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  1. Re:Can we PLEASE on Brave New Ballot · · Score: 1
    stick yourself on YouTube reading excerpts from the book...


    Get clips of interviews with him on YouTube...


    Get articles included into Wikipedia and other similar sites so that they show up in Google etc.


    Get the articles & videos google bombed (if you can still do it) so that the controversy becomes the top link in any search on elections or candidates or parties.


    Kick up a big stink if anyone tries to get your articles removed.

  2. Re:public opinion is more important on Brave New Ballot · · Score: 2, Insightful

    public opinion doesn't matter when you control the vote counting machines. No matter who the public chooses, your choice wins automatically. Therefore _you_ "elect" the officials _you_ want.

  3. Re:This is how Free Software dies. on Gentoo Announces 'Seeds' · · Score: 1
    Christ, what about this article is drawing out the trolls?

    they're not trolls... they're anti-OSS shills planted by Microsoft. Their job is to sow discontent. Where ever there is a potential for rational discussion about the pros and cons of OSS vs proprietary software you will find them.

  4. oh oh... on Dunc-Tank To Help Meet Debian Etch Deadline · · Score: 2, Funny
    Towns said a new version of X is expected to be included in unstable in the next day or two, which should allow Debian to support some of the compositing techniques that provide similar features to Mac OS X's "Expose".

    haven't they frozen the features of Etch yet??? It's awfully short now to December...

  5. Re:OOo on OpenOffice.org Design Contest · · Score: 1

    correct. text colour for a font really really really pisses me off... you should be presented with a block of the standard colours and only have the option of a colourwheel if you click on a more colours button on the form... currently, there's a whirly colour wheel and no easy way to get a simple solid colour...

  6. Re:Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Platters on A Triple-Standard Disk · · Score: 1

    even funnier... theres a six bladed one coming out real soon with the extra blade on the reverse for trimming the hard to get areas under your nose and doing the bottom of your sideburns with...

  7. Re:And just where the hell is Elite on The Top 5 Games of All Time · · Score: 1

    3D Monster Maze on the good old ZX81 was the first... now you'll get all pedantic on me about what constitutes 3D

  8. Re:well then.. on China to Control Reports of Foreign News Agencies · · Score: 1

    if you were to pass through Heathrow enroute to another country, then you would remain "airside" and safely in international territory... this is what bugs me about those arrests... did they ever actually step on US soil?

  9. Re:Olympic schizophenia on China to Control Reports of Foreign News Agencies · · Score: 1

    Beijing and the other venues will be completely "locked down"... reporters will be heavily chaperoned (ostensibly for their safety), and will have to submit their travel agenda and proposed schedule days in advance for approval. All those members of the public who will be coming into contact with foreign reporters will be heavily vetted beforehand. Any reporter who deviates from the submitted agenda/schedule will have their credentials revoked and will be chucked out. And don't be surprised if there isn't some kind of smear attempt on them as well to rubbish their reputation.

  10. Re:Had enough yet? on China to Control Reports of Foreign News Agencies · · Score: 1

    GP mentioned an "unelected" committee of 150 people... you have basically the same thing in the USA... the members of Skull and Bones. They control all the strings.

  11. Re:Had enough yet? on China to Control Reports of Foreign News Agencies · · Score: 1, Troll

    and this is different in the USA???

  12. Re:Market on PC Game Market 'Becoming A Niche'? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    There was an article on /. on the recent past talking about how all the "PC's are dying" doomsdayers were all wrong and how PC gaming is making a large comeback.
    kindly explain to me then just why it is that shelf space for PC games is shrinking in the shops... you're lucky these days if you have two racks... most of the shops in my city just have the one cabinet and most of that is devoted to budget games and pre-owned.

    The entire rest of the shelfspace in the shops is devoted to console games and consoles... just face it, it's far easier to sell console games as you know you won't have hassles with customers coming back moaning that they can't run this or that game or if they could, it crawled even with all the settings turned down.

  13. Re:Nothing to see here... on Gaming Platform of Choice - Console · · Score: 1
    Pure opinion piece. Little to no substance. Completely lacking valid/verifyable evidence to back up claims.

    I take it you don't own a console then...

    Personally, I expect a game to work when I stick the disk in the box and don't expect to have to hunt down patches and drivers. Also I expect it to run fine without having to turn the effects down.

    in my humble experience, there are two types of gamer:
    (i) those who have to brag about their frame rates on the latest game and how much they had to spend just to get it running,
    (ii) those who just want to get on with it...

    I'm in the second group.

  14. Re:The layers are going to love this one. on Selling Other People's Identities · · Score: 1
    If I hand out cards to all sorts of people, stating that my name is John Smith, I'm vice president of silly walks at Acme Industries, my phone number is (123)456-7890, and my email is jsmith@acme.com, can I really then make a case that I had a "reasonable expectation of privacy" for that data?

    yes... one of my phone numbers is ex-directory (the direct line to my desk). I only hand out business cards with that number on to those I want to know it... the other business cards have my public numbers... when my ex-directory phone rings, I'm expecting it to be a call from one of a very small set of people.

  15. Re:So? It still sucks. on GNOME 2.16 Released · · Score: 1
    Dude... you can turn off the icons! You can configure most of the defaults away and end up with quite an uncluttered look and feel. Try it out, run KDE and play a couple of hours with the settings. I'm sure something interesting to you will emerge.

    GP is trolling...

  16. time limit on Will Solve Captcha for Money? · · Score: 1
    only give the captcha when the spammer wants to post the entry and then have the captcha timeout if not entered within 20 seconds... also have three attempts max to post it in. For the visually handicapped, start the timer when the audio captcha finishes playing and limit of three attempts for that IP.

    Have failure to post in the three attempts locking that IP out for a day.

  17. Re:5% on Who (Really) Writes Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    Sturgeon's Revelation... 90% of everything is crap...

  18. Re:Music OCR on Google Releases Tesseract as Open Source · · Score: 1

    which program... there are quite a few OCR programs linked to from there...

  19. Re:Fastest Travellling News on Steve Irwin Dead · · Score: 1

    that's 3:37 pm local time... where you are... I've got it showing as 5:37 am for UK... for slashdot to get it posted within 4 1/2 hours is phenomenal... It was being reported on the morning news in the UK at 6 am... while I was actually reading about it on slashdot with my morning coffee... Steve was probably still cooling down in the morgue...

  20. Re:There is none! on F(OS)S for Learning a Musical Instrument ? · · Score: 1
    there are several programs that can frontend for lilypond... take most of the hard work out of it.

    Here's one...

    Denemo

    and another... noteedit

  21. Re:bbc has more info on Genetic Engineers Working to Reverse Cancer · · Score: 3, Insightful
    they were a bit coy about the others on the trial... it didn't work for 15 of them... that means they're dead as the trial was only done on those past hope with other methods.

    So you fifteen unknown others... thanks for volunteering.

  22. Re:Neither of the above. on F(OS)S for Learning a Musical Instrument ? · · Score: 1
    it takes a sh*tload of carefull adjusting to get it right, and on some of the cheaper makes you just never get it right. Normally you don't notice it unless you go way up to the 12th fret though....

    pages 248 to 251 of Bass Guitar For Dummies... it's an easy job once you see how and can play harmonics. Set the action up correctly first, then go for the intonation.

  23. Re:Neither of the above. on F(OS)S for Learning a Musical Instrument ? · · Score: 1

    have you actually read Guitar for Dummies or Bass Guitar for Dummies??? they're solid on theory and practical... they intend you to play it right and to know why you're doing it that way as well. They're a heck of a lot better than the other "non-dummies" beginners books out there.

  24. Re:Tuxguitar on F(OS)S for Learning a Musical Instrument ? · · Score: 1

    ah look... here we are... the answer to his problem...

  25. Re:Tuxguitar on F(OS)S for Learning a Musical Instrument ? · · Score: 1

    take it to their forums... I think you'll find the answer to your problem is already in there.