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  1. Re:Free? on MSSQL 2005 Finally Released · · Score: 1

    Surely you can install and run it with Wine? And with the impending PPC -> x86 Mac downgrade, you can probably hack it to run on your Powerbook, too.

    Communist.

  2. Let us not forget the ad hoc hypothesis on New Discovery Disproves Quantum Theory? · · Score: 1

    You can rescue a theory from a contradictory observation by making up excuses on the spot. Also, calling your opponent a "doody-head" works quite well (ad hominem). In fact, rhetorics pretty much trump science any day.

  3. Sour grapes, you Googluser! on Yahoo's Geek Statue · · Score: 0, Troll

    Can't take the fact that the plebian Yahoo! ground Google in the dust on this one, can you? You're just some kind of techno-elitist who no doubt thinks that "Linux" has beaten Windows. Have fun with your Mac laptop (iLaptop? eLapMac?) and GPL 3.0, you communist!

  4. Trivial on Shuttleworth's Commitment to Kubuntu and KDE · · Score: 1

    You just need separate GTK->Qt and Qt->GTK shim libraries, so your KDE apps look like Gnome and your Gnome apps look like KDE. Just don't use them both at once or you will let the magic smoke escape from your box.

  5. Re:Learn to read ROT-13. on Don't Network Administrators Require Privacy? · · Score: 2, Funny
    I personally like to use a one-time pad, which is proven to be the most secure form of encryption. I double it up for added security. Example:
    CODE := PLAINTEXT xor PAD xor PAD;
    This also has the advantage of obscuring the fact that a cipher is being used, in the finest steganographic tradition.
  6. Just type "lose", FFS on Unisys: We No Longer Have A Way Out · · Score: 1

    Why can't people just let up on the "o" key?? You will never need to use the word "loose" on Slashdot, unless you are talking about your mother, wife, daughter, etc.

  7. More to the point... on Economist's Take On Open Source Development · · Score: 1

    ...since when is the government concerned about the best interests of the people? The government is just the enforcement arm of the robber barons, make no mistake. These robber barons are only concerned about protecting their wealth. The government will take no action against them, any more than the government of Mexico will take action against the drug cartels--because the government exists to serve them. Ergo, there will be no actions beside the occasional populist sop to thwart the monied men.

    More specifically, Microsoft won't like it if the government promotes open source. I fully expect the state-level open source stuff I've heard about recently to be quashed at a federal level as "anticompetitive" or some other stupidity.

  8. My voice is my passport. on Fatal Flaw Weakens RFID Passports · · Score: 1

    Verify me.

  9. But is it still GPL? on GPL 3.0 Rewrite Drive Is No Democracy · · Score: 1

    If you modify the wording of the GPL, have you had your license to use the term "GPL" revoked automatically? Or does the GPL licence allow you to modify that part? I'm confused!

  10. Exactly on 5 Years of Habitation on the ISS · · Score: 1

    It is so much cheaper to colonize Antartica than the Moon or Mars, and so much more practical. Plus, after global warming, it may actually be comfortable.

  11. Apple already did it... on Windows and Linux User Interfaces · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Time for the FOSS community to start working on OpenOSX.

  12. Eye candy??? on GORM 1.0 Release to Take on GNOME/KDE? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That *step interface looked hot in the early 90s, but now we have skinnable GUIs instead of Motif and the like. Changing colors doesn't count as "themable", BTW.

  13. Indeed--Sony in violation of DMCA! on More on Sony's "DRM Rootkit" · · Score: 1

    By circumventing trivial measures on my computer to prevent people from installing rootkits, Sony is in violation of the DMCA. One problem--I don't own a single Sony product. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to settle for being a vicarious victim.

  14. "horned ball" on FreeBSD Logo Contest Winner Announced · · Score: 5, Funny

    At least it isn't blue, because then it would be a horny blue ball, which would give the wrong message (albeit perhaps accurate in regard to BSD users).

  15. Re:Old FPSes on Review: Serious Sam II · · Score: 1

    The Catacombs game must be older. Look at its credits--it was written by id software, and it features a Wolf3D engine but in 16 colors. http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/game/3

  16. "disappearing fast"?? on Warm-blooded Fish? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Last I heard, the oceans were getting bigger due to ice caps melting and such.

  17. Re:Don't believe the hype! on Help crack the Java 1.6 Classfile Verifier · · Score: 1

    What's really scary is that anyone would think that binary trees might pose even a minor challenge to a programmer. This speaks to the quality of code monkeys being turned out these days.

  18. No, it's Intelligent Design on Defend Yourself in the Imminent Robot Rebellion · · Score: 2, Funny

    Somebody created the robots, for they possess Irreducible Complexity. As to who this mysterious "creator" might be, is a question for the ages. I mean to say, it doesn't necessarily have to be R. Jesus Christ, but it could be. So it's a theory, not Christian doctrine, that robots are created and not evolved. I mean, where's the missing link between a toaster and Robbie the Robot? It doesn't exist! You can't just magically get a walking declamatory cash register from a toaster.

  19. Re:Allow me to be the first to say... on Vista To Get Symlinks? · · Score: 1

    You can always put a deprecable compatibility shim in between your elite new code and the horrible old kludgey system.

    However, note that UNIX is trapped using C/C++ for most things for BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY REASONS.

  20. Not planning an upgrade? Microsoft sez otherwise on How Many Times Should We Pay For Our Software? · · Score: 1

    I've noticed that Microsoft appears to break features they don't want you to have. Floppies not working with Windows XP Pro is the latest I've found (VFP database support comes to mind). I suspect your XP installs will mysteriously become unstable a few critical security patches after Vista ships.

  21. Re:Chance for change... on USCO Reviewing DMCA Anti-Circumvention Clause · · Score: 1

    "...unworkable or unjust."

    Exactly.

  22. Re:Another Blog, another Bias... on OpenOffice Bloated? · · Score: 1

    OOO is "bloated" in the same way my big multitool is bloated - you can't be small, fast, and everything to everyone on every OS.

    MS Office runs on OSX, lest we forget, which is just a hop and a skip away from running on Linux. How does OOo on Mac compare to MS Office on Mac?

  23. The meta-analysis is nonsense on Which CPU Is Tops in Price/Performance? · · Score: 1

    What you really need to consider is how frustrated you become and how much time over the lifespan of the processor you waste waiting for the slower processor to do its work vs. the faster one. By this metric, buy the fastest thing you can afford at the time (keeping in mind that you need a new video card, the babies are hungry, the rent is due, etc.). You'll find that's what you do anyway. Do we need an article to state the obvious? Yes, yes we do.

  24. Re:A good read... on Windows Drives Company To OpenBSD · · Score: 1

    Putting up a firewall saved seven salaries? WTF hideous hellworms are infesting their networks?

  25. Re:Where do Slashdot editors come from? on The Car That Makes Its Own Fuel · · Score: 1

    Indeed. Fundamentally, the only energy sources we have are solar and nuclear. All of the rest derive from these two (fossil fuels being from old solar energy). If we want to consume power at present levels, nuclear power is the ONLY feasible option. Hydrogen is just a means of shuffling energy hither and yon, and not a very good one given its low energy storage density.