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  1. Anybody else read the title as: on Scientists Say Cosmic Rays May Cause Global Warming · · Score: 1

    A PDF of their article is available from GAS,/b> Today

    Or was is just me?

  2. Re:You are asking for a lot for a little... on Open Source Microsoft Exchange Replacements? · · Score: 1

    Nitpick --

    Did you mean OSS (in "as well as an OS equivalent")?

    Otherwise your signature assumes a totally different meaning!

    Best regards

  3. Re:(j) is correct! on Pure Math, Pure Joy · · Score: 1

    and j == 10 !!!

    Or (j-a) == 10

    It is so obvious. The great-grand parent poster clearly does not belong in Mensa !!!

  4. Re:Does it constitute life? Tough call on Ice Detected Underneath Mars' North Pole · · Score: 1

    Yeah doubters will continue to doubt -- albeit in a slightly enlarged doubt sphere -- thus pushing the envelope of accumulated knowledge a little further.

    Education and check-it-for-yourselves approaches will bring the nay-sayers to your side -- or at least to the negotiating table.

    I have not met any person that is a flat-earther. A few hundred years ago, there were lots of them (am told). There are still people that stick to FE, however most of the FE-ers of yore have started doubting on the next scale -- moon hoaxes etc.

  5. Re:Quality! on W32.Sobig.E@mm Worm Spreading Rapidly · · Score: 1

    Could not help comparing user-feedback on software libraries ....

    Open source: upload patch
    Closed source: upload virus

    So sadly true.

  6. Re:Triple-clicking the location bar in Windows on Mozilla 1.4 RC3 Is Out · · Score: 1

    Some times Ctrl+L does not work ... (or Alt+D in Firebird) ... and I have to tab around to get to the address bar.

    (Yes I usually look at text-positive sites and am too lazy to reach for the mouse).

  7. Re:wrong patent number on Chip Firm Hit By 45-Year-Old Patent · · Score: 1

    that was patent #0.

    Damn these new whipper snapper script kiddies. Back in the day we started counting at 0 dammit.

  8. A perfect day for bananafish on Genetically Engineered Pets Hit the Market · · Score: 1

    .... comes after two years of zebrafish's success in the market.

  9. Re:Sun Doesn't appeal to me on Sun's Last Stand · · Score: 1

    Now we know it ... Sun's "demise" is because it did not push the $20 first try license to new users (in schools and colleges).

    Switching off humour:
    I wonder how long they have had this program and why wasn't this pursued aggressively.

  10. Re:Nope. Sorry. on Matrix Gets Egyptian Ban For Explicit Religion · · Score: 1



    which we all respect and believe in.

    Excuse me, I'm an atheist.


    You left out "you insensitive clod".

    *smile*

  11. Re:It's a fake! on IRC Forum w/ CmdrTaco & Hemos Tonight at 8pm Eastern · · Score: 1

    Did you mean Orthography ? Thanks for the new word, though!

  12. Dying for a torrent here. on Haystack: A More Compelling View Of Your Data · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    (no text)

  13. Re:TV on Novell Claims Ownership of UNIX System V · · Score: 1

    Isn't it already there:

    SCO is in a semi-coma. MS is in love with SCO because he hates Linux. MS actually would love to embrace Linux, but just does not want to see the truth. SCO loves Money. And Money has this uncanny habit of being in bed with MS. IBM is the rich, wise, powerful uncle that getsin the crossfire.

  14. Re:Microsoft Attempt to Own the RIAA on Inside Microsoft's New F# Language · · Score: 1

    10 others?

    Don't we already have B & C

  15. Re:Weekend Update on Monday, The Death of Websites · · Score: 1

    It is monday because the poor hassled developer was strung up on caffeine and junk food over the weekend trying to put this together.

  16. Re:Revenge of the Lab Rats on Hybrid Robot Uses Rat Brain · · Score: 1

    Hmmm I heard a different story from ArthurDent ... he went on about mice and the lost planet of Magrathea.

  17. Re:Yeah Right... on Making Change · · Score: 1

    Asimov you were never more right:

    http://virgo.kodu.net/scifi/asimov/short/Asimov, %2 0Isaac%20-%20The%20Feeling%20of%20Power.htm

  18. Re:Great idea! Next let's... on Fizzer Worm Uninstalling Itself · · Score: 1

    Maybe it will make this guy happy. Discussion here

  19. Maybe OT (Re:Reviewer Maturity) on Java Enterprise In A Nutshell · · Score: 1

    Am not sure if you are to take that "crap" seriously. In fact, a colleague of mine asked our HR person if she had fixed the "pay-roll crap" -- he meant his address change on the pay check.

    It is a fad these days I think -- am not sure if I like it.

    I read the reviewer's statement as
    I consider myself a relatively informed and skilled enterprise software architect (in the J2EE world -- don't get me started on that Dot Net stuff as I do not know about it).

  20. Re:Gimme paper, and screw the scrollbars on Java Enterprise In A Nutshell · · Score: 1

    As a medium for technical documentation, ink-on-paper just can't be beat.

    Probably it can be equalled -->

    Cross-reference - ctrl+click on your favourite tabbed browsing environment.
    couch/loo - work is afoot. My colleague can't stop about reading /. on a Zaurus (sp?) whilst in the loo. More readable interfaces are inevitable.
    Scrolling up and down - copy and paste to an editor. I have not seen metrics but am willing to wager that a screen full of characters contain more info than a dead-tree page.

    Scribble notes - possibly use an editor. Cannot think of an elegant solution that this one. Coming from an upbringing that looks down severely on scribbling on books ... I do not have a penchant to do that. No wonder we do not have Fermats in India :-)

  21. Re:Not All That Funny on How to Fake A Hard Day at the Office · · Score: 1

    Now here is an idea ... use this as FUD to show that real hands-on monitoring is required. If you cannot ensure FooBob-down-the-corridor is hard at work, how can you ensure RamBhakt-in-India is going to work as you want him to/deliver the goods.

    I have never seen an outsourcing contracts -- are there provisions for collecting damages for people snoozing on the job?

  22. Re:In case of slashdotting, on NTBUGTRAQ Bashes Windows Update · · Score: 1

    In case ntadvice.com gets /.ed ...

    there will be a complaint about the unreliablity of the OS/webserver that runs the site that complains about the OS' updates mechanism.

  23. Sigh on The Ultimate Computer Chair? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If this ever catches on, we can say good bye to team work

  24. Re:Let google decide! on Mozilla's Joy Of Naming · · Score: 1

    Weight the results by the number of years they have been around. Say the weighing factor is 4 (numyears(db)/numyears(browser)

    Firebird +Mozilla * 4/1 ~ 36K
    Firebird +database ~ 36k.

    Back to square one :-)

    However don't you think that database is a more common word than Mozilla (as of this writing) ? That might skew the results too .

    Innovative proposal -- but the terms must be chosen with care and should discount the naming controversy that has been going on.

  25. Re:If this experiment was done today.. on Primordial Soup: Interview with Stanley Miller · · Score: 1

    Some one from slashdot would pitifully scream that there exists "prior art"