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  1. Your notes are copyrighted on A Teacher Asking Students To Destroy Notes? · · Score: 1

    You wrote them and *you* are the copyright owner.

    Release them under CC attribution-sharealike / BSD / GFDL and upload to ThePirateBay.

    Or get a real lawyer ;)

  2. Re:cccp on Russia To Develop a National Operating System · · Score: 1

    Ha! That's funny.

    Had I got modpoints I'd have modded you up :)

    And if the new OS' name becomes "Cossux", will "UUCP" be substituted by "CCCP"? ;)

  3. Re:Fresh format vs conversion on Fedora 11 To Default To the Ext4 File System · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not always. If your old ext3 filesystem uses 128-bit inodes, they'll have to be converted to 256-bit by tune2fs. However, this may not be guaranteed to be successful. Actually it failed miserably on my system (it was several months ago and I don't know whether the e2fsprogs has been improved on this by now). I made backup before carrying out the experiment so after the failure I just reformatted the partition as ext4, updated fstab and recovered from backup.

  4. Re:Where's the beef? on Generational Windows Multicore Performance Tests · · Score: 2, Informative

    But this article has no charts in the first place! There's no presentation of data in either the normal page view or the printable view.

    This has nothing to do with the ad policy. I believe this is the result of the author's lack of presentation skill (applying Halon's razor). Even Phoronix's one-paragraph-per-page benchmark reports does a better job.

  5. Re:Interesting on Generational Windows Multicore Performance Tests · · Score: 1

    Sorry for posting an off-topic message here, but after reading your post and sig., I'd like to say "and Darth Vader rolls out VM snapshots" :-P

  6. Where's the beef? on Generational Windows Multicore Performance Tests · · Score: 5, Informative

    I tried RTFA (sorry, please mod me done for this ;) but, after clicked the "print" version, I couldn't find anything that looked like a benchmark report. No numbers. No tables. No graphs. All I saw was a page of [[weasel words]] or something like that.

    Sigh..

  7. Re:FACTS, not "truth". on Britannica Goes After Wikipedia and Google · · Score: 3, Funny

    Truth = facts, dumbass.

    Being an anonymous coward I doubt that you're nothing more than a troll, but truth != facts.

    Don't panic. Your fellow AC is using the assignment operator "=" rather than the equality operator "==". I guess he/she/it simply meant "let Truth be facts" :)

  8. Re:Wrong link on US-CERT Says Microsoft's Advice On Downadup Worm Bogus · · Score: 1

    The summary does provide the very same link to US-CERT.

  9. Re:Oh come on! on An Early Look At New Features In OpenOffice.org 3.1 · · Score: 1

    I'll leave that to my distro's packagers.

  10. Re:Lying or Insane or just SlashDot? on MS Silverlight To Stream Obama Inauguration Events · · Score: 1

    The summary said nothing about OSX. It's about the old MacOS for the PPC architecture before Macs went for x86/OSX.

  11. Re:As Admiral Grace Hopper put it, on Virus Infection Hits UK's Ministry of Defense, Including Warships · · Score: 1

    Oops. I mean "infected". :P

  12. As Admiral Grace Hopper put it, on Virus Infection Hits UK's Ministry of Defense, Including Warships · · Score: 2, Funny

    "A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships were built for. Go out and get infested."

    (Sorry, Admiral Hopper. Just can't help...)

  13. Re:Work on Hollywood movies? on Can We Create Fun Games Automatically? · · Score: 1

    > Maybe its possible, but this starts to sound like automated art.

    It's called Object-Oriented meta-creative art framework you insensitive clod! :P

  14. Not impressed on Ubuntu 9.04 Daily Build Boots In 21.4 Seconds · · Score: 1

    My Arch Linux boots in 33 seconds (that's from GRUB beginning to boot the kernel, to the login prompt). And it's in a virtual machine.

    Wake me up when you managed to boot in 3 seconds.

  15. Re:or go vegetarian? on Future Astronauts May Survive On Eating Silkworms · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Most of silkworms feed exclusively on white mulberry leaves. They often refuse to eat anything else. And humans cannot digest mulberry leaves...

  16. Re:One question I still remember on Personality Testing For Employment · · Score: 1

    Standard answers to this question:

    1) You know that Voigt-Kampff test of yours? Did you ever take that test yourself?
    2) Have you ever retired a human by mistake?
    3) ...
    4) I'll tell you about my mother!

  17. Re:What's the point?? on In-Depth With the Windows 7 Public Beta · · Score: 1

    For many of us, the technical details (or "all of the ugliness of computers" in your words) *IS* the User Experience.

  18. Re:Distance- Does Not Compute on Comet Lulin Is Moving Closer To Earth · · Score: 1

    You're right. 0.41 AU is roughly 160 times the Earth-Moon distance.

    I guess the journalist misunderstood something. Hmm, they usually do so when it's science-related news.

  19. Re:Magnitude of six... what on Comet Lulin Is Moving Closer To Earth · · Score: 1

    Six is already pretty bright for a comet. It would be too faint to be a spectacular event for the naked eyes, but with telescopes and cameras it will make nice pics, even they're amateur equipments.

    However, predicting the magnitude of a comet is a bit difficult. There are numerous precedents of comets failing our expectations and there are also some giving us surprises. Let's just wait and see :)

  20. Re:Pfft... on Storm Worm Botnet "Cracked Wide Open" · · Score: 5, Funny

    The guys found the "cure" of Storm Worm are university students. They did the research using the university's facilities. They have to follow the university's regulations and everything they do is pretty open to the public. Should they just triggered the switch and take over, the university may find itself in legal trouble.

    Unless one of them happens to be Batman.

  21. Re:Captain Ahab on SCO Proposes Sale of Assets To Continue Litigation · · Score: 1

    Oh no. Moby Dick was one of my favorate. I think I have a lot more respect for Captain Ahab than for Darl.

  22. Pictures? on Chandrayaan Maps Apollo Missions · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Where are the pictures?

  23. Re:Cisco should be careful on Cisco Mulls Adding Verbal Interview To CCIE Exams · · Score: 1

    I heard about some cert tests give non-native English speakers extra time etc. Don't know how Cisco's going to handle this though.

  24. Strange on Chinese Version of Wikinews Blocked In China · · Score: 1

    I just noticed this story is posted without the usual "from ... department" line.

    It's cool. I'd believe it's rather a message than a careless omission.

  25. Re:So what's next? on Chinese Version of Wikinews Blocked In China · · Score: 1

    "or even Slashdot may be blocked"

    Hey, it's not! I guess it's because the techies working for the Great Firewall operator are Slashdot fans too, and apart from techies nobody really cares :)