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  1. Re:"they need your support" on Build Your Own Crusoe-Powered Computer · · Score: 2

    Well, I've just logged on for the first time in nearly a year, and what's the first thing I see? That's right, the parent comment being modded as a troll for making a reasonable and reasonably intelligent comment.

    past lost!

  2. Re:What is NetHack on Nethack 3.4.0 · · Score: 1

    but it certainly used to be too easy to starve if you used it regularly.

    Just make sure you don't eat it yourself, as I did in my newbieness ;-)

  3. Re:Well now.. on Cuba Bans PC Sales, Greece Bans Video Games · · Score: 1

    Isn't that what the Disney sponsored act (sorry don't know its name) is all about?

  4. Re:Ugh. . . on Yahoo To Try To Charge For POP3 Services · · Score: 1

    If I remember correctly, the Internet was originally created (in the public manner) for the free exchange of information.

    That was free as in speech, not beer, so no change here. Nothing to see, move along...

  5. first post on ORBZ Shuts Down · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    shame I've no trolling in my clipboard... ;-(

  6. Re:Oh my goodness no! on Larsen Ice Shelf Collapses · · Score: 1

    I challenge you to go and tell that to a midwife in Hiroshima. Levels of deformity in newborns are still double the rest of Japan.

  7. Re:Oh my goodness no! on Larsen Ice Shelf Collapses · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually science shows us how global temperatures DROP after major volcano blasts. By comparing thr rings on tree trunks (thiner in cold years, wider in warm years) to a record of big blasts (such as here.)

    Your turn.

    PS why should I blind believe you over 'the greenies'? No doubt you have an agenda to, yet you seem to think you are the only one who knows theirs

  8. Re:Oh my goodness no! on Larsen Ice Shelf Collapses · · Score: 1

    That's simply not enough compared to the other links, ante up further!

    Global Warming shall cause cooling as well as warming. One of the Best examples is the UK. The UK, which is at the same height and longitude (or is it latitude I can never remember) as Poland the Baltic states some other cold countries but is considerably warmer due to the warm currents coming from the Gulf of Mexico (the so called Gulf of Mexico) Global warming is expected to alter these currents, which will have the effect of cooling a cool place (the UK) and not allowing a warm place (Mexico) to vent heat effectively- it'll be a disaster for both Mexicans and Brits.

    Weather is a massively chaotic system, the quote made about temperature Antartica could be made about my back garden and is a scientifically bankrupt way of denying global warming. Pure sophistry.

  9. Re:Nice units on Huge Iceberg Nine Times As Large As Singapore · · Score: 1

    and for the Europeans out there, who couldn't tell you what a delaware is, it's the size of Cyprus

  10. Re:Huh? Global Warming.... pfffft! on Huge Iceberg Nine Times As Large As Singapore · · Score: 1

    It's OK, the Iceberg is white...

  11. Korn shell on TCSH on Windows XP? · · Score: 2

    Personally I can't stand the Cshell, if you're into Korn (the shell not the band!) you could do a lot worse than getting work to buy the MKS Toolkit, it also comes with a load of other unixalike tools

  12. Re:Hex Code on Universe Beige, not Turquoise · · Score: 1

    23 Hex is 43 Oct, so close!

  13. Re:Hex Code on Universe Beige, not Turquoise · · Score: 1

    and if you add up those dec numbers you get 39, so close to 42!

  14. Re:Hex Code on Universe Beige, not Turquoise · · Score: 1

    which comes out as a kind of goth purple, what does *that* say ;-?

  15. Re:You're kidding right? on Universe Beige, not Turquoise · · Score: 1

    This was originally just meant as an amusing aside to a academic paper, but naturally the media ran with this bit first. It probably explains why they were wrong, they weren't even colour scientists!

  16. Re:Hex Code on Universe Beige, not Turquoise · · Score: 1

    I just set my terminal text colour to it (254, 249, 229 in dec) It's bit gentler than plain white but I wouldn't fancy looking at it for long. What was the old colour's hex value? that was far prettier

  17. Re:Yeah right on China Wants Out of Spam Blocks · · Score: 1

    Just as the Greeks called it the Mediterrian Sea. The sea in the middle of the world. It's perfectly reasonable behaviour, and certainly a lot less arrogant than the country whose 'World Series' is only open to teams from that country...

  18. Re:Just how flexible is flash? on Macromedia Pushes Flash For All Things Web · · Score: 2, Informative

    They are refered to as movies, they can be dynamically generated with a Movie script and any of XML content, ASP, ColdFusion, and I *think* PHP (pretty much like PHP or ASP programming really, v.easy, v.quick) Something like this site would be pretty easy to be honest, well no harder than it was in its current form

  19. Re:"Flash" is a good name for the product on Macromedia Pushes Flash For All Things Web · · Score: 1

    Amen to that. Flash is not the content, it is the content provider, and it allows for a whole world of flexibility that HTML does not. That's flexibility over your content, the ability to make what you put out there closer to what you have in your head. Being against this is just retarded Ludditism.

  20. Re:Perhaps we need to subsidize the Internet... on Announcing Slashdot Subscriptions · · Score: 1

    Damn right, they fund the highway, why not the information super-highway?

    As the British found when they introduced the world's first easy to use and cheap postal service easy cheap communication is the biggest kick up the ass you can give an economy.

    And no I don't think I will be subscribing, might have done a year or two ago (ironically enough when you didn't need it) but the quality of this site has dropped a lot recently, and no I'm not happy about that

  21. funny acronyms on What's the Worst Acronym You've Ever Heard? · · Score: 2, Funny

    From Red Dwarf IIRC: the Commitee for the Liberation of Intergalactic Terryfying Organisms and their Re-integration Into Society?

  22. recursive acronyms on What's the Worst Acronym You've Ever Heard? · · Score: 1

    GNU's Not Unix
    TINTOS Is Not TOS

  23. Re:so europa has heat and ice... on Europa May "Nurture" Life · · Score: 1

    It'd wouldn't support us very well at all, true, but life has been found in some pretty inhospitable places on Earth, such as around underwater volcanoes. I imagine bacteria could certain evolve to survive here, and it would be fascintating-- not to mention teach us so much about life here, if we could make even the smallest study of such life and its evolution.

  24. first post on Apple/Genentech BLAST Boosts Performance · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first logged in post, all AC post are belong to us! Big fu 2 ACs props to the trollz!

  25. Re:I don't use windows, but on Anti-Viral Software Recommendations? · · Score: 1

    Good question, the EU is pretty well harmonised with regard to the relevent laws, and even those countries outside the EU are in better position than some in Asia and Africa it would appear the "Axis of Evil" are allowed to use this software even!