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  1. Re:MATH not MATHS on '55 Science Paper Retracted to Thwart Creationists · · Score: 4, Informative

    Hey, neat. You put that there to illustrate the 'bias' point? In the UK, Australia, and maybe some countries that were colonies of the UK until recently it's Maths for Mathematics. Nice, no?

  2. Re:Some proof on ICANN Investigates Insider Domain Name Snatching · · Score: 1

    When I was young and foolish I made a search on GoDaddy for a domain. It was to be my first. I searched for it every day, because I was afraid it would get snatched just before I managed to put up the money. On the third day, the domain was parked. Then it was unparked (or whatever) 5 days later. By that time, I'd chosen another one. Mea culpa, but yeah, it happens.

  3. Re:Low barriers to guilt on NY Wrests $1 Million From Verizon Wireless · · Score: 1

    As a matter of fact, just download a couple of Linux ISOs, or update all your software and you're screwed.

  4. Re:the media is lazy on Greenpeace Admits Targeting Apple Grabs Headlines · · Score: 1

    My mistake. I'm not on the Apple side here. I meant to say that the story claims that the problem is Greenpeace going after Apple and making that out to me. Also, ha ha :D

  5. Re:Fool me once..... on Driver Update Can Cause Vista Deactivation · · Score: 1

    I get what you mean, but when people say, "Some people have to use Vista" they mean, "In some corporate environments, some person will choose that the company must use Vista everywhere."

  6. Re:No prior art and innovative? on Amazon Patents Including a String at End of a URL · · Score: 1

    Sorry, Adobe got there before you :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ColdFusion

  7. Re:the media is lazy on Greenpeace Admits Targeting Apple Grabs Headlines · · Score: 1

    As far as I know, the problem isn't that Greenpeace went after Apple on false ideas, the problem is they went only after Apple.

  8. Re:tshirt and no shoes? on Stallman Attacked by Ninjas · · Score: 1

    You misunderstand Free Software. Look it up.

  9. Re:tshirt and no shoes? on Stallman Attacked by Ninjas · · Score: 3, Funny

    Indeed, all those formal settings where he gets attacked by sunglasses ninjas being an example of how he doesn't care for being professionalism.

  10. Re:this guy is a liability to the community on Stallman Attacked by Ninjas · · Score: 1

    Here's an interesting article: http://www.unshod.org/pfbc/pfrossi2.htm I wear sandals myself, because I learnt my lesson the hard way a couple of years ago. It's easy to get a cut in the skin and then that can get infected. I got leptospirosis like that, sort of. Ah well.

  11. Re:Sorry... on Mythbusters to Test Cockroach Radiation Myth · · Score: 1

    Actually, I wonder if there are any people out there who would stop a kid from frying a bug with a magnifying glass and then turn around and watch this episode without any qualms. I bet there are lots.

  12. Re:Within the retail sector... on Ubuntu On Dell After Four Months · · Score: 1

    Remove it, it's a meta-package, won't hurt you at all. I've heard you can dist-upgrade without it also.

  13. Re:"Nobel price" on Critic of Software Patents Wins Nobel Prize in Economics · · Score: 0

    It's all the talk about economics...

  14. Re:energy efficiency has been tackled already on First Actual CPU Energy Use Statistics Published · · Score: 2, Funny

    So, the internet is a series of tubers then?

  15. Re:Hmmmm.... on US Faces $100 Billion Fine For Web Gambling Ban · · Score: 1

    Ah, but many US corporations had no problem dealing with Nazi Germany until after the US started fighting them, so they *are* keeping in line with that policy if you apply the "no better than..." thing.

  16. Re:And this is good...why? on The Russian Mafia Doesn't Like Spam Either · · Score: 1

    Considering that it's a parked page, another scourge of the Internet, I don't think jollyreaper cares much.

  17. Re:Cool! on How Microsoft Inadvertently Helps To Fund FOSS · · Score: 1

    I've always wondered why people were 'taught' Office. It sounds so ridiculous. Or maybe you do some fancy stuff, because in school our questions were like, "What is the shortcut key for Italics?"

  18. Re:Answers on Has Wikipedia Peaked? · · Score: 1

    Indeed, it does appear as though you might be a mite tired. Sorry :)

  19. Re:2nd post problem on A Brief History of Slashdot Part 2, Explosions · · Score: 1

    I find it hilarious that people were so concerned about him deleting comments that his own bot made. Ha ha.

  20. Re:You ignore spirit of FOSS, giving back ... on Resolution of BSD-GPL Wireless Code Dispute? · · Score: 1

    Indeed, in context, the small changes don't seem to need to be 'protected' by the GPL. Agreed. At that point I was just talking about just "giving back" without this context.

  21. Re:not much historic data on hole on Antarctic Ozone Hole Shrinks 30 Percent · · Score: 1

    Do both! If that's the reason governments are not helping with this, then they need someone new to do the administration. There's no reason they can't assist with both. Just for reference, let's see how much a C-5 Galaxy costs: $ 165 million. How many are around? ~100. There's $16.5 billion spent on transport planes. No offence to any C-5's.

  22. Re:Less keystrokes on The Next Leap for Linux · · Score: 1

    On a debian based system. dpkg allows you to just write all your selections to a file. Something like dpkg get-selections > file, then dpkg set-selections file. I don't remember the exact syntax, but this is trivial. Also, on debian systems, /var/cache/apt will have all your packages if you set the cache to be large, but if you really care about having all your files, just copy every file from here to another location whenever you install stuff. Then you just do a dpkg -i ./* and watch the magic happen. Caution: I'm no linux guru, just a user. There are probably easier, faster ways of doing this.

  23. Re:New version of GIMP? on GIMP 2 for Photographers · · Score: 1

    In Linux, you may be able to replicate that behaviour using an xnest. http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=14072

  24. Re:But on Major Linux Hardware Donor Is a CNN "Hero" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sorry dude. This distro is "for human beings"

  25. Re:You ignore spirit of FOSS, giving back ... on Resolution of BSD-GPL Wireless Code Dispute? · · Score: 1

    The problem is, the GPL advocates believe in "keeping the code free", so to speak. By licensing the code BSD they can no longer do that. Another solution would be for OpenBSD to use the code as GPL. See, the conflict here isn't over giving back to those who helped make that code. It's about giving to those who won't. The BSD gang is saying, "Here, we made the most of that. You really should give minor changes back to us, and also to anyone who would want to just take the code and close it." In any case, I thought the real problem here was the fact that one dev removed part of a BSD licensed file which is unchangeable? Wasn't that reverted though, very quickly?