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  1. Re:I'll take... on Best Results From Bartering Computer Services? · · Score: 1
    you mean like this?

    But anyway, just remember

  2. Re:A question on Utah Sees First Spyware Case · · Score: 1
    I know that there are "NO first amendment rights to advertise" as I am an educated USAian. However when you say "if it's not expressly forbidden, it's ok to do it" sounds more like Amsterdam to be honest. I know I still have this underlying right of freedom and will do my best to ensure it stays this way. But with million dollar arguments flying left and right spreading dee FUD into our culture without a basis to stand makes it seem as though more things are forbidden than is apparent. What's more is that I realize the documents we base our lives off is possible of change, and it is this possibility of change which I am concerning myself with.

    I am smart enough to realize what I am and am not able to do. I've read the constitution et al, but I do recognize there exists an even larger body of people who have never read their constitution. They have no idea what their rights are whatsoever. I believe that with the diminishing of knowledge and a person's lacking of desire to learn, say from books published from Yale, Harvard, NYU, Princeton etc instead of the teevee, we're falling ever further behind. There is a way to gain power as it has happened again and again throughout history as one civilization fell and another rose to take its place. I'm not exactly thinking the US will keel over tomorrow, but I think situations will exist that will make that easier to happen within future generations. Perhaps this is a good thing, but I am naive and think change can be brought about by maintaining that ability through "uncontrol." I think maintaining that hold and resiliency strong is an imperative goal that must be brought forth at all costs.

    The Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT ACT) and the USA PATRIOT ACT 2, the DMCA, the increased lawsuits and issued patents, and subjects of intellectual property and copyright all ring loudly in my ears. Thomas Jefferson was an ardent supporter of a decentralized government, but the battle was run out even from the beginning. Corporations existed on monopolistic scales although there were only a few of them. These were everyday products as well, something like how computers once were not but became to be. It's been an interesting road paved, but I think there should be a push back into decentralized system. I am incredibly interested in law and am not so naive to see that this is merely the "enforcing" of justice. That's a copout for all I'm concerned, as law has merit, but not when it is used uncredulously.

  3. Re:A question on Utah Sees First Spyware Case · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Seems to me that if someone doesn't want to hear it, they shouldn't be forced to.

    Also, it really isn't free speech if it costs people something is it (bandwidth, etc)?

    True overall, but everything costs someone something. Especially in the day in age where time is just as precious (if not more so) as the green that comes in. Taking a protest to the streets corridors off that section of pavement that you have paid for and costs someone time in detouring. But the issue gets mucky as this is also right to assembly. Now if we detract time altogether and only demand it to be a tangible product, we might see how we might be able to beat 'round this African lilac and escape the issue entirely. Ah, if only simplicity existed and people could show compassion and patience for another. But no, it is about your rights, and your rights require to interfere with other's rights. It just isn't as pen and paper write the laws, which is also why you see an influx of laws and the practice of law in the day in age.

    Recently I was reading a press release on some big item having to do with copyright or the like, and one notable CEO or another said that since there are no laws that exist saying you explicitly can, it means you are not able to (sorry, I can't remember where or who, you'll have to take my word for it :)). So if it is not explicitly written they were saying, there's no rights saying you necessarily can do it. I found that highly repulsive as I figured laws existed as restrictions, not being a mode of checking whether or not you can brush your teeth with so and so toothpaste. Extreme I know, but this has everything to do with freedom of speech. OK, maybe I'm pulling freedom of speech into freedom of use, but I think a slow integration of the two is on the rise, where it becomes impossible to even discuss the technology being used as can be readily seen within this era of the DMCA. Companies wish to do away with these rights because it makes everything a lot easier on them ... no lawsuits for poor products, only being able to be enforced by the government that "works" for the people.

    It's a quiet emergence I fear the majority is not ready for. But then I can also readily see they will never be ready for it. Interesting to see how things will turn out regardless.

  4. Re:Hey, babe, I got the cure... on Anti-HIV Virus Developed · · Score: 4, Funny
    lol.

    So then I says to her:

    Babe. I figure with my enlarged genital region, and your enlarged breast region, we might be able to complement each others deficiencies quite nicely. So what do you say? Why not go out with me?

  5. Re:WHAT?! on More on Global Dimming · · Score: 0, Troll
    Disclaimer: This is a complaint.

    Moderators! Double u, tee, ehf. Seriously. I couldn't believe I was reading this. +5 Interesting? Honestly. Has the readership denounced itself to 8 year olds. I know there happens to be poor comments every now and again, but at least they obfuscate the poor use of logic. This is like the most obvious thing in the world. If you look around people get older, they are dying, slowly. Their organs are breaking down. Many lose their license because their vision is not proper for it. I really didn't realize the readership here not only never left their rooms, but also never had a grandparent!

  6. Re:Hey, babe, I got the cure... on Anti-HIV Virus Developed · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I neither want larger breasts or for my SO to devlop a penis of ANY size. Takes the romance out of it.
    but your woman's clitoris is a penis ... just pea-sized ... but that is a size, regardless of however you try twisting your words around now.

    if she had had a y chromosome instead, the hole would have been covered by a sac and that clit lengthened. in fact, as an embryo in the pouch, you had a clitoris yourself. you can't touch the clit directly just as it is painful to rub the "head" of a man if he is not aroused. take some notes, it's all psychological behaviour that is making you want to fuck your SO. Otherwise you are both basically the same with only a few freak mutations that happen to work in your favor.

  7. Nielson Normal Study on Designing Websites for Disabled / Elderly? · · Score: 1
    you can start with this study

    I came across it on stumbleupon a few weeks ago.

  8. Re:What's New? on Knoppix v3.4 Hits The Mirrors · · Score: 1
    (I pointed him to morphix.org because I wanted gnome.)

    You could have went with gnoppix

  9. Re:Suggested Camera Settings? on The Lyrids Are Coming! · · Score: 2, Informative
    Go for low aperture like you said, f8 or whatever. (You always want your aperture setting as small as possible for making distinct clarity in your images.)

    Set your ISO on the lowest possible setting ISO 50 or 100. Most cameras will show noticeable interference with anything larger. Note the ISO Speed number demonstrates your cameras light sensitivity.

    Then take shutter speed as long as possible to desired image.

    Just practice on stars and what not to get a hang of your cameras capabilities. Also, I would recommend working in your cameras uncompressed formats if the card is big enough.

    So yeah, a lot of this stuff is common sense, and that is largely what photograghy is. If you are truly a noob, you'll soon here photograghy is 10% knowing what you're doing and 90% being in the right place in the right time.

  10. Re:Topic misleading. on Gnuplot 4.0 Released · · Score: 1

    this is a bit old, but sf.net hosts many non-free software packages. don't be fooled by slashdot. the retaliation against this is http://savannah.nongnu.org/ so adjust your advocacy appropriately. thank you

  11. Re:finally on Injunction to Enforce GPL · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Granted the title of the article is "MUNICH COURT GRANTS PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION FOR INFRINGING USE OF GPL LICENSED SOFTWARE", I'm thinking that depending on the jurisdiction you're under, you can still say, "people are afraid to test the GPL in court." As like any country, their principles aren't world dominating. Of course if you are in Germany that would run counter to this whole posting, but for some reason I'm thinking this isn't the case.

  12. Clarifying for lack of a better title on Automobile Black Box Sends Driver to Jail · · Score: 4, Insightful
    The Montreal motorist betrayed by his car's black box has been sent to jail for dangerous driving causing death.

    I read that as:

    The Montreal motorist betrayed by the truth has been sent to a facility which offers the possibility of those lacking responsibility to rethink their stance on this moral predicament.

    If the tree falls and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? For those to dense ... if information exists that is not made aware, does it hold any importance?

    Ah yes, it then becomes a matter to how much truth we are entitled to maintain to ourselves. Or in another word, privacy. Corruption will remain all the while truth is suppressed. I don't like this fact, but I find it doubtful we'll get there because we are brothers (sisters -- does it even matter?)

    (Note I just got done watching Dogma ;)

  13. Re:What I am really curious about on Suicide Caught on Surveillance Tape Appears Online · · Score: 1
    This is low-incoming housing, right? where did he get money for a gun if the taxpayers are helping him pay rent?

    First things first, there is no direct mention of any taxpayers helping him financially. Although one would be able to infer that, it remains important to differentiate between fact and speculation. Can you cite a source because the story didn't address that. Furthermore, minimum wage pays just enough for a gun, not to mention this thing we call friends who might have such units in their disposal.

  14. Re:Free Plumbers on How India is Saving Capitalism · · Score: 1

    the exchange doesn't follow because you first have to be handy at the task. Flip it around. How easy would it be for a DIY program job? Yeah, not easy. And I do technical work and I wouldn't turn around and say plumbing work is easy. If you want to make the analogy work, fing a DIY task that you would find difficult

  15. Re:Is there still a chance.... on Grand Challenge 1, Competitors 0 · · Score: 1

    Just a note that calling someone who is vertically challenged a midget, is like calling a black person the ::shhh:: 'n' word. So now you know. Of course it's all in context, but I think we think of physical dimension a little different then a happenstance of pigment variation. YMMV

  16. Re:I'm confused... on Domain-Name Protest Is Protected Speech · · Score: 1

    what about kennedy and cuba? I admit I wasn't alive during the administration, but I've seen and heard various recordings. I'm not so quick to say all was holy just a few short years ago. It seems this has been occuring for a long time, the only thing that is changing is the amount of resources and technological achievement that allows a bigger boom if you will. Think about it, the bombs have gotten bigger but earth is still the same size. I will agree however that government is becoming more and more powerful. I don't really attribute this as a secret conspiracy though, it's obviously our (United States Citizens) fault. To say otherwise detracts blame and fingerpointing doesn't accomplish anything.

  17. Re:Slashdotters==Curmudgeons? on iPod Mini Sells Out · · Score: 1
    Quiet please, we like to be left out of the limelight.

    But seriously, I read slashdot for a couple years before finally getting an account at around ~630,000 because I finally had something I "had" to say. Then I didn't use it again for about 6 months (despite reading just about every day) and had to get a new one cause I forgot the password.

    I'd still lay quietly as AC, but it's kinda neat to look back over discussions I've had. That, and I've decided it's important to give back to the community (modding).

  18. Re:Resolving Power? on Brine on Mars? · · Score: 2, Informative
    http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/Projects/MER-AthenaMI /microscopic_imager.html

    There is also information about the rover, and science instruments on NASA's site, but these are extremely topical, but also good to look at first. So there you go.

  19. Re:She'll lose on RIAA Countersued Under Racketeering Laws · · Score: 1
    Its about as useless as me suing IBM or Microsoft 'just for fun'

    I was flowing with you until that last part. What's so useless about sacrificing a great deal of money in exchange for a check of liberties a business has marked for their own well-being. If things are left as is, we assume people, and for this case the people that work for a business, are good and honest. Hmm, I'd call people are not inherrently just, as are they not objective of each and every situation. That's just it, we solicite others to think for us on many occasions, including our day to day lives. This will be taking a great emtional toll as well as taking up a great deal of her time.

    Sure as another poster has said, she might make off with a handsome sum of money, but would you sacrifice everything you owned in the sake of making a few extra bucks? It's a difficult conclusion to conjure, but I hope it's given a bit of publicity, regardless of the outcome because either way it goes will call for grave changes in how things are run.

  20. Re:Microsoft has never used a patent offensively on Microsoft Receives XML Patent · · Score: 1, Interesting

    No kidding right? Say, let's just sit back and let them do their thing? It's like how the United States makes everyone else disband nuclear weapons, but simultaneously allows for its own keepsake. It's like, hey! If you decide to blow us up, we're taking you down with us!

    Maybe it's smart? It's like the last ditch efforts of the kamikaze in offense to the United States invasion. They go down valiently and with a fight, maintaining dignity as they die. It's human nature afterall isn't it?

    Cough, I don't have to mention how closely what I describe parallels SCO; a once notable and respectable company now only receiving its last gasping breaths on the name of a few lawsuits. Granted they only have fighting ground of one playing field, they are making the best of it.

  21. Re:Apollo 11 on Apollo 11 Launch Tower Rescue Effort · · Score: 1
    I think the stuff is mostly likely to fail when its proper fuctioning is most important is a result we are much more dependent on the device at that point. In other words, we are especially attentive to deviations in the device, and on a whole, very keen of any mishaps. Of course the device may just as well be functioning erratically when it isn't needed as well, we are just now aware of this fact, unfortunately a fact we would rather let go undiscovered.

    That and we're much more keen to remember the failures rather than all the other times we have used it and it has succeeded in its task.

    Anyway, our giant grocery store lost its power too for the afternoon a few summers back. The clerks got out the calculators and started making the sales without the 'beep ... beep ... beep ... ka-ching'. It was funny because the people had to stand in lines of 15 people long to get checked out and they were all upset. It was as if they were in hell or something. OK, to be fair, it was a bit hot, but what was it like 50 years ago? I wished people could have stopped and enjoyed that brief 20 minutes where time slowed to a crawl as it was back in the good ole days(TM).

    I'm not some environmentalist freak, but people ought to enjoy life rather than being so damn bitter. It was as if they enjoyed that right of being able to complain. Yuck.

  22. Re:Globalization at its finest on DNS Root Servers Outside US Surpass Those Inside · · Score: 1

    Naw, it was in reference to the other guy's sig, not your comment.

    If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

    If one uses force in defense it is most likely barbarism, but if one is barbaric, they are not much of a civilization as it would be a barbarism state.

    It's like saying you can have the piece of candy, but you cannot take the piece of candy. "If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism" does not flow because it reaches a conditional brick wall.

    Actually, what it does is merely highlight a civilization must be protected, and thus we *all* are barbaric by default.

    haHA...I'll start first...GRRR!...yer standing on my toe! die you merry tool!...::charges with spear::AAGGGHHHHH

    You see? you see? I exemplify my conjecture perfectly. You're welcome. We'll be dredging out the bristling Anglo-saxon folk of eastminster plot next week if you're interested.

  23. Re:Globalization at its finest on DNS Root Servers Outside US Surpass Those Inside · · Score: 1

    haha, it's circular logic, hopefully it is meant to be funny, quite disheartening if it is not ...

  24. Maybe you ought to approach things differently on To Recertify, or Not Recertify? · · Score: 1
    Did I get in the engineering department?

    Nope.

    Did I give up?

    Nope.

    I got my CCIE study guide, and was all ready to rent time at a major Cisco lab at The University of Colorado, in Boulder (I am not even sure that they have this lab anymore). A month later there were two people left in the engineering department, and then was laid off.

    Lemme get this straight? You didn't give up by throwing more money at the problem? I don't like this, get some more work as a senior network technician and take on more responsibility. Offer your services if this is what you really want to do because you know what? Someone really likes to do that. And if they don't they're as good as gone. For some odd reason, I don't here many pre-CEOs griping about what documentation they seem to need to present to get the job. Oh, that's right. They take an initiative and get the damn work done. Hmm, not saying your lazy, but if you have the skills, maybe you could being doing it in your free time as consulting. Yeah you need a life too right? (obl) Ahh, the dilemmas of psuedo-geeks ... to live or ... wait ... there's an option outside technology?!?

    Hey man, nothing against you, but just go out and be happy. If this makes you happy, then golly gee, start up your own business. Initiative. A computer geek in this day and age is all about being social. Good luck!

  25. lil troy - wanna be a baller on What Was the Very First MP3 You Downloaded? · · Score: 1

    I can't remember what my first mp3 i downloaded was. I never was into it much because it took so long and i guess I wasn't geeky enough as a kid. I remember all my friends had more than a couple files. I would go to their houses and see their lists ... pretty cool, but whatever. I liked to read books.

    But do I remember the first d/l I made once I got cable internet? Do I ever! I was in high school and me and my friend had just gotten back from the gym when the cable guy came by and threw it together. I had just built my own 800MHz amd thunderbird with 256MB RAM and a juicy 45GB IBM hard drive. He stayed until the guy finished, did a speed test and showed me the results >T1 line download. Once he left my buddy immediately went to work downloading Napster and we fetched 'lil troy - wanna be a baller.' I already had the CD, but now it was on my computer. My friend was entranced by the whole thing. Heh, his computer was a paltry pentium pro if even ... poor guy, think he's still using it.

    I spent the rest of the night enjoying the speed (sleep ... pshh, who needs it?), it was pretty cool.