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  1. Re:Diversity often is discrimination on Steve Ballmer Responds to Discrimination Issue · · Score: 1

    Yes.

  2. Hold the fucking phone... on FBI Cracks Down on Piracy of Obsolete Game · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I'm a bit confused here.

    Back in november, when Nintendo asked for your help in tracking down these "N64 controllers" full of hacked roms, everyone thought it was great, lined up at their e-door to help

    Now when they've finally raided the warehouse and put a stop to it, there's nothing but "bitch bitch bitch copyright is teh suck".

    Fuck you guys, I'm going home.

  3. Re:scooped by Saturday Night Live on Hole Drilled to Bottom of Earth's Crust · · Score: 1

    It's true, this is my goodbye post. I'm coughing up the :10bux: and making the jump to General Bullshit & SH/SC over at somethingawful. The high real monetary cost (for 12 year olds) of doing something stupid does a great job of keeping the idiots supressed.

  4. Re:Blogging from the office on EFF Guide To Blogging Anonymously · · Score: 1

    I end my frI ends. And yeah, winpopup and netsend lead to death in the public school environment. God knows what would've happened if someone had ever found a real exploit.

  5. Re:openness, competition on Congress Ponders Opening up iTunes DRM · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's kind of what happens... Sony makes a $0.025 patent royalty on each disc sold.

  6. Re:how are they better on Next Gen Oxyride Batteries Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    All the NiMH AA's I bought 5 years ago with my digital camera were 1600 mAH, I still have all of them, the new set I got a few months ago is 2400, they charge fully in less than 2 hours, don't have problems with deep discharge cycles... Honestly, I can't understand why everyone's not using them.

  7. Re:Why not go to DST permanently? on Daylight Savings Change Proposed · · Score: 1

    Let the spoiled little brats ride the bus. QED.

  8. Re:Well on The Art of Purchasing Used Games · · Score: 2, Informative

    OK, so you can just call up SOE and get a new key for it? That makes sense then.

  9. Re:Well on The Art of Purchasing Used Games · · Score: 1
    EB, Gamestop and other such chains normally keep a decent Used Games selection in stock.
    Sometimes a little too decent... I can recall at least twice finding "used" MMORPG expansions. And then, y'know, laughing maniacally at the thought of some poor misguided fool buying them.
  10. Re:Why? on Crack Found in Shuttle Tank · · Score: 1
    Dialing numbers instead of asking your operator to connect you with "Steve from down the block"? Touch Tone? Not having to share your line with all the neighbors? Digitized fiber trunk lines? International calling via satellite instead of transoceanic cables?

    I think you're the one who's got the crack.

  11. Re:Torrent Roar! on 10.4 on Display at FOSE · · Score: 1

    Yep, there's a much deeper divide in this country than Red States vs. Blue States... the gulf between people who liked Napoleon Dynamite, and people who ARE Napoleon Dynamite.

  12. Re:retarded on Finally ... RoboShark! · · Score: 1

    yeah, everybody knows that the real 'tards are all Newfies. Ahh Newfoundland... giving the American South someplace to point the finger and say "See! We're not the bottom after all"

  13. Re:Torrent Roar! on 10.4 on Display at FOSE · · Score: 1

    Goddammit, why can't slashdot pull together and condemn that piece of shit movie for the geek bashing tripe that it is? It contains no plot or character development whatsoever (and even 2Fast2Furious managed to pull that off).

  14. Re:Pffft Cracking? The Feds have backdoors! on Feds Hack Wireless Network in 3 Minutes · · Score: 1

    Backdoor? More like "Unchanged default settings". Works just fine IRL.

  15. Re:More likely... on Google Adds Satellite Imagery to Maps · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Except that Aerial Ortho dataset was produced by the USGS and is public domain. Check out World Wind 1.3 for a smooth-scrolling, translatable, 3d globe that dynamically downlads any dataset you request and grabs higher res versions as you zoom in.

  16. Re:Bloggers as Journalists on U.S. Blogger Breaches Canadian Publication Ban · · Score: 1
  17. Re:Toothing has been filed as novely item #127345 on What Ever Happened to 'Toothing'? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sir, you have directed me to my new calling in life. From the bottom of my heart, thank you.

  18. Re:Bloggers as Journalists on U.S. Blogger Breaches Canadian Publication Ban · · Score: 1

    Why should an Australian follow a draconian American law?

  19. Re:YAD! on WBEL4 Preview Ready For Testing · · Score: 1
    Yahoo! Yet Another Distro.

    Just what we need to increase confusion. Look - I agree that there some justification to put this out, but do we *really* need yet another distro? A few well placed distros, each appealing to a market segment would be much better than this helter skelter rush for every man and their (yellow) dog to have a distro.

    Wouldn't it be better to have 3 distros, one for techies, one for desktops and one for servers with paid with support. I know that those of you who use distro 'X' will yell "But {Slack,SuSE,SuSEE} doesn't quite match my requirements". Those 3 key distro's are very good, and I'm sure if theres some feature on some other distro, it will be available on one of these when all that hacking talent goes to just support them.

    I'd rather we were all talking about and backing 3 very very good distros than over 100 quite good ones.

    Wash, Rinse, Repeat.
  20. Re:Raises a simple question on Patent Databases Complicate Life For Inventors · · Score: 1

    I call an armed libertarian rebellion by 2010.

  21. Re:You're looking at the problem from the wrong si on How to Protect Radio Signals Over Short Distances? · · Score: 1

    Even if you can't send fake GPS signals because of the encryption, it's still entirely possible to jam the system with junk broadcasts on it's frequencies...

  22. Re:Why is this still centralized? on Verisign Recommended to Keep .com & .net · · Score: 1

    So what if somebody from community A wants to see community B's content? Will B have to have a second domain for "outisders"? Claiming that conflicts aren't a problem because nobody would want to see both sites is incredibly shortsighted.

  23. Re:MMORPG? on GTA3 and Vice City now Online Multiplayer · · Score: 1

    That actually sounds a lot like star wars galaxies.

  24. Re:Business Our Way on Hacking Mac OS X · · Score: 1
    ...and how many of us have the facilities to back up 60GB? Not me.
    What's your excuse for NOT having the facilites to backup 60GB? an 80 gig drive is only $57 nowadays.
  25. Re:netmeeting on VoIP Wiretapping · · Score: 1

    I would assume that if your traffic crosses the PSTN at any point, it would be fair game.