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  1. Re:*sigh* on KDE Goes Cross-Platform, Supports Windows and OS X · · Score: 1

    Competition brings out the backstabber in everyone.

  2. Re:So will this ... on KDE Goes Cross-Platform, Supports Windows and OS X · · Score: 1

    "Evidence disproving the Bible means the evidence is wrong."

    Evidence disproving the bible means humanity is full of shit. That's like you need that kind of evidence anyway. All you have to do is observe anyone, anywhere for direct proof.

  3. wow on IBM Won't Open-Source OS/2 · · Score: 1

    There's people still using it? I know I still have my copy along with amipro and several other apps. But I stopped using it soon after linux became useful over a decade ago. The shell was great but I think other interfaces have surpassed it. As for the rest, like the amiga, too few apps, weak market support, and costly to keep up. It did work well when not running windows and looked great. I kept it for serious work but that was it. Eventually linux took the reigns for the business end and I always needed windows for games anyway. The machine it ran on was eventually sold and I never got around to installing it on a different one. The versions I had were the 2* series and OS/2 Warp 3.0. Warp is still down stairs in its original box combined in a sack with amipro, backmaster, and other applications.

  4. Re:I have a suggestion... on Command Line Life Partner Wanted · · Score: 1

    Now woman maybe, do you know how old the first Jurrassic Park movie is? No maybe about it. I'd seen her in movies before then too. She was in a mars invasion flick in the early nineties that was cute and funny. I pull it out once in a while along with The Iron Giant and At the Earth's Core, among others, for movie nights. I saw a bio on her a few years ago while searching for "oddball"(cheap,hilarious) movies to pickup. Guess she was a graphic designer at that time. Made me wonder about how some of these actors turn out in their regular lives(outside of acting, especially the younger set).

  5. Re:Oh, spare me. on EPA Asserts Executive Privilege In CA Emissions Case · · Score: 1
    "All Americans suck because {insert generalization here}"

    It not "All Americans suck..." it's "The American Government sucks" and guess who's fault it is? And he isn't the only one to blame. We built it, we keep our government running, and we give it permission to operate. It's not just the self-serving fools in Washington who are to blame.

  6. Re:It's easy to be against - solution? on Copyright Lobbies Threaten Federal College Funding · · Score: 3, Insightful
    "but giving everyone the ability to just log on to a p2p program and download whatever they want instead of buying it will lead to a bankrupt industry for music and movies."

    Wow, freedom of choice, that's new. And they're already bankrupt. Wouldn't it be great if it were in dollars too? Then we'd be rid of these distractions that waste our physical and financial lives.

    "I don't know about you but most of my favorite movies weren't made in someones garage with a new mac. It's nice when people do that... but no I don't want to see professional art disappear in favor of someones amateur attempts."

    Everyone was an amateur once. Amateurs existed before there was an industry and they will after it is gone. Professional art, the tastes of the arrogant running roughshod over the tastes of everyone else.

  7. Re:Are the pilots heros? on Failed Avionics a Possible Cause of BA038 Crash · · Score: 1

    That's where the hero part comes in, they didn't worry about their jobs or careers, just their lives and those of the passengers. Okay sounds self-serving to me too.

  8. Re:Lying Is Human on Robots Learn To Lie · · Score: 1

    Well, since we don't have a true definition of intelligence we really don't know do we?

  9. Re:Sweet. on AI Taught How To Play Ms. Pac-Man · · Score: 1
    Either get a baseball bat and smack your friends some sense or get some new friends. Actually forget smacking your friends, just their machines.

    Smack your friends, their machines, and get some new friends. Ah, forget smacking your friends and their machines.

  10. So much on The Doctor Will See Your Credit Score Now · · Score: 1

    for humans having any humanity. Call Putin, launch the nukes, go out right and give some other species a chance. I know they could do worse or better. We just seem to get worse.

  11. Re:I'm not quite sure... on Teleportation — Fact and Fiction · · Score: 1
    "create all kinds of simpler items - such as computers, eyes, steaks, crude oil, or whatever at low cost and upon demand. That'd shake the world economy up..."

    Ah, you mean like a matter replicator.

  12. Re:Incorrect on New Firmware Fixes Previously Bricked iPhones · · Score: 1

    No they're not. At >$500, the only person paying for the phone is you. The provider is also being paid by you and they are redirecting some of it to Apple. So no one is stealing from anybody, well, except consumers being intellectually ripped off by everyone in buying this over-hyped garbage.

  13. Re:Maybe hatred is part of the problem on State of US Science Report Shows Disturbing Trends · · Score: 0, Troll

    Well when religion decides to stop trying to castrate science maybe the bigotry will end. The partisan politics will end only when the big money does.

  14. Re:PowerBooks have had this for a while.... on New Dell Laptops Give Users a Literal Shock · · Score: 1
    Here, Here! It took long enough. Slashdot.org, a geek board? If it took any longer, I was gonna demand they give up their geek cards.

    By the way, that leakage isn't 60Hz. That's killed right after the power connections. Its the primary oscillator running somewhere around 10kHz, there are other rates and it depends on supply type. The higher frequency allows you to decrease the size of the transformer. That's why you don't have to be Johnny Appleseed (I think I got the right one) to lug your brick around. (A 100W 60Hz transformer is a pretty big hunk of metal.) The higher frequency is why it feels like a soft medium rate buzz as opposed to your muscles twitching which is what 60Hz is like.

    Usually if your feeling this at the case it has a couple of causes, harmonic transfer and direct connection. Remember at higher frequencies you are the rest of the circuit, Thank you Nikola Tesla, and thats why it's happening at all. It's probably below 10kHz too if you're getting shocked pretty hard as higher frequencies tend to flow more on the skin surface and aren't that noticeable. By the way, you and your laptop are radiating this electrical noise as well. The fix is a capacitance ground connection from the secondary circuit in the power supply to the ground on the cord and a capacitance shunt across the secondary outputs to eliminate other strays. A Proper grounded cord and a working grounded outlet fix this if the supply itself is a good one.

    This problem often occurs in cheap or badly designed power supplies. But defective grounding capacitors also can cause it -- have your brick checked today.(there's an ad) Common mode leakage tends to be ignored in consumer electronics since it often doesn't mess up your unit, just everyone else's.

  15. Re:A human analogy on Some DNS Requests Ruled Illegal in North Dakota · · Score: 1

    Out here in the sticks thats always been true. Still doesn't stop people from ignoring it sometimes. There are times when you have to as well or people couldn't interact and society couldn't function. I've noticed its townies who seem to get it backwards, and on the internet as well. Your house is still private property, so is the server in it and the information on that server. The plantiff blew it by inadvertantly making the info available to whoever asked. The defendant did by accessing a server that he knew he was banned from. Basically the suit was to shut down a spam investigator who had caught the company misbehaving. The company could have stopped this by reconfiguring the server but that might have made sense. Now that it's public I wonder if the feds will go after the plaintiff.

  16. Re:Earful on Some DNS Requests Ruled Illegal in North Dakota · · Score: 1

    Send the more intelligent comments, preferably the right ones. That way he might learn how he blew it. Is it just me or isn't spamming illegal? If it is, shouldn't the plaintiff be under FBI investigation for criminal behavior? And why didn't the judge nail the plaintiff for it?

  17. Re:Relax.... on High School Sophomores Discover Asteroid · · Score: 1
    "It'll burn up in atmosphere and whatever's left will be no bigger than a Chihuahua's head."

    That will turn out to the most efficient power source available and we destroy ourselves fighting over it.

    Why should nature destroy us when our own greed will do a better job.

  18. Re:I'm always disturbed on Pirate Bay Gets a 4,000-Page Complaint · · Score: 1
    And how much IP did you pick up from your family members, school, jobs, people before you, and just plain environment? It's amazing how people seem to forget that most of what they put out is recycled. They take what's around give it a little of their own spin and wow this all belongs to them. How about reimbursing the world that your taking from. 99% public IP and 1% of your inspiration seems a rather unbalanced ratio to define as all yours. Charging for anything beyond that 1% seems like stealing from the rest of us doesn't it?

    Besides shall we patent communication and then charge everyone every time they open their mouths? And it truly is this stupid.

    Remember copyright isn't there to protect the creator, its there to enhance society via a minimal exchange. A short monopoly, very short, in exchange for immediate access to the work for others to capitalize on. The current system is public robbery, from licensing to long monopoly terms and lets not forget the legal trolling or the broken patent office. After seeing this system I kind of like the old saying: if you sell it, you lose all rights to it.

    If you are so sensitive about it, don't release it. I'm sure someone will eventually come up with the same or similar idea, if they haven't already.

    My apologies for being excessively blunt but this idea ownership crap has long ceased to be sport.

  19. Re:What's wrong with /.? on First Scareware For the Mac · · Score: 1
    "No kitty, thats my pot pie!"

    moderator: The kitty turns around and lifts up its tail.

    --> "You sure about that Jack?"
  20. Re:BS on Coming Soon — Cyborg Farmers · · Score: 1

    Yes there is child labor, In japan its called an getting an education, since it can ruin your life via burnouts and abuse just like a real job, call it what it is. Let's not forget how you go through it can affect the rest of your life then in some ways its worse than a job. And the japanese children have to work hard at it.

  21. Re:"he is making" on ZFS For Mac OS X Source Code Available · · Score: 2, Funny
    "I know it may be unheard of to those reading /., but Noel is a girl."

    Oh my Lord!

    narrator: "and the Ronald Reagan picture drops from the wall in Cmdr Taco's office."

    So what, move on guys..??

  22. Re:VTech just kicked in, yo! on Student Expelled For Facebook Photo Description · · Score: 1

    Just like a job, except this job you're paying for instead of getting paid. Call it a prerequisite to being employed where this kind of behavior is rampant.

  23. Re:Free / No Hassle Argument Not Always Enough on Promoting FOSS to People Who Don't Care · · Score: 1

    Also the money and time people spend securing windows and especially IE from outside attacks that virtually don't exist with firefox or open source software.

  24. Re:Free / No Hassle Argument Not Always Enough on Promoting FOSS to People Who Don't Care · · Score: 1

    How about firefox being open source is watched by the whole community so when a flaw or security issue pops up its detected and fixed in a timely manner. The issue a not as sever either. How often does microsoft fix flaws or quickly even when they admit they exist?

  25. Re:Hmm on EFF Takes On RIAA "Making Available" Theory · · Score: 1
    No, he ripped some music and dumped it into his music collection which just happened to be receiving point for his music downloading program.

    Point of view is a bitch isn't it.