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  1. Danger Will Robinson, Danger! on FreeBSD, Linux Kernel Source Cross Reference · · Score: 2, Interesting

    isn't this dangerous for BSD developers when looking at GPL software to place less restrictions on there code which could arguably be derivative from Linux. I would think FSF would get their panties that much but I have read quite a bit from Stallman who seems to have an axe to grind with the GPL linux, let alone the closable BSD's.

  2. Re:Something wrong in the article? on Big Bang Really a Big Hum · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They haven't quite worked it out. There are some competing theories about but nothing that results from some fundemental mechanism (think relativity+quantum physics). Below are the two I have heard talked about.

    1) Inflationary model.

    The universe went through a period of extreme expansion from about a trillionth of a second to a billionth of a second where it expanded much faster than light through some unknown mechanism.

    2) Variable light speed.

    Light itself has changed it speed during the evolution of the universe.

    Also you have to keep in mind that we are talking about the surface of the universe which does not necissarily have to follow the same rules as what is inside of it.

  3. Re:The "Big Bang" could not have made any sound on Big Bang Really a Big Hum · · Score: 4, Informative

    Close but sound is a compression wave through some medium. It does not have to be air. It could be air as we commonly experience. It also could be water, iron, or any other element on the periodic table. in other words it is the compression and expansion of matter that is what we experience as sound.

  4. Re:Big Bang? on Big Bang Really a Big Hum · · Score: 3, Funny

    You mean that the unvierse has _stuff_ in it? no, no, no... At the big bang it was all empty space on the backs of turtles. Below the turtles were more turtles. Eventually the unverse cooled down and expanded enough that the turtles got sucked in. The process of turtles falling into the universe caused matter to be created.

  5. The sound of one hand clapping. on Big Bang Really a Big Hum · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And how do you verify what it sounded like. This seems like the jumped a few steps in the scientific method.

  6. Re:html coders can still use it... on Lindows Announces Nvu - Frontpage For Linux? · · Score: 1

    Open code, whatever it may do is a Good Thing. The reason you don't see an open frontpage (For sake of argument) is the people who donate time to projects typically have themselves in mind as a main customer. I would say that most application developers targeting OSS fit in this category. The only argument you _may_ get someone to assist in development not targeting themselves is religous. Slashdot may be the perfect venue for that arg though.

  7. Re:html coders can still use it... on Lindows Announces Nvu - Frontpage For Linux? · · Score: 1

    Look, you are on the most tech elite commment websites on the net saying that we should care what graphic designers need to put more inferior non conforming crap on the net. Consider the audience. Would you try to sell eskimos refrigators?

  8. Re:People actually use those things? on Lindows Announces Nvu - Frontpage For Linux? · · Score: 1

    No, Nvu is for people who have never heard of the mozilla project.

  9. Re:Emacs on Lindows Announces Nvu - Frontpage For Linux? · · Score: 5, Funny

    ctrl-meta-c k meta-p 1 1 ctrl-v shake it all about, you do the hockey pokey and turn yourself around. AFAIK that's what it's all about.

  10. Re:Wow, high ranking Novell official honors Slashd on A Novell Linux Specialist? · · Score: 1

    sorry... would not embrace them.

  11. Re:Wow, high ranking Novell official honors Slashd on A Novell Linux Specialist? · · Score: 1

    Having heard a support conversation with novell saying that they don't support Tomcat, Apache and linux even though it is a supported configuration for their portal services I would embrace them yet.

  12. Re:Requirements for a linux specialist: on A Novell Linux Specialist? · · Score: 3, Funny

    I like my coffee like I like my gravitational phenomena, strong and black.

  13. Re: Use of Q.E.D. on Gator Forces Site To Remove 'Spyware' Label · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Q.E.D. [Latin: quod erat demonstrandum] which was to be proved.

  14. Re:on permban on Gator Forces Site To Remove 'Spyware' Label · · Score: 1

    Or any other browser that is standards conformant, secure (I.E. no activeX), and god forbid... has tabbed browsing. If you are on slashdot and haven't figured out that MSIE is a Bad Thing then you just haven't been paying attention. Even a chimp will avoid the electrified side of the cage.

  15. Re:A rose is a rose... on Gator Forces Site To Remove 'Spyware' Label · · Score: 1

    And all you've really accomplished is pissing off the pig..

  16. Creative PC naming on Gator Forces Site To Remove 'Spyware' Label · · Score: 1

    I am not full of shit... I am a biological waste orator.

  17. Re:Sun on x86 on Sun Solaris Vs Linux: The x86 Smack-down · · Score: 1

    I don't think anyone saw linux coming four years ago. I may have been using it since '94, but that was at a university and isolated to ultra-geekdom. Truthfully I think that it has only been taken seriously for the last two. I'm not saying that EVERYONE should have understood the implications of open source, but I still think very few people really do.

  18. Re:Suprise! on Strong N-Gage Launch Claimed, Figures Disagree · · Score: 1

    They could include a bunch of free games and hours from various cell carriers. On second thought your right.

  19. Re:BZZT! ANNT! WRONG! on Warfare at the Speed of Light · · Score: 1

    While you are technically correct, the effect of gravity for targeting can essentially be ignored. If we were planning on using the weapon around a much larger body I am sure you would have to take this into consideration.

    Anyone know a mass and distance you would need for the targeting to be off a foot?

  20. Re:Where will Linux be? on Longhorn in 2006 · · Score: 1

    as long as you don't get 512M or more in the system it should be mostly OK. But it certianly would be handicapped.

  21. Re:Does it matter anymore? on Hard Drive Capacity Confusion, Lucidly Explained · · Score: 1

    This is purely an exercise of technical design. Computer science is not a physics experiment but rather a mathmatical exercise.

  22. Re:I would have though that SCO... on Notes From The SCO Roadshow's First Stop · · Score: 1

    I for one was in the middle of writing a check to Darl. But fortunately I got on slashdot and checked out a story about SCO. I am glad that this article made it in with the other gems like that evil bit article is a few down.

  23. Re:Law of the jungle?! Nope. on Computers, Unemployment and Wealth Creation · · Score: 1

    Absolutely they should become dependent. Before to long, the USA will pass into history, and when it does those that have modified their behavior to emulate parasites will struggle and fall between the cracks of those more concerned with the well being of society, family and civilization. Nothing lasts forever.

  24. Re:Red Hat users on Linux Kernel 2.6.0-test6 Released · · Score: 1

    Or better yet just have two or more kernels in your boot partition and have a option on your bootloader titled as experimental, if that is what it is. I would not go about upgrading the kernel then just delete the old one in blind faith.

  25. Re:False user experience level dichotomy on Worst Linux Annoyances? · · Score: 1

    Ripped strait from my head... Haven't seen animatrix though.