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  1. Re:Wavelength on Solar Surgery · · Score: 2
    is this evolved ant-burner better than a scalpel?

    I believe so. You can dye a tumour a certain colour and then the light can be set to only burn dyed cells (I am sure that there will be some means to select certain wavlengths). Also, you can't switch a scalpel on and off, meaning you have to cut through healthy tissue to cut out unhealthy tissue below. Think keyhole surgery.

  2. Vi more popular than Emacs ? on FLOSS Developer Survey Results Published · · Score: 2, Funny

    Heathens !

  3. Re:Most Secure Shops... on Did MS Lobbying Stop NSA Work On SELinux? · · Score: 2

    AIX 5L is the first certified system

  4. Just imagine... on Quantum Computer Possible From Silicon Fab · · Score: 2

    You could run a Beowulf cluster on one machine.

  5. Bubble wrap on How To Travel With LCD Gaming Screen? · · Score: 2
    Simple:
    Buy roll of bubble wrap
    Wrap monitor in several layers
    Transport


    I've Fed-Ex'ed an LCD monitor this way, no damage whatsoever.

  6. Re:Yeesh, turn off javascript if you click that li on RIAA Sues Backbone ISPs to Censor Website · · Score: 1

    Hmmm...you could try the old standard shift-click to download. I think some sites rename mp3's to .zip and set the mime type to text/plain in order to avoid detection.

  7. Re:Yeesh, turn off javascript if you click that li on RIAA Sues Backbone ISPs to Censor Website · · Score: 1

    Interesting. When I try the site, I get redirected to another site called mp3mediaworld.com. Did you find the same thing ?

  8. Re:ok... on RIAA Sues Backbone ISPs to Censor Website · · Score: 2
    Well, as of late, the RIAA has been pushing the theory of "contributory copyright infringement". In essence, it goes like this: You didn't infringe any copyrights. But you helped someone else infringe them. So you're just as guilty.

    Cool. I never knew about this site until the RIAA brought it to my attention. Therefore, if I download anything from there, the RIAA are themselves contributing to copyright infringement.

    Hey RIAA, you better go and sue yourselves !

  9. Re:this is good news on Windows 98, Me, NT4, 2000 and XP SSL Flawed · · Score: 2

    Just use mozilla or kmeleon. They are not affected by this bug.

  10. Erm...it wasn't supposed to be funny on Microsoft Invests in the University of Waterloo · · Score: 1

    blah blah blah blah blah

  11. Re:So? on Microsoft Invests in the University of Waterloo · · Score: 4, Funny
    Yeah but how are the students gonna learn things like memory management and hardware control if they are using a managed, abstracted language like C# ?

    For the same reason, if I were to pick a single language to be taught to engineers, I wouldn't recommend teaching Java either.

    You should start with something like C that teaches the fundamentals, then when you know how a computer *really* works, you can move on to a higher level language like C# or Java.

  12. Re:Why this doesn't happen in western countries? on Linux Continues March On China · · Score: 2
    They would actually gain money if MS were a smaller company. First, the money wouldn't disappear, it would be spent in other ways, which would likely be taxed anyway.

    Second, see for example this post. MS pays hardly any tax as it is.

  13. Re:Speaking of Linux... on Linux Continues March On China · · Score: 1

    Errr...what ? I get a '403 forbidden'

  14. Re:Don't think Linux is impervious on Doctorow on the Demise of the Digital Hub · · Score: 1
    Finland is in europe right?

    It was last time I checked, yes.

  15. Original version on Godzilla Getting Ready to Stomp Mozilla? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sun, 11 August, 2002, war begining !
    Goodbye little dragon guy!
    [Blog] - Davezilla @ 07:07:43 pm
    re: DAVEZILLA.COM
    Dear Mr. Linabury:

    What happen ? Someone set up us the trademark infringement ! Take off every 'zilla' ! You know what you doing.

    For great justice,

    SEYFARTH SHAW

    Jill A. Jacobs

  16. Re:Don't think Linux is impervious on Doctorow on the Demise of the Digital Hub · · Score: 1
    Last time I checked linux was from norway

    Heh...you must have a strange atlas then - Linus is from *Finland*.

  17. I thought on AOL Releases Client for Mac OS X with Gecko Browser · · Score: 2

    ...mozilla didn't support layers, because they are not part of the w3c standard ?

  18. Re:Whoah... on IE and Konqueror Bug Makes SSL Insecure · · Score: 1

    It's flamebait because it's not a security bug in Linux, it's a bug in Konqueror.

  19. Re:The real bug is... on IE and Konqueror Bug Makes SSL Insecure · · Score: 1

    I wonder how secure .net will turn out to be then ?

  20. Re:Don't understand the government on MS "Software Choice" Campaign: A Clever Fraud · · Score: 1

    Ain't that the sad truth...

  21. Re:News flash on WorldCom Fraud Doubles · · Score: 2
    Further investigation showed that the company was actually run by a man claiming to be high ranking official of the Nigerian government.

    When questioned, the man stated that he was just borrowing the money for a little while because he needed to sort out some paperwork; after which a trillion dollars would be sent back to all investors in the scheme.

  22. Here's an idea on RIAA Says Webcasting Royalties Are Too Low · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Instead of streaming audio files over the net, stream image files.

    Here's how it would work. The broadcaster takes an audio file, and converts it to an image (e.g. a png). Each client would have a plugin which converts the image file back to a music file. Now since you're not actually streaming audio files, the CARP charges wouldn't apply, would they ?

    I am surprised nobody has suggested this before.

  23. Obviously fake on Some Spammer Has a Crush on You · · Score: 2
    I've had a few of these emails recently. The first time one arrived, I was curious. Was it real or a fake ? The email asked me to dial a certain number to find out who it was who 'had a crush on me'.

    It was then it dawned on me that there was no identification code in the message ! If I dialed this number, how would the service know who I was ? How would it identify me, so that I could listen to my personal message ?

    After that realisation, I dumped the message straight in trash, as I have done with the numerous follow ups.

  24. Even worse !! on The Last Place · · Score: 2

    As if that weren't bad enough, Bill Gates won't leave them alone either

  25. Re:what the hell is the author on? on A Discomforting Precedent For WiFi "Hot Spots" · · Score: 2
    Can anybody please point to the always on alternative to WiFi networks?

    GPRS ? It will get faster and cheaper as more people start to use it.