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  1. Same as going into a store on Using Spyware to Report Pirates? · · Score: 1

    And robbing it.

    Only there you see a notice that the store is protected by CCTV (closed circuit tv). I would venture to say that as long as the company admits they put it in their software it's ok. Like bulletproof ftp. It tells you straight up that it logged your IP and sent it to the publisher.

  2. Re:Video games? on Game Violence Critics Ignore Community? · · Score: 1

    If you had any sense whatsoever, you'd see that the 'jew' comment is a long running joke between volfman and myself. But, since you're so closed minded you overlooked that and only saw what you wanted to see. Must be nice to wear blinders all day long.

  3. If the GPL is not valid because SCO says so... on Samba Team Points Out SCO's Hypocrisy · · Score: 1

    Does this mean that if I disapprove of a law or an agreement I can just break it?

  4. Re:What crapola on Georgy Tells Why She Should Be California Gov · · Score: 1

    It's worth researching how many generators run at Hoover Dam, and how many generators run at Niagara Falls.
    If I remember correctly, it's 2 generators out of 24 at hoover damn, and 1 generator at niagara falls out of 13 or 14. The history channel ran a spot about it a while back.

  5. Re:Video games? on Game Violence Critics Ignore Community? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I am the proud parent of one very stable child. Who doesn't sit around and play video games for hours on end. Whom I pay attention to. Yes, TV and Video Games have their uses. Children like them, they are 'rewards' so to speak. Not baby sitters. Parents who allow their children to play video games 8 9 and 10 hours a day are not parents. They are sacks of water that have no business being responsible for another person's life. They aren't 'parents' at all.

  6. Video games? on Game Violence Critics Ignore Community? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I highly doubt the video game is the problem. It's the lack of parenting skills involved in the child's upbringing that is the root of the problem. If the parents used the GAME system as a GAME every now and again instead of using the GAME system as a BABYSITTER and actually paid attention to their children, I doubt that the children would become as violent in their teenage years as they are becoming. When I was a kid, my mother paid attention to me. As a matter of fact, she was knee deep in my shit constantly. I didn't have 5 free seconds to masturbate, let alone sit in my bedroom building bombs and amassing guns to go reap some sort of vengence on my classmates.

  7. Re:VNC? on Teleffect for Win2k and WinXP? · · Score: 1

    I believe you have no idea what you are talking about. Person asks about software that uses tcp/ip to use mice and keyboards on other computers, person 2 reccomends VNC. So that you can save the cost of using multiple monitors. Had you bothered to read that you would know I was saying VNC wouldn't be a viable option because of the lag it causes. He wants a product that does something completely different. I know what he's trying to accomplish with using a mouse and keyboard over tcp/ip connections. So that you can use 1 mouse, 1 keyboard, on multiple machines with their own monitors at your desk, or acrossed the room for that matter. Mayhaps you should read the comment in which I replied to before you jump on me.

  8. Re:VNC? on Teleffect for Win2k and WinXP? · · Score: 1

    I believe the whole thing behind not using VNC is the network lag. I use VNC at work and it sucks. I have to constantly click 'Request screen refresh'. However, they're windows machines and I don't experience the difficulty with the linux machines I vnc into. Again, I believe it's a speed issue. If you've already got the monitors on your desk, you may as well actually use them.

  9. Heh, old news ... to me anyways. on DirecTV Sues Anyone Who Bought Smartcard Reader? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I have the unfortunate distinction of being one of these people that is being sued for purchasing an ISO compliant smart card reader/writer. I'd be more than happy to share any information I have with anyone else being sued, as well as accept any information from anyone else being sued.

  10. Re:Sound familar? I'll say the same thing I did th on NASA Test Shows Foam Could Be Culprit · · Score: 1

    *Maybe* the shuttle was travelling at the speed of light. :)

  11. Re:rescue mission on NASA Test Shows Foam Could Be Culprit · · Score: 1

    Uh .... A Bag of water? That better be a PRESSURIZED bag of water. Otherwise it'd boil off almost instantly once released into the vaccum of space.

  12. Re:Sound familar? I'll say the same thing I did th on NASA Test Shows Foam Could Be Culprit · · Score: 1

    You fail to take into account that the foam breaking off no longer gets the thrust from the rocket. Since it was still accelerating at the time you were driving the orbiter INTO the foam. Not the other way around. Oh yea ... it's LOSE not LOOSE.

  13. Re:Fine, Fine on NASA Test Shows Foam Could Be Culprit · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They still speak english in Ireland do they not? You can't lay blame for that on your heritage.

  14. Re:i have often wondered on NASA Test Shows Foam Could Be Culprit · · Score: 5, Informative

    No, the Columbia could not have docked with the ISS. The space shuttle was launched into a much lower orbit and would not have been able to propel itself high enough to reach the ISS. That is one of the 'problems' that has been brought up. I believe they are going to put more restrictions on where in orbit the shuttle can go. However, don't take my word for it. It's been all over the news and on Nasa's website.

  15. Re:Fine, Fine on NASA Test Shows Foam Could Be Culprit · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    loose your bet?

    I assume you mean LOSE your bet.

  16. Hey, on The Next Step in Fighting Spam: Greylisting · · Score: 1

    Can I just skip 'publishing' a 'paper' and just put a paypal link to give me a donation in a story and have it posted on slashdot?

  17. Mmmm on Putting the TV Broadcast Spectrum to Better Use? · · Score: 1

    superfulous, not even a word. Try http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=superfluo us&r=2

  18. Re:Maybe someone can help me out here... on DirecTV takes on PirateDen.com · · Score: 1

    It's not intercepting the signal that is illegal. You can lawfully receive any signal pointed at you in most of the states in the US. However, it's *decrypting* the signal that is a federal offense.

  19. Easier even still on Counterfeiting With High Resolution Inkjets · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If 100 dollar bills are physically larger than 50's, and 50's larger than 20's and 20's larger than 10's and 10's larger than 5's and 1's smallest, it'll be kinda tough to bleach the bill and print a larger bill on it. Come on China has been doing it for years. But the US wouldn't wanna be like china would they?

  20. Funny ... on AMD: No Grease For You! · · Score: 1

    AMD used to require heatsink compound / thermal paste / thermal grease / whatever it's called these days.

  21. Re:seriously on The Unix-Haters Handbook Online · · Score: 1

    I wanna know what this ./ thing he's talking about is. Gimme a link so I can see it.

  22. SSv4 on IPv4 Headers Investigated · · Score: 1

    Slashdot Story v4, are they gonna make the push for v6?

  23. Re:What's next? on The Space Shuttle Program: What Next? · · Score: 1

    The reason for not staying on Mars for 3 days and leaving has nothing to do with how long it took to get there. The planets have to be in proper alignment for a return flight, which is why they stay on the surface for almost 2 years.

  24. Re:RTFP on Highlift Systems' Space Elevator In The News Again · · Score: 1

    Well, when it's built and it weighs less than a sheet of paper, we'll see. However, the 'overengineering' of the science fiction one in the book is in my opinion not over engineered.

  25. Red Mars on Highlift Systems' Space Elevator In The News Again · · Score: 1

    In the series Red/Green/Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson he used the same idea to thicken the plot of the book, including making the space elevator fall crashing into the planet. I wonder if the company looking into building this is also looking into the possible 'terrorist' attacks on it. ... Having a cable come falling back to earth, wraping around it crushing whatever lay in it's path doesn't seem like a good thing to me. However, I'd love to ride up on it to a space station.