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  1. Re:Violation to freedoms of Free Software on SourceForge Clarifies Denial of Site Access · · Score: 1
    blockquote>The "source code" for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it.



    if it were lost then the "best" available source would be a c / asm decompile, so distribute that. far less than optimal, but it should suffice for complying in that circumstance, and if enough people want better source a bad enough dude could come along and remake a more legible source file.

  2. Re:Intuit Isn't the Only Problem on Why the IRS Should Automatically Fill In Returns With What It Knows · · Score: 1

    Incidentally a huge part of escalating health care costs is due to lawsuits

    [citation needed]

    though the insurance industry would sure love to see "tort reform" (aka, fuck over anyone who is genuinely harmed by malpractice).

  3. Re:Conflict? on Why the IRS Should Automatically Fill In Returns With What It Knows · · Score: 1

    check cashing is not the same as a payday loan.

    check cashing is for people who either don't want or can't get a checking account (history of writing bad checks will make banks not let you have a checking account)

    a payday loan is a short term high interest loan "till payday" usually the rates are a huge ripoff, but the requirements are less stringent than a regular loan.

  4. Re:This is how it's done where I'm from... on Why the IRS Should Automatically Fill In Returns With What It Knows · · Score: 1

    then everyone will *know* what information the government does and does not know about.

  5. Re:help in police chases? on Electromagnetic Pulse Gun To Help In Police Chases · · Score: 1

    or for that matter, it could confuse the airbag controller and punch the driver in the face

  6. Re:Ummm... on ReactOS Being Rewritten, Gets Wine Infusion · · Score: 1

    just for the hell of it, i decided to try cd ~/ in powershell, and it works. cd / also works in powershell and in cmd.exe

  7. Re:Ummm... on ReactOS Being Rewritten, Gets Wine Infusion · · Score: 1

    putty can speak telnet and will do muds at least as well as windows telnet, usually much better.

  8. Re:ham operators on Tower Switch-Off Embarrasses Electrosensitives · · Score: 1

    have you ever actually watched a controlled demolition? the key word is "controlled" the WTC collapses were nothing of the sort, they were simply too large to tip over like a jenga tower, they threw debris in all directions and damaged or destroyed neighboring buildings.

    and it's probably the thermal expansion that allowed the tower to start collapsing, after that the falling mass forced the outer supports outward breaking their connections as they went. the leverage of a falling mass inside a frame like that would be extremely strong.

    but don't let that get in the way of your delusions.

  9. Re:Real problem in the US on Tower Switch-Off Embarrasses Electrosensitives · · Score: 1

    burying power lines is much more dangerous and expensive. if an underground line insulation breaches and the ground is wet random things near the breach will become {hot/hot} sometimes temperature, sometimes charge, sometimes both. just look at what con ed deals with in NYC, a few years ago one of their service covers literally branded a teenage girl, and it's not uncommon to hear about pets getting electrocuted.

  10. Re:Faraday Cage on Tower Switch-Off Embarrasses Electrosensitives · · Score: 1

    EMF? really? that's some old bullshit you've got there.

  11. Re:Perhaps on Tower Switch-Off Embarrasses Electrosensitives · · Score: 1

    it's just like "multiple chemical sensitivity" or whatever the hell they are calling it these days.

  12. Re:Du-u-u-ude... on Man Sues Neighbor For Not Turning Off His Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    no, he has enough paranoia already. hot lead therapy might help him though.

  13. Re:Simple test... on Man Sues Neighbor For Not Turning Off His Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    I suspect the effect was some sort of harmonic set up by the vibration, if the effect was on the neurons themselves it would have been deadly rather than odd.

  14. Error codes on KIA Bringing News & Social Media To Your Car · · Score: 1

    if they are putting that in, the least they could do is include diagnostic code reader and real time system monitor

  15. Re:...and yet... on Windows 7 Has Lots of "God Modes" · · Score: 1

    It's not good from a security standpoint, but neither is your swap file. How does swap.avi compromise security? Lunch I can see, but security?

  16. Re:Direct Copy article on Windows 7 Has Lots of "God Modes" · · Score: 1

    no he definitely is, one of the examples is a folder "thankscnet{blah blah blah}"

  17. Re:Bible Code? on 8% of Your DNA Comes From a Virus · · Score: 1

    With Sequence A being man's hubris thinking that God, if any exist, would look like us.

  18. Re:I wonder how... on How Norway Fought Staph Infections · · Score: 1

    not nearly as much as the right wing bullshit machine would have you believe. last time i went to a doctor it was for an angry looking rash i got from an insect bite, the doctor checked my temperature and asked a few questions and told me to come back if it kept growing or did anything else unusual. Turned out to just be inflammation and it went away a day or two later.

  19. Re:We are better off without such charitable peopl on Bono Hopes Content Tracking Will Help Media Moguls · · Score: 1

    it already exists, it's called freenet, and it's slow as all hell. it's ok for text communication, but graphics and movies will take forever, but that's not so bad since all the graphics and videos on freenet are child porn anyways.

    the biggest reason such high-security networks have not taken off is that the existing system does just fine for whistleblower type stuff, just use an untraceable gateway, such as an open wifi point or untracked library / mall machine and post the info to a login-less place like wikileaks or 4chan.

  20. Re:To be Fair... on The Twelve Most Tarnished Brands In Tech · · Score: 1

    slashdot has gotten better over the years.

    do you know how long it's been since i came across one of the old demographics surveys that used to get posted. Though i never quite understood the imporance of knowing if i was homosexual or african american, and the pollsters always used such crude language.

  21. Re:Myopic? on Midwest Seeing Red Over 'Green' Traffic Lights · · Score: 1

    the problem appears to be a poor overall design of the lights, we have some LED traffic lights here in upstate NY, and plenty of snow, but i have never seen a light blocked by snow, our lights also have a little distance between them so the covers don't form a cup for snow to build up in.

  22. Re:Of course. Open source rarely gets the GUI righ on Chinese Pirates Launch Ubuntu That Looks Like XP · · Score: 1

    the output text window is not a substitute for the GUI and does not try to be, it displays the information that windows would be hiding somewhere in the event log. after dealing with a windows laptop with a horked up network driver, trust me i would rather have that information in front of me than have to go digging for it.

  23. Re:Oversimplified ... on Why Bite the Google Hand That Feeds You? · · Score: 1

    bull shit.

    google follows robots.txt if any producer actually believes that their content is so worthless that people won't read more than the first 2 sentences.

  24. Re:Screw Google. on Why Bite the Google Hand That Feeds You? · · Score: 1

    not just before the internet, a few years ago in college we were given access to, iirc, the school's EBSCOhost account for a research paper, and despite the careful wording and use of operators to be precise, it gave garbage results compared to searching google with the topic name , journal and ".pdf" looking for journal articles, then a quick follow up to make sure the "journal" was actually reputable, all for free and in a few seconds.

  25. Re:"Contributing" is impossible on How Can I Contribute To Open Source? · · Score: 1

    go have some fun living in somolia