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  1. Re:In other news... on Microsoft/Unisys Unix-bashing Site Runs FreeBSD · · Score: 1

    I'm using Opera reporting itself as IE...

  2. Re:beginner friendly on A Better Installer for Debian? · · Score: 1

    Not unless the fragged thier filesystem to the point it would take longer to repair than just re-install.

    clickety clackety enter...no wait! i meant to do that in my home directory!...ah shit was I logged in as root?!?!?! f@^#$!!!! Well that's just great...where's my install cd....(45 minutes of assorted swearing)

  3. Re:brainfuck on Do Programming Languages Affect Your Sexual Performance? · · Score: 1

    Some have pointed out that Java makes you a stallion and c++ makes you tired. Then they figured that Assembly must make you impotent. Dude, if you program with brainfuck, it's just gonna fall off...

  4. Re:Not all that impossible on Declawing Windows: Impossible? · · Score: 1

    I wish IEradicator worked on Win2kSP2...

  5. Re:ESR Alert on Eric Raymond: Why Open Source will Rule · · Score: 1

    If Microsft isn't trying to turn into a gigantic ASP, then what exactly are they trying to do with the .NET thing...what ever it is. Still kinda fuzzy on what .NET is supposed to be in the first place...

  6. Re:Oh gggawwwd on Eric Raymond: Why Open Source will Rule · · Score: 1

    Have you ever worked with the general public? Any kind of customer service type of thing? Tech support? If you had, then you would know. People ARE stupid. They are also lazy. And the combination of those two qualities makes for the mess that we have now.

  7. Re:One thing I don't understand on Eric Raymond: Why Open Source will Rule · · Score: 1

    Hey now...I only bought the boxed set because it take FOREVER to download those .iso images. And that groovy manual they have in there is pretty handy too.

    I know that the crinkly shrikwrapped cd are the same as the ones I can download. But time is also money. If it takes more than 8 hours to download the .iso, then I'd just as soon say 'fuck it' and go and spend that $80 at CompUSA and just go ahead and install that OS.

    The only problem I have with it is when I'm standing there holding the Red Hat box and I look down and there's a FreeBSD box and I start thinking 'triple boot?'.

  8. Re:Energy density on Cheap Spray-on Plastic Solar Cells Coming · · Score: 1

    I was struck by the thought of using high temprature superconductors as house wiring for soem strange reason...waste all the energy gathered from the spray-on solar panel to run the cooling system for the wiring.

    But the other thought was what if you spray paint the high way and and sue that to power the electric cars...you wouldn't get much energy during ruch hour, but nobody's moving anyways...

  9. Re:Black Power on Cheap Spray-on Plastic Solar Cells Coming · · Score: 1

    Nope, Mr. Niven never said it (black power) was superconducting in nature.

  10. Hey now... on Cheap Spray-on Plastic Solar Cells Coming · · Score: 1

    what's wrong with nuclear energy?

  11. Re:What to support. on What Software Should ISPs Distribute and Support? · · Score: 1

    Amen. Software modems blow chunks.

  12. Re:wonder if it over heats? on Weirdest Case Mod You've Ever Seen · · Score: 1

    After carefully re-reading the article, it turns out you don't.

  13. Re:wonder if it over heats? on Weirdest Case Mod You've Ever Seen · · Score: 1

    that's what I was thinkin...how the hell do you cool this thing?

  14. What's up with all the cypher stories lately? on One-Time Pad Encryption With No Pad? · · Score: 1

    What's up with all the cypher stories lately? Is next weeks Cringley gonna be about the future of cryptography or something?

  15. Similar thing happened to a friend of mine. on Practical Quantum Cryptography · · Score: 1


    yeah, I know a guy that got fired from his job at Boeing for proving that his anti-gravity system worked. Boeing wanted non of it, told him that 'This company obeys the laws of physics'.


    Can you direct us to a page with his proof on it? From what I've seen if Eve is trying to listen, then both ends know about it and can send a bouncer type to go kick Eve's ass off the line...If your friend can provide an example of how QC can be broken then I think all of slashdot would like to hear it. (the rest of the world is unimportant)

  16. Re:NSA on Practical Quantum Cryptography · · Score: 1

    They probably already have a full blown QC communication system deployed. Also probably already have a working quantum computer or two in thier basement decoding everybody's cyphered transactions in real time. Probably have a profile on you and knew you were gonna say that before you did.

  17. Re:Fables... on Wall Street Embraces Linux · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I only half remembered this story, fogive me.

  18. Fables... on Wall Street Embraces Linux · · Score: 1


    Every time I hear about Linux being adopted by I keep think abou that fable about the king and the ocean. The one that goes there was this king who thought he was all powerful and one day some stranger said he couldn't hold back the tide. The king took off to the beach and started to command the ocean. Eventually the king drowned.


    Yup, that's Linux...the ocean. Anybody who says that it won't ever replace X in Y environment is doomed to drown as our favorite OS flows around and smothers thier aurgumants about X or Y.

  19. Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler on Review: Blade II - Electric Boogaloo · · Score: 1

    Blade wins.

  20. Re:Sounds like what happened to me.... on Most Outrageous Vendor Lie Ever Told? · · Score: 1

    Ok...so let me get this straight. You took your system in for a problem CD drive. They took a month and replaced you HD and didn't touch your CD...just summing up...

  21. Re:Levitation Movies on ArtBell.com on NASA Still Trying to Verify Anti-Gravity Claims · · Score: 1

    I saw thsoe videos. Slashdot had an article just the other day. However, do not believe thier explanations as to what's happening. It is real levitation, but there is no 'anti-gravity' there, it's just a recreation of a device called an 'ionocraft' invented in the 60's.

  22. Re:Interesting but... on NASA Still Trying to Verify Anti-Gravity Claims · · Score: 1

    So how do you keep the axil rotating...at some point the other side will ome around and smack the underside of rotating disk.

  23. Re:OT: Your Website on NASA Satellite Stranded · · Score: 1

    What the hell...Is that this still up? Gonna have to update it if people are gonna visit...

  24. I guess that title makes sense... on Utah, the New Red Planet · · Score: 1

    I guess that title makes sense...

    I mean, the moon is actually a soundstage in Nevada right?

  25. I must be tired on NASA Satellite Stranded · · Score: 1

    I must be tired, when i first read the second link, I read it as TRDS-1...and I thought, "Well, that's a stupid name for a satellite. It should be TRDS-2, cause nubmer one is something else...". Anyway, I've been up all night long it's 6:30 in the AM and my shift is almost over.