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  1. Re:Wrong Question on What Programming Languages Should You Learn Next? · · Score: 2, Informative

    No. And one day I'll find all those people who wrote FooMenager, BarMeneger, DeadQueueLenght and BeefDispather. And then I'll do something to them. And then I'll get those people who forced me to write comments in Polish.

  2. Re:Color on Ubuntu Brainstorm Launched · · Score: 2, Funny

    You think LA is big compared to central US country, Siberia, Africa, et al.?

    No, but you seem to, the way you assumed that I live in LA :-P

    Actually, I live in Warsaw, Poland, and there's a small forest nearby. So maybe I was just joking while using either green or brown themes.

  3. Re:Color on Ubuntu Brainstorm Launched · · Score: 1

    Shit, earth, tree bark, yeah. Never seen those. Are trees somehow related to treehuggers?

    Half the world is brown. How can you stand that? Uh? No. Half the world is concrete, therefore gray.
  4. Re:I'm just conforming! on W3C Gets Excessive DTD Traffic · · Score: 1

    No. The DTD is an agreement between the XML writer and the parser writer on the format of the XML to be used. The actual content of the DTD is completely irrelevant at run time as long as the incoming file says it complies with the DTD the parser expects. Any parser with more than "if (file.dtd == expectedDtd)" has failed. The only good reason I can think of to even touch the actual DTD at runtime would be for a general purpose XML validator, which, ironically, is a special case.

    Entities. If the document is not standalone then even a non-validating parser has to get a DTD. From a local catalog, of course.
  5. Re:It's about time... on Amazon MP3 Store to Go Global in 2008 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You're an idiot. No, I'm a genius. IQ is over 160. My IQ is 168 and I say you're an idiot with no logic skills.

    If you don't like the MPAA why are you listening to their music? Because it's not their property, it's my culture. I don't recognize their claim to it. Thank $CHOSEN_DEITY for policemen, who don't recognize your claim to it.

    You're inventing crazy reasons to keep on stealing. First off, duplicating is not stealing. OK, technically it's a copyright violation. Close enough for me.

    Stealing is when you take a physical object that is someone elses personal posession. And secondly, my actions are not crazy, they are tactically sound means of working towards my goals. As technically sound as emptying the litterbox one grain at a time. Go read some anarchist cookbook and blow yourself up at Sony headquarters or whatever.

    And I mean literally crazy, you come off as a paranoid schizophrenic. I'm not paranoid. I'm actively attempting to subvert and sabotage the critical infrastructure of my enemies, and they are after me. It's not like I'm the only one. Maybe some day you'll join us. Then we can all afford to sing as one. Not if I can get my orbital brain control lasers working first!
  6. Re:It's also a cause of the problem described on Corporate Email Etiquette - Dead or Alive? · · Score: 1

    Phones and instant messaging interrupt the recipient. Since when? IMs I receive don't interrupt me. You see, a good IM client can be configured to not bother you if your status is DND/NA/whatever. The icon will change, and the message/broadcast/whatever will stay there until you have the time to check your communications. A bad client will flash the icon. Eww. As for the phones, I agree. For me, they have a very special use-case when I need my hands and/or eyes elsewhere.
  7. Re:Web Mail on Hushmail Passing PGP Keys to the US Government · · Score: 1

    http://firegpg.tuxfamily.org/ And I think I remember a Greasemonkey script that made S/Mime over GMail possible.

  8. Re:Who the fuck is radiohead? on Radiohead May Have Made $6-$10 Million on Name-Your Cost Album · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes. That would be RIAA trying to buy out all the copies.

  9. Re:I'd write a very different app on New Apps Enable Social Network Snubbing · · Score: 1

    Yes. That's because most of the time the email is scavenged from some compromised Outlook, or some web forum, or a newsgroup, or whatever. Especially web forum software usually asks for both your email and realname and is/was notoriously buggy.

    Most social networking sites don't present others with your email unless you tell them to. This leaves only one way they could lead spam to you: by selling the userlists. And it's actually quite easy to verify such a theory, so judging by the lack of "OMG Orkut/Linked In/whatever spams people" news, they don't.

  10. Re:I'd write a very different app on New Apps Enable Social Network Snubbing · · Score: 1

    1) The kind who wants to sell you shit you don't need, by filling your inbox and snail-mail box with junk mail for crap you don't need, and call you during dinner time to hawk crap you don't need. Right, because everyboty puts their email in their public profiles. And the spam in my inbox is just sooooo targeted...
  11. Re:Office 2k3 in linux on Stuart Cohen Predicts Office for Linux · · Score: 1

    Therefore they will pay for Windows just to run one program.

  12. Re:I've seen it. It's rubbish! on Leopard Fake Screenshot Contest Winners Announced · · Score: 1

    Yeah. Every Mac should come equipped with an artificial intelligence taken straight from Culture novels.

    The idea with heavy files is fun. Imagine lifting a 4.7Gb DVD image instead of going to the gym. And using the blink reflex would bring much excitement to the desktop.

    Also, a 3D re-eanactment of the war in Lebannon would be very informative. And think about the other possibilities! Think about the stock market report in such a form!

    Oh. The blue duckie. 'All Your Base Are Belong To Us, bring me the blue duckie...' wait... no... that's ASCII, just vocalized. I think I should just make a sculpture, paint it blue and cram it into the CD-drive, therefore opening the Blue Duckie.

    And to open the stock market report I would have to re-enact the whole day in the market. Hm. That would surely expand my creativity.

    The pipes are great as well. Imagine replacing those clunky Firefoxes with an interactive version of the 'pipes' screensaver. *WHEEE*

    The road-replacing-slides is a great expansion to the idea of slides. It would be even better in discouraging the listeners from paying attention to actual content.

  13. Re:Yawn. Slow news day? on OS Router Challenges Proprietary Networking · · Score: 1

    /me disappears in a puff of absurd.

    I have a WRT54G right here, and there are two persons with bittorrent right now.

    As for pc's, I have a 1300-user network with *lots* of bittorrent-users in it, all behind 8 pc's (P-IV, granted).

  14. Re:load-balancing pandas on Intel's Core 2 Desktop Processors Tested · · Score: 1

    1. It will help even without any optimizations - multiple cores mean real multitasking instead of time sharing. If the OS supports dual processor then the benefit is quite impressive.
    2. Quite a lot of software I use is already multithreaded.
    3. Games? Who cares about games? :-)

  15. Re:Propagandhi? on EFF Gets Animated About DRM with The Corruptibles · · Score: 1

    Stop spreading your anti-propagandist propaganda!

    [*sigh* yeah, that's propaganda. Your point being?]

  16. Re:encryption on Gaim 2.0.0beta1 Released · · Score: 1

    If people are too lazy to install a plugin then they are too lazy to properly secure the keys. Therefore, there's no real reason to use encryption when conversing with them.

  17. Re:OT: ITunes commentary on 'Type Manager' The File Manager of Tomorrow? · · Score: 0

    Wow. So impressive. But I thought you could do that even in Windows Media Player ages before iTunes? And now for mass-renaming at least we Linux guys have things like EasyTag, which can semi-automatically retag, rename and organize the whole collection into proper folders.

    But I do like Rhythmbox and it claims to have UI based on iTunes. Therefore, iTunes must have a decent UI :)

  18. Re:Boot times on Intel Slashes Computer Startup Times · · Score: 2, Informative

    If it's anything similiar to Linux or Windows, then WebKit does not need to be tied to the OS. AFAIR it's a library and there can be more than one application running that uses it. If there's an e.g. security problem, then it is essential to replace all running instances of it with the new version, and rebooting the computer is the simpliest way of assuring this.

  19. Re:Hmmm on MS Vista Look and Feel To Go Cross-Platform · · Score: 1

    Possibility 3: your install is screwed :)

    Pick any two.

  20. Re:Uses today's hardwre. Linux, not anytime soon. on Vista Launch Good for Desktop Linux? · · Score: 1

    1. Last time I checked, Avalon was being killed, erm, "removed from the default distro".
    2. http://cairographics.org/

  21. Re:I can't add an external JID? on Google Talk Available Early · · Score: 1

    In the FAQ they said that it's not working *yet*. And they're working on it.

  22. Re:Encryption on Google Instant Messenger Coming Really (or Not?) · · Score: 1

    telnet talk.google.com 5223
    That's the port for encrypted jabber.
    Of course it can be nothing, pure test, joke - whatever.

    But it's good food for the hope ;)

  23. Re:Still lot of carbon... on Nanotubes Start to Show their Promise · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, the greatest danger to the clean, sterile environment is carbon-based, you know...

  24. Re:You can't do it on A $100 Million Trip to the Moon · · Score: 1

    We, the Poles. Mr. Twardowski even lives there!

  25. Re:vi! on Ground Rules for the Windows vs. Mac War · · Score: 1

    Real men use ed!