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  1. Re:Slashdot Poll? on Randomizing Survey Answers For Accuracy · · Score: 2

    If logic holds true, then there will be 100% No answers (minus the people who take the Cowboy Neal option). If you're a lier, then you can't click yes because then you wouldn't be lying, so you have to choose no (because you're a lyer). If you aren't lying, then you have to choose no.

  2. Re:so what if.... on Campzone 2: The Return · · Score: 3, Informative
    From the FAQ:

    Q: Is it a problem when it raines?

    A: No, fortunally not. Ofcourse you'll have to make sure your tent is waterproof. Should a problem occur with your tent -like an unexpected leak- please report this to the Field Admin. They can try to keep you tent dry with plastic and possibly help you with moving your equipment to another location. Last year we had a few showers and a thunderstorm, but thanks to our emergencyplans this did not lead to any problems.

  3. The uses.... on Light-Emitting Polymer Displays · · Score: 3, Funny

    There are many uses for this in areas with political instability. Now instead of having to go through the problem of making new flags and banners every time an area changes hands, you can just have one of these up each flag pole, and just change the image as the situation warrents. I can see applications for this on the west bank / parts of Africa already.

  4. Re:What does everyone use on Network Intrusion Detection Systems Fail to Impress · · Score: 2

    Actually, you can. Just go into prefrences. You can give all funny comments an automatic -5 moderation if that's what you want. I only payed attention to this AC because he has half a brain

  5. Re:What does everyone use on Network Intrusion Detection Systems Fail to Impress · · Score: 5, Funny
    I use snort, but it's not easy to set up and tweak properly, way too many false alarms.

    Yeah, me too. All that special lab equipment to refine it, and the look out always saying the cops are coming when half the time it's just a meter-maid....

  6. Re:Steve and the PDA... on Macworld: No new Towers, But 17-inch iMac · · Score: 2
    Jobs has often said." Apple is working on something, that's for sure."

    translation: Stick with us, our next version will be better. *cough* F.U.D. *cough*

  7. Re:PC and Xbox!? on Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's because they're tring to emulate the temptations of dark side of the force....if you want to play, you must give in.

  8. Re:Me too on Latest UDRP Stupidity: Unix.org, Canadian.biz · · Score: 1

    Actually, We're sponsored by DuPont, so while we have deep corporate pockets, their lawyers have better things to be worrying about, like John DuPonts latest appeal, etc. etc.

  9. Re:It makes me sick..... on Latest UDRP Stupidity: Unix.org, Canadian.biz · · Score: 2

    We did. There was nothing that we could do, as whoever yoinked it had already put stuff up on it...some search engine if i remember right

  10. It makes me sick..... on Latest UDRP Stupidity: Unix.org, Canadian.biz · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ...That this is declared cybersquating, but when someone grabbed our robotics team website there wasn't a thing done about it. We really need to clean this stuff up.

  11. Re:Lacking something important..... on Warner Bros. plans 'Superman vs. Batman' Movie · · Score: 1

    Seeing as how I live about an hour away from Philadelphia, it's highly unlikely that I watched the news in Sacramento. Silly AC, posting is for real users.

  12. Lacking something important..... on Warner Bros. plans 'Superman vs. Batman' Movie · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think they'd get more money with a Catwoman vs. Wonder Woman movie. Unless this new one has a lot of Kristen Dunst in the rain.....

  13. You're just another Apple troll.... on A Linux User Goes Back · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Look, People here don't want to buy $2000+ in Mac hardware to do what a $1500 PC will do, only the PC will be compatable with more software and won't cost an arm and a leg to upgrade. I know that Mac has a better UI, but with that UI comes crappier and more expensive hardware.

  14. Re:the other direction? on A Linux User Goes Back · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    He wants to be able to do work on it. He doesnt' want to have to pick out a computer to match his drapes. I will give Apple credit for a better UI, but as for everything else....

    - As one of my fellow ACs pointed out, Apple's back-end is just a pimped-out unix. At least Micro$oft can write its own OS and doesn't go converting to *nix when they realize it sucks.

    - Hardware: Remember back when apple supported BeOS? Ever wonder why they dropped it? Because they realized that if people could run a MacOS on IBM hardware, they'd abandon Apple's hardware like investors from Arthur Anderson.

    - Price: I don't really feel like getting my ass reamed out every time i want to upgrade my system. Getting raped on IBM hardware doens't make me gay, but pushing back by willingly getting more expensive apple hardware does.

  15. Unfortunatly.... on Uptime Realities in the Internet World · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think we just knocked his server down to two nines by slashdotting it.

  16. Re:Creating a pool doesn't guarantee swimming on EU Report Advocates Pooling Open Source Software · · Score: 2
    Which country will want to spend money creating applications, if the rest get them for free?

    Easy, if country A could put in a backdoor to some peice of, say, financial software that would allow them to look into country B's or country C's internal finances, then it would be well worth country A's time to develop that software.

  17. Re:Ethanol on Alternative-Fuel Vehicle Recommendations? · · Score: 2

    I know that there are a lot of cars out there where you won't...my '98 Dodge Caravan, for one, says specifically on the gas cap that you can put in pure ethanol. In fact, my university makes a point of running mostly ethanol-only cars on campus.

  18. Ethanol on Alternative-Fuel Vehicle Recommendations? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you live in the Midwest, it's very feasable to use a conventional gasoline car, just fill it up with ethanol. It burns cleaner, hotter, and more effeciently than traditional gas. More importantly, you will be supporting a fuel source that can be grown out of the earth, and unlike oil, you won't be giving your money to a foreign dictator or Texas oil-baron.

  19. Re:Foreign Literature? on Two Books from Haruki Murakami · · Score: 1

    If you know french, nothing can beat Victor Hugo. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, for instance, while painful to read, is very enjoyable in the origonal language. Also, if you don't mind foreign films, Au Revoir, Les Enfants is a very good film about a boy growing up in a catholic school in France during the nazi occupation

  20. Wouldn't it be ironic.... on MS Passport and... Visa · · Score: 3, Funny

    ....If you had to use a Microsoft Passport to buy add-free pages on slashdot....

  21. Re:Feel the heat on Dual GPU graphics solution from ATi? · · Score: 1

    Look at it this way...if you get hungry while playing quake, you can just pop some cookie dough into the CD drive, and 10 mins later, cookie!

  22. Re:more artists against RIAA on Janis Ian on the Internet Debacle · · Score: 3, Funny
    And we all know how proud he is of his black heritage, don't we

    What? He's black?

  23. Re:Java? on Coffepot Computer · · Score: 1

    It runs java alright, you just have to grind up the beans first.

  24. Re:what they should do... on The AudioGalaxy Story · · Score: 1
    I basically got sick of people with nothing much to say attacking my posts on the basis of spelling. Based on the fact that I can write such a sig, one can say that I can use the english language, however, because I choose to specailize in a technical field, I'm not as good with language as someone like you who spent their time specializing in language. One of the benefits of living in a civlization is that we don't have to be masters of everything, just capable.

    However, you and others have pointed out that that's not much of an excuse, so I will be modifying my sig shortly. Thanks for actually replying intelligently instead of "y0r 5P311ing s0x, man". as many others have.

  25. seminars are overrated... on Security Gatherings for the Little Guys · · Score: 2, Funny

    why go to expensive seminars when you have such a great resource right here at your fingertips