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  1. Re:The bit I don't understand: on Techies On Ice: The Coming Age of Cryonics · · Score: 1

    You are right these folks need to read more Niven. :)

  2. Re:COBOL programmers. on Techies On Ice: The Coming Age of Cryonics · · Score: 1

    You are a fsking moron. The reason y2k went off well is because *many* people including the fine Cobol coders among us spent a *very* long time fixing stuff. So yes y2k was no big deal because we (IT pros) fixed the fucker. :)

  3. Re:No mention of Blockbuster? on Directors Guild of America is Fighting Edited Films · · Score: 2, Informative

    You are thinking of Hollywood video which is owned by *a* Mormon. From Wilsonville, Oregon. I used to go to church with him. He is a slimeball. You see judging anyone based on one aspect or a group they belong to is just wrong and stupid. :)

  4. Re:No mention of Blockbuster? on Directors Guild of America is Fighting Edited Films · · Score: 1

    I think the parent post was what we like to call a "joke".

    Main Entry: 1joke
    Pronunciation: 'jOk
    Function: noun
    Etymology: Latin jocus; perhaps akin to Old High German gehan to say, Sanskrit yAcati he asks
    Date: 1670
    1 a : something said or done to provoke laughter; especially : a brief oral narrative with a climactic humorous twist b (1) : the humorous or ridiculous element in something (2) : an instance of jesting : KIDDING c : PRACTICAL JOKE d : LAUGHINGSTOCK
    2 : something not to be taken seriously : a trifling matter -- often used in negative construction

  5. Re:*blush* on Social Robot? · · Score: 1

    http://www.sexuality.org/l/fetish/robofaq.html

  6. Re:Definition of Enterprise... on Microsoft Says IBM/Linux Their Biggest Threat · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Define "enterprise software" without being circular. My point is enterprise used to mean a *very* large company but is now a useless buzzword.

  7. Re:the enterprise will determine who wins on Microsoft Says IBM/Linux Their Biggest Threat · · Score: 1

    Define enterprise, please?

  8. Re:Test internet filtering software? on ACLU Files New DMCA Challenge · · Score: 5, Funny

    Funny story from my old ISP days. I was a night tech support supervisor. (My first techie job) One of the services we sold was a porn filter. Well we would get cranks who would "test" the filters and send in list after list of sites they got to. Well we in tech support knew the whole thing was bunk and it is impossible to block everything but management wanted us to verify the filters anyway. So long story short we would get list after list of porn sites and asked to make sure that we could get to them through the filter. I would use the porn lists as a reward for doing things the techs did not like to do, for example doing callbacks. So yea we where paid to surf for porn at least part of the night. :)

  9. Re:No forced downtime? on Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 Released · · Score: 2

    Debian *never* upgrades the kernel unless you ask it to. That is the only piece that you may have to boot in order to get other than that it is 2 commands like the ones I just ran on my servers and will be doing on my home machine later today. Now granted these where put on testing long ago and thus it is about a 6 package upgrade for the servers it will be a bit more for the home box. But in any case unless you need/want a new kernel it can be done easier than any other distro that I know of.

  10. Re:Fuck on Transmeta Lays off 40% of its Workers · · Score: 1

    The first thing you need to do is send out more resumes. 14 does not even count as having started. Good luck as someone who just got done being employed at a shit company and now doing well I wish you the best.

  11. Re:Nyet! on John Gilmore Sues Ashcroft et al. for Freedom to Travel · · Score: 1

    Does the term "slippery slope" mean anything to you?

  12. Re:Nyet! on John Gilmore Sues Ashcroft et al. for Freedom to Travel · · Score: 5, Interesting

    http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1998/08/13/p3s2.h tm

    Do I win?

  13. Re:why would they move? on Sili-Hudson Valley? · · Score: 1

    I'm confused are you claiming that earthquakes do not happen in NY? You do of course know that occasionally means "not very often". Granted they are very rare but they do happen. Your first post sounded like it was saying that they do not happen.

  14. Re:Why is "help us" in quotes? on U.S. Gov't Planning To "Help Us" Secure Computers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Becuase the government has a long proud history of fucking us over at every turn. Think about it the whole point when the founding fathers set up the government was to provide for those things that are needed but to give the governement as little power as possible. Ever since then they have been trying to get more. The kind of men who run for office are the kind who want to control *everything*.

    I do not agree with the nuts who say that Bush/Ashcroft wanted 9/11 to happen but I do think that they where *very* excited about the chances it opened for them to tighten control of society. This is the man who said during the campaign that "we need limits on speech".

    http://www.lp.org/

    http://www.lp.org/press/archive.php?function=vie w& record=593

  15. Re:can't take the risk on Linux on Laptops Manufacturer Report Card · · Score: 1

    Sure most of them come with a restore disk these days so you should be able to put it back should you fail. Also I would buy froma local vendor if I thought I was going to be taking it back most of them have good policies.

  16. Re:why would they move? on Sili-Hudson Valley? · · Score: 2

    I'm not sure from your post just what you meant but if you are claiming that NY does not have earthquakes on occasion you are what we like to call wrong.

    http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/04/20/new.england.tre mo rs/

    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=U TF -8&q=new+york+earthquake

  17. Re:Explanations on The Importance of Being Debian · · Score: 1

    I'm going to ignore the fact that you use AOL stuff (which is just a big old warning sign in any case)

    I'm going to instead focus on your apt-get issue. The reason that is true is because you are using a public IP based network (The Internet) to do software upgrades from what are sometimes pretty heavily hammered servers. Yes sometimes needing to run apt more than once is a pain it is also true that it is in many cases much better than trying to do it any other way. :)

  18. Re:The importance of offering support . . . on The Importance of Being Debian · · Score: 2

    If you check out
    this you will see that there are plenty of people willing to sell you Debian based systems and support them. So that is pretty much a moot point.

  19. Re:Jackson is like Lucas on Extra Scenes in FotR Special Edition DVD · · Score: 1

    Yes yes it is. You see you assume that everyone is like you not so.

  20. Re:Did somebody say Lego? on Where are the 'Construction Set' Games? · · Score: 1

    That is so cool and it has debs. I think I'm going to cream in my pants. In any case thanks.

  21. Re:Jackson is like Lucas on Extra Scenes in FotR Special Edition DVD · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Do what I'm going to do. Buy the August version watch it a few times. Buy the November version. Then use the August version as a white elephant gift come December.

  22. Re:OpenOffice.org on Piers Anthony Unbound · · Score: 3

    http://www.cheapbytes.com Your source for OSS CDs of all kind. Have fun. :)

  23. Re:So, how important is bandwidth? on Net-Nexus Seoul · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yup the kids there are all about the cyber cafes my nephew loves going out and he has bandwidth at home also. Having said that you can tell I've spent some time (~4 years) in Korea and am married to a Korean.

    And yes you are right the babes are *great* looking and if you are American and even a bit willing it is very easy to have all of them you want. Go and have fun. :).

  24. Re:They've already got droids? on Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic · · Score: 1

    The republic is ~30,000 years old. 1,000 generations at about 30 years per generation. So this is a *very* old civilization and they clearly where very advanced when the republic was founded. So 4,000 years is pretty recent history. And yes in the expanded universe stuff there is much mention of lostech and the fact that they had lost much from the heyday of the old republic also the new movies are set after decline started. So yes you are right.

  25. Re:the other direction? on A Linux User Goes Back · · Score: 1

    I agree with most of what you said. Having said that when you talk about "setting up" Apache I assume that you mean install in which case under Debian it is one command apt-get install apache. I assume that configuration is the same? Or are you talking about configuration in which case how in the world can it be done with one click? I mean yea a basic install and config but of course you still have to hack the config files under them all? Right? In any case having done it on Windows yea you run one installer, one command under Debian, and one click under MacOS X. So I'm really wondering just what is it that is easier?