet on Gmail Adds Features · · Score: 1

    Actually the real improvement in Safari (and yesterday Konqueror) to make GMail work is in the event model.

    Gmail relies on a lot of onload-events for individual iframes, and this was not working in older version of KHTML.

  4. WARNING: Pyramid scheme! on Six Degrees of Voting · · Score: 1

    It is a pyramid scheme! They never work, and are usually designed by greedy cold-blooded individuals to cheat idiots out of their hardearned money.

    Even if this one seems to lack step 2(=??), DONT FALL IT!

  5. Re:That's actually true, though. on Campaigns Wary About October Surprise · · Score: 1

    So Sharon (and thereby the israeli government) being much less of an asshole, than he used to, does not explain anything?

  6. Re:Translation of Translation on Sony Japan to Abolish Copy Controlled CDs · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or translation of translation of translation:

    "Capitalism actually works. I am shocked!"

    So am I.

  7. Re:Assessment of questions... on Help Select Questions for Bush and Kerry · · Score: 1

    Odd, the US is one the countries with the highest procentage of marijuana smokers. I would say it is definitely are part of your culture.

  8. Re:US votes? on Europeans To Monitor American Voters · · Score: 1

    What? Ofcourse votes are counted twice!

    The first count is done under time-presure, so votes should always be counted atleast once more.

    If the first two counts differ substantially they are counted a third time.

  9. Re:Yeah, Itanium tanked... So what? on HP Terminates Itanium Workstations · · Score: 1

    What he is saying is that it wasnt that way in the middle of the 90s. New processors where introduced on the market at higher costs without the prices of the former best-of-line being reduced.

    K6-2 with 3dnow helped a little, but things did only really change AMD smacked up Intel with the Athlon, and even that took a year because Intel had prevented the existence of compatible motherboards.

  10. Re:NFS on Is Sun Turning against Linux and Red Hat? · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I havent been involved directly in the case. I only had it retold by a former FreeBSD advocate who worked in the computer department, and was responsible for introducing FreeBSD in the first place.

    There was a few extra details, for instance I remember Linux couldn't handle certain lock-lengths that FreeBSD defaulted to, and in the beginning that was assumed to be the problem.

  11. Re:NFS on Is Sun Turning against Linux and Red Hat? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The NFS implementation on the FreeBSD has hard time talking to the implementation on other systems. At my university we recently tried to upgrade all the old HP-UX file-servers to FreeBSD, but they ended up putting the Solaris and Linux machines into odd locking states because FreeBSD didn't support the defacto standard, but followed their own literal intepretation of the original NFS-standard.

    It seems the original standard has a problem with certain types of reboots, and everybody but FreeBSD is using a defacto interpretation to get around the problem; ofcourse FreeBSD has closed the bug as WONTFIX, only the standard counts.

  12. Re:I think.. on Lost Nuclear Bomb Found Off Georgia Coast? · · Score: 1

    Most of time before and during WWII, "the americans" only cared enough about facist rulers taking over the world, when the facist rulers also attacked them (Pearl Harbor).

  13. Re:Now how about fixing slashdot? on 1 Million Firefoxes in 4 Days · · Score: 1

    The user-pages is designed that way ;-)

    Slashdot looks exactly the same in Konqueror on my linux box, as it does in IE on my Windows Playstation.

  14. Re:Memory usage? on GNOME 2.8 Released · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually that _is_ the Dell philosofy, the default configurations have to little memory to be usefull, and any Dell salesman will tell you so truthfully. They make up for low base prices with overpriced memory-upgrades, since few of their customers have the guts to upgrade the memory themselves, even if it can save them 100-200$

  15. Re:Spread Firefox on Batch-o-Moz: Firefox, Thunderbird, Suite Released · · Score: 1

    I would be happy if they could just render slashdot like it is rendered in Konqueror and IE!
    I've always hated the Netscape look of slashdot, and can't for the world understand how they have overlooked that font bug this long.

  16. Re:HT on AMD Desktops Outsell Intel · · Score: 1

    I think the cross license only covers ISAs (instruction sets). This is the reason AMD had to invent Socket A when Intel changed to the patented Socket 1, and the reason AMD can not make an Itanic processor (Intel has patents on the implementation-details of the ISA).

  17. Re:Including businesses? on AMD Desktops Outsell Intel · · Score: 1

    Actually it is only the performance that is any good (it isn't really that good either). The stability of the platform is not good, even if the drivers in windows does a good job with hidding. For instance NVidia haven't even managed to make a working APIC in their third iteration of Nforce (nforce3 which I have), even though they admitted to having a defective APIC in Nforce2.

  18. Re:Including businesses? on AMD Desktops Outsell Intel · · Score: 1

    You mean the one from Anandtech they later corrected because it was wrong?

  19. Re:Good, though already outdated on Linux Standard Base 2.0 released · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can specify to g++ that it should use the old ABI (-fabi=102). The bigger problem is that it uses a different version of libstdc++, and the versioning in there has not yet been solved as well as it has been in libc.

  20. Re:Maybe YellowDog? on Linux-only POWER5 server From IBM · · Score: 1

    Most likely they will come with SuSE, since IBM controls SuSE now through Novell(IBMs bitch).

  21. Re:Too Far? on Independent Developers Fight Piracy & Lose · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The funny thing is, this has gotten to point where the only "vendors" of shareware you can trust was essentially warez-sites, as the crackers compete in removing all the spyware, nackware, crippleware, and other attached diseases.

    When you download something of the official site, it will not work, spy on you, advertise random crap and now delete you home directory; but if you download it from a warez site, it is clean and functional. This counts even for software bought in shops, like Windows XP, which doesnt require "activation" in the cracked versions.

    No wonder piracy is on a rise!

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

    You have to put up warnings about it if you do. Commiting abitrary homicides or injury is illegal, and revenge is not a valid excuse.

    OTOH if you have clearly marked your house as a death-trap, he wouldn't really have an excuse.

  23. Re:explanation??? on Mysterious Force Affects Pioneer 10 & 11 Probes · · Score: 1

    What makes you think the universe is infinitly large? Do you also think the surface of the Earth is infinitely large, because you can work across it for an infinite amount of time?

    Most likely the universe is a n-dimentional sphere, the reason why this is believed is because we can still pick up echoes of the big bang, which would otherwise have left the remaining universe. Ofcause this assumes there was a big bang, and what we are picking up are the echoes of it and not interstellar pr0n.

  24. Re:I agree (but slightly OT) on Mysterious Force Affects Pioneer 10 & 11 Probes · · Score: 1

    You should try and play the old Elite 2 and 3. They had a pretty good map of the galaxy, and used Newtonian physics in local space.

    Landing safely on planet without the autopilot required quite a bit of patience if you didnt like to plummet into it with several thousands km/h.

    I can remember in Elite 3, getting a super fantastic alien spaceship able to go 60 times faster than my old human one, and then deciding to see what was on the other side of the galaxy. What a ridiculous amount of star-systems to pass, and seaching them for things of interest is just so out of the question it hurts.

  25. Re:Konqueror + slashdot != true on KDE Gets Gecko/Mozilla Support · · Score: 1

    Exactly I've always used konqueror simply because slashdot looks like crap in Mozilla and always have.