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  1. Re:40k - (cost of releasing) = ? on Branden Robinson Lays Down the Law at Debian · · Score: 1

    a stark contrast to Debian's recent "don't release at all" policy.

    Mickey Mouse/Bob Cratched: "P-p-please, Mr. Scrooge? M-might I have a piece of c-c-coal to warm my hands?"

    Scrooge McDuck/Scrooge: "I gave you a piece of coal last week! Get back to work."

    hawk, wondering if the debian he installed on his 486 laptop in 1998 or so is still the current release (but not curious enough to rush home and fix the power supply)

  2. Re:LOL on Can an Open Source Project Be Acquired? · · Score: 1
    Leading, of course, to that Disney classic, The Computer That Wore Tennis Shoes.

    :)

    hawk, dating himself

  3. Re:financial nuke on SCO Missing 16,209 Files? · · Score: 1

    No one will buy them, because whoever buys them is liable to IBM in the counter suit.

    That just isn't true.

    Whoever bought them would almost certainly hold the stock, rather than fold SCO into itself. That still leaves SCO as a distinct entity from its parent. The Gotterdammerung scenario just leaves the new owner with worthless stock.

    hawk

  4. Re:What is a "privilege log"? on SCO Missing 16,209 Files? · · Score: 1


    I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advice. If you need legal advice, see an attorney licensed in your jurisdiction.

    P.S. If you have a document pertaining to a lawsuit, but you don't declare it, you go to jail for obstruction of justice.

    Perhaps in some really exotic circumstances, but civil litigation would rarely, if ever, fit the requirements for obstruction of justice.

    In civil litigation, there *might* be a contempt citation, but more likely it would stop with sanctions--which could be monetary, or perhaps prohibitting the use of certain other evidence, or a summary ruling against you on the issue in question, or even striking your entire complaint or answer (thus granting a win to the other side).

    hawk

  5. Re:I feel sorry - on SCO Missing 16,209 Files? · · Score: 1

    But why would IBM want them? IBM has already made the decision that an open source unix better serves their purposes than their internal one. The last thing they need is a second internal unix to not use . . .

    hawk

  6. Re:I feel sorry - on SCO Missing 16,209 Files? · · Score: 2, Funny
    >Me too, but I've always felt sorry for SCO's customers. I've been one.

    Ah-HAH!

    Now if we can just find the other one :)



    hawk

  7. No, that's right on SCO Missing 16,209 Files? · · Score: 1

    The bloat-rate for Microsoft's Office and Windows alone accounts for that . . .

    hawk

  8. Re:Are you sure? on Opera CEO Prepares to Swim across the Atlantic · · Score: 1
    *whoosh*

    :)

    hawk

  9. Are you sure? on Opera CEO Prepares to Swim across the Atlantic · · Score: 1
    My memory on that seems a bit rusty . . .

    :)

    hawk

  10. Iowa theaters on Scientists Solve Riddle of Unpopped Popcorn · · Score: 1

    In Iowa, they actually ran commercials in the theater to let you know which *brand* of real butter they used . . . and then another theater opened with genuine yellow goo . . .

    hawk

  11. Same old crooks? on Saving Lives with Design · · Score: 2, Funny
    Hillary is pulling Jeb's strings???

    :)

    hawk

  12. That's where Clinton's problems came from on Saving Lives with Design · · Score: 1
    It was all Jocelyn Elders' fault. He though she said that you could get sex from aids . . .

    :)

    hawk

  13. Not just governments on Saving Lives with Design · · Score: 1

    In some cases, it's rebels.

    But you've identified the core problem: it's not getting the food to the country, but the distribution once there. Last I checked, there weren't any countries, not even the ones with famine, that weren't getting enough food. Getting it to those that need it is the problem--and there seems to be little support for using foreign military power to do get it there.

    hawk

  14. Re:Not possible to take all threats seriously on Saving Lives with Design · · Score: 1

    The bare information that a terrorist, even a high-grade one, wants to steal a plane is about revealing as the information that a five year old would like an ice cream cone . . .

    hawk

  15. Re:hindsight on Saving Lives with Design · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Even on websites targeted towards the intelligent, people post replies to news item.

    This also happens on sites like slashdot :)

    hawk

  16. Re:Thanks on Hard Drive Cooling for 10 Cents · · Score: 1
    Just wait until tomorrow, when you see *this* story again.

    And for good measure, again on a week from Tuesday . . .

    :)

    hawk

  17. Re:Just works.... they way they tell you it should on Microsoft's New Mantra - It Just Works · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but "just works" has been built in to mac for over 20 years. It's a new idea for MS :)

    hawk

  18. Re:US retailers on RAM Manufacturers Fined for Price Fixing · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Pretty much the same: paying too much for RAM.

    hawk

  19. this wasn't a class action on RAM Manufacturers Fined for Price Fixing · · Score: 3, Informative

    This was the government. It's a fine. Fines go to the government.

    There have been additional claass action suits filed, which will make the ambulance chasers, err, plaintiff's lawyers, wealthy while producing almost nothing for the customers.

    hawk

  20. Re:How do you keep microorganisms... on Human Hibernation on the Horizon? · · Score: 1
    "Snip-clip-clip-stitch"--the sound of making human (and other mammalian) males sterile. Females take a bit more effort . . .

    :)

    hawk

  21. Humans do hibernate under rare circumstances on Human Hibernation on the Horizon? · · Score: 1

    There have been cases, for example, of people ending up underwater for extended periods in swimming pools and being brought back. The explanations were to the effect that they were hibernating (or something very close).

    However, given the sparsity of reported cases, don't try this at home . . .

    This might also have some application for trauma cases where the victim needs a lengthy transport . . .

    hawk

  22. too late! on GCC 4.0.0 Released · · Score: 1

    This h0t plck has already doubled, and may do so again by tomorrow! Call our co-conspirators, err, representatives to buy now!

    hawk

  23. Fortran has pointers on GCC 4.0.0 Released · · Score: 1

    BTW ... a language like Fortran, that doesn't have pointers at all, is much easier to vectorize; that's one of the reasons a lot of scientific codes are still in Fortran.

    Fortran has had pointers for fifteen years now (Fortran 90).

    However, they're much more limited than C pointers--by design, not by defect. And you've hit the reason, too: it allows stronger assumptions to be made when optimizaing that can be made with C.

    hawk

  24. Re:I like suits. on Paul Graham on PR · · Score: 1

    There is a serious feedback issue between dress and behavior. School uniforms, for example, are not just about costs, cliques, and keeping gang paraphenelia out; they're also abou tkeeping students serious.

    As a general rule (riddled with exceptions), when people dress up, they tend to act the part.

    hawk

  25. Re:Um... on Librarians Fighting to Save Moore's Law Issue · · Score: 1
    Actually, both glass and diamond tend to cause her to cease to be your girlfriend, albeit in different ways . . .


    hawk