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  1. 10 YEARS OF LINUX on Linux Kernel 2.6.4 Released · · Score: 0

    How sad that I first set up an ethernet lan with linux in 1995 at college, yet my network I run at work uses windows 'cause I have to use applications that run only on windwows.

    whois "www.tiki-hut.com"

    remember the 3 degrees theory when it first came out in '95?

    any techies from capitol college in laurel maryland lets get a journal goin on slashdot
  2. Information survives on Famous Hawking Black Hole Bet Resolved? · · Score: 1

    So I really can fly through one to another universe!!! woo hoo!!!

  3. Re:One of the best sci-fi series going now on Stargate Atlantis Coming This Summer · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately you are correct, but I don't mean that as a compliment to SG-1

    I think the story and the show have potential, but only if an evil out of control psychotic bone-crunching alien finally tears MacGyver limb from limb as he's trying his last escape attempt.

    If MacGyver goes to Alantis I am gonna lose it..

  4. I don't even have any I.D. to give 'em on Search and Seizure at the Supreme Court · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I missed a payment on a $100 fine right before christmas,1998, so they took my I.D. (AKA Driver's License) I got really aggravated 'cause I didn't even actually speed, and the police officer lied about it. She was eventually jumped and beaten by 6 hillbilly's. I don't know them. (They all live outside of town, I was on my way camping.) Anyways.

    About a month later I was pulled over by a cop who jumped in her car as I drove by, turned her lights on and chased me down. I was in a Camaro, everything was legal except me. She just did not like young men in camaros. She is famous for this in my town and has earned the name "ROBOB***CH". When I was pulled over, MY PAPERS WERE NOT KOSHER AS I HAD NOT PAID MY PROTECTION MONEY!!. Bang -- no license for a year just as if I was a drunk driver...

    What's a man to do who has to get to work...

    I drove until July 4 2003 continuously without a license. That's roughly 4 1/2 years. What's great is that twice on July 4 I got pulled over and asked for my papers. Both because of driving a 1970 pimped out caddy downtown.

    On July 4, 2003 Robob***ch again pulled me over.

    She did not remember me after the five year interval. You know how it is... so many lives ruined she can't even keep track of them. I drove by her at 10:00 in the morning in my Caddy. She was at a red light as I went through the green light at an intersection. Saw the car, the young man, the two women, and tailed me for 6 blocks looking for a reason to pull me over. I gave her none. She flipped the lights on and pulled me over Next she approached on the left, pulled a GUN on us and told me to give my driver's license and registration. I told her not until she told me why I was being pulled over. She had no reason, so she told me to step out of the car, put her gun away. Then she took me to the back of the car to talk some sense into me. I told her that she was a disgrace to the force for pulling me over on Independence day for no reasong and asking me for papers like a NAZI. This really got her mad. She told me she pulled us over for an inspection violation. I had the car inspected 2 days before, and showed her the date on the sticker. I would not tell her my name. The car was not in my name. I kept the police there for 4 hours. Neither of my women ratted me out, although Robob***ch screamed maniacally at one until she cried. Several more cops came, including the seargent.

    Eventually I told them who I was 4 maybe 5 hours later.

    This caused quite the aggravation in the law enforcement community. They had a sting operation for me. Next time I was out driving the caddy, they followed me, called up 6 cops for backup, served me with all my warrants, through me in a paddy wagon and took me to the magistrate. Since I would not give them my home address they labelled me as homeless, and indigent. My trial consisted of one guy in a dark room, me, and one police officer. I was never read my miranda rights, or given access to a lawyer. I was sentenced to 30 days in jail for failure to pay protection money.

    I used my one phone call to tell someone to bring money down and pay the fines. I had the money all along, but I don't let people take my money easy.

    Welcome to america

    The statute of limitation has not run out on appeal yet for my trial if anyone at EFF or ACLU reads this and you want to appeal my case.
  5. selling off HDTV spectrum on Former FCC Chief Touts "Big Broadband" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Next, thanks to our FCC, the taxpayer has given about $70 billion of free spectrum to broadcasters and the consumer has been ordered to pay about $20 billion for over-the-air digital tuners for 200 million televisions over roughly five years. That's $90 billion out of pocket for taxpayers and consumers. It is not too late to redirect that money toward paying for the Big Broadband network. On that network broadcasters can get free high definition TV carriage. They have that on analog cable; they are inside satellite packages. Why not give them free access to the Big Broadband network. That should make broadcasters and TV households happy. In return we can get back the high definition spectrum, sell it, and use the proceeds to help pay for Big Broadband to high cost rural and poor homes. And we could even repeal what I call the "tuner tax." We are all tax-cutters in Washington now. Not gonna happen. The pentagon and executive branch as well as some congressmen will protest because of reasons of 'Homeland Security' Seriously. It is necessary for homeland security to maintain a distributed wireless communications system in times of emergency. In order to provide for the greatest possibility of success in this mission a variety of private and public broadcast sources must be encouraged. 'Big Broadband' will develop like and alongside cable tv as an addition to the wireless infrastructure. So they license the spectrum for free to encourage the broadcast medium, and have the citizens pay for the radios and televisions.

  6. Re:Is it wrong... on Constructing a Corporate Open Source Policy? · · Score: 1

    yes it is wrong this type of discussion can educate the average slashdot reader with the salient points of the discussion, that way if they are surprised with the question they will have info on hand, and can then seem well-informed to their boss.

  7. YES!!! make them look HOLLYWOOD human on A New Face For Robotics · · Score: 1

    There's no way we can take sex with robots mainstream without also installng breast implants and mouse brains. EVOLVE BoobForge anyone?

  8. YES on A New Face For Robotics · · Score: 1

    There is no way we can take having sex with open-source computers mainstream without this technology http://erowid.org

  9. Re:RtCWeT on Good Online FPS Games/Servers For Beginners? · · Score: 1

    WOOHOO Enemy Territory BABY YEAHHHHHHH!!!!!! need a medic ;-) try the beginner's park server or SuperWOLF ohio and remember, it's FUN to be destroyed by an airstrike

  10. Assembly on Learning Computer Science via Assembly Language · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I definitely agree with the idea that computer programmers need to learn assembly, and other low-level programming skills. I started my education as an Electronics Engineering Technician in D.C., (i used to teach NSA techs how to build FM radios in the electronics lab) Anyway... my career has been mostly writing macros, maintaining networks, user support, light engineering, etc. and I feel that my in-depth knowledge of computers has helped me immeasureably in these higher-level areas of software maintenance. I laugh at "micosofties" that graduate from colleges here in Northeast PA with their MCSE... I outperform them on a regular basis.

  11. I can finally access the datasphere..... anywhere on A Linux Machine For Your Collar · · Score: 2, Funny

    Combine this device (with a few upgrades) with Wearable displays + This Jacket (maybe an upgrade or two + a computer that speaks sign language + Pervasive wireless broadband and I am starting to get to my "comfort level" for internet access. No longer will I have to wait during my whole commute of 5 minutes to check for the next Slashdot story. No more shaking internet withdrawl on the bus!!

  12. Re:What kind of sleep? on 'Just Sleep On It' Solves Tricky Problems? · · Score: 1

    A similar study was done at I believe MIT a year or two ago and they concluded that in order to get the benefit you have to have at least one REM session during the sleep period. Upgrade your grey matter

  13. Civil Rights Issue on The State of IPv6 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I think that switching to IPv6 is really a civil rights issue. The United Nations supports the "free and unfettered communication" of people as a basic civil right. There is no way a system where people have to pay for IP addresses can in any way be "free and unfettered". The switch should be done as quickly and smoothly as is possible to ensure that every individual who wants to express their views on the internet can do so. People should also be albe to get IPv6 addresses on demand. This is the best way IMO to ensure that free speech is protected. Imagine if you had to pay for you street address to receive mail.

  14. DR-DOS on Microsoft to Charge for FAT File System · · Score: 1

    Western digital uses DR-DOS http://www.drdos.com/products.html to format their hard drives,and judging by their website it looks like competition is really heating up in the pay - to - format arena I wonder how many devices you are allowed to format with your data / lifeguard tools?

  15. fadethepolice on Fight Woodworking Piracy: Add EULA Restrictions · · Score: 1

    - just refer to my handle - - shrink wrap license violation is nothing - http://www.asdreams.org/ Does anyone else make sacrificial offerings to the icons on your desktop?

  16. i guess I am a gearhead on Do Computer Geeks and Gearheads Overlap? · · Score: 1

    I am fanatically loyal to GM, and I fix my own cars. I am into vintage. I have a 1970 cadillac sedan deville, and a 1994 toshiba laptop... I fixed both myself. My cadillac has a 472 8 - cylinder, second largest made by GM,and a posi rear... I guarantee my 2,000 pound caddy is better in the snow than your puny little front wheel drive rice burner... I also am loyal to AMD, and I will put my overclocked athlons up against any wimptel machines !!!!

  17. OLD HARDWARE on What's the Oldest Hardware You are Still Using? · · Score: 1

    i'VE GOT A 486 SX 33 LAPTOP CIRCA '94 i USE TO RUN SOME DOS GAMES AND MICROSOFT OFFICE (WITH THE EASY MIGRATION FROM WORD PERFECT SETUP) - GET THIS - IT REQUIRES A FAT 12 PARTITION TO STASH DATA IN SLEEP MODE. AND i AM USING AN IDE CARD FROM LIKE '93 TO SUPPLEMENT A 99 MOTHERBOARD WITH SOME CONTROLLER PROBLEMS, AND I HAVE A 10 MBPS 3COM 3C509B ETHERLINK CARD MANUFACTURED IN 93 INTERFACED WITH A MODERN CABLE MODEM CONNECTION. I have most editions of intel chips from 8086 to pentium III 650 either archived or in use. Including the original pentium 75 with errors. I also have several cyrix 5x86 and 6x86. I have one cyrix chip that runs at 333 mhz. I have no pentium 4's, as I have switched all my new computers to athlons - of which I have no thunderbirds, alas..

  18. Productivity Software on Computers, Unemployment and Wealth Creation · · Score: 2, Insightful

    One of the big hurdles in most engineering fields today after getting your degree and licensure - is the cost of software. Your looking at from $7500 $6000 per station for drafting or civil engineering. There is some available here

    http://www.freegis.org/

    but nothing approaching what open-office.org does for office software as far as cross-platform deployment, usabitlity and compatibility. A lot of the mathematics for all engineering fields are similar. Excluding Boolian Logic. A universal engineering software platform would do wonders for everyone from your home engineer building his own off- the grid power system, to an Architect trying junp-start his career.

  19. This is not a new problem on Using Spyware to Report Pirates? · · Score: 1

    Arcview 8.1 leaves tcp ports listening AutoCAD 2004 comes with a new "communications center" and windows xp has windowsupdate just make sure you do port scans

  20. Racketeering on SCO Awarded UNIX Copyright Regs, McBride Interview · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If they will not allow people to identify and remove the code, and the code was inserted innocently, and they distributed the surce code under an obscure license to people who are used to working under the GPL - could that be considered racketeering? Remove the code remove the infringement... if they will not reveal the code are the aiding copyright infringement of their own works.. disgusting.