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  1. Re:tsk tsk -- turning your 2yr-old into a pirate on DVD Decrypter Author Served With Take-Down Order · · Score: 1

    Err what? So making backups is stealing but Tivo-ing the episodes are okay? I don't understand what the difference is...

    ~S

  2. Re:Thank you on Google Never Forgets · · Score: 1

    I think that pretty much sums up Slashdot well at this point. I'm sure your post and mine will get modded into oblivion but I wholeheartedly agree with you.

    ~S

  3. Re:Tell me again on Will Next-Gen Consoles Kill Off PC Gaming? · · Score: 3

    I'd be really curious to find out what details were on while you were running this?

    ~S

  4. Re:Why, oh why why why?? on Are CRTs History? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Commas can be placed anywhere, they are pauses. Maybe, he, wanted, to, sound, like, William, Shatner?

    ~S

  5. Re:Sirius losing to XM? Absofuckinglutley on Sirius in Negotiations With Apple · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think people will spend $12.95 a month for Stern, plus all the other channels I know I am going to. Not to mention that Clear Channel owns a percentage of XM so even if Howard wasn't on Sirius I wouldn't buy XM because of that connection.

    ~S

  6. Re:maybe he should keep quiet on Sirius in Negotiations With Apple · · Score: 2, Informative

    I doubt Sirius is going to be losing out to XM after Stern starts broadcasting there.

    ~S

  7. Re:Old News on Samsung Announces Flash-Based Disk Drive · · Score: 1

    Yes I believe it does but I've seen from some other poster here before that if the writes are spaced out so that new data isn't written on the same memory space constantly it will last quite a long time. i.e., instead of writing to blocks 1-5 every time, it uses 6-10 then 11-15 or whatever, it's constantly changing to maximize life. That's not the scientific answer but my understanding of it.

    ~S

  8. Re:Absolute numbers on IBM Europe Workers Strike · · Score: 1

    So if you can't make money like you own a printing press then the company is inefficient?

    ~S

  9. Re:Quick comment -- on 512MB GeForce 6800 Ultra Reviewed · · Score: 1

    You both are right, it used to be Scan Line Interleave circa the VooDoo cards and is now Scalable Link Interface circa current cards.

    ~S

  10. Re:Thats a Llot of RAM... on 512MB GeForce 6800 Ultra Reviewed · · Score: 1

    That's a lie, we all know your keyboard atrophied arms could never carry those stones two miles. ;)

    ~S

  11. Re:Quick comment -- on 512MB GeForce 6800 Ultra Reviewed · · Score: 1

    SLI is used so each card takes half the load of whatever graphics are required for the moment and effectively doubles the processing power of the graphics card. It's like having two processors in your computer, however the two cards can actually work on the same output, as one card takes odd lines and the other even lines or the top half vs. bottom half (I don't recall the exact process). It used to be called Scan Line Interleave but unless I'm mistaken it's still SLI although SLI stands for something else now.

    ~S

  12. Re:Cell Phones over iPod? on Bill Gates: Cellphone will Beat iPod · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Information Superhighway on Al Gore to Receive Internet Achievement Award · · Score: 1

    So you are a spineless Karma whore then?

    ~S

  14. Re:And the winner is... on Cars that Can't Crash? · · Score: 1

    Or First On Race Day...

  15. Re:Draconian? on Congress Declares War on File Leakers · · Score: 1

    Can you elaborate on this?

  16. Re:Free Thinkers Declare War on the RIAA on Congress Declares War on File Leakers · · Score: 1

    Rapists should be locked up longer, but how many more prisons and prisoners does the US really need?

    ~S

  17. Re:Free Thinkers Declare War on the RIAA on Congress Declares War on File Leakers · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Rapists can get less time than this...

    ~S

  18. Re:Anyone Wardriving this area? on Minneapolis To Go Wireless · · Score: 1

    I've done some mobile network discovery on my way through the cities and there were quite a few networks available. Unfortunately I didn't have a GPS attached.

    ~S

  19. Re:Funny Metallica quote on Music Industry Drafts Code of Conduct for ISPs · · Score: 1

    Hell, Lars even has said the name Metallica was stolen from a friend of his who wanted to start a magazine of the same name...So Lars said it was a terrible name, then took it himself. Relate that to other posters describing some of of Metallica's exploits in their videos and I don't really feel sorry for them.

    ~S

  20. Re:In other news... on Paris Hilton Recruited to Publicize Linux · · Score: 1

    Then say it was a cunning stunt.

    ~S

  21. Re:I'll take the survey in a bit, but... on How Long Do You Want Digital Media To Last? · · Score: 1

    You look for an old machine on e-bay. :)

    ~S

  22. Re:You forgot Set C! on Senator Clinton Slams GTA · · Score: 1

    Your nick certainly fits you. ;) I kid, I kid...

    ~S

  23. Re:Best advise on Comprehensive Guide to the Windows Paging File · · Score: 1

    Maybe it does, but the parent poster has a point in that the MS-Linux card is played by the third post and that it just gets plain boring to see after the thousandth time. There isn't one subject on Slashdot that can manage to avoid it either apparently.

    ~S

  24. Re:Nice article, but ... on Comprehensive Guide to the Windows Paging File · · Score: 1

    No he wrote the whole article and he never once heard of Unix or Linux. He's totally ignorant of the unix/linux world, only some of us "in the know" have actually even heard of Unix. As far as common people go, it doesn't even exist...

    ~S

  25. Re:One place to look on The Continuing Hunt for PATRIOT Act Abuses · · Score: 1
    The truth is: most prisoners at Gitmo would delight in seeing your head separated from your body, or "freedom, liberty, and rights" ripped from you.Yes, even the bleeding heart liberals. They tend to be sexually amoral and humanistic, and this is not allowed. Understand?
    But if you don't know who is being locked up, how would you know this?

    ~S