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  1. Re:Horrible design! on Defcon 12 Running Man Contest · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh wow, I got modded Troll for saying it's wrong to wish the death of another person, you have to love slashdot mods.

  2. Re:Horrible design! on Defcon 12 Running Man Contest · · Score: 0, Troll

    That is not only offtopic it's a blatant troll, the guy is advocating the assassination of the U.S. President.

  3. Re:What a surprise on On Training, Recruitment Uses For Army Games · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You must not have played America's Army before because BOTH teams are American. It's setup so that whatever team you are going up against looks like the enemy (terrorists, etc).

  4. Re:Not so easy? on Deep Green - A Pool Playing Robot? · · Score: 1

    The more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known in this instant, and vice versa.
    --Heisenberg, uncertainty paper, 1927


    That wouldn't really apply here because when all the balls are stopped their momentum is (relative to the table) basically 0. So the position could be determined almost perfectly (depending on the equipment of course). Besides the Uncertainty Principle doesn't apply to calculating a shot.

  5. Networth of some political candidates on Ted Turner's Beef With Big Media · · Score: 2, Informative
  6. Re:Expensive on Cell Phone Directory Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    Actually they work very well, at our office we get maybe 2 junk faxes a month, and it's going down.

  7. Re:Very Insightful! Mod up on Cell Phone Directory Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    Not insightful, higher up in the thread someone quotes the DNC List site saying that you can register your cell phone.

  8. Re:Repeated shutdowns while DLing the service pack on Worms Jack Up the Total Cost of Windows · · Score: 2, Interesting

    When you get that window warning you that the computer will reboot in 59 seconds, you can just type "shutdown -a" in the run prompt and it will cancel the auto-reboot. We had to do this for all the computers at my school while they were patching. (Our IT guys are total morons, they left all 6 of our web servers unprotected on the internet, and all but 1 of them runs Windows Server 2003).

  9. Re:The Fall of the House of Bush: +2, Informative on Gas Plasma Antennas Help Wi-Fi Security · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The mods aren't doing their jobs, the parent post should be moderated as Offtopic. If not flamebait or troll.

  10. Re:Directional arials... on Gas Plasma Antennas Help Wi-Fi Security · · Score: 1

    Damn I'm stupid, you could do it with a single unit since it's a fast moving, directional antenna; it's only with omni-directional antennas that you need to triangulate. Although a good system would have an omni-directional antenna scanning for clients, and when it detects one it give the gas-plasma antenna the range at which it found the client, and then the gas-plasma antenna can do a quick search of that area.

  11. Re:Directional arials... on Gas Plasma Antennas Help Wi-Fi Security · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't you need three of them to triangulate? Having just two scanners would still leave you with two possible locations.

  12. Re:So? on Satellites Show That Earth Has a Fever · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's not all going to happen at once, the ice won't all melt in 3 seconds sending massive tidal waves at us. The level of the ocean will slowly rise, and we'll slowly move back, no one's going to die from that.

  13. Re:It's technology, stupid on Pay Attention To .Au/.Us IP Trade Law · · Score: 1

    Until your source code gets leaked :-)

  14. Re:Not mremap(), but these! on Kernel 2.4.26 Out · · Score: 1

    The SoundBlaster Denial of Service.

    For some reason that sounds terribly funny.

  15. Re:one of many on Port Knocking in Action · · Score: 2

    The underlying service (like SSH) is still secure, it's just another LAYER of security. Did you even bother to find out how port knocking works?

  16. Re:No. on Draft of 'Broadcast Flag' Treaty Now Available · · Score: 1

    Article III, Section 3 of the US Constitution states: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.

    Treason can be defined as "the betrayal of one's country by waging war against it or by consciously and purposely acting to aid its enemies." Treason and personal rights are two separate issues, rights refer to things such as your right to free speech, right of freedom of expression and your right to protest the government. The UN is basically saying those rights don't apply if it's not in the UN's best interest, where as the US is saying you can't wage war against the US or aide those waging war against the US. But hey, I know I'm just talking to some idiot kneejerk anti-American loser.

  17. Re:Good plan. really. on Bush Says Americans 'Ought to Have' Broadband and a Pony by 2007 · · Score: 0

    Wow, you don't even try to point out where I'm wrong, you just jump right to personal insults.

    [sarcasm]You must be really smart.[/sarcasm]

    If you decide to point out the flaws in my original post then I'll gladly debate you, but as it stands you are nothing more than an arrogant fool.

  18. Re:Obligatory SW Quote on Earth Acquires a Quasi-Moon · · Score: 1

    No, what's sad is not being able to figure out what SW meant in that context.

  19. Re:Such an unbiased article summary on Bush Says Americans 'Ought to Have' Broadband and a Pony by 2007 · · Score: 1

    Funny how when Kerry says everyone should have broadband (and even proposes spending money) he's not criticized are made the but of lame AOL jokes.

  20. Re:Such an unbiased article summary on Bush Says Americans 'Ought to Have' Broadband and a Pony by 2007 · · Score: 0
    Funny how my post gets modded down as flamebait, but this:
    the reason the Justice department is arguing against co-op broadband systems is then his big business buddies in the telecom and cable industry don't get paid....see, he wants to get a spending bill passed that will subsidize the expansion of DSL and Cable, but if co-ops form, that means less money for his porky friends.
    Gets modded as +3 Insightful even though it's not based in fact. (Bush hasn't propsed ANY spending)
  21. Re:Good plan. really. on Bush Says Americans 'Ought to Have' Broadband and a Pony by 2007 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    1) Tax cuts have historically always been followed by a large increase in the economy (coincidence?)
    2) Things like welfare and unemployment aren't needed in their current forms, all they do is encourage people not to work (not that it wasn't a good idea, it just was executed wrong)
    3) Missile defense programs are vital, just because you lock up/kill all the criminals in your city doesn't mean you can leave your door unlocked.
    4) I can probably name 3 times as many left leaning "nonpolitical" organizations then you can of right leaning non-politicals.
    5) I don't like the idea of the Mars mission either, but that has nothing to do with GWB. (NASA is bloated and inefficient, but no one wants to do anything about it). We do need to get to Mars, but NASA won't be able to do it.

    Go ahead, mod me down, just make sure you mod down all the rabid anti-bush (troll, flamebait) comments as well. If you don't, well then you're a hypocrite.

  22. Re:Such an unbiased article summary on Bush Says Americans 'Ought to Have' Broadband and a Pony by 2007 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm sorry, but I read slash dot for tech news. Not political opinions, if I want to read that I'll check out the opinion page of my local news paper. I think it's disgraceful for the slashdot editors to allow this story be posted.

  23. Re:Obligatory SW Quote on Earth Acquires a Quasi-Moon · · Score: 1, Informative

    SW = Star Wars. I hope you were joking, because that's just sad.

  24. Re:Groklaw is biased against SCO already on Groklaw Traces Contribution of ABIs back to SCO. · · Score: 0

    Well, right before US troops arivied the "soap" factory was cleaned out (no pun intended). Now why would the general in charge of a soap factory take his time to get rid of all that soap before he ran?

  25. Re:Groklaw is biased against SCO already on Groklaw Traces Contribution of ABIs back to SCO. · · Score: 0

    Actually, I can understand a military officer in charge of a factory in an military state, BUT not a general. Soap factories are hardly considered to be high priority so it would be much more likely to have a lower ranking officer in charge of it. Generals are usualy put in charge of high priority targets such as airports, military bases, weapons caches and weapons plants. Hmm, weapons plants...