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  1. Re:Icom D-STAR anyone? LanLinkup is a foolish thin on Lanlink Linking The Coasts · · Score: 1

    Let me guess, you're one of those people who question the value of exploration of space as well, or the climbing of Everest.

    Because it is there man, because it is there.

  2. Re:database of RIAA ips? on RIAA Apologizes for Incorrect Infringement Notice · · Score: 1

    Well last I checked the *AA's had not been inducted as law enforcement authorities. Hence they only have the same rights as your average citizen. Well at least thats the way it should work anyway.

  3. False Economy on Environmental Costs of Computer Use? · · Score: 1

    It has been proven time and time again that computers actually generate more paper work. God knows I prefer to print out a tute rather than try to read the damn thing on the screen.

    Also I have to say this but it's a high school for god's sake. What the hell is wrong with pen and paper. There is really no concievable reason why students would need laptops unless you've started offering first year uni courses on top of the regular curiculum.

  4. Re:What am I missing? on Spamhaus Responds To Spammers' Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    What the Spammers are alleging is that SpamHaus specifically targeted eMarketers and caused deliberate damage. What spamhaus is saying is that eMarketers has only been around for four weeks and until they got the suit they had no idea who the hell they were.

  5. Re:codec overload on On2 Releases VP6 video codec · · Score: 1

    Exactly I demand that we go back to the way it was, shadow puppets!

    I don't care about the special effects, give me a large sheet and a hurricane lamp and I can show you love scenes that'll blow your mind.

    Seriously I have no problem with the concept of hundreds of codecs out there. Most of them are small niche type objects that don't affect me or the TV Station that I work for. We stick with MPEG and AVI and we have no problems.

  6. Re:I'm not surprised by this on Microsoft Sued for Defective Software · · Score: 1

    Are you sure about that last statement?

  7. Re:SDI funds basic research too on Software Bug Causes Soyuz To Land Way Off · · Score: 1

    If you have a look at the history of science and progress you will see that the greatest leaps of progress have been made during times of war. The first world war started off with cavalry charges and ended with tank charges. The second world war started with prop aircraft and ended with near super sonic jets. Computers came into their own during the second world war as the need to crack increasingly complex codes went beyond the ability of the crackers of the day. Radar was developed to detect enemy aircraft before they blew the shit out of you.

    War is bad, it kills maims and injures millions, but it also focuses the creative mind.

  8. Re:Precedent? on Microsoft Sued for Defective Software · · Score: 1

    Just a couple of points, this case is being heard in South Korea and as such has no effect outside of that country.

    Secondly last I checked openSSL was a free download and install without any money changing hands. Thus it is not a purchase. By the way IANAL.

  9. Re:Someone please explain to me on Microsoft's Athens PC · · Score: 1

    The reason is probably because Apple has made a move towards the *nix movement with OSX. Not only that but there are at least a couple of Linux distros that run on Apple Hardware.

  10. Re:Funny That! on Software Bug Causes Soyuz To Land Way Off · · Score: 1

    Probably for the same reason they say one thing in the States and something completely different in the rest of the world.

  11. Re:SDI funds basic research too on Software Bug Causes Soyuz To Land Way Off · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I hate to say this but Military Research has led to some of the biggest break throughs in our life time. Without the V1 and V2 rockets we wouldn't have had Saturn 5, Satelites, Velcro, Microwave ovens, High Strenght Materials, Computers, the Internet all can be traced back to military research.

  12. Re:Star Trek's 9/11 on Enterprise Getting New Aliens, Hairdos, Weapons · · Score: 1

    So do I, that's why I don't like Voyager or DS9 either. Haven't watched much of Enterprise and the only bit I liked was the shower scene during the Pilot Ep.

    Star Trek as represented by TOS and TNG has always been to me a good mix of the frontier ideal and the idea that one day humanity can get it's act together. Maybe I'm just being an idealist but hey this is ./

  13. Re:MP3 Player Ammo-mag sounds silly on Slashback: Hatred, Glass, Identification · · Score: 1

    Well swords into plows, why not AK-47's into IPODs

  14. Re:Star Trek's 9/11 on Enterprise Getting New Aliens, Hairdos, Weapons · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry you make the assumption that Star Trek was anything but left wing. It always has been, from TOS to Enterprise.

    If you don't like the show then don't watch it, pretty simple really.

  15. I wondered how long it would take on Slashback: Hatred, Glass, Identification · · Score: 1

    For SCO to start attacking the Distros. Now they're claiming that Linus is lying when he says that Linux was a project independant of any Unix code. SCO is getting more and more desperate as time goes on.

  16. Re:The New American Gulag Archipelago on Slashback: Hawash, Monomania, Rocketships · · Score: 1

    And this is the reason we have laws which say "Innocent Until Proven Guilty". It's like burning old women at the stake because some one called Witch on them.

  17. Re:Mike Hawash's Detention on Slashback: Hawash, Monomania, Rocketships · · Score: 1

    How can you say that future generations will not look on the US Army as terrorists? Can you look a hundred years in the future and say it will be the same then as it is now?

    At the time of the US War of Independance the Brits certainly thought of the Colonialists of Rebels and terrorists and yet now you claim they were in the right? Why? Could it be history has changed the way we percieve an event that happened a couple of hundred years ago?

    As for the Wishy Washy statement? WTF is that about? It was a valid point. Not everyone on this planet shares the same viewpoint about events that occure, christ you just have to look at this site to see that.

  18. Re:The New American Gulag Archipelago on Slashback: Hawash, Monomania, Rocketships · · Score: 1

    So tell me, has this man been convicted of a crime? Or is the accusation enough to damn him in your eyes.

    The whole basis of the Justice system is innocence until proven guilty, not the other way around. Other wise we may as well have the Mcarthy era and the Spanish Inquisition back in one fell swoop.

  19. Re:The New American Gulag Archipelago on Slashback: Hawash, Monomania, Rocketships · · Score: 1

    Ah it's good to see intelligent discourse alive and well on ./.

    Lets get something straight nimrod, he has not been convicted of any crime, nada nothing, zero. At this moment in time he has been accused of a crime, he is entitled to a fair trial (so anywhere that isn't part of the US would be a good idea). What really gives me the shits is all you pussies who can't wait to throw away what made your country great, the concept that each man is equal under the law. You took the British concept of the rule of law and said, every man, woman and child shall get equal treatment. Now after one incident count that, one you throw it all away and try to emulate the raging success that was East Germany. You ask me? The coward is the man who throws away his convictions at the first sign of danger.

    You have issues with what I say, fine go ahead, I don't give a rats arse, I am sick and tired of trying to show people the shit they are swimming in. Remember this, next time it could be you hauled away for six weeks without anyone knowing where you are and no recourse to legal counsel.

  20. Re:The New American Gulag Archipelago on Slashback: Hawash, Monomania, Rocketships · · Score: 1

    What happened to Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness? What also happened to the constitutionally set down right to freedom of association, or maybe the right to not be arrested with out due cause, which I am pretty damn sure is set down in the constitution.

  21. Re:Special case because he's a software engineer? on Slashback: Hawash, Monomania, Rocketships · · Score: 1

    Your right I must have missed something because it seemed to me that you were saying "They can't protest therefore the government must be communist". Once more for the slow of thinking, Communism as practiced by the Soviets and Cuba is not the only form of totalitariasm out there. Do some reading, research your subject matter, use google for fucks sake.

  22. Re:The New American Gulag Archipelago on Slashback: Hawash, Monomania, Rocketships · · Score: 1

    Thats right. It's called rule of law, which gets suspended during times of war and thats it. It's what stops governments from deciding to do whatever the hell they like.

  23. Re:The New American Gulag Archipelago on Slashback: Hawash, Monomania, Rocketships · · Score: 1

    Sorry when did the US get invaded I must have missed that part. Was this guy part of an armed force violating American borders and claiming part of the US for himself and his people? I don't think so.

    Dumbassland: The country that believes that just because they say so the world has to jump through hoops.

  24. Re:Mike Hawash's Detention on Slashback: Hawash, Monomania, Rocketships · · Score: 1

    I'm suggesting neither,but you have proved my point, social values change, not only over time but over geography, going back to my initial statement, you may claim that the Free Aceh movement is a terrorist organisation but the Acehnese might have a different view. Just as now we look back on the attrocities commited by the US Cavalry against the Indian Nations and condemn them so future generations may do the same to us.

  25. Re:Quick statistical analysis on Slashback: Hawash, Monomania, Rocketships · · Score: 1

    How is it equivocation to compare an Islamic militia that advocates the violent over throw of government to be replaced by an Islamic Theocracy with a Christian Militia that advocates the violent over throw of government to be replaced by a Christian Theocracy?