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  1. Re:Free Competition in Currency Act of 2007 on E-gold Owners Plead Guilty To Money Laundering · · Score: 1

    The economy and the money supply is not the same thing. It would be nice if you could elaborate on how you came to that conclusion.

  2. Re:Torrent on What Does It Take To Get a PC With XP? · · Score: 1

    If you set windows to the download and install or download but don't install option, updates work just fine with pirated versions. You can even fail WGA-validation and still update.

  3. Re:How about *asking* the user if they want to sha on Data Harvesting From a Developer's Perspective · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Have you seen the valve hardware survey? Are you saying that 1.7 million data points is useless? Remember that you said never without any qualifiers.

  4. Re:How about *asking* the user if they want to sha on Data Harvesting From a Developer's Perspective · · Score: 1

    Have you seen the valve hardware survey? Are you saying that 1.7 million data points is useless?

    Remember that you said never without any qualifiers.

  5. Re:Market leader? on Most CF Cards Fail DMA Transfers · · Score: 1

    The only difference I've noticed on BF2 with extreme sound quality (or whatever it's called) is that you get more channels. I don't hear much or any difference in positional and ambient audio. That audio could even cause a 25% upshot in KDR is so unlikely I don't buy it. It means that 25% of your deaths was from an enemy not in front of you and in audible range. I don't buy it.

  6. Re:You're doing it wrong? on Why Do We Have To Restart Routers? · · Score: 1

    It doesn't have a case and the only fan is in the ATX power supply. The modem crashed twice in the recent heat period but since then it has gotten cooler again. If it heats up again and the modem crashes I'll know it is the heat that's causing it. Then I'll consider putting a fan over the thing.

    The modem is a "broad band sharer" with the routing part disabled so it only works as a modem. It's pure garabge. It's not square so you can't stack it and by default you couldn't even configure the NAT.

  7. You're doing it wrong? on Why Do We Have To Restart Routers? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've used some Zyxel router that needed restarting every few days until I found out the maximum amount of open connections and bandwidth it could take then it usually only crashed once a month.

    Now I've got an old PII with a CF as HDD running monowall and maximum uptime so far is about two months. It would appear that the modem is more flaky than the router so I've restarted it needlessly a few times. I'm inclined to think it's hardware causing problems when the router crashes on its own. It's a bare motherbord sitting ontop a cabinet with four NIC's (I had an abundance of NIC's but no switch) and it gets a bit jangled from time to time in its exposed position. I'm amazed that it works at all.

    Try to limit the amount of open connections if you're running bittorrent and maybe the bandwidth too. If that doesn't help you should probably build your own router. m0n0wall works for me and I've heard good things about IPCop.

  8. Re:There is a middle ground. on Nanomaterials More Dangerous Than We Think · · Score: 1

    What specific risks are you talking about? That GMO might be dangerous to the ecosystem is one thing. That they could be dangerous to humans is another. If GMO (which is overly broad) was dangerous it should be pretty damn evident unless you think humans exchange genetic material like bacteria and only GMO contains genes.

  9. Re:Expensive hardware kills PC gaming on Free Games As a Solution To Game Piracy · · Score: 1

    Can we please stop this myth?

    I bought new hardware and spent all of 450$ (including 25% VAT) for a new motherboard, CPU, GPU, RAM and a great big honking CPU cooler. It plays all the newest games at high detail levels on lower resolutions.

    Do you consider that a "HUGE dent in the wallet"?

    Don't forget to factor in the ability to run mods and the price difference of games in your equation.

  10. Re:15 to *LIFE*, people... on Hans Reiser Leads Police To Nina's Body · · Score: 2, Informative

    I never get complaints like yours. The reason "everyone" now thinks he was guilty is because most of those who thought he was innocent will refrain from posting.

    Create a thread in a forum with a large population and ask about penis size. You'll find that the mean length in the forums _greatly_ exceeds the known mean and I don't even think there is much exaggeration but mostly selection bias and of course some out right lies.

  11. Re:As an English teacher... on How Technology Changes Classrooms · · Score: 1

    I can't handle grammar or rather it doesn't interest me at all so I don't remember any. But thanks to reading books I can still manage to write somewhat intelligently. The only place for grammar is when you're learning a new language (assuming you're old enough to handle your mother tounge) or if you can handle grammar easily and don't want to read.

  12. Re:Too far on Stallman Attacks Gates, Microsoft, & Charity Foundation · · Score: 1

    I wish you doom-and-loom fuckers would provide some numbers when you say such things.

    Poverty is decreasing and economic disparity in and of it self is not a problem.
    Source

  13. Re:extinction of zinc? on Supplies of Rare Earth Elements Exhausted By 2017 · · Score: 1

    There must have been quite a market for giant heads on the easter island eh?

    Yeah, easter island was probably the first free market ever.

  14. Re:supply and demand - no real problem on Supplies of Rare Earth Elements Exhausted By 2017 · · Score: 1

    The market doesn't govern the physical universe. At all. The amounts of material and energy present on Earth are in no way related to the laws of supply and demand. The universe is indifferent to your over-applied, unfalsifiable theories. Applying your (almost certainly feeble) understanding of economics implies the universe responds like a rational actor, an idiotic notion that underpins most religion and superstition.

    Who the hell said it was? Economics governs the amounts of material and energy humans are able to utilize. Who gives a shit if we have 500 kilotons of iron ore sitting under a mountain. Much better that it is used. If our current life style and technical level isn't supported by the materials available on the earth we will scale back due to supply and demand. What is your alternative? The western world makes itself poor through government force and the developing countries are forced to stop developing just so we can have minerals sitting in the ground?

  15. The scorpius appears to be shite on Review of Das Keyboard · · Score: 2, Informative

    Look at the amazon reviews. All of them complain about the manufacturing and one of them even have some pictures up which look horrifying. I could solder a lot better than that!

    http://www.parkoz.com/zboard/view.php?id=my_album&no=51766

  16. Re:Glad to hear this. on Bell's Own Data Exposes P2P As a Red Herring · · Score: 1

    Name them.

    Post Office - Privatized
    Train/tracks - Privatized
    Phone/ISP - Privatized

    What we have left are alcohol and pharmacy monopolies the latter will be dismantled soon though. And calling the alcohol monopoly successful depends on if you're a teetotaler or not.

  17. Re:The end of ctrl+enter days? on ICANN Board Approves Wide Expansion of TLDs · · Score: 1

    Yeah? Well, in Korea only old people use e-mail.

  18. Re:Gun Rights on Supreme Court Holds Right to Bear Arms Applies to Individuals · · Score: 1

    If there's a revolution going on and the armed forces is fighting, how hard do you think it would be to get you hands on primary and secondary explosives?

    How hard would it be for the knowledgeable to disseminate information on how to make say TATP from citric acid, hydrochloric acid and acetone? Do you think it's difficult to build a detonator from a mobile phone or a mechanical watch?

  19. Re:Interesting but... on Researchers Demo Flippable-Page E-book Reader · · Score: 1

    I've had a Sony PRS-500 for about six month and have read 60+ books on it. The invert-then-refresh isn't really noticable after a while. It's been a while since i read anything other than the lit format (thank you caliber) but I seem to remember that RTF's took a long while to change sizes every time and had a somewhat slower page refresh.

    The refresh rate on the PRS with a proper .lit file is faster than flipping pages in a book but images and PDF's take uncomfortably long.

  20. Re:Then STOP releasing the product! on Bill Gates Chews Out Microsoft · · Score: 1

    I'm a linux newbie and haven't used any kind of linux since ubuntu 5.04. When I booted that I was so completely lost I could barely do anything. Then I installed KDE and felt a little bit better but I still couldn't find any programs to install and those I did find required make scripts that I couldn't get to work. Then I found aptget and Kynaptic and was blown away. Installing stuff in Ubuntu was so fucking simple it was hard. The next problem was that I didn't know what the good stuff was called but that's not really relevant.

    Saying that the windows way of installing things is intuitive is false. If you took two children and exposed one to windows and the other to deban based distros they'd both argue that their OS way of doing things was the most intuitive.

  21. Re:Always. on When Is a Self-Signed SSL Certificate Acceptable? · · Score: 1

    Sweden, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken more known as SEB.

  22. Re:I wonder on Fingerprints Recoverable From Cleaned Metal · · Score: 1

    I will. The alternative is the possibility of being convicted on someones unsubstantiated word.

    Another fairly absurd alternative is filming each and every time you fuck someone or make them sign a contract beforehand.

  23. Re:awesome bar = f u bar on Comparing Firefox 3 With Opera 9.5 On Linux · · Score: 1

    If I type "c" guess how many sites Awesomebar shows that begins with "c"? I get criticker which is a site I've visited four or five times since I got FF3. Strangely enough it appears that the awesome bar learns your behaviour and places the more clicked on results first.

    "Slashdot" comes up with the Slashdot story on the Debian SSL key fiasco. I guess I visited that story a bunch while trying to figure out exactly how vulnerable our systems are and now it's considered more correct than slashdot.org, despite the fact that the URL starts with "it" since it's a story from the IT section. S gives me the root of slashdot. The first time i fired up FF3 it only gave me the subdomains. But since then it has learned that s means slashdot.

    Have you tried using FF3 more than once for each of your regular sites?
  24. Re:How can they keep this secret? on FCC Revises Broadband Penetration Metrics · · Score: 1

    What if you don't want them newfangled Nürnberg (apparently an umlaut is too advanced for slashdot) laws?

    One has the same choices as everyone else - talk to your representatives. Beyond that, you also have the opportunity to work within the political system to elect a representative who more closely matches your values.

    Mod +1 goodwinned

  25. Re:I hate the awesome bar on Firefox Download Day To Start At 1 p.m. EST · · Score: 1
    I've been using FF3 for just about 20minutes with most of that fiddling with extensions. I did use the first or second release candidate for an hour or but that was the portable version so it didn't have any history or bookmarks.

    I agree that one should always be able to revert to the old way of doing things but some of your criticism appears to be invalid or rash.

    2) It searches the middle of words. When you type in "s" for slashdot it's going to bring up every page with an s in any word in the title, and an s in any location in the url. Not a problem after a while. My first s in the awesomebar showed only slashdot URL's but all of them were subdomains. I had to type in (or select) the top domain once and now when I type s slashdot is the first choice. Doesn't seem to be much of a problem to me.

    3) It breaks muscle memory. The results seem to occur in random order. and to get it to be consistant you need to type nearly the whole url. The learning behaviour means that results will continually swap around. Once it's trained that isn't a problem. There might be some problem with sites that shares the first few letters but I don't think so.

    4) The font is too large, and only 12 entries are listed. This makes it nearly useless. The old default was 25 entries. Cosmetics can be fixed by settings. I saw some about:config settings that appeared to be relevant somewhere in this discussion.

    5) It doesn't seem to take into account website home pages. Compared to FF2, this algorithm puts a whole heap of crappy leaf pages before the root of a site. The reason for this is probably that the leaf pages usually have more interesting titles. That doesn't appear to be a problem once its trained. If it is one probably has to use the end of the domain name instead of the start. I can live with that but it's a valid criticism.