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  1. Re:Jumping the Gun on DrDOS Inc Breaking GPL · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You are an ignoranus. They oughtta be happy all we're doing is telling people about it and yipping it on blogs and poor excuses of news sites (yah, that means you /. ).

    Now, what would $company do if they found out parts of their stuff was on their software distribution? Microsoft? Apple? Macromedia? nVidia? Epic? Creative? Promise?

    Really, do you think they'd give "freebie time" to fix the problem? HELL NO. Take it off NOW or we sue you for statutory copyright damages. Hmm.. $100000 dollars not enough? Try that per copy if willfully knowing infringed.

    So you sir, can shut the fuck up.

  2. Re:I remember watching Jurassic Park on Velociraptor Bad At Disemboweling · · Score: 1

    ---I think he meant that's fucked up because you let the dog bite your fist. But I guess in that kind of situation you're going to get bitten anyway, so you might as well take the offensive.

    Probably... I have no scarring on my fingers due to that, as it didnt even hurt much.

    I knew I wasnt going to outrun it. I've dealt with it on prior circumstances (then, with a 5 foot electrical fence post). I hit it once, and it hobbled away. I wasnt trying to kill it then.. I just wanted to know I wasnt an easy target. I made a complaint with the cops on that time, alerting that a animal tried attacking me.

    This time comes around, and it's trying to bite. Fine, bite my fist. Then in my fist went, and I slung that mutt to the ground. And wow, It was a gutteral whelp it made until animal control (and the cops, mind you) showed up to haul it away. Enough of the neighbors saw how it ran loose and did bad stuff, so I was safe there.

    Well, too bad. I didnt mean to kill it, but good riddance it's gone.

  3. Re:thumbs up on Archimedes Death Ray in San Francisco · · Score: 1

    And smoreso, they deal with many a "My friend saws it happened!!11" snopes type of rumors.

    For example, Cell-phone igniting vaporized gasoline at gas pumps.. another is if somebody could throw a playing card and kill somebody..

    A lot of hair-brained type of weirdness.

    At least they get people thinking why or why not, the beginning of scientific process..

  4. Re:I remember watching Jurassic Park on Velociraptor Bad At Disemboweling · · Score: 1

    Messed up for what? Breaking the jaw of a wolf/mutt mix (I dunno, it was something...) that was attacking me?

    Oh yah, I guess defending myself is stupid.

  5. Re:I remember watching Jurassic Park on Velociraptor Bad At Disemboweling · · Score: 2, Informative

    And another way (which I actually did) is when a dog tries to bite you, make a fist. The dog will bite the fist. When it does that, take yoru closed fist and ram it down the throat of the dog. Then rapidly jerk your whole arm downwards.

    The procedure will break the jaw of a dog. Quite easily. I ended up causing a compound fracture on many parts of the jaw bone.

    They had to put down the dog I did that to, but the owner didnt complain.. They were happy I didnt sue.

  6. Re:The Returning Explorer on Your Favorite Math/Logic Riddles? · · Score: 1

    Well... Magnetic North?

    haha, worth a shot.

  7. Re: Eliot Spitzer is a DEMOCRAT on Yahoo Closes Chat Rooms to Anyone Under 18 · · Score: 1

    Ok, then. What do you say to those MINORS that break the law... Do you find it ethically (in the eyes of what you said about age discrimination) reprehensible to try minors as Adults in a court of law?

    You already admit that we discriminate against age, even if they are more than mentally progressed to match adults of a higher age. I would find it logical that we regress every law towards emancipation towards the minimum age that can be tried as an adult.

  8. I wonder. on Solutions for When Managers Hijack Your Code? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Lemee see.. People are taking your projects behind your back.

    Those people havent tested it upon anybody.

    Those people probably havent debugged it well.

    Those people arent qualified (Customer service reps).

    The managers are supporting them. ... What in the hell do you think?? RUN, and RUN QUICKLY.

  9. Re: Eliot Spitzer is a DEMOCRAT on Yahoo Closes Chat Rooms to Anyone Under 18 · · Score: 1

    Where exactly does it say that in the Constitution? Other than the requirements of being 30 for a congresscritter and 35 for a VP/President, where do you read age limits?

    I sure dont see them in the Bill of Rights...

  10. If you have the money..... on Choosing Interconnects for Grid Databases? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    GO hire a REAL NETWORK ENGINEER andwork it out.

    Preferrably somebody with real experience...

    Not "IANAL" groups like found on slashdot.

    Yeah, you pay through the nose, but you will get the best.

  11. Re:gaim works for me, but loses ground from here on Linux Instant Messengers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Here is an example of why Open Sourcers are bad.

    (read parent)

    Now, why do you think it's probably an example? "Cyborg Warrior" probably wont figure it out.

  12. Re:Well, I for one am relieved on 20 Lawmakers Want to Kill Your Television · · Score: 1

    Coffee Liqueur, obviously ;)

    Get both. Alcohol and caffeine.

  13. Re:I have one word... on Record Labels Unveil Greed 2.0 · · Score: 1

    You raise a very interesting point..

    Mandatory fees of copying a copyrighted work. Instead of "Not allowing XYZ", you put a congressional mandated amount of that. Problem solved.

    A song is a song. You should pay that mandated amount in a digital form, OR a extra cost + mandeated amount for CD's, music DVDs, or other fangled formats.

    As long as the artist is fairly paid for their creativity, I dont see how it subverts coyright or the intent of the Constitution. That fairly should be directly stated by the congress.

  14. Watch the.... on Watch the First 9 Minutes of Serenity · · Score: 1

    Other 110 minutes here or here.

  15. Re:Going to Church != Knowing God != Believing in on The Science Of Happiness · · Score: 1

    Still, very interesting. I, if anything, am interested in raising my consciousness to its peak.

    Still, I thank you in going into dialogue with me about this. It gives me an insight into one facet of what it might be like for me.

    Ill still be around, but thank you.

  16. How is... on HBO Attacking BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    This not legal?

    Instead of suing, instead of attacking people, they simply subvert the standard and lie to copyright-breaking users.

    While I do agree that HBO ought to simply provide a $ per show cost and sell it as unencumbered files online. If anything, doing this is ethical compared to the droves subverting copyright (which they have permission to use).

    MOVE ON. NOTHING TO SEE HERE.

  17. Re:Going to Church != Knowing God != Believing in on The Science Of Happiness · · Score: 1

    ---IMHO, the curse of enlightenment is after having become one with the infinite, there is no more. For all the universes you could create and observe, there's no point. True freedom is found in the simple hope that there is something more, and not simply understanding that it's yet another metaphor for the same underlying concepts. Enlightenment is the souls eternal scream of horror at totality.

    From what I have read, enlightened individuals were very serene, calm, and at peace with everything. Is what you found surely enlightenment, or something more omnious? I fail to see how I wouldnt be overwhelmed by the absoluteness of everything if I ever attain it..

    ---I found enlightenment, but by the wrong path. A bad decision, my one true regret, that haunts me, to a greater or lesser extent, at every moment, awake or asleep.

    There have been stories of people attaining Buddhahood different and quicker ways than originally noted. Might I ask when you first knew.

    Is enlightenment that terrible of a burden on you?

  18. Re:Going to Church != Knowing God != Believing in on The Science Of Happiness · · Score: 1

    ---It's both! It's the recursive fractal nature of all polar opposites - good/bad, light/dark, one/zero, female/male, yin/yang - all defined in terms of each other. Existence, in all it's glory, is still a zero sum game.

    Although it is a bit late after this article, so only you'll see this, but you're wrong. Karma is the zero sum game. Even the basic idea of life brings death. All you can do is spread "stuff" to other dying others before you die yourself. Enlightenment is the way out of that zero sum game.

    It allows you to "not to play the game". There are some beliefs that you, as a Buddha, can create an infitude of universes or observe any of them. I dont know.

    ---As for enlightenment, I think you're going to be disappointed. Being at one with the universe is realising that because you are the universe, you're eternally trapped within it.

    You think? Are you enlightened? I strive to attain enlightenment. I make no reservations on what "it might feel like", or "what to expect". Those are against the fundamentals of Buddhism. What I do after attaining it, is for me to decide after I am one.

  19. Re:look alikes don't really work? on The GPL Impedes Linux More Than It Helps? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ---I have been reading alot about the future of LINUX and mainly the BS about windows vrs. linux. I have been trying to find a OS besides Windows to run and learn.

    There's 2 camps of software that will run on X86 systems. Those being MS Windows (VMS derived) and Unix derived systems. The three divisions of Unix on X86 are traditional unixes (BSD and like, SunOS, and others), Linux and GPL'ed bretheren, and BeOS. Considering BeOS is dead, and propeirty unixes are not desktop suitable, that leaves you with Linux (which the most work at this time is done with) and MS Windows as competitors.

    Both represent the two types of architechure development (Cathedral and bazaar opposites, and difficulties of each therof).

    ---It seems that the best thing about linux is the ideas of open source, reality states this is about all there is, IDEAS, It doesn't matter what OS, and I have checked a number of them, can be just downloaded and run.

    The last thing you should do with a Free version of Linux is buy it. Some of the best are not for sale, in the traditional sence of going to a software store or buying a book. Gentoo and Debian are two such. Im sure you copuld find them to buy, but the traditional way of the user getting them is to download them.

    Still, Open Source lets you see others implementations of ideas, and how you can guide yourself in the very implementations of ideas. Much more powerful than the Microsoft camp allows with a "default install".

    ---The wireless cards need drivers to work, fine it you know how to do It, and other things seem to keep poping up.

    The problems with WiFi drivers is the companies will not release specs on how to drive the cards. We do not ask them to write drivers. We ask that the specs on how to talk to the card be opened. Think of this for a moment... Do you like using your older hardware? Would you still like to use it 5 years from now? If you dont know how the card communicates, it is worthless if you upgrade to a newer machine that has no driver for that hardware.

    My hardware that works with open specs for my drivers will work for years and years. I am not tethered to one specific company.

    ---I have re-installed XP nine (9) times in the last six (6) months of trying to use LINUX.

    Hard drives are cheap these days. Even if you have constraints, you could buy a 70$ USB2 enclosure for a 40 GB harddrive. If XP works, dont keep making it unwork.

    ---I don't know what to really do it seems so I bought a number of books, POINT & CLICK the last one, with CD's and there is still things that just make no sense whatever.

    In order to work with Linux effectively, you must understand what you do. Every little action builds upon itself. The very idea of Linux is sort of like Legos, where every part is interchangable, but you do NEED that part. The parts on the top represent the GUI, below that nice pretty pictures lay a powerful command line to do many things at once. You can rip off each layer as it suits your needs. But, as you probably have learnt, the blocks are the same, but sometimes the blocks are TYCO instead of Lego, so they sometimes dont fit too well. That represents the difference between distributions.

    ---I always return to Window because I load it, it works. I have checked the linux forams of a number of distro's,

    The forums wont help you understand why. Go skim parts of Eric Raymonds, Art of Unix programming. I guess I could force-feed you, but if you have no will to learn, and use free-r software, then go use Windows. If it works for you, there is no shame for using it.

    ---but it doesn't make alot of sense when you really don't understand the questions to ask, even the questions to look for.

    Well, what kind of questions do you have? As an aside, please use better grammar and utilize paragraphs. Many a time, "bad ritings will be kritized in teh softwarez" and will be shrugged off with usually a deriding comment. Errors do ha

  20. Re:the death of music distribution on Sony Doing An End Run Around Its Own DRM · · Score: 1

    Hi CTS, it's "The Amazing Idiot".

    Now get yer arse back to K5 NOW! :-D

  21. Re:Going to Church != Knowing God != Believing in on The Science Of Happiness · · Score: 1

    Oh, thats right. I know most of the things in the bible, but I just got mixed up. ;)

    Silly me.

  22. Re:Going to Church != Knowing God != Believing in on The Science Of Happiness · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ---Before I knew God I had a fear of death from like when I was 6 years old. Before I knew everyone died, I thought people just got old.

    Actually, I remember when my great-grandmother died. I was 2 and 1/2 and a "crazy toddler". Yet, with no pictures and no telling what happened, I can vividly describe her, her clothes, the room, the way leading to her room (in the hospital), and countless other facts. I remember holding her hand, and her skin was like tissue paper. My parents (and grandparent there, her mother) thought I was going to really hurt her. I could speak some, but there was no speaking necessary.

    There was compassion. I knew she was going to die, and die she did. She passed the next day, after seeing me. She knew of nobody in the room, but she recognized me as her baby boy.

    I never had a fear of death, even being close to those who were near. It's not sad or despairing. It's peaceful, tranquil.. melancholy. I feel sad for those who do think terrible and dredging thoughts with somebody near death.

    ---I wanted to be content to just live forever playing newer and better video games. When I learned about death, my whole priorities changed. I felt that I had to live more for the moment and get as much in this life as possible so I don't miss anything.

    What is there to learn? You die. Maybe now, maybe later, but you WILL die. Nothing your parents/teachers/church leaders can tell you and give you an "informed view". Some believe that you only have 1 chance, and then you go to an absolute good or bad place. I dont like that. I wish to better myself and share compassion to others, but I might take many lives to do that. If, somehow, I attain enlightenment here now, I wont have to live again. Eternal nothingness will be freedom, or is that eternal everythingness?

    ---People told me God exists and I went to a Christian Church, but it was hard for me to grasp and I never understood it well. My faith wasn't so good, then in 2003 God spoke to me,"Good News", and I recieved a Good News bible soon after. When I found out God exists for a fact, Jesus is Lord.

    If you dont mind, what was the fact that God exists (seriously, not from a flaming point of view). I have personally witnessed 'concidences' that fell together all to well. Point in being is thus: After my grandmother died (from cancer), later on came my mothers birthday. She was almost to tears remembering how my grandmother would always send her a card, get her some thoughtful present, and call her. At the store (with my sister), she went and bought a lottery ticket (not 5, 10, or 50, just 1 single ticket). As she scratched it, she won 20$. Looking underneath the ticket, at the local paper, it had the small headline, "grandmother gives after death".

    That day was my mothers birthday (when that happened). Take it as you wish.

    ---I also learned that he promises eternal life. I didn't go looking for a way to avoid death and thusly believed in Christianity because it was the only possible answer. I found out God exists for a fact then I realized he promises eternal life!

    Eternal anything sounds like fun after the first 100 million years, but after that sounds like an "amusement park prison". I would rather, for eternity, not exist, or blend my consciousness with the universe. For many people, they want a pretty place to call good (heaven). The other absolute is Hell. Once you in either, you're stuck there for ever. Even the idea of an absolute good or bad seems... bad. Does your sect of Christanity allow do-overs, or are you condemned to wherever you are "judged" to go?

    ---You can speak for yourself and say that God doesn't make you happy. But for me knowing death isn't the end of things makes me a very happy person.

    After reading much of the Bible, and finding I disagree with the very conduct of "God", I determined that he wasnt honorable. Jesus, on the other hand, was honorable. Soddom and Gomorrah could have been easily dealt with, if "God" was to show the evil to each person there. No viol

  23. interesting. on HP to Install Netscape on all new PCs · · Score: 1

    All posts seem dead.

    Doing testing right now about it.

  24. Hurrah. on HP to Install Netscape on all new PCs · · Score: 1

    Lets avoid a good browser (Mozilla or NOW free opera) and go with crippleware rebranded piece-o-crap Netscape.

    Where's my default banner-blockers? Thats right, that takes away money from web sites.

    Where's sane web-surfing rules already loaded in? Cause they dont care if you get hit by the next crapware-of-the-week.

    Where's a cornucopia of tools and plugins to modify (dare I say improve) Netscape? Oh yeah. AOL instant messenger. ;-(

    No thank you.

  25. Re:Ethereal on Windows XP SP2 and WEP Encryption? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wow, you really are inept.

    If the hardware layer cant get a lock on the signal, the ethernet transport wont show anything (or better yet, requests for a DHCP address or broadcasts of services/MAC lookup).

    I had this problem with Linux with wireless cards. Ethereal or other packet dumpers would NOT capture wireless frame information. Programs that would allow capture of frame information usually limited you to whatever bssid you were assigned to (in other words, you had to use a 'hack' to go AP or monitor mode, or rfmon as the wifi-ng group calls it).