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  1. Re:Fedora (est. 1997) on What's Fedora Up To? Ask the Project Leader · · Score: 1

    The repository merged with RHL and became Fedora IIRC.

  2. Re:Yea, but what's outside on An Older, Larger Universe · · Score: 1
  3. Re:So your customers are getting... on Easy Fix for Scratched CDs · · Score: 1

    Wasn't the chili the stuff that had the finger in it that one time?

  4. Re:First Person on The State Of The Platform Game · · Score: 1
    Now I don't know if those physics and animation problems will be solve to a reasonable degree in this console generation or in the next
    *coughcoughHalf-Life2coughcough*
  5. Linus is a troll, yes, on Torvalds Critiques of GPLv3 and FSF Refuted · · Score: 1

    but he is smart.

  6. Re:Isn't Linux beside the point here? on Torvalds Critiques of GPLv3 and FSF Refuted · · Score: 1

    By definition, future versions of GPL are GPL-compatible.

  7. Re:Has Linus sold out? (was: Re:I can see both sid on Torvalds Critiques of GPLv3 and FSF Refuted · · Score: 1

    Unless I'm greatly misunderstanding GPLv3, all this restriction will do is prevent requiring a signed-binaries requirement. This will not prevent you or the hospital from saying "only allow signed binaries from X, Y, or Z on my computer" but it will prevent malicious guy M from saying "You can only install binaries signed by me which by the way are modified in the style of Trusting Trust to prevent you from using anything but binaries signed by me and there's no way to verify because the only way to figure that out is with another OS and the bootloader won't let you do that because it's my special GPLv2 Router which can only run binaries of OSes signed by me and if you even try to do any of this I'll sue you under the DMCA because I'm Mr. M and only signed binaries will protect you from the evil h4xx0rs and I'm right and RMS is wrong, GPLv2 good GPLv3 bad GPLv2 good GPLv3 bad"

  8. Re:I can see both sides on Torvalds Critiques of GPLv3 and FSF Refuted · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. There merely has to be an option to ignore the signing and let yourself get pwned(IMHO you deserve to get pwned for using binaries but that's a different issue).

  9. Re:GNU project non-existent? on Torvalds Critiques of GPLv3 and FSF Refuted · · Score: 1

    Because they're quite good.

  10. Re:Re-enjoying Half Life on Don't Go Down Memory Lane? · · Score: 1

    Half-Life Source isn't really that much different from the original--the only graphical improvements were better water effects. Google for the Black Mesa mod--it's not out yet but it will have a more HL2-looking HL1.

  11. Re:Well, how many dimensions do we have to work wi on Holographic Storage a Reality in 2006? · · Score: 1

    I assume similar technology is used in write-only memory.

  12. Troll? on Scientists Measure Gravity Change From Earthquake · · Score: 1

    I can see the "Intelligent Falling"ists are out in full play today.

  13. Re:Lips of Truth Speak to Ears of Wisdom on Another New Tomb in the Valley of the Kings? · · Score: 1
    leftover alien tech in the pyramid's basement
    Sounds like a job for Daniel Jackson.
  14. Re:Meanwhile, at the McKay family dinner table on 'Life on Mars' Meteorite Rejected After 10 Years · · Score: 1

    Rodney: I just discovered a method that will detect whether you actually found life in that rock...

  15. Re:Politicians lying to people? No, just Republica on PR Firm Behind Al Gore YouTube Spoof? · · Score: 1

    Those warnings have no legal binding. Alba use them because they look cool and are status symbols.

  16. Re:The Empire on Does the NSA Need More Electricity? · · Score: 1

    Darth Vader's Super Star Destroyer is called the Executor.

  17. Re:I can see both sides on Torvalds Critiques of GPLv3 and FSF Refuted · · Score: 1

    The DRM provisions in GPL3 won't prevent you from making open-source DRM applications. The fact that the app would then become useless will. The DRM provisions in GPL3 are for this and this only: To prevent $EVIL_GUY from using DRM to prevent you from using GPL code that you modified. That sounds reasonable enough for me. You already gave up the "freedom" to make a modification of someone else's GPL code proprietary. Why should you have the "freedom" to say it's GPL but only allow changes you like?

  18. Re:How many Libraries of Congress is that? on Holographic Storage a Reality in 2006? · · Score: 1

    It's 350 kilotubes.

  19. Re:Evil military industrial complex! on Power, Water and Refrigeration in One Box · · Score: 1

    Maybe because the majority of the people killed being sent into space agreed knowing full well what would happen. Most casualties in war are civilians.

  20. Not all of them, just Hezbollah, Hamas, and Likud on Combating Harassing Use of Mosquito Noise Device? · · Score: 1

    -n/t-

  21. I think I have stepped into the Twilight Zone on Inside View on Apple WWDC Rumors · · Score: 0

    because only there would someone say something as incoherent as this.

  22. Re:Why is this surprising? on The De-Evolution of the Ocean · · Score: 1

    Individual humans are created by humans.

  23. Re:peran is a troll. on Apple Announces More Options Troubles · · Score: 1

    Actually, I've seen quite a few people with non-white headphones(a lot of them are earbud-based now). Even though I own an iPod, the iPod headphones suck so badly that I threw them out and now use something from Sony.

  24. Re:Burn Baby Burn! on SCO Stock Continues Downward Spiral · · Score: 1

    You can't just pile SCO stock on it. It's not a truck. It's a series of tubes.

  25. Re:ROFLMAO on Domesday Book Goes Online · · Score: 1

    Good lord, I absolutely love those retarded, offtopic, Slashdot-stalking "twitter sucks" rants of yours. Do you really believe everyone here has an IQ of 15?