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  1. Re:this law stinks on Supreme Court Rules Against Anti-Porn Law · · Score: 1

    and do tell...
    how is porn free speech?

    graphic images and fantasies of women being portrayed as objects or the fact that it sets unrealistic expectations on peoples bodies or "performance"

    so do tell, and I'm really interested to know how outright porn, is free speech? and I'm sorry, the "artistic lisence" excuse won't work for me.

  2. Re:Oblig. Simpsons Quote on Supreme Court Rules Against Anti-Porn Law · · Score: 1

    I'm glad you said that. It is a major problem especially considering porn turns women into sex objects and therefor invalid in terms of having feelings or being human. It's a sad state of mind and being for those people, both male and female, to have to subject themselves and others to this kind of mindset.

    So many people are like that already and don't even realize it and in turn, when told something like that either get mad, dismiss you outright and keep on pretending everything is normal, or (on slashdot) mod you down.

    porn is a problem, and I don't care what anyone says. The right to treat people as anything less than human and with some degree of respect isn't actually a right; artistic rights can only go so far before it becomes inappropriate

  3. Re:A short list on Missing Open Source Security Tools? · · Score: 1

    This is true. If there was an anti-virus software built on a linux live iso for scanning Windows operating systems I would certianly love to pick that up b/c how can you really trust a service once your system gets infected?

    That's what I thought. An antivirus scanner on a live iso kicks butt.

  4. Re:Liberal Arts colleges and OS choice on Should Colleges Monitor Students' PCs? · · Score: 1

    one of my recent girlfriends did that. thought about chaning the world and "beating to a different drum" as you called it but eventually she did cave in. She went for the Marketing and Broadcast journalism. Heh, what a fucking joke that kind of degree is. All you become is a peddler for pre-chewed and sanitized news and govt. propaganda and a marketdroid mindless zombie that tries to manipulate the public from the truth with lies lies lies.

    Yeah. i hear your situation, and raise you one divorce on that one! /rant_off

  5. Re:Some tips for seeing what's going on... on We've Been Hacked... or Have We? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Here is a WinMD5 for Windows:
    http://www.blisstonia.com/shareware/WinM D5/
    WinMD5

    This works very well and it's simple.

  6. Re:Launch the rockets anyway on Rocket Hobbyists Get Blown Away by Regulations · · Score: 1

    In utah and NY where I frequently visit, finding a place is not very hard. Actually, I can still go to the hardware store and pick up some a/b/c/d solid fuel rockets and accessories.

    mucho fun, not sure how this law effects people really. b/c as far as I know, it's not being enforeced (if at all), under a certian rocket size

  7. Re:fix? on Fingerprint Scanners Still Easy to Fool · · Score: 1

    98.7 deg is your core body temperature.

    your extremities almost ALWAYS have lower temperature unless you're taking a shower (I use HOT HOT water) or if you're working with HOT/cold objects for a while.

  8. Re:Too little too late on Hotmail, Others Follow Gmail's Storage Boost · · Score: 1

    sure, you're on my list to get one as soon as I have another invite, it was given to a family member b/c well... it's my little sister, I couldn't say no!

    --zoloto

  9. This is offtopic on Cingular To Offer Mobile High-Speed Internet · · Score: 1

    but I noticed you added me to your friends list :)
    I'm honored, what did I do to deserve this?

    -zoloto

  10. Re:The business case sadly makes sense on Yahoo Changes Protocol, Blocks Third Party Clients · · Score: 1

    Maybe broken to those who don't really know how to get a grasp on it. Which is why "IM" clients became popular.

    Channel take overs happened b/c Ops became sloppy, or didn't know/want to set up an eggdrop properly. On the few irc servers I admin, the only problems come from improperly implemented bots and ignorant users. That being said, irc isn't for everyone.

  11. Re:Damn... on Yahoo Changes Protocol, Blocks Third Party Clients · · Score: 2, Funny

    When your significant other lives 500+ miles away, its a nice solution to 'see' them,

    videosluts.com doesn't count.
    But kudo's to you for figuring out where her video was being rebroadcasted from with "net"...

  12. Re:Too little too late on Hotmail, Others Follow Gmail's Storage Boost · · Score: 1

    select messages with their checkbox.
    open the dropdown dialog and select "Move to trash"
    click on the trash link
    select all messages with "all link"
    open same dropdown dialog and select "delete forever"

    Hope that helps :)

    and yeah, it goes by subject line. I've tested it with my Mom and brothers gmail accounts and true to my statement, it goes by subject line.

    So it's not bad, but could be better (like most things). As for now, I'm not complaining one bit. It is a free service after all..

    -zoloto

  13. Re:MSN Hotmail: behind the competition on Hotmail, Others Follow Gmail's Storage Boost · · Score: 1

    That sucks.

    Personally, I've emailed only 4 invitations to hotmail users (my family/roommates) and the rest communicate through GMail now. However I've had plenty of conversations with a friend with hotmail etc and nothings' gone wrong yet.

    Anyways, I'll be hoping that she'll switch over to gmail soon b/c I think hotmail has "misplaced" my emails to her. Sucks, but probably true.

  14. Re:Too little too late on Hotmail, Others Follow Gmail's Storage Boost · · Score: 1

    Actually you can delete messages. That's an option but it's not as simple as Y! and Hotmail. Not so simple because it's different that's all... but you can still delete messages.

    As for the message grouping feature, it's ok for the most part. REading message headers instead of the subject line would be smarter in my opinion... But if there was a way to go back to the old way of viewing messages, it would be nice - and keeping the starring of conversations (if only to keep track of them) is a great thing!

    Oh, I have one gmail Invitation left, reply to this post (DO NOT EMAIL ME!) will get it... however I have an inclination to help out someone from hotmail. So POST A CLICKABLE liNK! and not an obfuscated one and you'll get it. Otherwise you won't :)

  15. Re:They need to tone it down on Linux in Iraq · · Score: 1

    Hey, that's the last thing we need. A new version of a Linux holy war deabating Vi vs. EMacs, or Gnome vs. KDE. Thanks, but no thanks, I prefer I.T. department personnel to stay alive and not scuicide themselves because of a text editor.

    (yes this was a jab at their so called "holy wars" where fanatic lunatics think killing themselves is part of "God's calling" for them - thanks but no thanks that's just not right)

    Karma be damned,

  16. Re:Yay! on Slackware 10.0 Officially Released · · Score: 1

    i think so, however i was referring to those who use torrents to download their iso's really fast, and then shut them down when their upload rate hasn't reached a one-to-one (1/1) ratio yet.

    not that it's evil, but goes against the bittorrent principle of sharing bandwidth for very popular files etc.

    not that it's hard to share bandwidth considering most users have unlimited per month (or so mine says) on fast connections. Leavning it up overnight wouldn't hurt many people. I know I'll leave mine online for at least a week before burning the ISO's and installing it along side SuSE 9.1 that I just installed :) (boo yah!)

    --zoloto

  17. Re:Yay! on Slackware 10.0 Officially Released · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Now if the slashdot effect would take effect on the following torrets, we'd be in business much quicker:

    Slackware 10.0 Installation ISO disc 1
    Slackware 10.0 Installation ISO disc 2 (GNOME/KDE/KDEI, /testing, live rescue disc)
    Slackware 10.0 ISO disc 3 (Sources part 1, /extra , Slackware book)
    Slackware 10.0 ISO disc 4 (Sources part 2, ZipSlack, /pasture)

    Please download and keep your torrents open to at least a 1:1 ratio! I do it, so can you! LEave it on ALL NIGHT BABY!

    Offtopic: I for one welcome our slashdotting overlords.

  18. Re:about time on Slackware 10.0 Officially Released · · Score: 1

    Finally? Wow, this was a quick release since 9.1 came out. I was expecting it to take longer? Perhaps some of the other developers or donations came through so he could work on his baby.

    This was my first distro ever when I got off Windows. Once a slacker, always a slacker.

  19. Re:That's it?!?!?!?!? on AOL Employee Arrested in Spam Scheme · · Score: 1

    last I heard, selling customer information was not "theft of trade secrets". It's a simple customer database, nothing so secret about that as VISA, MASTERCARD, AMEX, DCC and various banks across america wouldn't know about.

    -zoloto

  20. Re:[sic] (offtopic) on Our Friend, The Meter · · Score: 1

    thank you ;)

  21. Re:THIS IS NOT FUNNY 1.0 inch = 2.540000cm on Our Friend, The Meter · · Score: 1

    "This is pure americanizum[sic] at work."

    what is [sic] ??

  22. Re:And this is legal how? on Valve Gets Tough On Counter-Strike Cheaters · · Score: 2, Informative

    Hey.

    It's OGC now OGL.
    Some cheats that I've seen in action were merely OpenGL hacks, that were a part of the operating system or video card drivers.

    Since when is this considered a derriviative work?

    OpenGL hacks are just that, hacks on the OpenGL subsystem.

  23. Re:No on U.S. Navy to Deploy Rail Guns by 2011 · · Score: 1

    montreal is nice too,but it's too far awayy from me being I'm in NY. Toronto is much closer for me to drive. BEsides, I don't speak french :)

  24. Re:overwrite human dna? on Open Source Life? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Some people have moderated this funny but it's actually a bit insightful. If the genetic changes and DNA are the equivilant of "open source" or "open dna" (which is what life should be) then we'd be able to fix genetic problems introduced by pharmacutical companies' products. Hell, peer review would be a Godsend in that industry b/c without it the nightmare involved in figuring out what caused a problem in X person A) costs too much B) Takes WAY too much time in lab tests, blood tests etc.

    Were not very close to comparing what DNA a person has and saying, "Hey you'll be allergic to this drug" yet, but I for one can't wait for our open source dna overlords to realise keeping an open system is worth it.

  25. Re:Compatibility Woes? on WinXP SP2 Sacrifices Compatibility for Security · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Right on! So they're breaking backwards compatibility that they've maintained since the early 80's.

    Do any of you remember the FIX for the Linux Kernel a while back that broke a TON of things? (can't remember the specific version) Linus said he fixed it and didn't make a work around b/c it would have introduced other problems in the future, and when he did fix it it was MUCH better than before. But people complained and re-wrote their software anyways.

    Now that MS is doing this, how many of you will scream "LOCK-IN" or "CONSPIRACY"? Probaly more of you than those who say "it's about time they fixed some problems, third party software be damned".

    I'll consider it just fine, but those of you who built your software on Windows, and use some API or whatchamacallit (not much of a programmer here) that's Windows specific all I have to say to you is, you dug your own hole, time to throw that software in and do a little re-write.

    That's what I said about those developers that used COM unnecessarily (and believe me there were MANY).

    It had to be said, mod's please be gentle.