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  1. Let is get this right. on Indefinite Imprisonment For Web Site Content · · Score: 0, Informative

    His is being jailed for contempt of court not exercising free speech. He was asked to comply with a temporary order during legal proceedings. He refuses and still does so.

  2. Interesting but it can't stand on Apple Cracks Down On iPhone Unlockers · · Score: 0, Informative

    It was announced today that two carriers (at least) in Australia (Optus was one) will be offering the new iPhone on "prepaid" schemes. i.e. No contract. How much the phones will cost is not mentioned but if they are just $A/$US equivalent then they will be very cheap phones for the price. Enough to drive most others off the market.

  3. Only suggestion I have on Dealing With Dialup · · Score: -1

    If a satellite dish is inappropriate then use camouflage. The dish being a frame or part of a frame for a climbing plant isn't going to hurt data traffic.

  4. Re:The FAT defence on Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder · · Score: -1

    Lol, unfortunately you failed to avoid that pointless thread.

  5. Re:Geologists are indeed conservative. on Did an Exploding Comet Doom Early Americans? · · Score: -1

    1945 may have been too late

  6. Re:Just watch your back on Would You Install Pirated Software at Work? · · Score: 0

    You got bad legal advice from a lazy lawyer

  7. Re:What the fuck they teach nowadays? on Best Way to Image and Deploy Dual-Boot Macintosh? · · Score: -1
    Lol. College student was 50 years ago.

    In the meantime I have been working with Unix since 1973. If you have taken a manufacturer's Unix course anywhere in the world there is a good chance I either wrote it or have moderated it.

    Your accuracy is consistent. Batting 0.

  8. Re:What the fuck they teach nowadays? on Best Way to Image and Deploy Dual-Boot Macintosh? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sorry I called your bluff.

    With a busted flush? Really? If you capitalise the first letter in a sentence (which is not always the case) why did you capitalise the first two? See, not only is your 'knowlege' incorrect and your excuse wrong but you weren't even consistent with your excuse. You didn't have any cards to call

    I didn't bluff. You are not right. You are not even wrong.

  9. Re:What the fuck they teach nowadays? on Best Way to Image and Deploy Dual-Boot Macintosh? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And, yes, I capitalize things at the beginning of my sentences. Get over it. That's how English works.

    You really do have a lot to learn.

  10. Re:What the fuck they teach nowadays? on Best Way to Image and Deploy Dual-Boot Macintosh? · · Score: 0

    No. DD isn't flexible, saves extra data, and isn't designed for networking.

    Why do people still fail to understand what Unix is all about? "dd" (not DD) is a primitive. It is designed to fit together wih lots of OS primitives to provide the facilities you require.

    Suggesting it is inadequate calls your own into question. This is what scripting was created for.

  11. Re:What amuses me on The End is Nigh for XP · · Score: 0
    Actually I would not be surprised if a lot were re-evaluaed in my lifetime even though there is not a lot left of it. Societal and technological changes have broken our older systems of social orgaisation and left enough in disarray for imminent disasters to be obvious everywhere.

    Much has already changed in my lifetime, most of it unexpected, why would you expect yours to be any different?

  12. Re:What amuses me on The End is Nigh for XP · · Score: 0
    Really? I know (well enough) what the law is, I was talking abour WHY the law was originally made, the justification for the law.

    What got up your nose?

  13. What the fuck they teach nowadays? on Best Way to Image and Deploy Dual-Boot Macintosh? · · Score: -1, Troll

    Use bloody "dd" for christ's sake.

  14. What amuses me on The End is Nigh for XP · · Score: 0

    is that sooner or later someone is going to remember what copyright is for.... When that happens any product they are declining to sell will NOT be under copyright.

  15. I'm a level 70 mage on Blizzard Seeks to Block User Rights, Privacy · · Score: 0
    And I earned every point since I mostly solo. I did't mind the levelling grind too much but it is now, not pre-70 that I would really want to use a more programable interface if not a bot. I have most of my skills maxed, cooking, fishing, tailoring nearly there with engineering. Even have unarmed up. I haven't minded grinding most of that.

    But at 70, as a solo player the needs for materials you have to farm is enormous. Farming the motes and leather and.... that you need to make stuff is only possible if you play one hell of a lot and that play could not be more boring. Nothing new, no challenges. It is enough to make you want to stop playing, and indeed my hours have dropped (no loss there I suppose) and I may eventually give up the subscription. Simply because I want to spend the hours playing or helping other players rather than spend endless mindless hours grinding 30 primals of water (300 of a 0.15%drop) to make a single item.

    There are good arguments on both sides of the 'bot case but the support for 'bots is not just desire to cheat, it is also about desire to play.

    When you throw in the privacy violations, well it is too much. Blizzard cannot guarantee that a rogue employee or two will not access and use data improperly. That is enough for me to want Warden banned let alone Blizzard losing the case.

  16. An appropriate punishment on Blizzard Seeks to Block User Rights, Privacy · · Score: 0

    might be putting the experience meter into reverse.

  17. Re:Programming Whizz? on Bill Gates to Finally Receive His Harvard Degree · · Score: 0

    Okay, correction, I did say a word about Windows, but I truely meant the original and I did not mean his code contributions. Coding teaches you how machines work, what is easily possible and what is difficult to achieve. Many 'design decisions' in Windows have been severely broken for a long time, not that the same thing is not true about Linux. I'm not trying to sow OS discord here, I am just inslted by the thought that anyone thinks Gates is a progremmer.

  18. Re:Programming Whizz? on Bill Gates to Finally Receive His Harvard Degree · · Score: 0

    I never said a word about Windows. I was talking about Gates. Don't be paranoid.

  19. Programming Whizz? on Bill Gates to Finally Receive His Harvard Degree · · Score: 0, Troll

    Oh! Please! If he was one Windows would have been better. THe idea that you would compliment him on his programming is offensive to those that do program. Did you ever see any of his code?

  20. You are correct on Crazy Non-Compete Contracts? · · Score: 0

    But those cobol specialist make an ungodly amount of money

  21. Re:Why review this? on World of Warcraft - The Burning Crusade Review · · Score: 0

    You think so? Visit Eredar

  22. Re:Tagged appleduh on Vista - iPod Killer? · · Score: 0

    I have seven of each and the only issue in 3 years has been one faulty DVD player replaced free of charge. You have to be kidding me.

  23. O, I see on Anti-Missile Defenses For Commercial Jets · · Score: 0

    They are going to make sure that you can't shoot down jets that get hijacked and used to attack public places.

  24. There can only be one on What Movies Got Computers Right? · · Score: 0

    2001. There were very few technical issues in it at all. Okay so didn't happen in the timeframe but apart from that.

  25. Bulldust on Why Does Everyone Hate Microsoft? · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Ever tried to run an old game you loved? Microsoft is not interested in legacy software only to the extent that they think it necessary.