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  1. Yeah but how long... on RIAA Protests Digital Radio · · Score: 2, Insightful

    would it take for it to be hacked and used as a free music CD generator? :)

  2. It was only a matter of time... on RIAA Protests Digital Radio · · Score: 2

    I was actually just discussing this with a few friends yesterday. I wasked them whether they thought streamripping music off of shoutcast stations using winamp and the streamripper plugin was illegal. We came to the conclusion that no, it wasn't because it's obviously the same thing as recording the radio with a cassette recorder. I also brought up the question of since it's obviously not illegal to share music with your friends in a car or something, what's so different about broadcasting it over the internet? You're sharing it with your friends, albiet 1,000 of them. Hey, if you had a big enough card you could do it there, why not the net? You can apply so many situations to these kind of questions, it just gets ugly. I think the RIAA needs to realize the path of destruction is paved by good intentions.

  3. Re:So what's new? on EFF Runs Patent-Busting Challenge · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah if anything's redundant it's this slashdot article. It's things like this that make me thankful for metamoderation. :o)

  4. When they say fight... on EFF Runs Patent-Busting Challenge · · Score: 3, Interesting

    When they say fight the outrageous patents, are they referring to the ones that already exist, or future ones? Or both? How would you combat a patent that already exist? Show prior art? Anyway, I think it's rediculous that we have to go as far as to create an organization to stop what should be common sense. Come on, a patent for double click? Oi..

    Then again, if life were perfect, I'd have better things to do than rant on slashdot at 2 am in the morning. Hehe =)

  5. Re:Debugging on Why Learning Assembly Language Is Still Good · · Score: 1

    Incase anybody cared it turned out that I was reading a non 0-terminated char array and that's what was causing all of the garabage.

    D'oh!

  6. Re:Debugging on Why Learning Assembly Language Is Still Good · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, you can't exactly debug a fubar memory stack with just printf. Maybe in your hello world program, but not when things get complicated. :) Trust me, I know. I'm writing a rather large network application at the moment and somewhere along the line I must've overshot an array, but one mistake can ruin a whole application, and printf'ing wont help you.

    Learning how to debug is just as precious to a programmer as learning how to code.

  7. Re:Don't discount this because they say 'Myth' on Microsoft's Magical 'Myth-Busting' Tour · · Score: 1

    The problem for me with this is once I help somebody install Linux I'm going to be getting phone calls every five minutes with them asking me how to do this, or how to do that, and it's just a pain in the ass.

  8. Re:What level math... on Metamath! The Quest for Omega · · Score: 1

    I took algebra in 8th grade, geometry in 9th, algebra 2 this year, and what they call algebra3 next year... more like precal.

  9. What level math... on Metamath! The Quest for Omega · · Score: 3, Insightful

    is somebody going to need to understand the book? Unfortunately for myself I was not born with the genius gene, and being in highschool (just finished sophmore year, taking alg3 next year), I don't understand a lot of the more advanced pyshics and math discussed on /.

  10. Re:Mods on Metamath! The Quest for Omega · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a fair assumption to me...</bad joke>

  11. Re:I wonder on CEO of Centaur Discusses x86 Strategy and Linux · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure that you're going to be able to play anything too fancy on a 533 mhz, but who needs anything more than tetris, anyway? :)

  12. Saftey measures... on WiFi Gone Wild · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The places that have wireless networks should also issue handouts concerning possible security problems to cover their butts. How long until you hear someone getting sued because someone borked their computer over a wireless network?

  13. Re:Or... on Linux Credits File Reanimated · · Score: 0

    Wait, are you implying that sex is more fun than hacking a linux kernel? I don't know what parelell universe YOU came from! Now if you'll excuse me I have some pleasure to attend to, *dissapears into /src*

  14. Re:Fix now available on Another Zero-Day IE Scripting Exploit · · Score: 0

    The page hasn't been updated since November 2003, I imagine a lot of those vulnerabilities have been layed to waste. Go MozDever's go!

  15. Re:Rendering 3D graphs of a slashdotting on OpenGL in PHP · · Score: 0

    Or 3d site navigation, or 3d directory traversing... wait they already have that in the movie hackers...

  16. Re:Formatted Article Text (site getting slow) on Tanenbaum Rebuts Ken Brown · · Score: 0

    "I feel I should respond. I will do this in the form of commenting on his posting. His comments are set off typographically like this:" Where I'm from that's called "cutting up their post" or "snip and flame".

  17. I propose on Tanenbaum Rebuts Ken Brown · · Score: 0

    I PROPOSE the question, "Can Ken Brown think?". No, since it's obviously impossible to answer this question, let's examine a question similar to this one. Let's question, does Ken Brown know what the fuck he's talking about in his papers? Obviously not, therefore, He cannot think.

  18. I wonder how much money... on Tanenbaum Rebuts Ken Brown · · Score: 0

    KB will still make off of all of the people who buy his book just to see how stupid he is.

    1. Act like an ass
    2. ???
    3. Profit!

  19. Re:Hybrid models on China's New Craze: E-bikes · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You could also have your peddling recharge the motor, too... I think that'd be less efficient than just having the pedal act as it wold on a normal bike... definitely could use improvement.

  20. It's probably latin on Cryptic Code Stumps Experts · · Score: 0

    As they, like in the image, seperated their words by periods which were vertically aligned in the middle like those in the image.

  21. Re:Challenges on Ask About Running Windows Software in Linux · · Score: 0

    full screen can be toggled in the wine 'config' file in ~/.wine/ , just remove the comment.

  22. Re:Please oh please oh please on Bloggers Assail Movable Type's New Pricing Scheme · · Score: 0

    You could just add -blogger -blog -livejournal to your search terms...

  23. How much does it pay? on Evan Williams Posts Official Google Blog · · Score: 0

    From the Google Blog, "[need employees] to unplug the lava lamps occasionally so they don't overheat. " A job I could actually do, and work for Google at the same time!

  24. I wonder if old codes will work... on DOOM III This Summer · · Score: 0

    iddqd - god mod idkfa - keys and ammo iddqdspispopd - NO CLIPPING! That'd be so awesome

  25. Re:And the truth is... on Nintendo, Sony Start Handheld Gaming Battle At E3 · · Score: 0

    There are still a few god side-scrolling adventures that utilize the new graphics, but stay true to their original gameplay design. Viewitful Joe comes to mind.