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  1. Not on others on Geography, Laws, and the Internet · · Score: 1

    Except in the case of Yahoo! , none of those examples is trying to impose its laws on others. The "Great Firewall of China...Whatever" only affects Chinese. If you want to sell your products/propaganda in an opressive communist totalitarian country, either do it by their rules or invade them and depose the government and restructure their network. They didn't set it up to server you. Iran isn't blocking ISPs in Amsterdam. If you don't like their rules, don't set up an ISP in Tehran -- or work to change the decency laws there. And actually, Yahoo! has the same option GE/Honeywell had, they can not do business in France, or they can respect the laws of that country.

  2. Re:I disagree on Knuth's Volume IV Preview Available Online · · Score: 1

    your analogy would mean that plastics and boxes are prior art, but a plastic box! that's patentable.

  3. Is it only available in TEX format? on Knuth's Volume IV Preview Available Online · · Score: 1

    and is there a way to save diagrams and expressions using latex2html

  4. Re:The evils of flawed products on Lawsuit Alleges That Palms Damage Motherboards · · Score: 1

    you're not autistic, it's just a learning disability

  5. Does everyone who reads slashdot have a palm? on Lawsuit Alleges That Palms Damage Motherboards · · Score: 1
    And do the rest work as level 2 support?

    There are way way way way too many fucking testimoials. I smell a rat.

  6. Why? on Lawsuit Alleges That Palms Damage Motherboards · · Score: 1

    Somebody must have a reason to spread fear and uncertainty about palms.

  7. Not every bug crashes the program on Netscape 6.1 · · Score: 1

    Not every bug crashes the program! copy, paste ad nauseaum.

  8. Re:Why release before Mozilla? on Netscape 6.1 · · Score: 1

    6, I just gave up when I saw .93

  9. Re:Why people use Netscape instead of IE or Mozill on Netscape 6.1 · · Score: 1

    The reason corporations and the goverment still use netscape exclusively is because the IT departments are scared to death of IE (and microsoft security in general.) But since that brown out or whatever its called a while back, there has been a lot of defection.

  10. Re:Mozilla ... Netscape ... what't the difference? on Netscape 6.1 · · Score: 1
    You believe that any time a program encounters an exception, error code, or eof, it should just quietly shut itself down and go sulk in a corner?

    The web wouldn't exist if Netscape hadn't followed a different philosophy when they first started. IE may not always do the most intellegent (or consistent) thing when a html document is not XHTML 0.9 draft 1b compliant, but at least you can see a page that has a missing closing tag. I'm no fan of IE, or Microsoft, but what distinguishes a mature product (or person) is the ability to handle a situtation that doesn't go 100% their way.

  11. Re:Netscape 6.1, a few thoughts on Netscape 6.1 · · Score: 1

    Mozilla fails to render pages at all! Very often. And there are a heap of showstopper bugs (not browser stopper) in the Standards. And where did they get the piece of shit gecko for .93? Its worse than I've seen since M9.

  12. The author doesn't sound like a typical BSD user on BSD User's Review Of OS X · · Score: 1
    Here is his list of demands from the opening paragraph:

    Shiny colored case (to match the titlebar on his windows)
    Point and click interface to everything(one button only)
    Internet Explorer (Skinned, of course -- Neoplanet?)
    3 slow paced games (Myst III?)

    And here's the clincher:

    A GUI for his server

  13. Did anyone else read the article? on Aeron Chairs As Stupidity Barometers · · Score: 1
    Maybe find is broken on Mozilla, but I didn't see anyone else mention the thinly veiled reference to Eazel?

    "... an open-source start-up whose 110 Aerons were auctioned for $350 apiece after the company shut down in March."

  14. Re:Aeron Chairs Do Not Suck on Aeron Chairs As Stupidity Barometers · · Score: 1

    eight more to go

  15. Re:Jurisdiction Shopping on Pavlovich Jurisdictional Challenge Denied · · Score: 1

    how is this the same as porn?

  16. Re:Mail order and taxation on Pavlovich Jurisdictional Challenge Denied · · Score: 1

    Sales tax does not affect big corporations. The tax is passed on to the consumer. That's why when you buy something for 99 cents, it costs $1.07

  17. reformat on Old Protocol Could Save Massive Bandwidth · · Score: 1
    I thought they substituted simple hex values for all those long-ass java-inspired tags.

    <TagForMainDocumentPrimaryHeaderAtTopOfPage>

    becomes 0x23fc1a

    That's not 80 to 1, but if you're on UTF-16, its an easy 12 to 1 if you count closing tags.

  18. Re:Reverse Engineer hax0r3d! on Old Protocol Could Save Massive Bandwidth · · Score: 1
    I thought they substituted simple hex values for all those java-inspired tags.

    becomes 0x23fc1a

    That's not 80 to 1, but if you're on UTF-16, its an easy 12 to 1 if you count closing tags.

  19. Re:Throbbing Icon question on KDE 2.2 Tagged · · Score: 1

    that wasn't me.
    And it was blindingly clever.

  20. Re:ftp (scp)? on MS getting rid of SAMBA? · · Score: 1
    Security product vendors, yes. Cult of the Dead Cow, no. They're stuck with reverse engineering. And guess who Microsoft associates SAMBA with?

  21. Re:Case in point of the DMCA stifling competition on MS getting rid of SAMBA? · · Score: 1

    or in any county that has extradition treaties with the US. Or that does business with the MPAA.

  22. Re:Backward compatible? on MS getting rid of SAMBA? · · Score: 1

    int initSMBCompatChk() { if (!sigcmp( sigupdate( hs_connect( "microsoft.Net", gethash(CPU_ID, OS_KEY, getpassportkey(LOCAL), gethwchecksum(), ip_addr, time()), SIG_UPDATE_REQUEST) == gethsig(CURRENT_MACHINE_USER)) { exit(-31337); } else if (OS_TYPE == "DRDOS") { exit(-1); } else { char * tmp[1]= (char*) malloc(srand(SMALL_MEMLEAK)); return(SIG_OK) } //**TODO: Convert to Hungarian notation & free tmp

  23. Re:MS Office Replacement on MS getting rid of SAMBA? · · Score: 1

    PDF is owned (patented?) by Adobe.

  24. ftp (scp)? on MS getting rid of SAMBA? · · Score: 1

    sorry, but if you want a client program, you're going to have to use the overhead. Otherwise, you have to work with the OS developer, or at least have access to their specs.

  25. Re:I thought I knew everything when I was 15 too.. on The Rise Of The 15-Year-Olds · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but we're talking about legal advise and stock tips. Despite John Katz's fears that lawyers and atockbrokers are the epitome if knowledge and wisdom, they're mostly stupid, priveledged, and lazy. A couple steps below "managers" in the spectrum of expertise. Oh, I guess he mentioned CEOs too.