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  1. Re: point 1 and 2 on Kororaa Accused of Violating GPL · · Score: 2, Insightful

    no you dork. video drivers in kernel space lets you run X as a non-priv user. That's the whole fucking point. X should talk to the kernel, not the hardware.

  2. Re: point 1 and 2 on Kororaa Accused of Violating GPL · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That's because the kernel and X people are daft. Stuff that fiddles with hardware registers has no business being in userland. It makes the X server one big honking exploit waiting to happen.

  3. Except on Firefox 2 Alpha 2 Reviewed · · Score: 1

    how will I tell fake links from real when surfing porn? And speaking of which, when will the option for not allowing window.status to be used in JS be fixed?

  4. Re:Memory on Firefox 2 Alpha 2 Reviewed · · Score: 2, Informative

    Uh, Dunno about windows n stuff, but Firefox on X has major memory problems, like never freeing pixbufs it stores in the X server. Your "fix" does nothing to solve this.

  5. That sounds like my flat on Examining Tokyo's Media Immersion Pods · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Except my computer is an HP, and I don't have a VHS player anymore.

  6. Re:electronic dependence on Ship Logs Suggest Upcoming Polar Reversal · · Score: 1

    I think it's pretty safe to say that events 2000 years into the future won't affect any of us.

  7. Re:You think that's bad... on Convicted Hacker Adrian Lamo Refuses to Give Blood · · Score: 1
    Yeah, well. The UK is hardly the place to use as an arbiter of personal privacy. I don't know of any western country where the government feels like it can piss in the face of the people as much as in old blighty. Not to mention the fact that it is basically impossible to leave your house without being filmed.

    I guess we can thank the tabloids for this. "Think of the Children" hysteria in England is like 10 times worse than in USia.

  8. Go Web 2.0 on Groklaw's Unix Methods and Concepts Database · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The interface is really fucking annoying. What's wrong with tables? This is exactly what they're for.

  9. Re:Fight your own battles. on Tech Workers of the World Unite? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What really gets me about people like the top post is that union bashers never seem to have any problems with corporations. You know, where a group of people band together to create something bigger than they could do on their own. Yeah, that's _so_ different from those communistic union bastards.

  10. Re:I've often wondered about this on D-Link Settles Danish Time Dispute · · Score: 2, Interesting

    $8000 a year isn't exactly chump change for most people.

  11. Re:Fight your own battles. on Tech Workers of the World Unite? · · Score: 1

    So is that why you're spamming your stupid site in every post? To show what a hardcore individualist you are to buck the use of the provided sig space?

  12. Re:Not much sympathy on D-Link Settles Danish Time Dispute · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Fook, you're a dumbass. Strata One servers are not supposed to be used by Joe Bloggs dinky firewall.

  13. Re:What was the prize? on Slashdot CSS Redesign Contest Update · · Score: 1

    Yeah, sociopaths are known for their consideration.

  14. Yeah, Well on Sun Says Java Source Already Available · · Score: 1

    The src is out in the open alright, but it's still under a proprietary license, so you'd better stay the hell away if you're ever likely to work on something similar. *Insert rant about how the term Free Software is better than open source here*. When we used Digital Unix at work many years ago, we had source code access, but that still didn't make it free in any sense.

  15. wow on CmdrTaco becomes An Old(er) Man · · Score: 1

    30 yro and nothing to show for

  16. Re:People actually use Nautilus? on Nine Things You Should Know About Nautilus · · Score: 1

    Uh, the various linux dists are pretty much the only *nix likes to ship bash by default

  17. Re:Just do it! on Torvalds on the Microkernel Debate · · Score: 1

    As fast as C++ would be a fairly lame goal for a kernel.

  18. Re:Journaling Filesystem on FreeBSD 6.1 Released · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Aside from your ignorance about softdeps, filesystems like XFS are only suitable for high-quality hardware like SGIs. It's not a good fit for crappy PC-class hardware (yes fanboys, that includes Apple hardware) which is what the vast majority of FreeBSD installations runs on. If you so desperately want a journaling fs, port ext3 instead.

  19. Re:Anime on Day of the Robotic Tentacle · · Score: 1

    I doubt anyone into anime will wanna use it on anyone old enough to marry.

  20. Re:VI is like a Stanley Kubrick movie on Vim 7 Released · · Score: 1

    Except Kubric was a fantastic filmmaker and Bill Joy was just high on the brown acid.

  21. Re:Fat Techies! on Gadgets, Then & Now · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hey, Big Macs are getting smaller too! Back when I was 8, I got more full from one than I do now.

  22. Re:It's no wonder people buy into Intellegent Desi on One Big Bang, Or Many? · · Score: 1
    People buy into religious nonsense because it's simplistic, not because the media are hasty to report new hypotheses. The argument is something like

    • I don't understand X
    • Therefore god must have done it

    Basically, it's a quick way to get out of thinking and go back to watching nascar.

  23. Re:Time had a beginning? on One Big Bang, Or Many? · · Score: 1

    There was no time before the big bang. When you have a singular, you have no spacetime. So talking about what was before the big bang is nonsensical.

  24. Re:Emacs email hook on FCC Affirms VoIP Must Allow Snooping · · Score: 1

    It's sadly outdated. The words were compiled back when the Taliban and Uncle Saddam were friends of the US. No one cares about the red anymore.

  25. Re:Hey, I know on Reporters Without Borders Internet Annual Report · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah, I forgot. We must first spend years studying the socio-economics of china before we can say it's wrong to throw people in jail for their opinions. How silly of me to forget that.