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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23QgunoRYxw

Kid gets detained by police for writing fuck bush on a sign.

I ran linux at home for over 6 years. On desktops and laptops.

First, linux requires so much configuration on laptops. Neither debian nor ubuntu could support acpi (aka SLEEP) on my laptop. CD-ROM support was annoying as I switched from kernel 2.4-2.6. I had to recompile the kernel so many times and I could never get acpi to work (not even dell supported it, just some hacker in france that never replied to my email bug report). Other annoying things: getting vpn through a windows PPTP server will take you a long as time.

Linux is a great thing for a desktop though, the hardware is pretty standard and theres less things to worry about.

Linux is best for a server, and best for a beginning sysadmin to run at home to learn more about the operating system that is run at work.

And while I will probably buy a macbook for my next computer, I hope to have the resources to also get a windows vista to play around with.
I really like desktop machines that just work in most cases. I've been running windows xp on my dell laptop for a few months now, and while its not ideal, at least i get easy vpn access, the ability to turn off zeroconf to get my intel wifi card working,although i do miss being able to simply edit my crontab to give me a streaming radio alarm clock that goes off at different times during the week.

can we say one-way hash...

Bram Cohen, creator of BitTorrent got the idea for BitTorrent because he was working on a p2p backup system. Its called mojonation:

http://mojonation.sf.net/

Or how about this article from slashdot in 2002 about mojonation:

http://slashdot.org/articles/02/07/18/0244256.shtm l?tid=156

Excuse me if my response is off topic ;-)

what prudent,prissy american law did he exactly get charged with?

links -width 100 -dump http://top500.org/list/2003/06/?page | grep -i linux

yields (with a little hand-scrubbing):

3 Linux Networx 7634.00 Lawrence Livermore National
57 Linux Networx 1007.00 Argonne National Laboratory
78 Linux Networx 840.50 Los Alamos National Laboratory
107 Linux Labs 680.30 American Museum of Natural
296 Linux Networx 390.20 Fraunhofer ITWM
356 Linux Networx 347.00 Boeing Shared Services
407 Linux Networx 295.90 Boeing Shared Services

i live in america.

i just bike everywhere fuck that gas guzzler. you stupid fat american fucks.

the torrentse.cx folks are pure grifter-fucks, plain an simple. They got away with a new server, and probably a boat load of cash on top of that to burn.

They are selfish shits who didnt even release their code (which bytemonsoon did).

The least they could have done is stand up to the DMCA , i mean, theres a very notable and recent case that streamcast/grokster won against RIAA/MPAA http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/25/18 46251&mode=nested&tid=141&tid=97&tid=1 23
that applies perfectly to them.

Could have hired some lawyer time with the money....instead they blow it like the children they are.

what does it say about the influence of TV on Western cultures?

um...dont you mean "what does it say about the influence of TV on Western cultures?" who gives a shit about the west, it has some of the highest standards of living in the world. But moreover, its WESTERN TV that has fucked up this non-western country, so its them that we should be concerned about.

It takes a typical westerner to exemplify what true selfishness means, and this poster displayed his attitude quite clearly.

so they will be laying new lines for this?

mainly.... to start a revolution.

Sorry, but its justa glorified tablet pc to me why? moving parts i dont care if its small if I cant throw it in my coat and go biking down the street.

Id rather go with zaurus and 512-1gig of flash.

Heres a post of mine detailing prices for some real Solid state storage: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=61888&cid=5803 961.

Of most important slashdottings, this is one of the first without an intelligent summary somewhere in the comments. Can someone mod this comment up so that someone can provide a general summary of what this legal document says. Please dont waste your effort in engaging me in a mindless debate that there is no need for one, there are already 100 such other comments greater than +3 that are opionions or "funny".

This is 34 pages of legal mesh, so who can step up ?

http://www.bitmicro.com/ Makes SSD's. I sent them an email, and here is what prices of SSD's look like:

http://www.bitmicro.com/products_edisk_25_ide.php [bitmicro.com]
E-Disk® 2A66(2), 17408MB, Commercial Temp, No PowerGuard, NAND
E-Disk® Part Number: D2A066B 017408 CNN
Discounted Unit Price: $18,857

-- -- -- --

http://www.bitmicro.com/products_acedisk_25_IDE.ph p [bitmicro.com]
Ace-Disk 2A16, 2048MB, Commercial Temp, No PowerGuard, AND
Ace-Disk Part Number: A2A016B 002048 CNA
Discounted Unit Price: $1,356

-- -- -- --
SSD
pricing has been coming down over the last few years as the performance
continually improves. We expect the pricing to reach the consumer
level in the next 3-5 years. Two years ago we were roughly $15/MB, last
year $5-8/MB, and this year we are ranging from $1-4/MB depending on
interface/model and capacity.

With any type of real market, these prices should come down very nicely.

in fact I do. I requested a price quote (ugh..i know).

http://www.bitmicro.com/products_edisk_25_ide.php
E-Disk® 2A66(2), 17408MB, Commercial Temp, No PowerGuard, NAND
E-Disk® Part Number: D2A066B 017408 CNN
Discounted Unit Price: $18,857

-- -- -- --

http://www.bitmicro.com/products_acedisk_25_IDE.ph p
Ace-Disk 2A16, 2048MB, Commercial Temp, No PowerGuard, AND
Ace-Disk Part Number: A2A016B 002048 CNA
Discounted Unit Price: $1,356

-- -- -- --
SSD pricing has been coming down over the last few years as the performance continually improves. We expect the pricing to reach the consumer level in the next 3-5 years. Two years ago we were roughly $15/MB, last year $5-8/MB, and this year we are ranging from $1-4/MB depending on interface/model and capacity.

With any type of real market, these prices should come down very nicely.

http://www.bitmicro.com/products_edisk_25_ide.php

and capacities of up to 34.8 GB.

Ram is WAY too volatile for any sort of long term storage with any type of integrity.

Sigh...
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03 /02/11/10 20256

"It seems like the most problematic part of any notebook is the speed of the hard drive (and they also get noisy). I noticed http://www.bitmicro.com/products_edide.html selling 2.5" solid state disks SSD. Anybody currently using one of these in a notebook? I can't find pricing anywhere, but they've gotta cost a fortune." How long do you think it will be before the major laptop manufacturers start adopting this technology?

I've been a wikipedia user for 3/4's of a year now, and I know for a fact that they dont use the invariant sections.

See: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Boilerplat e_request_for_permission

I did a little googlage:

http://www.bitstream.com/categories/products/fon ts /vera/

voting is the least important part of a democracy on this scale.

thanks for the great comments!, seeing as the document *is* very old, im sure they've worked on many of the issues, if not, these would be vehicle mounted.

if this article is real...:

-the po-210 element is an alpha emitter hence its not radioactive in the bad way (but its still toxic, and hot as heck). Has a halflife only in the range of a few months, and would need to have industrial production seriously ramped up for it to be deployable in quantity.

-It gave only figures of heat, how much damage could those numbers result in?

-it has a recoil of 90/lbs: to get an idea for comparison, i searched google for m16 recoil statisticts (very tough to find)

i mean minimal latency and LAN's