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  1. I was gonna say on PC Mag Slams Cheap Wal-Mart Linux Desktop · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    this and that but, what's the point when the review is "over there" and its readers won't see what I right over here...

  2. odf, pdf on Do OpenOffice Users Save In Microsoft Format? · · Score: 1

    I'm a student. I save in odf. If I need to share, I export it to pdf, unless I am threatened that I may be getting a lower grade for a class - then I send in both a .doc and the .pdf, and then delete the doc from my computer and save the pdf for my records... To be honest, if the university wants me to save in doc, they should buy me the software to do so.

  3. Site conspiracy theory on Major Linux Hardware Donor Is a CNN "Hero" · · Score: 1

    The admin of that site is probably furious at this guy or something: on my Ubuntu 6.04 Firefox 2.something, I get a "page not found" when I try to vote (noscript turned off)...

  4. Re:Q: Why not cooperate? A: Because I am free. on Man Wins Partial Victory In Circuit City Arrest · · Score: 1

    You're in reddit front page, if you're interested in that - http://reddit.com/goto?id=2shgu :)

  5. A nightmare for the cops on MIT Student Arrested For Wearing 'Tech Art' Shirt At Airport · · Score: 1

    A hooded black shirt AND a device with LED lights??? I guess the cop was like "#$%@#$%!!11 a middle eastern black Q$%@#$%1!1!! OMG WTF!1!" with red flags appearing left and right due to various kinds of racisms. Even Simpsons didn't do this much. Considering what's going on with Jena Six, she's just plain lucky to even get bail. In Louisiana, they would have charged her with 1st degree murder and conspiracy to commit tech art...

  6. Or on A Gut Check On Gutsy Gibbon · · Score: 1
    Here, you know the password of a sudo-using system:

    sudo passwd
    su
    rm -rf /etc/sudoers
    [do whatever you want at this point without anyone being able to stop you ...]

    Similarly, assuming you were able to grab the password in a non-sudo system,
    % su
    input password
    # passwd
    input new password
    # make love
    Make: Don't know how to make love. Stop. No need to delete the shadow file in either cases anyway.
  7. EU on Apple Cuts Off Linux iPod Users · · Score: 1

    When will the EU sue their asses off for anti-trust violation? Isn't this a way for Apple to use their cartel on the mp3 music player market to promote their own music store & software at the expense of others? Pretty much the same thing compared to what MS is doing with its network stacks.

  8. Re:Setting aside the humor, do they have a point? on Retailer Refuses Hardware Repair Due To Linux · · Score: 2, Funny

    When you do be careful to be objective and not to let you go into hate speech. because usually computers are black?
  9. Re:So do what Don Knuth did and leave them. on Scientist Must Pay to Read His Own Paper · · Score: 1

    claiming that your academics will suffer if work has been published in a journal and you don't reference it. That is true: if you use someone else's idea and you don't cite, it's called plagiarism. If caught, all your instructors will hear about what you did and never trust you again (and will try to get you out of their courses if you take one). You will risk your name being distributed within various listservs. You'll be academically stigmatized. It will also be noted on your transcript (usually with a small star) and your future employers will know that you steal other people's ideas. All these and more will hurt your academics. We don't like thieves who try to pass as scientists.
  10. Re:F*** Microsoft. on The Dangers of a Patent War Chest · · Score: 1
    I have no idea how you got modded up while clearly demonstrating that you did not read the comment you replied to...

    Microsoft doesn't have to open source anything to show you what they have patented. All they have to do is show you the patent. In fact, they don't even have to do that. If the open source community were really that concerned, they'd hire a lawyer to dig through the patents that Microsoft controls. They are, after all, a matter of public record.
    The OP doesn't want MS to open source its code, neither does s/he wanna know what they have patented. S/he wants to see the code in order to know what patents they are infringing... for a level playing field (after all, MS can see the FOSS code, can't they?).

    all you do is make yourself look like a fool and alienate yourself from the rest of the world
    read the stuff you're replying to - you senseless alien fool
  11. Re:odd on Hardware Firewall On a USB Key · · Score: 1

    The true question at this point is who can't steal hijack packets from a windows box.
    Or, whether the linux kernel developers will (correctly) perceive the driver for Linux as a bug in the kernel and fix it.
  12. Re:iFuck on Apple Sues Over iGasm Ads · · Score: 1

    Parent rated redundant? Hahahahaha lol!

  13. Re:iFuck on Apple Sues Over iGasm Ads · · Score: 1

    Let her have her toy; no man should be stuck with such a cunt.
    It's funny (and revealing) that you refer to a cunt. Don't just refer to it, you should read it too...
  14. Re:Can you spell "commercial speech"? on Apple Sues Over iGasm Ads · · Score: 1

    I'm still not sure how SNL survives in this equation... It's not like they are a non-profit organization. (And their product is very much linked to the parodies they produce.)

  15. Re:Let me correct the headline for you... on Apple Sues Over iGasm Ads · · Score: 1
    dear sleepy mods, did you just mix up your "redundant" button (no pun intended) with your "informative" button? parent is repeating (almost) word for word what GP already said and adds nothing new to the discussion...


    Parent:

    It isn't a parody. It's a direct rip-off intended to sell a product.
    GP:

    A blatent ripoff add design specifically designed to cause confusion in the markeplace and violate trademarks was the target of apple's laywers.

  16. Re:iFuck on Apple Sues Over iGasm Ads · · Score: 1, Redundant

    my iFuck device. Its free and requires no batteries.
    So your tiny mushroom doesn't suffer from these or similar security vulnerabilities? For our lazy friends:

    1) My new "cyberskin friend" guarantees that I'll never feel that huge disappointment when I fumble in a man's drawers and find what feels like a tiny mushroom. Great, I used to think. 2 inches of hard-on. There's no time a wasting when I can reach into my drawer for 6 3/8" of fun EVERY TIME. Gotta dig that!

    2) If I want to direct some attention (and time) to my pleasure button, I don't get rolled eyes and grimaces. Mr. Cyberskin ALWAYS goes where I want him. And since I can direct Mr. C, I don't have to deal with fingers jammed on my cli+ like I'm a video game. Mr. C knows that a bare brush back and forth does the trick.

    3) No more refusals from uptight Irish-Catholics when I move Mr. C to my back door. With some lube, it's all good for my vibrating buddy. And thank you, my cyrberskin friend, for being so openminded. With a quick clean up in warm water and soap, he's ready for more.

    4) When it's time for a break, I don't have to sit through irritating "whew, whew, whew" from The Three Stooges. No annoying sports games on tv. The tv clicker is all mine.

    5) Instead of buying my "he's got potential" boyfriend dinner AGAIN, all I need is two AA batteries.

    6) If I get bored with Mr. Cyberskin, I can dump him in the drawer. It's a no fuss break-up. And no lingering friendships with his in-laws or whatever. (Every guy's in-laws fall in love with me... I'm beautiful, smart, educated and like people... it's a curse). With Mr. C, it's a clean break... until I'm in the mood again. Then it's outta the drawer and back in action. Ahhhhh, there you are Mr. C.

    7) Mr. C is NEVER self-centered. He never grabs my head to jam it down on his (sometimes smells like urine) penis. Nope. Mr. C is all about my needs. Believe me... it's refreshing.

    8) Mr. C can go rough or gentle... he knows just what I need and delivers it. No more trying to communicate with a man who isn't interested in what I need. No second guessing. It's all on order. If I'm in a quickie mood, it's like a drive-thru orgasm. If I want to linger, it's a lot of teasing and seduction that will drive me to moaning in no time.

    9) My cyberskin pal never drives me around the city, lost. He leaves the driving up to me. If I want, I can always stash him in a brown paper sack and put him in the glove compartment. He loves to travel.

    10) I don't have to apologize to Mr. C for just wanting a decent f*ck and not a lot of dilly-dallying around. No wasting time "building a relationship" so I can feel good about my need to get laid. With Mr. C, we got close right away--and I sense we won't be parted for long.

    11) Mr. C isn't just hot during the honeymoon stage. He NEVER calls me up and tells me he's too busy, tired or too-much of an asshole to drive over to my place for FREE sex.

    12) Even though my cyberskin pal won't buy me dinner, a new dress or take me to Bermuda, he's the best, most consistent boyfriend I've ever had. And he's never made a pass at my girlfriends, slept around on me behind my back, stunk up my bathroom, farted in bed, called me at work or made me ashamed to take him to a party.
  17. $69? on Apple Sues Over iGasm Ads · · Score: 1

    Are you kidding me? Ouch!

  18. Re:Hello the future's Microsoft on Apple Sues Over iGasm Ads · · Score: 1
    lol

    alas, no one has needed it in many years... which is why I am posting on slashdot on a thread about an ipod vibrator that I will probably never buy, see, use, or get within 10 feet of knowingly...
    A bit offtopic but still... You reminded me of this: if you buy this item, you will have to buy an iPod too. So really, Apple is using his penis too much in his thinking activities... This product is actually profitable for him. I guess sometimes your penis is more important than your profit (eat that, Chomsky!).
  19. Weird on Apple Sues Over iGasm Ads · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    Did they trademark photos and images containing a silhouette with overexposed pixels that form a line in them? Or did they trademarked silhouettes that listen to music? Or dance?


    I guess a monopoly is a monopoly, whether it is Microsoft or Apple...

  20. Let me re-correct the headline for you... on Apple Sues Over iGasm Ads · · Score: 1
    Depressing to see that you got upmodded as informative while we all know that parody is fair use and that the ad is clearly designed not to confuse the consumer (or do you put your earplugs in your vagina?). But on the other hand, I am also wondering why Apple chose to sue *this* parody over all the others that are out there. Maybe because it depicted a woman that didn't need a man for sexual pleasure, instead of a woman as *the* sexual object of the male gaze. I guess the corporation, as a legal person, thinks using its legal penis?


    Here's my new headline for this: Apple's phallus, threatened by self-pleasing woman, sends out lawyers for witch hunt.

  21. Hello the future's Microsoft on Apple Sues Over iGasm Ads · · Score: 3, Funny
    I know that you won't get this and hence mod me down. That's fine.


    But they are trying to form a cultural monopoly... Very much like what Microsoft is doing. But different from Microsoft, in this case at least, they are using the society's negative feelings towards women's sexuality when it is freed of men. It is also interesting to observe how women's sexuality is desirable for Apple (just like for any other corporation) when it is the object of the male gaze, and undesirable when it is depicted as self-governing, hence not needing the presence of a penis.

  22. Re:Of course entry-level windows is cheaper... on Dell Ships Ubuntu 7.04 PCs Today · · Score: 1

    Dell provides only hardware support for Ubuntu boxes. You buy software support in addition for $50 to $150 optionally.

  23. Re:Isn't this a good thing? on Intel Laptop Competes With One Laptop Per Child · · Score: 1

    Competition is overrated.

  24. Re:Overstepped??!! on Flickr Censors A Photographer's Plea · · Score: 1

    Move along nothing to see here. Matter resolved peacefully...Flikr reposted the blog. Update 2:Flickr have acknowledged that made a mistake, and have restored _Rebekaa's blog.
    The usual corporate advocate :) There is still something to see here. It took a lot (story posted to digg, reddit, and slashdot) for Flickr to back down. You may not be that lucky the next time...
  25. Re:Overstepped??!! on Flickr Censors A Photographer's Plea · · Score: 1

    man she is hot!
    I'm not sure what's worse:
    that the most important stuff for you is her sexuality
    that you cannot dare post this comment as yourself
    or that your offtopic post is moderated as informative by imbeciles?..