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  1. freedom of choice is nice and all... on Yellow Dog Linux 2.3 Released · · Score: 2, Interesting

    but what really can this do that Darwin or OSX can't?

  2. Re:WHY KDE IS WRONG. on A User's First Look at GNOME 2.0 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    well, Hitler was Austrian. But Mexico is neither of those things. Apparantly neither is America. If people weren't so scared of little to nothing, we'd still be free.

  3. movie memoribilia on Minority Report · · Score: 1

    they filmed part of this in my town. I've not seen it yet, and don't really intend to, so i can say which ones they were. From trailers i've seen, that house with the water around it looked familiar.
    Anyway, because they were here all last summer i've got a copy of the book signed by spielburg and cruise. I am not exactly proud of this, though. Anyone liked the movie or the book that wants this one?

  4. and for its next incredible feet on Satellite Back From The Dead · · Score: 1

    Mateing with VGER to produce more offspring like in that killer robot story last week.

  5. The answer is simple on Moby Says Techie Fans = Fewer Sales · · Score: 1

    He just needs to have more Gwen Stephani camieos

  6. Watching the Watchers on Bringing Echelon In From the Cold · · Score: 1

    Unless all citizens are involved in the oversight, then there is no way to say they won't just blackmail the moderators of what they are doing. J Edger Hoover seemed to have this covered when the most advanced thing being used was a typewriter. Imagine how easy it'll be with the massive supercomputers.
    BUT if everyone know's what's being done, it moots the point of doing it at all. Catch-22; freedom for security. I won't give up the freedom.

  7. too bad... on Fair Use Computer Game · · Score: 0

    that video games arn't protected speech. I am sure you all remember the thread.

  8. Re:Will they fund it? on DOJ Wants ISPs to Log User Traffic UPDATED · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It isn't fair even if they DO fund it. It is just wrong and evil. What about prsumption of innocense and, freedom of press, freedom of speech, due process? How about 'reasonable expectation of privacy'? Fuck the federal government. "...--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it..."

    So there.

  9. UN-encrypted on Slashback: Livermore, Privacy, Nixieness · · Score: 5, Funny

    so is that data not encrypted, or is encrypted by the evil socialist conspiricy that is the United Nations?

  10. Complex assemly language? on NVidia announces Cg: "C" for Graphics · · Score: 0

    then how come I'm always seeing C and C++ bindings for OpenGL and engines, and books about writing games in C or C++? I've never seen "writing spifftactic 3d games in x86 assembler".

  11. Paperboy on Nintendo Ressurecting Classic NES Games to the GBA · · Score: 1

    This was my favorite game when I was a kid. Even my mother and her father became adicted to Paper Boy. If this gets ported, then I'll buy a GBA.

  12. It's not that DNS is being misused.. on Ruling the Root · · Score: 1

    The Internet as a whole was never ment for this purpose! What gurrlpages.com has to do with creating a communications network for defence and research that can survive golbal thermonuclear war is beyond me.

  13. Re:heh.. on Walmart Ships PCs with Lindows OS · · Score: 1

    So are you saying we should expect HURD to be getting real good real fast?

  14. Where I live on Walmart Ships PCs with Lindows OS · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In Gloucester, VA, they just built the largest Super Walmart and distribution centre in the world or some crap like that. So there are probably going to be a lot of bubbas to lazy to drive over to Newport News to go to CompUSA and will buy these things. I don't know why. J-Random Bubba Junior is going to be more hurt than helped by this. We complain about freedom or technical issues. They complain about not being able to play Solitare, read their email, and play the latest copy of some game. They don't need to be running UNIX to do those things. Chances are this will just present them with more options they don't understand. Windows is confusing enough for most people around here, why do they now need to be confused and only able to run "most" microsoft applications? Also, how does it help us to have a flood of people who arn't going to contribute anything back except bitch at us and demand help in chat rooms without saything "thank you" at the end as if we exist soley to be their god damned tech support line?

  15. wheren't we supposd to ... on Neverwinter Nights is Gold · · Score: 1

    be boycotting this very same thing because of it's license or something a couple of weeks ago?

  16. Re:good news for Linux? on IBM Reinvents Punch Cards · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Which is odd because we all know how much bigger and "badder" (cooler, not more not good) Notepad is than EMACS.

  17. CEBAF on Java Powers of Ten · · Score: 1

    http://www.jlab.org/div_dept/physics_division/GeV/ Pac18_meziani.pdf

    If i read this correctly, they CAN.

  18. Re:Dude, you're getting a dell! on Mobile Gaming At Desktop Speeds · · Score: 1

    NoNoNo, it's more like this:
    http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20 020519& mode=classic

  19. Portable computers on Compaq Evo Tablet PC with Transmeta processor · · Score: 1

    If I wanted computing power, I'd stay at my desk. I don't want to spend 3 times more to do 2 times less than I can on my desktop workstation. Not even if i had a beowulf cluster of them.

  20. something tells me they don't care on Where UnitedLinux Got It Wrong · · Score: 1

    from what i've read about UL from previous posts, it doesn't sound to me like they are intent to selling to "us" anyway (not that'd i'd want it even if it were free). They are selling to corporations who don't give a good god damn about the ideology of the free software/open source movement. Linux is still a buzzword. Make it easy and attractive for suites, and it causes more buzz. However, I am sure there are enough IT folk (admins, etc) with souls, that UL isn't going to do very well. This is probably why RedHat is sitting pretty without a care in the world. They are more or less accepted. They have given considerable support to the community through RHAD Labs (Enlightenment, GNOME, Gtk+ themes, etc. funded via this). They are probably evil too, but that's the nature of corprations -- to be evil. Honestly, I don't care either way. I'm happy with BSD-land. I do think UL is evil, but it doesn't phase me either way. I'm not going to have to deal with it -- ever -- and i'm sure a hell of a lot of people will also not have to deal with it, so why worry? it's going nowhere.

  21. don't we... on China Bans U.S. Electronic Scrap · · Score: 3, Interesting

    import most of our "junk" of any kind from China anyway?

  22. Re:newbie? on FreeBSD 4.6 Release Delayed · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I started on 2.2.2 and i've been reading /. for a couple of years. punk-ass bitch.

  23. last weeks 4.6-RC on FreeBSD 4.6 Release Delayed · · Score: 1

    both userland and kernel PPP caused kernel panics for me as soon as i tried to pass data. I don't know why, but I had to rebuild 4.5-RELEASE. I'm glad they're fixing some issues. I'm sure that's one of them. Everything else was working great though...atleast that i noticed.

  24. I like this on EFF Releases "The Tinseltown Club" · · Score: 1

    It's very catchy. Sort of obnoxiouse, but catchy. And thus, gentlemen, and the, err..3 ladies, I am going to burn this to CDR and mail it to my congresswoman, Joanne Davis (R, VA - 1st district). She a dunce who thinks the DMCA is about Napster no matter what i triend to tell her. As such I hate her, and subjecting her to this will be sweet revenge, as well as maybe getting the point accross -- unless that could be considered domestic terrorsim?

  25. Re:I had something like this on Questions for Town Meeting with Congressman? · · Score: 1

    Joanne Davis (spelling)...like I said..Congresswoman. First District.