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  1. 101 reasons not to patch and unpatch repeatedly on Kernel 2.4.14 is out · · Score: 1

    1. You'd get about the same result from abusing Babelfish.
    2. ditto
    3. ditto
    ..
    101. ditto

  2. Programmers cannot discuss problems w/out code on DeCSS Injunction Reversed In CA Case · · Score: 1

    I dare you to try talking to a programmer about anything more than cosmetic features without code.

    I pray for your soul also as you attempt to do that.

  3. Re:Ease of use on A Strategic Comparison of Windows Vs. Unix · · Score: 1

    Unix makes the computer do all the work but you need to express your wishes to it in words using high level constructions such as all the files in this directory, that directory and those other directories.

    Windows makes you do all the work but you can point and click at it like a two-year old pointing at candy, if you can find the damned file you need to drag in the first place.

  4. Re:What can be done about terrorism? on More On Tragedy · · Score: 1

    Methinks you're blowing it out of proportion. You need very little planning for a hit like this. You have a target. You get people on a plane. You drop the plane. It could have been planned in a few hours.

    You've been watching too many movies. It takes much more work if you're attacking a defended target, or attacking on the ground because those take more time giving your target an opportunity to evade or counter.

    The World Trade Center is unprotected from the air. Nothing would have stopped that plane.

    That said, it was most likely a glitch. No one has yet claimed responsibility. Attacking targets without claiming responsibility is a funny way to get people to do what you want them to do.

  5. Whoopie cushions and the FBI on Slashback: Picnic, Sperling, Quickliness · · Score: 1

    Microsoft isn't guilty here either (unless it misconfigures itself) though Frontpage isn't exactly all that great.

    The person who is guilty is the guy who configured Frontpage Extensions or IIS.

    Calling Brian K West guilty is like saying a guy who sits on a whoopie cushion lacks manners.

  6. Re:I have to the right to not speak and to not vot on Australian Court OKs International Net-Defamation Suit · · Score: 1

    #1 on the top 8 worst list is means it's the worst of the 8. You read the list backwards (just to annoy people) or you're too lazy to process the information completely as presented.

  7. Re:I have to the right to not speak and to not vot on Australian Court OKs International Net-Defamation Suit · · Score: 1

    It's in the EC (European Continent) not the EU. Britain has refused to join.

  8. Re:Spreading the blame on Slashback: Picnic, Sperling, Quickliness · · Score: 1

    Um no. That's how the law is worded. It makes bumping into things that are not supposed to be there illegal and makes a murder of the bumper (not to mention the ludicrous melodrama that ensues; you'd think having your site cracked is like getting cancer).

    I thought getting 99 years for stealing sunglasses was bad (Texas).

  9. I have to the right to not speak and to not vote on Australian Court OKs International Net-Defamation Suit · · Score: 1

    Free will is as much not being forced to be somewhere as it is allowing someone to be somewhere.

    Simple: If I am somewhere at one time I am not elsewhere.

    Detail: The purpose of a particular place to be cannot be allowed to be considered in the support of a law.

    Consequences: Highways are for travel therefore there is nothing wrong with requiring people to use said highways. Sunday is for your salvation therefore you should be required to attend.

    People have forgotten the value of zero, nothing, nada, zip, zilch, silence, boycott, apathy.

    Top 8 worst places to live:
    1) Afghanistan
    2) Left over ruins of the cold war
    3) China
    4) Australia
    5) The EU (socialist bastards)
    6) UK
    7) Canada (socialist wanna bes)
    8) US

  10. A legit key to an apartment complex without doors on Slashback: Letters, Time, Revision · · Score: 1

    Giving someone a legit apartment key (personal not site admin login) to an apartment complex (said site) without doors (to protect other sites from users) does not a cracker make.

  11. Relativism sucks on The Dangers Of Protecting Free Speech · · Score: 1

    Every age is different. True. Every day is a new day. True.

    So what? What's your point?

    What's that got to do with making someone else do work without getting paid and forcing him/her to live in the quarters you choose for him/her?

    You probably think slavery is gone (not true) because it's an age of different values (even if it were gone, this is the wrong reason it's gone in some areas - hint hint revolution).

    Poverty will be with us always. So will power tripping and abuse of others and attacks on civil rights.

    The values of today are the same they were ages ago. Somebody struck a successful blow and the dominant values changed sides, but the values remain. You can't kill values. Having too many people who support one value system will breed antivalues and cause people change their minds.

    Do you really think that when slavery was outlawed in the US it was because there was concensus? Revolutions do not come out from large concensus.

    You're saying the times were different. Guess what? That's about as pointless a statement as a child saying that balls bounce. So what?

    You left out the logic between your observation and your conclusion. That is if you could even call it an observation.

    Go away. Ewwwwwwwwwwwww, relativism. Ptooooooey!

  12. Re:This is just plain silly. on Lower Your Insurance Premiums: Use Linux · · Score: 1

    Since when is Windows a mainstream server OS for Websites?

  13. Re:"Losing" what you never had on Ring-Tone Royalties · · Score: 1

    Losing what you spent money to make. How's that?

  14. Re:Again with the backdoors on Brewing Storm: Stealth, ISPs And Copyright · · Score: 1

    Because others were tested and found to be possessing the degenerate gene sequence that cause them to want to stop encryption.

    Everyone knows they're not responsible for such defects but they are still susceptible to their influence.

    --end sarcasm

  15. Re:Incoming! on MSN Buys 500,000 Qwest.Net Customers · · Score: 1

    VA Linux has pulled some nasty shit lately. Quite a few people treat them like they treat MS.

  16. Joint ownership of content as a deterrent on Responding to DMCA Infringement Claims · · Score: 1

    Pay multiple people to be copyright researchers.
    They assume responsibility of copyright matters by being joint owners. Now you split them into different groups. Those familiar with tablature issues, those familiar with recording issues, etc.

    So now if there's an attack from legalspace they have to contend with having to sue multiple people in different cases on different counts just to shut your site down.

  17. Re:oh yeah that proves something: NASA deserpation on Tito In Space · · Score: 1

    Tell that to the Queen of Spain. This is why the only people who do anything are extremists (Columbus cutting down natives is extreme to me) because the capable are too chicken to have respect for themselves enough to do something most people don't believe in.

  18. Plastic surgery in space on Tito In Space · · Score: 1

    Imagine the possibilities. You could turn anyone into anything. Every cut, graft, splice, and stitch is effortless... As long as you can grab and hold onto the scalpel.

    You see we can do anything in this age. We just won't know what it is until it's done.

  19. SSince when is proposing a solution offtopic? on Threatening Online Tablature · · Score: 1

    Since when does talk amongst yourselves mean
    repeat the same old rhetoric. I was proposing a solution. Traxinspace has a huge following they could buy out songfile.com in no time.

  20. They're in China on Tito In Space · · Score: 1

    They must be. I mean they can see everything from up there so if they can see China they must be in China.

  21. Modcrackdot - we could have geek contractors on Commercial Support for Open Source Products? · · Score: 1

    Flamebait? What the fuck?

    By having people willing to pay to have their changes supported just like mechanics fixing cars fixed by other mechanics you make a buck and you can even go independent fixing other people's code.

    And hello users YOU GET CLOSER TO OWNING SOFTWARE!

  22. Re:That has to be the simplest and most flexible on Commercial Support for Open Source Products? · · Score: 1

    Name a contacting job that doesn't do that with estimates?

  23. Napster has credibility on Napster Judge Groks Filename Variation · · Score: 1

    They didn't invent filename renamability filesystem writers did.

  24. Re:Modula3 on Open Source Programming Language Design · · Score: 1

    Just pass by reference and return nothing.

  25. Oberon already encourages open source on Open Source Programming Language Design · · Score: 1

    MODULE Hello
    IMPORT Out
    Out.String("Hello World");
    Out.ln;
    END Hello

    There's no main(). Anything can be a library, a program, a data file, or source code.

    Oberon just has no corporate backing.