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  1. Re:Not appealing on Home Stereo Equipment With Online Music Purchasing · · Score: 1

    I'm ok with pay per use, if it's cheap enough. Entertainment is still a service in my book. Right now we pay for the radio by listening to ads.

  2. Re:Hotplug CPU and RAM support? on What Will Be in Linux 2.7? · · Score: 1

    Scottie: Captain, she's giving you all she's got. Kirk: Scottie, swap out the CPU and add more RAM.

  3. Re:Responsibility for your actions? Non-sense. on The State of Violent Gaming · · Score: 1
    Parents don't punish children they give them time-outs (hey folks, it doesn't work).

    Yeah, time-out is a way of not dealing with the problem. The way I see it, parents should do more TALKING to their children and less BEATING. That-a-way kids can LEARN, or, at least, parents are trying to TEACH their kids.

  4. Re:touching on Ig Nobel Awards 2003 · · Score: 1

    I think the homosexual necrophiliac duck pictures page was /.'d. hmmm . . . What an enlightened group this is.

  5. Re:Sing it with the BSD Babe... on The OpenBSD 3.4 Song: Theo Sings Back-up · · Score: 2

    That dude with the spinny hat rocks!

    Red, you're my boy!

  6. Re:My favorite feature on OpenOffice.org Hits 1.1 · · Score: 1

    Can you give an example of a proprietary tag?

  7. Re:developed by nvidia? on Turn Your New Opteron Into A One-Game Console · · Score: 1

    Do they have linux drivers yet?

  8. Re:if only state government... on Linux In Hollywood: Status Report · · Score: 1

    The fact that Oracle is using Linux as it's platform of choice will definitely mean that linux is going to be more prevelant in government systems. Now if we could just eliminate Oracle from the equation ...

  9. Only headhunter I talked to on Have You Personally Used an Honest Head Hunter? · · Score: 1
    said that he wouldn't place me because they did business with the company I currently worked at.

    He said that it would be "unethical" of him. Unethical? WTF are you talking about, I thought. Later, this same person approached me regarding a startup he and a partner had, well, started. Apparently, there weren't any ethical conflicts with taking his current employer's possible customers -- or was I a possible customer?

    It's kind of a gray area since that company wasn't going to place me, but this guy would. The company in question is Quilogy. I think they work a lot with Microsoft tech/techies.

  10. Re:Why get the FCC involved? on FCC To Enforce Do Not Call List, Not FTC · · Score: 1

    Very well said. Discrimation is NOT always illegal or *bad*, only some forms of it (e.g., race, creed, gender) for some situations (e.g. employment, education)

  11. Re:Great support on FCC To Enforce Do Not Call List, Not FTC · · Score: 1
    -- "Wouldn't it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly."-Katherine Hepburn

    They do live suddenly as often, actually more so. Consider that the world's population is growing. Maybe I'm missing the point on this quote.

  12. Re:X server architecture on Proxy Servers Lighten Up X · · Score: 1

    Yes it is, but this article is about making the network layer more efficient.

  13. Re:Neat on Proxy Servers Lighten Up X · · Score: 1

    Nah, everything will work just fine as is -- no changes needed -- ever.

  14. This is BS on Samba 3.0.0 Released · · Score: 0, Funny

    I want to talk about Prevayler -- which is due to replace Samba in 2005. Anyway, noone uses Samba.

  15. Re:3000 times faster is somewhat misleading on Prevayler Quietly Reaches 2.0 Alpha, Bye RDBMS? · · Score: 1

    I know what you're saying, but DAO has little to do with a shoestring memory-manager -- which has it's own merit. E.g., you need a shoestring memory-manager -- I know I'm begging the question at this point. (thanks someone's post from yesterday) All I'm saying is that, if you want to start with prevayler and later switch to an rdbms it's not that hard to design it to work like that. The cost is minimal, really. If you look at that pattern you'll see that.

  16. Re:3000 times faster is somewhat misleading on Prevayler Quietly Reaches 2.0 Alpha, Bye RDBMS? · · Score: 1

    Depends on how you wrote your system. Basically, you would need a layer between prevayler and your model, such as a DAO -- if you're not familiar with that, search sun's j2ee design patterns.

  17. Re:Here's why on Prevayler Quietly Reaches 2.0 Alpha, Bye RDBMS? · · Score: 1

    DB's hold data in memory. Then swap it out as it reaches some maximum. Prevayler could be setup to do the same. I'm not arguing for or against it, but you're not really saying anything here.

  18. Kicks Ass! on Google Adds Location Targeted Searching · · Score: 1

    Anyone interested in a steak dinner in Chicago? http://labs.google.com/location?q=steak&geo_near=c hicago+IL&Search=Google+Search

  19. horseshit on IT Career Horoscopes · · Score: 1

    This horoscope BS is so stupid ... oh wait, mine was cool. Alright, well, if anything it reiterates what you should already know, with maybe some bogus predictions. As long as its all in good fun and my phone bill isn't higher than my mortage payment ...

  20. Re:the only solution... on Touch Screen Voting Industry Circling Wagons · · Score: 1
    anyone could make an electronic voting system.

    Based on the article, apparently not anyone can make it. Make it well, anyways.

  21. Re:Finally on Phillip Greenspun: Java == SUV · · Score: 1
    Well, JSP is good for one thing, outputting text. Scriptlets (of any size) will make it more difficult for someone to understand the text being output. However, the taglibs (in particular the new easier to write taglibs coming out with the next version of JSP) greatly reduce what would otherwise be "unneeded complexity".

    In my opinion, if your application is all servlets, or all JSP (what's the difference?) then the problem isn't with the language, it's with the use of the language.

  22. Re:With all the stuff flying in IT today on Verisign Typosquatter Explorer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, let's do it. We'll start with a biological attack on the whole planet ... wait ... who's that ... is that you, NSA? Oh shit!

  23. What to do with the rebates on Californians Can Get Free MS-Settlement PCs · · Score: 1, Funny

    You may have heard of Mohammed Abacha, but if you haven't, let me tell you that you should have. He and his family are the victims of "vindictive government officials" in nigeria. Basically, they have a lot of money in cash, ok, and they need a little more cash so that they move their current stockpile of cash to a safe place. It all sounds very reasonable to me, and it's a chance to make some money doing a good thing. I hope that everyone can chip in and help these people out.

    I'm sending this email in representation of,

    Barrister Bako Davis "Esq"

    N,B,
    Please, endeavour to make your correspondence to my confidential e-mail addresses below,
    bako_davis2@land.ru

    P.S. I'm not sure why the e-mail address is in Russia, but I don't think it really matters. Let's just send them some money.

  24. Re:crazy on NVIDIA's New Pro Graphics Quadro FX 3000 Reviewed · · Score: 1
    I think you're at the wrong site. You were probably looking for a senior citizen's computer complaint board.

    This is Slashdot. Round here, folks like bigger and better hardware and the possibilities they bring.

  25. Re:Military Ca$h on American Science: Addicted to Pentagon Cash? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, well, that grant was revoked. Maybe he should have kept his big mouth shut.