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  1. Re:Dictator? on Hyper-Threading, Linus Torvalds vs. Colin Percival · · Score: 1

    that's a tshirt i would buy.

  2. Re:Why do you live in a rural area? on Lawsuit Says GPL is a Price-Fixing Scheme · · Score: 1

    what about those who vote against it? the government takes their money against their will.

  3. Re:Welcome to the new America. on Is Cheap Broadband UnAmerican? · · Score: 1

    None exist because the government forcibly takes money, then spends in on roads. No one can compete with the power government has to confuscate money and use it as it pleases.

    A co-op is the right thing to do, if you want community wifi. NOT government. Any time government gets involved:

    1) you pay whether you use the service or not

    2) mismanagement

    3) waste

    4) stupid restrictions to appease certain voting blocks

    5) you're stuck with it - no business can compete, since the government gets your money, even if you use a different provider

  4. Re:About freaking time! on HP Contract Workers Sue For Recognition · · Score: 1

    If it was so unfair, why did they continue to work there?

  5. Re:It's not a sixth sense on Study Points to Sixth Sense in Humans · · Score: 1

    or maybe you just know your way around the room.

  6. Re:So when they say. . . on Is Anti-Municipal Broadband Report Astroturf? · · Score: 1

    You need to read more political sites (eg, reason.com). Statiums are the most common large scale ripoff of citizens; it truely disgusts me (and lot of other people).

    So, i think i can reasonable assure you that most people against a state monopoly on wireless internet access are also against giving billions to the already very rich. (You could argue either way which is worse: state controlled internet access (and likely censorship) or stealing billions from people to give to a group of rich people.)

  7. Re:Did you have to be under 15 to vote? on Top 50 DVDs · · Score: 1

    You haven't seen Dark City or Mememto, have you?

  8. Re:Please... on Intel and AMD's 2005 Plans Revealed · · Score: 1

    There is a DISadvantage to dual cores vs. two opterons. A single dual-core chip has only two ram channels, whereas an dual opteron has four (two per socket).

  9. Re:Interesting if you RTFA on Reinventing the Wheel · · Score: 1

    considering that NASCAR still uses pushrods and carbs, i doubt it.

  10. Re:See? on Formula One Racing Just a Matter of Crunching the Numbers · · Score: 1

    at least f1 has right turns ;)

  11. Re:Still a sport? on Formula One Racing Just a Matter of Crunching the Numbers · · Score: 1

    human engineers design the cars. you just don't see them every race. (they wouldn't fit, anyway.)

  12. Re:Biofuel?=Horse-drawn vehicles on Green Energy Almost Cost-Competitive with Fossil Fuels · · Score: 1

    iirc, it's sold at a loss.

  13. NOT a problem for tivos! on Network Scheduling to Mess with Tivo · · Score: 2, Insightful

    for each recording or season pass, you can set it to record up to 5min before and 5min after. please RTFM before proclaiming tivo can't handle it.

  14. Re:Capitalism on China's Superior Technologies · · Score: 1

    this country is far from raw capitalism. subsities are given out to many industries (at the expense of everyone else).

    how is hiring someone "tricking" them? do you not work? if you do, why did you allow yourself to be "tricked" then? what would you suggest people do, instead of working for a living? steal? live off of welfare?

  15. Re:Dump... on How Cheap Can A PC Be? · · Score: 1

    actually, that is a rat. i should know, i've had some as pets.

  16. Re:Take note on Global Air Pollution, From Above · · Score: 1

    egr also reduces pumping losses

  17. Re:Wait for the investigation... on A Car With A Mind Of Its Own · · Score: 1

    it WILL kill the power steering if the engine isn't running! power brakes and steering pumps run off of engine vaccuum. i've driven a car with power steering that died and it's very difficult to steer (though it is possible).

  18. Re:Wait for the investigation... on A Car With A Mind Of Its Own · · Score: 3, Insightful
    We've got them all over the place here - they're designed for big rigs, but a small car would be more than welcome if you had a problem like this. You drive up a steep unpaved hill into barrels of water. You stop.

    i wouldn't try that at well over 100+. those runaway areas are for trucks with failed brakes, not fast cars at wide open throttle.

  19. Re:Amen on A Car With A Mind Of Its Own · · Score: 1

    cars these days all have rev limiters.

  20. Re:Different directions on Mysterious Force Affects Pioneer 10 & 11 Probes · · Score: 1, Insightful

    the sun is moving through space

  21. Re:DVI still broken on 9200 on ATI Updates Linux Drivers · · Score: 1

    i have a 9200. the only thing that doesn't work (except for some 3d features) is opengl using dvi. i get display glitches and sometimes the screen blanks for one or two seconds.

  22. Re:Why Nuclear will never work.. on Interview With Chernobyl Engineer · · Score: 1

    Private industry will never put safty as number one priority. It's number one priority is profit. here's a clue: make not being unsafe so expensive (or a right risk of expense) that it will be more more important than anything else. before you suggest the government as a solution to all problems (it's more often the cause), i suggest you consider some basic economics.

  23. Re:If it's such an essential service... on Pay-As-You-Drive Car Insurance · · Score: 1

    In point of fact, Insurance companies should not be profitable (not counting individual employees' salaries of course). why not? regarding the rest of your pro-socialist post, having a car is not a necessity! there are buses and metro trains (incidently, the dc metro is a very good example of why government run businesses are a bad idea). there are also bicycles. there are lots of people in cities who don't own cars.

  24. Re:*shudder* on Raid 0: Blessing or hype? · · Score: 1

    i have never had a seagate scsi drive fail. never. i have been using raid 0 on various 15k, 10k, and 7200rpm seagates for about 5 years. usually two drives, sometimes three drives. some of the drives were even refurbs.

    i have a cronjob do daily backups to tape, in case a failure does happen.

  25. Re:Why????? on The Linux Filesystem Challenge · · Score: 1

    all the complexity has me worried, too. i'm beginning to wish linux was a microkernel (a good one, like l4). i don't want an entire db in the damn kernel. a high performance, reliable, flat fs, is all i want and need.