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  1. Colonization! on Wikipedia's $100 Million Dream · · Score: 1

    Sid Meier's Colonization! I would love to have an open source and Linux version of that! Yes, I know of FreeCol, but that's not the same...

  2. Re:You're on it baby.. on Creating a Backboneless Internet? · · Score: 1
    Nice post!

    Also, TCP is designed to be fault-tolerant, but also semi-optimizing, taking the shortest perceived route to its destination. So unless a backbone is down, most (if not all) traffic from you to a host between which the backbone sits will travel on that backbone, very predictably. TCP is not privacy-sensitive.

    TCP has nothing to do with routing. You're talking about IP...

    The strength of the mesh is algorithmically tied to the number of other nodes each node is connected to.

    Yes, for n participants, you'd need (n*(n-1))/2 links, wich is O(n^2) and is already unfeasible with relativey small values of n. For example, you'd need 300 peer-to-peer links for 25 peers...

  3. FastTrack wants to fine Wine? on Fast Track to Fine Wine? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Was I the only one thinking FastTrack wanted to fine the Wine project for something?

  4. Re:Sterile thoughts on Hackers Forced Announcement of 10th Planet Find · · Score: 1

    Fine. You can begin by publicizing all of your personal, medical, and financial records, including your mother's maiden name, your card and PIN numbers, email addresses, account passwords, treatments for any STD's, and so forth.

    Well, I think the true hacker credo actually says, "free public information, protect private information"!

  5. Re:You humans are so arrogant! on Tempel 1 Impact Day After Tomorrow · · Score: 3, Informative

    Protons can't escape from stars, silly. All the tons of gravity would get in the way.

    He wrote "photons". And even protons escape stars. Did you ever hear of solar wind?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_wind

  6. Re:whaaaaa? on 'DVD Jon' Breaks Google Video Lock · · Score: 1

    Did you comply to the GPL and relase the source? He only needs to do so if he distributes the result.

  7. Two simple rules... on New Model Solves Grandfather Paradox · · Score: 2, Interesting

    To avoid contradictions in time travel, two simple rules must apply:

    1) You can observe, but not alter the past.
    2) You can alter, but not observe the future.

  8. Re:Hmmmm... on New .XXX Top Level Domain · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why not .orgy ?

    What about .cum?

  9. Re:OK Colin, Well done on Hyper-Threading, Linus Torvalds vs. Colin Percival · · Score: 1

    I wonder what people would say if this was about Microsoft and not Linux?

    It is not really about Linux or any specific OS. It's about Intel's HT-implementation and on what level to fix it. Windows crypto applications could suffer from this vulnerability as well.

  10. No Joke on Gmail's Birthday Presents · · Score: 2, Informative

    And this isn't even an April Fool's joke, it's for real! :)

  11. Re:Oh come on, ask something important! on Mozilla Foundation Chief Mitchell Baker Replies · · Score: 1

    Anyone else who thought it was a girl?

    She is a girl.

  12. Re:I never realized spam could be so lucrative! on Broadband Is The Secret To South Korea's Success · · Score: 1

    For every piece of Korean spam I get, I estimate I receive 50 times more English language spam

    Weird, 90% of _my_ spam is in character sets other than latin, most of it Asian...

    Oh wait I know...everyone is supposed to learn English.

    Yes, everyone _should_ learn English, period. Opinion of a German.

  13. Damn! on MPAA Names Dan Glickman To Replace Jack Valenti · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dan Glickman is an avid Linux user, a well-known consumer advocate, vehemently critical of the DMCA and a member of the EFF.

    When I read that sentence, all of a sudden my heart opened up and I was filled with joy and happiness! I felt incredibly warm and fuzzy all over!
    The next sentence almost killed me :-(

    How insensitive and cruel some people can be!

  14. HNB - hierarchical notebook on Best To-Do List Software? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm currently using HNB as my calendar and TODO-List. HNB is a text-mode app:

    HNB Screenshots

  15. Re:every year this happens... on Java Faster Than C++? · · Score: 1
    And how's that different from C++? Unless you believe the first C++ compiler was written in C++...

    Ehm. The first C++-compiler _was_ written in C++!

    http://www.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq.html#bootst rapping
  16. Re:Two competing models on Sun Says Hardware Will Be Free · · Score: 1

    Number 1) is just perverted and unnatural: the _natural_ marginal cost of software/per license is nearly zero for the seller, whereas hardware cannot be produced without costing anything.

    It takes sick corporations to artificially control the market and make it turn in this direction.

  17. Grsecurity vs. Openwall on End Of Development For Grsecurity Announced? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Too bad! It was only last week that I heard that Grsecurity was so promising and more actively delevoped than, for example, Openwall

  18. Re:Vote with your wallet. on Expert Opinions On Linux Gaming's Future · · Score: 1

    Hmm... would be too good to be true :-) The important thing for us, of course, wouldn't be the games themselves, but the side effect that games on Linux could really help spread the OS, making better drivers available, giving us a more equal share of rights in the computing world, etc...

    So, yeah, buy a Linux game today!

  19. Re:Quick Question... on Judge Orders SCO, IBM To Produce Disputed Code · · Score: 5, Informative

    In the Harvard/JOLT webcast video, Darl pronounces his company as one word, SCO, not S-C-O.

  20. Re:Kernel development interests me terribly on Behind the Scenes in Kernel Development · · Score: 3, Informative

    "Linux Kernel Development" is a nice introduction book by kernel hacker Robert Love, and it already covers the 2.6 Kernel.

    It doesn't go into too much detail, but it gives a very good overview and basic understanding of the issues you have to deal with in the kernel! I'm currently reading it and getting enlightened :-)

  21. Re:RtCWeT on Good Online FPS Games/Servers For Beginners? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes! It's fun, it's free (as in beer) and you can play it under Linux!
    But be prepared to get addicted... after a few days, your vocabulary will be reduced to the messages of the quickchat, as happened to the people in the video on this page (hilarious, a must see!):

    http://www.et.gamesunited.de/files.html

  22. Maybe not direct harm, but... on No Harm, No Foul in Heavy Net Use · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...if using the internet leads to a quasi-addiction (like reading Slashdot), you can easily waste many hours a day for years of your life in front of your computer instead of doing something with other people.
    Something that would actually reward you and bring you forward in your life.

  23. Re:Desktop Slide Show on Review: KDE 3.2 · · Score: 1

    Well, ok, it might be bearable if the pictures changed once every half an hour or so. But imagine the same thing with a 5 second interval as syphax is using it :-)
    Psychedelic, baby!

  24. Re:Desktop Slide Show on Review: KDE 3.2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Twin boys? Let me guess, the only reason this doesn't get annoying is because there are only two pictures and they look the same, so nothing actually changes?

  25. Desktop Slide Show on Review: KDE 3.2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The article basically starts off with the _really_ important stuff:

    "You can setup your desktop background as a slide show so that the background picture changes at predetermined intervals."

    Yes! This was the one missing feature I was waiting for! Finally, I can switch to KDE!

    Urgs...