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  1. Re:Four essential freedoms on Richard Stallman Proclaims Don't Follow Linus Torvalds · · Score: 1

    So does the public domain.

  2. Re:Oh! on Name Your Favorite Bloat-Free Software · · Score: 1

    but have you seen this "Vuze" shit they put out in the new version 3.0?

    Yes, and thank $DEITY that you can turn it off. Here's how to set Azureus so that the Vuze stuff doesn't load:

    • Select "Advanced" from the "View" menu, or click the "Advanced" tab.
    • Click the "UI" button on the far right of the toolbar.
    • Select "Classic Interface" and click "OK".

    (used ul to thwart "???, Profit!" joke)

  3. Re:We have 3 options here on Air Force Mistakenly Transports Live Nukes Across America · · Score: 1

    Like they were doing barrel rolls in the B52??

    Incidentally, the test pilot on the first flight of the B-52 prototype, Alvin M. "Tex" Johnston, was the same test pilot who performed the now infamous stunt of rolling a Boeing 707. Twice.

  4. No Buzznacking on Record Company Collusion a Defense to RIAA Case? · · Score: 1

    WTF does "to strike" mean?

    It means that Slashdot's legal vocabulary questions have really gone downhill since the CPHack Appeal

  5. Re:This is S60 4.0 on Nokia's iPhone, No Seriously · · Score: 4, Informative

    Because Apple were categorically the first company ever to release a pocket device with a touchscreen.

    Actually, the Casio PB-1000 was the first to have this feature in 1987.

    Apple also had competition in the PDA market when it first introduced the Newton in 1993. The Casio Z-7000 "Zoomer"/Tandy Z-PDA were introduced a couple months later. These devices also featured a touch screen with handwriting recognition.

  6. Re:Windows Powershell on Microsoft Axes 'Get The Facts' · · Score: 2, Funny

    C'mon, I'm sure I missed something - let's get this optimized!

    Optimized for former Windows users:

    # reboot
  7. Re:huh...gimme a break on Microsoft Axes 'Get The Facts' · · Score: 1

    But neither does Windows Update, which is the nearest Microsoft equivalent to Yum, Adept, and YAST.

    No, that's the consumer version. The IT administrator uses Windows Software Update Services (SUS), which allows updating of an entire domain.

  8. Re:how on earth? on Playing Music Slows Vista Network Performance? · · Score: 1

    Sure wish slashdot would include the year... can't tell when that old thread was posted.

    It's adjustable in your profile. Mine shows this:

    uCsimm News
    Posted by justin++ on 05:17 PM -- Tuesday July 06 1999
    from the now-taking-preorders dept.
  9. Re:Help me understand... on VMware May Violate Linux Copyrights · · Score: 2, Informative
    Sort of. The case, "Progress Software v. MySQL", is probably the closest that the, "linking creates a derivative work", idea has come to being challenged in court. The judge said:

    MySQL has not demonstrated a substantial likelihood of success on the merits or irreparable harm. Affidavits submitted by the parties' experts raise a factual dispute concerning whether the Gemini program is a derivative or an independent and separate work under GPL, [paragraph] 2. After hearing, MySQL seems to have the better argument here, but the matter is one of fair dispute. Moreover, I am not persuaded that the release of the Gemini source code in July 2001 didn't cure the breach. In other words, the question is still open. Progress Software settled.
  10. Renaming Tabs Broken on Introducing the Slashdot Firehose · · Score: 1

    Renaming the tabs doesn't work. You can click on the, "Edit this tab", button, but after you type something into the text box, there is no way to accept the change. I've tried just pressing return, but that doesn't work. I've tried looking for a button, but all that I see is the RSS button. How do you rename a tab?

  11. Firehose Tag Editor Broken in Firefox on Introducing the Slashdot Firehose · · Score: 1

    There's a problem when using the tag triangle on the right of the article to open the tag editor in Firefox. After the tag editor expands, the list of tags overlaps the, "Read More", link and the # of comments. At this point, the tag editor cannot be closed, and obscured tags cannot be clicked on.

  12. Re:Video games COULD be art on Blow-Back From Ebert's Latest Games Assertion · · Score: 1
    At least it was only a dig at a misused homophone.

    If I had been really on top of my game yesterday, I would have found some way to work in a poop joke.

  13. Re:Video games COULD be art on Blow-Back From Ebert's Latest Games Assertion · · Score: 1

    The possible candidates I have seen for video game as art would be:

    4. Spoor when it's released?

    I looked for games that contain spoor, and I think you have an interesting idea of what constitutes, "art".

    Hell, you have an interesting idea of what constitutes a game.

  14. Re:My IP is 127.0.0.1 so don't infringe on it on Bill Would Criminalize Attempted IP Infringement · · Score: 4, Funny

    I call "dibs" on IP 127.0.0.1 Any IP infringers out there...be warned...that's MY IP you're infringing upon

    I just hacked into your box! Now I'm deleting your root disk! You are so f^^#

    %(^%#**(((


    NO CARRIER

  15. Re:FP? on Bill Would Criminalize Attempted IP Infringement · · Score: 5, Funny

    you're charged with a different crime - "attempted burglary, not borglary

    Borglary - the act of assimilating all of someone's stuff into your own collective.

  16. Re:Byte counts when compiled with devkitARM on Don't Overlook Efficient C/C++ Cmd Line Processing · · Score: 1

    My local ARM NAS box running linux

    Are you running a, "slug", or some other box?

  17. Re:Begs the question on Merely Cloaking Data May Be Incriminating? · · Score: 1

    That last bit that you said reminded me of an idea that I had for an incredibly nerdy "pscyhological horror" film (kind of Kafka-esque). Picture this: the protagonist wakes up one morning only to discover that, despite his best efforts, the terms that he uses simply fail to refer! Confusion and angst ensues. (How one would represent this, exactly, I have no idea.)

    That is past grunt simpatico! Fervent fundaments have shot splendid Kafka loops, but sprinkled vagaries aren't my wayward clockwork. If the redeemer plays plenitudinously with the thunder bakelite grower, then it's pyrrhic hovels for the bugger. Fruity brickwork, cobbler. Fruity brickwork...

  18. Re:I question the ethics, and my legality on Worm Claimed For Apple OS X · · Score: 1

    Why do you think concealing a vulnerability is morally reprehensible?
    Some people think revealing a vulnerability is morally reprehensible. I think this discussion has twice the moral reprehensibility it needs to have.

  19. Re:Second Life? on Are Marketers Abandoning Second Life? · · Score: 1

    I've wanted to paint in RL but "the terror of the blank canvas" is real. My paints, brushes etc all sit unused.

    You could paint one of your SL sculptures in RL. ;)

    Seriously, though, I hope you find some time to use the RL paint!

  20. Re:Great for kids! on Ultimate iPhone Review — Will It Blend? · · Score: 1

    I kid, I kid!

    iKid - Will It Blend?

  21. Re:Faster Speeds on Comcast and Net Speed Tests · · Score: 1

    If you call and complain at night that you're getting less than promised speeds, they can up you.

    Steeb upped his speed, so up yours!

  22. No porblmes at all on Activation Problems in iPhone Paradise · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm ptsonig tihs form my iPnhoe, and I'm gald to say taht I've had no porblmes wsoeavrthr!

  23. Re:on bodies on Tangible Display Makes 3D Touchable · · Score: 3, Funny

    You had me at, "Hello".

  24. Re:Answer Guy speaks on Visualizing "Answer People" In Online Discussions · · Score: 0

    Me too!

  25. Re:And yet ... on Visualizing "Answer People" In Online Discussions · · Score: 0

    Lets face it, Mother Teresa liked what she did. She didn't do it for them, she did it for herself.

    That's pretty selfish.