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  1. Fine, i'll bite on Unintended Consequences of Using GPL Fonts · · Score: 1

    Why do you think that the BSD license (or no you mean software realeased under it) has been outpaced by its GPL counterparts?

    Besides, the GPL isn't really free in a sense because it restricts you to "give", which is an admirable sentiment, but nevertheless forced upon the licensee -- sometimes in unexpected ways as with Scribus. I'd argue that this is certainly a type of restriction, making it less "Free".

  2. At best, it works, on The Return Of The Pop-Up Ad · · Score: 1

    Because it works or at the very least the visitor closes the popup or blocks all popups and keeps visiting the site anyways, so they don't really lose anything until you actually stop visiting new sites or send an agry letter to the admin.

  3. Re:TCP/IP perversion on Browser Speed Comparisons · · Score: 2, Interesting

    An IIS/IE exchange has fewer packets to send and less overhead when disconnecting...

    whther you tearing down a socket or sending a disconnect ACK and then tearing down a socket, there would be no concievable performance advantage as the latter step must take a whole lot more cycles. Your second point makes since but obviously, as you said, has nothing to do with helping IE be (or appear to be) faster than other browsers that don't do this.

    And that's even if this is all true, but i've seen enough trolls and FUD from all sides to make replies like this from me few and far between.

  4. Re:Parent is correct... children are wrong. on Interplay Forced to Liquidate (France) · · Score: 1

    I was just thinking I remembered (for some reason) seeing two logos: first Interplay, then somebody called "Silicon & Synapse". So I figured Interplay definitely was involved, but I had no idea "Silicon & Synapse" turned into Blizzard.

  5. You misspelled wang on What Do You Believe Even If You Can't Prove It? · · Score: 1

    ...you heard me.

  6. Don't forget "Lost Vikings" on Interplay Forced to Liquidate (France) · · Score: 1

    They also published this game where you control three vikings, one at a time, each having different skills. And you have to get them all through to the end of each stage to continue. I got up to one of the last levels, possibly even the last one, when I either hit a dead-end, got bored or a life (can't remember which). But I still remember the password to jump back to that level though: "MSTR". Sad...

  7. I tried this in my spare time. on Becoming an Open Source Lobbyist? · · Score: 2, Funny

    It takes a lot of dedication and preparation, remembering that persistence is key.

    There are many approaches from writing (or emailing) your local congressthing to getting involving in the local gov't.

    However, I find the best way to get through to a politician is to ly in wait behind their car in the underground parking garage at work (even better if they've been working a late night). Don't forget to wear an all black jumpsuit and a black knit cap. When they approach, leap up from behind the car, arms flailing wildly and scream: "USE OPEN SOURCE! MOZILLA -- FEAR THE LIZARD!!". And then run away.

  8. WinAmp and the MBR on Penn State Tells Students To Ditch IE · · Score: 0, Troll

    When you install winamp an option to install a component into the machine's MBR may have been chosen in the default full install. This enables a WinAmp [Boot] Agent to load itself before calling the ntldr, thus allowing the machine to be configured to play a MIDI, AU or MP3 stream at the splash while the machine boots. Also, there was a security advisory for WinAmp 5.03, if that has anything to do with it.

    Cheers, HTH

  9. Re:Second Minute on New Atomic Clock 1000 Times More Accurate · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thank you for the answer to a question no one asked.

  10. Re:My god on Water Cooling With A Car Radiator · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why?

    Because his VW was in the shop.

  11. Rather, pay attention to the other tourists and... on Augmented Reality Tourism · · Score: 1

    Watch out for the TvT violence.

  12. Re:next year on Chinese Satellite Crashes Into House · · Score: 2, Funny

    Big developements in defense technology are a direct consequence of individualism. People are now less willing to die for their country therefore soldiers are now more and more removed from direct conflict.

    Well fuck it, if it means spending a ridiculous amount of money on defense, I'd rather sit safely at home while Optimus Prime takes enemy fire.

  13. Re:You believe what you read? on Chinese Satellite Crashes Into House · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think that if this happened in the US, the guy would be on MSNBC. And probably put the fucking thing on ebay. Maybe suing the government for rights to it since it landed on his property and maybe even suing them for tresspassing. All the while, Johnny Cochran is speaking at a press conference for him saying something clever. All this commotion would, of course, ensure his 15 minutes and his appearance on Larry King promoting his new book, When Satellites Attack. Maybe even a movie's in the works. Somthing to think about.

  14. Re:next year on Chinese Satellite Crashes Into House · · Score: 3, Funny

    When the guy was saying everything was OK and generally being all happy-go-lucky about it, you could probably notice there was a red laser beam aimed at his temple. 'You used to be cool China, what happened?'

  15. Re:Kite aerial photography on O'Reilly's New Magazine for DIY Tech Projects · · Score: 1

    I have a suggestion for you: make sense more often.

  16. Must be a slow news day on Supernova Imaged by Hubble Telescope · · Score: 5, Funny

    They'll put any old thing up, this happened 11 million years ago for God's sakes.

  17. sorry, it's a typo on Get Rid of Internet Explorer - Browse Happy! · · Score: 1

    s/can/can't

  18. Not so much switch... on Get Rid of Internet Explorer - Browse Happy! · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'd be happy if browsers like Firefox forced MS to at least make IE a little better in terms of proper CSS support, lockups, holes, tabs, etc. But probably it'd be best if Firefox got something like a 30% market share that way they can make their tiny extensions or ignore some of the standards. Web's still the future people.

  19. Re:What/where is the soul? on The Singularity Blinds Sci-Fi · · Score: 1

    I remember reading Permutation City (at the suggestion of one slashdot poster to another dealing wiht a similar topic long ago), where the author speaks about a similar situation and supposes whether an exact copy of the state and mechanisms of the human brain duplicated inside the memory of a digital machine would result in a conscious being.

    The character "wakes up" inside a simulation feeding his brain a minimal environment. Specifically, generating input for his senses (visual, etc). The interesting thing to me was when Egan says that since this simulation, say for the visual portion, required a lot of computation to generate each "time-slice" of input information (as well as to presumably run an iteration of neurons' interations, etc) so the mind's representation is brought to some new (discrete) state. So since it required so many cycles, more real time would pass for each iteration though this would be unnoticed by the being.

    Then they tried to introduce these time slices out-of-order, which again seemed a normal, continuous existance to the being.

    Then Egan has the being, finding this obviously interesting, wondering if the medium upon which these time-slice, discrete states matters. If, for example, it matters whether each state of the being's existence is computed by some supercomputer (taking minute for each virtual 1 second say) OR if the being would experience the same consciousness if its state were computed on an abacus (taking perhaps 1 billion years for each virtual 1 second that passes).

    I found these ideas interesting (I know they must have been purposed before) and as a side note found it disappointing when Egan turned the last half of the book from exploring these ideas toward a cheesy, TRON-like cyber/VR/whatever adventure story.

  20. Re:anonymous coward on Gmail Under Trademark Dispute · · Score: 1, Funny

    or even: @gofuckyourselfgospelmusicassociation.yeahsuckitus pto.com

  21. Re:Isn't this illegal? on Guerrilla Drive-Ins · · Score: 1

    I thought most (if not all) DVDs come with a warning about not being used for public performances.

    Get ready to hear some interesting justifications *for* this. Present the same argument except with a software program and violating its distribution license and notice the difference. I think it's called self-reinforcing dillusion.

  22. Re:Uhh maybe it's changed for a reason? on Project GoneME Fixes Perceived Gnome UI Errors · · Score: 1

    easy, you're going to give yourself a headache lil fella.

  23. Re:I got an even better solution with ZERO delay on Traffic Control of the Future · · Score: 1

    The applet is a proof of concept.

    But your "overpass" solution ignores that at some point the cars will need to go into a different overpass level which just another intersection type problem, you'd just be deferring it.

    Though maybe deferring the problem makes it easier to solve later; having the cars switch levels when they're in a less congested area of road (without any intersections) might be easier to igure out for example.

    Turning is a corner case damn it ;-)

    And pedestrians, well ... fuck 'em.

  24. And the eye surgery protection... on Experiences with Laser Eye Surgery? · · Score: 1

    "These goggles, they do nothing!"

  25. Re:Heh, so Java's slow indeed on Photon Soup Update · · Score: 1

    Gee where to start...

    Scaling from 1 month to 2.5 doesn't mean 2.5 times the simulated photons, it could be that he didn't even have a fraction of the users he had back in '94. Also scaling raw Hz clock cycles which is where the "3000 times faster" remark expertly refers to is a terrible measure of extrapolating waht the performance should be. It must suck being so stupid.