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  1. Re:Why choose Mandrake? on Mandrakesoft: 10.1 Official, Good Financial News · · Score: 1

    Their urpmi package installer is the only one that comes close to debian's apt system

    Never used apt, but is it really that much better than portage?

  2. Re:Google thieves my bandwidth on Google Index Doubles · · Score: -1, Redundant

    So use robots.txt. And if you don't want the general public to be able to get to your site, then use mod_auth.

  3. Re:Pre-installed isn't good enough on What's Next For Mozilla? · · Score: 1

    It depends whether you get a modem or a router. I've got a router, and there were no CDs needed.

    Maybe I've just got a good ISP, because they didn't send me anything, and just said "plug in your router in a week".

  4. GUI? on What's Next For Mozilla? · · Score: 1

    Probably a better way for it to be done is to just make the desktop search capability into a library so that we don't need to run a web browser to use it, just a front end, maybe from Mozilla, maybe somewhere else.

    And more importantly to me, I don't need to start X to be able to use it.

  5. Re:Pre-installed isn't good enough on What's Next For Mozilla? · · Score: 1

    Assuming you use dial-up. ADSL can just run through ethernet, with no cd needed.

  6. Re:Smart Holsters! on Hardware That Recognizes You · · Score: 1

    Well, personally, I consider someone with a gun/knife trying to attack me somewhat more of an emergency than a traffic light going out or power steering going out.

  7. Re:AMD crack Intel's dominance? on ATI's Athlon 64 Chipset with Integrated Graphics · · Score: 1

    Ignoring the fact that most desktop users buy from the small-ish shop where you just call to say what you want, and pick it up in a few days/a week.

    These places use boxed CPUs.

  8. Re:Liars on 2004 Election Weirdness Continues · · Score: 1

    medical science isn't at a point where it can define where "life" begins

    And it never will, because that is a philisophical question, not a scientific one.

    we need better education, better promotion of safe sex and abstinence, and we need to instill in youth that sex isn't just something fun that feels good-- it can have long lasting ramifications

    They _DO_ teach that. I'm 15, I can run you through the whole sex-ed course at my school if you feel the need. But what it has come down to so far is only pointing out bad things anyway (STDs, pregnancy, caring for children, etc, etc). But I get the feeling that the teachers are fairly limited in what they are supposed to say, since any time someone brings up morals or religion, the teacher just ducks the question as fast as possible (well, what do you expect? In your country, they took the words 'under God' out of the pledge of alliegence IIRC (I'm not an American, so I'm not really sure), and Australia adopts whatever laws you people in the US have quickly enough).

    And btw, she aborted before her parents found out.

  9. Re:Liars on 2004 Election Weirdness Continues · · Score: 1

    Shit, not everything is a choice like that you know?

    You think condoms will stop people getting pregnant? I know someone who got pregnant, all because of a bad condom that got through quality control at the factory. When you use what is supposed to be "effective" birth control methods, abortion shouldn't be necessary.

    And whether it is murder or not depends on your own opinion. And my opinion is to allow the mother to have that choice in this gray-area.

  10. Re:Liars on 2004 Election Weirdness Continues · · Score: 1

    Not at all - if you believe that a child has the same rights to life as a foetus, then since one option in each choice kills the child, and the other has the same risk to the mother, they should be the same.

  11. Re:Oh, we've violating at treaty! Heavens! on US Ready to put Weapons in Space · · Score: 1

    And do the families of those who were tortured to death by Saddam think it was worth it? Probably.

  12. Re:fp on Music Downloading not Entirely to Blame · · Score: 1

    And this is different from when my parents told me the same thing 15 years ago how? Adults never like the popular stuff of the time, but then they're not the target market.

    I turned 15 about a month ago, and yes, most music now is shit. Myself, I like rock. Listening to Nirvana now, as a matter of fact.

  13. Re:Vast Right Wing Conspiracy on Google Image Index Just Not Updated · · Score: 1

    It comes down to whether or not you consider a person to be alive before they are born, which I don't.

    Everyone has a different perspective.

  14. Re:Vast Right Wing Conspiracy on Google Image Index Just Not Updated · · Score: 1

    That's like saying forcing me to take poison is the same as preventing me from taking it. In one scenario, I end up dead. In the other, I don't

    Well, personally, I think that suicide is well within a person's rights, even though it isn't an option they should take. Just because you shouldn't do something doesn't mean we should outlaw it.

    If you think that a certain presidential candidate _WILL_ cause deaths if he is elected, do you have him jailed? No. Because people have a right to thir own choices.

  15. Re:Christ...how could you support bush? on Blackboxvoting.org Raises Vote-Audit FOIA Request · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Lawbreakings on Vint Cerf on Internet Governance and Beyond · · Score: 2, Funny

    Thou shalt not kill (other people's servers),

    Well, it's been good while it lasted

  17. Re:Fuzzy math on Interview with MPAA Chief Dan Glickman · · Score: 1

    Ok then if you think it's that simple, write a one-sentence definition of stealing. Odds are it won't include copying.

  18. Re:Why not? on USAF Studies Teleportation · · Score: 1

    new laser assault/defense systems, sonic weaponry, or new methods of fighter control mechanisms or something that might be really cool

    And you think it can be done for a million a year?

  19. Re:Storage space on IBM Smart Card OS On A 1MB Smart Card · · Score: 1

    So then find way to namespace the keyspace, for example domain names, like what is used for the java class names, and incorporate that into the key.

    That would stop accidental key conflicts. Not a very good solution, but better than nothing.

  20. Re:Storage space on IBM Smart Card OS On A 1MB Smart Card · · Score: 1

    But I was posting about cards that could also be used for hobbyist applications.

  21. Re:zaa on Australian Counter Strike Shooters · · Score: 1

    I read the two in the same day, so they kind of merged together ;)

  22. Re:zaa on Australian Counter Strike Shooters · · Score: 1

    It was Executive Orders. Tom Clancy is one hell of a writer.

  23. Re:Storage space on IBM Smart Card OS On A 1MB Smart Card · · Score: 1

    Ok, no, I don't know how applets are loaded. What I meant was to have an instruction built into the chip which verifies the integrity of the flash memory based on a hash on write-once media.

  24. Re:Thin ice on U.S. Deploys Satellite Jamming System · · Score: 1

    What I was thinking was that by broadcasting enough RF at the satellite, the s/n ratio would be low enough that the ground station would be lost in the background.

    because it's taken the US this long to come up with something that can do it...

    Oh, you had it alright...except it involved setting off a nuke in the upper atmosphere.

  25. Different effect on Shootout: 'rm -Rf /' vs. 'Format C:' · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Comparing format C and rm -rf / isn't logical.

    rm -rf / simply deletes everything on the filesystem, while format C replaces the filesystem.

    A more realistic comparison would be format c and mkfs -t vfat /dev/hda1