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  1. Re:Vista... Microsoft's "New Coke" on Making the Switch To Windows "Workstation" 2008 · · Score: 1

    Bleh. Prior to last summer I hadn't eaten at a McD's in... ten years, excepting a very occasional breakfast biscuit when someone else chose it.

    Eating there last summer reminded me why I don't eat there anymore. It just tasted cheap. Actually, so did the takeaway breakfasts that the others kept bringing over--greasy gut bombs that made me feel like taking a crap a lot.

  2. Re:Oh Yeah! on Apple Suit Demands That Psystar Recall OpenMacs · · Score: 1

    Too bad most of these people utterly fail at timing.

    I /know/ I'm socially retarded, but damn.

  3. Re:Oh Yeah! on Apple Suit Demands That Psystar Recall OpenMacs · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You're assuming the hoke was funny to begin with. As with most Slashdot memes, it's been done to death so long ago that the bones are fossilizing.

  4. Re:Vista... Microsoft's "New Coke" on Making the Switch To Windows "Workstation" 2008 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If you like McDonald's, I suppose. I worked at a McD's ($DEITY forbid ever again) in the Arch Deluxe days, and that was one of their better sandwiches at the time.

  5. Guerilla OS? on Making the Switch To Windows "Workstation" 2008 · · Score: 1

    I too am an Internet cool guy.

  6. Re:Curtis LeMay on B-2 Stealth Bomber Gets Upgrade, Joins the '90s · · Score: 1

    It's going to suck for you guys when USAF does get 'round to retiring the A-10 in favor of the F-35. I just don't think the '35 could be near as good at CAS as the Hog.

    I think it's a stupid decision--they should have a dedicated CAS aircraft replace the Hog--but a civvie's opinion doesn't matter.

  7. Re:There's a Reason for That on B-2 Stealth Bomber Gets Upgrade, Joins the '90s · · Score: 1

    Er, no. Vietnam showed that the all-missile fighter was a mistake. Korean War-era fighters were all-gun and later on ours had unguided air-to-air rockets that were radar-triggered.

    Early Vietnam-era fighters, such as the F-4, lacked guns because the brass thought the days of guns were over. Fairly quickly they were augmented with gun pods like the SUU-16 and -23 (inaccurate and draggy), and later on internal guns were brought back in the F-4E. Communist MiG-17s, slow and maneuverable, would close into gun range to engage our fighters, who could of course not fight up close like that.

  8. Re:Wake me up when the moderation system is improv on Slashdot Discussion System Updates · · Score: 0

    Sigh. And now that I've said that, expect parent post and possibly this one modded "overrated" in 3... 2... 1...

  9. Re:Wake me up when the moderation system is improv on Slashdot Discussion System Updates · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Underrated and overrated should be meta-moddable, at least; perhaps the metamod system could show comments modded thus with their moderation and points before the over/under was applied.

    I too have been a victim (FSVO) of mods who mark me "overrated" when I haven't received any other moderation.

  10. Re:And yet... on Slashdot Discussion System Updates · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They'd have to throw the first few weeks' moderations away (admit it, you'd be tempted to go LOL I MOD ZONK DOWN EVERY TIME), but it could be useful later on.

  11. Re:AWSD on Slashdot Discussion System Updates · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why would you want to keep your other hand free when you're browsing Slashdot?

  12. Re:We Already Have a Moon Rocket on NASA Engineers Work On Alternative Moon Rocket · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, actually we don't. The tooling's been long-since destroyed, and there are no blueprints for many of the parts because they were farmed out to contractors, let alone information on things like what precise alloys to use for said parts, and other methods of manufacture.

    There are a couple Saturn Vs left, yes, but they were left out to the elements for many years and may have been scavenged for parts.

  13. Re:TERRORISM?! on Disgruntled Engineer Hijacks San Francisco's Computer System · · Score: 1

    Your reasoning is compelling, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

  14. Re:Not Surprising on Joss Whedon's "Doctor Horrible" Set To Launch · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Personally I thought Willow was much hotter than Buffy, especially in the early seasons when Willow was the nerdy high-school girl.

  15. Re:Ever tried that with Red Hat 7.3 on Estimating the Time-To-Own of an Unpatched Windows PC · · Score: 1

    Good $DEITY. Whyinthehell would they offer something /that/ old? It's not like they have to pay extra for something more modern like CentOS.

  16. Re:How is this measured on Estimating the Time-To-Own of an Unpatched Windows PC · · Score: 1

    What you should really do is slipstream SP3 into your SP1-or-later CD with nLite or some other tool, then burn the resulting ISO and install from that.

    If you're feeling particularly ambitious, slipstream in DriverPacks.net's drivers; you'll need a DVD-R because with all the driverpacks it ends up being about 1 GB.

  17. Re:Not on any Linux system on Disgruntled Engineer Hijacks San Francisco's Computer System · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Pfft. That's irrelevant if you've got physical access. You'd either pull the drive in question and attach to another operational machine, then change /etc/shadow, or you boot from a LiveCD and do the same.

    I'd assume there are other layers of security, though (poss. including encryption), and TFA doesn't say what operating system it runs on.

  18. Re:What no golden handshake... on Disgruntled Engineer Hijacks San Francisco's Computer System · · Score: 1

    How do you know this guy isn't just mentally ill? Not saying that your scenario is impossible.

  19. TERRORISM?! on Disgruntled Engineer Hijacks San Francisco's Computer System · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Get fucked, asshole. The last thing this country needs is for butthurt pussies to define another ordinary crime as "terrorism" because they think a particular perp should be punished more "as an example" or because they're afraid.

    This is not terrorism. It's an act of sabotage by one individual (who should undergo a psych eval) who should be prosecuted to the extent of the law, and to a lesser extent it's a failure of leadership for his bosses.

  20. No trouble with mine on Why Do We Have To Restart Routers? · · Score: 1

    Linksys WRT54GL with Tomato Firmware. It never needs to reboot, except when I feel like updating the firmware to a newer version.

    FTM, I never had to reboot its predecessor either, a Linksys BEFSR41, and it was in service for several years before I decided I wanted wireless.

  21. Re:Good work on Most CF Cards Fail DMA Transfers · · Score: 1

    I had a Sony camera circa 2003 that *required* drivers installed first. Cthulhu help you if you connected the camera w/o installing drivers, because XP couldn't see it and despite my best efforts, it never would after that. Good job we had another computer.

  22. Re:KDE4.1 great for geeks, not ready for simple us on KDE Responds To Misconceptions About KDE 4 · · Score: 1

    Whichever ones the guy upthread is complaining about.

  23. Re:KDE4.1 great for geeks, not ready for simple us on KDE Responds To Misconceptions About KDE 4 · · Score: 1

    Yeah. If Canonical can look at KDE4 and say "no, this isn't ready, we're sticking with KDE3, but here's an alternative distro if you *really* like pain", why can't the other distros at least see that they should keep KDE3 at least until the following release?

  24. Re:Forget wires on Superconducting Power Grid Launches In New York · · Score: 1

    OK, but only if I can have my own fusion reactor.

  25. Re:Possible new 'Terrorism' target? on Superconducting Power Grid Launches In New York · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I wish that was funny and not depressing.