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  1. So... You're an amateur on Technical Review for Red Hat Linux 9 · · Score: -1

    Any competent administrator knows that the only GUI terminal you can rely on existing on all machines is xterm.

  2. Not interested. on Personal GPS in a Mobile Phone · · Score: -1

    What I do want though is to have GPS co-ordinates text'd to my mobile phone by the alarm when my bike gets stolen.

    That way I can introduce the thief to Mr baseball bat.

  3. Only if they ask you. on Michigan First With A Law That Could Outlaw VPNs · · Score: -1

    They say they don't support it, fine, so if you have problems then they won't help. If they find you're hogging bandwidth over a vpn they might investigate and ask you to stop, in which case, you can either stop or get another service.

  4. PAY CASH! on Pay Dirt in Scanned Driver's Licenses · · Score: -1

    I now take the maximum I can out of my autoteller and pay everything in cash where possible. My movements and purchases are nobody's business but my own.

    "What if you get mugged?". I'm 30 years old and I've *never* been mugged in my life. The risk's definitely low enough to take and getting cards re-issued is more of a hassle than losing a couple of hundred quid.

  5. Spamido on The Lone Guns Against Spam · · Score: 1

    http://www.yelm.freeserve.co.uk/spamido/

  6. Well at least there won't be a performance hit. on Soybean Powered Harley · · Score: 1

    Since Harley performance sucks big time anyway.

  7. It's more fun when Hypnodisk is playing though. on Robot Wars Coming Stateside · · Score: 1

    The builders got the weapon just right on that one. It literally tears it's opponents to bits.

  8. SPAM - Fight back you pansy wimps on New York ISP Held Liable For Newsgroup Content · · Score: 1

    Stopping spammers is easy.

    You kill the fuckers accounts and if their ISP doesn't co-operate you have their upstream and downstream providers pull their access.

    I've had loads of spammers accounts cancelled, the groups I frequent only get the occasional spam now. The spammers know that their accounts will be pulled within minutes of the spam hitting the groups and the ISPs know that their newsfeeds will be pulled if they don't kill the accounts.

  9. Fuckwit on Open Source Banking · · Score: 1

    You fuckwit.

    It's in the context of banking applications. DUH.

  10. Apple is a box seller on OS X on x86? · · Score: 1

    If they move to selling operating systems on Intel boxes then they'll go down the tubes.

  11. How do you get the XML from one app to another? on Open Source Banking · · Score: 1

    You use middleware. This is middleware.

  12. Jeezuzzz - It's middleware. on Open Source Banking · · Score: 1

    http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query =middleware&action=Search

  13. Save the world. Nuke America! on Global Warming Worse Than Thought · · Score: 1

    Easy solution.

    Kill a few million fat Americans, save the rest of the world.

    No?

  14. But you *still* can't buy cheap PPC motherboards on New G4s Coming Our Way · · Score: 1

    Want to build your own PPC system? Around $2,500 if you want a non Mac mobo. It's cheaper to buy a Mac and trash the bits you don't want.

  15. Ya moron. More MHz != faster CPU. on New G4s Coming Our Way · · Score: 1

    Don't you know anything?

    See the recent PIV debacle for more information.

  16. no on LinuxPPC 2000 Update · · Score: 1

    You either buy an Apple Mac or stump up several thousand dollars just for a motherboard.

  17. PPC dying as a desktop/server platform on LinuxPPC 2000 Update · · Score: 1

    Looks to me like the PPC is dying as a desktop and as a server platform.

    I do think it'll survive as an embedded platform though maybe ARM will kill it there as well.

  18. Bollocks. I've had 2.4 for weeks. on Linux 2.4 Wins 4th Place ... in Vaporware · · Score: 1

    It's easy. Just go download one of the 2.3.* kernels and edit a couple of files and BAM! 2.4

  19. Criminal Yanks. on Linux 2.4 Wins 4th Place ... in Vaporware · · Score: 1

    Well, what else can we expect from a country that's made up of the scum and refuse ejected from all of the other countries of the world?

    The American population is made up of the rejects and the unwanted so is it really surprising that you are happiest while murdering someone. It's the only way you can really relate.

  20. Actually, there aren't *any* rigid airships left. on Flying Wing To Run On Sun-Replenished Fuel Cells · · Score: 1

    The only ones left are blimps or semi-rigids. Bit of a shame really. The Hindenburg fire put airship design and technology back almost 100 years. So no metal skeleton.

  21. Doh! Helios flies at 25mph. on Flying Wing To Run On Sun-Replenished Fuel Cells · · Score: 1

    How is that going to cope with the 'obvious high velocity wind conditions at said altitudes'?

    Regular airships (goodyear blimp etc) fly at 40-50mph. The rigid airships of the 1930s could cruise at 80mph.

    Envelope fabrics have been helium impermeable for so long now that it isn't even funny. Because an airship doesn't have to use any power just keeping itself in the air it can use all the power for thrust and control.

    Add to that the lift provided by helium increases with the cube of the size an airship will be able to carry a much larger payload.

  22. The pay as you talk market. on Cell Phone Purchasing: Drop Down? · · Score: 1

    It's the pay as you talk market that's killing profit. With pay as you talk, people go for cheap phones, little profit.

    Anyway to sell more phones they just change the network:

    GSM -> GPRS -> 3G

  23. And what twit moderated this insightful? on NASA to Cancel Missions · · Score: 1

    It's REDUNDANT!

    It's been said so often that it's been burned into my brain.

  24. Oh yeah, failsafe those number conversions... on NASA to Cancel Missions · · Score: 1

    Oh, yeah, lets spend an extra few hundred million to make sure that we convert our numbers correctly.

    The only thing it can be is terminal stupidity.

    One side working in feet and inches, the other working in metric. Oh my god, fire them all, they're incompetent.

  25. Not terribly subtle on Microbes Survive Space Trip · · Score: 1

    We all know that the religious nuts will froth at the mouth at anything which remotely calls their beliefs into question.

    You have to watch if you do it with Moslems though. They'll declare Fatwa and come after you with machetes, machine guns, scud missiles etc etc. OOh yeah, that'll make me a believer!