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  1. Re:Hurrah! on Patriot Act to be Expanded · · Score: 1

    Hi,

    The house is responsible for some bad too. I was including them in my statement. I RTFA.

    I'm sorry that you made the assumption that I'm so dumb that I couldn't have been speaking in that broader context. Perhaps someday, I'll be as wise as you.

  2. Re:Hurrah! on Patriot Act to be Expanded · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What makes you think that this is all Bush.

    This is an act of the Legislature. Bush can't do this. We can't blame Bush for EVERYTHING. There are a couple hundred people responsible for these laws.

    You have one or two from YOUR STATE. Write them. Tell them to stop.

  3. Turing our rights into toilet paper on Patriot Act to be Expanded · · Score: 1

    I guess the people who decided that those first few sheets of the Bill of Rights were as good as toilet paper decided to finish off the roll.

  4. We all saw what happened to the X-Men on Japan Displays Prototype Robot Suit · · Score: 2, Funny

    Humans may be able to mutate into supermen in the near future

    This might be a problem for the humans involved though... We all saw what happened to the X-Men.

  5. Re:What does it matter? on Microsoft's Slap at Samba · · Score: 1

    Uhmm.

    It's definately NOT a compliment.

    There are many facets. MS could argue that licensees of its proprietary information providing source code to work with such information create a scenario in which a plethora of competing products could quickly and easily be created, interoperating with their closed standard.

    The fact that Samba was reverse engineered doesn't turn this into a compliment at all.

    Now, what I would argue is that if the Linux community really wanted to hammer a point home, a third party solution that does not rely on SMB/CIFS be developed and deployed on a number of platforms, including Windows, and become a major contender.

  6. Sign me up for the monastery on Monks See Through Optical Illusion Games · · Score: 1

    I can't make the dots dissapear. Am I just doing this wrong?

    I stare at a frame of reference in the image. I've tried each dot, the center of the image, and the corners of the image.

    Since I'm definately not a monk, I'm sure that others must be experiencing this symptom as well.

  7. Can I say that? on Holy Men in Tights! Academic Superhero Conference · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "It has been a very much male-centred universe," co-convener Saige Walton said. "They need some more chicks."

    Interestingly, a male would lose some edge saying that.

    I salute you Saige, and your message. I just wish that wording the message the same, in my shoes, as a man, wouldn't get me an unsavory label.

  8. Re:Gentlemen don't read others gentlemen's mail... on 63% Of Corporations Plan To Read Outbound Email · · Score: 1

    Ok, so, you could set up an encrypted proxy.

    Of course, unless you're really considering industial espionage, it seems silly to go to that length.

  9. Re:My company scans all email for buzzwords on 63% Of Corporations Plan To Read Outbound Email · · Score: 1

    That's awesome.

    I've known a number of people who would like to implement such policies at their companies... They are the reason that we'll be living in oppressive, draconian societies in the next 50 years.

  10. Linux/Mac Virus Free on McAfee, Macromedia Flirting With F/OSS Community · · Score: 1

    Wait, virus protection for Linux? Aren't Linux and Macs virus-free?

    That's one thing that I've always hated. People decide that because it's Linux/Mac, it's vulnerability free, and justify that as a reason not to secure it.

  11. Awesome on 63% Of Corporations Plan To Read Outbound Email · · Score: 1

    This whole abandoning privacy and spying on each other thing is so cool. I can't wait to become an oppressor!

  12. Re:C3PO on The Science of Star Wars · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Actually, in the past.

  13. Re:The Linux role in hardware design on Linux For Cell Processor Workstation · · Score: 1

    The parent wasn't flamebait. NetBSD's motto is "Of Course it Runs NetBSD!!" Back before I had a computer that could run Linux, I had NetBSD on an old mac.

  14. Re:Stanford's got this in the bag. on DARPA Announces 2005 Grand Challenge Semifinalists · · Score: 1

    We move ours in an old U-Haul when going between test sites.

  15. Bill & Ted's Email Adventure on Tech Columnists' Day Without Email · · Score: 1

    When a recent power outage disrupted email service at WSJ.com, our tech columnists were plunged backwards into a time before every meeting, every little task, came with an email-program reminder

    Bill: Ted we are about to embark on a most
    excellent journey through time!
    Ted: Where are we going?
    Bill: 1984 or so should do the trick!

  16. Re:This is in units sold on Laptops Outsell Desktops · · Score: 1

    I've never seen a computer build itself...

  17. Re:No, it isn't. on Double Your Fun with DoubleSight · · Score: 1

    I used to use a notebook with a second display attached at work. There were ads last year for a notebook with dual monitors though. I can't seem to find it for the life of me now.

  18. What is Second Life on Second Life Virtual World to Get Firefox · · Score: 1

    The virtual world of Second Life will leverage an embedded version of Mozilla Firefox in a future release

    I'm sorry, the links are totally Slashdotted... what is second life? Is that like another AlphaWorld?

  19. Re:No, it isn't. on Double Your Fun with DoubleSight · · Score: 1

    You're right on that front.

    Of course, the poster may have been referring to the particular setup described in the article... which is expensive, and LCD, so any videophile will go "ick".

    Personally, 2 widescreen LCD's sounds like heaven to me. The only thing that gets me down to 1 monitor these days is my notebook, and I considered buying a dual screen notebook.

  20. Re:International laws? on Google Never Forgets · · Score: 1

    All good, I was in a jerky mood when I posted that.

  21. Staggering Odds on Sexual Identification of A Rex Fossil · · Score: 2, Funny

    Even then, finding medullary bone is a long shot, Schweitzer said. First the dinosaur has to be an ovulating female. It also has to die before it has finished laying eggs and has to be fossilized. Finally, that fossil has to be found by humans.

    That last part is certainly a long shot for any bones lying undiscovered in a museum somewhere.

  22. Re:Errrr... on Apple Switching To Intel Chips In 2006 · · Score: 1

    Yes, I do. I didn't read the link.

    Why is everybody here so quick to jump to the conclusion that everybody else is an idiot.

  23. Re:Snort. on Apple Switching To Intel Chips In 2006 · · Score: 1

    I didn't RTFA first. My bad.

  24. Re:Snort. on Apple Switching To Intel Chips In 2006 · · Score: 1

    You're silly...

  25. Re:Errrr... on Apple Switching To Intel Chips In 2006 · · Score: 1

    Uhmm, in that case yes, since I could have done that calculation in my head and arrived at the correct result.

    Now, take that error, and kick it into a statistics application that needs at least relatively correct floating point figures.