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  1. Re:Before I read anything, I'd like to say on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 2, Informative

    Wiki. Now there is a definitive source only slightly more accurate than Slashdot.

    The fact is that AQ was around well before 9-11. The name was used in the media thruout the 90's. Christ the planning for 9-11 started back in 1996 (as far back as can be traced), and they tried to blow up 11 trans-Pacific airliners in 1995.

    To say AQ didn't exist until after 9/11 is simply ridiculous.

  2. Re:Before I read anything, I'd like to say on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 1

    >>Point is, there was no "Al Qaeda" in name or organization prior to 9-11

    Some pre 9/11 Al Qaeda acts:

    - Yemen 1992 against US military personnel (attack thwarted)

    - 1993 1st Bombing of World Trade Center 6 killed

    - 1996 Khobar Towers 19 killed

    - 1998 Bombing of U.S. embassies in Africa 224 killed

    1999 Plot to bomb millennium celebrations in Seattle (foiled)

    - 2000 USS Cole 17 killed

  3. Re:At the moment on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 1

    I would guess that would be the number of the establishment you are going to blow up....

  4. I am hoping for the best for the victims... on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 1

    ...hopefully the animals that did this somehow botched the job reducing the number lost and maimed.

  5. Re:People are lazy on Why New OSes Don't Catch On · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Your father is right. After all - the computer is supposed to be the "one" doing the work.

  6. Serious question for the author. on Perl's Chip Salzenberg Sued, Home Raided · · Score: 1

    In the very best case scenario: what were you expecting to happen?

  7. Prior art on Vein Patterns to Verify Identity · · Score: 1

    I know a man in Maryland who patented this very process in 1992 (only difference is that he scanned the vien pattern in a persons thumb.)

  8. Any thief is going to format the drive immediately on Protecting My Daughter's Notebook? · · Score: 1

    ...after all the probably aren't after the data.... and of they are they will be savvy enough to not connect the machine to a network connected to the internet.

  9. Re:Ok, here's what I'd do... on Protecting My Daughter's Notebook? · · Score: 1

    whip up a keylogger and send that home too. Encrypt it, and give your daughter the password if she is worried about being spied on.

  10. Big Retailers Timid About Not Turning Profit on Big Retailers Timid About Selling Linux Boxen · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Revised title.

  11. Re:Memories of the Concorde on France and Japan Planning New Supersonic Jet · · Score: 1

    Concorde always flew "clean" i.e no external stores.

    Many jet fighters could exceed Concorde's speed in such a configuration. Notable examples are the B-58 Hustler and the A-5 Vigilante.

  12. Or 200 French.... on France and Japan Planning New Supersonic Jet · · Score: 1

    ...assuming they don't throw their arms up and surrender to the stewardesses... then it will only carry 60.

  13. A Linux solution of course... on Creating a High-Tech Meeting/Conference Room? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...that's what all you fanboys want to hear, now mod me up you little bitches.

  14. Re:Quick Summary and opinion on Inside the Xbox 360 · · Score: 1

    "2*pi" is one more keystroke than "360".

    Dweeb.

  15. Rialto OS on The Scoop on the Xbox 360's Embedded OS? · · Score: 1

    Or some derivitive/cousin/hybrid thereof.

  16. Re:can you IMAGINE this happening in modern Americ on IBM Europe Workers Strike · · Score: 2

    You have obviously never heard of GM.

  17. They might actually manage to sell... on Give Your DVD Player The Finger · · Score: 1

    ...all of 12 of these things.

  18. Re:I'm a twat but on Military Seeks Approval to Develop Space Weapons · · Score: 1

    You are correct.

    You omit the fact that virtually every other nation with a caloric deficit could feed themselves were they to eliminate THEIR military budget.... but hey why state the obvious when it is only America that is evil and nobody else?

  19. Face it.... on Military Seeks Approval to Develop Space Weapons · · Score: 1

    ...we are as a species compelled by conflict. Even the most altruistic nations have a military of some sort. (Costa Rica is as close to an unarmed nation that I can think of.)

    Are we the "Klingons" of our galaxy? Or are we merely average? It is impossible to say until we go out there and see. One thing is for sure: "we" aren't going out there unarmed.

    Look at the most popular film series of all time: Star Wars. The most popular science fiction involves combat of some sort. The Borg. Romulans. Klendathu. Taurans. The list is endless. We fantasize about an alien enemy becuase we NEED to fight, we cannot and will not stop.

    Until we find that external common foe to unite us in battle we will have to settle for fighting each other. Doesn't matter the reason, we will make one up: to free Iraq. Because the US is Satan. To exterminate the Jews. You're communist. Because Taiwan is not independant. Because the South is materialistic and corrupt. Whatever, any reason to fight is as good as the next.

  20. Re:What is this world comming to on Military Seeks Approval to Develop Space Weapons · · Score: 1

    When you get right down to it weapons of any kind of useless.... but that isn't stopping anyone and everyone from producing them, not to mention using them.

  21. Re:Again the US trying to remain a superpower on Military Seeks Approval to Develop Space Weapons · · Score: 1

    The second they uncouple the yuan from the dollar the Chinese house of cards falls like so many top heavy shelves of cheap plastic crap.

  22. Re:Escalation on Military Seeks Approval to Develop Space Weapons · · Score: 1

    I am shaking with fear.

  23. "Luke..... on Military Seeks Approval to Develop Space Weapons · · Score: 1

    ....it is your destiny....."

  24. Re:Well, all I can tell you is that.... on Subjecting Yourself to Experimental Meds · · Score: 1

    It is tiny.

    But my balls on the other hand are massive. And hairy. Just ask your mom.

  25. A POS Linksys router/switch combo.... on What's in a Typical Geek Home Network? · · Score: 1

    ... an old D-Link switch, stolen from work ... three old PC's running various flavors of RedHat ... my wife's XP laptop

    BUT, on the other hand, my house is fully wired with CAT 5e. So even though it sucks, it is all very pretty! :-P