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  1. Re:Nukes are a different thing entirely on Advances in Bio-weaponry · · Score: 1

    Replace china with any other country who would want to screw with any other country. My point is that killing people en-masse is not avery effective. Doing serious agricultoral damage is somehing that might go unnoticed for a year or so and cause much more damage in the long run. Also, killing people will get attention right now. Kliing crops gives you time to really distribute the bad stuff around.

  2. Re:Nukes are a different thing entirely on Advances in Bio-weaponry · · Score: 1

    Actually, killing lots of people draws too much attention. It must me much more tempting for the Chinese to develop a virus or fungus that causes massive crop failures in the Midwest and spraying the stuff over the cornfields from a commercial airliner. Much more effective eceonomically and easier too. A cropland is a difficult target to miss.

    But not something a terrorist would do. Not showy enough probably.

  3. Re:man... on Blue Ring Around Uranus · · Score: 1

    Well, you've asked for it.

    Q. What's the correspondence between Captain Kirk and a piece of toilet paper?
    A. Both circle around Uranus and wipe out Klingons.

  4. Re:/dev/zero ? on New 25x Data Compression? · · Score: 1

    What a waste of all the millions of fine engineering man-hours spent at AMD and Intel...

  5. Re:Stallman's not afraid to speak out on Should We Be Afraid of TPM Chips? · · Score: 1

    Have you ever seen Dick Stallman in real life giving a speech? I have. That might make you see his words in another light, trust me.

  6. Re:The best solution on Mid-Size Business Tape Library Suggestions? · · Score: 1

    "My Killbot has a Machinegun AND Lotus Notes!"

    Professor Wernstrom at a Robot Convention, Futurama, 3004, AD

  7. Re:5 network-screwing products on 20 Network Changing Products · · Score: 1

    Or the little shit student who is writing a practical exam and didn't study for it in a lab could bring the whole exam to grief.

  8. Re:Uhngh -- small correction on 20 Network Changing Products · · Score: 1

    SuSE uses Postfix too. Postfix (like many other MTA's) has a command called 'sendmail' used to send local mails (think cronjob report) that emulates the sendmail command line. That might add to the confusion, but that program is not used as an MTA server. This is because the sendmail command line syntax is very much ubiquitous in the UNIX world.

  9. Re:...but will it run on Windows XP on Intel Mac Confirmed · · Score: 1

    Oh Geez no.

  10. Re:Explain how? on WinXP on a Mac, Hoax? · · Score: 1

    The real question is, where did you get a Intel iBook from??!!

  11. Re:Winged Monkeys And Tap Dancing Midgets on The Pandemic vs. the IT Department · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh God no, I am sitting here, reading this with my beloved cat Kalinka on my lap. And I live in Germany, close to a Sperrgebiet. This may be the last time I post here. Goodbye to you all.

  12. Re:Upgradable on ArsTechnica Reviews The Intel Mac Mini (Core Solo) · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, I know one Slashdotter who decided to splurge on a Powerbook after Suse screwed him over for the nth time and X was still not working. Me.

    And he will never go back to Linux on a Desktop.

    Linux is free as in beer. Not bloody likely. Linux is free as in Syphilis.

  13. Re:Brilliant!! on Woz On Apple's Success · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but Woz' pay is somthing like $1 per month

  14. Re:stereo anyone on Why 7.1 Surround Sound is Overkill For Most Homes · · Score: 1

    He meant $600 per meter single graphite crystal speaker wire with Rhodium plated contacts! Relax!

  15. Re:That's all fine and good, BUT... on MacBook Pro Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    The EFI implementation from apple does not emulate the BIOS

  16. Re:Another WRONG Slashdot article on Will MacIntel Kill Apple Open Source Efforts? · · Score: 1

    And how does theft from the end users contribute to SOLVING the problem?

  17. Re:How is he questioning the move to Intel? on Woz On Apple's Success · · Score: 2, Informative

    Woz picked the 6502 because he bought some chips at an exhibition or something as far as I recall. The 6502 was waaay cheaper than any other CPU and it was pretty much the only thing WOZ could afford for his homebrew project.

  18. Re:Very limited usage, maybe on Other Uses for an AGP Slot? · · Score: 1

    You are kidding, right? The SAX events are the same data as the XML stuff going in, except they have all the event overhead. A SAX stream is almost certainly going to be bigger then the original XML string in terms of bytes consumed.

  19. Re:Overtime on Near Light Speed Travel Possible After All? · · Score: 1

    Jeez, that is really deep question! How much do you pay them. do you pay into their life insurance on earth (where it will get more interest) or on the ship. You CAN pay them less on the ship because the need less (the spend less time there and have less expenses). This is assuming a city-like ship (a cruise liner, perhaps) where people have living expenses travelling at speeds where time-dilation is a factor.

    Relativistic accounting indeed. I see lots of labour strife in the 25th century

  20. Re:Half-Life 2 Episode 1 features a new... on Half-Life 2 Gets Episode 1 · · Score: 1

    Actgually Alt fire makes him increase his jabbering 500%, thereby making your enemies flee in horror and the heads of those that are close simply explode. owever, if you use this fearsome weaponn without the earmuff powerup YOUR head explodes.

  21. Re:Here's what's really missing from GIMP on GIMP Not Enough for Linux Users? · · Score: 1

    Here are a few more:

    Save for Web
    Integration of Vector Stuff into the bitmap as a Layer
    Layer Styles
    Text editing on the bitmap (what's this text in a dialog box crap???)
    Slices
    Adjustment Layers (This is killer, it makes PS more like a spreadsheet)
    CMYK (No, a "rudimentary" plugin does not count)
    The integrated file browser
    Actions (yes, Gimp is scriptable, but actions are easier to handle for quick jobs)
    Good Typographics control.

    These are all useful things for the "Quick Web Button" crowd (like me, 80% of the time). And even that Gimp does waaaaaaaaay worse than Photoshop. Gimps problem is that its handling sucks, irrespective of the whole right-click MDI/SDI fracas.

    A companion Vector drawing program (Illustrator is GREAT)
    There is also the Indesign business w2hich PS work well with.

    No neecessarily PS strenghts, but strengs deriving from the fact tha tPS is part of a suite.

    The problem with Gimp is not that it does not have the features (which is what the FOSS whackos always spews). It mostly deoes have the features, but the program is simply clumsy.

  22. Re:Gimp would get a lot more popular if... on GIMP Not Enough for Linux Users? · · Score: 1

    And Photoshop Elements, which is still better than Gimp and definitely does the "Good Enough for Most People" thing is only $70. I have 2 copies, one I got for free with my scanner, one with my printer. Actually, PS Elements is the reall competition to Gimp

  23. Re:Reminds me of a joke on An Insider's Take on Steve Jobs · · Score: 1

    Yeah, when God said "Let there be light" Chuck said "Say please"

  24. Re:Gotta love SSH tunneling on SSH Tunnels How-to? · · Score: 1

    I can and do this because I AM the IT staff! So there!!

  25. Re:Global warming stories on 2005 Was the Hottest Year on Record · · Score: 1

    The problem is not the danger to the Earth's Biosphere (which will do just fine, thank you, despite the whining of the treehuggers). The problem is tha danger to humanity. Which, if you listen to some of them treehuggers, might or might not be a problem.

    The Biosphere has survived way more than the puny stuff we throw at it.