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  1. Re:people give in too easily on UK Record Industry Starts Suing Filesharers · · Score: 1

    It might surprise you to find out how few multimillionaires actually use P2P to download copyright protected material. I would guess somewhere between 0 and 10.

  2. Re:philedelphia on Free Wi-Fi Threatened? · · Score: 1

    It's a community for the sexually deviant. Free anonymous wireless Internet access was an important issue to them.

  3. Re:bad photos on Building Richly Interactive Web Apps with Ajax · · Score: 1

    He's obviously got a bit of an ego if he goes around referring to himself as "Jesse James Garrett"

  4. Re:Idiotic List on Top 100 Gadgets of All Time · · Score: 1

    You have to expect this sort of bias given that it's coming from Mobile PC Magazine.

  5. Re:I would like to see another question answered on NASA Proposes Warming Mars · · Score: 1

    Indeed, lichen is extremely hardy.
    Certain types of the plant have been shown to be able to survive -100C ( 173 K) which is well within the range of Martian temperatures. However the reproduction and growth of lichen at that temperature is very limited.
    But you have to start somewhere I guess.

  6. Re:RedHat on Which Linux for Professional Admins? · · Score: 1

    In addition to Oracle, many third party commercial software vendors only support Redhat, and some support only certain releases of RH.
    It becomes a support issue when you call one of these vendors up and the first thing they ask you is "What version of Linux are you running?". If you're not using their "supported" Redhat platform, you either end up lying to them about what you're actually using, or risk the vendor using your non-compliance with their standard as an excuse for not supporting you.

  7. Re:My stupid Seattle Coffee Shop story... on We Pay Our Rent By Buying Coffee · · Score: 1

    That Dave is on a roll.

    Unfortunately, the only place that guy is rolling these days is in his grave.

  8. Re:Why just a 2 hour battery life? on Titan Photos and Sounds · · Score: 1

    Because thats the duration of the window that Cassini will be in position to receive the tranmission. It's something like 31 days for Cassini to swing back around its orbit into position again. It would take a lot of triple A's to idle in that environment for 31 days.

  9. Re:Useless nonsence on What Do Court-Ordered Internet Bans Really Mean? · · Score: 1

    Having a "ban from the Internet" imposed on you will preclude you from getting a lot of IT related jobs.
    If you currently are employed in the IT field when a judge drops this bomb on you, the prospect of your continued employment will be tenuous.

  10. Re:Nearly there on In Japan, Old People Talk to Robots · · Score: 1

    Yes, a few of those would go well with the Pimpbot 5000 .

  11. Re:Which BBS was this: on 7 hour BBS Documentary Nearly Ready · · Score: 1

    It could have been SearchLight BBS. It had RIP enabled by default and was easy as hell to set up.
    In order to view the RIP graphics you generally need ed to use the RipTerm client to dial up.

  12. Re:There is a voting system on Half-Life 2 Preloading from Steam · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately I've rarely seen this work. First of all it requires opening the console to type in the vote command. Second it requires knowing to run the listplayers command to get the user # of the cheater. Thirdly, it requires a unanimous vote of all the other players on the cheaters team to actually kick the guy.
    I've noticed that a lot of CS kiddies have trouble handling the first two steps so there is almost always at least one newb on the team who can't figure out how to vote kick and causes the whole process to fail.

  13. Re:I don't think so on Lucas to Make Sequels to Star Wars After All? · · Score: 1

    eps 7, 8, and 9 won't have this little hottie in them strutting her stuff

    Say it's not so! The rumor I heard was that we'd finally get to see this actress naked and petrified. If this isn't the case, I don't know what the hell I'm going to do with this bowl of hot grits I've been saving all this time!

  14. Re:Ehh... SUV? Why not a car? on Ford Launches First American Hybrid · · Score: 1

    An Escape isn't even what I would call a "real" SUV. I had one as a rental once (non hybrid version). I decided, hey, this thing is supposed to be an offroad vehicle so I bounced it through a creek in AWD mode. Something ended up fucking up in the rearend/transaxle/what-ever-the-fuck that turns the rear wheels and it was making a grinding noise when I took it back. Of course, when explaining the problem to the rental place, I never mentioned the creek incident.

  15. Re:RIP OFF! on Lycos Sold To South Korean Company · · Score: 1

    A total rip off. 102 Million for a ... web portal? And not even a particularly cutting edge popular one either.

  16. Re:Boy of summ......IT on IT's Musical Habits · · Score: 1

    Why would somebody put their firewall on the road?

  17. Re:Microsoft cant take Nintendo on Ballmer - Xbox 'Can Take Sony' In Next Generation · · Score: 1

    One million people seem to disagree with you.

  18. Re:And bleed more money while doing it? on Ballmer - Xbox 'Can Take Sony' In Next Generation · · Score: 1

    Well according to this Microsoft just reached one million subscribers to their Live service. One million subscribers paying on a monthly basis to almost any service amounts to a lot of gravy.

  19. Re:My 2 cents on the Xbox on Ballmer - Xbox 'Can Take Sony' In Next Generation · · Score: 1

    You may want to look around for a used Xbox, or an Xbox manufactured before March 2004.
    The reason being Microsoft got wise to modding and released the 1.6 revision of the motherboard. The Xbox v1.6 has now scattered the points for the LPC header around the motherboard making modchip installation notoriously difficult. Also with the addition of Microsofts proprietary Xcalibur video encoder (older Xboxes use well known Conexant or Focus chips) the current Cromwell Linux BIOS doesn't work on the v1.6.

  20. Re:IS nVidia reall supporting Linux? on Nvidia Reintroduces SLI with GeForce 6800 Series · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about? I'm running the Nvidia drivers from their site on my Core 2 workstation and it works fine.
    Also they release the drivers for "Linux" rather than any particular distribution. The drivers from the link above will work with any of the 2.6.x kernels, just download and run the installer.

  21. Re:Of the WWII ... on Japanese Balloon Battle · · Score: 1

    The Russian military also trained suicide dogs during WWII. The dogs (half starved) were loaded with explosives, and trained using the Pavlovian method to seek out food under large vehicles. A trigger device attached to their explosive backpacks, would depress on contact with the underside of a vehicle causing an explosion capable of cutting through the steel under belly of a panzer.

    In one day, alone, in the Izyum sector, these canine tank busters destroyed nine tanks and two armored cars.

    It is said that the dogs were so feared by the Germans, as soon as they heard barking and saw the running dogs, they would frantically turn their tanks around and head back towards their own lines, knowing from experience what was in store for them.

  22. Re:Partly because HU's are dead... on DirecTV Extortion Program stopped by EFF · · Score: 1

    Imagine one day you go to radio shack to buy a couple voltage regulators and some resistors, and wind up being sued for $$$$$ because those components can be used to pirate satellite (a purposefully dumb example).

    Actually that's not a dumb example. It's a common practice to buy a bunch of Radio Shack resistors to create a device called a JTAG. A JTAG is used to extract the box keys from Dish and ExpressVu recievers in order to receive satellite services illegally. I know if I saw somebody buying five 100 Ohm resistors at Radio Shack, I would assume they were building a JTAG.

  23. Re:things valve should be worried about on Valve Announces Half-Life 2 Code Theft Arrests · · Score: 1

    ..and then they handed out AWP's and Colts and yelled "Storm the front!" at the team.

  24. Re:licencing issues with djbdns on BIND Is Most Popular DNS Server · · Score: 1

    License issues aside, if I remember correctly, when you compile qmail, it actually compiles the UIDs of the qmail accounts into the binaries. This would make distributing binaries useless since the UIDs could be different on every system. Additionally, djb's refusal to follow modern day UNIX file system layout conventions didn't go over well with the big UNIX vendors.

    My biggest bitch with qmail is that they don't release the main source distro with the glibc errno patches in it. I have to patch the shit out of all the qmail packages just to get it to compile on a modern linux box.

  25. Re:I've had these things fly over my house on Using a 747 to Fight Wildfires · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I live in the Yukon, Canada. We have forest fires here all summer long. We usually contract a squadron of Air Spray's B-26 Invaders for fire supression services. It's an awesome sight watching a dozen of these things take off from the base to head out to a fire. You can really imagine what it must have been like in WWII when these same aircraft would have been heading out on a bombing mission over Europe.