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  1. Re:Best Defense: Westernization on Can Terrorists Build a Nuclear Bomb? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Eastern societies need "Western Values" like they need another electrode on their genitals. For every example of "Eastern Cruelty", there are plenty of Western ones to match.
    A Western acquaintance who adopted a Korean orphan is proof of the compassion and goodness of Western values.
    And as a reporter, you should know that the plural of Anecdote is not Data. Why didn't your acquaintance adopt one of the many crack babies we have here?

    What we _all_ need to do is to learn to value each others as equals. That goes from the Mullahs in Saudia Arabia tellling women to cover themselves completely, to the Baptist Preachers in Alabama telling women that their place is behind their man.

  2. Re:Whatever on Napster Has Been Cracked · · Score: 5, Informative
    There is a virtual sound card program for windows. It is called VAC, the Virtual Audio Cable. It works really well, and is relatively cheap.

    The only Virtual CD Burner software I've seen is called Original CD Emulator. It creates a fake CD Burner in the same way DaemonTools creats a fake CD drive.

    If anyone knows any other software that can do the same things as these too, please post them here too.

  3. Re:AOL killed it in the first place on AOL Kills Usenet Access · · Score: 5, Funny

    LOL!!1!

    >ME TOO!

    >> I was there when AOL enabled usenet access. The
    >> flood of users with no netiquette or, as it eemed
    >> to me at the time, common sense, drove me out of
    >> almost every newsgroup I followed.

  4. Re:Lack of rational thinking on Harvard Pres Says Females Naturally Bad at Math · · Score: 1
    Nothing you've described has anything to do with women and their inability to handle a car. Women have been dealing with cars since they came out, on farms and in the cities, rich or poor. Give them more credit than that they would freak out over a flat tire in a time before AAA and cell phones.

    Plonk

  5. Great! on Bollywood New Releases Available via Video-On-Demand · · Score: 1

    Let me get out my S-Video cable and my L/R RCAs and I'll be all set!

  6. Re:I cant wait! on Dancing Robots Help Preserve Japanese Culture · · Score: 1
    How about Soundwave breakbeating with LazerBeak?

    Khier-kher-koh-kah-khah!

  7. Re:Lack of rational thinking on Harvard Pres Says Females Naturally Bad at Math · · Score: 4, Insightful
    You have _got_ to be kidding

    Hand Cranks stopped being used in the 1930's. Even then, they were no more difficult than a waterwell's crank that women have been using for centuries.

    Even though maunal steering only went away in the last 20 years, it only becomes an issue if you are trying to move a car that isn't in motion. Some very weak people might had a hard time parallel parking, but not everyday driving and stopping.

  8. Re:Knoppix - a lifesaver on True Stories of Knoppix Rescues · · Score: 1

    There is a sort-of "Winnopix" that's available. It's called BartPE. It's a CD bootable version of WinXP that lets you add almost any software package, including foreign registry editors, spyware and virus scanners, and data recovery/forensics tools. You can find it here.

  9. Re:Different? on FreeSBIE 1.1 Screenshot Tour · · Score: 1

    This is the first one for FreeBSD.

  10. Re:So how.. on RIAA/MPAA Contractor Deploys Malicious Adware Trojans · · Score: 1
    I simply won't download or share wma files what-so-ever
    Pshaw. They'll just rename them to .MPG or .AVI like they usually do. My solution has been switching to VLC. VLC's internal codecs don't recognize embedded URLs.
  11. Re:Let's see on Asteroid Flies Under the Radar, Literally · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, but I'm American. Can you do these measurements again in Football fields, Minivans, Rods, or Hogsheads???

  12. Re:Sounds like a... on On the Ethics of a Code Split? · · Score: 1
    Wow... The other slashdot post even has the same quiet/quite typo.

    This is like a Slashdot episode of CSI.

  13. Use SSH Instead? on WEP And PPTP Password Crackers Released · · Score: 1

    SSH is a lot easier to setup, and in its basic password-based form it's as secure as a VPN. It's pre-installed on most Linux systems, but you can always compile and set it up yourself. But if you're running Windows, you'll need to use the Cygwin version instead.

  14. I'm in Puerto Rico, you insensitive clod... on The Ten Worst Products of the Year · · Score: 1

    And we open our gifts on Jan 6th. Well, at least we used to till Yanqui Claus took over.

  15. Re:Very Inprofesional on The Illiteracy of Corporate American E-Mail · · Score: 1
    I used to have a boss who was English, and the VP of European Operations. He always would complain that his American version of Word was complaining too much about his "mistakes". So, I showed him how to turn off the spell-check.

    The problem wasn't the Spell-checker after all. The man couldn't spell or write correctly to save his life. So, it's not just Americans. It's ALL OF THE ENGLISH SPEAKERS!!1!11

  16. Re:replacement for soviet joke? on In Korea, Email Is Only For Old People · · Score: 0
    In Miami, the older Cuban exiles say "Eso no pasaba en Cuba" (This wouldn't of happened in Cuba) whenever something doesn't go their way.

    It's always the opposite in Soviet states.

  17. Re:What surprises me is... on Failing Grades For Most Anti-Spyware Tools · · Score: 1

    You could do something similar to this by using BartPE. It is a Bootable CD version of WindowsXP. You won't have to worry about messing up the NTFS partition with a bad write since it is a "native" tool. And, the BartPE community has created hundreds of plugins, including registry checkers, virus scanners, and spyware cleaners.

  18. Re:Fastest on Which VNC Software Is Best? · · Score: 1

    Let's not forget that Tarantella was once part of SCO. They sold it off, and now lost a good source of non-UNIX monies.

  19. Re:Okay on Every 5th Call At Dell Is Spyware-Related · · Score: 1
    Don't you guys do what every other software company I've worked for has done?

    "Tell the customer that software is not covered by warranty and that they need to FFR (FDISK, FORMAT, RESTORE) their system with the System CD."

    At some places, if you say anything else, you get dinged.

  20. Re:TWC is not a monopoly on Distress Signal Emitted By Flat-Screen TV · · Score: 1
    But please, would people stop this 1980s concept of cable companies being a monopoly!
    You're right (AOL) Time(Newsweek) - (Turner)Warner Cable is not monopolistic at all.... I mean, what's 20-or-so companies between partners, err friends.
  21. Re:So weird... on System Recovery with Knoppix · · Score: 3, Informative

    There is a sort-of Winnopix available. It's called BartPE. It's a CD bootable version of WinXP that lets you add almost any software package. YOu can use it for data recovery, forensics or as a temp OS. YOu can find it here.

  22. Re:Intuit isn't part of MS thanks to the DOJ on Storm Brewing over Microsoft on the Horizon? · · Score: 1
    No, you missed the sarcasm of what I said. Money only got better because they had a chance to go through Intuit's IP. Even through all that, Money is still a distant second to Quicken.

    In any sense of the word, MS is a predatory monopolist. Microsoft consistently uses it's weight on not only it's competitor's but also it's business "partner's". this has been shown in court time and time again.

  23. Re:Isn't this illegal? on Storm Brewing over Microsoft on the Horizon? · · Score: 1

    Yes, the ketchup lobby is very powerful in the US. Look how the Ketchup Advisory board even influences NPR!

  24. Re:Cry wolf on Indymedia Seizures Initiated In Europe · · Score: 1
    You are incorrect on 2 counts.

    Dmitry Sklyarov wasn't arrested because of his company's product. He got arrested for giving a lecture showing how to reverse engineer Adobe's vaunted E-book protection (it's based on ROT-13). It's a sick irony when a Russian citizen gets arrested in the United States on a Freedom of Speech issue.

    Second, tickets do follow you from state to state, at least in Florida. I received a speeding ticket from a small township in New Jersey. Imagine my suprise when my home state of Florida threatened to suspend my license because I hadn't paid the ticket. States are now working together to make sure they don't lose any of that extra revenue that tickets generate.

  25. Intuit isn't part of MS thanks to the DOJ on Storm Brewing over Microsoft on the Horizon? · · Score: 1
    You must have forgotten that Intuit was nearly bought by Microsoft, and the deal was killed because the DOJ put pressure on them. Soon afterwards, Microsoft's Money product got significantly better.

    This goes straight to what Microsoft is famous for, "Embrace[ing] and Extend[ing]". It finds itself behind in a market and uses any means necessary to become the leader...

    Apple - steals code from Quicktime. Apple settles by selling 50% of non-controllable stock to MS

    IBM - develops OS/2 and then takes most of it's core to develop NT.

    Sun - develops a standalone JVM implementation that "extends" Java's function... Extended to the point that code written for it only works on Windows. MS finally loses ensuing lawsuit, then strands developers by removing MS Java completely from XP and it's website.

    Dr-DOS - adds code that causes a beta copy of Win3.11 to bomb when used under DRDOS. This code doesn't appear in the final release, but this and their anti-competitive actions against DRDOS in Germany, are enough to kill DR-DOS completely. Caldera later wins several lawsuits against MS. Currently, it is alleged that MS has agreements with Caldera to cast Linux in a bad light.

    ... The list goes on and on, with lots of other smaller companies losing their technologies to MS. MS is a company that cannot be trusted either as a business partner, or as a competitor.