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  1. Re:About split on Google Docs To Host Any File Type · · Score: 1

    How would our non-linux users put the file back together?

    For that matter, how would a Linux user put it together? dd?

  2. Re:PulseAudio on Ubuntu "Memberships" Questioned · · Score: 1

    Actually, turns out GRUB2 is the default in testing now, too.

  3. Re:PulseAudio on Ubuntu "Memberships" Questioned · · Score: 1

    Was that upstream at gnome too?

    Debian unstable

  4. Re:"Thermal imaging devices" are not $50-150. on Does Cheap Tech Undermine Legal Privacy Protections? · · Score: 1

    'round here, there aren't any basements.

  5. Re:"Thermal imaging devices" are not $50-150. on Does Cheap Tech Undermine Legal Privacy Protections? · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't there be a significant difference between "warmed by poor insulation" and "warmed by banks of grow lights"?

  6. Re:"Thermal imaging devices" are not $50-150. on Does Cheap Tech Undermine Legal Privacy Protections? · · Score: 1

    I do have an attached garage. The only sources of heat there are what leaks in through the walls, the water heater, and the clothes dryer's exhaust. It's not as cold as outside, but it is far from room temperature in there.

  7. Re:"Thermal imaging devices" are not $50-150. on Does Cheap Tech Undermine Legal Privacy Protections? · · Score: 1

    Poor insulation is only a factor if you have a heat source. Most people don't heat their garages.

  8. Re:While slightly humorous on 2009 Darwin Award Winners Announced · · Score: 1

    Because it's not funny when someone dies. And when someone is dead they cannot defend their case to insults.

    Some things just aren't defensible. Like trying to tear apart an abandoned warehouse to steal scrap metal, starting with the supports. Or cutting your head off with a chainsaw.

  9. Re:This should be good on Ireland's Blasphemy Law Goes Into Effect · · Score: 1
    Psalm 14:1

    "There is no God."

  10. Re:This is about finding a common infection point on Adobe Flash To Be Top Hacker Target In 2010 · · Score: 1

    Seeing as it's a closed source plugin that you can't fix yourself... what else can you do but complain about it?

    Support Gnash/Swfdec?

  11. Re:This has failed before and will fail again. on Google Netbook Specs Leaked · · Score: 2, Interesting

    - Plugins. Ok, you surely will have flash...

    Not on ARM. Which is probably why Google is moving towards HTML5: the single most popular flash-dependent site on the interwebs is YouTube. Moving it from flash to the video tag will give ARM a chance.

  12. Re:"Contributing" is impossible on How Can I Contribute To Open Source? · · Score: 1

    This is an artificial system of laws and rules...

    Is that a bad thing? Pretty much any rule besides "survival of the fittest" could be called an "artificial" rule.

    ...and it allows some to take the money from other persons without giving them anything useful in return.

    In what way? Who, in your examples, didn't provide anything useful?

    • Ideally, the advertiser informs the customer about the existence of a potentially superior products, and so both company and consumer win.
    • The arms manufacturers convert raw materials and labor into a product, just like any company not in the service industry. It's not like demand for their product will ever go away.
    • The people with portfolios basically won a giant gamble. Someone risked a significant amount of money betting that a company would succeed (and in the case of start-ups, improved the chances of it happening). Those that lost went back to a cubicle, those that won now enjoy the rewards of the risk they took. Win big or often enough, and they can start making similar gambles without risking their shirt. It's about as unfair as visiting a casino without the "house" and without rules against card counting. If your opponents can count cards and you can't, don't expect to win very often.
  13. From the article: on Windows 7 May Finally Get IPv6 Deployed · · Score: 2, Funny

    IPv6, with its 128-bit addresses and the resulting astronautical address range seemed the perfect answer.

  14. Re:Cryogenics? on New Antifreeze Molecule Isolated In Alaskan Beetle · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think the greater obstacle is the entire "reviving them after they're dead" bit.

    It would still have practical applications, such as for long trips through space.

  15. Re:LMAO this is BS on Google Found Guilty of French Copyright Infringement · · Score: 0

    To protect France from what? Nonexisting WMDs? Some OBL in a cave? You know they might not let you fly over their country because they happen to be a sovereign country and it is their right.

    Then why let us keep our air bases there?. If we can't fly plane from them, then the bases are all but useless. If they don't want the bases, they can say so directly.

    How often are foreign bombers allowed to fly over US territory?

    Mexico and Canada don't have any bombers, (nor does France, for that matter). And I don't know of any foreign air bases here. Certainly France doesn't have any.

  16. Re:WTF are you doing? on Mandatory Use of Open Standards In Hungary · · Score: 1

    sudo makeityourself?

  17. Re:Do you really believe rape is bad b/c of the ac on Former Congressman Learns About Streisand Effect · · Score: 1

    (as you'll be told by those self-righteous conservative ----s that call themselves Christian).

    Fixed that for you.

  18. times less on FASTRA II Puts 13 GPUs In a Desktop Supercomputer · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...consuming 300 times less power.

    *sigh*

  19. Re:Fair Use? on Former Congressman Learns About Streisand Effect · · Score: 1

    While in office, he co-sponsored several bills that took aim at sex offenders...

    They say that like some congresscritters haven't done something similar.

  20. Re:It doesn't matter at all on Why Top Linux Distros Are For Different Users · · Score: 1

    True, but I'm not going to install the 8-year-old distro when the 2-months-old distro doesn't cost anything. With Windows, on the other hand, I probably wouldn't have upgraded yet.

  21. Take with a grain of salt. on Why Top Linux Distros Are For Different Users · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Speaking of easy, openSUSE is also the first of the major Linux distros that makes it simple to upgrade the system over the Internet. With most distros, you need to download an ISO image of the new release and then boot from it to upgrade your Linux distribution. However, I was able to do an in-place upgrade of openSUSE 11.1 to 11.2 on my ThinkPad over a Wi-Fi connection. This arrangement makes upgrading the entire operating system as simple as installing one really big program.

    That's been a part of Ubuntu's Update Manager for...how many years now? And in Debian using stable rather than lenny in your /etc/apt/sources.list will achieve the same effect. Or you could just use testing and enjoy more-up-to-date-but-still-stable software that has rolling updates.

  22. Re:!change on White House Holding Piracy Summit · · Score: 1

    Meh. If I'd left it out they would have responded anyways.

  23. Re:!change on White House Holding Piracy Summit · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes, of course he was.

    • Natural-born citizen.
    • Over 35 years old.
    • Lived in-country for at least 14 years.

    Yep, he's qualified. Oh, and:

    • Elected.

    ;-)

  24. Re:Ummm... on Hand Written Clock · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's why it's in Idle.

  25. Re:They missed their chance! on The Book of Xen · · Score: 1

    No. 1 now...