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  1. Re:Creepy stuff on Denver Airport Automated Baggage System Abandoned · · Score: 1

    That isn't what does it for me.

    This is.

    There are no other airports in the world with runways like that. Most have runways in the direction of the prevailing winds, not in all four directions.

  2. Re:Let me be the 1st on Report Claims Men More Intelligent Than Women · · Score: 1

    Reverse the sexes, and it's not as funny.

    Well, I'm going to be one of the 1st to say that I've known this for a long time

    *SMACK*

    Boyfriend: "Get back in line you stupid woman."

    Me: "Yes sir"

  3. Re:Let me be the 1st on Report Claims Men More Intelligent Than Women · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You fucking stupid chump. Don't even joke about shit like this. Girl bluffs you in any way, dump her. First time, period. Let her know you don't brook any games. You're being boiled alive, and you don't even know it - and you won't until you have kids that aren't yours, no sex, a minivan, and a divorce where she keeps the house.

  4. Re:General use timeline? on IBM-Sony-Toshiba Reveal New Cell Processor Details · · Score: 1

    I would contribute to that, if just for the thrill of

    bash ~ $ grep processor /proc/cpuinfo

    processor: 0
    processor: 1
    processor: 2
    processor: 3
    processor: 4
    processor: 5
    processor: 6
    processor: 7
    processor: 8
    processor: 9

    OK, I'm a geek.

  5. Re:I have ridden the mighty moon worm! on Drug Reverses Effects of Sleep Deprivation · · Score: 1

    Sting, for sure. :) The Dune 2000 stillsuits, while more faithful to the descriptions in the book, made the wearer look more like the Gimp from Pulp Fiction. The Lynch ones were more biomechanical - they show Giger's influence on the movie.

  6. Re:I have ridden the mighty moon worm! on Drug Reverses Effects of Sleep Deprivation · · Score: 1

    The thing about scleral lenses is that you can only have them in for a short period of time before your eyes start to hurt - perhaps 3 hours max. Enough time to win a costume contest with though. :) I'm working on a stillsuit right now, just for Halloween.

  7. Re:I have ridden the mighty moon worm! on Drug Reverses Effects of Sleep Deprivation · · Score: 1

    Right here.

    I'm getting a pair of these for Halloween - TOTALLY worth the $200.

  8. Re:What about Cygwin? on Windows User Experiments With Linux for 10 Days · · Score: 1

    ...

    Hello? What's that? ...

    Huh. Must have been the wind.

  9. What about Cygwin? on Windows User Experiments With Linux for 10 Days · · Score: 1

    I use Cygwin and I love it. Runs under XP, 98% Xwin support, and includes apps that Windows needs separate huge programs for (ssh, rsync, and of course regexps).

    Of course, there's no multiuser and everything is run as the Windows user logged on, and cron, sshd, httpd, don't run as well if at all, but I use my home box for that.

  10. Re:$6-$10/hr? on The Case for Free WiFi? · · Score: 1

    Out of all the ideas, I think that this one is the best, as it avoids:
    - Having a server tell someone they're a freeloader.
    - Having to admin a complex ticket-based system
    - Having to charge at all

    Good on ya, mate.

  11. Re:This WILL cause lots of nice CANCER. on Riot Control Ray-Gun for Use in Iraq · · Score: 1

    That's what I meant, thanks.

  12. Re:This WILL cause lots of nice CANCER. on Riot Control Ray-Gun for Use in Iraq · · Score: 1

    Nothing. The penetration depth is next to nothing, and 95GHz is too low of an energy to cause mutations.

  13. Re:What a chump. on Death Star Subwoofer · · Score: 1

    I'm 26, never married. Figured this out by myself, after watching men I knew go through divorces.

  14. Re:What a chump. on Death Star Subwoofer · · Score: 1

    My apologies. My blood sugar was low. :)

    My initial remark still stands, in that I don't think that much of what stands for modern feminist woman is worthy of trust, simply because they don't want to be women. They want to fuck around like men, swear like men, and sleep around like they think men do, but it's in contradiction to their very nature as human beings that exist to love, care for their men, and to bear his children. Modern women don't get it that they can be intelligent and business-savvy, yet still be feminine. Running a home is among the most demanding things out there, and I'm glad that my woman is better at it than I.

    As a whole, women now have got it wrong, and it's turning them into mannish, nagging harpies that have nothing to offer a long-term relationship. Women of this type will make voluminous lists of "what I want in a man", but are at a loss as to what they have to give a man.

    I just consider myself lucky, and advocate caution for any man thinking about getting involved with one of today's women.

  15. Re:What a chump. on Death Star Subwoofer · · Score: 1

    Please. Given that my tall, blonde, gorgeous Lithuanian girlfriend just returned from an astrophysics conference, I don't think you have a leg to stand on. I treat her like gold, and she knows it.

    The two best descriptors for our relationship are "unconditional respect, love, and trust". We live in separate houses, and she does my laundry twice a month and cooks dinner twice a week, more when I'm on a big contract and working 100 hour weeks. She comes into my office and gives me a back massage when I'm in the middle of a 30-hour day. She doesn't make as much as me, but she loves what she does.

    The point is that women get more respect and love when they're in a more traditional role, rather than trying to change their man into something he's not and causing all sorts of problems and arguments.

  16. What a chump. on Death Star Subwoofer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    See, this is the first thing that women do when they get their hooks into you - make you get rid of something you put hundreds of hours and pounds into, just because "it won't fit into the apartment". It's not about that, it's about her controlling him with sex, just seeing how high she can make him jump.

    Next she's slowly going to start getting rid of his bachelor friends, the better to control him. This is why any reasonable man should steer clear of "modern" women. Start your own business, invest well, buy and build cool stuff, and always keep women at arm's length - lest you become a pussywhipped fool who replaces his brilliantly engineered subwoofers, motorcycle, and sports car with window treatments, no sex, and a minivan.

    Dumbass.

  17. Oh, THAT Atom. on Atom 1.0 vs RSS 2.0 · · Score: 1

    I thought the article was talking about my next car - the Ariel Atom. 0-100kph in 2.9 seconds for under 50K USD, thankyouverymuch.

  18. Donations? on Knoppix 4.0 DVD - Like a Kid in a Candy Store · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Does anyone know a place to donate to the people that produce Knoppix? It's saved my butt quite a lot, and it's an easy way to show people what Linux can do.

  19. Very simple. on After College, What Type of Jobs Should One Seek? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Don't search for jobs at all. Incorporate yourself and find a business mentor, by asking around at your school's small business office - most good schools should have one. Call your alum affice and ask if any alum has offered to be a mentor in their field.

    Make yourself up some business cards, and have at it! Starting a business is pretty easy, and if you work hard at it one can be a lot more successful than simply working for someone else.

    Get an HSA (health savings account) with a small business association, and start a Roth IRA immediately.

    In an interview in Inc. 500 a few years back, many hiring managers said that prior ownership of a tech business (even if it failed miserably) immediately put someone at the top of the list for a lead technical position or management.

    Good luck!

  20. Re:Price beats all. on Mobile Magazine's Notebook Tech Support Reviews · · Score: 1

    You know, I never really thought about it like that.

    'Mayhem'. Explains a lot.

    Thanks for the laugh. :)

  21. Price beats all. on Mobile Magazine's Notebook Tech Support Reviews · · Score: 1

    I own an ABS Mayhem G1. Dual hyperthreaded 2.8GHz P4, 1GB memory, 80GB HDD, ATI 9600 video card, 15" widescreen. Dual boots Suse 9.2 and XP. Price? $900 flat one year ago.

    Tech support, in a word, blows. I've learned not to even try. Twice I was going to return the machine to them, but they never called me back with an RTV number, and I gave up and fixed it myself.

    I don't care, because the machine was so cheap. The BIOS chip falls out, the machine occasionally overheats and shuts down, the power brick smoked itself, and the case on top of where the hard drive is has the imprint of my palm burned into it because the drive isn't cooled right. Screws rattle about in the case. Battery life is a cool 72 minutes.

    I've had Dells before, and their support is good, but I'll take price over customer service every time.

  22. Re:I would point out... on PC Prices Reach $300 Milestone · · Score: 1

    Equations? Matrices? Diagrams?

    Sorry, but typing doesn't cut it. I may invest at some point in an e-ink tablet with handwriting recognition.

  23. Re:Fedora Core 4 is great... on Fedora Core 4 Available · · Score: 1

    Suse 9.2 Pro worked fine for me, but only after doing the following if dual booting from a single drive:

    1. Enter the CHS (cylinders, heads, sectors) values as boot parameters when starting the install kernel.
    2. Switch the active partition to wherever /boot is, leaving your MBR alone and unaffected.
    3. Install normally.

    This was the key without which Mandrake 10.1, Suse 9.1, FC2, FC3, and Ubuntu would instantly hose your XP boot sector. Suse 9.2 was actually nice enough to back up your MBR for you and add it to the boot menu.

  24. Re:A joke... on Fighting Cancer with Math · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The way I heard the final bit was:

    "The mathematician wakes up in the middle of the night, lights a match, sets the place on fire, then goes back to bed, having reduced the problem to a previously solved one."

  25. Does it still kill XP partitions? on Debian Sarge Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    What I want to know is, does it still kill all XP partitions on the machine and hose the MBR?

    No, I guarantee it doesn't, because it's still kernel 2.6 and despite much hard work by people showing that a serious showstopper bug exists and is reproducible, people keep releasing distros where dual boot installs hose the MBR. You'd think that someone would create a distro that doesn't use parted and label it "Dual Boot Safe", but I've been telling people not to install Linux of any flavor until this is fixed.

    A company I contract for stopped a 2000-desktop W2K and XP to Linux migration because of this bug!