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  1. You answer your own question on Fandom vs. Fandom.com · · Score: 1

    Because the fan-produced sites make the official sites look the steaming piles of shite they generally are. I have yet to see an "official" site that allows visitors quick and easy access to the information they are looking for, in whatever form, when compared to most fan-made sites. Fan sites usually offer more than official sites and make it easier to get to. And since the majority of users are still on dial-up connections or the equivalent speed, it also doesn't hurt that most "official" sites are composed of bastardized HTML and a bunch of mime-types that takes forever to load and might even crash your browser, whereas fan sites are either put together by people who know HTML -- or at least by people who want to make a web site, not reproduce the passize-zombie format of traditional entertainment.

  2. Re:four-letter domain on Naughty Words in Domains · · Score: 1

    And also fuckyou.co.uk.

  3. Verified, no Gopher in today's Mozilla build on Bring Back Gopher Campaign · · Score: 1

    Unacceptable. "Your browser is broken."

  4. Re:Possibly sane on Whistler MAY Refuse To Run All Unsigned Code UPDATED · · Score: 1
    "It also says that you have the option to send it to them for testing so they can approve it..."

    It might be amusing to repeatedly execute and send them copies of "banned" stuff such as ASFRecorder, Streambox VCR and the like. It would be even more amusing if those apps managed to make it through the approval process.

  5. Kaplan typical of today's lawyers and judges on Kaplan on DeCSS, DMCA, Hackers, and More · · Score: 3

    It is the current government of the United States which is lawless, holding itself above the law of the land, and violating that law of the land by prohibiting us from doing this and commanding us to do that. Today's lawyers and judges don't even know the distinction between legal and lawful. My actions may not always be legal, but they are always lawful. So put that in your fuckin' pipe and smoke it, "your honor".

  6. Yes, actually. on Now How Much Would You Pay? (For Yahoo!) · · Score: 1
  7. Re:No one cares about the PM of Canada on Hemos The Iron Chef · · Score: 1

    And nobody I know really gives two shits about the president of the united states. l

  8. The reason this is so rarely the case... on ICANN Selects New Top Level Domains · · Score: 1

    is that people are stupid, or so arrogant that they feel they can ignore established net.custom. If Network Solutions wasn't so stupid they don't know which side of the TV to watch, they would have been enforcing the RFC right from the get-go. "You're not an Internet provider? Sorry, you can't have .net. You're not a non-profit organization or individual? Sorry, you can't have .org." Instead, we get crap like "Register your domain in ALL these different TLD's so nobody can steal it!"

  9. Re:convicted by jury... on Philly Court Convicts 2600 Staffer on Minor Counts · · Score: 1

    Because due to the unlawful voir dire jury-stacking prevalent since the days when judges decided they didn't have to tell jurors of their right and obligation to judge the law as the facts. To get on a jury, you have to pretend you are a moron who has no opinions about anything.

  10. If... on TMBG Needs a New Dial-A-Song Machine · · Score: 1

    ...the information presented is accurate, it should stand on its own. If not, it should be refuted. But maybe you'd like to whine about meaningless things like karma and moderation, until those you rail against think you care about those things more than they do.

  11. Re:Big Brother on Is The Public Key Infrastructure Outdated? · · Score: 2

    The greatest danger in PKI is that legislation will be passed to enforce the end of the flowchart from the lawyer's perspective: "Lie on X.509, go to jail."

  12. Agreed. However... on Linus Confirms 2.4 In December · · Score: 1

    Modern machines boot fast enough that I finally quit bitching about that one. I think I'm optimistic because I compiled 2.4.0-test9 last night, then patched to test 10, recompiled seven or eight times tweaking various things, and it worked every time. Now if only I could figure out why mkfontdir is missing, and what frigging .deb it's in (everything google swears it's in xfonts-scalable, but that's installed).

  13. Groups do not have rights. on @Home Critic Silenced By @Home · · Score: 2

    Only individuals. Corporations exist at the behest of the state and thus must answer to it. Individuals exist because they are born, and are not dependent on the state to justify the existence or exercise of their rights.

  14. Re:The ps2 news. on Slashback: Nods, Lamentations, Nudity · · Score: 2

    You'd think these people never saw the panty shots in all these Virtua Fighter-like games. If I were into Japanese schoolgirls, be still my beating heart!

  15. Re:savings of digital? on Star Wars Episode II Wraps · · Score: 1

    I don't know art, but I know what I like. And to me, 2001 looks better than almost any "science fiction" movie that came after.

  16. Re:Christ on Kuro5hin Returns · · Score: 1

    So when's Smokedot coming back up?

  17. Putting the Gnu back in OS X on How Good Of A Unix Is Mac OS X ? · · Score: 5

    Follow the instructions here to restore the Unix development toolkit to OS X.

  18. Re:Wewanthackers.com has been up 50 days straight on Making Your Linux Box Secure · · Score: 2
    >Anyway, that's 'crackers' surely?

    Nah. Wewantcrackers.com could make people think it's run by kids. Or parrots. And that would lead people to associate it with pirates, and the stain would be too great for them to ever gain any legitimacy in mindshare.

  19. Re:A car analogy would be more appropriate on Creative Boycotts CeBit Over MP3s · · Score: 1
    "...you don't have to register a car unless you take it off of private property. You can drive it around till doomsday without plates or taxes etc as long as you don't take it onto tax funded roads. Next time some gun-grabber says they want to treat guns like cars just tell them 'Fine, dump the FBI check and and lower the age restriction, teach kids how to shoot in high school (call it Shooter's Ed) and subsidize American gun manufacturers so they can sell guns more cheaply than foreign competitors". Then watch smoke come out their ears."

    - Letter to the editor, The Libertarian Enterprise

  20. Your prayers are sort of answered on Linux Ported to Cisco Routers, BSD chosen by router manufacturers · · Score: 2

    Cish, config shell for linux routers that mimics a Cisco. Hey, it's a start.

  21. Re:The Student Body Cash Cow on Campus Pipeline: Schools Selling Students' Eyes · · Score: 1

    Well, students "should have" as much money as they can earn. Of course, living on credit and putting yourself in debt is exactly the opposite; irresponsible behavior, which others can easily exploit to their profit.

  22. (ugh...thought I hit preview) on A (Suprising?) Viewpoint On RIAA Lawsuits · · Score: 1
    ...that when I take the time to explain the issues, the average person at the very least sees the connections; it's Yet Another Fucking of the Individual. The average person's gotten pretty good at recognizing those, even when they tend more toward apathy than outrage. And more people are, in a million different ways, realizing that when you're mad as hell, deciding not to take it anymore can make you feel a whole lot better. Especially when you actually talk to and interact with others who feel the same way.

    (Contrary to popular belief, libertarian beliefs do not equate to being anti-social and uncooperative.)

  23. Maslow's Hierarchy on A (Suprising?) Viewpoint On RIAA Lawsuits · · Score: 1
    Those few living in preindustrial conditions will have a grim future to look forward to. Perhaps the issues are more far-ranging than you realize? I know that when I take the time to explain (in plain English) and demonstrate DVD and related issues ("Damming the ocean", damn, ewhac, put that essay up on your web page instead of reposting it in slashdot discussions that trickle off the edges of the archive! That's one powerful piece, backed up by great references.)

    You'll win when you realize there is no "we" and "They". There's just us.

  24. Barry would be perfect. on A (Suprising?) Viewpoint On RIAA Lawsuits · · Score: 1
    Dave Barry is one of the masters at explaining Stupidity with a capital S in a way that the average person can easily understand. He's one libertarian-leaning guy, too; Reason Magazine did an interview with him that had some real howlers. His impression of folks who want to Regulate:

    "BUT PEOPLE WILL HAVE SEX WITH DOGS!"

  25. Proofreader trolls need to slap the Foole on A (Suprising?) Viewpoint On RIAA Lawsuits · · Score: 1
    CHAPLAIN: Minister, priest, man of the cloth.

    KAPLAN: Alleged MPAA Toole.