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  1. Re:The economic effects of humanoid Robots. on LivingCreatures- The Beginning Of 'I, Robot?' · · Score: 1

    However, if it was to work out right, everything would become almost free because you don't need to pay robots to work. This would only happen once the robots can run their own businesses though. Before that happens people will still own the robots and just take their robots pay. But just think of it, one day almost everything could be nearly free.

  2. Or.... on New iPod Design Pictures Leak · · Score: 1

    ...your battery just isn't what it used to be. Batteries to start to have less life after a while.

  3. Re:US is no exception on USA PATRIOT Act Survives Amendment Attempt · · Score: 1

    If just ONE president decides to launch an H bomb on an american city, I will be proven right. But thats not going to happen, just like terrorists won't be getting their hands on an H bomb. You can make all these IF arguements but they are meaningless.

  4. Re:Gmail's spam filter depends on the user input on How Good is Gmail's Spam Filter? · · Score: 1

    Also the fact that there are so few users probobly means spammers aren't really targetting gmail as of yet.

  5. Re:Masters of War on China Will Monitor, Censor SMS Messages · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I tend to agree that one must look at movies like moore's with a very critical eye. As the liberal who posted the masters of war lyrics I must say that I wasn't very impressed by fahrenheit 9/11. As you said it was supposed to be a documentery but it clearly was not. I agree with moore on many things but I do wish his movie was less about propoganda and more about documentery. He didn't say anything in his movie that hadn't already been said.

  6. Masters of War on China Will Monitor, Censor SMS Messages · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Come you masters of war
    You that build all the guns
    You that build the death planes
    You that build the big bombs
    You that hide behind walls
    You that hide behind desks
    I just want you to know
    I can see through your masks

    You that never done nothin'
    But build to destroy
    You play with my world
    Like it's your little toy
    You put a gun in my hand
    And you hide from my eyes
    And you turn and run farther
    When the fast bullets fly

    Like Judas of old
    You lie and deceive
    A world war can be won
    You want me to believe
    But I see through your eyes
    And I see through your brain
    Like I see through the water
    That runs down my drain

    You fasten the triggers
    For the others to fire
    Then you set back and watch
    When the death count gets higher
    You hide in your mansion
    As young people's blood
    Flows out of their bodies
    And is buried in the mud

    You've thrown the worst fear
    That can ever be hurled
    Fear to bring children
    Into the world
    For threatening my baby
    Unborn and unnamed
    You ain't worth the blood
    That runs in your veins

    How much do I know
    To talk out of turn
    You might say that I'm young
    You might say I'm unlearned
    But there's one thing I know
    Though I'm younger than you
    Even Jesus would never
    Forgive what you do

    Let me ask you one question
    Is your money that good
    Will it buy you forgiveness
    Do you think that it could
    I think you will find
    When your death takes its toll
    All the money you made
    Will never buy back your soul

    And I hope that you die
    And your death'll come soon
    I will follow your casket
    In the pale afternoon
    And I'll watch while you're lowered
    Down to your deathbed
    And I'll stand o'er your grave
    'Til I'm sure that you're dead

    Bob Dylan

    (Mod this post up if you are against the current US actions in Iraq and other parts of the world)

    Slashdot says too few characters per line. So I must add this to the message to make it acceptable. So I guess I will just have to keep typing until it lets me post this. No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn. Indians scattered on dawns highway bleeding, ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind. They train young men to drop fire on people but their commanders won't allow them to write "fuck" on their airplane because its obsene. If you wake up at a different time and in a different place, could you wake up as a different person? You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else. We are the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world. Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing. Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show. My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out. Man I am running out of quotes to put here and it still says too few charecters per line. No man should go though life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength. Learning, for instance, to eat when he's hungry and sleep when he's sleepy. And I realize that no matter where I am, whether in a little room full of thought, or in this endless universe of stars and mountains, it's all in my mind. There's no need for solitude. So love life for what it is, and form no preconceptions whatever in your mind. Going back & forth I cross the Canada border, unguarded, guilty, smuggling 10,000 thoughts. a world in which it is wrong to murder an individual civilian and right to drop a thousand tons of high explosive on a resident

  7. Re:pathetic on Night Goggles Capture Spider-Man Movie Bootlegger · · Score: 1

    The movie is already out online anyway. Its been out for like 23 hours. Its not like it did any good.

  8. Re:cowards hide anonymously on U.S. Supreme Court: Public Anonymity No Right · · Score: 1

    Another very bad judgement by the court was made today. A prisoner was tricked by a judge into giving up his right to file habias patitions in federal court. This opinion should be getting more attention.

  9. Re:How many times do people have to be told on Lessons Learned From Blaster · · Score: 4, Informative

    Blaster didn't spread through email. It used a DCOM exploit if I remember correctly.

  10. NO ETERNAL REWARD SHALL FORGIVE US NOW FOR... on Lessons Learned From Blaster · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...WASTING THE DAWN!

    'Nuff Said.

    (Ok, maybe not, lameness filter isn't happy.)

    Indians scattered on dawns highway bleeding
    ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind.

  11. Re:I CALL BULLSHIT ON ARTICLE on How To Avoid Viruses At Windows Install Time? · · Score: 1

    Norton should be blocking those ports though. I do see the scanning in my logs but not every 20 minutes.

  12. I CALL BULLSHIT ON ARTICLE on How To Avoid Viruses At Windows Install Time? · · Score: 1

    Microsoft has many security hole's its very very true. However, the way you get worms that just install themselves, there has to be an infected machine that scans and finds you have a vulnerablity, and then exploits it. I just don't buy that this happened TWICE. Even once would be very rare. This feels like anti MS propoganda to me (believe me my anti MS qualifications are in order, but some but don't stick to the facts, which are in linux's favor anyway). If by some remarkably bad luck this actually did happen, I would advise you to just try again, the chances of it happening a 3rd time are very very slim.

  13. Re:That's assuming... on 200mbps DSL On Its Way? · · Score: 1

    That's all very nice but there won't be a very high demand for such video conferencing. Nobody needs 50 frames per second and 1024x768 to communicate something they probobly could have by phone...or if not phone at least 15-20 frames per second and 640x480, or less. There is a market for hdtv. Thats the difference. Its not about what will stetch the technology the most.

  14. Re:Jury Nullification... on Saudi Webmaster Acquitted of Terrorism Charges · · Score: 2, Informative

    Henry David Thoreau most certainly would be in favor of jury nulification. In Civil Disobedience he wrote that one has an "obligation ... to do at any time what I think is right."

  15. Re:For some suggested approaches, see on Mathematician Claims Proof of Riemann Hypothesis · · Score: 1

    2.2 Proof by legal intimidation
    Schedule a talk to present results refuting our claims and we get an injunction under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act or local equivalent.

  16. Re:fcc is a necessary body on Should The FCC Be Abolished? · · Score: 1

    I think the biggest problem with abolishing the FCC would be media consolidation. The situation with clear channel is already bad enough. I worry that without the FCC it would get even worse.

  17. Re:another week, another patch on Windows Users Fear Korgo Virus · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Ok, linux is clearly a better and more stable operating system than windows but i'm sick of hearing about how much more work it is to patch windows than linux and how many more patches there are. There are about the same amount of patches for both and its arguably easier to patch a windows machine. The reason there are more viruses and worms for windows is because there are more windows uers and therefore they are a bigger target for virus writers. If linux got 90% of the desktop market tomorrow it would have very similar problems. Also with reguard to your comment about high prices, its your own fault you pay for such crappy software on not just pirate it like everyone I know does.

  18. Re:Dadaism is Poetry on Spam as Poetry · · Score: 1

    Its interesting you should mention dadaism. In the obsenity trial of lawrence ferlinghetti in which he was being prosicuted for publishing Allen Ginsberg's great poem "howl" one of the governments two expert witenesses claimed that the poem was a tribute to dadaism. Now, im no expert but i dont think "howl" was created by randomly selecting words from a newspaper article.

  19. Re:Sheesh on Linux for Dummies, 5th Edition · · Score: 1

    That's not an oxymoron.

  20. Re:I'm curious if it will even be used on Fiber To The Dorm Room · · Score: 1

    The only people that will really use all the bandwidth will be students running warez sites high up in the scene. Nobody else will. They must know this and be OK with it or they wouldn't have bothered.

  21. Re:Perl on Programming For Terrified Adults? · · Score: 1

    Its not all the useful on windows and i'd assume thats what she is using. Probobly not an easy jump from solitare to linux.

  22. Re:not suprised on No $50 iPod Clone From Microsoft · · Score: 0, Troll

    I've seen stolen laptops and other things online for 200 or so but i've always assumed they just take your money and dont give you the laptop. If you know anywhere to get a stolen ipod for cheap email me a link my cheap pos archos player just broke.

  23. Re:Proof on There Are Infinitely Many Prime Twins · · Score: 0, Troll

    I think Pi is much more mysterious. I mean think about it, one of the most simple shapes a has a number with an infanite number of seeminly random dicimals in it.

  24. Re:"the scourge of junk email" on Spamhaus Opening New Branch in China · · Score: 1

    Well most people that send email don't get consent first. If I was going to email my friend and had to call him first to make sure its ok that would be ridiculous. That you chose to have an email address is consent enough for anyone to send you email. I'm not saying I support spammerers I just would like people to use arguements that I can't easily shoot down.

  25. Re:"the scourge of junk email" on Spamhaus Opening New Branch in China · · Score: 1

    His e-mail address is flooded with pictures of people fucking horses.

    Let's be honest here. When was the last time you got an unsolicited picture of people fucking horses in your inbox. As for the hardcore porn arguement I think there is someting wrong with a society in which we hide from people how we reproduce or get pleasure.