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  1. Fullscreen in QTP on Free Software on a Cheap Computer · · Score: 5, Informative

    if you are reffering to quicktime, yes, they charge for fullscreen

    They just charge for the menu item:

    tell application "QuickTime Player"
    enter full screen display 1
    set the scale of movie 1 to screen
    play movie 1
    end tell

  2. Re:How very 1980's. on Detecting Speech Without Microphones · · Score: 2, Informative

    Jesus...living in the 80's? Military radios were using throat mikes back in the 80's.

    RTFTitle: Detecting Speech Without Microphones.

    Get it? There's no microphone.

  3. Re:Torrent, anybody? on 10.4 on Display at FOSE · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I bought 10.1 when I was a student. In college, I had friends who would spend more than that in a few nights of drinking. I still have that 10.1 box. Their beers are long gone though.

  4. Hoax on IBM Provides Access to Blue Gene On Demand · · Score: 1

    For instance, an industry standard connection for peripherals is idiosyncratically retermed "FireWire" (or should we just be honest and call it "HellFireWire"?) while the familiar Recycle Bin is given its new cult name of "Trash Can".

    This site has been around for a while. It is well know to be a joke. It's not even very subtle, yet people still get taken in by it.

    There are even little clues like this:
    <META name="generator" content="Our Lord Jesus Christ, Who hath generated all">

    It's a joke.

  5. Re:just curious on IBM Provides Access to Blue Gene On Demand · · Score: 3, Informative

    BlueGene runs Linux

  6. Re:Erm... on In Which OS Do You Feel More Productive? · · Score: 3, Informative

    /etc/hosts is only used very early in the boot process on Mac OS X. So you can't actually use it to block addresses. You have to use netinfo instead

    Actually, you can set the lookup order. In 10.1, the default was something like netinfo, dns, then /etc/hosts. Now the hosts file is examined first. You can change that to suit your preferences in any version of OS X.

  7. Re:Why shouldn't felons vote? on Senators Clinton and Kerry Submit Open Voting Bill · · Score: 1

    If you can't pay the price, don't take the risk.

    They paid the price. They served their time. Where does the removal of franchise come into the story? How can ANY democracy do that to a citizen?

  8. Why shouldn't felons vote? on Senators Clinton and Kerry Submit Open Voting Bill · · Score: 1

    If a person is convicted of a felony that they feel should not be illegal, or if they are wrongfully convicted of a felony, shouldn't they have the right to fight future injustice at the ballot box?

    If a copyright infringement conviction were to make it impossible for you to vote, who will stop DMCA++?

  9. Read on Microsoft AntiSpyware thinks Firefox is Spyware · · Score: 5, Informative

    What made you think the screenshot was photoshopped (bar the fact you didn't get the same results?)

    In the linked forum, the person who posted the image said so?

  10. Joke on Microsoft AntiSpyware thinks Firefox is Spyware · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's a joke. Read the forum in linked to in the summary. Why is this on Slashdot w/out the foot icon?

  11. Break identifiers up! on Optimizations - Programmer vs. Compiler? · · Score: 1

    bool nothanks;

    //do you mean:
    if(nothanks){
    //it doesn't belong to Hank! (Not Hank's)
    }

    //or do you mean:
    if(nothanks){
    //They didn't want any (No Thanks)
    }

    Please break your identifiers apart with underscores or mixed case!

  12. Bandwidth Cost on Fan Group Creates Full-Length Discworld Movie · · Score: 5, Funny

    And another 300 euros will be spent thanks to the direct video link on Slashdot.

  13. Evil Bit! on Regulators Lose Piracy Battle · · Score: 1

    Actually, I think it's just the return of the evil bit.

  14. Not invented for handheld use on AlphaGrip Starts Mass Production · · Score: 1

    Chordic and split keyboards were not invented for that reason, they were attempts to come up with better keyboard designs for computing while standing or walking.

    Chording keyboards were invented by Doug Engelbart, inventor of the mouse. It was designed so one hand could type and the other could point. His BAT chording keyboard sits on a desk and cannot be used while being carried.

    Links:
    The Sound of One Hand Typing
    Site selling the BAT keyboard

  15. VPC is fine on x86 Assembly on Mac OS X · · Score: 2, Informative

    As a Mac user who has contributed to a popular assembly language text book, I can say with some authority that VirtualPC will get you by pretty well. Some of the advanced terminal functions will fail if you're not it DOS, but they'll work better under VPC w/ DOS than a real PC and XP.

  16. Re:s/Weary/Wary/ on Canadian Government Weary of Patriot Act · · Score: 1

    So... your suggestion would be that since we supposedly did all this stuff, we shouldn't do anything about it now?

    First off, there's nothing suppositional about it. The things I mentioned are all a matter of public record.

    I thing we really aught to fix the mess we made ... but openly. Instead of going around blowing things up, our president should make a public international apology for the harm we have caused, and ask for forgiveness. Then we should embark on several multinational efforts to fix these situations one by one.

    Of course this would mean admitting that what we did was wrong. That's unlikely because the people responsible for the problems are still people of great influence. Take a look at Bush's advisors and the people involved with Iran/Contra. The assholes who fucked over Latin America and the Middle East in the name of defeating Communism are still there. 9/11 is a direct result of their (frequently illegal, always immoral) actions.

    If only the pro-lifers would value post-birth life as much as they do fetuses, we could get all of those jerks where they belong - in prison.

  17. Operating as expected on If The Problem Persists, Reboot The Car · · Score: 4, Informative

    Have you ever heard of an immobilizer? Many modern car security systems have them. My ex's 1995 Thunderbird has one. Immobilizers make it impossible to start the car if the security system detects a breach. Resetting the security system using the key fob is not usually allowed while it still detects a breach.

    What happened here is that the security system was triggered, engaging the immobilizer. The system would only reset once it detected that the car was secure. This is how it is designed to function.

  18. Re:s/Weary/Wary/ on Canadian Government Weary of Patriot Act · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Remind me again how DS1 had anything to do with our freedom.

    Also, don't forget which "freedom loving" nation put Hussein in power and gave him the only WMD he ever had. How many dictatorships have we established over the years?

    Have you ever heard of the School of the Americas? The US is directly responsible for most of the torture and brutality that went on in Latin America in the 20th century. I have family on the receiving end of the results of those wonderful lessons in "freedom."

    I don't beat up random people, that does not make me a coward. Learn some history before you go shooting your mouth (and your guns) off again.

  19. Re: The difference on Federal Obscenity Rule Nixed In Internet Porn Case · · Score: 1

    To be honest, the fundamentalists (of any stripe) who insist on having the .gov enforce their religion must not have much faith in it. Otherwise, they wouldn't need the .gov to enforce it.

    There's a .sig in there somewhere, if only someone would take the time to extract it.

  20. Re:You cannot legislate anything but morality ... on Federal Obscenity Rule Nixed In Internet Porn Case · · Score: 1

    You can legislate that one may not infringe on the freedoms of another. That covers theft, murder, etc. Religious morality is a crutch for the week willed.

  21. The difference on Federal Obscenity Rule Nixed In Internet Porn Case · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I don't tell [insert moralizing group here] that they have to [insert activity that group dislikes]. Many of them like to tell me that I can't [same activity from previous sentence].

    Take student prayer for example. A law that says you can't pray is wrong. A law that says you must pray is also wrong. A law that says you can pray if you want to but no government employee in authority over you is allowed to influence that decision one way or another is ok, but redundant.

    By wrong I mean unconstitutional and anti-freedom. By redundant I mean that it is already in the constitution, so why write another law?

  22. Re:Yes, but... on Linux On Your Tablet PC · · Score: 1

    I didn't use the ide cable hookup. I used the parallel port to transfer realtek drivers to the tablet and then I used a pcmcia ethernet card to transfer peanut linux. Since I use loadlin, I didn't need to change the boot sector at all. I use some tool (parted?) to shrink the FAT16 partition and create a Linux partition (Reiser or ext3, I don't remember). The system still boots into Windows 95. There's a DOS boot menu that lets me go straight to Linux if I have a keyboard attached so that I can select that option. By default it fully boots into Windows 95. I have a shortcut on the desktop that runs loadlin in DOS mode to switch to running Linux.

    I did all of this to avoid the ide cable installation method.

  23. And? on Linux On Your Tablet PC · · Score: 2, Informative

    I've got linux running on my Fujitsu Stylistic 1200. It's a tablet from 97. It came with Windows 95 and has run Linux (via a loadlin) for years.

  24. Fink is apt-get, dpkg, etc for OS X on Think Secret Predicts Sub-$500 Headless Mac · · Score: 1

    As a Debian user, you will miss the package management.

    Not if you use fink. Fink got me to install Debian on my old SuSE box.

  25. Re:Linux and OS X side by side on Next G5 Multitasks Operating Systems · · Score: 1

    The OS does run directly "on the metal" the "metal" is designed to be able to switch operating systems the way and OS switches processes. This is much more efficient than any software virtualization solution. There is no underlying OS.