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  1. GCC Distributed Compiling on Jaguar is Over · · Score: 1

    Does anyone know if they just used distcc as discussed earlier or did they create another program? Does it check if the libraries and compilers on the machines are producing the same object code?

  2. More Wizards Lost on Microsoft Rolls Out Pocket PC 2003 · · Score: 1
    Terrible news to hear of more wizards falling under the dark ones power. All who become partners with him are eventually corrupted and fall under his control or been destroyed. We can only hope the followship will be able to travel to the Firey Mountains of Mordor and free us from this encroaching evil.

    -- Yes I know I could have picked better links, but I'm trying to work. :)

  3. A tale of two temples? on Incas Used Binary? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps it's a list of people they were planning to kill...

  4. Missing Fingers? on Incas Used Binary? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How about their great knowledge of astronomy. The moon has 28 days in a cycle and 7 days for each quarter to appear. Even more natural since even 3 toed sloths, spiders and turtles could agree on this one. :o)

    For a culture to have picked up a system of writing based on the first guy using it having lost a few digits... Stranger things have happened.

  5. Start with Radio on Artists Protesting Single-Song Downloads · · Score: 1

    If artists don't like their songs being played one at a time beaucse of artistic reasons or whatever, then lets start with radio.

    That's right, No more Madonna singles - you now have to listen to the whole CD.

  6. What he said on CNN... on RIAA Not Done With Jesse Jordan · · Score: 4, Informative
  7. Could Too! Could Not! on Nimble V5 - The OQO Killer? · · Score: 2, Informative

    How does one unavailable product kill another unavailable product? Sounds like Marketing has been reduced the school yard taunts about whos favorite super hero could beat up the others.

  8. I can see it now... on FreeCraft Cease and Desisted by Blizzard · · Score: 1

    http://SlashSpot.org/

    News for clueless technically illiterate people. Something your parents might go to.

    Common Posts.

    Why no MS Bob for XP?
    I clicked OK, Why didn't it work?
    A Purple Monkey is in my Computer!
    12:00 How to program DVD Player?
    My Keyboard has blank ANY key

  9. I'm afraid not on Your Brain May Have Amazing Powers · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... "I must stop reading Slashdot!"

    I'm afraid you have little chance of stopping. Slashdot uses Variable Ratio/Interval Positive Reinforcement to keep you here. Can't remember the difference right now, but it's a most effective behavior modification tool.

    Better just post again. Your next post might get modded all the way up to 5! Check back often to see if you have a new high score. Come on, you know you want to. ;o)

  10. Chater - but where at? on Getting Law Enforcement Action for a Large-Scale Hack? · · Score: 1

    Charter is a big company. I know lots of people who may have been hacked in the past two days if this happened around here. What state / city are you in?

  11. Quit Bitching and Contribute on GIF Patent Prepares to Expire · · Score: 1

    If someone wants the icons to be in PNG format, then download them, convert them and make them available in PNG format. If they only work in PNG8 fine. If you can make them available in REAL alpha png format awesome. If your worried about getting your site swamped contact rob directly, or Submit the files on Slashcode. Rob does responded to email.

    Really I don't know why they are transparent anyway. Only the apple section seems to have a background. A plain white square image would not be noticed by most people.

  12. Well he IS trying to sell his songs on Senator Orrin Hatch a Pirate? · · Score: 1

    He doesn't do the actual shopping cart on his site, but the very front page of http://www.hatchmusic.com/ says ORDER. Clicking it lets you pick some tunes and enter your CC to PURCHASE the songs. Everything on the site is aimed at getting you to listen to some samples and buy his work.

    If that's not commercial, I don't know what is.

  13. Just use GAIM on Brokerage Instant Messages Must Be Saved · · Score: 1

    GAIM already has a plugin archetecture and works with all existing IM protocols out there. Just create a big plugin that stores all incoming and outgoing messages in a mysql server and hack the source to always load this plugin and disable that section of the configuration files. It's all GPL, so they could keep it or release their changes as a patch.

    Better yet pay Rob Flynn and the gang to do this for them.

    That's the beauty of open source - you need something done, just find someone to do it. The price of a single lawsuit should easily cover the development costs.

  14. Re:DSV IV criteria for ADHD on Working with ADHD? · · Score: 1

    Gosh doc, sounds just like me. I told this to my doctor who looked at his Zolft(tm) clock, took a piece of his Pfizer(tm) stationary and proceeded to write me a Zoloft(tm) perscription with his Pfizer pen. It seemed to work ok, but like some people here mentioned the cure was worst then the disease. I also wonder how much of a kick back he got for my perscription/subscription. More then a pen I hope.

    And on that note I heard an ad yesterday for a drug where a possible side effect was heart attack and liver failure!!

  15. When Lobbying goes wrong on Sen Hatch Would Like To Destroy Filetraders' PCs · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The old DRM Lobby has been trying a bit too hard. Some old folks in congress have got such a huge misunderstanding of how the machines that power our lives work it's incredible.

    BTW, according to netcraft http://www.hatchmusic.com/ is running Apache on Linux.

    That means Linus, as well as most other programmers who have worked on Linux or Apache would be able to remotely destroy his site. Bill Gates would be able to destroy 90% of the computers in existence.

    I suppose this law would quickly be followed by a law making it illegal to block the port they pick. Or maybe they will just talk to your ISP, go to your house and take your computer. They can cut them up with axes in the street like the old prohibition days. I bet Hatch can remember those days himself. :)

  16. Re:an even better tutorial... on Want To Write Your Own OS? · · Score: 1

    "obviously we'll have to include a windows license"

    Nah, Windows has become a generic term. I here people say they use windows, but there are so many versions out there, 3.1, 95, 98, ME, 2000, NT, XP, CE and who knows what else that your never sure what they are talking about. Plus I here the X-Box runs windows too. The windows world really needs a standard like Posix to stop it from fragmenting like UNIX(tm) did before it. Maybe that's what .NET is supposed to be for, but it's not even being ported back to 98.

  17. Re:How to write your own OS: on Want To Write Your Own OS? · · Score: 1

    2. Become a lawyer and siphon off the remaining funds of a dying company with frivilous lawsuits.

    you can bet he's not on the "I only get paid if you win" plan.

  18. Global Patent Jurisdiction on EU Moves Towards Single European Patent Standard · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Could someone please mention where patents on web based applications or "business-models" ( a cookie?) are actually valid?

    Does a patent on a web technology apply to where the server is operating, who owns it or who's using it?

  19. Forgot the comma... on QBASIC Programming for Dummies · · Score: 2, Funny

    QBASIC, Programming for Dummies

  20. Finally Over? on Sex.com Case Finally 'Over' · · Score: 1

    He won his case and appeal against the first guy, now he's going after Verisign. There will then be an appeal. This is far from over, just got a new target.

  21. Re:Why don't we just annex all those offshore isla on Sex.com Case Finally 'Over' · · Score: 1

    Where would all the crooked businesses and politicians hide their money? Plus I'm sure most people would be against it for such silly reasons as it would change the number of stars on the flag and make it look silly. Of course how many people who think like that actually vote?

  22. Shouldn't this be in B&W before a movie? on Bill Gates, Entertainment God? · · Score: 1

    I remember my hearing from grandparents seeing the same "dream" house in their old B&W TV. What a croc. No one wants to let machines do all that stuff. I rank this up there with Rocket Powered cars with bubble domes. It's a possible future by a very myopic one in which technology is all your looking at.

    Besides, the next slammer/I love you virus could lock you out of your house while it sets leaves your oven on as high as it can go and reroutes 911 to 900 numbers across the ocean.

    Machines can do what I tell them, but I don't want them guessing what I want and doing it without asking. It's bad enough when it does ask and all you can do is power down because you don't like the choices.

  23. Next KILLER App on Philips Introduces Mirror TV · · Score: 1

    Mirror Mirror on the Wall,
    Who's the Fairest of them all?

  24. It was built in on The Little Coder's Predicament · · Score: 1

    My New HP computer from Office Max had Python 2.2 pre-installed on it in a hidden system folder just off the root. No idea what it's used for by HP, but I was thrilled to find it.

    This is a great article. My little one is 2.5 and just learned how to work a mouse good. On a related note, does anyone know of good keyboards or mice for kids? He has a hard time managing things sometimes.

  25. Re:So much for food on Foundstone Shoe On Other Foot · · Score: 1

    Yeah, why have a burger when squirrels are plentiful and fresh. Takes 3 of them to fill you up though, and they are kind of greasy.