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  1. Re:You were saying... on Google & Firefox's Relationship · · Score: 4, Funny
    I'm not saying you'll do this, but I can't think of a single, self-aware human being that hasn't done some morally or ethically reprehensible thing at one point in his or her history. Can you?

    Gimme a minute while I collect some stones.

  2. Re:this makes no sense on GlobalFlyer 'Round The World Solo Flight Takes Off · · Score: 1
    OK, then it does make sense. I guess the BBC does a better job than CNN to explain things to knuckleheads like me, or the more likely story the person writing the CNN story didn't get it either.

    Thanks for clarifying.

  3. this makes no sense on GlobalFlyer 'Round The World Solo Flight Takes Off · · Score: 2, Interesting
    from this cnn article

    The flight plan was adjusted once more later Monday after Algeria closed a portion of its airspace, mission control director Kevin Stass said. The change, he said, would slightly reduce the overall length of the flight and save some of the 18,000 pounds of fuel aboard the single-engine jet.

    It can only mean that they were going out of their way to fly over Algeria in their initial plans, but that makes even less sense.

  4. Re:Yawn... on GlobalFlyer 'Round The World Solo Flight Takes Off · · Score: 1

    My friend's Mom rode her bike from Colorado to Connecticut for her 60th birthday, just found out she went sky diving for her 65th. There's still time to be adventurous, I'm gonna be taking it easy for a few decades.

  5. Re:regarding MEPIS on The State of the Open Source Union, 2004 · · Score: 1

    The weakest link in all this is without a doubt me. But, I'm hanging in there. It'll work one of these days. (nb it took me roughly 5 minutes for it to work in Win 98, not that I'm bitter)

  6. Re:regarding MEPIS on The State of the Open Source Union, 2004 · · Score: 1

    Well, I know this isn't the right forum for it so I was just venting. Spent hours on it yesterday. It actually tells you NOT to run the install as root. Problem is the dependencies, some of the paths refer to outdated names. E.g. for the Zope part of it looks for a folder called zope while the install puts it in a folder called zope2.7 (can't remember exactly, but that's close)

  7. regarding MEPIS on The State of the Open Source Union, 2004 · · Score: 2, Informative
    As a newbie it's great, but when you need to install new things it gets trickier.

    Been attempting apt-get install plone to work with no success.

  8. Re:They do it well on Dell Enters HDTV Market with Plasma Display · · Score: 1

    Can you get me a cheap mp3 player :)

  9. Re:They do it well on Dell Enters HDTV Market with Plasma Display · · Score: 0

    I just re-read my post, guess I wasn't terribly clear there. Oops.

  10. Re:They do it well on Dell Enters HDTV Market with Plasma Display · · Score: 1

    I think DELL is a very smart company but it has very little to do with their R&D which is what I was commenting on.

  11. Re:They do it well on Dell Enters HDTV Market with Plasma Display · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Dell is a smart company that runs a lean & mean R&D machine

    If that means "Dell doesn't really invent anything they just take already good ideas and commoditize them", then I agree.

  12. Re:One thing the editor left off.. on Apple Updates iPod · · Score: 1

    it's like the metric system, times 5.

  13. Re:grrr on 100,000 Domains Sold for $164 Million · · Score: 2, Funny

    I was going to suggest you get definately.com but it's been taken as well.

  14. mindful.org on AgroWaste to Oil a Growing Market · · Score: 1
    at the end of their post gives this "a unanimous and prolonged thumbs down". I want to know what they would rather have happen with this waste? Being dependent on oil isn't good, but turning otherwise useless waste into something useful has to be better than burying it.

    I guess you could argue that turkey waste shouldn't come from factories anyway and we should all be self sufficient farmers but that's not the world we live in.

  15. Re:Quality Suggestions? on Gaming With a Headmouse? · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Very funny!

    Back on topic. What about problem solving walking through environments a la MYST and the like? Or boardgames on Yahoo.

  16. Re:Equation constraints on Huge Star Quake Rocks Milky Way · · Score: 1

    No, should I?

  17. Re:Equation constraints on Huge Star Quake Rocks Milky Way · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I don't recall either the creationists or evolutionists mentioning cheese. I'm sure they both will soon enough. One camp will use something called science and the other faith and schoolbook stickers.

  18. Re:desktop Linux on IBM Puts $100M Behind Linux Push · · Score: 1

    so the reason it's popular in handhelds is because it's put there by smart people and dummies can't change it, and the reason it's popular on servers is that only smart people use servers. Desktops are used by idiots. I'm paraphrasing a bit, but that's what your comment boils down to.

  19. desktop Linux on IBM Puts $100M Behind Linux Push · · Score: 3, Interesting
    The cash injection will be used to help its customers use Linux on every type of device from handheld computers and phones right up to powerful servers.

    I know it fits inbetween handhelds and servers somewhere, but it seems there's more Linux growth on those two ends (handhelds and servers) than in the middle, on desktops of Joe user.

  20. Re:Only the incredibly naive... on Can Terrorists Build a Nuclear Bomb? · · Score: 3, Funny
    Not understanding why one is your enemy is even worse.

    I heard it's because they hate our freedom.

  21. Re:Can you say VAT on Online Cigarette Customers Get Bill from State · · Score: 2, Funny

    Harmonized Sales Tax
    I feel calmer just thinking about paying this.

  22. Inform them of what? on One Giant Step for Humanoids · · Score: 1
    Engineers say they'll inform the next generations of humanoids...

  23. Re:Smittenedkitten is dead?!? on The 83-Year-Old Dead File Swapper · · Score: 1

    18 is still twice the average dental count of some places, even if you count by household.

  24. Re:Google saves HTML? on Climbing up the Search Ladder · · Score: 1

    I'd rather see relevant poorly formatted pages than irrelevant fully compliant ones. Ideally both of course but if I had to choose one.

  25. Damn on Cellphone Drivers Drive Like Drunks · · Score: 1

    I was hoping the effects would cancel each other out, two wrongs don't make a right?