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  1. Re:BSD? on New KDE 3.5.5 Features 1,200 Changes · · Score: 1

    Because KDE may run on BSD, but it is not about BSD, it is about Desktop in general. You can run KDE on Linux too.

  2. Re:Rewards? on PS3 Pre-Orders Came and Went · · Score: 1

    It's a free market. In a fre market/economy we do not examine the intentions of the consumer/buyer, that would be unethical. The one who offers the money first (since this product is at shortage) gets the product. And the he/she can do whatever they want with it, including destroying it or selling it back at whatever price they want. All micro-electronics items are over-priced in their launch.

  3. Questworld on Teen Plays Videogame With Brain Signals · · Score: 1

    The first thing that came into my mind was Questworld from the "Real Adventures of Jonny Quest".

  4. less is more on The Troubles With the Yahool Mail Beta · · Score: 1

    I want something simple. Gmail is the most simple (and yet having all the things that I want) webmail I have found, but there are those privacy concerns. I value Yahoo as a better overall service that Gmail (Hotmail is really ugly (Windows Live Mail is less ugly) and slow). I like the previous Yahoo web interface better (the "classic" one). What I would really want from Yahoo is an allow-list, and a bigger block list.

  5. Re:What I really want to know... on Chinese Lasers Blind US Satelites · · Score: 1

    Because US is a force of good (sarcasm). (Or perhaps "a strength of good" sounds better, as in "we will meet force with strength").

  6. Re:This makes sense. He's a developer at heart. on Why Torvalds is Sitting out the GPLv3 Process · · Score: 1

    He is not apolitical since back then he chose GPL instead of BSD. There was some politics involved in that choice.

  7. Re:it's not like he has a choice on Why Torvalds is Sitting out the GPLv3 Process · · Score: 1

    He didn't mean that building uppon a project licensed under the BSD license will not be successful.

    But, what did FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD took back from Apple? Nothing. What did we took back from Apple? Nothing. That's what he meant.

  8. Re:OP Here. And that is precisely what annoys me. on Counter-Strike Opens Weapons Market · · Score: 1

    The Orwellian wet dream: banning users for just using the Gravity Gun too much. No thanks, I can download the pirated version and play as long as I want via LAN and Bots (and I can choose to download a newer version *if* and *when* I want to). If the price for playing online is giving them so much control, then the hell with it. And they did it on off-line games too, like Half-Life 2. Why? Pircacy? Doom3 does so good in sales, and it can copied with just Nero (hell, even Doom1 and Doom2 still sell, after more than 10 years, and they can be copied with just a few floppy disks... and floppy disks weren't discovered last year you know). Steam is about greed and control, not piracy. Now, here is your rant.

  9. no seperation of software and hardware on Linux Kernel Developers' Position on GPLv3 · · Score: 1

    GPLv3 is supposedly bad because while it is a software license it sais what the hardware should do (not beeing locked to run modified versions of the software). Seperating software from hardware is like seperating mind from body. The one doesn't work without the other. They are one.

  10. Re:End backward compatibility on Windows Monoculture Myopia Revisited · · Score: 1

    Registry cannot be dumped. All eveluation software uses it to hide things there, things that denote that "evaluation period is over". Perhaps they could replace it partially.

  11. OK, what do we use now? on SHA-1 Collisions for Meaningful Messages · · Score: 1

    SHA-1 and MD5 are becomming non-safe to use. So, we go to SHA-256 or a completely different algorithm?

  12. Re:Hmmm... maybe? on Why Google's New Products Need Not Succeed · · Score: 1

    Good points, all of them. The only reason I keep using Yahoo instead of Gmail is because Gmail will never delete a message and of course will cache all the messages that other people will send me without asking their consent. Hmm.. In a second thought, I don't recall remembering after how long Yahoo deletes all off-line copies of a message after you have deleted it from your account.

  13. good on Terabyte Drive to Debut Later this Year · · Score: 1

    Good, good... Now I can save all the text files I want.

  14. Re:How times have changed... on Treating Traumatic Stress with Videogames · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I hope these simulated video environments truly help those soldiers who served our country.

    Who served the government, the country had different opinion about this war.

  15. John Carmack could buy/"adopt" OpenGL on Slashback: SGI, Exploding Dell, Gizmo · · Score: 1

    He is the one that brought it into greater attention in the gaming world. He has been releasing his engines with the GPL license. He likes to give back to the community, and that would be a big give-back.

  16. Re:Oh, I'm sure it's okay on Patriot Act Bypasses Facebook Privacy · · Score: 1


    Police: "Open up. We want to make sure you're not doing anything illegal."
    Guy: "You can't come in without a search warrant."
    Police: "Why not? If you're innocent, you have nothing to hide!"

    Guy: "You are going to check me, but who is going to check you?"

  17. Re:Wow! on Einstein- Husband, Lover and Father · · Score: 1

    Reports, reports... Einstain was a communist, and probably Hawking is a terrorist. This is a not a flame, but the US government was then using the "term" 'communist' like they are using now the word 'terrorist'.

  18. Re:Please on UK Gives Go-Ahead to Gary McKinnon Extradition · · Score: 1

    This is a cracker, not a hacker.

  19. Re:Motivating Me To Move on Windows Genuine Advantage Makes Few Friends · · Score: 1

    You can of cource try WINE or VMWare, and you can always keep a dual-boot for games. Though you will have a problem if they are online games. You can also try to set up a firewall based on Linux and connect the Windows machine on that one.

  20. Re:Gamer? on Casual Gamers Not So Casual · · Score: 1

    It's a point of preferance. It may "take" me 15 minutes to start enjoying it, but it could take you 15 seconds. And none of these items is similar to each other. Some tools (not necessarily made [entirely] of metal) take a lot more than 15 minutes to become useful, like a computer, a car, etc.

  21. Re:Not just for cell phones on The Opportunity of Mobile Linux in Danger · · Score: 1

    Maybe. But one of the good things in Linux is that you can choose from the many different distributions. Choice is good, it's the meaning of freedom.

  22. Re:They might have a point on DVD Format War Already Over? · · Score: 1

    I have a number of CDs writen in 1997, which still serve. Some I wrote around 2003 have died though. My oldest writen DVD is around one year old.

  23. Re: Wow on U.S. Secretly Tapping Bank Databases · · Score: 1

    I can find work anywhere, so what I'll do, if all is lost, is get away from this national and cultural self-destruction.

    If the borders are still open.

  24. Re:Does this surprise anybody? on Immaturity Level Rising in Adults · · Score: 1

    We all have an "inner child", and this doesn't involve irresponsibiliy. It important because it is the beginning of (our) life. Immaturity is a thing different that the child we all have inside.

  25. Re:Bought and paid for on Broadcast Flag Sneaking in the Back Door · · Score: 1

    Damn right. Or making a law to fobid compaign, let the people be interested about the candidate. But who is going to force this law?