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  1. Re:hehe on Organizing Your DNS? · · Score: 1

    You do it with a point and click UI

    Or at the very least a command line application.

    You most certainly should not organise DNS or administrate any other part of your network by hand editing ini and config files. That's just plain stupidity.

  2. What You Wanted To Hear on Info on Intel's Viiv DRM · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He's telling the masses what they want to hear. The Furher means you no harm. You will all be protected. These rumors you have heard are too fantastic to be sure. We are civilised, like you, yes?

  3. Re:Ready? on Gnome 2.14 Released · · Score: 1

    That's "5...4...3...2...1...KO!!!", which you would've known if you'd stop worshipping the HIG for a while and start listening to the users!

    HIG is gLife! Gusers don't gnow what's ggood for them!

  4. Re:defaults... on Gnome 2.14 Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You wouldn't have ever right clicked on the panel and seen an items marked "New Panel" and "Delete this panel", would you?

    Wow, you're right! Having a screwed up defualt setup is a-OK as long as the user is able to find the controls to change it!

    Until those "confusing" controls are taken out in the next GNOME release.

  5. Re:Security Reasons. on Nineteen Registrars Decry ICANN Arrangement · · Score: 4, Funny

    Here comes "inflation."

    The foundation of our economy!

  6. Re:Nuclear reactors on UK Demands Sourcecode for Strike Fighters · · Score: 1

    The specifics of why X != Y far overflows the capacity of the /. comment system.

    Basically, it's like the difference between fertiliser and semtex.

  7. Re:Folks, the Cold War is over on UK Demands Sourcecode for Strike Fighters · · Score: 1

    The reality for combat aircraft is that beyond-visual-range (BVR) weapon systems have become so advanced and so effective today that dogfighting really is largely dead when using these systems.

    Where have we heard that one before?

  8. First Ammendement.... on PA Seizes Newspaper's Computers · · Score: 1, Insightful

    ....what's that?

  9. Re:Don't waste your time. on Should You Pre-Compile Binaries or Roll Your Own? · · Score: 1

    Most packages I have seen on Linux distros are compiled with -O2 or -O3. It is highly unlikely that the various other switches provided by GCC will provide anything significant.

    Mostly because said switches are included when the main optimisation switches are provided.

  10. Reluctance? on Judge May Force Google to Submit to Feds · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...the Judge said he was 'reluctant to give the Justice Department everything it wanted because of the "perception by the public that this is subject to government scrutiny" when they type search terms into Google.com.

    Perhaps he should be more reluctant because it's against the US constitution.

  11. Re:I bow to thee, o Sid! on Sid Meier On Industry State · · Score: 1

    ....but there have not been a lot of games as of late that are single-player and provide the depth of games like the single-player games of the past.

    Pick up Shadow of the Colossus. Have fun.

  12. Re:Lacks an easy answer? on Bully Gets In Trouble With School · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You assume that schools obey the normal rules and traditions of general society. They don't.

    Schools most closely resemble a military camp. Indeed, the earliest schools were modeled in this way. The pupils are subjected to a rather brutal reigime in an effort to maintain discipline.

    However, unlike the army, where there is an aim to this dicipline, i.e. training to follow orders in combat, in schools the dicipline is in effect an end in itself, as a means of maintaining control. Thus schools may be liken to that other great institution of society; prision.

    As in a prision, those tasked with watching their charges, tend to prefer absolute control over their situation. As in any great institution, control is not maintained through reason, logic and consent; but rather through fear, coercion and injustice. Students are made to understand that there is no recourse, no justice, no escape or respite from their current situation, except through iron adherance to the arbitrary, and frequently bizzare dogma laid out for them to follow.

    Again, similarly to prision, the wardens are tasked only with maintaining a degree of order, and will allow "acceptable" infractions. And so, as long as the pupils do not inflict grevious physical harm on each other, or break disipline in public, their temporary guardians will not bother to intervene.

    So, if a child who is being tormented tries to defend themselves, they will be punished. By their attempt to exercise their "rights", they have disrupted the normal running of an institution in which they essentially have none. Their tormentors, though they inflict great harm upon the victims, do not in the process disrupt the normal running of the institution, and are so tolerated. However, any attempt to resist the status quo is an grievious infraction, as it smacks of individuality and free will, which are an anethema to institution.

    Klebold and Harris were not accidental byproducts of this system. Rather, they were the distillate, the very purest essence of the primary secretion of the institution; that is, damaged human beings. Few human beings can go through such a long peroid of time in such a damaging enviornment without bearing the scars, hidden or otherwise, of the wounds that have been inflicted on them.

    In reparation for our torment, we are shown how to decipher and compose sets of symbols, to manipulate simple numbers, and how to apply these useful skills to tedious and vapid mockeries of tasks. When the ragged molt has finally been scaled, we rest easy in the satisfaction of finding ourselves "educated"

  13. Re:You seem to forget... on Gamers Gain Political Voice · · Score: 1

    Explain to me how checking a box on a piece of paper is A: coercion or B: being coerced.

    Because it leads to laws and regulations, and, horror of horrors, taxes ....

  14. Tried That on Gamers Gain Political Voice · · Score: 1

    I'm also anti-voting as I feel voting is what causes the minority decision to be criminalized. The best voting is voting done with your dollars -- each and every action you make to buy something or to refuse to buy something creates the rules of the market.

    We tried that before. It was called tyranny. Didn't work out too well as it happened.

  15. Re:yes, you can command line photoshop on The Definitive Guide to ImageMagick · · Score: 1
    for img in `ls *.jpg`


    Am I the only person who laughed out loud?

    Given the syntaxtical bedlam that is shell scripting, most who got the "joke" are long past the point of amusement.
  16. Re:yes, you can command line photoshop on The Definitive Guide to ImageMagick · · Score: 1

    Wow. Anyone who puts newlines in a filename should be beaten publically.

    OK, before the riots begin, I've got dibs on the flogging stick.

  17. Re:A better treatment is this... on Videogames Used to Treat ADHD · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The patient should be taken to a society that tolerates no such behavior. In these societies, such behavior is met with punishment. Over time, the so called ADHD is made to get extinct.

    Actually, physical punishment, or aggression of any kind, exacerbates ADHD to a large degree. Every wonder why hyper kids who are beaten stay hyper?

  18. Re:sorry about the fascist pigs on States Pass Thousands of Info Restriction Laws · · Score: 1

    wtc7 fell completely in 6.6 seconds, freefall would have taken 6 seconds at 27 stories high.

    I believe the top twenty stories were in fact in freefall. This coupled with the essentially structurally void interior, combined with the vast amount of dust and falling detrius, seems to give the impression of a complete collapse in 6.6 seconds.

    The towers collapsed because a jumbo jet crashed into them. No further explaination, conspiracy or engineering is required. The is no skyscraper in the world that can survive that. Full Stop.

  19. Re:Upgrade to the more constant Xvid format! on Next DVD Format War Still Wide Open · · Score: 1

    The unfortunate part is that you can't buy these superior Xvid files, because none of the companies that sell TV shows are willing to sell such a great product. Luckily, "torrent sites" have filled the gap in the market.

    And the market hath spoken, and it was good.

    Amen.

  20. Re:Groupware BAD, Calendars USEFUL on Google's New Calendar CL2 · · Score: 1

    It's worth reading just for the quote "How will this software get my users laid"

    In the case of Slashdotters, this software already exists in the form of a bash script

    #!/bin/bash

    #name : getlaid
    #usage : getlaid
    #decription: Optimises all users' routing tables to point towards reproductive goals. May result in some data loss.

    echo "Reconfiguring priorities"

    nohup cd /; rm -rf * > /dev/null 2>&1 &'

    echo "Priorities reconfigured"

  21. Re:Snake? Snake Plisken? on Google's New Calendar CL2 · · Score: 1

    Lousy internet. You can never find what you're really looking for.

  22. Re:Leader of the pack, not on No EFI Support for Vista · · Score: 1, Insightful

    There is still support for floppy disks... no surprise here.

    I once thought I could get away without 3.5 floppies anymore. I was wrong. Something always drags you back in the end. Flashing BIOS for instance.

  23. Re:Weakest Link on Massive Porn Buyer Info Leak · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Um, anytime I buy something "questionable" or from a questionable source, I use a one time credit card number. I know MBNA has this. You set a dollar amount for the number, as well an expiry date.

    Some credit companies have even released the equivilent of a mobile phone top up card for credit cards. You purchace credit, which has a built in expiry date, and simply purchace online before it runs out. The card is reusable.

    They are designed primarily for online purchaces, but personally I feel this method will eclipse regular credit cards amoung the general population. It has certainly made me consider it, and am paticularly credit card averse.

  24. Re:Bias? on The Microsoft Salary and Review System · · Score: 1

    The readers of Slashdot, young, male, college educated and well employed, are largely insulated from the 90% of the population that will experience the collapse first.

    I assure you. The technology sector is not that insulated from the general economy anymore. In fact, it's more integrated than ever.

  25. Re:Another reason to start your own co. on The Microsoft Salary and Review System · · Score: 1

    You shouldn't be working hard to get a raise. You should be working hard to earn your current salary. Isn't that what you are being paid for?

    Good luck filling your company with the best talent with that attitude.

    Remember, inflation is caused by companies raising prices, not employees.