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  1. Re:None of this scandal really matters until 2006, on Cringely on Domestic Eavesdropping · · Score: 2, Funny

    Correct me if i am wrong, but is it not 2006?

  2. Re:Benjamin Franklin, the truest of American Heroe on Happy 300th Birthday Benjamin Franklin · · Score: 1

    Actually I belive that you can still get the death sentence for treason today.

  3. Re:No copyright == no GPL too! on Swedish Filesharers Start 'The Piracy Party' · · Score: 1

    You just got yourself a fan.
    Have a nice day

  4. Re:The lack of natural light on Coffin Hotels Opening Near You · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Suppose you come in at an odd hour - say 3pm but are suffering from jetlag. Then it would be a good thing not to have any natural light, and a soundproff hotel room.

  5. Re:On the other hand... on China Declares War on Internet Pornography · · Score: 1

    absolutely none at all.

  6. Re:Computer from scratch... on Makers · · Score: 1

    Slashdot ran a story about a guy who did create his computer from scratch - he spend two or three years to make a 3Mhz computer.

    As for the OS, i suspect by the time you have made your own computer it will be no problem to write the OS.

  7. Re:Users != Root. on Linux in a Business - Got Root? · · Score: 1

    There is another interesting problem. I copy a shell to my homedir and set the suid bit, then i use your program to chance the ownership of the file to root.

  8. Re:Users != Root. on Linux in a Business - Got Root? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You get stuff like the guy who has the root password for the purpose of redundancy
    This is a good policy, but i read a book at sugested giving it to the boss in a sealed envelope. That way if you die, the system is not locked forever but the boss cant mess with it, and if somebody does he can prove he did not.

  9. Re:Sad story on Portable Stereo Creator Gets His Due · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well the inventer of FM radio fourth with the RCA (his employer) over his patent rights and afther they used every dirty trick in the book, they declared his patents invalied. They he fourth with them in court for six year before he was broke. They offered him a settlement that did not even pay for the court fees.
    Then absolutely defeated he jumped out of a window.

    I think this inventer was more lucky, he got the money at least.

  10. Re:Nothing to see here on The Return of the Commodore? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Even if they make the best software ever, they are still going to get disapointed customers - because what you are buying is not so much a computer as a piece of you childhood - all the memories about learning programming and the fun you had. When you bring it back all you get is a computer, and you will be horiblely disappointed.

    Na let it stay as just the memories, you will be happier that way.

  11. Re:Russ for President in 2008 on Senate Fails To Reauthorize Patriot Act Provisions · · Score: 0, Troll

    You remember Soviet Russia, right? Where secret police recorded every conversation, where people were arrested without warrants or habeas corpus, where "enemies of the state" were sent to gulags?

    For those who cannot remember it, you can just take a look at the us (they still have not thrown the patriot act out of the window and they still have a tyrant as a president)

  12. Re:Not exactly on Wikipedia's Accuracy Compared to Britannica · · Score: 1

    A word is neither true nor false

    I know to that are.

  13. Re:Nasties on the net on Australian Senator Wants to Censor the Net · · Score: 1

    1) Even better - comment objectively on their taste.
    2) Show them your stuff.
    3) Get accused for sexual molestion of you children
    4) ???
    5) Profit

  14. Re:WTF! on Australian Senator Wants to Censor the Net · · Score: 1

    The same thing (ie blocking child porn) happend in Denmark, Sweeden and Norway. So far it is voluntary (for the telcos), but this may chance if they do not all block the sites.

    And the most idotic thing is that they use DNS poisning (ie if a site is blocked, the telcos DNS server is reporting a wrong IP), wich means that any pedophile can just use any other free DNS server on the net. Totally ineffective.

  15. Re:The solution on A Solution for the Ten Letter Acrostic Puzzle? · · Score: 1

    You could try /usr/dict/words.
    But if you solve it now - using a computer or otherwise - the best you will get is a mention i a online newspaper article. Today nobody cares about how smart you are.

  16. Re:They just never quit on BellSouth Wants to Rig the Internet · · Score: 1

    More likely he has a lot to explain to a mob of amased scientist when he interviews multiple clones of a dead president.

  17. Re:I'm buying "COM" and "ORG"!!! on Dotless Top Level Domains? · · Score: 1

    That is stupid. What you should do is set up a server with a lot of commercials (popup, popunder, popsideways, flash, addware) and a ton of bandwith.

    Then whenever a person types in .org or .com he will get redirected to your site. The money you are going to earn on ads is going to blow your mind.

  18. Re:Are you paying attention? on A Flu Pandemic? · · Score: 1

    300:5

    Calculating on those numbers i get that for every 300 persons 5 will die. Sucks to be one of those ofcause but still it is only 1,667 percent chance of departure form this planet. If this does not just turn out to be SARS all over again -- eg very few deaths lots of fear.

    So I am not overly fearfull.

  19. Re:That's how it goes on A Flu Pandemic? · · Score: 1

    Cruel as it is, yes it would be a step in the right direction. No nature is not known for being soft, and yes I hope we will be saved but there are too many people on this planet and we are all going to die someday.

  20. Re:Yesterday's technology on AOL Fight Narrows To Two Players · · Score: 1

    Well thereis always sdf.lonestar.org (run by the people from freeshell.org - so if you signup you also get your own gopher space) or gopher.well.com or gopher.floodgab.com

    Good hunting.

  21. Re:QC in the US Only?? on Quantum Computing Regulation Already? · · Score: 1

    If No Such Agency had one, i would be just as secret as the Allies decryption of the Enigma

  22. Re:Tourisme on FBI Widens Use of National Security Letters · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well, i checked it some time ago and if you dont have any health problems and can speak reasonly good English or French, and can save up enough money to live a year or already have a job you can get a permenant permision to live and work in Canada.
    That is as soon as you have worked a year after finishing your degree.

  23. Re:Don't you understand? on Congress Pays You $3 Billion to Keep Watching TV · · Score: 1

    If they could read them.

    You do hopefully mean that they dont want to right? I mean, they teach how to read in schools right? Otherwise you would have to make a learn to read program simular to that you can find in Venezuela and Cuba.

  24. Re:Guess not on Tier One ISPs Dying · · Score: 1

    Well then i hope he strikes soon, so i can kill this slashdot habit of mine.

  25. Re:Why are we hiding from the police, daddy? on Vim 6.4 Released · · Score: 1

    Hehe, i do not use vi - if emacs is not installed i will use ed as i also like this editor. If neither is installed then they can fuck off (or install ed - its not like it is a big drain on disk space)