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  1. Infrastructure on In Case of Armageddon, Break Out the GIS · · Score: 2, Informative

    "The trains in Hiroshima were actually running a few hours after the bomb went off," Weinstein says. "That may be a testament to Japanese efficiency, but it's also a testament to the difficulty of damaging infrastructure."

    Has this guy seen photos of Hiroshima after the blast? Those trains certainly weren't running 'a few hours after the bomb went off' if they were anywhere within a kilometer of ground zero.

  2. From the article: on In Case of Armageddon, Break Out the GIS · · Score: 1

    the nihilists who despise our culture, as unholy as they are ...He wouldn't be biased, would he? Come on - "unholy"? That's beginning to sound like rhetoric from the mouth of bin Laden.

  3. Re:I propose... on Godzilla Getting Ready to Stomp Mozilla? · · Score: 1

    Strangely enough, the name "Mojira" is used by a group of Mozilla developers in Japan...

  4. Re:Strange on Godzilla Getting Ready to Stomp Mozilla? · · Score: 1

    Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzt! Wrong.

    One theory says that the name came from "gorilla" + "kujira" (=whale), but that was thought up after the fact.

    The real origin of the name is the "Gojira" legend from Otojima, an island near Japan.

  5. Re:Another redundant "unfair comparison" claim on Is Linux or Windows Easier To Install? · · Score: 1

    In Windows, the terminology is something like "Get IP address automatically", not "Use DHCP". Of the two, which do you think is more clear to a newbie? I'll pick the former.

    "What's DHCP?" == "What's an IP address?"

    And I'm not familiar with the configuration of "NT Boot Manager", but I would imagine the terminology used in setting it up (assuming it's part of the wizard-driven installations Windows typically use) is not all that cryptic.

    You have to edit a text file, adding the items you need. Hmmm... sounds familiar...

  6. Re:This article = troll on Is Linux or Windows Easier To Install? · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, parted doesn't handle NTFS.

  7. CoC/DG on Dave Arneson Talks About Helping Create D&D · · Score: 2, Interesting

    For those of you who like CoC, don't forget to check out Delta Green. Good stuff.

  8. Re:Yeehoghu hits! on Dave Arneson Talks About Helping Create D&D · · Score: 1

    I think the worst part was the artificial ceiling on HPs (400, IIRC). What a joke.

  9. Re:Excellent Question on From Software to Soup: On Trading Coding for Crepes · · Score: 1

    A couple of things about translation work:

    - If you're doing translation of business, financial or technical material that will be made public or otherwise requires accuracy, you will never be replaced by machine translation.

    - Translation isn't all it's cracked up to be; you're taking one set of words and turning them into another set. There's not a hell of a lot of leeway for creativity.

    - You can make a comfortable living at it if you have the right contacts.

    As an example, I've been doing Japanese to English translation as a second job for nearly seven years now, and I've occasionally made over $US7000 for a total of a couple of weeks work.

  10. Re:On trading what for crepes? on From Software to Soup: On Trading Coding for Crepes · · Score: 1

    That M actually stands for Monkey.

  11. Standard Wine? on Crossover Gets Quicken · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Does this work with mainline Wine as well, or is it Crossover-only at the moment?
    I know Codeweavers have been good about feeding fixes back into the mainline project (unlike WineX), and I hope they keep it up.

  12. Re:The reason for the hubbub on Governmental ID System in Japan · · Score: 1

    Also, Japanese citizens already carry "resident cards".

    Er... no, they don't Perhaps you were thinking of *foreign* residents of Japan?

  13. Re:You don't need 3-D glasses... on See 4-D Space With 3-D Glasses · · Score: 1

    I got much better results with the 'Parallel' method. 'Crosseyed' seemed to turn parts of the object inside-out (not on purpose... I think), whereas parallel looked great.

  14. Re:Working strategy on Bitboys Silicon Sighted · · Score: 1

    Nah, it's more like:

    1. Hype!
    2. Hype!
    3. Hype!
    .
    .
    x-1. Hype!
    x. Display non-working prototype running off FPGA
    x+1. Hype!
    .
    .
    y-1. Hype!
    y. ???
    y+1. Hype!
    .
    .
    n-1. Hype!
    n. PROFIT!!!

  15. Re:this is frontpage /. news? on In Print: MegaTokyo · · Score: 1

    ...it was no longer possible to post without an account.

    I guess you mean, 'when it was no longer possible to post without an account, unless you wanted to post as an AC', but yeah. I chose to post as an AC for a while, and then caved in like the spineless weakling that I am.

    Help me to remember... when did CT and Hemos get their photos in Wired?

  16. Re:this is frontpage /. news? on In Print: MegaTokyo · · Score: 1

    Heh.... yeah, I guess that could be ironic.
    I would like to mention that, even though I've been here for some number of years, I do actually still have something that could be called a life.

  17. Re:Megatokyo? Nah.... on In Print: MegaTokyo · · Score: 2, Informative

    Bzzzt! You lose...

    Love Hina is actually a shounen manga, aimed at young males between the ages of 12 and 18.

    Seinen manga would be series from magazines such as 'Young Magazine' or 'Young Jump'.

    (Clue: Love Hina is currently running in Shounen Magazine.)

  18. Re:this is frontpage /. news? on In Print: MegaTokyo · · Score: 1

    You : UID 547211 / 326 comments.
    Me : UID 11355 / 1075 comments.

    Considering I've been reading /. since before there was any such thing as UIDs, I'd say you're the one who needs to get a life...

  19. Re:PS/2 KVM switches on USB KVMs Compared · · Score: 2, Informative

    I've got an IOGear 4-port PS/2 KVm switch at home, and I've *never* had any problems with losing the mouse/keyboard connection on it.

    In fact, the only problem I've ever had with it is when my 6-year-old AlphaServer refused to recognise my keyboard when connected to the switch, but all the other hardware I've tried with it (including an Alpha Miata workstation) have worked fine.

  20. Re:The Next Battle on unix.com Wins Domain Dispute · · Score: 1

    That made my day...

  21. Re:Did anyone miss it? on RIAA Smacked by DoS · · Score: 1

    when was the last time you clicked your way to www.riaa.com?

    Oh, about three seconds ago... and six seconds ago... and nine seconds ago... and... ;)

  22. Re:Mirrors list mirrored on OpenSSL Security Update · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but I'd be *really* suspicious of any software that I downloaded from a host called "opensores"...

  23. Re:Debian users: on OpenSSL Security Update · · Score: 2, Informative

    Debian doesn't generally upgrade the software in question to a later external version unless it's absolutely necessary - instead, they patch the version that they know is stable and move their internal version up a notch.

  24. Argh. on OpenSSL Security Update · · Score: 1


    Red Hat's servers are /.ed and I'm getting 5KB/s in up2date.

    Great, just great...

  25. Heh... on Heads-Up Wearable Display · · Score: 5, Funny

    From the article:

    "It's kind of like having your computer with you all the time," said Devereaux.

    Well, no shit Sherlock! I thought that was the point of a wearable computer...