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  1. Re:Finally a voice of reason on Porn Industry Mulls Next Generation-DVD · · Score: 1

    I've been saying this for a long time. The porn industry is driving technology
    Ya, you and everyone else. get over yourself, you didn't have some revelation.

  2. Re:Do you want it correct or over-the-top? on Bob Cringely's Predictions For 2005 · · Score: 2, Funny

    He's right 75-80% of the time because 75-80% of what he 'predicts' has already happened.

  3. Re:How can they sleep at night...? on FBI Warns: Many Tsunami Relief Pleas Are Fake · · Score: 4, Funny

    I have no doubt that it's completely true through the use of the double negative. In plain English, '...did not raise no money,' is raised money, and '...nore did no one,' is some people did. So now we have, 'Through my unauthorised site to accept donations i did raise money and people donated to the site.'

    That or he is just this side of illiterate.

  4. Re:mini-itx on Build Your Own Lego Computer Case · · Score: 1

    So what everything you do has been done before. Does that stop you from doing it?

  5. Only way I'll ever get one on Xbox 2 for $400? · · Score: 1

    Looks like the only way I'll ever get a Xbox2 is the same way I got the first one, winning it. Still only have one game for it too.

  6. Re:Itanic hits Iceberg. News at 11. on Microsoft Drops Windows XP for Itanium · · Score: 1

    Support for NT on Alpha and no support for archs other then ia32 for Windows 2000 was pulled because relativly no one was buying PPC, MIPS or Alpha machines for Windows by the time it came to decide what 2k would run on. Compaq had very lively development cycles for Alpha until HP walked in.

  7. Re:One more giant.... on Microsoft Drops Windows XP for Itanium · · Score: 1

    It will be interesting if you end up eating those words, or at least end up being wrong. Itanium 2 is a very good preformer.

  8. Re:Itanic hits Iceberg. News at 11. on Microsoft Drops Windows XP for Itanium · · Score: 1

    The Alpha did well with people that needed it, ie those running VMS and Tru64, and customers still buy them. Compaq continued development on the Alpha as well. It was HP who killed Alpha, and is attempting to kill Tru64. VMS on the otherhand must be supported for at least 15 years if they want to keep all those big contracts, and they have said that they will. VMS is being ported to Itanium, last I heard it boots and will run a dir.

  9. Re:Run screaming from this!!! on Gates Nose-Dives at CES · · Score: 1
    It doesn't take much to see that the world is not a well off place. Do you live under a rock, perhaps never leave your little cul-de-sac or gated community?

    A study of the transition of the Ukraine from Communism to a Free market
    Poor countries need aid:
    Policies using international trade to improve the economies of the 50 poorest and least developed countries (LDCs) have not generated long-term reductions in poverty, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) says in a new report. ... if current trends persist, the number of people living in extreme poverty will increase to 471 million by 2015 from 334 million people in 2000, it predicts.
    And of course, there is the problem of homelessness
    As a faltering U.S. economy, skyrocketing housing prices and reduced government services force people from their homes, agencies are scrambling to find ways to provide shelter and assistance to a growing and changing homeless population.
    Capitalistic policy has done nothing for most of the world.
  10. Re:So, just to clarify: on Sun Unilaterally Revokes the FreeBSD Java License · · Score: 1

    A, B and C are irrelevent because you had to agree to it to to work with the Java *SOURCE* not the not the JRE or the SDK, used to deploy and write Java apps. The license for the JRE and SDK clearly state that if you do not abide by the licence then you no longer have the right to use it, not simply because Sun is having a fit. You do not have to agree to the SCSL to use Java or write Java applications.

    You must feel like a real genius to be able to point out that Java is not FOSS, your only the millionth or so person to do so.

    I will use whatever language I want to write software, free or otherwise, when I want to do something in Java, I will.

  11. Re:you did not articulate your argument well. on Sun Unilaterally Revokes the FreeBSD Java License · · Score: 1

    I don't use Java on *BSD's so no, I have not read it since I have not agreed to it.

  12. Re:Run screaming from this!!! on Gates Nose-Dives at CES · · Score: 1
    Allow me to be clearer.
    Bullshit
    Global income inequality is probably greater than it has ever been in human history. There is some debate about whether it is getting worse or getting better. Currently, the richest 1% of people in the world receives as much as the bottom 57%. The ratio between the average income of the top 5% in the world to the bottom 5% increased from 78 to 1 in 1988 to 114 to 1 in 1993 (Milanovic 1999).
    Income Inequality
    How about some numbers for just the US Oh wow, the richest increased by almost $100,000 a year while the poorest increased by, oh, they didn't.

    If you looked to capitalism to increase wealth, its a complete failure for everyone except a very privileged few.
  13. Re:No need to attack me... on Sun Unilaterally Revokes the FreeBSD Java License · · Score: 1

    B)It is not relevant that the revoking was by mistake. Eventually, it can be done on purpose, too. And that is the problem.
    Its only a problem if your an idiot and didn't read the licence that Java is distributed under. Also did you know that your 'right' to GPL software can be revoked as well if you don't follow the terms of the GPL? Is that not also a problem by your statement here?

    It was relevant that Sun revoked FreeBSD's license to Java since it was a mistake. Mistakes happen.

  14. Re:Run screaming from this!!! on Gates Nose-Dives at CES · · Score: 2, Informative

    You don't live in the real world do you? In current capitalist countries, the Rich get richer and the poor a whole hell of a lot poorer. The more socialist systems, where health care, education and every other social benifit of society are guarenteed have a higher general standard of living accross the board.

  15. Re:Just tried this out. on Linux+Windows Single Sign-on · · Score: 1

    That does seem silly, a default krb5.conf is a stupid idea. BTW, if you want to change your Windows password from Linux, you'll need to add two lines to your krb5.conf so they talk the encryption types.
    Under [libdefaults] you want to add 'supported_enctypes = des-cbc-crc' and 'supported_enctypes_des = des-cbc-crc'. After that kpasswd should talk the language that the Windows KDC speaks. New users in the AD, except admin untill you change their password, will already be using those encryption types.

    If you want cryptic errors, set up postresql to use kerberos. Ah, good times, good times.

  16. Re:altering the future on Ham Operator Sets New Miles-Per-Watt World Record · · Score: 1

    You wouldn't know. What happened wouldn't have happened because it changed, and now that would be what happened, not what happened before that hadn't. So theres nothing to worry about.

  17. Re:And people wonder why the EU is weak? on Infogrames Could Help Ubisoft vs. EA · · Score: 1

    Every government does this, so whats your point. You might want to whine about your own government befor pointing the finger at others.

  18. Re:Just tried this out. on Linux+Windows Single Sign-on · · Score: 1

    In the event that there is no configured krb5.conf kerberos will use DNS lookups to find the appropriate _kerberos service records, unless for some reason your installation was configured not to. If your domain is named the same as your kerberos realm and there are no spcial requirements that have to be placed in the krb5.conf, it is often preferable to use DNS to locate KDC's.

    One exception is authenticating Windows clients against a non-Windows KDC's since Windows will only use DNS to locate Windows KDC's. Here you need a krb5.conf on your Windows machine. You don't need this for cross-realm trusts.

  19. Re:I believe on What Do You Believe Even If You Can't Prove It? · · Score: 1

    Slashdot is an informal medium. Mistakes happen, people post quickly and quite frankly, it doesnt really matter if someone makes a mistake. You knew I meant particle, even Google suggested I meant 'particle.' Are you incapable of doing what a simple script can? I hope I have get to see the next time you make a mistake and some jackass jumps all over you for it.

    Lets assume someone, a man, goes to the doctor and since it is their first time there, they are required to fill in a form giving some needed personal information. One of the questions is 'Sex?' with the options of 'Female' or 'Hermaphrodite.' Ignoring the fact that this is a real stupid set of options, the choice 'Female' is obviously incorrect whereas he has half the parts to make him a hermaphrodite. Are you suggesting that simply because the choise female is obviously wrong he should choose hermaphrodite because that was his only other choice? Just because one option is obviously wrong does not make the other one instantly correct. The correct way to deal with it is not answer at all, too bad you couldn't do that.

  20. Re:I believe on What Do You Believe Even If You Can't Prove It? · · Score: 1

    Just because there is no such thing as a partical does not instantly make the other option correct.

    Your right though, I made a mistake but you knew what I meant though so did you really have to be so anal?

  21. Re:Good advice... on Joel Gives College Advice For Programmers · · Score: 1

    It depends on what you do at home. If you do the same thing at home that you do at work, then yes your not going to want to do it. Use your free time to do other things, something that you wouldn't normally have the option of doing in your day to day work, use the time to learn and expand your abilities.

  22. Re:Odd seeing this come from Redmond... on Linux+Windows Single Sign-on · · Score: 1

    But is it part of the installation? It was in Red Hat 8, but appears to have since been dropped. Manually joining the AD is trivial for almost every distro depending on how you want to auth against the AD, but it used to be in Red Hat's installer. I thought about it for a moment, came up with what I thought would be a possability as to why it was dropped and then when it seemed that it was a good option, I assumed that it or something similar could be the reason it is no longer included in the installation as an option. I suppose its also possible that Red Hat can't write software and it was horribly broken, but you would think that they would have worked to fix that if that were the case.

  23. Re:I believe on What Do You Believe Even If You Can't Prove It? · · Score: 0

    And just because you don't want it to be doesn't mean that there is no God. The assumpsion that the universe is consistent is incorect anyway. Scientists believe that the laws of physics break down at the speed of light. Its a 'fact' that matter can not travel faster then light, well that is unless its being ejected from a black hole. The universe is already known to not be consistent, everything we know about it is hinged on the current situation it was observed in, its all relative. Try giving a straight (correct) answer to the question, "Is Light a Partical or a Wave?"

  24. Re:Easier the other way on Linux+Windows Single Sign-on · · Score: 1

    If your going to go all out that way, Pick up Kerberos: The Definitive Guide and LDAP System Administration from O'reilly. Both cover initial installations and interoperability with other Authentication stores and are very good references.

    I am setting up at home a UNIX kerberos realm and have a Windows 2000 AD using a cross-realm trust and LDAP referals. When I get around to finnishing it, including pamifying Slackware, I should have a complete SSO across all my systems.

  25. Re:Odd seeing this come from Redmond... on Linux+Windows Single Sign-on · · Score: 1

    Actually its not. A big selling point with Windows 2000 and SFU was that between Kerberos, a LDAP based directory, and a NIS/LDAP gateway would allow interoperability between existing UNIX installations. They have had several white papers on this for some time.

    Last time I installed Red Hat, sometime around version 7.3 or 8, there was a choice to authenticate against SMB and LDAP, both would allow auth against the Active Directory. I would assume that it was dropped from Fedora since its target wasn't enterprises and setting it up in RHEL Server/Workstation would be quite trivial.